NEW FINES STARTING JULY 1, 2008.......YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL!


New Driving Fines for 2008 for State of California

1. Carpool lane - 1st time $1068.50 starting 7/1/08 (The $271 posted on the highway is old). Don't do it again because 2nd time is going to be double. 3rd time triple, and 4th time license suspended.

2. Incorrect lane change - $380. Don't cross the lane on solid lines or intersections.

3. Block intersection - $485

4. Driving on the shoulder - $450

5. Cell phone use in the construction zone. - Double fine as of 07/01/08.
Cell phone use must be 'hands free' while driving.

6. Passengers over 18 not in their seatbelts - both passengers and drivers get tickets .

7. Speeders can only drive 3 miles above the limit.

8. DUI = JAIL (Stays on your driving record for 10 years!)

9. As of 07/01/08 cell phone use must be 'hands free' while driving. Ticket is $285. They will be looking for this like crazy - easy money for police department

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Dear All Sisters,

I have no doubt that the protest was organized by the Chinese government which is infamous in human rights violations and supports of pariah regimes such as N. Korea, Iran, and Sudan. Instead of showing their willingness to at least discuss those issues to improve its int'l image, China chooses to mobilize those willingly brain-washed China-men/women to turn their nationalism into invective against not only Mr. Jack Cafferty at CNN but also a French supermarket chain and Ms. Nancy Pelosy (speaker of the US House of Representative), among others.

From what I've read, Mr. Cafferty had explained that he had been referring to the Chinese government, not to the chinese people. In a democratic society, he rightfully exercised his freedom expressing his opinion without being scrutinized & censord as required in authoritarian China. Looking at the banner displayed by those protesting Chinese nationals, one can easily realize China's culture of its strict control of news reports which can only be favorable to its gov't or else its evil/demon & should not be allowed to exit. It's laughable though, that they are trying to impose the same reporting standard in China to the media in this free country. This wave of anti-Western sentiment is obviously been fueled by Chinese gov't agencies with vigor & with the intent to justify their occupation & crackdown of Tibet & to convince the public that all unfavorable media coverage of the Olympic torch chaos are malicious & untrue.

In light of China's horrendous build-up of its military might, can you perceive a similarity of China's "unpeaceful" rising with that of Hitler's Nazi dictatorship that camouflaged its militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics in August 1936?

Grace Tseng (WI)

-----Original Message-----
From: natwa On Behalf Of Ching-eng Wang
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:19 PM

Subject: [natwa] Support CNN Jack Cafferty
CNN commentator's comments draw protests
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- About 1,500 pro-Chinese demonstrators gathered outside CNN's bureau in Los Angeles on Saturday, demanding that a commentator apologize and be fired from the network over comments critical of China and the U.S. government's relationship with it.

Protesters gathered at CNN's bureau in Los Angeles, California, to demand the firing of Jack Cafferty.

On April 9, Jack Cafferty, a commentator on CNN's "Situation Room," used the term "goons and thugs" in describing the U.S. relationship with China as host Wolf Blitzer compared today's China to that of 20 or 30 years ago.
Cafferty issued a clarification of his remarks Monday, saying the comments referred to the Chinese government, not its people.
In the comments, Cafferty referenced what he called billions of dollars in U.S. debt and trade deficits with China.
"So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed," he said. "I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."
During Saturday's protest, the crowd waved Chinese and American flags, sang songs and chanted "CNN! Liar!"
Los Angeles police said the rally, which ended about noon local time, was peaceful.
A letter taped to a door of the bureau demanded that Cafferty "openly apologize" and be removed from the air permanently, calling the demonstration "only our first step."
"If our demands are not taken seriously, we shall unite more public support to fight against such racial prejudice," said the letter, signed "All the Chinese of the Southwestern U.S."
A second letter slid under the bureau's door criticized CNN's coverage of unrest in Tibet and anti-Chinese protests that have followed the running of the Olympic torch in advance of this summer's games in Beijing.
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Demonstrators in Paris, France; London, England; San Francisco, California; and other cities have attended the torch run, protesting China's human rights record and its crackdown on Tibetans publicly calling for democratic freedoms and self-rule.
A much smaller gathering of about two dozen people protested Saturday outside CNN's corporate offices in Atlanta, Georgia.
In his comments, Cafferty said that he doesn't know whether China is different than it was decades ago but that the United States' relationship with China is.
"We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper.
"We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart."
In addition to Cafferty's clarification, the network issued a statement saying the commentator was referring to China's government, not its people.
"It was not Mr. Cafferty's, nor CNN's intent to cause offense to the Chinese people, and [CNN] would apologize to anyone who has interpreted the comments in this way," the statement said.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned CNN's Beijing bureau chief on Wednesday and said Thursday that the network has not done enough to ease its concerns over the comments. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Irving Last in Los Angeles contributed to this report.