After all, have you considered how lucky we are that the government lets us drive cars at all?
18 Replies to “We Need A Famine”
Slavery is a funny thing, after a while some don’t notice it.
Fleming is occasionally hilarious. I try not to allow my immense hatred of people driving while holding a phone to their ear and having such important conversations that can’t possibly wait, to colour my mostly libertarian views. I mean, conversations that important have just got to be distracting. “What do you mean, everybody’s dead?”
“Face it: We’re just not those people anymore. We don’t do dangerous things where lots of people could be hurt . . . even if they’re really cool and fun ideas. You can say we value human life more now, but it’s probably more apt to say we’re much sissier.”
Some truth amongst the “humor”. Too many people want the government to be their substitute for Mommy and Daddy,and protect them from ALL the boogie-men under the bed.
And too many politicians are happy to play that role.
Bring back the Ox-carts! Oh wait! Those bovines give off too much methane, let alone the liquid and solid wastes.
Oddly enough many of the same people crying foul, based on libertarian freedom loving values, support continuing the war on drugs.
Frank J. Fleming for president.
Curiously enough, there is a famine… of wisdom.
The workers paradise regimes of the 20th century always kept most workers away from private motor vehicles. This to discourage spontaneous travel which would not be in the best interest of state collectivism. Ownership of automobiles was and is a symbol of individual freedom.
Here, enviro nutcases like Dr. Fruitfly would prefer that the masses were housed in state apartments, close to the factories and bureau work places, which they would commute by public transportation. Private vehicles would be limited to electric golf carts with a range of 15 miles.
For the leadership, of course, limos and motor home buses would be in order.
Please Kate don’t give the dippers a platform (O:}
uh… sorry, I got distracted from reading the column by the Post Pics “2011’s best lingerie images.”
This nanny state discussion is getting old down here in Nanny Scotia where the guvm’ent has decided to make it illegal to ski without a helmet. This applies to both ski hills here. Just how many ski helmet enforcement officers will be needed is still a mystery. Me thinks gardening will be the next hobby to be regulated. Its either that or s*x.
ThomasL said: “I try not to allow my immense hatred of people driving while holding a phone to their ear …”
I hate them too. I’m considering putting a little sticker on the -side- of my truck, about eye level on a Honda. It will say “Get off the phone, @sshole.” As a public service, y’unnerstand.
In related car/nanny news, the State of California still hasn’t fully appreciated the gravity of their situation. They have decided people need to be told when to change their oil. http://www.torquenews.com/1074/california-wants-you-kick-3000-mile-oil-change-habit
Don’t laugh, here in Nova Scotia you have no right to a driver’s license, it is a “privilege” that may be withdrawn at any time.
When I last renewed my license, 3 weeks later in the mail I received a medical questionnaire, to be filled out by my family doctor, and an optometrist. Why? Because as part of the renewal process, I was required to answer some generic questions about my medical history, and where I had had heart attacks in 2006 and 2008, they decided in 2011 that I needed to be examined more closely.
I have to pay both the doctor and the optometrist out of my pocket for filling out the form, as this is not a “medical requirement”, and if I don’t reply within the time window, they will “rescind” my privilege to hold a drivers license.
No option for my driving skills or ability to be tested to determine my fitness to hold a license, no consideration of my 35+ years of accident free driving.
It boils down to comply, and provide us with as much personal information as we deem necessary, or we’ll yank your papers!
Silly me, I had always thought that coercion and duress were not supposed to be used by the government against it’s citizens.
“We Need a Famine”
Don’t worry, it’s coming. Along with a whole bunch of other unpleasantries.
When I last renewed my license, 3 weeks later in the mail I received a medical questionnaire, to be filled out by my family doctor, and an optometrist.
To ask this is illegal and a violation of your privacy.
Tell the government to piss off and ask your doctor’s themselves.(to which your doctors ethically will reply, “piss off!)
You do not have to give the government any excuse to with hold your licence.
Leave it to them to prove you are ineligable.
Anybody,…anybody at any age can have a heart attack, embolism, stroke, etc. at any age while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Women. Should. Never. Have. Been. Given. The. Vote.
I don’t love it, but there it is.
Thanks Oz, I thought the same thing, so I spoke to a local lawyer, one with a good reputation for dealing with the Motor Vehicles Act.
His advice? “Give them the information, or lose your license, don’t waste your money paying me”.
Funny part is, being a vet myself, I know other vets with real physical and psychiatric impairments that at times do impact their ability to drive, yet their renewals go through no problem, no medical review required.
Think I’m gonna buy a little 49cc engine and attach it to a bike, it’s underneath the limit for government regulation (for now).
On the brighter side, I’m going to save on car insurance.
Has anyone considered that the proposed law is flat out racist? I’m almost being serious about that. The won’t allow hands free, but vehicles with built in systems will be allowed. So only newer high end vehicles will allow phone conversations. You know who can afford those kinds of vehicles? The 1%, which is mostly old white men, and their token trophy bimbos. Somebody call Al Sharpton, he’ll probably have a stress attack deciding between big government, and a chance to play the race card
Setting laws regarding cell phone usage while driving on highways is a STATE responsibility; the feds have no jurisdiction here.
More evidence that the lawless obama administration oversteps its bounds at every turn imaginable. They are purely anti-constitutional by nature.
mhb23re
at gmal d0t calm
Slavery is a funny thing, after a while some don’t notice it.
Fleming is occasionally hilarious. I try not to allow my immense hatred of people driving while holding a phone to their ear and having such important conversations that can’t possibly wait, to colour my mostly libertarian views. I mean, conversations that important have just got to be distracting. “What do you mean, everybody’s dead?”
“Face it: We’re just not those people anymore. We don’t do dangerous things where lots of people could be hurt . . . even if they’re really cool and fun ideas. You can say we value human life more now, but it’s probably more apt to say we’re much sissier.”
Some truth amongst the “humor”. Too many people want the government to be their substitute for Mommy and Daddy,and protect them from ALL the boogie-men under the bed.
And too many politicians are happy to play that role.
Bring back the Ox-carts! Oh wait! Those bovines give off too much methane, let alone the liquid and solid wastes.
Oddly enough many of the same people crying foul, based on libertarian freedom loving values, support continuing the war on drugs.
Frank J. Fleming for president.
Curiously enough, there is a famine… of wisdom.
The workers paradise regimes of the 20th century always kept most workers away from private motor vehicles. This to discourage spontaneous travel which would not be in the best interest of state collectivism. Ownership of automobiles was and is a symbol of individual freedom.
Here, enviro nutcases like Dr. Fruitfly would prefer that the masses were housed in state apartments, close to the factories and bureau work places, which they would commute by public transportation. Private vehicles would be limited to electric golf carts with a range of 15 miles.
For the leadership, of course, limos and motor home buses would be in order.
Please Kate don’t give the dippers a platform (O:}
uh… sorry, I got distracted from reading the column by the Post Pics “2011’s best lingerie images.”
This nanny state discussion is getting old down here in Nanny Scotia where the guvm’ent has decided to make it illegal to ski without a helmet. This applies to both ski hills here. Just how many ski helmet enforcement officers will be needed is still a mystery. Me thinks gardening will be the next hobby to be regulated. Its either that or s*x.
ThomasL said: “I try not to allow my immense hatred of people driving while holding a phone to their ear …”
I hate them too. I’m considering putting a little sticker on the -side- of my truck, about eye level on a Honda. It will say “Get off the phone, @sshole.” As a public service, y’unnerstand.
In related car/nanny news, the State of California still hasn’t fully appreciated the gravity of their situation. They have decided people need to be told when to change their oil.
http://www.torquenews.com/1074/california-wants-you-kick-3000-mile-oil-change-habit
Don’t laugh, here in Nova Scotia you have no right to a driver’s license, it is a “privilege” that may be withdrawn at any time.
When I last renewed my license, 3 weeks later in the mail I received a medical questionnaire, to be filled out by my family doctor, and an optometrist. Why? Because as part of the renewal process, I was required to answer some generic questions about my medical history, and where I had had heart attacks in 2006 and 2008, they decided in 2011 that I needed to be examined more closely.
I have to pay both the doctor and the optometrist out of my pocket for filling out the form, as this is not a “medical requirement”, and if I don’t reply within the time window, they will “rescind” my privilege to hold a drivers license.
No option for my driving skills or ability to be tested to determine my fitness to hold a license, no consideration of my 35+ years of accident free driving.
It boils down to comply, and provide us with as much personal information as we deem necessary, or we’ll yank your papers!
Silly me, I had always thought that coercion and duress were not supposed to be used by the government against it’s citizens.
“We Need a Famine”
Don’t worry, it’s coming. Along with a whole bunch of other unpleasantries.
When I last renewed my license, 3 weeks later in the mail I received a medical questionnaire, to be filled out by my family doctor, and an optometrist.
To ask this is illegal and a violation of your privacy.
Tell the government to piss off and ask your doctor’s themselves.(to which your doctors ethically will reply, “piss off!)
You do not have to give the government any excuse to with hold your licence.
Leave it to them to prove you are ineligable.
Anybody,…anybody at any age can have a heart attack, embolism, stroke, etc. at any age while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Women. Should. Never. Have. Been. Given. The. Vote.
I don’t love it, but there it is.
Thanks Oz, I thought the same thing, so I spoke to a local lawyer, one with a good reputation for dealing with the Motor Vehicles Act.
His advice? “Give them the information, or lose your license, don’t waste your money paying me”.
Funny part is, being a vet myself, I know other vets with real physical and psychiatric impairments that at times do impact their ability to drive, yet their renewals go through no problem, no medical review required.
Think I’m gonna buy a little 49cc engine and attach it to a bike, it’s underneath the limit for government regulation (for now).
On the brighter side, I’m going to save on car insurance.
Has anyone considered that the proposed law is flat out racist? I’m almost being serious about that. The won’t allow hands free, but vehicles with built in systems will be allowed. So only newer high end vehicles will allow phone conversations. You know who can afford those kinds of vehicles? The 1%, which is mostly old white men, and their token trophy bimbos. Somebody call Al Sharpton, he’ll probably have a stress attack deciding between big government, and a chance to play the race card
Setting laws regarding cell phone usage while driving on highways is a STATE responsibility; the feds have no jurisdiction here.
More evidence that the lawless obama administration oversteps its bounds at every turn imaginable. They are purely anti-constitutional by nature.
mhb23re
at gmal d0t calm