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If a team of MBA’s were given full power to ransack districts I guarantee you’d see significant consolidation and significant cost efficiency. There is so much money ****ed away with upper management in both large and small districts in Michigan. Each of these micro-districts has a full panel of...

That’s how my state does it; Michigan contributes to the per-pupil foundation allowance based on the contribution ability of the district. “Proposal A” back in the 90’s did a decent job flattening the disparity. It’s definitely not perfect; the worst funding per-pupil is found in rural...

Wow that’s quite a deranged response. Please know that the State of California is NOT representative of the entire United States of America. There are forty nine (49) other States. My remark still holds true. Check out this remark: speeding is a victimless crime. Discuss. I think I should get...

I didn’t realize that we were only referring to alcohol related fatal motor vehicle crashes in California; did I miss something? Sure seems like even with 38% that alcohol related fatals are still behind speeding, careless/ reckless, and distracted driving. Four out of five people can see that...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is there which explains the Ph.D. count. Lots of Russian-spy infiltration issues. You’d be surprised how many Russians are/were married to ORNL employees that they met while on an “exchange” program during the Cold War. They were 10/10 beauties who acted as...

The problem with that analogy is that if one shoots into a crowd it is very likely that someone will be hit; a victim. If someone is 0.01 over or 0.30 over the legal limit goes for a ride it is not remotely close that someone will be a victim versus the crowd-shooter. Thus it would be quite an...

bflynn That is what drives me crazy. It takes an incredible amount of time and money to defend oneself over an entirely questionable event. She was either impaired or not; these FST’s split hairs. Again, this is where good discretion pays dividends. If I was that guys FTO I would have slapped...

Your anecdote of one individual isolated incident had a victim out of thousands of similar matters that had no “victim”. So do we uniformly slam the book on anyone convicted of operating while impaired? If you were a juror in a trial regarding a DUI arrest would you prejudge the defendant based...

Hah that’s because that trooper is being “that guy”. The entire DUI arrest timeline takes an average (small town) flat foot several hours. Yeah, the Alcohol Enforcement Team dudes and dudettes are much more efficient but it’s quite time consuming to do every step by-the-book as attorneys eat up...

Thankfully Michigan does not allow DUI checkpoints; it’s too much of an intrusion. The US Supreme Court doesn’t agree. I’ve never been part of a DUI rodeo so I don’t know much on DUI checkpoints.

I agree; a lot of this could be handled much quicker without doing the FST charades. You would think that after decades of DUI enforcement that there would be further scientific advances. Why are we still using the dinosaur BAC Datamasters? You’d think that the PBT technology would have...

I have worked over 20 years in public safety as a firefighter/paramedic/police officer and I still feel that way. Yes, there are obvious exceptions; if there is injury involved it’s no longer “victimless”. It’s just my generalization of the entire DUI realm. Apples to apples, DUI involved...

DUI arrests are money making machines. $15-20k spent for a victimless crime. All that money goes to the court, the attorneys, the alcohol addiction & treatment Centers, and victim compensation funds. On the other hand, driving around under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs is not acceptable...

I guarantee that a cadre of FAA LEAP Special Agents along with NCIS will be meeting this Giancolo character.

I had to make that comment to stir the pot. It’s good for the advertisers. Yes, neither the USA or Canada will deny entry to their own citizen or (in almost all cases) a legal permanent resident. Here is some worthless info: from a legal perspective, US citizens are not inspected at a US Port...

I know the land border is just giving people a brow beating. If you hold both nationalities then you’re theoretically fine. Biz or pleasure trip?

Mooney.

I’m not sure if he still runs this way but I’m sure he does: President Trump does not use electronic mail. I found that to be quite shocking when I saw that sworn testimony under oath during a 2016 deposition. Compare this to his predecessor President Obama who was wildly obsessed with his...

I was told by a scientist that too much alcohol content applied rapidly could possible form a “shell” around said virus thus possibly not work as intended. Regardless, my de-watering operation leads to more volume of concentrated solution that I can use to make potions for cleaning my CPAP and...

Everclear 150 proof is like $40. I can get 100 proof rot gut vodka for $11 per 1.75 Litre. Mix it overnight with some 3A molecular sieve and it’ll bump up the ethyl alcohol concentration from 50 to at least 65%. You can run it again with fresh sieve beads to dewater it some more. The sieve beads...