Comments on: Who’s to blame for the California fires??

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:11:00 +0000

Them “turrists” are getting younger every day.

Rarely is the question asked, “Is our youngsters Islamo-Fascists?”

By: ascap_scab

ascap_scab — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:41:38 +0000

Osama bin Little captured!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_us/california_wildfires

Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case.

“He admitted to playing with matches and accidentally starting the fire,” Hecht said in a statement.

Police did not release the boy’s name. Los Angeles County fire Capt. Michael Brown only would say Wednesday that he was younger than 13.

The boy was released to his parents, and the case will be presented to the district attorney’s office, Hecht said. It was not clear if he had been arrested or cited by detectives.

Arson investigators first talked to the boy’s parents on Oct. 22 after determining the blaze began the day before in the back yard of their Agua Dulce home, Brown said.

The home was not damaged in the fire, Brown said.

Investigators initially considered a downed power line as the source of the fire, but never officially listed it as the cause.

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:09:01 +0000

I’m a Cherokee. I remember relatives who were much older shaking their heads at the people who built in floodplains. We did not do it; floodplains might be good places for hunting and growing things, but they aren’t good places to put down roots.

While I think most people can agree that Skeletor and Brownie botched NOLA so badly that they are in fact responsible for many hundreds of deaths, I also think the time has come to open a discussion on whether or not sections of the city shouldn’t be returned to their natural state. They will be whether we want to or not.

By: Jim Burke

Jim Burke — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:57:43 +0000

Ouch, yes it did. Those hundred year floods hurt. We have such a short memory. So many things have changed environmentaly. An area that was safe yesterday, may not be safe today. It’s a tough call.
I still say you must be responsible for your choice and keep your eyes open.
Scumbags will try to sell you anything. Caveat Emptor is the rule of the day. I don’t like any more than you.
As I always say, rely on your neighbors. They are your friends.

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:34:33 +0000

However, I do think that a person should be individually responsible for where they decide to live. I shouldn’t pay more for my insurance because you live an area more prone to natural disasters than my area. It is a choice. Your choice and mine. It isn’t evil or wrong. It just carries different risks.

I agree. I remember my father and
I saying the same thing back in 1993, as the Mississippi made one of its periodic visits to towns along the riverbank.

By: Jim Burke

Jim Burke — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:18:55 +0000

Fires are part of nature. Try to stay out of their way. Some of the homes burnt didn’t have a lot of trees around them. Embers travel easily.
However, I do think that a person should be individually responsible for where they decide to live. I shouldn’t pay more for my insurance because you live an area more prone to natural disasters than my area. It is a choice. Your choice and mine. It isn’t evil or wrong. It just carries different risks.
Arson ignored, some areas burn more than others. Arson should be prosecuted, but most folks aren’t arsonists. We need to better pick our areas of habitation. Mother Nature doesn’t negotiate.
I hate insurance companies, but they should be able to assign risk based on where risk exists. It’s their business.
They should be made to pay anything they agree to insure. Enforcing that obligation is a necessary public function.
They shouldn’t be allowed to weasel out of their obligation. They shouldn’t be made to insure any obligation they didn’t agree to insure.
I do hope that the folks in Southern, CA are OK. Another public function is caring for and supporting your fellow Americans.
Tell us what you need, and it will come. Why the hell didn’t we do it for New Orleans?

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:36:20 +0000

What amazes me is the wingtards’ ability to jump through an endless series of hoops, never touching reality at all.

Let us hope that Malkin and Beck are the last of their kind. Worse scum never existed.