Beep at Speed Cameras

I started Beeping when I pass a speed camera.  Not an angry Lean on the Horn Trumpet or even a full blown Honk, but a little Beep.

I started doing it out of frustration in the hope everyone else would start doing it and the residents would insist the city remove them.  But it turns out to serve as a learning tool and reminder where the cameras are. A little Beep adds a physical action to the mental note of where the camera is.  I've been doing much better avoiding camera tickets.  And the beep makes it fun going past cameras.  It is now a little game.  It's one type of challenge when I am following a line of cars going slow and another challenge when I am the leader of the pack... :)

I do have to admit that some speed cameras make sense - like the one when entering the town of Damascus that gets people to slow at the town edge or the ones in front of schools.  But others, especially the portable ones seem like speed traps set up to generate $$.  Damascus put a portable camera at the extreme border of the town, right were the speed changes from 40 to 30 next to a wooded stretch.  Being a portable camera box it is small and unobtrusive.  An outright speed trap.

I know, technically I should drive the speed limit, but how many people do?  Big brother is watching and I can't afford repeated $40 tolls on my commute.  I respect the ones by schools and really key locations, but the ones on open clear roads that invite you to speed piss me off.  I've been tempted to throw things at them, even fantasized about getting a BB gun to shoot at them.  A Beep relieves my anger and frustration but is not a physical destruction of property.  And it reminds me, slow down here.

Fire Congress and the Senate, Vote against the incumbent.

Fire Congress and the Senate, Vote against the incumbent.

I don't mean vote against Republicans.  I mean vote against every current incumbent.  Change the entire membership of Congress and the senate.

Our lawmakers are holding the American public hostage.  They don't care that they are harming individuals and the entire population.  A minority is trying to force their view point about Obamacare on everyone else.  They are refusing to accept hat Obamacare was voted in by a majority.  They are refusing to allow it to become active, then fix the parts that are not working while keeping the good parts. And they are refusing to abide by the fundamental American concept of majority rule.

You have to also wonder if this is not really an attack on Obama to discredit his presidency, and if so, why the hatred?  Obamacare is a actually modeled on a Massachusetts health bill created by republicans.  So why are republicans against it so vehemently?  Why damage the entire American economy? Why hurt the most vulnerable, the single parents and low income families that are living paycheck to paycheck?

Frankly I am angry at our Congress and Senate.  It is not just the Tea party but the whole kit and caboodle. The American people need to send our political leaders a message.  You work for us.  You have a duty to do it in a moral and fair manner. You have a duty not to hurt people.  And you have to work to the Spirit of the Constitution, not just the letter.

The wonderful thing about our country is that our votes do count.

If you really hate what our federal lawmakers are doing tell them and show them.  Like any corporate boss, we need to watch what our employees are doing and if they screw up and don't do their job, fire them.

Tell your friends to ask themselves, are they happy with our lawmakers?  If not, fire them.

You may have to wait for the next election so also work on your memory.  It can be 6 years before the current senator comes up for Re-election so make sure you remember a long time...

If we all vote against the incumbent for 6 years we will have a clean sweep of our lawmakers and send a very powerful message that Congress and the Senate will remember, at least for a few years....