Posted on 10/06/2010 7:44:45 PM PDT by only the truth
Good thing you did not put that on your own server. Hate to think of you on some jihad list.
What about slightly fermented pineapple juice?
They could always run for political office.
Not enough revenue with the old, already enhanced law so they’ll dumb it down further so that they can catch even more people. At 0.05, you are NOT impaired. If anything, statistically speaking, they should raise the legal limit to 0.10 or so since the propensity to CAUSE an accident doesn’t rise until around 0.12% BAC.
This is all about money for cash-strapped governments that can’t resist the insatiable urge to spend other peoples’ money.
I agree, and also think that people drunk driving (really drunk, not the slightly impaired people that weren't sure or not) should be charged with attempted murder.
Was the real purpose…
I know, when they lowered it to .08, everyone was lead to believe DUIs were going up, when they were actually dropping off. Then they claimed truck drivers or critical services were a threat at .05 - .08; at this point the fraud was obvious. Now the powers which are, claim any detectable amounts are a threat or lethal. The sheeple of America are no different than the fools of Nazi Germany, Russia, China. Euro-trash or Middle East…whatever the government says is reality!
The place to begin is with any government employee; having any BAC over .03 should be a conviction with a year plus one day in prison at a minimum, forcing reparations and repayment at 150% of total costs.
I can defeat any such device! Including any black box system claiming to know or analyze BAC, quality of ability or state of mind!!!!
This is just another scam upon America by the nanny state Euro-Bitches and their politically corrupt minions.
MADD = Mad Cows Displaying Dementia
Frack the political class, their whole goal is to have someone else pay for their lifestyles and useless beliefs while they live in luxury apart from everyone else.
Yep, this is the same bunch in Austin that let a number of officers get drunk at Cedars Bar. One even got on his motorcycle and did burnouts inside the bar. Later, he and his wife got on the same motorcycle, left the bar and the road surface a bit later. Both were killed.
It was a W.C. Fields joke, in response to mylife's photo of Fields in #33. After I posted it I realized that very few people would understand.
From here:
On movie sets, Fields kept handy a vacuum flask of mixed martinis, which he referred to as his "pineapple juice". One day a prankster switched the contents of the flask, filling it with actual pineapple juice. Upon discovering the prank, Fields was heard to yell, "Who put pineapple juice in my pineapple juice?!"
Well, I learned something. Thanks.
Texas PING.
The founder of MADD saw the neoprohibition writing on the wall and left the organization decades ago to speak out against it.
They are now pushing for .05% for conviction.
Thing is, you can already be convicted at that level. Blowing below .08 doesn’t mean you are “innocent of driving while impaired”, it just means that blowing OVER 0.08% “means” you are guilty of being OVER 0.08 which carries its own charge.
Utah and elsewhere are pushing for breath ignition systems for all cars, not just those of charged/convicted drivers.
And then there is the “if you are out after midnight you must be guilty of something” attitude.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7712098
“Eventually, anybody that’s driving in the city of Houston or anywhere in the state of Texas after 11 o’clock at night, near a restaurant or bar, is going to be susceptible to being stopped, arrested and convicted, because anybody putting any alcohol in their system is going blow something,” KTRK Legal Analyst Joel Androphy said.
The times I have seen that guy.. he needed to shave.
He looked like a bum. I'm sure he's a jam-up lawyer.. who looks like a bum.
Not really. This isn't Prohibition again; this is insurance companies using their lobbyist cash-under-the-table to play "Dialing for Dollars".
This is about nailing social drinkers, not dangerous drunk drivers.
I guarantee it.
Lenny Bruce commented how defense attorneys tell their clients to wear a blue suit and to shave so that they will look presentable to the judge and jury. Yet the accused are always wearing blue suits which in a way lumps you with a bunch of criminals.
Also the defense attorneys “get away” with having facial hair.
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