Comments on: The fast lane? http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/ Thu, 24 May 2012 03:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ragnar http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2132 ragnar Mon, 12 May 2008 20:14:18 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2132 Jim - you don't think that the Hon. Mary Peters is actually writing anything on her site do you? Jim – you don’t think that the Hon. Mary Peters is actually writing anything on her site do you?

]]> By: LittleDavid http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2100 LittleDavid Mon, 12 May 2008 02:36:12 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2100 Thanks for the link J.R. I've bookmarked it as well. Problem with her site is that it is going to end up being swamped with comments, give it a little time. On that site, the debate should be limited to "credentialed" participants like elected officials and members of transportation committees or something. It does not need to become draconian in limiting access, however she is going to need some method of filtering access or she'll end up spending all of her time on monitoring her blog and neglecting some of her other responsibilities. She is going to have to trust the Constitution. Let our elected and appointed representatives speak for us. Just let the debate by the "elites" be visible to the public. What we need is for our local representatives to start up their own blogs so we can give them hell there. Then local representatives can take the hell we give them to people like the Secretary of Transportation. You can not have a good debate in chaos. Thanks for the link J.R.

I’ve bookmarked it as well.

Problem with her site is that it is going to end up being swamped with comments, give it a little time. On that site, the debate should be limited to “credentialed” participants like elected officials and members of transportation committees or something. It does not need to become draconian in limiting access, however she is going to need some method of filtering access or she’ll end up spending all of her time on monitoring her blog and neglecting some of her other responsibilities.

She is going to have to trust the Constitution. Let our elected and appointed representatives speak for us. Just let the debate by the “elites” be visible to the public.

What we need is for our local representatives to start up their own blogs so we can give them hell there. Then local representatives can take the hell we give them to people like the Secretary of Transportation.

You can not have a good debate in chaos.

]]> By: J.R. http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2085 J.R. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:39:20 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2085 Ragnar, Given that you have a fiancee, I would have thought you'd be a bit more, shall we say, optimistic. But I see a leopard is incapable of changing its spots. Whether it is Obama, Bush, Clinton, McCain, etc....there will always be bureaucrats making bad decisions...however, adding a blog to communicate with the general public for a degree of transparency is a good thing. Ragnar,
Given that you have a fiancee, I would have thought you’d be a bit more, shall we say, optimistic. But I see a leopard is incapable of changing its spots.

Whether it is Obama, Bush, Clinton, McCain, etc….there will always be bureaucrats making bad decisions…however, adding a blog to communicate with the general public for a degree of transparency is a good thing.

]]> By: Ragnar http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2084 Ragnar Sun, 11 May 2008 12:30:42 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2084 Where was her decision to allow unsafe Mexican trucks, and untrained Mexican truck drivers on our roads? (Or her belief that riding a bike is not a form of transportation...?) Is this just another example (a seven year trend...) of putting business first, and American lives second? Where was her decision to allow unsafe Mexican trucks, and untrained Mexican truck drivers on our roads? (Or her belief that riding a bike is not a form of transportation…?)

Is this just another example (a seven year trend…) of putting business first, and American lives second?

]]> By: Henry Ryto http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2081 Henry Ryto Sun, 11 May 2008 04:47:02 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2081 I've bookmarked it. I’ve bookmarked it.

]]> By: Brian Kirwin http://bearingdrift.com/2008/05/10/the-fast-lane/#comment-2061 Brian Kirwin Sat, 10 May 2008 17:00:39 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=320#comment-2061 Wow. What a find! That's a heck of a blog. Wow. What a find! That’s a heck of a blog.

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