Request to fight fire was denied (Sour Biscuit Fire, California)

The Daily Triplicate, Crescent City, California ^ | 16 August 2002 | Kent Gray, Daily Triplicate staff writer

[MissAmericanPie]

Someone tell me why the Federal government should own ANY land in the USofA. Land belongs to the States, if we do not insist that states take back their power from D.C. this mess will only continue to grow.

D.C. is broken and cannot be fixed, States must take back power from D.C. and put the Fed on a very limited diet. The Supreme Court got us to this sorry state of affairs, we need some constraints on that activist monster.

[kitchen]

"We have a good opportunity here to resolve any future problems," said Blackburn. "I'm not calling this meeting to say ‘you screwed up' or ‘he screwed up.' I'm saying ‘What can we do to see that this never happens again?'"

Out in the real world, whenever I heard senior management claim they wanted to "... fix the problem, not the blame ...," I knew heads were going to roll. In the case of Mr. Blackburn, I doubt if he's high enough on the food chain to effect real change.

In the case of the USFS and their alphabet brethren, the solution is simple: the employees are the problem. Mass terminations are indicated as a solution. If the job is too big for the qualified that survive the hatchet, let's seriously evaluate and proceed to divestiture of holdings. A lean efficient enterprise is of far greater value to its customers.

[philman_36]

Repeat occurance #___ ?
They're "working to improve things".
If they were to follow the old procedures they wouldn't be in the mess they're in. But noooo, there have to be "new and improved" ways of doing things that obvioulsly don't work at all or the situation wouldn't have happened.
SSDD with no real appearance of improvement. Just "more talk".

[tubebender]

"Everything north of the Gualala river is considered the 'northwest.'"

I do beleive it starts at Cape Mendocino but I am biased.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[lobo59]

Sorry about the mix up, I certainly do not feel that the government should steal land from the people. I have lived in several states which are mainly privately held. Ihave seen European lands where the noble families control the use of their lands. I can tell you that I absolutely cherish the use of public lands and freedom of access that federal lands afford the citizens.

Federal land grabs and lock up of federal lands in the form of roadless and wilderness land grabs must be stopped and reversed. Private holdings and wilderness are all the same. The public is locked out from access and enjoyment of the outdoors. I do not advocate transfer of federal land to private ownership either.

[blackie]

Stop the attacks by the wacko, extreme left-wing, enviro-nazis terrorist's on our Freedoms !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

[BenR2]

I read your post 30.

Sorry. But you are evading a direct answer to my challenge.

I'm not interested in a rabbit trail about Luther's (tragic) anti-Semitism.

Please show me from SCRIPTURE where it says that our LORD cursed the stones of Capernaum and turned them black....

. . . Or, I will continue to question the veracity of that tradition.