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Comment: Waste of Time (Score 1) 985

The police are already complaining in America that they can't catch "drunk" drivers at .08. Why? Because at .08 your driving isn't impaired enough to show in your driving. "We need random stops/checkpoints/whatever because we can't catch the people between .08 and .1." Dropping it to .05 is a complete waste of time and just a sop to the cops who want to arrest people (or let them go) on a whim.

Comment: Re:Individually Packaged... (Score 1) 533

by EverlastingPhelps (#42937783) Attached to: Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick?
That is when cross contamination comes in. Congratulations, that infected package didn't get you this week. Guess what, though? It's still on the bag, so now your new groceries are also contaminated. Luckily, though, you made it by again! Week 3 -- cross contaminated by the bag AGAIN. Oh, and this week was extra stressful at work, and your immune system is a little weaker... and now this opportunistic bacteria can get a foot hold. But, hey, your widow can feel good about you not impacting the global carbon footprint anymore, right?

"You have died of dysentery."

Comment: Re:Incoming politics! (Score 1) 533

by EverlastingPhelps (#42937739) Attached to: Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick?
In all fairness, liberalism only endangers the lives of poor people, not humans in general. Wealthy people have the means to deal with all the feel-goodism liberals spawn, while poor people just have to hope that they don't starve to death before the increase in disease kills their whole village.

Comment: Re:Disgusting (Score 1) 848

by EverlastingPhelps (#42935323) Attached to: Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network
There is no transparency with Tides. The organization was formed to launder grants and donations. Grants are made and earmarked for certain purposes, but the original donor is obscured and hidden behind the confidentiality of the Tides Foundation.

If you believe in transparency as a democratic ideal, then the Tides Foundation is your mortal enemy.

Comment: Re:Disgusting (Score 0) 848

by EverlastingPhelps (#42929205) Attached to: Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network
Sure. The problem is, $120 million is nothing compared to what the Tides Foundation has laundered and funneled to universities and "think tanks."

Pass your law, and then we can have the FBI raid Tides in San Fran, and pretty much every "climatologist" in the country can be behind bars.

Comment: Sorting out the arguments (Score 1) 1232

by EverlastingPhelps (#42388841) Attached to: New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map
So... The people who support the civil right to be armed argue that just because people misuse the technology doesn't meant that it should be illegal. The anti-arms people argue that your rights should be strictly limited because some people abuse it.

Then some idiot abuses her free speech civil rights, and those who support the right to arms point this out. Suddenly, the anti-arms people complain that if you do something about this abuse, then you are overreacting and threatening all free speech rights.

Have I got all that right?

Comment: Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership (Score 2) 1232

by EverlastingPhelps (#42388779) Attached to: New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map
20+ school kids have only been killed by a rampage killer 3 times in history. Frankly, it's so rare that its not even statistically significant. School busses kill more kids at once, more often than rampage killers.

Government and armies, on the other hand, kill 20 or more schoolkids at once far more often. That's why we have the 2nd amendment.

"And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?" -- Looney Tunes, The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones)

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