While dairy farmers, Senator Hubert Humphrey and miscellaneous cranks talk about Daylight Savings Time being the work of the devil, most of America outside of Arizona observe it. Maybe if Humphrey had won in 1968 things would have been different, hard to say.
Officially, most of Arizona opted out of Daylight Savings Time in 1968, but before then it wasn't widely observed in the state. The tribal areas of the state do observe daylight savings time.
You know, back in 2016 I thought a lot about potentially voting for Trump. Not as a Republican but on the conservative line. Not because I love or embraced his ideas, but I like how he’s different, he gives the system a much needed kick in balls, he gives knocks liberals down a peg with a dose of reality. You can want to do something, dream about something, but ultimately if you want to do something, you just got to do it.
I think history proves that outside of the acts done by political mastermind Mitch McConnell, President Trump was an abysmal failure. Like a bullied weak child who punches the bully in the knee, Trump ended up with a black eye and a broken nose when the bully responded. As a convicted criminal myself, I like the idea of a convicted felon as President. It really knocks the whole system and it’s fake moral superiority down a notch. It exposes the raw nature of power.
I do cringe a bit thinking about the public policy proposals put forward by Trump, many are not to my liking. I mean, he’s the man who appointed Jeff Sessions, whose most famous remarks are “Good people don’t smoke pot.” I like smoking pot. I think his ideas and publicly proclaimed positions on trade are disasterous and should not be implemented. His ideas on criminal justice, immigration, renewable energy and the cities are equally bad. But he’ll be good on guns and keeping all our public lands from getting locked up as wilderness with roads and campsites closed. A lot of people I respect and admire are embracing the Trumpster.
I don’t think the world is coming to an end regardless of who becomes President. And it’s not like with the Electoral College my vote in New York counts for much at all. It will be discarded. If Trump’s elected, maybe there will be somewhat slower progress on adoption of renewable energy, some tweaks to public policy,. On the ordinary level, I doubt there will be much change to every day life whoever becomes President. He might cause a few years of indigestion to evening TV watchers, but that’s a bout it. It’s only four years, time goes by quickly, before long we will be talking about Election 2026 and 2028.
The federal government will just become more and more ineffective with grid lock and states will start to do their own things. States will become more distinct in their policies, with blue states and red states relying more and more on Interstate compacts rather than the federal government. There actually is a lot of incentives for states to encourage people to freely relocate to states of their ideological persuasion, so the incumbent politicians can further cement their power and implement their desired policies.
"West Virginia is known by many as the Mountain State. But for more than a century, those mountains lacked one of its long-time residents—the wild, free-ranging elk. Now, thanks to the efforts of cooperating state wildlife agencies, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its fired-up volunteers, elk are back the ground on their historic West Virginia range. The latest group to arrive made it thanks to a cross-country trek and a pay-it-forward attitude from a fellow elk state some 1,000 miles away."
Apparently it’s a thing. Like many things.
I guess some Italians and other health buffs like to end their evening with a shot of olive oil, because the fat helps smooth absorption of food in one’s stomach and keeps people full throughout the night. Seems kind of silly to me, but I’m getting fed a lot of targeted ads because I made the mistake of investigating fad-diet-marketers Mr. Gundry’s jacked up price olive oil, that is supposed to be low on lectins, which some people believe are super harmful. Because eating too many tomatoes is like eating too many twinkies.
I am not against olive oil, and indeed it’s my go-to fat for use in frying many things up. But I would hardly call it a health food, even if it’s one of the healthiest fats you can cook with and you need some fats in your diet. But drinking it raw, doesn’t seem all that appealing in the grand scheme of things.