0001| HOUSE MEMORIAL 20
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0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| G. X. MCSHERRY
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0010| A MEMORIAL
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0011| URGING THE RETURN TO TWELVE-MONTH STANDARD TIME FOR NEW MEXICO.
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0013| WHEREAS, "God called the light day and darkness night";
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0014| and
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0015| WHEREAS, government's history of interfering in the
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0016| affairs of people causes a never-ending stream of petty,
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0017| annoying, objectionable adjustments to (foolish) limitations
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0018| and (inane) interferences with the natural order of life; and
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0019| WHEREAS, the history of daylight-saving time is a textbook
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0020| example both of meddling by government in what is none of its
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0021| business and the pointless chicanery of fooling most of the
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0022| people most of the time; and
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0023| WHEREAS, there is no daylight saved by daylight-saving
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0024| time; and
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0025| WHEREAS, if people in the rest of the country, save
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0001| Arizona and a corner of Indiana, wish to continue to rush into
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0002| more unnatural efforts to divorce themselves from natural
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0003| cycles which have functioned perfectly for millennia, then let
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0004| those persons continue to puzzle whether to spring forward or
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0005| fall back; and
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0006| WHEREAS, the solar cycle provides daily vitality to all
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0007| plants and animals, even humans out of sync with the sun; and
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0008| WHEREAS, we New Mexicans, in awe of and benefiting from
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0009| our attachments to the oldest civilizations in this country,
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0010| have demonstrated since history was first recorded here a clear
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0011| preference for life on a natural scale and at a natural pace,
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0012| rather than one driven by technology and modern innovation;
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0013| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0014| REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the great state
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0015| of New Mexico acknowledge a willingness to live in God's time
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0016| and take appropriate action to forsake so-called daylight-
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0017| saving time and return to standard solar time for the full
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0018| twelve months of the year; and
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0019| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that no New Mexican who so chooses
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0020| be obliged to live in solar cycle time, being forever free to
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0021| miss the song of the early bird or ignore our miraculous
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0022| sunsets in favor of sitcoms.
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