Because, let’s face it, socialized medicine / universal health care has been one of Teddy’s raisons d’etre for many years now. What if he had pushed it through, and the US healthcare system was very much like what they have over in England? Not exactly schadenfreude, though it’s hard not to feel a little smirk of “serves ya right” when reading Duane’s post:

Ted rides to the nearest hospital and his ambulance parks outside the building, but he is not unloaded. Instead he sits. And sits. And sits. For nearly five hours, Kennedy waits in the ambulance, “in a holding pattern”, waiting to be allowed in the hospital. He can’t be allowed in because the hospital can’t treat him immediately, and they have a government mandate that says patients have to be treated within four hours of admission. So rather than being treated right away, Kennedy is stacked outside the hospital in an ambulance. During that time, other 911 emergencies are left unattended by his ambulance because it is being used to meet government regulations.

Go over to the All American Blogger and read the rest. And leave a comment. Tell him BMEWS sent you.

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Senate subpoenas oil execs once again. SSDD.

John Lowe, Executive Vice President, Conoco Philips Company:

No kidding. Gosh, you mean the oil companies don’t have free reign to drill willy-nilly and suck the lifeblood of dear Gaia whenever and whereever they want? I’ve heard that taxes make up 6 times as big a slice of the price of a gallon of gas as do oil company profits. Could this be true???

As usual, the anal ostriches of the Senate are doing something about the high price of gas. They’re yelling at the oil companies and threatening windfall taxes. This is nothing new. I swear they do this every 3 or 4 years, and have been doing it since I was 11 years old. And it’s always the same questions, and the same answers, and the same awareness of issues: The oil companies make a lot of money because they sell an enormous amount of product. If there is any price fixing going on, it’s in the international market; profits on oil are lower than profits in most other businesses. Oil prices could be lower if the companies could exploit more of the resources we know we have, but a zillion federal laws are in the way. This is the exact same song and dance that’s been going on for generations.

Go read the rest if you want, at Power Line. Or at Malkin. I’m just throwing up my hands. Michelle reminds us that this is a standard Democrat tactic, but for extra fun, now we have John McCain getting on board with them. Such a Republican old Maverick is. Not.

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   Thursday - May 22, 2008

Yeeeee Haaaaaw !!!

Out-friggin-standing. ht/t to Kim’s.

  FREE GUN WITH EVERY PURCHASE !!!

Now that’s what I call an American company! Woo hoo!!!

A Missouri car dealership is triggering interest by offering customers free guns or gasoline with any purchase, and despite the skyrocketing price of fuel, patrons are going for the guns.

“We are aware of the gasoline and crime problem in America,” states an ad on the website of Max Motors. It goes on to note it “wants to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.”

“What we’re doing is giving everyone who buys a new or used vehicle a free handgun,” said Mark Muller, the dealership’s owner. “We have guns to display, but we can’t actually give them a gun, so what we do is give them a coupon for a local gun dealer here in town so they can pick out any gun they want. We recommend a semi-automatic.”

The certificate is good for either $250 at Alton Arms or for $250 worth of gas. Muller told WND no one has chosen the gas so far.

Wait, stop cheering for just a second. It gets even better!

“Six people came by – a bunch of long hairs who think the ‘60s are still going on, and who obviously don’t have jobs,” Muller said. “We all went out there with our cowboy hats on and told them we’d stomp ‘em, and they left.”
...
When asked if Sen. Barack Obama’s recent comments about people clinging to guns and religion inspired the promotion, Muller said yes.

“My next promotion is to give away a free King James Bible to any Muslim that converts to Christianity,” he said.

The only thing I can find wrong with this promotion is that it isn’t big enough. $250 doesn’t get you much of a gun. I don’t know how close to the bone this dealer’s deals really are, but $500 would get you a much better pistol. 

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Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain’, report from USA based Brit reporter

No comment from meself cept ta say ... might I be better off staying here when the time comes?  You know, just in case this reporter is right.
Scary stuff.  We need a catagory for “scary stuff” Drew.

US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain’By Toby Harnden in Des Moines, Iowa
Last Updated: 11:53AM BST 22/05/2008

Senator Barack Obama has established a battle-tested 50-state grassroots organisation and fundraising “juggernaut” that will crush John McCain in November, according to his senior advisers.

With the Illinois senator declaring himself “within reach” of the Democratic nomination after achieving a majority of the pledged delegates - those allocated by vote - on Tuesday, his campaign has already pivoted to preparing for the general election against Mr McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Although publicly heaping praise on Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama’s Democratic rival, and carefully avoiding putting pressure on her to drop out before the final states vote on June 3rd, the Illinois senator’s staff is impatient to launch a full-scale offensive against Mr McCain
But they believe that the ferocious fight Mrs Clinton has put up has helped them build an organisation of unprecedented strength.

“I don’t think John McCain realises what he’s in for,” said one adviser. “We’ve created a juggernaut,” said another, “and it’s going to overwhelm him.”

They cite their internet fundraising operation, the grassroots organising network that secured victory over Mrs Clinton by winning a series of caucus states and hundreds of thousands of idealistic young volunteers as crucial advantages over Mr McCain.

Democrats have attracted colossal numbers of new voters - in just seven primary states in March and April, some one million new party members were registered.

At Mr Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago, the focus is firmly on the general election. Even on primary day on Tuesday with contests against Mrs Clinton in Kentucky and Oregon a large sign in the open plan office announced: “Countdown to Nov 4th -167 days”.

Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant who pioneered some of the successful grassroots and internet techniques when he ran Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004, said that John McCain is already in “deep, deep trouble” because of a poor organisation and an anaemic fundraising total of about a fifth of the $500 million raised by Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton.

“Obama’s got the strongest organisation in history because of what he’s done with the internet and plugging volunteers into the paid organisers operation. McCain’s team is in a shambles. He has no organisation and no grassroots fundraising operation.”

More than 100 staff and volunteers, the majority of them in their 20s and dressed casually, work in the Obama headquarters, leased from the consulting firm Accenture on the 11th floor of a downtown skyscraper.

The atmosphere is akin to that of an internet start-up company - relaxed but with an earnest calm. Only a handful of senior staff have glass offices and there is none for Mr Obama himself, who drops in every time he returns to Chicago.

Although Mrs Clinton scored a 35-point victory in Kentucky, Mr Obama’s comfortable double-digit win in Oregon put him a whisker away from securing the Democratic nomination. On Thursday, he begins a three-day trip to Florida, a key swing state that is a must-win for Mr McCain.

Mr Obama has quietly begun to take over the Democratic party. Paul Tewes, who masterminded the Iowa victory in January that stunned Mrs Clinton and set Mr Obama on the path to the nomination, is expected to expected to run the party during the general election.

There have also been overtures to key members of Mrs Clinton’s staff.

David Axelrod, Mr Obama’s chief strategist, is understood to have held talks with Patti Solis Doyle, a senior Clinton adviser who was ousted as her campaign manager in February.

Mr Obama’s advisers believe he can win in states such as Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, New Mexico and Missouri that President George W. Bush won in 2004, though they concede they have work to do in Michigan and Florida, where he has not campaigned extensively because their primaries were disallowed by the party.

“We’ve become a very tested organisation, “said Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama’s communication director and his closest aide after Mr Axelrod. “We’ve built organisations in every place int his country. We don’t have to start building anything from scratch.

“Once we become the nominee, that’s going to be tremendously important for the fall [autumn] because as we’ve seen in the last two presidential elections, it’s all about turnout. We think we can not only expand the map in terms of the states in play but also expand the electorate within each one of those states.”

Mr Obama’s campaign team has been remarkably stable with his inner circle of Mr Axelrod, Mr Gibbs, David Plouffe, the campaign manager, and others remaining unchanged.

In contrast, Mr McCain has sacked or lost a string of senior aides, when his campaign ran out of money and virtually collapsed last July and again this month when at least five advisers left because of conflicts over their lobbying for businesses and foreign governments.

This week, Mark McKinnon, Mr McCain’s media adviser, stepped down because, as he said last year, electing Mr Obama would “send a great message to the country and the world”.

Mr Trippi said: “Obama has been battered, beaten, screamed at, yelled at, kicked and - nothing, totally unflappable, his staff’s unflappable, no schisms. McCain has imploded twice. So you have to have more confidence in Obama’s ability to put a team together and keep it together.”

Alex Conant, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, warned the Obama campaign against complacency.

“Between now and November, Barack Obama will have tough time explaining his plans to raise taxes and negotiate with state-sponsors of terror,” Mr Conant said.

“It’s telling that even on verge of clinching the nomination, so many Democrats continue to have serious concerns about his inexperience and weak judgment. Republicans are unified and pleased with the great contrast voters will have in this election.”

http://tinyurl.com/6ka7mn

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Proactive Pre-emptive Moonbats

Is this the MSM getting ready for a blow-out loss for their darling Obama? Sure looks that way to me. Once again, the left cries foul because they were unable to rig the election sufficiently in their favor.

NBC’s Mitchell Suggests Republicans May Cheat Obama in November
During MSNBC’s live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell seemed to take seriously suggestions by Hillary Clinton “loyalists” who argue that Republicans in control of the election process in some red states Barack Obama hopes to carry may deny him a “fair vote” in the November general election. Mitchell: “Other Clinton loyalists, but realists, say that that electoral map is a stretch in one regard: There are ... Republican governors and Secretaries of State, if you will, Katherine Harris-type election officials in those states. ... [Obama] has to go up against the establishment, which would be Republican, and he has to figure out a way to get a fair vote, if he’s the nominee, in those red states.”

These losers are so high. They’ve all gone paranoid from smokin crack. And - you guessed it - here it comes again, the Lie That Won’t Die^tm:

During an interview with Lisa Caputo of the Clinton campaign, Caputo commented that the possibility of Clinton winning the popular vote among Democratic primary and caucus voters while Obama wins the delegate count reminds her of the 2000 election. Matthews then contended that Al Gore “may well have won the election” if he had requested a statewide recount instead of “just a couple of counties” because Gore might have won most “intended votes.”

Oh Chad, are you still with us? Didn’t we give you the lethal injection you so richly deserved years ago? Unbelievable. Go read the rest here, if you can stomach it. 8 solid years and these morons haven’t changed their retarded tune by a single note. “Selected not Elected”, and elections rigged against them. Because it is simply impossible that people wouldn’t vote for Obama.

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Riverside , California …. Have they finally destroyed those glorious orange groves on Victoria?

All in the name of progress of course and lets face it, profit really.

There’s an area in Riverside,Ca. that was slowly being ground under even as I was living there.

Orange groves.  At certain time of the year the smell of those orange blossoms was like heaven.  Covered a large area once.

Anyway, one street in particular was Victoria Ave. Or is it Blvd.?  Can’t recall.  I believe it was named for Queen Victoria and if I’m wrong I’m sure someone will tell me.  So, this street ran .... ? ... gee.  I don’t know how many miles from one end of Riverside to the other.  This being Calif. of course, the center divider
was planted with rose bushes between the palm trees.  Very scenic.

But little by little I had noticed the groves being destroyed.  I’m glad I left for Palm Desert before the the final bell tolled for Victoria and the groves there.

I guess there just wasn’t enuff profit anymore, especially as so much is imported these days.  And btw, when I speak of those groves I’m going back to about 1989 or ‘90, which is when I left Riverside for the Desert at Palm.  So heaven only knows what’s become of them in all this time.

I’m reminded of that area of Riverside because over here in the UK, there is much worry over what’s to become of what the Brits call, “The Green Belt.”

The green belt here was supposed to be inviolate, at least that’s my understanding.  There’s only so much paving over an island can stand, and now there are ppl suggesting , oh perhaps it’d be okay to destroy just a small amount of the belt.  For housing.  Especially in many areas, low income housing.  That’s double talk for council estates. Welfare housing. 

But even without that, once you start the process there isn’t gonna be any way to recover the beautiful parklike land that’s destroyed in the name of something that spelled another way says “profits.” Profits for ppl who couldn’t care less about this beautiful place.  And please do not make any mistake about one thing that rankles in both UK and USA.  Immigration.  Uncontrolled, unlimited immigration.

Altho the powers that be deny it, that’s the leading cause of all the demands for housing. Even if it means destroying forever parts of England that will never be recoverable.

Lyndon did a better rant on this then I have.  I just happen to remember those wonderful groves in Riverside and here I am reading about similar vandalism in the name of housing/profits here in UK.

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Knife crime is epidemic, top judge claims

I think the judge speaks true BUT, how long will this feeling last?  I’m a cynic.  Why’d it have to go on so long with so many dead?  Oh hell, I don’t care if the gangs and hoodies wipe each other out.  Unfortunately tho, too often civilians get caught in their crossfire or walk thru what they see as their “turf” and bingo. Another victim.

If they’re so eager to fight, why not bring back the coliseum fights between members of the criminal class.

Anyway ... Drew already posted the remedy needed to stop the “epidemic” and if these judges would only read BMEWS their problem might get solved.

By Richard Alleyne
Last Updated: 8:59AM BST 22/05/2008

Knife crime has escalated to “epidemic proportions” and has to be “confronted and stopped”, said Sir Igor Judge, the President of the High Court Queen’s Bench Division.
Sir Igor, speaking as he was dealing with four unconnected cases at the Court of Appeal, said courts should be imposing the “most severe” sentences appropriate.

The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Griffith Williams and Mr Justice Saunders, dismissed three challenges to knife crime sentences, but allowed a fourth by a man caught with an axe during a Royal parade.

The judge’s stern remarks, mirroring public concern over rising knife crime on the nation’s streets, are likely to result in stronger sentences being passed in cases of knife-related crime in the future.

“Carrying a knife or offensive weapon without reasonable excuse is a crime which is being committed far too often by far too many people,” he said.

“Every weapon carried about the streets, even if concealed from sight, even if not likely to be used or intended to be used, represents a threat to public safety and public order.

“That is because, even if carried only for bravado or carried for some misguided sense that it would be used in possible self-defense, it takes only a moment of irritation, drunkenness, anger, perceived insult, or something utterly trivial like a ‘look’, for the weapon to be produced.

“Then you have mayhem, and offences of the greatest possible seriousness follow, including murder, manslaughter, GBH, wounding and assault.

“Offences of this kind have recently escalated. They are reaching epidemic proportions. Every knife or weapon carried in the street represents a public danger and, therefore, in the public interest, this crime must be confronted and stopped.

“The courts will do what they can to reduce and, so far as it is practicable, eradicate it. In our view, it is important for public confidence in the criminal justice system that the man or woman caught in possession of a knife or offensive weapon without reasonable excuse should normally be brought before the courts and prosecuted.

“Even if the offender does no more than carry the weapon, even when the weapon is not used to threaten or cause fear, when considering the seriousness of the offence, courts should bear in mind the harm which the weapon might foreseeably have caused.

“So, the message is stark: this is a serious offence and it should be treated with the seriousness it deserves.”

The judges dismissed three appeals for sentences to be cut but reduced the six year term of Daniel Bleazard, 34, of Adelphi Road, Huddersfield, to five for carrying an axe as he pushed through crowds to get to the front as the Queen passed by St George’s Square in Bradford on May 24 of last year.

http://tinyurl.com/3mkdjb

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MAJOR MOONBAT ALERT!!  Activists want chimpanzee declared a person

A British woman is leading a court challenge to have a chimpanzee declared a “person” so the animal can enjoy “human rights”.

Paula Stibbe and a group of Austrian animal rights activists want the European Court to declare that the ape, who they have given the name Matthew Hiasl Pan to make him sound “more human”, legally declared a person so she can be appointed his guardian.

Mrs Stibbe wants the declaration so she can take care of the 26-year-old chimp if the bankrupt animal sanctuary in Voesendorf, south of Vienna, where he currently lives, is forced to close.

The European Court of Human Rights case comes after Austria’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling against the group - known as the Association Against Animal Factories - who wanted a trustee appointed for Matthew so Mrs Stibbe could look after him using money pledged by a benefactor.

The court ruled the chimp was neither mentally impaired nor in danger, which are the legal grounds required for a guardian to be appointed.

“We appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, because everybody is entitled to a fair trial, even chimps,” said Martin Balluch, the group’s president.

He said humans and chimps had so much DNA in common, that the court should declare Matthew a person.

“This question is of paramount importance,” said Mr Balluch, who said he would use expert opinions from prominent scientists, anthropologists, lawyers and philosophers in the case.

Mr Balluch said activists wanted to ensure the ape, which was captured as an infant in Sierra Leone in 1982 and smuggled to Austria for use in pharmaceutical experiments, is cared for if the shelter was closed.

Matthew, and another chimp at the sanctuary, cost about £4,000 a month to keep and while a donor has offered to pay for the upkeep, under Austrian law, only a person can receive gifts. Matthew is expected to live until he is 60 and activists say only a “declaration of personhood” would ensure he was not sold for profit.

http://tinyurl.com/5x2rxm

OK, I understand their well meant strategy but, it’s still >>>>>

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Crime so awful, so depraved and immoral and silly, I don’t know if y’all are ready for it.

"T’aint Funny McGee” Crime is Crime after all and we can’t make exceptions.
(for you Yanks, that’s $600)

Mother fined £300 for putting bins out early
By Urmee Khan

Last Updated: 4:07AM BST 22/05/2008 |

A woman has been fined nearly £300 for leaving her bins out a day before they were due to be collected.
Zoe Watmough, 22, left the bins, a grey one and a green one for recycling, outside her home on a Wednesday ready for collection the next day.

Council officers issued her with a £75 fine claiming that the bins had been put out 24 hours before they were due to be emptied.

But the mother-of-three refused to pay and ended up facing magistrates in Bolton, where she was fined £125 and ordered to pay £125 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Speaking on Wednesday, Miss Watmough said: “I am flabbergasted at the outcome. All I did was put my rubbish out the night before it was due to be collected.

“Surely households up and down the country do that every week. The next thing I knew, I got a letter from the council which said I was getting a fine. There was no way I could afford to pay it.”

She added: “Everybody in this area puts their bins out the day before collection. I don’t see what the problem is. I have not hurt anyone, caused any obstruction or even littered the area. The fact is, I can’t afford to pay the fine.”

The court heard that Miss Watmough had already been sent a warning under environmental health rules by council officers who spotted her bins on the street on a Tuesday last November. Officers claimed that the bins had been put out 48 hours before collection.

Bolton council said it was pursuing prosecutions over bins left on streets because of the number of arson attacks by youths.

A spokesman said: “Officers visited on Jan 23 to find bins belonging to Miss Watmough on the public highway. On this occasion no other bins from neighbouring properties were in the street.

“Miss Watmough was issued a fixed penalty notice for failing to return her waste bins to her property. This penalty was not paid in the specified time period of 14 days and legal proceedings were initiated.”

Disputes between residents and councils over bin collection are increasingly common.

Last week Barry Freezer, a 73-year-old retired milkman, mistakenly put cabbage stalks in with his garden waste and was reprimanded by Norwich city council. Binmen claimed that the trimmings were kitchen rubbish.

The same council had refused to empty the bin of partially-sighted Lenny Woodward, 95, because he put a ketchup bottle and an empty coffee jar in the wrong bin.

“Everybody in this area puts their bins out the day before collection. I don’t see what the problem is.”

http://tinyurl.com/4s72no

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This is what you get when lawyers run the government

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.

The legislation also creates a Justice Department task force to aggressively investigate gasoline price gouging and energy market manipulation.

Are they out of their ever loving minds? How terminally stupid can you be and not fall over dead? Yes, OPEC is nearly a monopoly. We’ve known that for 35 years. So what? Yes, they are a massive cartel that has the world by the nadgers. This is news? Of course they are fixing the prices and fixing the amounts delivered. You can’t do anything about it, other than invading their countries. That’s it.

And just how do you think “our friends the Saudis” are going to react to being sued for price gouging? How about “Ok, never mind, we’ll sell our oil to someone else.”?

This is another example of our do-nothing government wasting time and money just for appearance’s sake. It’s bad enough this utterly useless measure was even considered, yet alone worked on. But when it came down to voting, an awful lot of “Conservative” Republicans went over to the other side and supported this “We’re all victims, let’s sue somebody to make things fair bill. Hope you clods are wearing comfortable shoes in November, because it’s walking time.

The way to energy independance is two-fold. First, you move heaven and earth to maximize your own production. Second, you do whatever you can to eliminate or minimize aspects of your own economy that run on imported fuels. It isn’t that hard to figure out. Yes, it’s going to require some sacrifices. Tough. Fucking. Shit. And it might cost you some money. Too bad. And you might rail against it like a cranky 2 year old because it’s an evil Socialist Agenda Taking Away Your Rights. Well, there may be some truth in that. But one thing you can say for Socialism is that it gets things done much faster. And we need solutions. In place. Yesterday. But let’s keep things in balance too; we just might have to put up with a bit more pollution for a few years. An endangered specie or two might go bye-bye. Again, that’s just too bad. Let’s shoot for “good enough” instead of only be willing to accept perfection.

• No new private vehicles that run on gasoline should be for sale that don’t get at least 22mpg around town. RVing just became a thing of the past. Too bad. So did mongo truckasauruses. Also too bad. Better buy your 0-60 in 4 seconds hot rod now too.


• No new private vehicles that run on diesel should be for sale that don’t get at least 25mpg around town. You’ve been spoiled thinking that your desires are your needs. Playtime is over; it’s time to grow up. Think of it as a sacrifice you have to make for the national good.


• Not a watt of electricity should be generated using oil. That’s what nukes are for. Use them. Sure, give wind and solar a try. Keep the hydroelectric we have. But build 200 more nuclear generators, right now, until 90% of all electricity is generatred by “mostly green” sources. We need 5 times as much electricity as we currently have.


• No home should have oil heat. Period. We have lots and lots of natural gas and propane. And electricity. Here’s a tax credit to offset a third of the changeover cost.


• Let’s find a balance point with automobiles. Sorry, but you can’t have it all. Today’s darling vehicle, the Toyota Prius, doesn’t get any better mileage than the 1990 Geo Metro. Yes, safety is important, but today’s cars are overbuilt little tanks. I think better driver training and better traffic enforcement would more than offset “less safe” cars. We are a nation of poor drivers, isolated and innattentive to our surroundings. That stops now. While we have made cars so much more crash resistant, nowhere near enough has been done to make cars crash avoidant. And 95% of the time you can avoid the crash if your car can handle and if you are paying attention.




• Establish minimum braking standards and set the bar high. All new cars must be able to stop in 180 feet or less from 70mph, 10 times in a row.


• Establish minimum handling standards and set the bar at a decent height. All cars must be able to pass the cone test at X mph, and hold at least Z g on the skidpad.


• Establish a common bumper height range. Super lifted pickup trucks are no longer street legal. Too bad.


• Go back to the giant brake lights we had a few years back. It’s a good idea.


• The downside to the recent trend of high sided vehicles is poorer visibility. Figure out some standards: any driver has to be able to see this close around their car while driving.


• Design cost effective adjustable seats and pedals so that short people can be raised up to a proper height for better visibility, and so that they can stay a safe distance away from the steering wheel airbag and still work the foot pedals.
• Cup holders, iPod holders, TVs in the dashboard, and cellphones in your car. GONE. Pay attention to the task at hand. If you need to eat, talk, or entertain yourself, pull off the road.
• Start handing out tickets for super loud car stereos in use while driving. Hearing what’s going on is a good part of driving awareness.
• Massive nationwide campaign to stop tailgaters. Big fines. On any given morning New Jersey could garner $10,000,000 in fines for this one. Tailgating is probably responsible for a huge percentage of rear-end accidents, especially on the highway. You don’t drive NASCAR; you don’t draft on the street.




• For the millionth time: drill, drill, drill. Screw NIMBY, screw your view of the ocean, screw the polar bears and the caribou and the endangered wiggly bugs. Drill. But try to do it without spilling, m’kay?

Posted by Drew458     on 05/22/2008 at 12:58 PM   
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.