Tuesday, April 17, 2012

RE:The ban of cell phone while driving

In my classmate's blog, the author discusses why using your cell phone, while driving is dangerous. I have to agree with the author 100 percent. I don't think anyone, no matter how good of a driver you are, should be talking or texting while driving. They're endangering everyone in their paths. It shouldn't matter how fast you're driving either, because you could still injure someone or even end someone's life. The state of Texas should ban all use of cell phones, while operating a motorized vehicle immediately. In my opinion, with this new law, like the author said, we would see a significant change in motor vehicle accidents.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

HOAs prevents drying your clothes outside


Everyone should be allowed to line dry their clothes. Line drying means that you don't put your clothes inside a drying machine. Instead you hang your clothes on a clothesline and let the sun dry it up. According to this article, HOA or Homeowners Association, can give you a fine for doing so. I don't see any reason why the public would be fined for doing such a crime. It's not harming anyone or anything. In fact, it's a good thing because you're not using up your electricity. You're saving yourself money from the electric bills. During the times where drying machines weren't invented yet, people would hang their clothes outside and just let the sun or wind dry it up. It's not fair that the public get fined for doing something that doesn't harm anything. There are some people who are not doing so well financially and need to save some money. They have no other choice, than not to use drying machine, and have to line dry their clothes. Not many people dry their clothes outside anymore because drying machines save you time. The government needs to do something about this fine, because it's not fair for the people who want to dry their clothes the old fashioned way or save some money for their families. According to the article, the author states that Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado and Hawaii approve families for line drying. I agree and support that the state of Texas too, needs to join that group.