Posted on 03/12/2011 6:53:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is the lead player in a legislative effort, already endorsed by a handful of other senators, that would spend $60 million to develop a program that would charge consumers for the costs of installing drunk-driving interlock devices in vehicles.
The proposal, S.510, was introduced this week in the U.S. Senate by Udall, who was joined by Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Al Franken, D-Minn., Amy Klobuchar D-Minn., West John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
The legislation actually doesn't call for the technology to be installed in every vehicle but urges "more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving." The device already is ordered into use sometimes by courts addressing cases of drunk drivers who offend repeatedly.
The proposal delivers $12 million to promoters of the program in each of five years for what the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration calls the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.
The "fact sheet" posted by the federal agency describes the interest in "technologies that will quickly and accurately measure a driver's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in a non-invasive manner. If the system detects that a driver is drunk, the vehicle will be disabled from being driven."
It has been suggested that a tissue spectrometry program, a touch-based approach in which sensors would measure the level of alcohol in tissue, might be used. Or the program might use the infrared light spectrum to "detect alcohol concentration in the driver's exhaled breath."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
So you carry a little tank of breathing air (not pure oxygen) in your car, blow some of that into the Nanny Machine, start your car, go on your way, drunk as a skunk.
Me too.
The Kennedys are insensed.
What disguise?
It’s there, number 30344169. It starts with the empty styrofoam container and only runs a few seconds. Flash needs to be installed.
The red dress girl is an amateur teen model that I have dealt with a few times, ALWAYS with parents present and a signed release. They are all nice people.
How about a competency test for Senators?
My message to these senators would be, well, I can’t say it here, but it would be biologically impossible to do anyways. Don’t touch my junk!
Found it. I love the “grilled cheese” look of that Texas toast that the meat is on.
NM list PING!
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It is a first rate sandwich and it isn’t called the big guy for nothing. If you are ever in the little town of Clover, SC just outside of Charlotte, swing in and grab one. I also recommend the flounder. All at Courtney’s BBQ. I pass through from time to time since I am from there originally.
What is absolutely hilarious, on his web page under issues, Civil Liberties, he says, “I believe we can protect our nation while upholding the values that make America a beacon of hope to people around the world. America is strong because we are a nation of inherent freedoms and just laws. I will always fight to ensure that our civil liberties remain intact and that all Americans be treated equally under the law.”
http://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=7
I guess that means only if you are Muslim and caught in a raid against terrorists.
The guy is from New Mexico. Do the liquor stores there still have drive-in windows?
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No - thank goodness!
OK but don't mix two things together. Being tested as an employee in a private business has nothing to do with the government.
There will be a welfare queen bypass code.
NM requires them in certain cases. Nothing prevents someone else from blowing into it. And if that’s not great enough we have a program so that if you have to install it and you can’t afford it, there’s a fund to help you out! Is that nuts or what?
I was at a hotel one time when I heard the manager asking the maintenance man why he didn’t show up or call the previous day and the man said cuz I overslept and my daughter left for school before she could blow in my ignition interlock so I couldn’t come to work!
It might. Some cough medicines, throat sprays, herbal tinctures. I have one liquid herbal that's 60% alcohol.
Rarely touch any of that either but a good point about alcohol being in all kinds of things.
Don’t forget Vitameatavegamin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Nubw8XJw
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