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Helloooo, police state.

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Cop cars too?

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“Mini-me”

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Does this mean forever? Never heard this guys and before

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Is this all states?

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Deval Patrick bans cars on the road?!

Of course he doesn’t mean repeat offender drunk drivers who are illegal aliens.

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Not forever. It’s a storm thing.

Time to break out the snow mobiles and make a run past the Guard. But staying OFF the road! lol

Be nice and give them some treats like hot chocolate and ask if they need anything. Likely to make some friends or at least get slack from them.

Then ride like there is no tomorrow. Yeee Hah!

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I know somebody who shoveled snow today without checking first the DHS guidelines for safe snow shoveling. Is that somebody now a criminal?

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Anonymous, Of course he is! Here’s the one part test to see if you are a criminal in the USA today:

1: Are you alive?

If yes then you are certainly a criminal, we just haven’t picked which law to eff you with yet.

While being dead does not disqualify you from being a criminal nowdays it does increase your chances of voting Democrat for the rest of eternity.

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This is the smartest, most sensible, practical thing Deval Patrick has ever done in his life. Hard to believe the idiot thunk of it….

This is an emergency, folk. As in E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y. The police, Natl Guard, first responders, etc. will have enough on their hands without having to deal with fools stuck in a snow drift, calling on their cell phones for a team of St. Bernards to rescue them.

This will take care of the idiots in Massachusetts, of which there are way too many.
….Lady in Red

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Roll up your windows:
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/window.jpg?w=640&h=478

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Noooo, @LIR. If we go down the path of “anti-idiocy” laws–wait, we have!–then our freedoms are gone.

It isn’t specifically spelled out in the Constitution, but we have the right to be bloomin’ idiots if we want to be. The results of that are called “consequences”, and it’s how we learn and mature.

Otherwise we remain eternal toddlers, having our bottoms wiped for us by all those dear, loving nannies in our government.

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Maryfrom Marin…. Many first responders have died or been injured trying to save idiots from their stupidity: flood, hurricanes, on top of mountains without overcoats.

This won’t stop the idiots, completely, but it might slow them down. This really is state of emergency, having nothing to do with the Constitution. ….Lady in Red

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Smart people stay home.

Stupid people go out.

What exactly is wrong with thinning the herd? Or is Patrick afraid it will only affect his voter base?

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I particularly hope the Dembot lefty Massholes get put through extreme hardship and suffering in this storm.

Nowhere to “Pahk theah cahhs”

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Let’s ban everything, except abortion. It would be the smartest, most sensible, practical thing ever.

We live in a permanent state of emergency, folk. As in E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y. The police, Natl Guard, first responders, etc. will have enough on their hands without having to deal with The People.

This will take care of all the idiots in America, of which there are way too many.
….Moron in Red

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sorry dear you will have to have that baby at home

I cannot drive you to the hospital

daddy done tole me I can’t

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And, Fur, what if you *don’t* have any of those things, but just manage to block off cruisers and plows and ambulances because you’re an ass?

Frankly, I think it’s the only sensible thing I’ve ever seen the present idiot gov’r of Massachusetts do.

Do you know of a single natural disaster where all people responded prudently, without someone whining for help as he sat on the roof of his house, as it floated downstream?

Natural disasters are special. Roads need to be cleared, fast, and without traffic. Emergency crews need to respond to outages… Stop thinking like an damn ideologue.

(And, btw, I ain’t thinking of an Obama-inspired state of national emergency….) …Lady in Red

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Diann, I found that to be true even on a smaller scale.

I was given a set of tire chains for my truck back in the mid 90s. Having lived in Wis. for some years I knew how to use them.

We MAY get one whole day per Winter we can use them here in Big D. Usually just a few hours.

Thing is – I would be the only one with great stopping ability. Everyone else would be sliding into me and doing even more damage than if I had no chains since my truck would resist being pushed.

It’s not completely a joke in this area when we say: If you don’t like the weather just wait a minute. It’ll change.

So I keep my pantry full, my generator working and don’t worry about going anywhere unless it’s a life or death emergency. You’re usually good to go pretty soon.

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@LIR–

You cannot legislate against idiocy. That’s just…just…idiotic. Following that line of reasoning, your comments are now illegal.

And are you really saying that the Constitution can be suspended in a state of emergency? I didn’t realize that you worked for the Obama administration.

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They don’t call him -Devil Patrick- for nothing.

BTW, it was David Axelrod who got that boy elected in Massachusetts. Thanks for nothing.

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Ban all cars off the road, because of a minor snow day?

Idiocy.

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Too much snow? Try BRAWNDO, it’s got electrolytes and electrolytes is what snow craves!

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Think, Fur!

It was one thing when Chris Christie called a halt to nighttime rescue of folk stranded in their homes, refusing to risk safety workers lives (and money) to help the folk who should have been winning Darwin Awards instead of costing the taxpayer. That was private idiocy.

It’s a damn bit different when the Darwin Award winners-to-be are preventing roads from being cleared, emergency workers getting through…. Lots and lots of innocent — prepared — folk can suffer and beaucoup bucks wasted because someone didn’t realize it would get “that bad….so fast!”

Pshaw! Who’d a thunk it?

The idiot who skids into an abutment on the Mystic River bridge and cuts off crews for hours and hours and hours costs time, money and puts the lives of others at risk.

But, hell, Fur, you just run with the same ole kneejerk meme…. But, remember: the same ole meme doesn’t spark the ole brain cells the way real thinking does. …..Lady in Red

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@old_oaks I say it’s past time to start investing in Brawndo.

Since Idiocracy has come to pass I’d say investing in it is a ‘no brainer’.

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The irony of a self admitted murderer of two of her own children advocating for policies to protect the innocent is a bit surreal.

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@LIR–

Scroll up and read what @dapenguin posted. It’s germane, but you are not addressing it.

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater (no pun intended) is a very bad idea. Anti-idiocy laws do not make distinctions between idiots and genuine needs. Stop one, stop them all.

We need less laws and more common sense. Not the reverse.

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@ Brian

Thank you.

I think I was the only one posting on the wrong threads lately and you’ve broken my streak.

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Ohhh I see where I was wrong.

Sorry Brian, my bad.

My streak of wrong threads stands. And my count of stupid posts rises.

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Dadof3…thanks for the smile.

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@Dadof3–

If we kept a count of stupid posts, it would be an even more illuminating cloud than what BFH has for the Bullpen.

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Nah, MaryfromMarin…. I thought my answer to dapenquin was an implied given:

When you have three feet of fallen snow, 75 mph winds, and snow drifts as high as….?

…you *don’t* drive your wife to the hospital!!

You call 911, wait for an ambulance and hope that some ass has not spun out on a bridge, crashed his car, hanging, waiting to fall on the lower bridge story, emergency crews are waiting for a crane and….

This “emergency” measure will be in force until roads are clear. And it will make it easier to get them clear faster.

*And* respond to the medical and other emergencies that come up, in the meantime.

When I think of the possibility that, in this wild and wooly situation, someone needing to get someone to the hospital — for any reason — might actually go out to the garage, start the engine and try to make it — seriously?! — I’m reminded about why *I* think the fine (and one year in jail for The Really Special Idiots) was thunked up in the first place.

…Lady in Red

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@LIR–

The assumption that emergency vehicles will always be safer than someone’s personal, winter-ready vehicle (if the emergency vehicles are even available at all) is not a given, logically. Stick with logic, and take the credible exceptions into account. Black and white thinking is a waste of time.

Not everyone is an idiot on the road. Not everyone who lives in areas where it snows is utterly incapable of driving through said snow. Or are you claiming that only government employees are capable of navigating safely through winter weather?

I try my best NOT to make idiotic decisions, by using common sense, experience, and consideration for others [and fail often, as we all do, and then learn from that]. But I want to be free to make those assessments for myself, based on what I encounter. Nobody else will know just exactly what I am facing at any particular moment.

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I got a 4 wheel locker and Ima gonna use it.

I’m in charge.

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@LIR, it sounds like you’re in MA.
As if the Kennedys, Lizzy “Pow Wow ” Warren, Tom Brady’s unsportmanlike wife, and the general arrogant tone of the state weren’t enough reasons to not like MA.
Enjoy the climate change.

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Well, there’s at least one thing I can say about LiR – she’s got a lot of support from the folks here.

(/sarc)

I have lived through many storms here in Illinois. I decide when I can and cannot drive. It’s called Intelligence. People have to weigh the consequences according to their own situations. It’s called FREEDOM.

Calling an all out ban on driving BEFORE the storm becomes incredibly HUGE is just incredibly STUPID and an affront to freedom. Here in Illinois (even WITH the shithead Leftists) they give Driving WARNINGS, not commands and fines.

The MA governor overstepped. JMHO as a LIFE LONG (62 years) snow storm Veteran. I survived every Illinois snow storm since ’67. When necessary, I did NOT drive. When necessary, I did. It’s called Freedom of Choice. America USED to have that.

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Well.

You folk certainly are a tribe. (And, no, I don’t live in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, although I did, once…. And, I still kinda like ole ‘Liz Warren, am hoping she doesn’t get swallowed by the Dems; she is very smart and a great asset to break up the big banks…)

Let’s see. Does this “tribe” realize govt’s all over NE ordered roads closed? Yesh! Do you know what happens if you attempt to travel on a road closed by emergency: bad things!

Do you feel your “common sense,” right-to-be-an-idiot Constitutional rights are violated when you’re arrested for crossing beyond a crime scene tape?

And, the biggie: do you feel your Constitutional rights are violated when you are patted down and your luggage ransacked at an airport TSA checkpoint?

And, beyond whining about Deval Patrick, what, exactly, are you doing about any of it?

(And, *I* would sign up for an assault on the TSA. Or, the Fed!)

You folk are all so damn unthinkingly kneejerk! Whiny, but soo funny. Exercise!

…..Lady in Red

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