Puget Ute

Copypasta from the link you posted:

“As far as fines are concerned, the minimum fine that violators of the texting and driving ban have to pay is $70. ”

Again, the problem here is not with actions that involve an accident. Texting is a primary offense in Utah now, with a fine not to exceed $70, when no accident is involved.

If somebody has a…[Read more]

Do people who get a ticket for texting (no accident involved) also get forced to pay SR-22 insurance for a few years? License automatically suspended for 6 months?

Merely texting while driving carries a $70 (max) fine. The big penalties only come into play when the act of texting leads to the driver causing an accident.

If not, then the outcome…[Read more]

Do people who get a ticket for texting (no accident involved) also get forced to pay SR-22 insurance for a few years? License automatically suspended for 6 months?

If not, then the outcome is hardly comparable to somebody having one drink and then blowing a 0.051.

We tried to buy the 4 seats next to us. They replied that we needed to make a $20k CC donation PER SEAT.

I’m not sure who is downvoting us because we aren’t wrong.

I like LK3, but I also am concerned that perhaps he has peaked a bit. And I wouldn’t be too hurt if he did choose to leave, although I would probably miss him in a lot of ways. But I also know we can’t possibly afford to fire him, so we should make the best of it.

The best way to…[Read more]

Yup. Teachers in Utah fight an unwinnable battle, and without a decent wage structure.

My own kids here in WA are very well-prepared for secondary education and beyond, and both of the local high schools they can choose to attend (open enrollment) are in the top 1% in the nation. And the local college (UW) is top 20 in the world in many…[Read more]

Yup. Teachers in Utah fight an unwinnable battle, and without a decent wage structure.

My own kids here in WA are very well-prepared for secondary education, and both of the local high schools they can choose to attend (open enrollment) are in the top 1% in the nation. My child who is a Soph in HS is doing things in his math class that I…[Read more]

I don’t know about that. There are a LOT of sub-120# women who could have one drink with dinner and technically be in violation of the law.

That isn’t exactly marginal, when we are talking about a decent percentage of half of the population.

Of course he is working for his constituents. You can also be one of his constituents if you give him $20k.

Otherwise GTFO.

The CBO breakdown has an interesting dataset.

(This is off the top of my head) A 64 yr old making $24,700/yr currently pays ~$1700 under the ACA. After the ACA is repealed and AHCA goes into effect, that same person will pay $12,600/yr for health care (until turning 65 and going on Medicare).

Meanwhile a 64 yr old person making $1,000,000 per…[Read more]

It is brutal. They might start 2-5 or 3-4.

Good for them. It couldn’t happen to a better bunch of folks.

The culture in Europe includes teaching children how to drink responsibly. My friend from Belgium had a bit of wine (a few ounces) with dinner every night starting around age 12. Everybody in her family and village drinks nearly daily, and yet nobody really binges in any way.

Part of the problem with the alcohol laws in Utah is they encourage…[Read more]

I’m not sure why you think you are scoring points by invoking Obama. I realize the NTSB has been working on this for a number of years. If MADD had their way the legal BAC would be <0.01%.

Sure people between 0.05% and 0.08% are 3 times more likely to get into an accident than somebody with 0% BAC. That sounds like a big number, but that…[Read more]

I hope West Coast Cutthroat will chime in, because he is a great resource.

As somebody who started occasionally drinking in my 40s (had literally a handful of drinks in the 4 decades prior), I also wanted to like wine. I tried some that was poor quality and it turned me off for a few years. I just wasn’t ready for it and my palate wasn’t…[Read more]