Bomb Daylight Savings Time

After a much anticipated wait, the numbers are finally in:

Daylight Savings Time - 1

United States Congress - 0

For those of you that live under a rock, as part of the 2005 Energy Conservation Act, Congress decided to wage a war against daylight savings time and change it's start and end dates. The new dates would be effective in 2007, starting 3 weeks earlier then usual and end 1 week later. The goal (as I understand it) is to conserve energy by increasing the length of daylight savings time. Apparently less energy would be used if we could enjoy more daylight during the evenings. Does that even make sense?

It's a wonder anything gets done in this country with Congress spending their time discussing important issues like daylight savings. Somebody should have informed these guys that Australia already tried this trick and it failed miserably - their data also concluded that NO energy was saved.

Does the government think that everyone sleeps until noon or has President Bush convinced Congress that by changing daylight savings time, we're magically adding an extra hour into the day? Let me 'splain ya somefin... If we have more daylight at night, we'll have more dark in the morning, so that means that we'll use more electricity in the morning and less in the evening... see how that all balances out?

At this point any normal person would have realized that changing daylight savings time is a stupid idea. I mean seriously, what the fuck is the point of daylight savings time anyway? The farmers? You mean to tell me that the farmers can't set their own alarm clocks? Unphased, Congress continues to wage their war against daylight savings time and never stops to consider the cost of patching every electronic device for the new change. The IT costs alone wouldn't be recouped for years even if energy costs were actually reduced!

It's a good thing that there isn't a country in the middle east called Daylight Savingastan otherwise we would have bombed the shit out of it by now. Typically when "Plan A" doesn't work out quite the way everyone expected, "Plan B" (aka. blow shit up) goes into full effect. In this case, there's nothing to bomb so there might be a problem. It's rare these days that we make it past "Plan B", but on occassion this does happen and that's when we move onto "Plan C" which is more commonly known as, "pretend we didn't do that and hope the media doesn't bring it up".

So for all your hard work during this energy crisis, let me be the first to say, "THANKS CONGRESS! YOU REALLY SAVED OUR ASS!" You've increased our IT costs, made us all late for meetings, raised our taxes and done nothing to help us conserve energy. Great job you fucktards - any more brilliant ideas?