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Senator wants alcohol breath-test machine in your car!
WorldNetDaily ^ | March 11, 2011 | Bob Unruh

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Minnesota; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Ohio; US: Rhode Island; US: Tennessee; US: West Virginia
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


61 posted on 03/12/2011 7:47:37 PM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of "liberals, Islam and illegal immigration.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Me too.


62 posted on 03/12/2011 7:48:10 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Kennedys are insensed.


63 posted on 03/12/2011 7:49:46 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: BipolarBob
I swear Democrats are commies in disguise.

What disguise?

64 posted on 03/12/2011 7:51:38 PM PST by madison10
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


65 posted on 03/12/2011 7:52:33 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How about a competency test for Senators?


66 posted on 03/12/2011 7:59:24 PM PST by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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!


67 posted on 03/12/2011 8:06:48 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: garyhope
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.

Or if you're good at mechanics or electronics, hack into the system to bypass it or rip it out altogether and put jumper wires into place to complete the circuit.
68 posted on 03/12/2011 8:09:46 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: wally_bert

Found it. I love the “grilled cheese” look of that Texas toast that the meat is on.


69 posted on 03/12/2011 8:12:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: TigersEye
All Govt workers & Senators should have one of these. And I believe they ought to be drug, alcohol & dementia tested each month. If we can be tested in our jobs then those who make the laws for us need to be tested more IMHO.
70 posted on 03/12/2011 8:15:50 PM PST by pandoraou812 (You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; Rogle; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; ...

NM list PING!

(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list. For ABQ Journal articles requiring a subscription, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the article for free after watching a short video commercial.)


71 posted on 03/12/2011 8:22:21 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.

http://courtneysbbq.com/


72 posted on 03/12/2011 8:28:54 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


73 posted on 03/12/2011 8:29:01 PM PST by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: Sicvee

The guy is from New Mexico. Do the liquor stores there still have drive-in windows?

_________________________________________

No - thank goodness!


74 posted on 03/12/2011 8:29:01 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: pandoraou812
If we can be tested in our jobs then those who make the laws for us need to be tested more IMHO.

OK but don't mix two things together. Being tested as an employee in a private business has nothing to do with the government.

75 posted on 03/12/2011 8:29:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: screaminsunshine

There will be a welfare queen bypass code.


76 posted on 03/12/2011 8:29:45 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: wally_bert
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77 posted on 03/12/2011 8:31:32 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Robert Lomax

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!


78 posted on 03/12/2011 8:31:57 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: wally_bert
It would never register anything with me

It might. Some cough medicines, throat sprays, herbal tinctures. I have one liquid herbal that's 60% alcohol.

79 posted on 03/12/2011 8:34:17 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: steve86

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


80 posted on 03/12/2011 8:39:29 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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