This just in from Maria Shriver

I think the Govenor needs to get over himself. He spoke of his wife in a very demenaing manner. There are better and nicer ways to speak to or to speak of a person. Especailly when its your wife. I'm not saying she's above any kind of law. I just don't feel its right to flex your male "bravado" in public. Why not address other issues like the drought in the San Joaquin Valley, or health care, or homeless children, abused children, abused women. Get over the cell phone issue. There are more pressing things to worry about.

Instead of pretending that she supports the law, which she obviously does not, Shriver should take the opportunity to publicly inform the governor that it is another stupid law causing another contraction of individual liberty. But Shriver won't because she is a member of the liberal elite who exercise hypocricy at will to remain in power. Verizon Wireless apparently has her back, I don't enjoy that kind of juice from them.

I just switched from Verizon Wireless because they were gouging a few bucks every month for a WWW service I never used, not once, for over a year which they said I had probably self initiated when using the phone (whatever in hell that means.) I don't need to WWW on my cell phone, I can't or hear half or see clearly most of what's produced frm it anyway, obviously. I had been a Verizon Wireless customer over six years. The young jackass calling himself a supervisor insisted on offering me credit for just 6 of 14 months or so that I paid for an unused service. I paid $120, a penalty more than they had already gouged me, for an early contract termination.

This is what can happens when the governors wife is caught breaking a stupid law, he retaliates by signing another just a few minute ago.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/14/schwarzenegger-signs-bill-to-crack-down-on-paparazzi/

Gee, how big of her to donate her "old" cell phone.

I think *that's* disgraceful and demeaning. She was caught 3 times disobeying the law. Whether or not you agree with the law is not the point.

I think she should donate 3 times the amount of the ticket to her favorite women's shelter. At least.

So, if I get a ticket can I donate my favorite old used cell-phone to get off the hook?

Leave it to the political elite to take turn an apology into a self-aggrandizement. Maybe we will catch the liberty-hating governor buying ammo online in the future, now that he has outlawed that for the rest of us.

And the list of laws will go on. First they outlaw behaviors of their disliking in your car, and then it will be your house.

The only pleasure a liberty loving individual can have these days is remembering that tyrants and the sycophants of the state often leave this world sans caput. The thought of the current gangsters writ large being tried for their crimes brings some solace. Nothing could be nicer than seeing the war criminals that have wreaked havoc and mass murder in the Middle East, swinging from the gallows. Justice, where art thou?

I can hardly stand being anywhere close to Mz. Schreiver's defence (and I'm not, the Atty. General should issue her a ticket....oh wait, he probably can't write) but, please... you caught her on the cell phone while driving??? Where were these so-called 'news hounds' when her relatives were thwarting justice, bribing politicians or drowning constituents?
Why not follow Pulosi, Boxer or Feinstein around for an hour or two? Afraid of what you might see, Mr. or Mrs. Independent Press?
And, by the way she's partly right. The cell phone law is a joke and a weak excuse for legislation. It should have prohibited "ALL" inattentive/distracted driving. Some people can't drink coffee and handle a vehicle, some talk more than they drive. THOSE folks probably kill more people, cumulatively, over a year than the cell phoners do. Inattentive driving is inattentive driving, no matter, how, with what, by whom, what your gender, political affiliation or putrid family name may be.

If us "regular" folks can get a speeding ticket from a camera at an intersection. I see no reason for Shriver to not receive a ticket from the photographic evidence. I broke the phone law once and answered my phone while I was pulling over to the side of the road to take the call. I still got a ticket as I was stopped at the side of the road talking! My friends always tease me, "if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all."

She's a Kennedy and can do whatever the hell she wants to---they always do. Laws are for non-Kennedy's!

Cell phone stories that make me go Hmm.

"Ammo control moving forward in California
The bill also requires handgun ammunition sales to occur in face-to-face ... "

Good! But it has nothing to do with phoning while driving, though both can be deadly. And my un-favorite governor did not usurp power by force. He was elected. To jump from the frying pan into the fire appears to be a California pre-occupation

I have read this law, the definition of ammunition alone is a clear sign of the authors intent, to display their ignorance. I have to oppose it mostly on principle, it has very little substance. Eventually the courts will step on these laws at the appellate level. They are a clear effort to subvert the 2nd Amendment. After the brakes are put on this fiasco, I wonder what product or activity all of these nimrods are going attempt to pass next. I'm sure they can spread the love to include any reader here.

I want to believe every story here, I just can't. When someone says they have violated the cell phone law once..., it makes me wonder if we're discussing the same one...maybe the reference is to another which I am not aware of yet. On more than one occasion, I have heard some say they never once thought about quiting their job. I had the same reaction then, my response was nothing personal. They usually don't turn into a grenade (or a goat.) My reaction to all such statements was based on merit of the claim and the template of my experience as an amateur human being, nothing else. I don't like the law at all, but I choose not to use it as an excuse to denegrate the police for not exercising "the perpetrators subjective standard of discretion." I am smiling when I say this: If you told the officer that it was your first time, I know exactly what he or she thought of your claim...Hmmmm, just like me.

So it's OK if I continue to floss while driving as long as I do not endanger other drivers? I'm getting quite good at steering with my knees and my dental hygeine is improving while my cell phone usage has gone down and those minutes keep rolling over... it's a win-win.

Had trouble getting this on the Safire archive piece, enjoy.

Hillary let her sodium thiopental Rx expire again:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6880006.ece

I don't know what you are trying to say by posting the Hillary piece on this particular blog. Given our recent discourse it could be a slap in the face or innocently inadvertent. I don't speak in the often cryptic manner you do so to make it clear could you clarify your intent?