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MADD’s Second Failure

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Lately there has been a lot of talk about the successes of Mothers Against Drunk Driving or MADD. Why is MADD not a potent political factor any more?

Besides, their successes at eliminating drunk driving making their organization obsolete, their failures at preserving the National Maximum Speed Limit have been under reported.

Well, a lot their failure as an organization was their disastrous campaign to preserve the National 55 MPH speed limit. Their Save the National 55 Speed Limit campaign became their focus of the organization and it was a focus that may have felt noble to its members but it was one that was not popular with the public.

Motorists like driving fast on the expressways. MADD for years pushed for tougher penalties against speeders, they were outright rebuffed in conservative states and in liberal states, the tougher penalties still were widely ignored. Motorists ignored the law and judges for the most part rarely gave tickets beyond the mandatory minimum. Radar detectors and CB radios allowed people to rat out the bears.

So no, MADD wasn’t a success at their second campaign that went up strongly against motorists desires for faster driving, even if they’re first campaign was quite sucessful.

Another cloudy and gray day before yet another dire emergency snowstorm ☁️

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In a little bit I’ll ride my mountain bike to Wally World and stock up on groceries before the hordes of people go racing in to beat the Dire Emergency Snowstorm Homeland Extreme Disaster.

Yesterday I spent most of the day at home, 🌬️ l made pea soup 🥣 and some homemade bread, emptied out the compost, did a little cleaning and a lot of reading and watching YouTube. I’ve not been great about reading, but in part because I’ve spent so much time studying dealer stragety and various pros-and-cons of trucks. Next Sunday is March, I’ll be studying the manufacturer incentives then to know what’s avaliable when they are released. 🔎 Then probably that following Monday, I’ll run over a car dealership to look at and test drive a truck before heading into work. 🤝 I don’t want it to be all day thing,  I’d much rather negogate and study options over the phone with the Internet Sales Manager then in a dealership, but I want to test drive at least one truck before I lay down a deposit. I would like to close the deal out during the month of March, but if I don’t find the truck I want at the price I’m willing to pay, I can go longer – but I also do want to get a truck so I can order a cap for it relatively soon.

With that wind, I decided not to go to Walmart, 🛒 but soon this morning, I will hop on my bike and ride over shortly. Just to stock up before the crowds and get some exercise in. I am not expecting much snow today, but probably tomorrow will be quite snowy. Tuesday morning before work I’ll head down to the laundromat. As bus it in, I don’t expect the snow storm will have much of an impact on my commute, maybe if it’s really bad they’ll close the office 🏢 but whatever. If the shuttle does not run, there is always the local bus to catch. I guess if the office is closed, then I can do my laundry tomorrow afternoon once the snow let’s up. Still it’s not good for riding to work on bike trail any time soon, though I still think we will see more snow melting with March soon enough underway. Maybe walk around the Schiffenberg Preserve for a while, or maybe go out to Five Rivers later in the day. 🐦 But I don’t have any real plans for today as of now. Maybe make some cornbread up to go with the pea soup, 🥘 sleep and read a bit.