MARCH
20, 2007 --
What
changes have WE wrought to the calendar. We have taken holidays
from their natural place in the yearly order, to give us three-day
weekends.
Not only have we instituted daylight saving time (a term that makes no sense
if it suggests that humans can lengthen daylight hours), we have now put in
in March.
The professional basketball season runs deep into June. Major League Baseball
lasts close to November. The Super Bowl has reached February. College bowl
games are played after January 1. The Oscars are given out in February; once
they were awarded in April.
Taxes are due in mid-April, not in mid-March. The president is inaugurated
in January, not in March as the Founding Fathers provided in the Constitution.
Changes in the presidential primary season are reported to determine the nominees
by the end of February (if so, why hold national political conventions in the
summer, or at all?)
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Presidential
campaigns begin nearly two years before election day, not the January
of the election year.
Could it be that we simply get January weather in March. BTW -- no matter how
cold January used to be, the end of the month usually brought a thaw -- the
"January thaw" and I don't know that, back then, Al Gore got up one
morning, and citing the thaw, declared global warming.
If the rains that are supposed to take place in April, strike in late May,
we ought to inquire if climate change is, actually,
seasonal shift -- caused by all our manmade calendar tinkerings and, just perhaps,
a decrease in our orbit around the sun -- which would indicate that our
planet is drifting closer to the sun, every year and, of course, is doomed,
but for reasons other than those presented by the global warming alarmists.
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