[Sca-cooks] Drinking laws
Martin G. Diehl
mdiehl at nac.net
Fri Nov 19 04:27:32 PST 2004
"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>
> At 09:02 PM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Even more important, why not give drivers random IQ
> > > >tests?
> > >
> > > I like it! Can we have a mandatory sobriety and IQ
> > > test before becoming parents?
> >
> >I dono ... can we require a sobriety test of underage
> > people?
>
> I don't see why not. Are you any more or less drunk
> because of when your birthday is?
Sometimes ... on the day of ... <g>
As to requiring a test ... the prerequisite for that would
be that many people admit the problem exists. Not forgetting
that too many people believe in effect and cause ... i.e.
thinking about a problem causes it. ... and we think we have
advanced since the Little Renaissance of the 1200's.
Extra credit reading assignment ...
Gimpel, Jean; "Medieval Machine: the Industrial Revolution
of the Middle Ages"; Hardcover; Publisher: Barnes & Noble
(2003); ISBN: 0760735832
Or ... Paperback: 274 pages; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston; 1st ed edition (1976); ISBN: 0030146364
I have in mind ch. 8: "Reason, Mathematics and Science"
(Abelard, Bernard of Chartres, Thierry of Chartres,
Roger Bacon, his mentor Robert Grosssetete);
and ch. 9: The End of an Era".
> (BTW, I got carded the other day- it shocked me, but it
> was just annoying, not flattering. The checker was plain
> rude about it, especially when my mouth fell open and I
> could barely stammer out 'but I turn 40 next week!')
That would be like the police officer who (after many
questions) made one last request that I recite the alphabet
... beginning with "Z" ...
It was late, I had been tired (but was now wide awake, and
well-focused to the task at hand). I thought of asking,
"Is it true that they print the alphabet on the
back of the Miranda card? Should I wait until
you get it out."
It's a good thing (TM) that I saved that idea for times
like this. ... Oh yeah -- the officer wasn't pleased when
I did what he asked.
> > > (Mind you, many of us wouldn't be here...)
> >
> >Any estimates of where we would be instead?
>
> In Ohio. Under a pile of uncounted provisional ballots.
ROTFLMAOWTIME
> 'Lainie
> The penalty good men pay for not being interested in
> politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
> -- Plato
Of my ... in fact Ouch!
--
Martin G. Diehl
http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=MGD
Reality: That which remains after you stop thinking about it.
inspired by P. K. Dick
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