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February 1/07
Cobourg Ontario Canada..
On my way to Cobourg, pickup truck loaded with kitchen renovation parts and related stuff..traffic near Port Hope on Ontario Highway 401 came to a sudden stop.
Apparently 20 km further east there had been a serious accident and all traffic east and west on Canada's busiest highway was totally diverted thru small towns and other highways to cope with this mess as well as can be expected.
Because of a sudden snow squall (lake effect snow created by wind blowing east, over the lake Ontartio) on an otherwise clear day a white-out situation created a horrible warlike scene within seconds on a relatively short stretch of road.
The driver of a PC cruiser-driver (car) was unable to see the road ahead and stopped suddenly on the road.
A lumber loaded truck hit this thing. More cars. A fuel truck with 30,ooo gallons of gasoline hit this scene. Then more cars more trucks...,the tanker burst, gasoline lit up more than 30 vehicles...it's a miracle that only two people were killed in this horrible inferno.
The 4-0-1 Highway was closed for more than 24 hours, in both directions. Whatever traffic there was had to be diverted.
Six trucks including the tanker truck, about 30 cars, diversion of traffic for 2 days, attention at the scene and the hospitals...countless unproductive or wasted hours, loss of life...surely this whole disaster could have been avoided.
We should by now have proper, modern warning and monitoring equipment to spot these common snow squalls. Tanker trucks should be limited maximum speed limit of 80km/hour. Trucks absolute limit of 90km/hr.
If the police and or the department of transport can not handle this problem another way must be found to control this type of problem...empower a road warden or instant fine collecting agency to control the traffic..\
Speed limits must be enforced by the OPP ( Ontario Provincial Police).
Recently I've seen these horrific traffic pile ups here and in the US.
I am totally convinced that excessive speed by trucks and cars as well is a mayor cause of these ridiculous accidents.
I may throw this post out but at the moment I just feel like making a few notes:-
The astronaut thing...If you wrote a movie script with just a few of the bits and pieces of info emerging out of this Orlando scene, nobody would go to see it....It's just too bizarre. Love triangle, highranking officers, married with kids..43..It's just too hard to believe.
Went to see this Barat thing about a month ago...All that promotion fuss...Junk..A waste of time, the worst of Jewish humor I've ever come across. Do not bother to go and see this movie..Absolute trash.
About my Kennedy post ( my last post, below):
The Germans went wild when he visited Berlin and proclaimed: "Ich bin ein Berliner" . Just clever speechwriting that's all, Kennedy never said that. His line was actually..." The proudest boast since the days of the Roman Legions is; ich bin ein Berliner"...Something like that... he was saying that the Roman, soldiers around 20 B.C. or so were proud to be citizens of Rome...And boasted about it...Get it?
I'm writing this blog as Fritz. My name is actually Fred. In fact that's wrong too...My first name is Manfred,( that is German).
About a couple of weeks back I was struck by a sad note. As part of my daily half hour of CNN exposure I learned that one of the 5 young soldiers killed that day was named Bixler. Not a common name I believe. My poor uncle Fritz was wasted as canonfutter in Russia in 1943, he was my mothers younger brother. An older brother at one time or another went to the USA, an immigrant to the new world.
Because of the war the family totally lost contact with this fellow. Could the young soldier with the family name Bixler killed in Iraq be his grandson?
The age of the five American citizen soldiers was between 19 and 21 by the way.
I will comment on the 2.9 Trillion Dollar forecast budget next...As soon as I grasp the enormity of this figure.
Kennedy....President John F. That is:
After all these years I can still recall precisely where I was and what I was doing when J.F.K. was assassinated.
He campained in Texas ready to run for a second term. He was also reluctant to get too deeply involved in the situation in Vietnam, Indochina as the French called it. Johnson managed to involve the USA in the war the USA lost.
Who really killed Kennedy and why?
I recall the various conspiracy theories, and they may all be no more than a bunch of nonsense dreamed up by the media. But the fact is that certain documents are still sealed, they should have been made public 25 years after the event but by an act of congress apparently some sensitive information will remain restricted for whatever reason.
There may be others but here are some of the so called conspiracy theories as I recall them:-
1./The war mongers, military establishment and swordforgers killed the man; they needed a war to keep the economy rolling.
2./ Johnson was involved it was claimed by getting rid of Kennedy he would be president and free to go to war with Vietnam. As V.P. he played a minor role only and was often ignored by the president.
3./ Castro...To settle a score after all it was JFK who authorized the ill fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Oswald the accused assassin had a Cuba connection as well.
4./ The Soviet Union...It was said somehow was responsible. Oswalds wife was from there...he lived there for a while and had USSR links. I can't quite figure how JFK's demise could have benefited the Soviet Union but again that was a theory kicked around at the time.
5./ The Mafia...Yes, the mob. Harvey Oswalds killer Ruby had clear cut Mafia connections. Bobby Kennedy the presidents brother played attorney general and at times was hard on the mob.
6./ This is the strangest of them all. Onasis. One of the richest men in the world, at that time in any case, this fellow could have just about anything he wanted. With the exception of the American Presidents beautiful wife, Jackie. With JFK gone this dream could become reality.For what it's worth, a stupid nut who wanted to get into the history books a misguided American named Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president...
Without any good reason or purpose and without any help from inside or outside the country.
Why Ruby shot him in turn and why that was so easy to accomplish is another mystery. www.theplanetbag.com
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