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Daylight savings, what a name, still exisists beacuase the political elite hate to give the people any sort of win. I have yet to meet a person of any political stripe, that loves the time changes. Everyone agrees that it is a huge distruption and why can't they just leave the time alone. It makes no difference which time, standard or daylight, just pick one and stick with it. Nope, the elite are control freaks. They would rather hold it over us. We are the government, you are the governend.

#1 B. Hammer on 2022-11-07 09:10 (Reply)

Changing the clock by one hour is not a huge disruption. It's not even a disruption of any size. I support a move to adjust clocks to give more daylight hours after a normal work day. Who likes driving home from work in the dark?

#1.1 jack walter on 2022-11-07 10:41 (Reply)

Who likes to do anything in the dark - excluding sex, developing pictures and looking at the stars?

In my latitude, Denver, the time change (standard time) definitely makes driving home in the dark a reality. Sunset is now 16:50 mst.

#1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-11-07 11:37 (Reply)

I don’t like driving to work in the dark.

#1.1.2 SCReader on 2022-11-07 12:23 (Reply)

We are not being governed, we're being ruled...it's time for the George 3rd response.

#1.2 maddog on 2022-11-07 11:04 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Nope, the elite are control freaks.

That isn't the problem. The "elites" generally agree that changing the clocks is disruptive. The problem is the legislative system in the United States makes it very difficult to enact change, especially due to the structure of the Senate, the Electoral College, and gerrymandering in the House. Add the highly partisan political environment, the parties would rather the country fail than to be seen cooperating to enact legislation with the other side. Consider that many Republicans are calling for holding the country hostage over the debt ceiling—again.

mudbug: We are not being governed, we're being ruled...it's time for the George 3rd response.

A good example of why the political right in the United States is no longer conservative, but reactionary.

QUOTE:

Declaration of Independence: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

#1.3 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 11:52 (Reply)

Umm... I didn't post that but I don't disagree.

Declaration of Independence:
"...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."

This government has governed against the interests of the citizens (a short list):

Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and later lifting some sanctions from the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline. (pipelines aren't bad, just US pipelines)

Restricting oil production by onerous regulations and limiting oil leases while begging for oil from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. (oil isn't bad, just US oil)

In order to soften the blow of reduced oil production, unprecedented amounts of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves are being sold. This makes us more vulnerable should an emergency arise. Also, the Biden administration is selling some of the oil from the SPR to China. Since the SPR will need to be replenished, it will be at a higher price than when Trump wanted to completely fill it but Democrats called that a sop to the oil companies.

The administration canceled a program that aimed to uncover Chinese spies in US academia because they were worried about racial profiling.

The administration has partnered with social media platforms to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment.

The FDA wanted to suppress the release of Pfizer COVID vaccination test data for 75 years.

The FBI wants to suppress the release of information about the Seth Rich murder (which it had previously claimed it didn't have) for 66 years.

The Constitution states that the President's job is to see that the laws are faithfully executed but there is massive violation of immigration laws that are not being enforced. Not only has illegal immigration been allowed to explode but while Americans were forced to be vaccinated, illegal immigrants were exempt from vaccination mandates.

#1.3.1 mudbug on 2022-11-07 13:16 (Reply)

So it all comes back to Biden.

#1.3.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-11-07 14:03 (Reply)

It all comes back to the Democrats being radicalized and becoming communists. Biden isn't in charge, he is a figurehead. They used his authority to appoint people to positions in government where they can in darkness remake us into a communist oligarchy. Your Democrat party has been hijacked and THEY are the ones using and threatening violence.

#1.3.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 15:47 (Reply)

Should have used Brandon.
Better yet *Let's Go Brandon".

#1.3.1.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-11-07 17:59 (Reply)

mudbug: I didn't post that . . .

Sorry for the misattribution.

mudbug: but I don't disagree.

So, you support the violent overthrow of the United States government.

mudbug: Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and later lifting some sanctions from the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Your examples are political questions (or misinformation) to be addressed through the political process. The American colonies didn't have representation in the British parliament.

#1.3.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 14:28 (Reply)

Z: Look! A giant red herring landing on a scare crow.

QUOTE:

So, you support the violent overthrow of the United States government.

Which of mudbug statements are misinformation?

#1.3.2.1 B. Hammer on 2022-11-07 16:08 (Reply)

B. Hammer: A giant red herring landing on a scare crow.

It's hardly a red herring. It was a direct reference to violent revolution against George III by the American colonists to which mudbug assented. None of the issues raised by mudbug justify violent overthrow of the United States government, including, of all things, Daylight Saving Time.

B. Hammer: Which of mudbug statements are misinformation?

We will retract that claim. His points are mangled too badly to easily categorize. All of them can be addressed through the legal or political process with much less destruction and uncertainty than would be entailed in overthrowing the government.

Disagreement, confusion over the facts, and frustration that things don't go his way, are not a valid justification for overthrowing the government. For instance, concerning the Keystone Pipeline, there's a legal and political process. There are people on both sides of the issue. It is the right of the people through their representatives and legal process to make those decisions. You can argue it was a bad decision, that the people are fools, or that the system is flawed (duh!). But it's ridiculous to consider this to be a just cause for revolution per the Prudence Clause.

#1.3.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 17:08 (Reply)

"But it's ridiculous to consider this to be a just cause for revolution"

You interpret what is said to literally. What most conservatives want is for all those politicians who harmed us and harmed our country so they could enrich themselves be punished. If they colluded with China, and many did, than jail is appropriate maybe even capital punishment. No one "wants" revolution but the government is acting in a way that is eliminating other options. The DOJ and FBI for example. At this point they are so corrupt that I doubt they can be fixed. Arrest them all and bring them to trial and NOT in DC or Virginia but in Iowa and Indiana and North Dakota etc. where the "people" live. If there are any "good" people in the DOJ or FFBI they would be found innocent and the rest would go to jail. Apply this to the CIA and the rest of our intelligence community too.

#1.3.2.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 17:18 (Reply)

OneGuy: You interpret what is said to literally.

Yes. They use words. We read the words. When asked for clarification, they reiterate their words.

OneGuy: What most conservatives want is for all those politicians who harmed us and harmed our country so they could enrich themselves be punished.

There's a process for that. It's called elections. If they broke the law, there's a process for that too. If the system is broken, then there are non-violent means of seeking redress.

If you believe that the government "evinces a design to reduce {the people} under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government". However, that's just the comfort of angry delusion, and delusion is not a foundation for a just revolution.

#1.3.2.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-08 08:45 (Reply)

End coal, end petroleum! There is no viable alternative. PV and wind are undependable and actually use more energy than they produce. It is like watching a perverted rerun of "The Sting" and we just can't see that it is all a huge scam. Follow the money. All your congress people became rich in congress. Who do you think bought then???

#2 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 10:10 (Reply)

OneGuy: PV and wind . . . actually use more energy than they produce.

That is incorrect. Photovoltaics have a payback period, Energy Return on Energy Invested, of about two to four years. There are also environmental benefits, such as reduced air pollution and carbon emissions.

#2.1 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 12:38 (Reply)

And of course (((Quibble-DickZ))) don't really cite anything but some made-up graph.
Bravo.

#2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-11-07 14:25 (Reply)

If that were true it wouldn't need massive subsidies. In fact those stats are so good the electric companies should be paying us to take the electricity off their hands.

It isn't true that fake stats you used ignores the pre-purchase and post purchase subsidies in it's calculation. They do that intentionally because if the real facts of PV were widely known the entire scam would fall apart.

#2.1.2 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 15:50 (Reply)

OneGuy: If that were true it wouldn't need massive subsidies.

You are confusing Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI), which was your original claim, with dollar Return On dollar Invested (ROI).

OneGuy: In fact those stats are so good the electric companies should be paying us to take the electricity off their hands.

They do. It's called net metering.

#2.1.3 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 15:58 (Reply)

"you are confusing" yada, yada, yada!

As usual you are wrong, You are deflecting. I have been studying PV since before you were born and possibly before your parents were born. I'm afraid you are totally out of your league and too ignorant to even recognize it. I do acknowledge that there is no way I could prove it to you because you choose to be immune from enlightenment. You will just have to learn this the hard way.

#2.1.3.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 17:24 (Reply)

OneGuy: I have been studying PV since before you were born

That's nice. But appeal to personal authority is not a persuasive argument.

OneGuy: You are deflecting.

Your claim was that photovoltaics "use more energy than they produce." That claim is false.

#2.1.3.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-08 08:48 (Reply)

"Your claim was that photovoltaics "use more energy than they produce." That claim is false."

That study you cite is false. Basically what they are saying is that a solar power installation in the American Southwest pays for itself in 6 months. And yet 100% of these installations are subsidized 50% by federal government, varying amounts by state AND require a 200%-400% increase in rates kWh to the consumer. IF what you claim were true the rates would come down not go up and subsidies wouldn't be necessary. All the facts contradict your claim. Why? Because their calculations are made while ignoring all the subsidies.

"But appeal to personal authority is not a persuasive argument."

You have hit on the weakness of the logical fallacies that you love so much. Yes a logical fallacy "may" indicate an incorrect assumption "except" for when it does not. By your "logic" when a doctor examines you and says you have pneumonia he must be wrong because he is using an appeal to personal authority.

I worked for the largest electric power generation company in America. I have also worked for smaller electric power companies too. Take it for what it is. I have more than a casual knowledge about electrical generation and distribution. That fact does not make me right 100% of the time but ignore knowledge and experience at your own risk.

#2.1.3.2.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-08 10:59 (Reply)

OneGuy: Basically what they are saying is that a solar power installation in the American Southwest pays for itself in 6 months. . . Because their calculations are made while ignoring all the subsidies.

Your original claim concerns energy payback, not monetary payback.

#2.1.3.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-08 11:27 (Reply)

OneGuy: I worked for the largest electric power generation company in America.

An appeal to authority can be a valid argument. A medical doctor has a medical license. A doctor's work is subject to professional review and a second opinion. After reviewing the medical evidence, a medical doctor speaking to a consensus within the medical field represents a valid appeal to authority. They can be wrong, though, or even crackpots. The best medical doctors are not experts in every medical field and will often make referrals to other specialties. In any case, an appeal to authority must yield to the evidence.

Working for an electric power generation company is a weak appeal. It doesn't imply any expertise in photovoltaic or even in power generation. One might benefit from your experience, but you keep confusing energy payback with monetary payback.

#2.1.3.2.3 Zachriel on 2022-11-08 11:35 (Reply)

"An appeal to authority can be a valid argument."

Good! You are learning.

"but you keep confusing energy payback with monetary payback

I don't think you are computing energy costs correctly. Almost all the cost of a PV system is energy. I don't think you really know much about a PV system except what you read on Wikipedia.

#2.1.3.2.3.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-08 23:52 (Reply)

OneGuy: Good!

QUOTE:

An appeal to authority is valid when

• The cited authority has sufficient expertise.
• The authority is making a statement within their area of expertise.
• The area of expertise is a valid field of study.
• There is adequate agreement among authorities in the field.
• There is no evidence of undue bias.

The proper argument against a valid appeal to authority is to the evidence.

OneGuy: I don't think you are computing energy costs correctly.

Z: Citation provided to study from Brookhaven National Laboratory

OG: Is not!
OG: I don't think so.
OG: I know cause I know.

#2.1.3.2.3.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-09 09:47 (Reply)

re: ESG boomerang

This is a direct result of people demanding action from state governments. Proof that we can hold politicians accountable. Keep it up!

#3 jack walter on 2022-11-07 10:43 (Reply)

Canadian doctors advised to suggest suicide... Canada spent their medical allowance on the VAXX and now they can't afford painkillers? Give em another booster, that should take care of it.

#4 indyjonesouthere on 2022-11-07 11:15 (Reply)

My Canadian relatives and friends have told me that the last three months of the year the health system runs out of money and defers and delays most health care until January.

#4.1 OneGuy on 2022-11-07 11:19 (Reply)

Remember this when they want to bring their National Health Service "free medical" around to the US. And when it's broke it would be convenient for all you non contributing members to go away ie die.

#4.1.1 grant1863 on 2022-11-07 11:57 (Reply)

"Free" healthcare is a human right! Another problem "solved" though government fiat. This is your future under Democrat rule, fellow Americans: Vote accordingly.

To be fair though, given the helpless, dependent, whipped-dog mentality of many Canadians, it is possible that some of them do need to be told when to commit suicide.

Being poor sucks (been there done that) but being a slave is much, much worse.

#4.1.1.1 Hairless Joe on 2022-11-08 09:32 (Reply)

Where I live, without Daylight Saving Time (DST) the sun would rise before 05:00 from May 6 to July 26 and set no later than 19:34 during that time. I'm happy to trade an hour of daylight while I'm sleeping for an additional hour of daylight in the evening.

Further, if DST were in effect year-round, the sun wouldn't rise until after 08:00 from November 26 to February 12 and still set no later than 18:37 during that time. I'd rather have some morning light before work than evening light when I'm not going to be outside very much anyway.

I support continuing DST.

#5 Michael Kesti on 2022-11-07 11:19 (Reply)

We should align the requirements to register to vote with the requirements to purchase a firearm. You should have to give the same information for both and you would have to do it in person.

#6 JustMe on 2022-11-07 11:39 (Reply)

"Ultra-processed foods linked with early deaths: study"

Well of course that is stupid. But it is consistent with the effort underway to explain the sudden death syndrome that does not use the "V" word (vaccine, shhhh!). Millions of excess deaths of young people in 2021 and 2022.

Another one is "falling asleep while watching TV leads to deaths!". But apparently only since we began giving the covid vaccine (oops! Shhhh!).

#7 Anon on 2022-11-07 11:46 (Reply)

QUOTE:

New York Red Wave is coming ashore . . . Gov. Kathy Hochul finally admitted “there is a crime issue” that has gotten worse during her year in office.

Sure. Crime is up nationwide, but the homicide rate is higher in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas, than it is in New York.

#8 Zachriel on 2022-11-07 11:59 (Reply)

Yeah, vote for Hochul because the murder rate is not as bad as some other states.

Brilliant, (((Quibble-DickZ))).

#8.1 Zachinoff on 2022-11-07 13:50 (Reply)

Ah, the magic of tiny denominators?

#8.2 louie miller on 2022-11-07 23:21 (Reply)

More like the magic of "Don't report this stuff because it makes us look bad."

#8.2.1 JLawson (Link) on 2022-11-08 01:53 (Reply)

JLawson: Ah, the magic of tiny denominators?

Rates are compared using the same denominator, in this case, homicides per 100,000 population.

JLawson: More like the magic of "Don't report this stuff because it makes us look bad."

Reporting that New York is a relatively safe state is accurate reporting. But you are right in that the false story often has more legs than the true story. "Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California." Does the truth matter?

#8.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-11-08 08:58 (Reply)

There May Not Be A 2024 Election

QUOTE:

“The cheating in the midterm election next week is going to be so great that it is almost impossible to make a prediction. . . . In a fair midterm election, the Republicans would win the House and the Senate.”

“It’s going to be tight, and the Republicans have a shot at taking the House. Technically, they should take the House and the Senate. I am just not sure. The corruption is so bad, it’s crazy. .."

"Pennsylvania sent out hundreds of thousands of ballots to people who are not documented or even American. I’ve gotten emails from people in Canada, they are getting mail-in ballots. They mailed them to Canada...

. . . . “We may not even have an election in 2024..."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-not-looking-good-martin-armstrong-warns-there-may-not-be-2024-election

#9 feeblemind on 2022-11-07 15:04 (Reply)

Never have to change the clocks here in Arizona, one of the nice things about living here.

#10 RJP on 2022-11-07 15:26 (Reply)

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