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To: gracesdad
Must understand, there are many out there that are very jealous of California, it's beauty, weather etc. There have always been people like this.

In events such as this, they can't help themselves.

I responded to a comment of "burn baby burn" the other night, while firefighters put their butts on the line, and thousands of other Americans are trying to save their homes and families.

If I responded to some of these comments like I really want to, I'd be banned from this site.

32 posted on 10/22/2007 12:19:03 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

As a resident of Nevada, where we’ve had millions of acres burn as a result of BLM land management policies that are forced down upon us as the result of lawsuits by California environmentalists, many of whom are funded, aided and abetted by celebrities in Malibu, I can say forthrightly that:

1. California’s environmentalists (and their enablers) seem to have forgotten that karma (yes, that new-age hippy-dip concept they like to spout) is a two-sided coin. What goes around has come around. Boo freakin’ hoo.

2. They’ve been living under the same idiotic policies they’ve forced down on us, so it isn’t reasonable to think that they’d be exempt from the results. News flash from the Almighty: You’re no exception. Let the fuel build up and you’ve got a blow-up in your future.

3. When the number of burned acres gets to 500,000 gimme a call. I won’t shed a tear until then. We’re losing hundreds of thousands of acres almost every year thanks to these idiot environmentalists in California sticking their noses into our business over here.

Until people get their heads out of their posteriors and start shouting down the environmental community, you Californians are going to have these blow-ups. Just to remind folks in California, there’s three sides to the fire triangle: air, fuel, heat. You can’t do anything about air and heat. The only variable you can control on a landscape-wide basis is fuel. That means cutting trees, controlled burns, and (yes!) grazing to remove fine-stemmed fuels. With proper management, evil corporations and right-thinking people can be brought in to make money on two out of those three fuel removal processes.


44 posted on 10/22/2007 12:38:23 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: dragnet2

I remember the fires we had in FL several years ago during a terrible drought, not to mention the threat of hurricanes- which thankfully have abated the last two years.

Our prayers are with you. Funny, we were just looking for mountain properties around Big Bear and Arrowhead recently, so I feel like I know this area.


148 posted on 10/23/2007 2:30:18 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (My dog has worms, so I named him Scooter.)
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