FINALLY! British Columbia, the Canadian province I live in, has decided to stay on Daylight Saving Time permanently. We switched our clocks forward this morning at two a.m., and I am forever grateful. I have never liked changing our clocks in the spring and fall, and often wondered why. I guess pros and cons are depending on how you look at it, but if sunset in the winter around here goes from 4:30ish to 5:30ish in the dead of winter because the government decides to stay on Daylight Saving Time, I’m all for it. It’ll stay darker out in the morning longer; however, I think there is a vast majority of B.C. residents, over ninety percent in the last poll taken seven years ago, who would prefer to stay on daylight saving time. Some people put forth the argument that it’s not good for our children to be going to school in the dark, but I’m not sure that argument holds weight. When I lived in Juneau, Alaska, it didn’t get light out until ten-ish, and children went to school no problem, and I don’t recall there ever being any issues with it. That’s just the way it was, and you adjust the best way you know how. I didn’t have kids then, and I’m not sure if I did, but I would feel differently if they had to go to school in the dark. Perhaps, but I’ll never know. I’m thinking I would rather have my children come home when it is still light out. At any rate, we live in the here and now, and I’m pleased we won’t be changing our clocks again. What are your thoughts?
Speaking of children, another war has taken the lives of school children in Iran. It seems a girl’s elementary school was targeted with a Tomahawk missile and killed an estimated one hundred and seventy-five civilians, most of them school girls attending class. Why? The evidence is pointing toward it being a U.S. strike. Time will tell, and it doesn’t really matter, does it, who fired the missile? Innocent children are always victims of war. For those of you who read my posts, you will hear me speak consistently about the atrocities of war, and I will always question why our differences can’t be settled peacefully. I don’t get it and never will. Shame on the human race and certain individuals who make up excuses to go to war. As I said on my introductory page, I am an atheist and blame a lot of our differences on religion. If you need to worship a God, worship a God who finds war despicable. Don’t dare tell me your God has a reason for everything and that war is part of their grand plan, as some people believe. Sorry, taking children from this earth, be it in war or by any means, is not a God I could ever believe in.
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