Bullying a Bully

Not really but it sounded good.

Wednesday morning was spent in my favorite city, Bugusta. Spent with some minions who wear guns and badges and have authority over shit they know nothing about. Yes, you are correct in assuming I'm talking about our State Police and the Dept. of Public Safety. Which in itself could be construed as a bad day, but not this day.

Over the past couple of years a "conversation" has been ongoing between those that know and those that don't. The authorities are virtually clueless when it comes to our hobby and finally they have reached out to those that know our hobby. Having been chosen as one of those, I am amazed that over a year ago the conversation started and has taken this long to get to the 2nd part of that conversation.

The bright spot to our present administration and at times its like polishing a turd to find it, is the mandate of deregulation. That means less is better according to the minions. The Less part is dropping some bullshit from the "Hallowed Book of Pain and Suffering", otherwise known as the State Inspection Manual, that will take out non-safety related items and adjust some safety related items in our favor.

We are now in the process of tweaking it just a tad so that these changes are worded to our benefit and will take effect sometime this year. The art of clarification and speed reading is not the strongest suit in any political system but the process of translation from politispeak to English back to politispeak is really slow in our state with this little department called the Revisers Office. These guys could look at a spaghetti dinner and think its the new DOT plan for I-295. Don't hold your breath waiting for this plan to happen.

At the least they looked to the hobbyists for advice and took our opinions seriously. It could happen this year, but do we really want to poke the turd with our finger to hurry it along.