Lawmaker Proposes Doing Away With Driver’s Licenses

A state lawmaker from Marietta is sponsoring a bill that seeks to do away with Georgia driver’s licenses.

State Rep. Bobby Franklin, R-Marietta, has filed House Bill 7, calling it the “Right to Travel Act.”

In his bill, Franklin states, “Free people have a common law and constitutional right to travel on the roads and highways that are provided by their government for that purpose. Licensing of drivers cannot be required of free people, because taking on the restrictions of a license requires the surrender of an inalienable right.”

Franklin told CBS Atlanta News that driver’s licenses are a throw back to oppressive times. “Agents of the state demanding your papers,” he said. “We’re getting that way here.”

CBS Atlanta’s Rebekka Schramm asked Franklin, “How are we going to keep up with who’s who and who’s on the roads and who’s not supposed to be on the roads?”

“That’s a great question,” Franklin said. “And I would have to answer that with a question, ‘Why do you need to know who’s who?’”

“What about 12-14-year-olds who want to drive? What would stop them?” Schramm asked.

“Well, what’s stopping them now anyway?” Franklin answered.

Full Article @ CBSAtlanta.com

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Bag of Randomness

  • I guess the NFL had no idea that the Super Bowl was going to be played on Hoth.
  • I hope no more then ten of my readers had to Google “Hoth.”
  • One of my first thoughts when it gets drastically cold is of the homeless, the povern, and the stray animals.
  • I’ve never tried any of those 5-Hour Energy drinks and really don’t have a desire to.
  • Media Day at the Super Bowl sure seemed like a let down this year.
  • But I did laugh at the Packer who answered the question, “What’s the state flower of Texas?” with “Cauliflower0.”
  • Some locals were upset that the team buses were lead to Media Day by sandtrucks and were wanting the North Texas Super Bowl Committee or whatever they are called to reimburse the cost.  I found that silly considering they were sanding roads that needed sanded and the amount of money those teams were bringing to the area.
  • A decent amount of attention is being paid to Tom Landry for his NFL influence and indirectly being responsible for bringing the Super Bowl to North Texas, but I think late local native Lamar Hunt should be in the spotlight more considering he not only came up with the name “Super Bowl” but was a major player in joining the AFL and NFL.
  • Hunt was also responsible for the use of Roman numeral for the Super Bowls.  Because of him, I fell a bit more educated.
  • A former Baywatch beauty is going to climb Mt Ararat to hunt for Noah’s Ark.
  • It appears a U2 album will be out this May.
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Board Game
  • Posting pics online, especially with the camera in your phone might be more revealing than what you thought, heck, even Adam Savage fell for it.  (Thanks, Doug)
  • An interesting Star Wars picture regarding Cloud City and pizza.
  • Free MP3 music files at library
  • Recipes based on facial features
  • My name takes exception to this rule: I before E except after C – Of the 319 words in The Collaborative International Dictionary of English that contain a combination of cie or cei, 212 words (66%) are exceptions to the rule.
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Cowboys Dumb, Steelers Smart

As a Cowboys fan, I could not wait for my team to get rid of Flozell Adams because he seemed to kill us with penalties, which in turn ruined any momentum the offense seemed to have.  But since he became a Steeler, he’s become a new man.  Look at his last three years with Dallas and his first as a Steeler.

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The last three years as a Cowboy, Adams average 13 penalties but in his first year as a Steeler he only was penalized five times.  So what’s his secret?  A good coaching staff.

Adams has major hearing loss in his right ear, and when he was a Cowboy he played as a left tackle where his bad ear was closest to hearing the quarterback.  Instead of recognizing the problem and moving him to right tackle, the Cowboys just seemed to deal with the problem.  But Pittsburgh on the other hand placed him at right tackle where his good ear would be able to hear the quarterback, and you can see the dramatic results.  Granted, and my football friends can back this up, right and left tackles are more different than one would think considering how you want to protect a quarterback’s blindside and the Steelers were lucky to be in need of replacing their right tackle, but it’s just another example of how inept the Cowboys can be.

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