So, with Jim's correction, killing metric was a bipartisan effort. I'm glad they could work together on something. I just wish it was something ELSE.
--- On Mon, 2/13/12, James Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: From: James Frysinger <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51467] Re: CBS Sunday Morning Almanac spot To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 10:51 AM That was Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) who deleted the due date for metric compliance. He was not from Alabama. I wrote to him on this issue while it was in committee and he sent a personal reply, assuring me that state highway departments would not revert. Right! Jim -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108 On 2012-02-13 09:24, Michael Payne wrote: > It wasn't that the US public was opposed to metric, it was that a couple > of politicians who managed to mess with the transition and stall the > whole process. Without looking up references, there was an Alabama > congressman who inserted language into a Highway funding bill that made > the whole process voluntary and Grover Norquist who managed during the > Reagan administration to get the metric transition board de funded. > > Mike Payne > > On 12/02/2012, at 18:31 , John M. Steele wrote: > >> Well, their assertion that metric is only used in science is wrong. >> The US has several industries that are metric internally (as well as >> many who aren't). >> Of course, given the AP's opposition to metric, it is quite >> unreasonable to expect any real investigative journalism of the "state >> of metric", vs a "puff piece" that trashes metric in line with AP's >> biases. >> None of what they said is really wrong; just incomplete enough to be >> misleading. >> >> --- On *Sun, 2/12/12, Jason D Darfus /<[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote: >> >> >> From: Jason D Darfus <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: [USMA:51461] CBS Sunday Morning Almanac spot >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Sunday, February 12, 2012, 6:13 PM >> >> Gee, I thought this mailing list would have lit up by now. Does no >> one else watch Sunday Morning on CBS? >> >> http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7398432n >> >
