The 35 mpg fleet standard can and should be done as a first step. Adding trucks and SUVs is important as that is what people are driving.
I don't like the idea of ethanol being made from corn or other food sources at a time when there is hunger in the world. I don't like the continuation of aid to the oil companies that are raking in billions.
Dems reach deal on fuel efficiency - Capitol Hill- msnbc.com
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
"Pregnant Woman's Tasering Probed"
From the article:
Redden, according to Etter, had come to the police station to ask police to take custody of her child. When officer Michael Wilmer asked why, the woman reportedly would only say that "she's tired of playing games" with the baby's father. "At this point, they had a little more discussion that went nowhere," Etter said, recounting the incident. "She says, 'I'm leaving.'" Etter, who repeatedly emphasized to ABC News that Wilmer had no idea the Valreca was pregnant, said that the officer then explained that she could not leave without further explanation. He took hold of the child with one arm, Etter said, and pushed the woman down with the other. When a second officer arrived, Wilmer handed over the 1-year-old and attempted to handcuff Valreca. She began to resist, Etter said, at which point he "employed what is called a 'drive stun'" on the back of her neck.
This tells me "don't go into a police station".
It's time to ban tasers. The U.N. has described tasering as torture. I read an account of what it is like to be tasered by someone who was tasered and it's an experience I wouldn't want to go through. I saw a man tasered for refusing to sign a ticket and tried to point to a spee limit sign. Two taser deaths in Canada and four in the U.S. in a week. A Polish man tasered mainly because he didn't understand English.
Cops are afraid, and rightly so in this messed up society. But a taser being given as a non-lethal weapon causes them to resort to tasering when there is no reason.
ABC News: Pregnant Woman Tasered in Police Station, FBI Investigates
Redden, according to Etter, had come to the police station to ask police to take custody of her child. When officer Michael Wilmer asked why, the woman reportedly would only say that "she's tired of playing games" with the baby's father. "At this point, they had a little more discussion that went nowhere," Etter said, recounting the incident. "She says, 'I'm leaving.'" Etter, who repeatedly emphasized to ABC News that Wilmer had no idea the Valreca was pregnant, said that the officer then explained that she could not leave without further explanation. He took hold of the child with one arm, Etter said, and pushed the woman down with the other. When a second officer arrived, Wilmer handed over the 1-year-old and attempted to handcuff Valreca. She began to resist, Etter said, at which point he "employed what is called a 'drive stun'" on the back of her neck.
This tells me "don't go into a police station".
It's time to ban tasers. The U.N. has described tasering as torture. I read an account of what it is like to be tasered by someone who was tasered and it's an experience I wouldn't want to go through. I saw a man tasered for refusing to sign a ticket and tried to point to a spee limit sign. Two taser deaths in Canada and four in the U.S. in a week. A Polish man tasered mainly because he didn't understand English.
Cops are afraid, and rightly so in this messed up society. But a taser being given as a non-lethal weapon causes them to resort to tasering when there is no reason.
ABC News: Pregnant Woman Tasered in Police Station, FBI Investigates
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