Posted on 12/28/2010 6:10:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Anytime I see a driver who is doing a crappy job merging onto the highway, or driving 5 miles under the limit and drifting from side to side in the lane, (s)he is on a cellphone. Same with the driver who sits at a protected left turn and doesn’t move forward until the light turns yellow.
Judges in Texas are legally permitted to drink in court "as long as it is for medicinal purposes".
The same math Nancy Pelosi uses, I am not saying it isn’t true but it can’t be more than a guess. How would you ever come up with a reliable figure? The first problem is defining “drunk”. Blood alcohol level is not reliable because different people react differently, some are impaired at a low level, others much less so.
MADD turned the corner from being an organization that makes a difference to an organization that is the enemy of freedom a long time ago. MADD is currently pushing to get states to lower the legal limit to below the published margin of error on breathalyzers, if they get their way anybody can blow drunk at any time. MADD loves those DUI checkpoints which make everybody driving on the wrong road at the wrong time give evidence against themselves.
Driving drunk is bad, and back in the 80s MADD did a good job of changing the American culture to understand that. But now they’re just prohibitionists.
Ok. So that’s your focus.
You could therefore join my “faction” against “dangerous drivers” and accomplish even more without singling out cell phones or burgers or dumb kids or old geezers.
Ironically, a recent story from California claims DUI checkpoints are being used to target illegals:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7861983
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