SAD SAD SAD
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Fling you out into orbit
No one's going to hear you shout
And fools aren't going to follow
You don't need to sleaze about
Now you're sad sad sad
Now you're sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
But you're gonna be fine
The elephant's in the bedroom
The elephant's in the bedroom
Throwing all his weight about
And I'm locked in the bathroom
Your screaams are gonna drown me out
Now you're sad sad sad
Now you're sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
But you're gonna be fine
I got a cold chill I get a cool thrill
I got a cold chill I get a cool thrill
Are you ready for the gilded cage
Are you ready for the tears of rage
Come on baby, don't let them drown you out
Now you're sad sad sad
Now you're sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
But you're gonna be fine
You're gonna be fine
You're gonna be fine
You're gonna be fine.....
I guess it’s a blogging kind of week. This was Purpleaura’s dream from February 4th, 2009:
I had a dream that I was talking on the cell phone to my mum which I never do. I seem to be in a major city, don’t know if it’s in the US or UK. So as I’m walking and talking people are looking up in the sky (including myself), because there’s this weird noise as a passenger plane makes this horrible choking sound. It was strange because as we’re watching, the plane changed directions from anti-clockwise and then suddenly the plane’s nose was facing us. We knew it was coming down and they couldn’t do anything about it. The plane was blue and had a red stripe on the tail. I turned around and notice a fireball coming at me then the plane crashed and then nothing.
February 13, 2009
A commuter aircraft crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday night, sending flames shooting into the sky and killing 49 people on board and one on the ground.
It was originally thought that there were only 48 people were on the flight — 44 passengers, two pilots and two flight attendants. But Colgan Air Inc., a regional carrier for Continental, said another off-duty pilot had also boarded the flight.
While residents of the neighbourhood where the plane went down were used to planes rumbling overhead, witnesses said this one sounded louder than usual, sputtered and made some odd noises.
The plane's tail section and rear fuselage were largely intact and burning at the scene.
Yep, sounds like the same incident all right. Our hearts go out to all those involved.
So besides that major weirdness, there are few other things to note as there seems to be more to this crash than meets the eye. Yes there may be a conspiracy involved.
Purpleaura lives in Florida and it seems everywhere I look Florida is being mentioned regarding this disaster. I thought Colgan sounded a lot like Colgate so I began to wonder who may have been on board the fateful flight.
A Sept. 11 widow and activist named Beverly Eckert was among the 50 people killed in the Continental Flight 3407 crash near Buffalo.
Eckert had been part of a small group of Sept. 11 widows, mothers, and children who became amateur lobbyists on Capitol Hill following the terrorist attacks. Her team ultimately forced lawmakers in 2004 to pass sweeping reforms of the U.S. intelligence reform law.
As co-chair of the "9-11 Family Steering Committee," she pushed for a 9-11 Commission. She pushed the Bush administration to provide more information to the commission, and when the commission's work was over, she pushed Congress to adopt their recommendations.
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Last week, Eckert met Obama in the White House with other relatives of the victims of Sept. 11 and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss the new administration's fight against terror.
Eckert’s parents are currently vacationing in Florida. She was returning to her home town of Buffalo to celebrate what would have been her late husband’s 58th birthday.
My Silence Cannot Be Bought
by Beverly Eckert
I’ve chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.
I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.
The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgement by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires still smoldered.
And this liability cap protects not just the airlines, but also World Trade Center builders, safety engineers and other defendants.
The caps on liability have consequences for those who want to sue to shed light on the mistakes of 9/11. It means the playing field is tilted steeply in favor of those who need to be held accountable. With the financial consequences other than insurance proceeds removed, there is no incentive for those whose negligence contributed to the death toll to acknowledge their failings or implement reforms. They can afford to deny culpability and play a waiting game.
By suing, I’ve forfeited the “$1.8 million average award” for a death claim I could have collected under the fund. Nor do I have any illusions about winning money in my suit. What I do know is I owe it to my husband, whose death I believe could have been avoided, to see that all of those responsible are held accountable. If we don’t get answers to what went wrong, there will be a next time. And instead of 3,000 dead, it will be 10,000. What will Congress do then?
So I say to Congress, big business and everyone who conspired to divert attention from government and private-sector failures: My husband’s life was priceless, and I will not let his death be meaningless. My silence cannot be bought.
Beverly Eckert, whose husband died at the World Trade Center, is the founder of Voices of September 11th, a victims advocacy group.
Ellyce Kausner, a second-year student at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, was traveling home to Buffalo, N.Y., to be her 4-year-old nephew's date at a Valentine's Day party at his school today.
Chris and Laura Kausner reminisce about their sister who was aboard Flight 3407."I have a son in kindergarten and they are doing a Valentine's Day lunch and you bring somebody special and Ellie was going with him," Ellyce Kausner's sister Laura Kausner told "Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo in an exclusive interview today.
Ellyce Kausner never made it to the kindergartner's party. She was one of 50 people killed on Continental Express flight 3407 when it crashed moments before its scheduled landing at 10:25 p.m. Thursday.
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Weirder yet is the co-pilot was Rebecca Shaw. Purpleaura has always loved that name, she often thought if she ever had a daughter she would be named Rebecca. Well she did have a daughter but was told in a dream to name her something else so Rebecca was out. Shaw was the surname name of her grandparents.
As far as the plane goes, this is a picture of a Colgan Air Saab-340B. Having already read the flight number was 3407, I had to do a double take when I read the model of the plane.
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This is a Continental airliner as it sits on a runway in Newark. I’m not sure what it’s all decked out for but if you look just above the nose you can see the World Trade Centre towers in the background.
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On my end, I don’t talk to my mom a lot, who just happens to live 15 miles from the crash site (as the crow flies). Often the conversations leave me extremely drained so I tend to avoid those kinds of situations. Christmas day was the last time we spoke, but today, Friday the 13th, being her birthday and all I will have to make a call. I’m certain the crash will be a main topic of conversation.
The scariest flight I was ever on was from Buffalo to Newark. Never have I been so close to crashing. The friend I was flying with hasn’t flown since that day and that was in 1985. The plane hit some major wind on the descent and one of the wings very nearly hit the ground. We landed with such an impact all the oxygen masks fell out of their compartments.
At least one Canadian was among the crash victims. Don McDonald of Fort Erie, Ont., a worker with Pharmetics, Inc., was on the flight, confirms his family.
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Fort Erie would be the town my mom lives in.
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Fort Erie would be the town my mom lives in.
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Not sure where all this is leading but it seems to be going somewhere. My first thoughts are this is a harbinger of bigger things to come considering the WTC connections. Another time stamp perhaps.
