another $#$%^&* ticket

To their credit the Triple A (American Auto Association) appears to be one of the few voices of the motoring public expressing futile opposition to the current plague infesting our roadways. Sadly our whispers are being drowned out by an element of our communities blinded by the allure of a revenue stream the size of the Amazon river that is too tempting for those money grubbers to do the right thing by we the people.

Just Doing Their Job

People who say they are just doing their job and their job is to reduce the quality of life for others are just part of the problem.

Safety, Yeah Right

From the comfort of their bunkers, grubby authoritarians followers are poised to shake-down the motoring public. How do they sleep at night? Very well no doubt in their kevlar pajamas.

Turn Don't Turn

Of the 16 municipalities that issue citations for right turns and were able to break down their violation data, 100 percent acknowledged the majority of their tickets come from right turns. The total of right-turn citations going out per town ranged from 100 percent to 64 percent. Six municipalities estimated the rate of right-turn tickets was 90 percent or higher of the total violations.

The Camel's Back

I am running out of Christian Goodness for zero tolerance, My Jewish self is hating on the hundreds of thousand of millions extorted and my Muslim side is about to go bombastic if folks don't wake up soon and demand to Right the Wrong that are red-light scamera citations.

Just a Matter of Time

I guarantee you that sooner or later if you drive daily, a big fat ticket or two are in the stars for you. It will not come with any lubricant, instead it will feel like a corn cob soaked in gasoline.

a compendium of ill willers

"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."

— Ronald Reagan




Dumbing Download Complete

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/florida-mosque-bombed-fbi-calls-help-nation

On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.





FlagWrap

... when you scratch the surface of their "small government" message, what you usually find is someone who doesn't like government because it is the institution which enforces the rights guaranteed under the constitution for people they despise.




by deviding it ? #$^&@

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10157270.stm

A teacher in the US state of Georgia has been suspended after allowing students to dress in mock Ku Klux Klan robes for a project.




MDX Success

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/no-latinos-no-tacos-flash_n_589258.html

Reactions to the "No Latinos no tacos" sign have been mixed.




photo credit: janet reno

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2010/04/none-dare-call-it-sedition.html

This is sedition in slow motion, a gradual corrosive undermining of the government's authority and capacity to run the country. And it's been at the core of their politics going all the way back to Goldwater.

This long assault has gone into overdrive since Obama's inauguration, as the rhetoric has ratcheted up from overheated to perfervid. We've reached the point where you can't go a week without hearing some prominent right wing leader calling for outright sedition -- an immediate and defiant populist uprising against some legitimate form of government authority.




armsagetsome

... values, identity and tribalism are necessary organizing principles and that means the right wing should be treated with the only respect you should grant anyone who sees you as their enemy: you take them seriously and do not underestimate their hostility toward you or their strength and commitment to their cause.




Ooops.

Seems the (crist) campaign forgot a little thing called “copyright”

http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2010/05/24/david-byrne-sues-charlie-crist-for-1-million/

1985 Talking Heads’ hit “Road to Nowhere” in a video posted on the Crist’s website


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Smile, you're on Red Light Camera

Uncle Samuel Wants Your Wallet

Thanks to a new law in Arizona, people that look like mexicans or any other illegal immigrant stereotype can now be hassled in public, hauled of for further humiliation. Folks across the nation are weighing in on both sides of a complex issue, of finding a balance between tough policy and civil liberties. With the tsunami of people lured to america with the prospect of more stuff, folks have some legitimate concerns.



What in Tarnation@#$%&*!

Here in the swamp and in cities nationwide, there is a growing threat of a new kind of illegal alien trickling into our neighborhoods in an oily slick of dirty tricks.

Red-Light Cameras are invading our byways and highways.




Tic, Tax, Tons of Cake

Thanks to a shoddy new law secretly crafted by your state reps and signed by govnr Cripst, town officials across the Florida can now use foreign cameras and private technologies to further trap and snarl the motoring public. Some places like Aventura and North Bay Village already have the robust surveillance gadgets installed, they did not wait for the law that sanctions this insidious invasion of privacy and the illegitimate issuance of excessive fines. Our elected officials in Tallahassee got up to speed and have given the green-light. They are now complicit in the extorting of the public to create an obscene revenue stream that evaporates into pockets quicker than they can collect it. People pay but the real cost of this new shakedown that is being played out across the nation is a diminished quality of life for the majority.




Get the Red Out

Little is heard or read on the MSM of this impending doom. No one is concerned until it is them on the receiving end of this new schtick. Big Brother knows the motoring public has no unified voice.

You may have guessed by now that I got a "ticket" in the mail.
So I did a little surfing and found some glaring inconsistencies in the logic that attempt to justify the use Red Light Cameras.



Cross-hairs On the Crossroads

A review of preliminary collision data supplied by the city of Corpus Christi, Texas shows that the installation of red light cameras has done nothing to improve safety. Overall, the accident situation worsened at photo-enforced intersections at a time when decreased traffic levels have brought accident rates nationwide to an all-time low. The total number of accidents in Corpus Christi increased 14 percent, from 310 incidents to 353, at nine locations where automated ticketing machines were stationed. Contrary to the claim that red light cameras reduce the severity of collisions, the number of accidents involving injuries increased 28 percent from 140 to 179. Rear end collisions also increased by nearly a third from 160 to 208.



Need for Greed

...But calculations show that the cameras would bring $39.3 million into the revenue stream in the first year and up to $160.5 million by 2013-14. "I believe this is nothing more than a revenue grab," Rep. Robert Schenck, R-Springhill, said on the House floor. "The government has an insatiable appetite for our people's hard-earned money. This is the biggest, biggest intrusion of government into our lives. What's next?" The bill would put an end to municipalities splitting the fines with camera vendors. It also would require cities and counties to post signs at intersections with cameras, notifying drivers that they could be nabbed via camera for running a red light. The bill also ensures that drivers who turn right on red "in a careful and prudent manner" could not be ticketed.



What Do They Take Us For...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Red light cameras will be fully legal in Florida on July 1. Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday signed a new law authorizing the cameras as enforcement devices despite opposition from AAA. Lawmakers for several years had rejected the legislation. Opponents argued the cameras would violate privacy rights and individual liberties as well as being a "revenue grab." The bill includes a $158 fine that would be assessed against owners of vehicles caught on camera running red lights. Of that amount, $75 would go to local governments. The rest would go to the state, which must use $10 for health care and give $3 to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis for brain and spinal cord research. AAA contended that too little of the money will go to health care and too much to general government spending. The state is expected to receive $29 million in the first year, jumping to nearly $95 million in 2013-14. Local governments would net $10 million the first year and nearly $66 million in 2013-14, according to state economists.




Right Of Way

Florida Court Rules Red Light Cameras Illegal

A Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge has ruled that red light cameras may not be legally used to issue traffic citations in the state of Florida. Judge Gerald Bagley yesterday dismissed charges against motorist Richard Masone who had received a red light camera ticket in the mail from American Traffic Solutions (ATS). The company operates the program on behalf of the city of Aventura...



What's Next for Red Light Cameras... your bedroom perhaps?


This problem has nothing to do with traffic safety and everything to do with robbing the public.
I say keep the blasted cameras to catch the real light runners, not to make a mint by ticketing the drivers making harmless right turns with caution.
To save lives at intersections simply program the lights so the amber is timed to cause a pause of traffic from both directions.


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Tea with Rubio

Coffee, Tea or Kool Aid?

No doubt since Obama moved in to the White House, the American Insurgent Party is in decaffeinated hissyfit mode.
Be on the look-out for angry white people with zero gray matter and lot's of chatter.

They want our president to fail while flying colored.

Rudi, Did You Love Me?

The Cuban-Americans have hated Castro for 50 years, fair enough. But why get in bed with devious Bush Family Evil Empire just because it mirrored their sentiments. Jeb did nothing to change the impasse. It's become painfully clear that conservative cube-ams are all dressed up with nowhere to go.

Who's Their Papi?

The driver of this car is obviously handicapped.

Deal with the Jevil

Marco Rubio is ushered into the halls of maniacal men.
What's up with the "red-meat-state roses"?

No Palin, No Pain.

Where have I seen that mug?
That foggie in Little Havana peddling propaganda tee's looks so familiar.

Little Havana Nostalgia.

Is it not polite to frown when a clown is in town?

Baboon with Baton

MasterBlunder Jeb anoints his cuban-mini-me with the golden republican magic shish-ka-bob wand that is known to sever taxes for the very wealthy corporations that give them lots of blood money. Obey.

Half a Nice Day

No words are necessary here... just never forget Cheney/Bush legacy of 911.

Rock-em, Sock-em Reps

The Rubionator with contender Dan Gelber.

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Sweet n Sour

UPDATE: never mind, it's another happy ending compliments of the SFWMD.



Burn Baby Burn. Raping the Muck for her sweet stuff.


Swampthing, maybe the first environmentalist.

What's up with the Big Sugar Deal and our Governor Crist? Sounds like a "bait and switch" perpetrated on Florida Taxpayers at the expense of the Everglades.

Is this Charlie just being sour grapes; getting even for being passed over for VP by what's-her-name? He sure works hard for his pals at the decimated GOP.

Front Page today New York Times:

MIAMI — United States Sugar Corporation has agreed to sell 181,000 acres of farmland to the State of Florida for $1.34 billion in a slimmed-down deal intended to rescue the Everglades while letting the company stay in business.

The price is $410 million less than Gov. Charlie Crist offered for the entire company in June. It is also a simpler transaction involving only real estate — U.S. Sugar would retain its mill, citrus processing facilities and other assets — leaving open the possibility of preserving the company’s 1,700 jobs.

“This is a unique opportunity,” said Robert Coker, a senior vice president with U.S. Sugar.

Look for serious analysis at Eye on Miami.


We pay for the land and pay again at publix.

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