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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.
For Christian American readers of this blog:
I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.
The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!
A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:
"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."
Thanks Jack!
I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.
For Christian American readers of this blog:
I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.
The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!
A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:
"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."
Thanks Jack!
I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
The operating room of the future ... Wow! I say so too, Ramey H!
skegley.blogspot.com
State with no Republicans ... Thx Lou F!
State with no Republicans
Some interesting data on the 'state' of Illinois... There are more people on welfare in Illinois than there are people working. Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S.averaging $110,000/year. Their pensions average 80-90% of their income. Wow, are Illinois andChicago great or what? Be sure to read till the end. I've never heard it explained better. Perhaps theU.S. should pull out of Chicago? Body count: In the last six months, 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago. 221 killed in Iraq; AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.
Here's the Chicago chain of command: President: Barack Hussein Obama · Senator: Dick Durbin · House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr. · Governor: Pat Quinn · House leader: Mike Madigan · Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike) · Mayor: Rohm Emanuel · The leadership in Illinois - all Democrats. · Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago. · Of course, they're all blaming each other. · Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any! · Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country. Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country. Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he is going to 'fix' Washingtonpolitics for us?
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in the prison.
He was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is that's right, also in the prison.
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a couple of weeks ago, because he is fighting to not be sent to...that's right, prison.
The Land of Lincoln, where our governors make our license plates. what?
As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does.
"Anybody who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian."Don’t forget Detroit another good example.
PART 2
Some of you might find these data interesting. ALL SHOULD.There are actually two messages here. The first is very interesting,
but the second is absolutely astounding -- and explains a lot!
A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:U.S. 65%England 46%Canada 42%Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:U.S. 93%England 15%Canada 43%Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:U.S. 90%England 15%Canada 43%Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:U.S. 77%England 40%Canada 43%Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:U.S. 71England 14Canada 18Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":U.S. 12%England 2%Canada 6%And now for the last statistic:
National Health Insurance?U.S. NOEngland YESCanada YES
And check this last set of statistics!!
The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.....
You know what the private business sector is. A real-life business, not a Government job.
Here are the percentages:T. Roosevelt................... 38%Taft.................................40% Wilson ........................... 52%Harding.......................... 49% Coolidge........................ 48% Hoover ...........................42%F. Roosevelt................... 50%Truman...........................50% Eisenhower....................57% Kennedy......................... 30% Johnson..........................47% Nixon..............................53% Ford................................42% Carter.............................32% Reagan...........................56% GH Bush.........................51% Clinton ..........................39%GW Bush........................55% Obama............................. 8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!
That's right! Only eight percent -- the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big Corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?
They've spent most of their time in academia, Government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment line.
Pass this on because we'll NEVER see these facts in the mainstream media.
"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors." - Plato
Required readings in the fifties: Thx George Orwell "1984" !
Required readings in school:
How sad it is when our schools have dumbed down in true substance of required readings!
George Orwell's "1984" appeared as so much future "nevah happen" when he had it published in 1949, but it is encroaching all of us in our secular-progressive America of today. Doublethink and doublespeak, in which political lies have become so common, most voters do not recognize the difference between those lies and long-recognized truths, is absolutely scary in this society. One book of a trilogy of same including the Russian Zamyatin in his book "We" and Aldous Huxley in his "Brave New World" expressed a warning for the future which is upon us.
It would create an enormous addition to the education of our youth to require such reading today but the left wing media would certainly move to put such ideas down.
SamKat
Required readings in school:
How sad it is when our schools have dumbed down in true substance of
required readings!
George Orwell's "1984 appeared as so much future "nevah happen" when
he had it published in 1949, but it is encroaching all of us in our
secular-progressive America of today. Doublethink and doublespeak, in
which lies have become so common, most voters do not recognize the
difference between those lies and long recognized truths, is
absolutely scary in this society. One book of a trilogy of same
including the Russian Zamyatin in his book "We" and Aldous Huxley in
his "Brave New World" expressed a warning for the future which is upon
us.
It would create an enormous addition to the education of our youth to
require such reading today, but the left wing media would certainly
move to put such ideas down.
SamKat
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Posted by Sam, Kegley at 8:31 AM
How sad it is when our schools have dumbed down in true substance of required readings!
George Orwell's "1984" appeared as so much future "nevah happen" when he had it published in 1949, but it is encroaching all of us in our secular-progressive America of today. Doublethink and doublespeak, in which political lies have become so common, most voters do not recognize the difference between those lies and long-recognized truths, is absolutely scary in this society. One book of a trilogy of same including the Russian Zamyatin in his book "We" and Aldous Huxley in his "Brave New World" expressed a warning for the future which is upon us.
It would create an enormous addition to the education of our youth to require such reading today but the left wing media would certainly move to put such ideas down.
SamKat
Required readings in school:
How sad it is when our schools have dumbed down in true substance of
required readings!
George Orwell's "1984 appeared as so much future "nevah happen" when
he had it published in 1949, but it is encroaching all of us in our
secular-progressive America of today. Doublethink and doublespeak, in
which lies have become so common, most voters do not recognize the
difference between those lies and long recognized truths, is
absolutely scary in this society. One book of a trilogy of same
including the Russian Zamyatin in his book "We" and Aldous Huxley in
his "Brave New World" expressed a warning for the future which is upon
us.
It would create an enormous addition to the education of our youth to
require such reading today, but the left wing media would certainly
move to put such ideas down.
SamKat
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Posted by Sam, Kegley at 8:31 AM
Sam Kegley
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Jack Plymale
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To:
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Sam Kegley
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Memories of greatness ... Thx Jack P!
Remember Jack- you are a Portsmouth Trojan- a team I quit in early
freshman practice to my life-long shame. But I have many friends who
did, like yourself. So, the ball is in Middletown's hands on the five.
Take a time-out. Rest and come back and fight the dreaded political
secular-progressives friend!. Would Paul Walker allow you to quit? I
think not!
Sam
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jack Plymale wrote:
> Sam, I really have no hope for the political salvation of our country.
> I am 86 years old and guys like me are not going to fight any more
> battles........even if we could Jack P
>
> On 10/28/13, Sam Kegley wrote:
>> Monday, October 28, 2013
>>
>> Milage tax via new technology ... Thx Ramey H!
>>
>> Labels Cars, taxes
>>
>>
>>
>> This smells terribly BAD to me, Ramey H! I detest our supposed
>> representatives who are always seeking new ways to tax us American
>> citizens. I recently paid a fine for a traffic corner camera
>> conviction. Will there soon be a tax on bed time? UGH! Big Brother,
>> aka NSA, is too darned nosy!
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
>>
>> The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your
>> location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax
>> bill.
>>
>> Comments
>> 1432
>>
>>
>>
>> Email
>>
>>
>>
>> Share
>>
>> 19K
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>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan Morrison is chief executive of True Mileage, a Long Beach company
>> testing devices that can track drivers' mileage. "People will be more
>> willing to do this if you do not track their speed and you do not
>> track their location," he says. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times /
>> October 24, 2013)
>>
>> Jury hits Toyota with $3-million verdict in sudden acceleration death case
>> Photos: The 10 worst cars sold in America
>> Photos: Cars after crash test
>> Cars' safety systems are getting a whole lot smarter
>> Ex-NSA chief talks on a train, fellow rider tweets, tweets go viral
>>
>>
>> By Evan Halper
>> October 26, 2013, 7:11 p.m.
>>
>> WASHINGTON — As America's road planners struggle to find the cash to
>> mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution
>> in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.
>> The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit
>> that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial
>> attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the
>> outdated system for funding America's major roads.
>> The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned
>> intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined
>> environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little
>> boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you
>> drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.
>> PHOTOS: Kelley Blue Book's 10 best 'green' cars
>> The tea party is aghast. The American Civil Liberties Union is deeply
>> concerned, too, raising a variety of privacy issues.
>> And while Congress can't agree on whether to proceed, several states
>> are not waiting. They are exploring how, over the next decade, they
>> can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll
>> over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some
>> of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive.
>> "This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something
>> we might choose to do," said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the
>> Southern California Assn. of Governments, which is planning for the
>> state to start tracking miles driven by every California motorist by
>> 2025. "There is going to be a change in how we pay these taxes. The
>> technology is there to do it."
>> The push comes as the country's Highway Trust Fund, financed with
>> taxes Americans pay at the gas pump, is broke. Americans don't buy as
>> much gas as they used to. Cars get many more miles to the gallon. The
>> federal tax itself, 18.4 cents per gallon, hasn't gone up in 20 years.
>> Politicians are loath to raise the tax even one penny when gas prices
>> are high.
>> "The gas tax is just not sustainable," said Lee Munnich, a
>> transportation policy expert at the University of Minnesota. His state
>> recently put tracking devices on 500 cars to test out a pay-by-mile
>> system. "This works out as the most logical alternative over the long
>> term," he said.
>> Wonks call it a mileage-based user fee. It is no surprise that the
>> idea appeals to urban liberals, as the taxes could be rigged to change
>> driving patterns in ways that could help reduce congestion and
>> greenhouse gases, for example. California planners are looking to the
>> system as they devise strategies to meet the goals laid out in the
>> state's ambitious global warming laws. But Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.),
>> chairman of the House Transportation Committee, has said he, too, sees
>> it as the most viable long-term alternative. The free marketeers at
>> the Reason Foundation are also fond of having drivers pay per mile.
>> "This is not just a tax going into a black hole," said Adrian Moore,
>> vice president of policy at Reason. "People are paying more directly
>> into what they are getting."
>> The movement is also bolstered by two former U.S. Transportation
>> secretaries, who in a 2011 report urged Congress to move in the
>> pay-per-mile direction.
>> The U.S. Senate approved a $90-million pilot project last year that
>> would have involved about 10,000 cars. But the House leadership killed
>> the proposal, acting on concerns of rural lawmakers representing
>> constituents whose daily lives often involve logging lots of miles to
>> get to work or into town.
>> Several states and cities are nonetheless moving ahead on their own.
>> The most eager is Oregon, which is enlisting 5,000 drivers in the
>> country's biggest experiment. Those drivers will soon pay the mileage
>> fees instead of gas taxes to the state. Nevada has already completed a
>> pilot. New York City is looking into one. Illinois is trying it on a
>> limited basis with trucks. And the I-95 Coalition, which includes 17
>> state transportation departments along the Eastern Seaboard (including
>> Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida), is studying how they
>> could go about implementing the change.
>> The concept is not a universal hit.
>> In Nevada, where about 50 volunteers' cars were equipped with the
>> devices not long ago, drivers were uneasy about the government being
>> able to monitor their every move.
>> "Concerns about Big Brother and those sorts of things were a major
>> problem," said Alauddin Khan, who directs strategic and performance
>> management at the Nevada Department of Transportation. "It was not
>> something people wanted."
>> As the trial got underway, the ACLU of Nevada warned on its website:
>> "It would be fairly easy to turn these devices into full-fledged
>> tracking devices.... There is no need to build an enormous, unwieldy
>> technological infrastructure that will inevitably be expanded to keep
>> records of individuals' everyday comings and goings."
>> Nevada is among several states now scrambling to find affordable
>> technology that would allow the state to keep track of how many miles
>> a car is being driven, but not exactly where and at what time. If you
>> can do that, Khan said, the public gets more comfortable.
>> The hunt for that technology has led some state agencies to a small
>> California startup called True Mileage. The firm was not originally in
>> the business of helping states tax drivers. It was seeking to break
>> into an emerging market in auto insurance, in which drivers would pay
>> based on their mileage. But the devices it is testing appeal to
>> highway planners because they don't use GPS and deliver a limited
>> amount of information, uploaded periodically by modem.
>> "People will be more willing to do this if you do not track their
>> speed and you do not track their location," said Ryan Morrison, chief
>> executive of True Mileage. "There have been some big mistakes in some
>> of these state pilot programs. There are a lot less expensive and less
>> intrusive ways to do this."
>> In Oregon, planners are experimenting with giving drivers different
>> choices. They can choose a device with or without GPS. Or they can
>> choose not to have a device at all, opting instead to pay a flat fee
>> based on the average number of miles driven by all state residents.
>> Other places are hoping to sell the concept to a wary public by having
>> the devices do more, not less. In New York City, transportation
>> officials are seeking to develop a taxing device that would also be
>> equipped to pay parking meter fees, provide "pay-as-you-drive"
>> insurance, and create a pool of real-time speed data from other
>> drivers that motorists could use to avoid traffic.
>> "Motorists would be attracted to participate … because of the value of
>> the benefits it offers to them," says a city planning document.
>> Some transportation planners, though, wonder if all the talk about
>> paying by the mile is just a giant distraction. At the Metropolitan
>> Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials say
>> Congress could very simply deal with the bankrupt Highway Trust Fund
>> by raising gas taxes. An extra one-time or annual levy could be
>> imposed on drivers of hybrids and others whose vehicles don't use much
>> gas, so they pay their fair share.
>> "There is no need for radical surgery when all you need to do is take
>> an aspirin," said Randy Rentschler, the commission's director of
>> legislation and public affairs. "If we do this, hundreds of millions
>> of drivers will be concerned about their privacy and a host of other
>> things."
>> evan.halper@latimes.com
>> Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
>> Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook
>> Posted by Sam, Kegley at 3:10 AM
>>
>
>
> --
> Jack P.
Sam
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jack Plymale
> Sam, I really have no hope for the political salvation of our country.
> I am 86 years old and guys like me are not going to fight any more
> battles........even if we could Jack P
>
> On 10/28/13, Sam Kegley
>> Monday, October 28, 2013
>>
>> Milage tax via new technology ... Thx Ramey H!
>>
>> Labels Cars, taxes
>>
>>
>>
>> This smells terribly BAD to me, Ramey H! I detest our supposed
>> representatives who are always seeking new ways to tax us American
>> citizens. I recently paid a fine for a traffic corner camera
>> conviction. Will there soon be a tax on bed time? UGH! Big Brother,
>> aka NSA, is too darned nosy!
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
>>
>> The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your
>> location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax
>> bill.
>>
>> Comments
>> 1432
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Share
>>
>> 19K
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan Morrison is chief executive of True Mileage, a Long Beach company
>> testing devices that can track drivers' mileage. "People will be more
>> willing to do this if you do not track their speed and you do not
>> track their location," he says. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times /
>> October 24, 2013)
>>
>> Jury hits Toyota with $3-million verdict in sudden acceleration death case
>> Photos: The 10 worst cars sold in America
>> Photos: Cars after crash test
>> Cars' safety systems are getting a whole lot smarter
>> Ex-NSA chief talks on a train, fellow rider tweets, tweets go viral
>>
>>
>> By Evan Halper
>> October 26, 2013, 7:11 p.m.
>>
>> WASHINGTON — As America's road planners struggle to find the cash to
>> mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution
>> in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.
>> The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit
>> that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial
>> attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the
>> outdated system for funding America's major roads.
>> The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned
>> intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined
>> environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little
>> boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you
>> drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.
>> PHOTOS: Kelley Blue Book's 10 best 'green' cars
>> The tea party is aghast. The American Civil Liberties Union is deeply
>> concerned, too, raising a variety of privacy issues.
>> And while Congress can't agree on whether to proceed, several states
>> are not waiting. They are exploring how, over the next decade, they
>> can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll
>> over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some
>> of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive.
>> "This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something
>> we might choose to do," said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the
>> Southern California Assn. of Governments, which is planning for the
>> state to start tracking miles driven by every California motorist by
>> 2025. "There is going to be a change in how we pay these taxes. The
>> technology is there to do it."
>> The push comes as the country's Highway Trust Fund, financed with
>> taxes Americans pay at the gas pump, is broke. Americans don't buy as
>> much gas as they used to. Cars get many more miles to the gallon. The
>> federal tax itself, 18.4 cents per gallon, hasn't gone up in 20 years.
>> Politicians are loath to raise the tax even one penny when gas prices
>> are high.
>> "The gas tax is just not sustainable," said Lee Munnich, a
>> transportation policy expert at the University of Minnesota. His state
>> recently put tracking devices on 500 cars to test out a pay-by-mile
>> system. "This works out as the most logical alternative over the long
>> term," he said.
>> Wonks call it a mileage-based user fee. It is no surprise that the
>> idea appeals to urban liberals, as the taxes could be rigged to change
>> driving patterns in ways that could help reduce congestion and
>> greenhouse gases, for example. California planners are looking to the
>> system as they devise strategies to meet the goals laid out in the
>> state's ambitious global warming laws. But Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.),
>> chairman of the House Transportation Committee, has said he, too, sees
>> it as the most viable long-term alternative. The free marketeers at
>> the Reason Foundation are also fond of having drivers pay per mile.
>> "This is not just a tax going into a black hole," said Adrian Moore,
>> vice president of policy at Reason. "People are paying more directly
>> into what they are getting."
>> The movement is also bolstered by two former U.S. Transportation
>> secretaries, who in a 2011 report urged Congress to move in the
>> pay-per-mile direction.
>> The U.S. Senate approved a $90-million pilot project last year that
>> would have involved about 10,000 cars. But the House leadership killed
>> the proposal, acting on concerns of rural lawmakers representing
>> constituents whose daily lives often involve logging lots of miles to
>> get to work or into town.
>> Several states and cities are nonetheless moving ahead on their own.
>> The most eager is Oregon, which is enlisting 5,000 drivers in the
>> country's biggest experiment. Those drivers will soon pay the mileage
>> fees instead of gas taxes to the state. Nevada has already completed a
>> pilot. New York City is looking into one. Illinois is trying it on a
>> limited basis with trucks. And the I-95 Coalition, which includes 17
>> state transportation departments along the Eastern Seaboard (including
>> Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida), is studying how they
>> could go about implementing the change.
>> The concept is not a universal hit.
>> In Nevada, where about 50 volunteers' cars were equipped with the
>> devices not long ago, drivers were uneasy about the government being
>> able to monitor their every move.
>> "Concerns about Big Brother and those sorts of things were a major
>> problem," said Alauddin Khan, who directs strategic and performance
>> management at the Nevada Department of Transportation. "It was not
>> something people wanted."
>> As the trial got underway, the ACLU of Nevada warned on its website:
>> "It would be fairly easy to turn these devices into full-fledged
>> tracking devices.... There is no need to build an enormous, unwieldy
>> technological infrastructure that will inevitably be expanded to keep
>> records of individuals' everyday comings and goings."
>> Nevada is among several states now scrambling to find affordable
>> technology that would allow the state to keep track of how many miles
>> a car is being driven, but not exactly where and at what time. If you
>> can do that, Khan said, the public gets more comfortable.
>> The hunt for that technology has led some state agencies to a small
>> California startup called True Mileage. The firm was not originally in
>> the business of helping states tax drivers. It was seeking to break
>> into an emerging market in auto insurance, in which drivers would pay
>> based on their mileage. But the devices it is testing appeal to
>> highway planners because they don't use GPS and deliver a limited
>> amount of information, uploaded periodically by modem.
>> "People will be more willing to do this if you do not track their
>> speed and you do not track their location," said Ryan Morrison, chief
>> executive of True Mileage. "There have been some big mistakes in some
>> of these state pilot programs. There are a lot less expensive and less
>> intrusive ways to do this."
>> In Oregon, planners are experimenting with giving drivers different
>> choices. They can choose a device with or without GPS. Or they can
>> choose not to have a device at all, opting instead to pay a flat fee
>> based on the average number of miles driven by all state residents.
>> Other places are hoping to sell the concept to a wary public by having
>> the devices do more, not less. In New York City, transportation
>> officials are seeking to develop a taxing device that would also be
>> equipped to pay parking meter fees, provide "pay-as-you-drive"
>> insurance, and create a pool of real-time speed data from other
>> drivers that motorists could use to avoid traffic.
>> "Motorists would be attracted to participate … because of the value of
>> the benefits it offers to them," says a city planning document.
>> Some transportation planners, though, wonder if all the talk about
>> paying by the mile is just a giant distraction. At the Metropolitan
>> Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials say
>> Congress could very simply deal with the bankrupt Highway Trust Fund
>> by raising gas taxes. An extra one-time or annual levy could be
>> imposed on drivers of hybrids and others whose vehicles don't use much
>> gas, so they pay their fair share.
>> "There is no need for radical surgery when all you need to do is take
>> an aspirin," said Randy Rentschler, the commission's director of
>> legislation and public affairs. "If we do this, hundreds of millions
>> of drivers will be concerned about their privacy and a host of other
>> things."
>> evan.halper@latimes.com
>> Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
>> Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook
>> Posted by Sam, Kegley at 3:10 AM
>>
>
>
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> Jack P.
finish last" was an absolute fallacy. One of the nicest guys who ever came up the road and yet an unbelievable task master.It was a pure joy to play for him and even more of a joy to have him for a friend. Needless to say, You couldn't have better friends or teammates than Doc and Jim. There will never be a week go by that I don't think of them , at least,once. Jack P PS. Walker might make you feel jnferior, but I am just as sure he would find something about you that he admired and envied greatly. He was just kind of person. | ||||||||||
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I so agree,Jack.
The day I shared sitting wth you three giants at an Ohio State- Cincinnati opening game was a tremendouus experience for me. And to think that the seat I enjoyed was often previously occupied by your great post WW II Trojan football Coach of yesteryear, and Ohio's greatest ever basketball coach at Middletown, Paul Walker, makes me feel so far inferior. Men of vast integrity and courage and spirit have added so much to my appreciation of good lives. Thanks for evicting the memory, Jack!
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