“No Idle” Zones… and Auto Stop/Start

Speaking of legislative overkill, here’s a new article at LRC.

A Different Kind Of Distracted Driving
http://alerts.motorists.org/nma-email-newsletter-issue-32/

Excerpt:

A few years ago, all regulatory traffic signs were removed from the city center of Drachten, a Dutch city with a population of about 50,000. Demarcations between roads and sidewalks were also stripped. Despite the free-for-all design, the steady stream of vehicular traffic flowed smoothly, and pedestrians walked the streets safely. “Right of way” became an instinctual process between motorists. Their collective sense of responsibility and consideration created a safe environment.

Der Speigel noted in 2006 that the number of accidents in Drachten “declined dramatically” after the open traffic design was implemented. Other European cities similarly minimized their traffic control systems with positive results.
– See more at: http://alerts.motorists.org/nma-email-newsletter-issue-32/#sthash.KJHdTWuw.dpuf

Clover says, ” If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.”
No – if you have nothing to hide, they will make up something for you to worry about.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-reveals-planting-evidence-lying-part-game/

Hey Eric – did you catch this on Lew Rockwell? ‘My’ Maryland came out even worse than ‘your’ Virginia. Of course I don’t know how – or if – they factored in the 81mph felony law.

Nearly all Americans are niggers. Mostly poor, a few still rich, but in decline. But almost no Americans have lasting wealth any more.

Difference between being rich and having wealth – Chris Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY

Wealth such as it persists here, is held in abstract entities and various fictions. Not personally. Such wealth can be confiscated or redistributed at any time, via Mad Max type economic arenas like New Wall Street. A fool and his life’s work are easily parted, for any number of trivial reasons and trumped up confiscations and co-owner disputes.

If you have wealth, you have it as part of a bidness. And bidness is cynical motley mobs of liars and fools who timidly produce a good or service, all the while looking over your shoulder and scurrying into dark corners to escape all the unknown towering figures up above the rat maze moving cheese to and fro. Closing off one path and opening another.

To buy and sell bidness of importance, means appearing in a battle royale zone of crony capitalist gladiators all slugging it out in the bread and circus arenas of pull.

Today, I have now lived long enough to have heard it all. After today, I will never underestimate the stupidity of bureaucracy and of clovers in general.

I live in Utah. Most of Utah doesn’t require emissions testing on vehicles, but some of the counties around Salt Lake and Provo do require emissions testing. These areas get temperature inversions for most of every winter, which traps air pollution in the cold layer of air near the ground, causing some pretty bad smog. Because of the smog, the EPA has browbeat the state into mandating emissions testing on cars in certain counties (by threatening to pull certain federal grants). I recently moved to one of these counties.

My wife and I are both working right now, and it has been inconvenient with one aging car that is about ready for a comprehensive rebuild (its an Explorer with a truck frame–something you never junk unless it is totaled–always rebuild or sell for parts ’cause with a custom powertrain and custom suspension parts they make awesome off-roaders).

Because I’m tired of the one car issue, on Saturday, I bought an older Jetta GL for cheap. The car is nearly flawless inside and is mechanically flawless, despite 180,000 miles and a fading paint job. I figured it should pass emissions and safety inspection without a problem.

On Monday, I took it into a locally owned quick lube place that does the inspections. It passed safety without a hitch. When they did the emissions test, it failed the visual emissions inspection. The tech looked at the vacuum hose routing sticker for the emissions equipment, but couldn’t find the “air injection pump” (aka smog pump) that was shown on the sticker, nor could he find the hoses that connected the smog pump to a non-existent valve or a non-existent hose bib on the air filter box. They suspected an “illegal” after market engine change. The tech called the county health department’s air quality division, which runs the testing program, but because it was President’s day, nobody answered. The tech sent me home with a fail on the i/m and a number to call.

Today I called the number and talked to a friendly bureaucrat (Utah seems to have a lot of those) that is also an i/m inspection tech. He said to bring it in and he would check it out personally in a way that regular repair facilities cannot (blech). So I take it in and he inspects the car, pulls the vehicle’s history, checks in books, and checks out everything he can think of. I even overheard him call the local Volkswagen dealer and he had them run a VIN check on the car.

After he was all done, he comes out, hands me some paperwork and tells me, “I’ve found your problem. You have the wrong stickers on your car. Your car was made to meet the Federal emissions standards, but was labeled as if it met the California emissions standards. The dealer’s VIN check confirmed that the car was originally built without an air injection system at all.” So my car failed inspection because of the wrong stickers that some poor Jose at the Volkswagen factory in Mexico put on my car.

The bureaucrat went on to tell me that he went ahead and did a full emissions test. He had found that the catalytic converter and O2 sensors were replaced recently enough that the engine computer was still showing a “Not Ready” state for them. He told me to remove the “faulty” stickers, drive it around for several days for the ECM to complete the testing on the new O2 sensors and catalytic converter, then take the emissions paperwork back into the place where I did the original test and they can finish the job. He said if an inspection tech ever complains that I have no emissions labels, the Volkswagen dealer could get me the right ones for a nominal price.

So, my car failed emissions testing because of a “faulty” sticker–as if the sticker changes how the car emits.

Even worse, “Air Injection systems,” which are standard fare for California cars, only run for the first 20-90 seconds immediately after a cold start with a cold ambient air temperature. They inject fresh air into the exhaust manifold, which allows unburned fuel from a cold start to burn off as it travels down the exhaust system. They do absolutely nothing the rest of the time. In most of California, smog pumps hardly ever even run at all because most of California’s ambient air temperature is warm enough that most cars don’t run rich when they cold start.

One more level of lunacy is that these systems often break down easily as exhaust gasses leak back into the pump and valve, foul them, and ruin them.

To top off the lunacy, the valve that controls the system costs around $270-$300 and the smog pump that runs for 20-90 seconds, but only on cold mornings, costs around $600-$700.

To summarize, we have a state (California) that mandates an expensive, failure prone emission control system that is not needed and seldom used to control non-existent emissions in a location where the system will almost never actually operate. The road to hell really is paved with good intentions.

Latest recruitment video for ISIS. Go Gay for Allah, don’t be an infidel.

Status update on all those trillions of tax dollars you’ve spent training the Iraqi Army.

89 year old grandpa goes on tinder dates.

Cat in front of a heater just DGIF

This what happens when you don’t stay safe, and stay in school. You’ve been warned.

Ronald Reagan 1948 Campaign Speech For Democrat Harry Truman

Liberal Democrat Reagan Transcript:

“This is Ronald Reagan speaking to you from Hollywood. You know me as a motion picture actor but tonight I’m just a citizen pretty concerned about the national election next month and more than a little impatient with those promises the Republicans made before they got control of Congress a couple years ago.

I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946. Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House, said very solemnly, and I quote,
“We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions”, unquote.

Remember that promise: a real increase in income for everybody. But what actually happened?

The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers’ wages have increased by only one-quarter. In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages, and the small increase workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices, which have also bored into their savings.

For example, here is an Associate Press Dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York. It seems that Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved up that he could live out his last years without having to worry. But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation, which ate up all of his savings, and so he’s gone back to work. The reason this is news, is Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.
Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948; an increase of 70% in one year. In other words, high prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits.

The Republican promises sounded pretty good in 1946, but what has happened since then, since the 80th Congress took over?

Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA was supposed to bring prices down through “the natural process of free competition”.

Labor has been handcuffed with the vicious Taft-Hartley law.

Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhart bill.

Fair employment practices, which had worked so well during war time, have been abandoned.

Veterans’ pleas for low cost homes have been ignored, and many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages.

Tax-reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher-income brackets alone.

The average worker saved only $1.73 a week.

In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program.

This was the payoff of the Republicans’ promises.
And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States:

Democratic faces…….

Don’t like sail fawners. Wait until you’re surround by Sony and Googul glass-holes next year.

Tens or hundreds of millions of Sony knock offs of Googul glasses will be flooding the world markets next year.

Sony Smart Specs for $840 use ‘holographic wavelength technology’, to superimpose information onto the wearer’s field of view—’without any half mirrors that may obstruct the user’s vision

A separate wired controller clips onto your jacket or shirt collar and houses the battery, speaker, microphone, near- field comms, and touch sensor.

Early application concepts include a step-by-step guide on how to assemble an engine, scrolling in front of the mechanic’s eyes as they work.

Sony also suggested an app to share player stats for viewers watching a sports game, and displaying sightseeing information for visitors of a tourist attraction.

Early developers will have access to a handful of SmartEyeglass apps—available in the Google Play store—which enable access to Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, RSS, calendar, and voice control.

Sony will release its SmartEyeglass headset to consumers sometime in 2016.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2957556/Sony-reveals-840-Glass-rival-Google-admits-smart-specs-don-t-work-sends-version-drawing-board.html

It’s so cold here today even the interweb is running slow.
Started the TDI (after a longer than usual glow plug delay) & the dashboard readout said 3. By the time I got to I-70, it was up to 4, and now at work it’s reading a whopping 8. That’s F, not C.

Get vaccinated, or don’t. It’s your choice under Galt’s law: I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Polio vaccine comes full circle

Controversy: After years of debate, experts choose safer injections over oral vaccines. Baltimore Sun article from 1999.

A generation after children lined up for sugar cubes that promised protection from polio, doctors are returning to injections to prevent rare cases caused by the oral vaccine.

It’s a move that might well have outraged the father of the oral polio vaccine, who argued bitterly against the injected vaccine championed by his scientific rival, Dr. Jonas Salk.

Authorities say the time has come to move away from the oral vaccine in the United States. This call says as much about the vaccine’s success in subduing polio as it does about its little-known danger.

Since the late 1970s, fewer than 12 cases of paralytic polio have occurred each year in this country, a testament to the oral vaccine’s ability to control a disease that crippled a president and put thousands of victims in leg braces and iron lungs. But in a cruel twist, the few cases that still occur are caused by the vaccine itself.

Doctors for many years accepted the risk because the vaccine prevented so many more cases than it caused. When tragedy struck, however, parents were dumbfounded.

“It was devastating and frustrating and ultimately caused me a lot of anger,” said the parent of an 8-year-old boy who contracted polio from a vaccine when he was an infant. “It was like a dirty little secret: Nobody told you there were going to be sacrificial lambs.”

New recommendations have been published, calling for a sequence of two injections followed by two doses of either vaccine. But it is expected the recommendation will soon be an all-out switch to injected vaccines

The injected vaccine is a strengthened version of the original Salk vaccine, hailed as a miracle of science when it was introduced in 1954 — two years after the nation’s worst polio epidemic. Made from killed virus, the vaccine is incapable of causing infection if made correctly.

In contrast, the oral vaccine contains a live, weakened virus that boosts immunity in virtually everyone but, in an unlucky few, triggers the disease.

Polio is a viral infection, spread largely through the intestinal tract, that attacks the nerves that control muscles. In most victims, it causes flu-like symptoms and sometimes a temporary paralysis of the legs or arms. In severe cases, patients are permanently paralyzed.

A half century ago, the merits of injected and oral vaccines were debated, but Salk’s injected form was available first. Almost overnight, the disease that filled hospital wards began to retreat from the U.S. landscape.

The number of new cases declined from more than 50,000 when the vaccine was first introduced to less than 1,000 by 1960. The injected version was replaced in 1962 by the oral vaccine, which held several advantages.

The first was obvious: Children hated shots, but didn’t mind a vaccine that came on a sugar cube or in a squirt of sweet liquid. To scientists, a second reason was perhaps more compelling. People who took the oral vaccine harbored a protective virus that could be passed to others through the environment. As a result, someone who never took the vaccine could become immunized through contact with somebody who did.

But there would be victims.

Vaccination, fast paralysis

David was 6 months old when Salamone and his wife, Kathy, took him to a pediatrician in 1990 for his second polio vaccination. They had no reason to believe the vaccination was anything but routine, even when David developed a fever and a rash two days later.

Two weeks after his doctor’s visit, David woke up one morning paralyzed from the waist down. “He couldn’t turn over,” Salamone said. “He could only move his head back and forth.”

His doctors in Washington were stumped, saying only that he suffered from nerve damage of unknown origin. David’s mother was first to suggest polio; the sequence of events couldn’t be ignored, and David’s symptoms were classic.

“The doctors pooh-poohed her,” said Salamone. “They said it wasn’t possible. They said that because they had never seen a case.”

David regained the use of his left leg but not his right, which became withered. He was fitted for a leg brace, and learned to walk with a wobbly gait that resembles that of “a drunken sailor,” his father said.

Aside from his paralysis, David developed arthritis and an unending series of infections. He lived on antibiotics. Doctors discovered he was born with an immune system disorder that left him defenseless against ordinary viruses. That, they concluded, made him vulnerable to live vaccine.

Only one in 12 million children who take the oral polio vaccine develop the disease from it. A quarter of the unlucky victims are, like David, born with immune disorders that take about a year to emerge. Until then, parents and doctors have no reason to believe the children are at risk.

Vaccines: The real issues in vaccine safety
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110525/full/473436a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

I see problems with road rage when the car shuts down on a hot day in city traffic sitting at a stop light for 2 minutes, leading to overheated motorists. Also increased maintenance costs, as batteries die after starting the car so many times in just a short time. Bigger batteries mean less space under the hood, or in the boot. More problems with cracked aluminum heads as the heat overwhelms them. Inability to move your car after a small accident, such that after such an accident, you won’t be able to move your car out of the road……..

Hell who thinks about shit like this on a hot sunday morn…………………

Just a bunch of mentally retarded public school monkey-children who are told to fear everything including oxidized hydrocarbons…Which is water and CO2…Fear that water and CO2 plant food, fucktards! What did you think Democracy would produce? Just look at the retarded monkey-children in Greece – for it is your future.

Fumiphobia noun: Intense fear and/or hatred of smoking, primarily from cigarettes, cigars and/or pipes.

The fear that smoke is polluting the air, in nearly all cases a limbic system logical hijacking of questionable rationality.

This cloverian terror can be also be triggered by non-tobacco smoke (e.g., vehicular exhaust, bonfire smoke, marijuana smoke, etc.).
http://www.burnasone.org/fumiphobia

A History of Blood and Smoke: The anti-tobacco movement makes a lot of money. They’ve cost thousands of lives over the centuries. Their Orwellian war has cost science its integrity and they have economically crippled empires. For more on the movement, check Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_control_movement

In Germany, Hitler funded one-twelfth of his war machine using tobacco taxation, banning its use on any government property and rationing smokes to soldiers (after the ban didn’t work).

In the Ottoman Empire, tobacco was banned alongside alcohol and coffee. The Sultan personally executed any offenders. His weapon of choice was a mace. Centuries later, smokers would name a brand of cigarettes after him—Murad.

In Russia, the patriarch forbade the sale of tobacco and sentenced men and women who flouted the ban to have their nostrils slit and their backs whipped until skin came off their backs.

In China, tobacco consumption was considered a more heinous crime than that even of neglecting archery.

The Catholic Church threatened excommunication for anyone who took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose.

In modern America (the new Ameri-Reich), tobacco wars are at an all time high, and with matching U.S. tobacco taxation and regulation.

In academia, if a scientist produces any tobacco-findings that are positive, they are attacked on a personal level instead of scientifically rebutted.

Wherever tobacco is banned or where taxation has been too heavily levied, black markets form to supply tobacco… bringing with them gangs, weaponry and every other sort of crime.

The modern anti-smoking movements is nothing new. This latest socially acceptable form of racism and injustice has been practiced for centuries. History doesn’t repeat, but it always rhymes.

We are smokers.
http://www.burnasone.org/fumiphobia
We are one in six living humans on this planet. For centuries we’ve been persecuted. Yet, despite the efforts of institutions, governments and religions… we thrive!

After hundreds of years, it is apparent that the fiends behind the anti-tobacco movement are more dangerous to our health and to the health of the planet than the tobacco itself.

Sadly for these tyrants, we smokers have a tendency for defiance. And we just so happen to be “cool” and have less sexual inhibitions. Needless to say, more smokers are born every day. What sets us apart is our unity as we bum each other smokes and huddle together for warmth or over a cup of coffee. We stand in defiance against those who abuse our rights and the rights of others. We burn as one!

Eric, I think the no idle zones could be due to your Environmental Protection Agency Nazi socialists wishing for a new law, and the “moms against everything” got wind of it. It’s all about “carbon” causing asthma etc, etc.

Hi Eric,

Hat tip to the “dihydrogen monoxide” reference.

Here’s a link to the great Penn and Teller “ban water” bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZRBJYX__E

Jeremy

I bet the Moms who are extremely worried about exposing their children to exhaust from idling cars are the very same ones who joyfully stick toxin laden measles vaccine needles into their babies’ arms.

Besides my same-old commentary:
I wouldn’t mind if HPVs (Human Powered Vehicles) were made to be decent. I grew up in a time where HPVs were being touted as a wave of the future, and the cool shells and varied designs would be OK.
There are REAL limits, however:
-Heating
-A/C
-Cargo carrying
-PET and CHILD transport

Until these are addessed – say, making a huge wheel like the old bicycles had (E.G., Pennyfarthing High-Wheel Bicycles, see http://www.worksmancycles.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/high-wheelers.html) – the entire “Zero Emissions” and “Stop-Start” is a NEGATIVE.
Not that the sort of parasites who live in cities understand that; they don’t mind the squallor, the noise, the encroachment of other people. E.G., getting home last night… 15 minutes waiting for the train – which really means, TWO TRAINS that were supposed to come through, failed to arrive.
After that, I had a nice young woman feeling up my @$$ for the trip to North Station. Meantime, I was dry-humping three people in front of me. On the train this morning, I ended up feeling some woman up, because I couldn’t move my feet… And grabbed for the support bar. Now, I could go to PRISON for that – keep that in mind!

WTF is wrong with these city-folk? Beatrix Potter wrote about it with the country mouse / city mouse story; things have NOT improved since then, UNLESS you count the advent of the automobile. The CESSATION of the need for Pubic Transport (typo intentional).

In the latest storm, the newly-elected asshat, I mean mayor, told everyone to NOT drive, take public transit.
For the last two weeks, it’s been a crapshoot to get a train – and the house has loaded dice. Further, you get to the platform in sub-zero temperatures, and THEN you get a text message the train is delayed… Half an hour. then an hour. then 75 minutes. then it’s cancelled.

Shit for brains! SOME of us actually GO TO WORK!!!
And in sub-zero temperatures, the risk of frostbite and even death are VERY high. As in, uncovered skin will freeze in as little as 15 minutes. And that means blood clots are forming, too, which then can migrate later in the day to your lungs and heart and brain – and cause death and stroke.

For comparison, Mr Shithead Mayor cleared the Patriot’s Parade route – but didn’t clear the areas around the hospitals or the roads to the hospitals. These are level-1 Trauma centers for the area – who would EVER need to get THERE?

And BTW, this is BOSTON, again. BOSTON!!!!! NEW FUCKING ENGLAND WITH HUGE SNOWFALL EVERY F*CKING YEAR!!!!
New Jersey handles snow better. WTF?

If “the ter’rists” nuked every city in the U.S., I think it would be a blessing. (And I’m inside the blast radius of any nuke, so I have a lot to lose. DILLIGAF? As long as the rats are vaporized, it’s a trade I gladly make.)

Funny, though: Greenies (“Watermelons”) are allies of the ter’rists; so are our elected Panders, I mean officials; and there are millions of AMoronCons who support both…. (As well as foreigners, but we’ll leave them out – if we could clean up here, we could deal with those parasites, too. We need cleanup HERE, first.)

They all want to be managers, while we continue to work…

And as IO posted to Facebook today – Americans will wait, and wait, and wait: we have jobs to get to, work to do, and if we don’t go, we don’t get paid – meantime, TPTB ensure the debates are scheduled while we work, in places WITHOUT public transit – de facto denying “the common man” a voice, while ostensibly making it an “open forum.” (But you KNOW they bussed in their “experts” and “common man who supports common sense {whatever} regulations.”)

If we don’t follow my “refrain” SOON, we’ll look up and see that boot in our face…. But by then it will be too late.

“Eckheardt! think about the future! ” -Batman, 1989

Well, Jack Napier and his cronies are running the show, and forcing you out. When you going to take a stand? (and tell me where, offline, so I can be there and help out! But no word of it any other way, or we’ll be infiltrated before it gets off the ground.)

I object strenuously to auto-stop. Sometimes my commute is trouble free, but on other days (like when the ‘instant idiots’ come out) I end up making frequent stops, often very short, as in a few seconds, on the INTERSTATE for goodness sakes. W/o some way to override this feature, I will NOT purchase a vehicle so equipped.
BTW, never call it a freeway. It’s not free, someone’s taxes paid for it.

Here ya go…

Colorado “Puffer” laws:

http://enginesoff.com/2_7_laws_ordinances.htm

“In addition to the laws and ordinances listed above, Colorado Revised Statute 42-4-1206, more commonly known as the “puffer” law, allows law enforcement officers across the state to immediately ticket individuals who have left a vehicle running unattended for any period of time.”

This isn’t just a car parked in a public space. Police can, and do, ticket people who have their car warming up in their driveways, open garages, etc. My boss, who lives in Denver (where all these screwy laws originate), was given a warning after his wife went back inside because she forgot something. Her SUV was parked in the garage with the door up. The cop just walked up to the front door and started lecturing him, ignoring his explanation.

The original reason given for the law is because there was a rash of car thefts on cold mornings. Instead of going after the criminals, the legislature decided to make everyone who needs to run the defroster a criminal.

Of course, Uncle gave his boys an exception: “The idling restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply to emergency vehicles; to vehicles engaged in traffic control operations…”

It is coming…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjNvjURS-s

“Red Barchetta”

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge…

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside