Keukasmallies
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As I collate the responses from y'all to my original questions I'm left with what I feared all along was the answer: No way in Hell can the laws be proactively enforced.
The laws, designed to promote safety on the road, can/will only be applied, in the vast majority of instances, after the event one hopes to avoid happens!
Have a spare minute, thank a legislator for adding to the volume of unenforcable legislation on the books. Looks good during the next campaign, though--five young women killed in the Rochester area, texting may have been a contributing factor, so pass a law and sing its praises through the towns.
AAAAAaaaarrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh!
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What specific techniques will police use to enforce the no texting while driving law in NYS?
Will enforcement be comparable to no hand held cell phoning while driving?
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This post is double digit pages long because no one has the cojones to refocus on the fat-thighed, bug-eyed, carpetbagging SOB former NYS Senator who is now masquerading as our foreign policy dispenser. Even the NK's mustered up the moxie to label her not intelligent and school girl-like. God, she's aawful.
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So when Hill'ry turned her back on NYS for almost three years during the run-up and then the campaign for the Democratic nomination she was a multi-tasking woman of the 21st Century. When Sarah Palin climbs aboard the VP express for six months, she's investigated for dereliction of duty and misuse of state officials.
Gee, go figure....
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Sonia Sotomayor--love her or hate her--must be totally nonplussed being questioned by newly-seated Senator Frankbooben. He certainly takes office bearing an impressive list of legislative accomplishments and a long history of senatorial task maturity.
AArrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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"I think the government would do a much better job of running health care than ANY company whose main concern is their bottom line. Read that carefully before you respond."
Who are you kidding? The government can't even do a good job running the government--you know, the company where our welfare is the bottom line!
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Damn that Laura Bush
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Hill'ry this, Sarah that, yada, yada, yada....
The voters were still stiffed in both cases!
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So, Hill'ry quits her US Senator from NYS position de facto two years ago to run for President; then quits de jure to accept the SecState position and she's a wily political veteran. Sarah Palin quits her position as Governor and she is dumber than a rock....? Same ol, same ol to me.
How are the citizens who listened to their campaign promises, accepted their candidates beliefs and then voted being served by the person for whom they voted?
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I celebrated LGBTPM by slappin' the ol' Louisville Slugger around.
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So, I'm thinkin' we set it up on the order of America's Greatest Legislators, have a Hollywood-type screening process, vote a la American Idol, MLB All-Star voting, etc., then.... Aw crap, skip it, that's what we have now....
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VABills hit it right on the head--just another comedian in office. Of course, he will compliment, on the national level, the entire comedy troupe that seeks to inhabit the NYS Senate chambers....
Jesus, Al %$(&ing Franken!
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As a high school principal, I used to marvel at the non-English speaking families that moved into the district then enjoyed one or more of their children succeeding as valedictorian, honor student, etc. three or four years later. Sure looked like parental influence to me....
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Damn that George and Laura Bush!
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KD in CT, share with us who is responsible.... Is it parents, teachers, administrators, taxpayers, legislators, neighbors, TV producers, cigarette advertisers, video game manufacturers, students themselves, social workers, priests and other clerics, siblings....who is responsible?
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Do people really click on web address that contain the words glenn beck, rush limbaugh and town hall?
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who is left to broker the deal between the Reps and Dems in the NYS Senate....?
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Finally....
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Actually, discipline hearings against a teacher can progress quite quickly IF the school administrators have done their jobs documenting the setting of objectives for the teacher, attempts to remediate shortcomings, specific failures to meet the standards set forth, specific warnings and finally proper notice of termination; and met all the deadlines in federal, state and local laws and policies and contracts. Without the administrator doing her/his job, there is no way a hearing officer will uphold a charge of incompetence, negligence, dereliction of duty, etc..
Most often when the administrator has done the proper job of supervision, the teacher and union rep look for a settlement long before a hearing takes place. No matter what the union reps say in "public," the reps always know who the bad apples are and often come to the administration with a plan to resolve the issue.
Unfortunately, when one district "solves" their problem, a neighboring district may inherit it by hiring that bad teacher. Hiring teachers is an art, not a science; the only mistake is in not firing a bad one once you know she/he can't do the job.
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The NYS Senators may be disfunctional, but we, the voters of NYS, appear to be satisfied with their lack of action because we keep sending incumbents back to Albany election after election. We seem to think that "our" Senator is doing an OK job, but those others representing [fill in the blank] are just thugs!
What will it take to get voters to really change things in Albany by voting incumbents out of office?
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If one ascribes the attributes of birds to politicians, then the aphorism works splendidly!
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A nuclear power plant in WNY, producing electricity for domestic and foreign use, makes a hell of a lot more sense than high speed rail service and fast ferrys. Just the pool of potential consumers of the product tells us that!
Legislators are unwilling to promote anything even remotely controversial, no matter what the upside. That's what happens when the number one objective is to remain in office/in power/in control.
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As a retired Superintendent of Schools in upstate NY, I believe this woman's action will reverse the good feelings from any number of good things that have happened in that district in the past several years. One unthinking moment, followed by a lot of stubborn moments, could end careers...and maybe that should be what happens....
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UN-allied ships, patrolling the area, can "challenge," but neither stop, nor search, nor inspect papers, of ships headed for North Korea. How does that work exactly in terms of interrupting the flow of contraband items shipped by sea?
Cash for Clunkers goes...thud
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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At one point this spring an "idea" was making the rounds of blogs, forwards, etc that proposed the government should give every person over fifty-five a million dollars...with three conditions: First, each person would have to buy a car (thus solving the crisis in the auto industry), pay off their mortgage (thus addressing the housing and some banking issues), and, finally, pay off their credit card debt (thus...you get the picture).
Well, with the apparent success of the cash-for-clunkers money, that so-called idea that made the rounds earlier doesn't sound so silly any more.... It sure would have been cheaper than the house of cards that Congress and the President constructed.