New York Sends a Message to Idiots On Phones While Driving
From the New York Daily News:
New York City police issued a whopping 9,016 tickets during a 24-hour crackdown on phoning-while-driving.
Department spokesman Paul Browne says that compares to 500 on a typical day. The ticket blitz ended Friday. But the law is still the law. Get caught driving while using a hand held phone and you could be fined $120.
If you can drive with your phone and not be a retard, that would be O.K. But — how many times have you been behind someone going half the speed limit or driving somewhat erratically – you think they’re drunk – but no, just obliviously talking on their phone.
Why I’m Voting for Obama – Reason 2 of 3 – Our Standing in the World
Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Foreign Policy, Presidential Campaign 2008
Where you can blame about half of our economic woes on Congress and Clinton-era policies, there is no doubt that our poor standing within the family of nations lies squarely at the feet of Bush and Cheney. Around the world we are either derisively snickered at for being brutish or boorish, or, worse, feared or hated. The tragedy is that sometimes the fear and hate are born of events and rational analysis due to our seeming irrational actions in places like Iraq. Read more