Random Nuclear Strikes

No, not those drunks.

I’m talking about Mothers Against Drunk Driving saying that that is what the USMC is.

They’re in for one hell of a fight

A dispute currently pits the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, California, against MADD. The Corps wants Marines serving under the age of 21 to have the right to consume alcoholic beverages. MADD is steadfastly opposed, and is spear-heading efforts to block the Corps from accomplishing this feat.

It is time for MADD to stop acting like the Brady Bunch and let these men and women be adults.

Boston and Washington DC are the first cities take away your right to Due Process.

Cities eliminate right to contest parking tickets

In an attempt to stem the loss of revenue from motorists contesting parking tickets, cities are effectively eliminating the traditional due process rights of motorists to defend themselves at an impartial hearing. By the end of next year, Washington, DC’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will not allow anyone who believes he unfairly received a citation to have his day in an administrative hearing.

“DMV will complete the phase-out of in-person adjudication of parking tickets in favor of mail-in and e-mail adjudication by December 2008,” the Fiscal Year 2008 DMV plan states.

The move is intended to allow automated street sweeper parking ticket machines to boost the number of infractions cited well beyond the 1.6 million currently handed out by meter maids. As one-third of those who contest citations in the city are successful, the hearings cut significantly into the $100 million in revenue tickets generate each year.

I’m all for automation and making things operate more smoothly, except when it involves the government being able to tax me.

What with all the “Hating the Constitution” the leftwing “Constitutional Watchdogs” have the Bush Administration doing, I’m very truly surprised that they aren’t wetting themselves over this.

Ok, so I’m not really surprised.

But will they gather the balls to light it?

If you have a TV you can’t get away from those DividedWeFail.Org commercials with children demanding that candidates “actually fix health care and Social Security” and not just wander around on the campaign trail saying they will.

That these commercials are funded by the AARP and the dollars of retirees is a hilarious point that I don’t believe is fully grasped by them.

So as of last Friday Fred Thompson has put his plan on the table.

Any reaction from those bozos?

Nope.

Not really surprising as the AARP is simply an organ of the Democrat Party and will ignore Thompson’s plan while they wait for one of the Democrats to put something half-assed up that they can trumpet as the be-all, end-all of plans to save SSI.

Currently, only Obama has anything out on the topic and it is in response to Thompson’s idea. Obama’s idea basically consists of higher payroll taxes, especially on “The Rich”. Other that, or as Cap’n Ed says “Without specific counterproposals, this may wind up like 2005 all over again, with Democrats insisting that Social Security needs no fixing at all.”

That’d be funny to watch this all blow up back in the faces of the AARP.

I know its “Pollyanna-ish” but it’d just be nice if the AARP would be at least a little more honest about their leanings and what they’re doing with their member’s money.

Myself, I got out of high school knowing that SSI wouldn’t be there for me and that I’d be made to pay dearly for the lazy ahead of me. Too bad an entire generation expects something unconstitutional from the government a large number of them spent a large number of years wishing it would puff out of existence. They “opened their minds” so much their fucking brains fell out.