I wish NJ Governor Corzine a rapid and full recovery from the injuries he suffered in an "SUV CRASH" the day before Friday the thirteenth while en route to moderate a meeting between fired radio shock jock Don Imus and those "nappy headed ho's" from national runner up Rutgers women's basketball team.   I'd like to see Corzine out of office but I wish him no physical harm, no life-threatening injuries, in the process.

First off, why was it necessary for the newspapers to announce that the accident was an "SUV CRASH?"   That isn't relevant to what happened when one pickup truck tried to pull off the road shoulder, hit another, and caused it to careen into Corzine's SUV limo.

You've really got to wonder about the sequence of events leading up to this.   It smells of a giant conspiracy.   Rutgers looses a basketball game for the national championship and before Tennessee, the winner, gets a chance to meet the president and become full-fledged media darlings, Imus makes his remarks and steals everyone's thunder.   Then Rutgers, the loosing team, gets air time all over the place including Oprah to demonstrate that they ain't ho's!   They act with all sorts of dignity and show themselves to be a class act while not calling for Imus' ouster.   Imus tries to save his ass by apologizing at least once with every breath.   The "civil rights activists" get into the act and call for the firing of the white guy.   The basketball team agrees to meet with him to discuss God only knows what.   Not to be upstaged by all these goings on, Corzine sees the opportunity to get his name in the papers too so he decides to moderate the thing, as if you need a a sixty year old white limousine liberal (actually riding in a limousine) to stand between the diminutive white shock jock and a bunch of tough Rutgers "nappy headed ho's," complete with tattoos.   Then pickup trucks, probably with white racist Christian fundamentalists at the wheels, get in his way and nearly cause his demise!   Something isn't right here!

I heard about this in the middle of the night and then just had to read the story in the morning paper to see if anyone suspected foul play.   At the very least "Friday the thirteenth" must have something to do with it.   But I found the real cause of Corzine's terrible injuries right there in the liberal press.   It was coded so most people wouldn't take notice but it was there nonetheless.

I looked to see if there was any information about white supremacists - I believe they favor pickup trucks - but there was no mention.   I figured the SUV might be the clue since that was in the headlines.   But deep within the story, reporters noted that "the SUV did not overturn and there was no fire."

I thought perhaps it was those notoriously bad "Jersey drivers."   There was a state cop at the wheel so I assumed he must have been doing about 80 mph.   Remember that NJ cop who got pulled over coming back from New Orleans after trying to help out with Katrina cleanup efforts?   The speed on the Garden State Parkway is between 55 and 65 but the median speed at which any NJ state trooper drives is closer to 75 - 80 on the average road and generally is higher on the GSP.   With a state trooper at the wheel of a government vehicle on official business, on the GSP, you can pretty much count on him being at the high end of the spectrum.   But the paper said "speed was not a factor" in the accident.

Finally I discovered my answer.   State police noted that it was unclear "whether Corzine was wearing a seat belt."   That's a code phrase which, if you have a decoder ring, means "the governor did not have a seatbelt on when his car had a fairly routine sort of crash."

No seat belt?   I thought that was a felony in New Jersey.   In New Jersey, you have to use a car seat until age 21 or 200 pounds, whichever comes later.   Not only that but drivers must attend a safety class, at their own expense, conducted by the Coast Guard, to learn how to properly install a car seat.   Improper car seat installation is a crime carrying a penalty of not more than 6 months in jail and/or $5,000 in fines for a first offense, after which the penalties climb.   The state has a three strikes and you're out policy which results in life imprisonment for a fourth offense.   Police conduct sting operations to randomly pull over cars and check to see if car seats are properly installed.   By the way, it doesn't matter if there is an actual child in the car seat.   If you have a car seat in your car, you are subject to being pulled over, examined and penalized.   If you've got the thing installed improperly, you're going to do time for your crime.   When it comes to seat belts, the laws get really tough.

In New Jersey, police are allowed to racially profile when it comes to enforcement of the state's seat belt laws.   It turns out that several races in this mixed race state have a tendency to ignore their seat belts and this is the one area where police are allowed to use their racial knowledge.   They're also allowed to shoot first and ask questions later.   If an officer feels threatened by a driver's failure to properly wear a seat belt, he is permitted to pull his weapon and use it if necessary.   Also, officers are permitted to engage in high speed chases if required to apprehend a seat belt offender.   I was once walking my child home from school when I witnessed such a high speed chase.   We even have a list, available via the internet, of repeat seat belt offenders.   Many are shunned and forced to move out of neighborhoods because parents don't want "that kind" near their children.   It is beyond me how the governor of the state can possibly ride on one of its busiest roadways without donning a belt.   I hope he is ticketed ... as soon as he recovers from his injuries.   I wonder if the state will finally change its laws to recognize the need for all passengers, regardless of age or weight, to be properly situated in car seats from this point forward.

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