Catherine

Catholic hockey fan. Queen of useless information. Orwell fan. A work in progress. ❤️‍🔥🏒🐷

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@bannon1975 It’s okay for kids to know they might not be good at everything. The key is in helping them discover their gifts & nurturing those gifts.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@txsalth2o @Marriott Can’t stand alarm clocks in hotels. They take up space. They glow. Once, someone set the alarm for 3:30 am & put the volume on full blast. Always unplugged them after that. I can see the need for hotels to have a couple on hand, though.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Jim Abbott accepted the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance and delivered another masterpiece.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@b_cuse_

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@bigsmokecave @butcherofbuch @HalCranmer My mother never took a statin. But she had a major sugar addiction & terrible dementia. Wish we had known about the effects of sugar on the brain. Hoping my siblings & I can avoid the same fate. 💔

[Rick J @rickjeff78]

Nobody is going to be outside at 4:30pm on December 21st just because there's a tiny glimmer of sun still out.

You're lying to yourselves.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@SharylAttkisson It can happen when there’s a change in routine & the parent is distracted. Rear-facing car seats are also a factor. 💔

[heretical lakeloon @loonlake55]

In Minnesota, the darker the morning, the icier and snowier the roads. Permanent Daylight Savings would be a disaster here.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Tennessee❤️

When people told us at the beginning of our road trip that people in the South are different, we didn’t really know what they meant. But after spending several weeks here, we finally understand.

The hospitality here is just something else. Everyone knows everyone, and it feels like people are living one big shared life. Someone is always stopping by, doors are always open, and everyone is welcome.

One guy told us he hasn’t locked his house in 23 years. When we were out on the lake, we met some people who immediately invited us to their lake house to hang out. They offered us drinks, chicken wings, and made us feel completely at home. It’s a kind of hospitality I’ve never experienced before.

When we got back to the dock late that night, one of the guys on the boat said something that really stuck with me:

“You don’t have to live in some big, exciting city. What matters is the people who live there. That’s what makes you happy. I’ve lived in many places around the world, but nothing comes close to Ocoee, Tennessee. And you know the best part about living here? We’re going to do the exact same thing again tomorrow.”

We will be back.

[Marcus O'Reillius @euthunoF4E]

@PattyMurray Daylight savings time, Summer: 6am - 9pm.
Daylight savings time, Winter: 9am-6pm. 9AM!!!
Standard time, Summer: 5am - 8pm.
Standard time, Winter: 8am - 5pm.
STANDARD TIME ALL THE TIME - like Arizona!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[Julian Mille☈ @ATLAreaWx]

This will be such a nightmare.

[Steve · Millionaire Habits @SteveOnSpeed]

On an airline, I never fully recline my seat because I wanna be courteous to the person behind me. Unfortunately, the person in front of me never seems to share that philosophy, lol.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@AshleyRParker You could’ve made this 11-year old article a gift article but you didn’t.

[Mark Davis @MarkDavis]

The folks grousing about Darline filling Lindsey’s Senate seat are off base. It’s six months, much of it a holiday recess. She will show up, and vote as Lindsey would have. The people of Kentucky should be so lucky.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@prayandfast2 Beautiful! Thank you. 🙏

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@VanillaDeedle @prayandfast2 May God have mercy on those who ignore or disparage Christ’s mother. God chose Mary to bring Christ into the world. It is right & fitting to honor her. So sorry for those who have been misled. 😔

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@ericmetaxas People seem to think Permanent DST would mean permanent summer. Winter days are shorter no matter what you do. Sun won’t rise until 9 am where I live. No thanks 👎

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@EdsPurgatory My high school had a student smoking area with a 9-ft marijuana leaf painted on the outside wall of the school. For years.

[Catherine @MegsDaughter24]

@BasedMikeLee His enthusiasm, charm, and humor are unmatched. What a void he leaves. 😔