Early to bed, Early to rise, Time isn't on your side

"8:58, first time I’ve ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight savings days. Lousy farmers." -Homer Simpson

Sure, I'm late to write a post about Daylight Savings Time (huh huh huh! See what I did there???) but, Benjamin Franklin's bullshit aphorism aside, the fetishiszation of getting up or being early has its roots in historical propaganda designed to make people into obedient workers.

The two greatest conspiracies Protestant conspiracies are Daylight Savings Time and Hops in Beer.

Hops weren't always a standard ingredient of beer.  You see after the Duke of Bavaria issued the Reinheitsgebot, the famous German Beer Purity law, in 1516 it was right in time for Martin Luther's break with the 95 Theses in 1517 and the nascent Protestant communities found a drink to put their followers quickly to bed at night; No Funny Business!  You see good Protestants were expected to get up early, work all day, read the Bible, then drink "a couple beers" and go to bed and do it all over again the next day, except Sunday when they were expected to go to church all day.

Getting back to Daylight Savings Time, having done night shift work for years I know how flipping your sleep schedule, working in the dark, or driving to and from work in the dark is physically and mentally exhausting.  And I applaud when everyone sees the one hour time changes in Spring and Fall have similar effects.  I don't know if Daylight Savings Time or Standard Time is the better option but, it's time to stop this silly flipping but, it's time to also stop working ourselves to death anyway.

Waking up early became a sign of a good worker and what American business has always wanted is workers willing to over exert themselves without being paid for their labor.  It became de rigueur to basically work without pay...  Because Real hard-workin' Muricans love to get to office before the boss to show their go-getter spirit and middle management potential.  There has never been a more insidious turn-of-phrase than; Early is on time, Ontime is late, and Late is Unacceptable.'

Work won't love you back.  And getting up early has taken more for man than it give us;  According to Bertrand Russell monumental tome The History of Western Philosophy (1945),

Queen Christina of Sweden, a passionate and learned lady who thought that, as a sovereign, she had a right to waste the time of great men. It turned out that she wanted daily lessons from him, but could not spare the time except at five in the morning. This unaccustomed early rising, in the cold of a Scandinavian winter, was not the best thing for a delicate man. Moreover, Chanut became dangerously ill, and Descartes looked after him. The ambassador recovered, but Descartes fell ill and died in February, 1650.

Rene Descartes was the first person to invent a new systematic process of philosophy since Aristotle.  Descartes monumental Cogito is a philosophical question which all modern thinkers must address.

Ann and Mitt Romney (R-Money) and the joys of "Not Working"

Rather than talk about his plans, or his disasterous record as Governor of Massachusetts or his days eliminating Americans jobs as a Wage Slave Trader for Bain Capital, Mitt Romney campaign is built upon the foundation of Obama isn't Working.

Now, for the $990 Dollar shirt-wearing Ann Romney, Not Working is her choice and a state of mind. But, for poor women Luxuriate Ann Romney holds,

"I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids."

Wage Slave Trader Mitt R-Money was only too gleeful to talk about Americans being unemployed. When Americans lose their jobs, it makes Mitt happy! Mainly because it makes Mitt money. This is why Mitt is happy about the May 2012 unemployment figures. The more Americans suffer the more money Mitt Romney makes.

There's something especially pernicious in the way Mitt and Ann talk about Americans losing jobs, getting fired by Mitt or having to work hard harder than the Gilded Romney's.

But, getting back to the Obama isn't Working campaign slogan, I don't believe Mitt Romney is a racist, but to what base instincts of the right-wing voter is this phrase designed to appeal?

Obama isn't working? It seems to be a clear dog-whistle. It seems the reason the right-wing universe is constantly hammering away at President Obama with the idea that he's always on vacation, that he's playing golf or basketball (including the evil right-wing idea that President Obama was golfing when the Kill Bin Laden mission was occurring and had to be photo-shopped into the Situation Room image), is to cultivate the idea that Barack Obama is a lazy...

Even though, as of August 2011, President Obama had taken 61 vacation days while at similar points in their presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch and Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch. Currently, President Obama has taken half the time off that George W. Bush did.

But, this is just window dressing, the slimy tactics, underpinning the Republican Plan to capturing the White House. The real issue is the Richest people in America are not satisified with President Obama. The Wealth of the Nation is not trickling up to them fast enough. President Obama's stance on making millionaires and billionaires actually pay taxes instead of getting away with paying nothing has angered the Plutocratic Elites. The Koch Brothers are committed to spending $400 Million Dollars buying the Presidency for Mitt.

And Mitt Romney has made it no secret to his Billionaire Brethren that he will remove their onerous 13% tax burden while shifting the entire burden of the Federal Government onto the bowed backs of Middle Class and Poor, they are willing to spend $1,000,000,000 Dollars, to get him elected.