Long-Distance Driving Reflections

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Long-Distance Driving Reflections

Driving back to Vermont, I got to thinking (by way of signage) about the variety of laws promulgated by the states, and reflecting on which made the most and the least sense. So . . . here's your opportunity to vent about the worst and laud the best state laws, not relating solely to traffic, with reasons given, please.

Oh, and Illinois . . . screw your toll booths and the way they're set up. If I were the Governor, I'd designate a week's holiday from paying tolls (maybe around Thanksgiving), just so people could get a good idea of what they've been suckered into. And I-Pass? I'd like to know which politicians are invested in the company that makes those gadgets.

And, just because it hasn't been posted here, yet, my crackers:

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Bob Reed
July 19th, 2010 - 07:36

Well, I’ve got a federal regulation to bee-yotch about; on ethat, in my thinking, increases public health care costs in this country already-before Obamacare takes hold!

My mother-in-law is 84, and, becuase my schedule is flexible, I often take her around to her various doctor’s for appointments.

She apologizes a lot for inconvenienceing me, although I don’t really mind. But the truth is there are times when we have to visit the same physician several days in succession; because medicare has a rule that doesn’t allow multiple procedures, testing or otherwise, to take place on the same day!

I can’t fathom the motivation for this, save for AMA lobbyists winning their members this as consoloation for the low rates that medicare will pay for individual procedure; to put it in blue-collar parlance, at least they recieve a “service charge” for each scheduled procedure for which they recieve payment at the low-balled rates.

It all offends my engineer’s sense of efficiencey and exactitude…

And makes me wonder if it’s not something that we all have to look forward to.

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Bob Reed
July 19th, 2010 - 07:38

Oh, and the Morgan Freeman/60 minutes clip?

I know it could be out of context, but, that’s what America is supposed to be all about, baby!

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Enoch_Root
July 19th, 2010 - 08:49

Amen – Morgan speaking Truff to Silliness.

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Enoch_Root
July 19th, 2010 - 08:49

But as long as we are handing out months, I’ll take an Irish History Month and a Catholic History Month. Maybe with a side of ranch dressing.

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- Dan Collins
  July 19th, 2010 - 10:08
  
  We have an Irish History Month. It’s called St. Patrick’s Day.
  
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