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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0012|     
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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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