Impaired Driving - While journeying to mine office this morning, I narrowly escaped being crashed into by a woman who had a cell phone held firmly against her right ear, driving with her left hand on the steering wheel, obviously giving most of her attention to the conversation she was having, and giving precious little attention to her driving.
People often treat this as a time to multitask and tend other daily activities. With today’s proliferation of mobile devices, dashboard technologies, and other tools that provide easy access to information, entertainment,
and communications, in-vehicle distractions are increasing.
Studies show that drivers spend more than half their time behind the wheel engaged in potentially distracting behavior.
When you are driving, you are operating a piece of heavy machinery at high speed. You are navigating across changing terrain, calculating speeds and distances, and responding to all the other drivers and obstacles around you. Adding one more activity—even talking to your passengers or changing a radio station—can be enough to make you lose control of your vehicle or fail to respond in an emergency. In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
Had I been less attentive, had I been similarly impaired, or had Mr. Nitro R/T been incapable of summoning the requisite performance and agility to quickly distance me from this creature, I would most certainly been an accident victim!
Fortunately, I was able to avoid being struck by this loathsome beast and suffered only the unsettling emotional discomfort that followed necessarily.
Once the immediacy of potential collision had passed, I pulled to the side of the street, parked, and attempted to note her license plate number. Traffic did not allow me to do so, so this event will not be reported.
Impaired driving is dangerous. It is the cause of more than half of all car crashes. Impaired driving is operating a motor vehicle while you are affected by any of the following:
For your safety and the safety of others, do not drive while impaired. Have someone else drive you or take public transportation when you cannot drive. If you need to take a call or send a text message, pull to the side of the roadway and park while using your cell phone.
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Americans spend about one hour and 15 minutes in their vehicles every day.
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Impaired Driving, In the News, and Enjoy
Thursday, November 21, 2013
World Television Day, In the News, and Enjoy
World Television Day - In recognition of the increasing impact television has on decision-making by bringing world attention to conflicts and threats to peace and security and its potential role in sharpening the focus on other major issues, including economic and social issues, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day (through resolution 51/205 of 17 December 1996). In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the tool, but rather the philosophy which it represents. Television represents a symbol for communication and globalization in the contemporary world.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Education Support Professionals Day, In the News, and Enjoy
Education Support Professionals Day - Education Support Professionals (ESP) Day focuses on the importance of these school employees. They take care of students every day, making sure they have the tools they need to succeed in school. In the News - Be careful out there! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
Education Support Professionals (ESP) Day was first celebrated in 1987, after NEA's Representative Assembly called for the creation of a way to honor the contributions of school support staff.
In 2003, Karen Mahurin, then president of NEA's National Council of Education Support Professional (NCESP) members, led a successful campaign at the NEA Representative Assembly to change the ESP formal name from "Education Support Personnel" to "Education Support Professionals."
The name reflects a growing pride in the valuable role ESPs play throughout America's public schools. Today's support professionals provide invaluable services that enable students to learn in positive, supportive environments. ESPs are equal and essential partners in the education process.
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
They Walk Among Us, In the News, and Enjoy
They Walk Among Us - Believe it or do not believe it! In the News - Ripped from today's headlines! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
Friday, April 19, 2013
They Walk Among Us!
They Walk Among Us! - Media critic and social analyst Mark Dice shows how people are literally in a trance as he gets trendy liberals in California to sign a petition banning their birthrights. Some of these people were not just in a trance and nodded their head as they expressed vehement support for repealing the Second Amendment and enacting door to door gun confiscation. The following clip is a stark reminder of how our liberties are in peril and how many Americans are part of a cult of authoritarians masquerading as liberals.
Now for some fun!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
They walk among us!
They walk among us! - Recently, Infowars reporter Lee Ann McAdoo was able to find people that were willing to sign a petition calling for the outright ban of dihydrogen monoxide (water).
Thursday, April 04, 2013
They Walk Among Us and Reasons to Vote GOP in 2014
They Walk Among Us - These are outstanding examples of why there should be mandatory minimum IQ standards imposed on candidates for public office:
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO): "I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available." (April 2, 2013, Denver Post forum)
CO Democrat Doesn't Understand High-Capacity Magazines Can Be Reloaded
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) strikes again and insults a senior citizen concerned about how he is supposed to defend himself against criminals who have high-capacity magazines if they are banned. She says to wait for the police and otherwise he'd "probably be dead anyway."
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "And I told the story about two conversations I had. The first conversation was when Michelle came back from doing some campaigning out in rural Iowa. And we were sitting at dinner, and she had been to like a big county, a lot of driving out there, a lot of farmland. And she said, if I was living out in a farm in Iowa, I'd probably want a gun, too. If somebody just drives up into your driveway and you're not home -- you don't know who these people are and you don't know how long it's going to take for the sheriffs to respond. I can see why you'd want some guns for protection. That's one conversation."
Gun Control - then Tyranny, Camps, Police State, Death:
Some good reasons to vote GOP in 2014