Tea at Trianon: Interstate 95 in Philadelphia Collapses

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Interstate 95 in Philadelphia Collapses

It happened over the weekend. America is literally falling apart. Just like the old Soviet Union. From The Blaze:

A portion of Interstate 95 collapsed Sunday morning as a tanker burned beneath an overpass in northeast Philadelphia, WPVI reported.
"This morning, a large tanker truck fire under I-95 near the Cottman Avenue exit in Northeast Philadelphia caused a portion of the highway to collapse. Pennsylvania State Police closed I-95 in both directions around the area," Sarah Peterson, Communications Director for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's office told TheBlaze in a statement Sunday morning.
"The fire is under control and City and state agencies are responding to address impacts to residents in the area and travelers affected by the road closure. We will share more details as they become available."
All lanes were closed on both the northbound and southbound sides of I-95, Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation announced in separate tweets around 6:40 a.m.
A photo shared by Fox 29 on Twitter shows a knot of vehicles stopped just ahead of a massive plume of smoke on the northbound side of I-95 near the Cottman and Academy Road exits. (Read more.)