Arkansas Woman Blames Liberals In Congress For Global Warming

[DeSwiss]

I'm not making this stuff up folks. I swear. An Arkansas woman wrote an LTTE to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette to complain that it was the "Daylight Savings Time" what done it.



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*** - Uh-huh. Hey, I suppose its an improvement of sorts. At least she didn't blame Bill Clinton's penis for it. Well, at least not outright.

[rodeodance]

1. nature determines daylight hours---not man-manmade clocks

[Sparkly]

2. "an extra hour of daylight" -- please tell me this is a joke. nt

[DrRang]

19. Gotta be. It's too grammatical for a wingnut. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

31. Yep. Spoken with tongue firmly in cheek. nt

[Zodiak]

3. For one, it was the Bus admin that changed daylinght savings

for two: the sun and the Earth's rotation cannot be controlled by legislation, dumbass!

I don't who is dumber, the writer or the editor of the paper that decided to print this.

[ieoeja]

41. I would definitely have printed this.

Though I might have included my own disclaimer at the bottom:

For the record the author of this letter is incorrect in asserting the sun rises and sets based on legislation passed by Congress. She is also incorrect in blaming on the current Congress as the law expanding DST was passed by the previous Conservative congress before the last election.

[wakeme2008]

4. Hate to say it but she is right

The use of gasoline did go up during that extra two week period. More light, more people driving around to malls and things.

[Skinner]

14. Um, for the record that's not what she said.

Whether gasoline use increased, I don't know. But that's not the point of her letter. She claims that the extra hour of daylight from daylight savings time made the earth hotter, which is obviously absurd.

EDIT: Re-wrote post to be less snarky.

[klyon]

You mean we can't roll back the clocks to yesterday

and get rid of Global Warming? Oh darn. :-(

[klyon]

23. sorry double post

[wakeme2008]

32. Sorry I missed the extra hour the earth got part of letter

But here a link to the extra gas used http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2007-04-05-daylight-savings-usat_N.htm?POE=NEWISVA

:)

[ourbluenation]

36. AND - she implied that "liberal congress" changed DLS on purpose as propaganda

tool to promote global warming hysteria.



i find THAT hysterical.


:rofl:

[ccpup]

5. it's simply frightening

to imagine living a day in "Connie's World".

[meegbear]

6. ...

:spray: Get her on The O'Reilly Factor pronto! America NEEDS to know this! :rofl:

[SteelPenguin]

7. Is the headline misspelled?

shouldn't it be Daylight exacerbates WARMING?

Ah. Arkansas. It's Kansas with an 'Arrrr'.

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. Remind me to write my Kansas legislature

and ask that we secede from Arkansas. We have enough trouble without them. LOL

[hiaasenrocks]

8. Full-on Bush voter, Freeper, Ditto-head. This is what they're all like.

[gaspee]

9. Please tell me

that this is parody. Please. Why would the paper print this?

[maine_raptor]

10. This is a joke, right?

I mean, "Congress would have considered the warming effect that the extra hour.....", is just to stupid to be real.

This has got to be someone's idea of satire.

Oh, wait......31%.........nevermind.

[paparush]

11. You know the ONE effect of extended DST? We're using more gas...

Now,tell me, who was behind extending DST? Can you say.....mmmmmmmmm..EXXON!!

[depakid]

12. :Cough: ...Ahem...

That's :sarcasm:

A brilliant piece, too, I might add....

[Solly Mack]

13. Oh.Damn.

[bbernardini]

15. According to a poster on Fark, this was written by a liberal friend of his as a joke.

Somebody else mentioned that he/she knew a small town paper editor who would occasionally print an honestly wacko letter such as this one just to rile people up a bit.

[depakid]

18. She's an attorney in Little Rock.

And she must be laughing her ass off!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=+Connie+M.+Meskimen&btnG=Search

[aaronbees]

40. I think it's satire

And pretty good, subtle satire too.

[Arkansas Granny]

38. The paper where this letter was published might sound like a

small town newspaper to some, but it is actually the largest newspaper in the state of Arkansas.

[myrna minx]

16. Please tell me this is a joke.

My god, how does this woman function. By her logic, we should all work the night shift, so we can alter how much daylight we receive? :rofl: :crazy:

[depakid]

17. There's another one floating around out there too

This guy's LTTE to the Idaho Statesman is right up there- way over most people's heads:

Those of you who were convinced to acquiesce to Daylight Savings Time by being told that it was necessary for the farmers — the farmers need that extra hour of sunlight during the summer to get their work done — have now been duped into moving the change up to save energy. More sun per day, less furnace per day, less lighting needs per day. Pretty simple, eh?

The problem you are not thinking about here is global warming.

Global warming is nothing other than the planet's response to this additional sunlight each day during the warmer months. Global warming will increase with the recently added weeks of additional sunlight.

Of course, Al Gore likes and supports Daylight Savings Time as he is getting a lot of face time with his campaign for reaction to global warming. He's not about to admit that the human cause in global warming is the government's Daylight Savings Time conspiracy...

Cliff Weisgerber

Of course, after 12 years of Republicans controlling Congress and 6 years of Bush, all our sarcasm and satire detectors are so far out of calibration it may take a long time to set them straight again. I'm thinking maybe around 2010.

[myrna minx]

22. You have to admit, there are plenty of rabid "true believers"

who quill crazy ideas that are subsequently published. I'll admit, my satire filter was broken around 2002. :hi:

[Virginia Dare]

20. OMG! This is HUGH!!!

The librulz have harnessed the SUN! Maybe all of the librulz are actually lizard keepers sent down to destroy us all!!!! Be afraid Ms. Connie Meskimen, be very afraid!



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[tk2kewl]

25. Damn! We are screwn! Turn the clock back to 1200 AD and everything will be fine.

:crazy:

[DeSwiss]

21. To everyone who said...

...."tell me this is a joke."

Fraid not. There are actually people out there who believe this shiat. And they can vote and own guns. That's the real scary part.

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[eppur_se_muova]

24. LOL! I love the Onion! Oh wait ....

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Another fine example of what I have to put up with here in Arkansas.

When my son and I moved here in 1991, we immediately began to call the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Fascists Gazette. You would not believe the LTTEs they print! At least a dozen a week from the American Taliban. One last Saturday from a dude that argued Bill Kristol and John Bolton weren't Neo-cons because they were never Democrats before!

[shadowknows69]

27. Wow, welcome to "Idiocracy"

electrolytes: It's what plants like.

[unpossibles]

34. like it, it's what they crave!

you want to give them water? Like out of the toilet?

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. Reminds me of one of my favorite bumper stickers

Back when I was a kid and daylight savings time was in its infancy, we saw this bumper sticker one day:

LEAVE GOD'S TIME ALONE

My sister who was maybe 8 at the time, said "But God didn't create clocks!"

[cooolandrew]

29. How dare she. She ought to read a book her ignorance has been lethal to us all.

[zbdent]

33. Soon to be followed by numerous complaint letters by RWers

for printing such a salacious word as "exacerbates" on the LTTE page ...

Outraged RW christian lunatics ...

[DIKB]

35. There was a decent rebuttal

to this in today's paper I believe. She's not so much blaming Warming on liberals, so much as making a sarcastic denial of it's existence.

[porphyrian]

37. Arkansas woman dumb as fuck, no one cares. - n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

39. ya know what?

I have actually known people who think like that .

They are so self righteous and sure that god is on their side, and that liberals are devil spawn that their thinking processes are corrupted beyond repair

and that is the ugly truth