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This is quite surprising!AMAZING NRA Support from where you'd least expect it----Obama didn't see this coming...pass it on quickly as it will most likely be pulled and deleted.
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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.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Amazing NRA support ... Thx Dr. H!
School bus comparisons ... Thx Dr. H!
School bus comparisons.......
It's not by luck or accident that Japanese are better students and have a higher IQ than Americans...! Here is photographic evidence...
JAPAN



SCHOOL BUS IN INDIA

SCHOOL BUS IN INDIA
........and which country do I get
when I have a technical problem with my windows computer ?
Monday, October 28, 2013
Went fishing and caught 4 deer ... Thx Dr. H!
Went Fishing, Caught 4
Deer
A once
in the history of mankind kind of thing.
The
Best Day Of Fishing Ever!
Some
fishing stories are a little hard to believe,
but this guy has pictures to prove his story...
I've heard of salmon jumping into boats,
but never anything quite like this...
Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out
with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel
when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly
toward his boat.
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"Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle
the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that
the young bucks were distressed.
I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically
skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my
years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it!
Once onboard, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering."
![[]](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=68be49112e&view=att&th=142008bf52a824c2&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1)
"This is a picture I
took of the rescued bucks on the back
of my boat, the Alaska Quest.
We headed for Taku Harbour . Once we reached the
dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the
water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say
'thank you' and disappeared into the forest.
After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more
followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.
but this guy has pictures to prove his story...
I've heard of salmon jumping into boats,
but never anything quite like this...
Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out
with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel
when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly
toward his boat.
"Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle
the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that
the young bucks were distressed.
I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically
skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my
years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it!
Once onboard, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering."
"This is a picture I
took of the rescued bucks on the back
of my boat, the Alaska Quest.
We headed for Taku Harbour . Once we reached the
dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the
water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say
'thank you' and disappeared into the forest.
After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more
followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.
This is me carrying the little guy.
My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck
to its feet. We didn't know how long they had been in the
icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive.
My daughter later told me that the experience was something
that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!"
I
told you! Awesome... huh?
Our Lord works in mysterious way..
Our Lord works in mysterious way..
"Kindness
is the language the blind
can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain
can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain
Today
is the first day of the rest of your life!
Make it
a good one!
"Mash" by Portsmouth Doctor Otto Apel and Pat Apel
This "Mash" book, by Portsmouth Ohio Dr. Otto Apel, is on Amazon. Sarah Rapp has been reading it. I want to read a copy!
SamKat
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed "Bedcheck Charlie," who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women's shower was "accidentally" blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.
Sarah Rapp wrote:
So sad!! he was to accept an award for the book, and walking across
the stage he collapsed and died on the way to the hospital
SamKat
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed "Bedcheck Charlie," who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women's shower was "accidentally" blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.
Sarah Rapp wrote:
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Update on Jack P and the Trojans
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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> Jack P.
America ...
She's still singing in my book, Sam.....
Thx Paul C!
I can hear the lady and victory is at hand for the Tea Party in 2014. Jack P- Paul C is a Wheelersburg HS baseball player in the vintage of Clay Vice. He sends me a lot of good stuff.
I respect all of the fine people, mostly conservatives who send me good things for my SamKat blog.
America Kate Smith- Song introduced by her- lyrics by Irving Berlin:
Thx Paul C!
I can hear the lady and victory is at hand for the Tea Party in 2014. Jack P- Paul C is a Wheelersburg HS baseball player in the vintage of Clay Vice. He sends me a lot of good stuff.
I respect all of the fine people, mostly conservatives who send me good things for my SamKat blog.
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America Kate Smith- Song introduced by her- lyrics by Irving Berlin:
God, bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her,
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
God, bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home
God bless America....
My home sweet home!
Land that I love.
Stand beside her,
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
God, bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home
God bless America....
My home sweet home!
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