U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he believes motorists are distracted by any use of mobile phones while driving, including hands-free calls, as his department begins research that may lead him to push for a ban. Link
What is next? Banning all conversations while driving? Have a conversation with a hands-free device is no more distracting that having a conversation with passengers. Talk about big government.
LaHood also made an outrageous statement in an intereview this week: “I don’t want people talking on phones, having them up to their ear or texting while they’re driving.” Hey, Secretary LaHood, I hate to break this to you, but this is SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE COUNTRY. If I can speak to a passenger or on my hands-free phone without being distracted, it is none of your business.
(And somehow I missed the part of the Constitution that authorizes this).
You go, you pay for the services you receive. I go to the doc, I pay for the services I receive. Love [the single payer] plan, single payer all the way. If it’s successful there, we’ll move it to other segments of society. You go gas up your car, you pay, I go gas up my car, I pay. Single payer again! Fantastic idea! A multi-payer system would be, You go to the doc, you don’t pay, but me, my neighbor, my boss and my brother-in-law all chip-in for your treatment. Hmmm, maybe we have a problem here with definitions. – “From Where I Sit”
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” – John Kerry
Vice President Joe Biden recently urged the party’s base to “stop whining” and “buck up.” President Obama also urged the party to “buck up.”
“The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets.” from Washington Post. For more, “not only does the President have the right to sentence Americans to death with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be killed and why he wants them dead are “state secrets,” and thus no court may adjudicate their legality.” see Salon.
FBI agents and several supervisors cheated on an exam about new rules for terrorism and criminal investigations and for collecting foreign intelligence, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released on Monday. According to Reuters
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet…the Obama administration plans to submit [the Legislation] to Congress next year.
“I hope we get over it pretty soon, because it’s not productive. We will come back regardless of how people feel about Washington, but it is not helpful to have people as unhappy as they are about what’s going on in Washington.” Warren Buffett, published Sept 24, 2010
Warren Buffett -the hypocrite who thinks people should pay more taxes themselves and then shelters his income and assets- needs to wake up. Freedom and big government are incompatible. Deficit and debt are not the paths to prosperity.
“Everybody knows that behind the scenes that he’s the dirtiest, nastiest political player out there.” Eliot Spitzer (“client number 9”) said of Andrew Cuomo Sept 23, 2010.
The decision is not whether we will ration [health] care – the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. Dr. Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, President Obama’s recess appointment.