GA_Dave

On duty at CPFD Station 2, located just west of the runways at Atlanta-Hartsfield. In short time, all aircraft would be on the ground and Station 2 has never been so quiet. All scheduled activities were cancelled for the next few days and we only left the stations to run emergency calls. The station televisions, normally turned off during "business" hours, were watched closely for updates.

You have your Kennedy's mixed up. This thread is about John, not Robert, Jr.

As it has been said by others, Trump could find the cure for cancer and give it to everyone for free, and the left would still hate him. Nothing he did in his first term hurt me and that is holding true for this term. His original tax cuts put more of my money in my pocket and their continuation will keep doing so. The changes to the taxes on SS will add more. Reducing wasteful government spending is the right move. Removing those here illegally is the right move. Stopping the DEI policies is the right move. His efforts to return manufacturing to the US is the right move. When was the last time a democrat in the White House did something to benefit all US Citizens? And he's doing it for FREE!

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The video starts just as the truck driver begins to pull out and the impact occurs at the 4 second mark. As he goes through his turn, the van comes into view. Judge the distance, but I would say it is about 300' away. Take away the reaction time, eating up about 100 feet, and there was not enough distance remaining for the van to stop before impact. A "typical passenger car" is used in the above example of stopping distance/time, but this was a mini van, which could weight 700 to 1000 pounds more, increasing those distances and the time to stop.

1977 Century 1000/500, #5552, for those who keep track.

Car seats - My kids were born in 1980, 1981 ans 1984. Only the last one had to have a car seat when born. Safety standards were minimal in any of the seats available at that time. Their use was not mandatory nationwide until later. Dad's 1969 New Yorker was the first car we had that had seat belts in the back seat. My Uncle had a 1970 Chevy C-10 with a cap and brought his five kids up to NY from TX with 4 of them riding in the back. The number of times I rode in the back of an open pickup is too many to count. I also used to ride on the tailboard of speeding fire engines. I have cut seat belts off of plenty of dead bodies in wrecks and have personally walked away from more than one wreck where I was not wearing one. Worked a wreck one time where a Chevette hit a tree as wide as the car at high speed. The least injured of the five people inside was the one not belted in, who was ejected.

Under the current rules that President Trump is trying to change, they are counted in the census, but NOT identified as being illegally here. The left counted them as citizens in the 2020 census, changing the population of certain States to the point that it changed the number of US Representatives those States have in Congress and changing the population of districts that the left then gerrymandered to their advantage.

They should never have been included in the first place! Those here illegally should not be represented, they should be removed. Thank you, President Trump!