These peoples makes me MADD, I tellya what!
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Hopper
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I done posted part of this excerpt in another thread, but it was just a tangent there. MADD deserves it's own damn thread, I figure:
"Many who otherwise would have been sympathetic to MADD's cause feel the organization has gone too far. Radley Balko argued in a December 2002 article that MADD's policies are becoming overbearing....MADD's critics assert that the organization is focused entirely upon the presence of alcohol in the body, rather than upon the actual danger posed by any impairment...Original drunk driving laws addressed the danger by making it a criminal offense to drive a vehicle while impaired — that is, while "under the influence of alcohol"; the amount of alcohol in the body was evidence of that impairment. In part due to MADD's influence, all 50 states have now passed laws making it a criminal offense to drive with a designated level of alcohol, based on the presumption that all persons are impaired at the level specified."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers..._Drunk_Driving
Zup wit dat, I ax ya?
"Many who otherwise would have been sympathetic to MADD's cause feel the organization has gone too far. Radley Balko argued in a December 2002 article that MADD's policies are becoming overbearing....MADD's critics assert that the organization is focused entirely upon the presence of alcohol in the body, rather than upon the actual danger posed by any impairment...Original drunk driving laws addressed the danger by making it a criminal offense to drive a vehicle while impaired — that is, while "under the influence of alcohol"; the amount of alcohol in the body was evidence of that impairment. In part due to MADD's influence, all 50 states have now passed laws making it a criminal offense to drive with a designated level of alcohol, based on the presumption that all persons are impaired at the level specified."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers..._Drunk_Driving
Zup wit dat, I ax ya?
Hopper
Banned
Now and again I gits a phone call, outta da blue, that starts off like this here:
"I'm calling on behalf of MADD. As I'm sure you know, and agree, MADD has done some wonderful things in the area of legislation..."
Gawd only knows how long the planned to go on with they self-promotion and self-congratulation, cause I always cut they sorry *** short right there. I butts in and ax: "How in the hell would you "know" that?" I dunno what their answer is, cause by then I done hungs up.
"I'm calling on behalf of MADD. As I'm sure you know, and agree, MADD has done some wonderful things in the area of legislation..."
Gawd only knows how long the planned to go on with they self-promotion and self-congratulation, cause I always cut they sorry *** short right there. I butts in and ax: "How in the hell would you "know" that?" I dunno what their answer is, cause by then I done hungs up.
Hopper
Banned
"Objections have been raised to the validity of BAC or breath alcohol as an indicator of impairment. The degree of impairment associated with a given BAC is not constant and may vary among individuals...both the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and private industry have developed ignition interlock systems that prevent use of a vehicle by an impaired person. These systems require the performance of a brief (10- to 30-second) task to test reaction time, short-term memory, visual tracking, or other measures of psychomotor coordination. Performance on these tasks has been shown to correlate reasonably well with actual (or simulated) driving performance without reference to the cause of the impairment.
Alcohol-Related Impairment--A Commentary by NIAAA Director Enoch Gordis, M.D.
"Setting a legal threshold for determining impairment by BAC (per se laws) has disadvantages that might be avoided by use of an inexpensive, convenient field device for determining impairment directly. Such a device would have the advantage of identifying persons who are unfit to drive or engage in other potentially dangerous activity for any reason, such as extreme fatigue, illness, infirmity, emotional states, or the use of alcohol and other drugs and medications. Whether the public would endorse the use of such devices rather than the current widely accepted and supported per se laws is certain to be a matter of significant public policy debate."
https://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa25.htm
"Whether the public would endorse the use of such devices rather than the current widely accepted and supported per se laws is certain to be a matter of significant public policy debate." What's to "debate," exactly?
Alcohol-Related Impairment--A Commentary by NIAAA Director Enoch Gordis, M.D.
"Setting a legal threshold for determining impairment by BAC (per se laws) has disadvantages that might be avoided by use of an inexpensive, convenient field device for determining impairment directly. Such a device would have the advantage of identifying persons who are unfit to drive or engage in other potentially dangerous activity for any reason, such as extreme fatigue, illness, infirmity, emotional states, or the use of alcohol and other drugs and medications. Whether the public would endorse the use of such devices rather than the current widely accepted and supported per se laws is certain to be a matter of significant public policy debate."
https://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa25.htm
"Whether the public would endorse the use of such devices rather than the current widely accepted and supported per se laws is certain to be a matter of significant public policy debate." What's to "debate," exactly?
Wrong again, Double H. TULT>
