Ride for Sight 2010 is approaching!

Greetings everyone, the time is coming near for the 2010 Ride for Sight to raise funds for the Friends For Blindness, which will be held on June 25th-27th, 2010. The ride will go from Woodbine Raceway to this years great venue in Mosport Intl. Raceway .

As a team, we are still far from our goal and I implore you to reach deep for this great cause. As a direct result of the funds that we have raised, medical break-throughs have been made and sight is being restored to those who have fought with degenerative eye disease.

In 2008, our team raised over $37,000, in 2009 we raised just under $40,000. This year our goal is $45,000!

By sponsoring me in the Ride for Sight, you will be contributing to finding a cure for blindness. One hundred percent of funds raised by riders go directly to The Friends for Fighting Blindness, which continues to fund significant research breakthroughs. You can help support me by making a secure online donation using your credit card.

Click on the following link for a secure donation page:

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2527456

Drivers need more recalls than cars do

Do Recalls Really Make Us Safer?
Bad drivers are far more dangerous than bum Toyotas.
Slate.com
By Tom Vanderbilt
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at 6:52 PM ET

Have you heard about the operational crisis in the modern car? Recent news accounts are awash with evidence: cars that suddenly accelerate out of control, that careen through signalized intersections, weave across lanes with fatal consequences, spin wildly into people’s houses, and cannot stop in time to avoid killing (nonjaywalking) pedestrians.

What went wrong with the car in each of these cases? The driver. The recent coverage of the Toyota recall—which has occasioned any number of Do you feel safe driving your Toyota? polls—hints that the single greatest source of danger on the road has become the car itself. The reports have prompted some suggestions that the modern car is too computerized, too complicated. But the reality is that “vehicle factors”—which is how researchers generally classify mechanical malfunctions when assigning crash causality—cause an extremely small number of crashes in this country, coming in well below the leading categories of driver and highway factors. (Injury-reduction professionals, I should note, would rarely cite a single factor in determining the cause of a crash, preferring a matrix approach that examines how the various factors intermingle. An icy road or a speeding driver or faulty steering in and of themselves do not guarantee a crash or an injury, but each of those factors may come into play.)

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What is wrong with you??

Seriously Drivers…what the hell is wrong with you??

What makes your need to shave a few minutes of time off your commute worth endangering the lives of those around you? You have no respect for other drivers, you sure as hell don’t have any respect or regard for motorcycles, and in fact loath them even though that motorcyclist riding near you has done NOTHING to you personally…actually, you have no respect for yourselves or your own life either.

You talk on your cell phones, eat, shave and even paint your damn toe-nails while driving. You pay more attention to everything else but the task of driving! What the hell is wrong with you? Driving is the most dangerous thing you do every day and you don’t give a damn. You don’t take it seriously and take it for granted.

All you care about is shaving a few minutes off your drive. Obviously the lives you put at risk means nothing to you. You don’t bother to stop and think about your own life either, or your family, or the families of the people you may injure; husbands, wives, sons and daughters. Human beings for Christ’s sake! Not that you care…you care only for yourself…getting home a few minutes sooner. Maybe you will give a damn when it’s your child who is clinging to life in a hospital bed because someone else was careless or inattentive behind the wheel. You drive around in thousands of pounds of steel like a child playing with daddies gun, without any damn clue or understanding of the possible consequences.

Our roads are suffering from a disease and much like a cancer, that disease is killing us. Call it ignorance…call it complacency…call it not giving a damn. It IS curable though. Through education and training, our roads CAN become safer. Safer roads start with safer drivers…that means YOU!

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