Very few actual or potential mothers on the MADD Mothers' Board of Directors.
Glynn R. Birch, National President
Laura Dean-Mooney
Brian Demers
Deborah Duncan
Paul D. Folkemer, Chairman of the Board
Lelia S. Haddle
Lew Hollinger
Leonard R. Jacob
Chris Johnson
David Levy
Jeffrey Levy
L. Anthony Pace
Paul V. Romero
Linda A. Rothwell
Robert Strassburger
Kathryn Stewart
Traci Toomey
Nina Walker
Theresa Paulette Winn
Jan Withers
Executive Director Charles A. Hurley, Chief Executive Officer
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To: Gabz
Potential nanny state ping.
To: elkfersupper
That driver has a tummyache, get him a breathalyser ASAP! ![](http://www.inthesetimes.com/images/28/21/obama.jpg)
3 posted on
06/28/2008 7:32:32 PM PDT by
library user
(There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
To: elkfersupper
Memo to GM and Toyota: It will be a cold day in hell...
4 posted on
06/28/2008 7:33:24 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(De-Globalize yourself !)
To: elkfersupper
Advocates say the technology under development would be less intrusive. Instead of making the driver blow into a little tube like they make you do at those roadside sobriety checkpoints, a system of passive alcohol sensors would be fitted to the car that could take a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) reading via a persons skin as when your hand touches the shifter or steering wheel. This quiet approach is supposed to make us feel better about being pre-convicted and treated like known and duly processed irresponsible drunks every single time we get behind the wheel of a car. Uh....
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5 posted on
06/28/2008 7:41:34 PM PDT by
Entrepreneur
(The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
To: elkfersupper
I’ll stick with our 15/17 year old vehicles.Heck we still have a ‘79 Pinto sittin’ in the barn.Can’t see it happening.These folks don’t get out much.
7 posted on
06/28/2008 7:43:51 PM PDT by
silentreignofheroes
(Old Dogs and Children,and Watermelon Wine.)
To: elkfersupper
I`ll just buy the last model vehicle made without this big brother gear and keep it road worthy.
8 posted on
06/28/2008 7:46:25 PM PDT by
nomad
To: elkfersupper
I rarely drink, and I never drink and drive. That said, there is nothing toyota or GM can put on a car that I cannot bypass.
screw the nanny.
To: elkfersupper
Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety— is this the same company owned by the “tag team” of Kennedy/Reid/Pelosi? (OK, I made that last part up.. sort of..)
12 posted on
06/28/2008 7:49:48 PM PDT by
Mark
(Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
To: elkfersupper
This reminds me of an old bit from “Weekend Update” on SNL about ten years ago. Colin Quinn (sp?) was talking about these devices being researched. The punch-line was if you failed the breathalizer the car would drive you to your old-girlfriend’s place. Never thought I’d see the day when these things are real though.
To: elkfersupper
Not in MINE!
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20 posted on
06/28/2008 8:22:14 PM PDT by
mirkwood
To: elkfersupper
I’m sure your car’s on board computer will record your BAC and use OnStar to email the local authorities to inform them that you have attempted to start your car while under the influence.
23 posted on
06/28/2008 8:23:49 PM PDT by
seowulf
To: elkfersupper; Gabz
24 posted on
06/28/2008 8:26:44 PM PDT by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: elkfersupper
Not to worry, it’d be followed by a gizmo available on eBay that’d deliver a breath of fresh air for you drunk or not.
27 posted on
06/28/2008 9:17:40 PM PDT by
diverteach
(http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)
To: elkfersupper
What is always been at the heart of my objection to the alcohol witch hunt is the law of diminishing returns. It needs to be mentioned that MADD exists as a money making non profit organization. They operate to make a living and anything that creates new opportunities for money the better. Thus, if they could bring about the implantation of a chip in every individual to monitor blood alcohol, they would work for it if it brought in more funding.
However, this effort is beginning to get costly. At what expense is a society willing to spend to remove that last pesky DWI/DUI driver from the road. And, once that goal has been achieved, will they go after the mentally unfit driver? Will we be required to undergo a brain scan before the ignition switch is activated? How much money will be spent to annoy the motoring public with increased costs and paraphernalia for the little results but big return for the groups that push them.
To: Eric Blair 2084
29 posted on
06/28/2008 9:20:14 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: elkfersupper
32 posted on
06/28/2008 10:16:18 PM PDT by
wastedyears
(Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
To: elkfersupper
Instead of making the driver blow into a little tube like they make you do at those roadside “sobriety checkpoints,” a system of passive alcohol sensors would be fitted to the car that could take a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) reading via a person’s skin — as when your hand touches the shifter or steering wheel.
Better not use the alcohol-based Purell for a while prior to getting behind the wheel.
I'm still amazed that the 2007 car I purchased in January doesn't ring a stupid bell or flash some annoying light if I don't put my seat belt on (I usually wear it but not if I'm moving the car a short distance or driving a few streets away). You know that the "car won't start if seat belt isn't on" has got to be on the list of Big Nanny also.
34 posted on
06/29/2008 12:13:26 AM PDT by
LostInBayport
("Anyone whose tax bill goes up feels like it's an increase." - Mass. Governor Deval Patrick, 2/28/07)
To: elkfersupper
Try it out on all critters cars first.
To: elkfersupper
So, If you spilled some Heet on your hands while filling up, (winter, Heet is a fuel system de-icer), you aren't going anywhere?
If you bartend, you aren't driving home from work?
...And any of a host of other substances (MEK, perfume, methanol, solvents, Purell, Isopropanol) which can get on your skin that the machine will read as trace amounts of alcohol, which will be multiplied by a gozillion to get your B.A.C. (just like the breathalyxer multiplies your alvaeolar air alcohol content by 1400 to get a BAC), will mean you get to sit this drive out.
And if you are alone and have to go somewhere (or just run the heater) 'cause it is 30 below outside, at least your relatives will get to have your frozen corpse tested before they sue the automakers...
Hyperbole? Not in North Dakota.
I have known two people who froze to death, (one on her doorstep, the other automatically locked out of his car with the keys inside at -30F with wind chill at -50), and another who came really close.
I think this is a damnably dumb idea.
And I don't drink.
36 posted on
06/29/2008 12:33:01 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: elkfersupper
Don't worry, this is just an interim step... we'll pay billions to introduce this big-brother technology, but when it becomes obvious that most people work around it, gov't will take it to the next logical level.
Just imagine - you know you have to drive to work monday, so 4-6 weeks before then, you apply for a gov't travel permit. If you're lucky, the police show up on time... 3 am monday morning. After conducting the blood and urine tests, and a search of your house, car and person (just to be sure), they hand you your keys and it's off to work you go!
39 posted on
06/29/2008 5:38:30 AM PDT by
LIBERTARIAN JOE
(Don't blame me - I voted for Ron Paul!)
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