SPAD Public Service Announcement:

I don't care if you think you are driving fast, if a car comes up behind you and there is no traffic around, GET OUT OF THE FAST LANE!

I can't tell you how many people I passed on the right tonight because they refused to get out of the fast lane.

I gave then 10 or 15 seconds.

I flashed my brights.

I passed on the right.

I hate bad drivers.

Some would argue that I am a bad driver, because I was driving fast, and passing on the right.

I would argue that I am infact an excellent driver, just aggressive.

There is a difference.

Most of the "bad" drivers are the timid ones who think they are hellians for going 78 mph on the highway.

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Come to nearly a complete stop before making a right turn.

Ride the brakes through a green light...just in case. (Abe, I am talking to you)

Look at you like you are crazy when you put your car into a narrow gap in traffic that you are comfortable dealing with beacuse you are paying attention to the road.

Can be seen yelling in their car because you pulled accross the white line at the stop light.

More common sense to come...

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North Korea - Laughing Stock of International Community

It wasn't even Nuclear.

It was probably about 500lbs of TNT.

They came out and claimed that they had successfully done the unthinkable.

They were lying.

Bluffing.

They are a joke.

Kim Jung-Il...

Laughing stock of the world.

His people are starving, and he is hanging on to the last strands of power in a country that is broke and without any long-term prospects for recovery.

Even if he lives another decade, he has neutered himself on the world stage.

In the words of Nelson...

"Ha-Ha!"


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The Republican Implosion Continues...

The G.O.P. must be an 18-Wheeler...

Because they've had a TON of them fall off recently.

Check this out, Bob Ney (R-Ohio) has pled guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with the G.O.P. Lobby King Jack Abramoff...

Link to Story

Keep up the good work Republicans. You're making it easy for us.

It took the Democrats over 40 years to spoil the good will of the American people when they had control of the House and Senate, it will have taken the G.O.P. only 12.

What was it they stood for?

Newt said they had three principles...(below each is my take on their follow-through)

1. Fiscal Responsibility

The Republican Congress and President have taken a budget surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in American history. Hardly Responsible fiscal policy. This will be the greatest shift in American politics since the 1950s, as "Fiscal Responisbility" is going to become a Democratic value. Log Cabin Republicans rejoice...

2. Moral Values

Between all the conspiracy charges, and sexual misconduct its hard to see how the G.O.P. stands for the Moral High-Ground

3. National Security

Everyone likes to blame Clinton for 9/11, but the Congress was controlled by Republicans for the 7 years leading up to that disaster, and they also play a pivotal role in National Security. Additionally, since Bush took over, we are at war in Iraq (again), Iran is close to developing a Nuclear Device, and North Korea is supposedly flaunting one.

Absolute power corrupts...Absolutely.

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What are we supposed to believe?

President Bush said North Korea "remains one of the world's leading proliferators of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria."

I've seen this song and dance.

Iraq was selling and buying weapons.

How are we supposed to trust what the President tells us now?

We were lied to because President Bush wanted a war.

Are we to believe that the same wouldn't happen again?

My sensible side says: "They wouldn't dare. Not after last time."

But the rest of my says: "Oh god, here we go again."

Keep your eyes open, someone is trying to fool us.

Again.

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Congratulations President Bush

While leading the American People to believe that your administration would make American a safer place, you allowed arrogance to stand in the way of a meaningful International Dialogue, and now North Korea has successfully tested a nuclear weapon.

Party of Security Moms?

You scared all of them into voting for you, and now the emeny will probably scare them into voting against your party.

It looks like Kim Jung Il may play the political game almost as well as Karl Rove.

It must be something about short, fat, angry men.

A more full take on this tomorrow.

Its late, and I don't have the mental capacity to articulate what this means.

Something to look forward to on a Monday huh?

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An addition to my "due process" post last week...

I found this quote, and wanted to throw it out there:

"It is during our must challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."

-- Supreme Court (June, 2004)

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What does Alcohol do to the human body?

When alcohol enters the blood, it causes the blood vessels to widen. More blood flows to the skin's surface. However, the drinker's body temperature drops as the increased blood flow to the surface allows body heat to escape. People who drink alcohol in cold weather to get warm actually accomplish the opposite.

When alcohol reaches the brain, it immediately has a depressant effect. People who drink alcohol may describe the change as relaxing. What they actually experience are physical changes such as loss of sensation and a decrease in sharpness of vision, hearing, and other senses. Alcohol also affects the parts of the brain that control muscle coordination, which is why drinkers may loose their balance or stumble.

When alcohol enters the liver, the liver breaks down alcohol into energy and the waste products carbon dioxide and water. The carbon dioxide is released from the body in the lungs. The water passes out of the body as breath vapor, perspiration, or urine. When people drink alcohol faster than the liver can break it down, they become intoxicated.

The long and short of it is it wrecks your body.

Things it also wrecks:

- Your car

- The next day

- Your inter-personal relationships

- Your grades

The list is obviously meant as an illustration, and is not exhaustive.

If you have a good example of something else that Alcohol has wrecked, feel free to post it.

These are not all personal experience based examples either, so no one will judge you for your suggestion.

I hope.

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