Posts Tagged ‘MADD’
THIS IS NO YOLK!
Written by Troglodad
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 07:52
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If you live in the Louisville metropolitan area, there’s a good chance you know who Jim "Danger Boy" Bulleit is. There’s a chance that you watch his wacky morning newscasts on WLKY-32.

Well, you used to.

For myself, I looked forward to the zany antics Mr. Bulleit brings to morning broadcasts- especially since they ditched that ditsy Abby Miller and jolly Paul Moses, and replaced them with a corpse- like John Boel.

I don’t care much for John Boel. Especially when he was so smug and arrogant and condescending during his anchoring of the evening news on WLKY. Of course, that was before he got arrested and demoted.

Yeah, that whacky Boel decided to do him some drunk driving.

I’ll give WLKY credit, they did report their anchor's arrest and even ran his mugshot. But, I’m going to guess they’re co-owned by F.A.D.D. (formerly against drunk driving), because Boel’s punishment for endangering innocent lives was to be moved to the morning newscast.

Oh, the humanity! Not the morning newscast! Why am I going on about this now? Well, once before, I commented on how no one really seems to get MADD anymore about drunks.

That was when I was horrified at the lack of response to Page Grable’s murder of a classmate while drunk driving and the lack of response to a former drunk driver running for the Jeffersonville City Court Judge.

My point is that when I was in High School, MADD was enraged and preaching the evils of drunk driving with all the zealousness of a Sunday revival. But, Page Grable was released less than a year after murdering someone with her deadly weapon/car. And now we have John zomBoe, who, admittedly, didn't kill anyone, but was nonetheless taking risks with other people's lives and was merely moved to a different time slot.

But what has this got to do with the lovable buffoon Jim Bulleit?

Well, Bulleit was arrested after allegedly pocketing four candy eggs. For that, he gets taken off the air. No one could have died from his theft. Heck, no one could have even suffered malnutrition. But he’s off.

This of course isn’t SADD (Somewhat Against Drunk Driving)’s fault. It isn’t John "One for the Road" Boel’s fault.

No, I blame it on society. The same society that voted an admitted drug using, no-experience, possibly-illegal alien into the White House on a bunch of empty promises. We have some pretty mixed up priorities in this country, and if we keep on going like this, we’re going to end up with egg on our face.

 
MADD- or just Mildly Annoyed?
Written by Troglodad
Thursday, 08 November 2007 16:17
14 Comments

Editor's Note: This commentary is cross posted at MyVoiceNews.com.

Back in the 1980s, I remember MADD being just about everywhere, pushing their message that drunk driving is wrong, that it kills. I totally agreed with them.

But somehow, over the years, the mad in MADD seems to have lost its temper, literally: I just don't hear anything from MADD anymore.

Case in point, the story of Paige Grable. Paige was a senior at Providence High School, in Clarksville, Ind. One night, she decided to indulge in some underage drinking, as so many her age do. Alas, on the way home, Paige struck another car, carrying a classmate. As is so often the case, Paige survived and her classmate died.

She ended up getting sentenced to only 15 months in jail or the offense.

Then, just a week ago, there was talk of her being released early- because in only a few months of prison, she had earned her GED and her High School diploma. Apparently, these benchmarks qualify her for her for early release.

Skipping over the wrongness of letting killers out of jail because after they get caught they want to be good, my question is, "Where was MADD?" Why no statement from MADD, voicing their opinion? I sure didn't see anything in the news about MADD's view on the case.

Similarly, there was an even more troubling story concerning the recent election for the Jeffersonville City Court Judge. The previous Judge, Vickie Carmichael-D, was elected to the Clark Superior Court #1 in 2006. A replacement was appointed, local attorney and former prosecutor Scott Lewis-R. After the primaries, Mr. Lewis faced a single opponent, Ken Pierce-D, a slightly younger attorney. While not formerly a Prosecutor, Mr. Pierce did have a familiarity with the City Court- he'd been convicted there for Public Intoxication. The conviction was part of a plea deal in a drunken driving arrest.

After Mr. Lewis's campaign sent out a very tacky postcard, pointing out Pierce's prior conviction, folks began whining about how he (Pierce) "made a mistake"; "he's learned from his mistakes"; "he's man enough to admit he made a mistake" etc. etc.

Blagh.

I know there will always be idiots who don't care that former criminals run for office. Heck, at least half the elected officials in this country undoubtedly have committed some kind of crime. But where's MADD?

If I went to a MADD drunk driving educational presentation and pointed out that the drivers who killed the MADD founders' kids just "made a mistake" and we shouldn't hold it against them, I'd probably be lynched.

Aw well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I think I'll go get me one of those cool beer can hats and hit the road with a six pack. After all, everybody makes mistakes.