Cell phones in cars to be banned. Christmas and your birthday to be taken away too.

By -
Senator Clarence Kooistra, who fights home schooling because it *gasp* isn't as accountable as he'd like it to be to government, led the fight to ban tobacco sales on the internet, and is going after the adult entertainment industry in Salem has now found a new thing to hate - cell phone use in cars. (check this link too)

At what point does government become too altruistic? It's something I struggle with, being someone who has a slight problem with authority. It's not that I'm ready to front a militia or anything like that. But I really have to question it when "should's" are legislated into "have-to-or-else's."

Seat belts. Raising the car-seat age from 3 to 5. Raising the drinking age to 21 from 18. Political yard sign size limitations, and all that kind of stuff.

At what point am I going to be told how much I'm allowed to weigh? What I can and cannot eat? Whether I can smoke in my own home or not? What I can and cannot watch on tv? In Pennsylvania, I see there's was just a law proposed to outlaw dogs sticking their heads out car windows.

Is the parental hand of government going to kill us in trying to keep us safe? Are we just going to hide in out homes and not drink, smoke or eat greasy foods?

This is a rare lapse for me, because I don't usually criticize Republicans. But dammit, Clarence - Knock it off. You weren't elected to come up with goofy crap to outlaw.

Supposedly, cell phones caused 32 accidents last year. How many were caused by messing with the radio? Better outlaw radios. How many were alcohol related? Time to contact the temperance union and get to banning.

If you want to make the state a better place to live? Then REPEAL some laws and MYOB. We managed to survive as a species before some of these laws came along.

And please, stop before you introduce the dog-head-out-of-cars bill in South Dakota and really tick people off.

P.S., that corporate income tax thing isn't going to do you much good, either.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Yeah, Okay, there's a limit on the amount of intrusiveness required for proper governmental domination of our lives.

On the other hand, the farmer who was driving down the middle of Lincoln County 106 today in his JDMBT (John Deere Mighty Big Tractor), apparently oblivious to the twenty-odd cars behind him and the several oncoming cars who kept pulling over onto the shoulder, while he conducted an apparent screaming match with his wife, lawyer, landlord or whatever on his cell-phone, was certainly...."memorable". Could we at least draw a line on that guy?
10:40 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A note from Benedict Ar... Sorry. A note from Stan Adelstein why he thinks you should vote Democrat this year.

By -
Image
(Click on letter to enlarge) And while it may not be printed at taxpayer expense, I don't see a disclaimer, either. When they hold the special session (supposedly at the end of November) , since he's left them already, I think his colleagues should expel him from the caucus. Sure. At that point it's only going to be symbolic. But since he's already said he's running again in the near future, sometimes symbolism is enough.
Read more

Corson County information on Klaudt Rape Charges

By -
Here's some of the information on the Corson County Charges: COUNT I That on or about December of 2005, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration with his foster daughter, A.M., through the use of force or coercion; and as to COUNT II That on or about July or August of 2006, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration with his foster daughter, A.M., through the use of force or coercion; and as to COUNT III That on or about July or August of 2006, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration, separate and distinct from the act alleged in Count II, with...
Read more

It's about health, not potential promiscuity.

By -
As the only South Dakota blogger out with 5 daughters, I feel I need to weigh in on the whole discussion that's occurring with regards to the HPV vaccine, and Governor Rounds' proposal to make it available. My family (including my three oldest girls) watched my mom, their grandmother, succumb slowly and painfully to cancer which spread throughout her body. If a similar fate from a different type of cancer was preventable through a simple shot, why wouldn't anyone advocate for it? At the age most of my kids are going to be getting it, they're still playing with barbies, and negative influences such as most of the programming on MTV, and other assorted trashy television is verboten in my house. All they're going to know about this vaccination is that it's a shot, just like for teatnus or measles. They'll go "Ow, I don't want a shot," and that will be it. Just another mark on their vaccination record. One check box for DPT, one for HPV, and so on...
Read more