"Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires"

WYLL.com, NewsMax.com, IllinoisLeader.com ^ | 6.17.2002 | Kevin McCullough

[KMC1]

Kevin McCullough is heard weekdays on AM1160 3-5p, in Chicago, and worldwide on www.wyll.com.

Contact Kevin at: kmc@wyll.com

[Monti Cello]

What a lazy-ass article this is...this author is oversupplied with opinion while in severe deficit of hard facts.

Why didn't he go dig up some solid information on this marriage before vomiting his own 'issues' all over the page?

Perhaps he was at a loss for time after a multi-day binge on crystal meth or had his hands too full sodomizing puppies to do any research....Hmmm, I guess we'll just have to speculate.

[Gaston]

Terry went to the woods that day heart-broken and deeply depressed. She carried with her a letter that we now know came from the sperm donor of her children. We now know that whatever the contents of that letter had in it, that it was deeply distressing - so much so that Terry wanted it gone.

LOL... Poor poor Terry. What a load of BS. There was no letter involved in this fire it is just a ploy to get sympathy from bleeding heart idiots, like the author of this article.

[MinuteGal]

Unbelievable! This new-age "writer" takes a few known facts and, based only on his sob-sister, over-wrought imagination, spins an entire Shakespearean tragedy around it.

Blame the husband whom you don't know anything about, yeah, you moron!

Leni

[Who is George Salt?]

"Hell hath no fury...."

[nravoter]

What a lazy-ass article this is...this author is oversupplied with opinion while in severe deficit of hard facts.

Agreed. Here's another example of fine writing:

A week later many in the area are now looking at Ms. Barton with a great deal of anger and hatred.

Much of it is justified.

Much of it is justified? Exactly which part is not justified? Typical, touchy-feely, lazy modern journalism. (Pardon the use of redundant adjectives in conjunction with the term "journalism".)

[southern rock]

What crawled up this guy's butt?

[Myrean]

What a load of liberal BS!

I guess the stupid author can really unload on the husband now that we know the feds think poor, poor Terri set the fire on purpose!

[Tacis]

This is an amazing story, not because of what she did and who she works for, but because of her co-workers. One of the primary responsibilities of all federal non-military employees is to cover for the ineptitude/dishonesty of co-workers. If a federal co-worker does something bad, by intent or accident, other federal employees most cover it up and conceal the first federal employees errors so they do not reflect negatively on the organization and then, on the other workers in the organization. This is why the FBI has to be disbanded and why the federal airline security function will never work or do what it is supposed to do.

[Corin Stormhands]

But the message of that letter, whatever it contained, lit the fire of hell to half a state. Oh...puke.

[BraveMan]

KMC1, I sure hope YOU didn't pen this steaming pantload . . .

By all means yes, let's absolve Ms. Barton of all responsibility for her actions. After all, it was that mean old John that REALLY caused this incident. From the moment Ms. Barton opened the letter, the wheels were set in motion, the result a foregone conclusion . . .

Someday, I might anger my wife. I guess I'd better shoot myself now, before things get out of hand . . .

[Teacher317]

You know, Kevin McCullough, she could have just THROWN THE PAPER IN THE WASTEBASKET!!!!

Just because her incompetence was exaggerated by her hyper-emotional state does not mean that she does not deserve the jail time, fines, firing and public humiliation that she so richly deserves. Why do you need to pour hyperbolic mischaracterizations about her estranged husband (who you know nothing about)? What does that say about you?

(On a side note: maybe her husband finally realized what an unstable, self-centered, incompetent, hyper-emotional, and unsafe woman he married, and got away as quickly as possible... before he woke up on fire himself, possibly? How's THAT for making assumptions about someone we don't even know?)

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Aside from this artice being total trash, I am surprised so many seem to believe her second story of the letter burning starting the fire. I think there's a lot more to her starting the fire than has been told.

[philman_36]

Spaaaaaace Cadet!

[wheezer]

I am surprised so many seem to believe her second story of the letter burning starting the fire.

I'm not too sure that anyone actually bought her BS story.

Even to the sympathetic, it didn't quite pass the smell test, and those who didn't buy it for a moment merely struck a polite pose while being quietly confident it would be disproven.

[TC Rider]

Aside from this artice being total trash, I am surprised so many seem to believe her second story of the letter burning starting the fire. I think there's a lot more to her starting the fire than has been told.

You and me both.

More often in these scenarios, a fire is purposely started to be put out by the brave hero/heroine. These stories are legion in volunteer fire departments across America.

I'm also aware of the large number of ecoterrorists that have infiltrated our Natural Resources departments across America. I think of the Lynx hair scam and others, then wonder if there was an agenda related to these forests. Perhaps an out of control camp fire would be motivation to close these forests to the public, etc.

Regardless, the fault lies with her, not the husband.

[moondoggie]

I'm not buying her story and neither are the Feds.

Take a look at this article in the Rocky Mountain News. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1214863,00.html

[coloradan]

Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires

Only Federal Fire Fighters Can Start Seriously Huge Raging Infernos, By Breaking The Same Laws They Enforce Against The Rest Of Us

As for this article, I was just waiting for some radical feminist to blame the whole thing on the husband. It's all man's fault. Everthing is men's fault.

[archy]

But the message of that letter, whatever it contained, lit the fire of hell to half a state.

Oh...puke.

Text of letter *here*.

-archy-/-

[wheezer]

Great article...thanks for the URL.