Posted on 10/23/2007 2:44:10 PM PDT by NorthernRight
Edited on 10/23/2007 5:40:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Okay, here is what I have heard from some respectable sources...Majority of these fires have been set by Islamic Fundamentalists who disliked the Terminator movies, are envirofreaks, and are 6 figures in debt on their mountain homes near Sand Diego. Does that cover all the angles?
I forgot to mention that they are also anti-war fanatics.
>They are dirtiest of the dirty fighters.<
So far I haven’t seen them do anything that the Viet Cong wouldn’t do. I’d hate for them to just be given that title without earning it.
Cheers!
My bad. I will look again in a bit -- my son needs the computer for research for a school project now.
Cheers!
ROFLMAO!!!
Forest fires tend to cause a lot of damage but few deaths, and everything is replaceable.
If a terrorist really were to start a bunch of forest fires, it would have to be for a diversion of civil response so that the real attack can happen elsewhere.
We should be looking at what happens next to confirm if this is terrorism or not.
-PJ
I bet in two weeks, a lot of these unemployed contractors will be back to work.
The MSM will drop this story stat within the next two weeks - Just like the VA University shooting - Once it didn't fit the template (of attacking the GOP / or advancing a DEM cause) it was dropped!
But the most important question: are they willing to vote Democrat? ;)
Okay Mr Reid what do you say now?
Porky Pig comes to mind
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA That’s all folks
I had to laugh or else I would cry, You have Harry Reid saying it’s global warming and than saying he didn’t say that, you have Boxer saying her crap about not enough help and this and that but the Gov and other’s put her in her place, At least Lady Di had sense enough to say the right thing. CALIFORNIA PEOPLE AND I AM ONE VOTE BOXER, PETE AND THE OTHERS OUT SAVE CA. !
California Congressman Duncan Hunter Says
Dems Are Playing Politics with The California Wildfires
Fox News/Cavuto ^ | Oct. 24, 2007 | Fox news
Posted on 10/24/2007 9:47:25 AM PDT by AuntB
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915688/posts
I wonder . . . perhaps in a matrix world . . .
BOXERFACE would flap her yap so vigorously that she’d slap herself into another dimension and we’d be rid of her.
. . . an amusing idle fantasy . . .
but, hey, we have to dream!
“The Santa Ana winds always bring out the firebugs.”
Tonight the Nightline special report on the fires quoted one of the fire chiefs that about 15% of the fires historically have been set by arsonists.
As to terrorists taking up this as a way to cause the American people to soften up our policies. Obviously, they know even less about the way we think than we know about their thought processes. They have no idea how much this will enrage us, including those who are relatively liberal politically.
Actually, the large amount of rebuilding will create a stimulus to the economy, and more homes will be built or sold. I feel sorry for all the people who have lost so much. Thankfully, the communities learned from the last big fires and so far the death toll is only 6 compared to more than 20 the last time.
“One dirty little secret is a surprisingly large number of wildfire arsons are set by firefighters.”
Or to put it another way, a surprisingly large number of arsonists become firefighters.
Wrong. Those of us who grew up with these winds have always referred to them as Santa Ana Winds. They were called Santa Ana winds long before I was born.
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
"Red Wind," 1945
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
“so many [fires] cropping up all at once, despite the Santa Anas and heat wave... are very suspicious.”
Actually, aside from the predictible percentage of arson, the primary causes are: a very rainy season last year which caused major growth of underbrush, a severe drought this year, lots more people pushing out into the brush country since the last big one, and unusually long and severe Santa Ana winds of 70 to 100 miles per hour lasting for several days rather than only one day.
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