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U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds
blacklite001 writes "Not content with merely extending Daylight Savings Time, the U.S. government now also proposes to eliminate leap seconds, according to a Wall Street Journal story. Their proposal, 'made secretly to a United Nations body,' includes adding 'a "leap hour" every 500 to 600 years.'
Hey, anyone remember the last bunch of people to mess with the calendar?"
The big, bad US goverment following the lead of the terrorist Bush, wishes to subvert the world by eliminating leap seconds. Give me a break! Remove the tinfoil hat ... I realize how hard that is for most of the slashbot liberal groupthink crowd but seriously, it's time to get over it. The only thing being proposed is to extend daylight savings time. It would take an act of Congress to eliminate leap seconds and any bill being proposed by Congress can be read online. Something like this would NEVER pass both the House and the Senate and be signed by Bush ... as much as you hate him, it just wouldn't happen. Abortion on demand has a better shot at becoming law than anything like this, and anyone who knows anything about the current political climate in Washington knows how likely that is to happen. Just bide your time until he's out of office and then convince as many of your buddies as you can to vote for a Democrat is 2008. I'm getting sick and fucking tired of your conspiricy theories about Bush and co trying to take over the world.