570News - Jeff Allan

If you’re single like me;  you may find, as I have,  that all the political parties have forgotten us in this election. All I hear about is families this, and families that! What’s in your platform for those of us that are single, divorced, or without kids? According to Stats Canada we are a giant demographic, so why aren’t the political parties addressing us? It’s a fair and good question, and I’m not the only person asking it.  If you’re single as well, you  should be asking the candidates why they don’t care about us. I will be, starting tomorrow on the show.

                                                          Jeff Allan 

This afternoon I narrowly missed a collision caused by merging 18 wheel trucks on the Expressway. The highway traffic act states that a vehicle should be travelling the posted speed limit by the time it merges onto four lane highways in Ontario. Big trucks can’t do it because the on ramps aren’t long enough or designed with trucks in mind. Because they can’t do it they’re screwing everyone else up and causing problems. (others in cars do too)  Just one day I’d like to be truck free! Just one day! It would be neat to get on and off the expressway without them on the road just to see what it’s like. With this in mind, I would like to call for a “National No Truck Day”. It would give us the day off. The truckers the day off, and it would show us how much we depend on those trucks even though they sometimes drive us crazy! Plus, the people in charge of on ramps might get the idea that the ramps need improvement.  I know this dream day of mine will never happen, but I can dream can’t I?

Boy did I have a bad experience yesterday with VIA Rail.  On Friday I bought a round trip ticket to Toronto to go to a Memorial service for an old friend last night. The ticket cost $58.00 return. I thought I’d try the train so that I wouldn’t have to drive home on the 401 when they might be doing maintenance work, and I didn’t want to worry about parking all day in Toronto.

I will never be that stupid again! The train that was supposed to leave the station in Kitchener at 9:32am didn’t leave until almost eleven am! I arrived late for lunch at 12:50pm. Coming home the train left Union station a little after ten pm and I didn’t get home until ten to twelve pm!

Next time I’ll take my car. The gas cost less,  the parking cost less and I would have been there in a hour by car travelling at the speed limit. If VIA RAIL wants us to use their services; they have to do a lot better than this! Heck, you would have thought they would have thrown in a free coffee; but no, they charged me the two bucks anyway.  SERVICE is the name of the game, and they had no game yesterday.   Yes! I’m still ticked off today. Can you tell?

                                                       Jeff Allan

I know people have to make a living, but when did it become accepted practise for Courier truck drivers to just pull over to the curb in downtown Kitchener, flip on their four ways and screw off to find their delivery site? Today at 2:30pm I was standing at the corner of King and Water Steets in downtown Kitchener when I noticed that the traffic was backed up through the intersection for three light changes. I went up King Street towards Victoria thinking there must be an accident or something holding up traffic. When I walked just a little way I could see the problem; a UPS truck was stopped with his four ways on,  and the driver was gone. The truck was blocking the whole lane! What’s worse is the fact that there was a parking space available just ahead of where he was stopped. This driver isn’t the only culprit. It seems that every delivery driver in town does it and no one does a thing about it. The police should crack down on this the same way they would if it was you or me who decided to just stop our cars anywhere we wanted because it was more convenient. Come you delivery guys and gals;  just a little consideration please? It’s called common courtesy.

PS: Most businesses say all deliveries in the rear, why are you so special?

Most of the world  thinks  that President  George W. Bush is the dumbest  most incompetent  slow  dim witted idiot that ever sat in the Oval Office. Many of you wonder how he gets through the day. To many,  he’s nothing more than an ex-boozing under achiever. If that’s true, can you answer me this question? How on earth do you give him credit for being smart enough to be  involved in some 9/11 conspiracy? Come on, you can’t have it both ways.  If he’s as “slow” as many of you think; how did he pull this off?  I just don’t see it.

Canada’s national public broadcaster should be ashamed of themselves. In fairness so should all the private broadcasters. I checked every channel on the dial last night and do you think I could find one station that was covering the Paralympic Games in Beijing? No, I guess the Country Music Awards, the Toronto Film festival, two American NFL football games, a Blue Jays game and repeats of last years Prime Time TV shows are more important!

Where is the support for our challenged athletes? I am ashamed. The TV networks should be too.

                                                               Jeff Allan

 Many people are horrified when I or others suggest that the American system of health care has some benefits. I am immediately hit with the Chicken Little argument that private for profit health care isn’t what we want; it’s not the Canadian way! Bull roar!  We don’t have “FREE” health care in Canada. We all pay for it with our taxes and those extra “PREMIUMS”.  Look OHIP stands for the Ontario Health “INSURANCE” Plan.  The government of Ontario is the Insurance company! Don’t you get it? There is no difference between paying  a premium to an Insurance company for a health care plan,  and  paying a premium to the Ontario Government’s  Health Insurance Plan;  period.  The only difference is one has a line-up and the other one doesn’t. What line do you want to be in when you or your loved one gets sick?

And one more thing. If you’ve never lived outside this province or country and have never experienced another system first hand, you have no right to comment because you just don’t know what you’re talking about.  Our system is bankrupt and broken, we should be open to any new ideas. Hanging onto the past never works. We don’t have to have an “American” system, but we could steal some ideas from it.  We certainly don’t have to be afraid of it.

                                                         Jeff Allan

I little while ago some of my listeners called me with a great concern. They talked about a “secret deal” between Mr. Bush and Mr. Harper that would allow American Troops to be deployed in Canada to help with Civil Unrest. They Sounded like Chicken Little, you know,  ”the sky is falling, the sky is falling”. Anyway these folks were mistaken. I straightened them out at the time by correcting their statements. The fact is a deal was struck between our two countries. It was to help each other during Civil Emergencies; not Civil Unrest. There is a big difference. Canadian troops would help out in the States if needed and American soldiers would lend a hand here if we needed them as well. Civil Emergencies are things like Forest Fires, Flooding, Weather Problems, and or a Catastrophic Event. The spirit of the agreement covers these things not a Political Coupe which is what some of you paranoid individuals thought up in your narrow minds.

Guess what folks your “conspiracy theory” is being played out right now in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans where our Canadian military equipment and soldiers are being used to help out in a CIVIL EMERGENCY called a hurricane !! Maybe after we help clean up, Mr. Harper has some plan to take over New Oreleans? That’s how some of you think isn’t it? And isn’t that pathetic?

                                              Jeff Allan

If you’re a fan of the animated TV show King of the Hill you are familiar with the character Peggy Hill.

Am I the only one that’s noticed that John McCain’s running mate Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is the human Peggy Hill?  She’s a dead ringer for ol’ Peg. All we need to know now is Sarah Palin’s shoe size. If she wears a size 13 shoe we’ll know the truth.

Go ahead take a look at the pictures; you’ll see I’m right.

                                                       Jeff Allan