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Something we all need to know.

New Traffic Law 2010

New Law: If a patrol car is pulled over to the side of the road, you have to change to the next lane (away from the stopped vehicle) or slow down by 20 mph. Every state except Hawaii and Maryland and the D.C. has this law. In California , the “Move-over” law became operative on January 1, 2010. http://www.moveoveramerica.com/ A friend’s son got a ticket for this recently. A police car (turned out it was 2 police cars) was on the side of the road giving a ticket to someone else. He slowed down to pass but did not move into the other lane. The second police car immediately pulled him over and gave him a ticket. He had never heard of the law. It is a fairly new law that states if any emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, if you are able, you are to move into the far lane.

The cost of the ticket was $754, with 3 points on your license and a mandatory court appearance. Please let everyone you know that drives about this new law. It is true (see details at the following web address). http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/moveover.asp

NJ Gov. Christie Putting Media in Their Place

Boy, could we use a lot more of this!
The sad thing about this short video is how unusual it is !
And it is not just politicians who now rarely face an issue squarely …. it is all of us!
For some reason, simple frankness has gotten bad press lately.

That enables people to use phrases like:
“Under the given circumstances, it seems to me that perhaps, there are other considerations that need to be evaluated.”

Instead of:
” Obviously, this is a terrible idea, and here’s why: ….”

I also object to questions like this:
“How do you feel about that?”

If, for example, some extremely courageous reporter managed to ask Pres. Obama how he “feels” about the AZ Immigrant Law, he might answer: ” I feel that it is discriminatory towards Hispanics.”

But that is not really how he “feels” about the law; it is more descriptive of what he thinks of the law.
But asking what someone thinks about anything has gone out of style over the last couple decades, and discourse on some important issues is suffering therefrom.
There are truly appropriate subjects in which “feelings” are appropriate issues.
For example, how do you feel about Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address ?
But asking how you feel about off shore oil drilling can generate some ridiculous responses, such as:
“Well, I feel that my view of the sunsets off Malibu will be less romantic if there are oil wells visible.”
Far too many complex and significant issues are being dealt with based upon emotional, rather than factual considerations, and that is resulting in many very bad decisions, such as buying oil from people who actually hate us, and who do not even consider environmental issues while they pump the oil they sell to us.
An unemotional evaluation would conclude that it will be infinitely less damaging to our Earth to have Americans getting oil from our own wells, under the watchful eyes of US environmentalists, than from far off in the Saudi Arabian desert where plumes of smoke and flame rise continuously from the “flaring off” of petroleum gases that the Saudis consider not worth capturing.

I’ve heard on the radio, several times now, an ad that says if you owe over $10,000 in credit card debt, that the “Government” has a method by which you can settle that debt for much less than you owe.
I don’t have a cent of credit card debt.
In fact, my wife and I don’t have any credit cards. We have debit cards, so everything is charged to our bank accounts immediately.
But, I’ve been thinking; if this debt reduction plan is legitimate … say, they let you pay say, 60% of what you owe … suppose my wife and I go on a buying binge and run up say, $10, 500 in credit card debt, and desperately resort to this debt reduction scheme, could we get out of debt by paying only $6,300 ???
Wow, perhaps Obamanomics aren’t so bad after all !!
If we can do this more than once, we might even buy things we could re-sell afterwards.
Might even be able to sell them for say, $7,000 or $8,000 …. do you suppose?
Hey, there is a possible “get rich quick” scheme looming up here!