You bullshit. The big city you just left has the same type of roads as the podunk town you're driving through, only they have 10x the traffic and yet their speed limit is 20 mph higher. Traffic fines are about revenue generation first and safety a very distant second, especially in small towns next to highways.
If it were really about safety, you'd have speed limits set by the 85th percentile, and not by arbitrary zoning. If it were really about safety, they would increase yellow light times and put cameras in dangerous intersections first, instead of busy intersections with quick yellow lights. If it were really about safety, you wouldn't see cops routinely violate traffic laws whilst patrolling.
Moving violations are about revenue generation first, and safety a very distant second. They're a sin tax, no different than what they have on cigarettes or alcohol.
Easy: because traffic fines have little to do with enforcing safe driving, and a whole lot to do with generating revenue. They should just be honest about it and call it a sin tax like they do for alcohol or cigarettes.
One problem with your rant: speed limits have little to do with enforcing safety, and a whole lot to do with generating revenue. They're really a sin tax just like you'll find on cigarettes and alcohol.
I think it's because conservatives are authoritarians. Being tough (or the appearance of being tough) is far more important than being effective. Military spending, crime & punishment, war on drugs, raising kids, you name it.
More than that, I'd point out who's actually supported the troops (veteran's benefits, veterans health care, new GI Bill, better gear, equal time at home for the time they were deployed, etc etc) and who's used them as political props.
Republicans have as much claim these days to supporting our troops and veterans as they do to balanced budgets or family values.
As a photographer, I have to add to the B.S. on this
Fixed that up for you. There is a difference between making adjustments to the photo (color balance, cropping) and changing the photo by adding or subtracting elements. Photos are available of her in front of real flags if that's what they wanted.
I feel sorry for General Dunwoody in this; she was just made the first US female 4-star general three days ago, and now she has to put up with this stupidity.
The stupidity is on the part of the Pentagon and those who are making excuses for it, not the AP.
While his lying is NOTHING near to what Nixon, reagan, or W did, he still lied.
If the question is noneofyourfuckingbusiness, you have no right to expect an honest response.
but he did lie under oath. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
Wrong. Unless you can literally read his mind, there is no way you can prove he lied. And even if he did lie, it's still not perjury as the lie has to be relevant to the case at hand, and the judge ruled that Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. We have courts to catch and punish the guilty, not make the innocent jump through hoops until you can trip them up and make a bogus perjury charge.
It's occurred to me that you're a sophist. You've been smacked down half a dozen times for your selective quoting, but let me point something else out to you, and it's called the Southern Strategy. Google it. All the old racist Democrats from the south became Republicans.
How about you try and find an issue where Republicans have recently stood up for any rights not covered by the 2nd amendment. Abortion? Nope. Gay rights? Nope. Voting rights? Nope. Free speech? Habeas corpus? Nope. 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights? Nope, nope and nope.
You were doing pretty well at showing the inferiority of Republicans to Democrats, until you listed those things.
Nope, he's still doing fine.
Some Democrats are in strong agreement with Republicans on those issues. Some Democrats vote to outlaw porn, they vote to outlaw drugs, they voted for PATRIOT, and the voted for the FISA amendment.
Fixed that for you. Many Dems should be tossed out of office (Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer, Rockefeller), but it's better to have a partly rotten party than a 100% rotten party.
I have to agree entirely. Hilary lost because she insisted on being in the spotlight for years leading up the the campaign; this is the main reason her supporters and haters were so divided.
No. The #1 reason she lost was her support of the Iraq war and refusal to apologize for it. If she had opposed the war from the beginning like Obama, she would have had the blowout victory on Super Tuesday that she was expecting.
But she still could have had this in the bag if she and her team weren't so damned arrogant. They completely ignored the caucus states, which was how Obama sealed the deal with his 11 state shutout in February. They went all in on a one-two punch with Iowa and New Hampshire and thought Super Tuesday would seal the deal.
She lost my vote early on when she revealed her true colors as a censorship machine.
Flag burning. Don't forget the flag burning. But she's not so much a censorship machine as a pandering machine.
It was a Republican argument of convenience, but I repeat myself. Before Palin was nominated, even Republican hacks like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan treated the possibility as a joke. Or just look at Karl Rove's comments on mayor/governors when he thought Obama might pick Tim Kaine of Virginia:
With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished," Rove said. "I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."
Rove continued: "So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?
Term limits are a cure that is worse than the disease. If a politician knows he has only so many years left in office, he'll be looking for his next career. And what's going to help him get a better career: doing the people's business, or selling the people out to the wealthy and the powerful?
Term limits wont eliminate the Ted Stevens or the Duke Cunninghams - it'll get them started earlier.
Of course, because FARC, Pablo Escobar, and the Taliban are all swell guys who are just trying to make an honest buck if only we weren't so hard on them.
Drug lords weren't created by drug use, but by the War on Drugs. We learned our lesson with banning alcohol with Prohibition...just haven't learned it yet with marijuana, cocaine or heroin.
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You bullshit. The big city you just left has the same type of roads as the podunk town you're driving through, only they have 10x the traffic and yet their speed limit is 20 mph higher. Traffic fines are about revenue generation first and safety a very distant second, especially in small towns next to highways.
If it were really about safety, you'd have speed limits set by the 85th percentile, and not by arbitrary zoning. If it were really about safety, they would increase yellow light times and put cameras in dangerous intersections first, instead of busy intersections with quick yellow lights. If it were really about safety, you wouldn't see cops routinely violate traffic laws whilst patrolling.
Moving violations are about revenue generation first, and safety a very distant second. They're a sin tax, no different than what they have on cigarettes or alcohol.
Easy: because traffic fines have little to do with enforcing safe driving, and a whole lot to do with generating revenue. They should just be honest about it and call it a sin tax like they do for alcohol or cigarettes.
One problem with your rant: speed limits have little to do with enforcing safety, and a whole lot to do with generating revenue. They're really a sin tax just like you'll find on cigarettes and alcohol.
I think it's because conservatives are authoritarians. Being tough (or the appearance of being tough) is far more important than being effective. Military spending, crime & punishment, war on drugs, raising kids, you name it.
More than that, I'd point out who's actually supported the troops (veteran's benefits, veterans health care, new GI Bill, better gear, equal time at home for the time they were deployed, etc etc) and who's used them as political props.
Republicans have as much claim these days to supporting our troops and veterans as they do to balanced budgets or family values.
As a photographer, I have to add to the B.S. on this
Fixed that up for you. There is a difference between making adjustments to the photo (color balance, cropping) and changing the photo by adding or subtracting elements. Photos are available of her in front of real flags if that's what they wanted.
You don't understand it because you either aren't an American, or you don't understand the intense patriotism behind it.
There are plenty of Americans who aren't Kool Aid drinking jingoists. And anyone who actually died over a flag deserves a Darwin Award.
...so your analogies are Not Scottish.
I feel sorry for General Dunwoody in this; she was just made the first US female 4-star general three days ago, and now she has to put up with this stupidity.
The stupidity is on the part of the Pentagon and those who are making excuses for it, not the AP.
Except your "opinions" are about as valid as my "opinion" that my 19 year old cousin was responsible for the JFK assassination.
Very nice photos.
If that's actually the case I don't expect it to last for very long.
While his lying is NOTHING near to what Nixon, reagan, or W did, he still lied.
If the question is noneofyourfuckingbusiness, you have no right to expect an honest response.
but he did lie under oath. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
Wrong. Unless you can literally read his mind, there is no way you can prove he lied. And even if he did lie, it's still not perjury as the lie has to be relevant to the case at hand, and the judge ruled that Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. We have courts to catch and punish the guilty, not make the innocent jump through hoops until you can trip them up and make a bogus perjury charge.
It's occurred to me that you're a sophist. You've been smacked down half a dozen times for your selective quoting, but let me point something else out to you, and it's called the Southern Strategy. Google it. All the old racist Democrats from the south became Republicans.
How about you try and find an issue where Republicans have recently stood up for any rights not covered by the 2nd amendment. Abortion? Nope. Gay rights? Nope. Voting rights? Nope. Free speech? Habeas corpus? Nope. 4th, 5th and 6th amendment rights? Nope, nope and nope.
You were doing pretty well at showing the inferiority of Republicans to Democrats, until you listed those things.
Nope, he's still doing fine.
Some Democrats are in strong agreement with Republicans on those issues. Some Democrats vote to outlaw porn, they vote to outlaw drugs, they voted for PATRIOT, and the voted for the FISA amendment.
Fixed that for you. Many Dems should be tossed out of office (Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer, Rockefeller), but it's better to have a partly rotten party than a 100% rotten party.
I have to agree entirely. Hilary lost because she insisted on being in the spotlight for years leading up the the campaign; this is the main reason her supporters and haters were so divided.
No. The #1 reason she lost was her support of the Iraq war and refusal to apologize for it. If she had opposed the war from the beginning like Obama, she would have had the blowout victory on Super Tuesday that she was expecting.
But she still could have had this in the bag if she and her team weren't so damned arrogant. They completely ignored the caucus states, which was how Obama sealed the deal with his 11 state shutout in February. They went all in on a one-two punch with Iowa and New Hampshire and thought Super Tuesday would seal the deal.
She lost my vote early on when she revealed her true colors as a censorship machine.
Flag burning. Don't forget the flag burning. But she's not so much a censorship machine as a pandering machine.
It was a Republican argument of convenience, but I repeat myself. Before Palin was nominated, even Republican hacks like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan treated the possibility as a joke. Or just look at Karl Rove's comments on mayor/governors when he thought Obama might pick Tim Kaine of Virginia:
Consistency: the mortal enemy of Republicans.
These are solid facts pointed out by anyone paying attention once McCain picked her with zero vetting and only a half our interview
Fixed that for you. Palin is so dumb she makes Bush look smart. But do, please, please, please run her in 2012. Have at it, Hoss.
No, the Senate can vote to expel a senator at any time. It rarely happens though, as the offender usually resigns first.
Term limits are a cure that is worse than the disease. If a politician knows he has only so many years left in office, he'll be looking for his next career. And what's going to help him get a better career: doing the people's business, or selling the people out to the wealthy and the powerful?
Term limits wont eliminate the Ted Stevens or the Duke Cunninghams - it'll get them started earlier.
Of course, because FARC, Pablo Escobar, and the Taliban are all swell guys who are just trying to make an honest buck if only we weren't so hard on them.
Drug lords weren't created by drug use, but by the War on Drugs. We learned our lesson with banning alcohol with Prohibition...just haven't learned it yet with marijuana, cocaine or heroin.
Many of their officials are hard-liners from the cold war era.
So are ours. But they aren't trying to build a missile shield in our backyard.
That's gonna make for some happy Thanksgivings, as Jeb kicks George's ass for spoiling any chance he had at the White House.
If you actually read DailyKos, you might have noticed all the bitching after his FISA vote, jackass.
The rovers have cost about 8 Million for every mile traveled on Mars.
And what would Honda's cost be if all their R&D produced only two Accord's?