If this delusional, intemperate, temperance-addled, MADD driven prude was elected by Pennsylvania voters, then I want nothing to do with that state:
Pennsylvania: Proposal Mandates Ignition Interlocks for All Cars
Clymer’s proposal would require that, by 2009, all new cars sold in Pennsylvania have a device installed to estimate the amount of alcohol on the breath of a driver. If the machine believes the driver’s BAC is greater than .025 percent — significantly less than the legal limit of .08 percent — the car will not start.
So, if I used a full-strength disinfecting mouthwash after brushing my choppers in the morning (which usually has an alkie involvement in their recipes), I couldn’t start a car; if it was the day after a Yankee/Red Sox game, the car would probably ignore me for a frick’n week and call the troopers to arrest my ass if I had “On Star” installed.
Shit, on an average day of the week the car would tell me to “take a hike” and I’d be forced to fire up my bike… wait a minute….
“I’M ON YER ROAD, BLOWING A POINT 5 OH-HO-HO!”
Really, this “nanny state” shit is getting ridiculous, but is nothing new…
Anderson was more politically savvy than the temperance crusaders who preceded him. It was he who forged an alliance with the Progressives of the age, the men and women who fought to upend the food and drug industries and now wanted–in addition to trying to improve workers’ health through sobriety–to break up the brewing and distilling industries (“a parasitic class which has fattened on human weakness,” went the trope).
Why does that rhetoric sound so familiar?
it’s ONE rep in the state
i wouldn’t MOVE from new york
because of vito fossella
although, forget about the poconos
you’d might as well move to park hill
do you remember
the LAST “interlock” catastrophe, in 1974
my father had an amc hornet
it wasn’t even STARTED
till the bypass was yanked out
from under the seat
not just listerine, but acne astringent
some deodorants, or cologne
would set such an apparatus off
and these geniuses say
they can’t check incoming cargo at the ports
an interlock would have stopped
neither bush nor kennedy
i used to be a drunk driver
and i’m embarrassed to say
if it weren’t for penalties, i’d probably still be
but that’s my argument, that the current stringencies
actually WORKED
with the possible exception of orange county
virtually nobody drives drunk anymore
what’s in place is enough
It’s not so bad here in PA. Also, do you know how much money those things will cost to build into every car? I highly doubt that it will happen by 2009 or even 2099.
Wow. That’s Massachusetts-quality nanny-state bullshit, they’ve got there with that walking airbicuit.
you mean like
when christie todd whitman
told everybody to go back to work
after 9/11
and the toxins were still in our air
that’s not a “nanny” state, bruce
the bush crime family is more like
flowers in the attic
and the nanny with the poison doughnuts
hash: please, nigga. He meant nothing involving NJ; he’s a New England boy.
“airbicuit” was either a misspelling, or the incoherent raving of a member of Red Sox Nation. Either or, it meant nothing, so what was your “jump” point?
You don’t always need to go immediately for the throat….
Just keep it in range.
Is that the play?
PS: the BDS crap is starting to rub me raw, hash. You act like the world never, ever , EVER sucked before January 20, 2001 when you spiel that crap.
Here’s a note: “Bay of Pigs”–Kennedy. “Gulf of Tonkin”–Johnson.
Dial that shit down or you are gone.
I don’t like drawing that line, but there it is.
just one point, mr. rubicon
YOU’RE the one claiming
you’re not a raving neocon
yet you carry the water
for Malkin, Murdoch, now KRAUTHAMMER
“independent” sources?
i think not
i ask a simple question
and i get, “fuck them, fuck them HARD”
and you’re telling me I’M “deranged”
ha
the point is, calling all government a “nanny state”
is pretty idiotic when you want thought police all around
and tapping phones and rendering people pass muster
i obviously don’t want to be booted
but do whatever your handlers need you to do
i assure you, i won’t
“You don’t always need to go immediately for the throat….”
fair enough
yet you carry the water
for Malkin, Murdoch, now KRAUTHAMMER
“independent†sources?
i think not
WHAT THE FUCK are you talking about here, hash? What the bloody Hell do any of those three people have to do with breathalyzer interlocks being mandated for Pennsylvania car sales?
It’s quite funny that you think I “carry water” for Malkin.
Why? Here’s why.
PS: What would pass muster with you as an “independent” source?
i’m addressing your “bds” beef specifically
“PS: the BDS crap is starting to rub me raw, hash. You act like the world never, ever , EVER sucked before January 20, 2001 when you spiel that crap.”
as i understand it
“bush derangement syndrome”
is a slur coined by charles krauthammer
who is the publisher of the new york post
who is behind the hot air website
it’s one thing to post from a wide array of sources
and then hold each ENTRY up to scrutiny
it’s another thing entirely
to accept one radical extremist cabal’s talking points
and accept them as reality
to claim that only lefties are “deranged with bush”
is to completely deny reality on the ground
in a myopic “moonbattery.com” haze
that’s all i’m saying
and i doubt if that was malkin responding to you
BDS is technically accurate, to my eyes. When someone claims every single bad thing that occurs in the world, and that every single thing the guy actually does is–somehow–part of his dark, malevolent plan to create an American Fascist Stateâ„¢, that person is bumping up against nuts. From one side of their mouth they say the man is an imbecile, while from the other they say he’s Emperor Palpatine incarnate. There are people online saying the Iranians snatching those Brits was Bush’s fault… he forced them to commit an act of war and violate the Geneva Conventions–shit they’ve done before–becuase…what? Darth Rove’s mind control beam?
Don’t doubt it was Malkin; I’ve seen others receive the same kind of rapid fire retorts when they’ve called her out for claiming something that’s provably bullshit self-aggrandizement. She might be behind Hot Air, but as far as I’m concerned that joint is Allahpundit’s house. I’ve known him since way before Malkin showed up on the radar, and he’s been making me laugh long before Malkin hired him.
As for Murdoch, he’s a political opportunist who has held a fundraiser for Hillary. He backs whichever horse he thinks will give him a payday.
if us involvement in war for israel in iran commences
because of brit soldiers illegally in iranian waters
or because the us has had special ops in iran for eighteen months
how does that change the situation
the us will find itself in
and how is it deranged
to point out that it will have happened
under the dim son’s watch
and most likely under
his fathers’ direction
what amount of unnecessary carnage has to happen
before you question the official version of events
HANDLERS?????
Holy shit I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in awhile when reading a blog entry or a comment.
You think that the Leather Penguin’s got handlers? Now those folks must be pretty friggin’ tough!
Seriously Hash…you need to put the pipe or hookah down for a bit and let your brain get some clear, clean air for little bit. Something isn’t firing or connecting right in there.
First, I have to side with TC on this one. The BDS bullshit’s wearing thin…but unlike TC, I find it entertaining. Perhaps this “new perspective” my office mate’s trying to get me to view life through is working. The world is full of silly people. Many of them in the entertainment world. I just have to start viewing them as entertaining…
Second, politicians and denizens of DC, be they Republican or Democrat, should be taken with a grain of salt. We allegedly send them there to carry out the will of the people they represent, but sadly usually fall far short of that expectation. The recent “about face” they just pulled on thousands of men/women serving around the world is without a doubt the worst “hour” I’ve seen in almost 45 years. (Technically…I’ve seen another, but I was just a wee lad when Vietnam was in its hey day).
Third, TC’s also right about you can’t be selective with history…so I’ll toss in a few more BONERs that happened during the tenure of Democratic presidents….WWII and FDR, Korea and Truman, Iran Part I with Jimmy Carter, and Somalia/Kosovo/Aspirin Factory Attack starring Bill “I didn’t have sex with ‘that’ woman” Clinton (I still swear he pointed at Helen Thomas…who hasn’t had sex since FDR was rolling through the White House).
Those of us with conservative leanings ate LOTS of shit sandwiches while the Clintons helped set the stage for the Bush Administration. I suggest you organize your campaign to unseat the Republicans from the Executive Branch in 2008. I think I’ve already offered you a solution….hot sauce.
See you on the high ground…
MajorDad1984
P.S. TC, don’t toss the bum. He’s too much fun to argue with!
don’t toss the bum. He’s too much fun to argue with!
yeah, you say that now…
Wait till you see the inchoate blowback.
uh, private benjamin
much as i’d like to go back and forth
with an intellect of your caliber
SOME PEOPLE delete my posts to you
so have a pleasant life
really, you can trust me, gotcha back
and a freylichen pesach to you and yours
but what i don’t understand
is how you see me as the clinton apologist
now, clinton was the best republican president
this nation ever had
and hillary WAS right about the right-wing conspiracy
she just neglected to mention
that she and bill were part of it
Hash…guess you played a little rough even for TC.
I don’t know who to blame for where we are today…but I think that the BDS issues started after that debacle in Florida and went downhill from there.
As for the Private Benjamin comment, never been one myself…but my son recently was while serving in Iraq. I suppose that you REALLY meant it the way you did…as a term of ultimate respect for someone that would lay down his life to ensure your continued right to free speech.
See you on the high ground!
MajorDad1984