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2011-07-02 Europe

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-07-02 05:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I think its a safe bet that some legislaturers in CA and IL are thinking up how to erect custom booths on the Interstates as well. Converting those welcome plazas and truck weight stations into tax and fee collection offices.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-07-02 08:28|| 2011-07-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "Denmark on Friday approved a decision to re-establish permanent customs checkpoints at its borders"

'Bout damn time. Re-establishing national sovereignty - what a concept!

Next up - tell the EUrocrats to go to hell.

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-02 09:44|| 2011-07-02 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 It came out a while back that leftist political parties throughout Europe had long been intentionally flooding Europe with "immigrants", with the tacit understanding that they would only vote for leftist political parties.

And they overcame the reluctance of EU nations that didn't want an influx by removing all border controls, so they would get flooded anyway.

Finally the Danes have wised up to this scheme. Other nations, now controlled by the right, will likely follow suit, despite bitter protests from the left.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-02 10:00|| 2011-07-02 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 What will happen is companies shipping into Cali will just hire illegal alien drivers, who will be waved through once it's realized they have no papers. Cause we all know you can't ask them for papers or hold them for anything.

I wish I was just being sarcastic but somehow I can see this happening.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-07-02 10:32|| 2011-07-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 P2K: Blago, when he was Illinois governor, floated a proposal to use the I-Pass (like EZ-Pass on the east coast) toll road transponders to track motorists and issue speeding tickets automatically based on when you went past the toll booths.

Fortunately he offered the Senate job around before he could implement the transponder idea.

Posted by Steve White 2011-07-02 11:51|| 2011-07-02 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a tribal highway in OK that has tollbooths. They know how much time it takes legally to travel from entrance to exit booth and do the calculation on speed. If you arrive really 'early' they issue the ticket at the exit booth.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-07-02 12:06|| 2011-07-02 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 They know how much time it takes legally to travel from entrance to exit booth and do the calculation on speed.

My high school calculus teacher used this exact concept, with the Jersey Turnpike as the example, as a teaching exercise.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-07-02 13:24|| 2011-07-02 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 strongly criticized in Europe as violating visa-free travel rules.

Visa free-travel? Part of the Euro borderless, one world kumbaya feng shui horsepucky.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-02 17:45|| 2011-07-02 17:45|| Front Page Top

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