Oregon

[DirtyDan]

https://apnews.com/429f97bdf66aaa28a4dd43879a412503

Dan

[Jess from VA]

You know, they need to arrest all the Portland (and other) protestors, and quickly sentence them to chain gangs fighting forest fires.  They like starting fires, let them put some out.

[shadowsoftime]

You know, they need to arrest all the Portland (and other) protestors, and quickly sentence them to chain gangs fighting forest fires.  They like starting fires, let them put some out.

       

[Beardo]

You know, they need to arrest all the Portland (and other) protestors, and quickly sentence them to chain gangs fighting forest fires.  They like starting fires, let them put some out.

My mom had a gun pulled on her a couple days ago. She played it cool, the punks  left, she called the police, they got there very fast, chased them down, caught them and they were charged. She made a similar comment to me that they should be sent to fight forest fires. I dunno. I fight fires...and I sure as hell wouldn’t want those pieces of garbage on the fire line and have to work with/trust them.

...unless you’re talking about lighting them on fire and dropping them out of a helicopter to do controlled burns. Then yes, they should help with fighting forest fires.

[DirtyDan]

Chained........ to what ?

Dan

[The emperor has no clothes]

You know, they need to arrest all the Portland (and other) protestors, and quickly sentence them to chain gangs fighting forest fires.  They like starting fires, let them put some out.

My mom had a gun pulled on her a couple days ago. She played it cool, the punks  left, she called the police, they got there very fast, chased them down, caught them and they were charged. She made a similar comment to me that they should be sent to fight forest fires. I dunno. I fight fires...and I sure as hell wouldn’t want those pieces of garbage on the fire line and have to work with/trust them.

...unless you’re talking about lighting them on fire and dropping them out of a helicopter to do controlled burns. Then yes, they should help with fighting forest fires.

I'm glad she is ok. Yeah, I'm not too keen on them using inmates either.

[Tarkus]

Excerpt taken from posted article:

In a news conference Friday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee noted that the amount of land burned in just the past five days amounted to the state’s second-worst fire season, after 2015. He called the blazes “climate fires” rather than wildfires.

“This is not an act of God,” Inslee said. “This has happened because we have changed the climate of the state of Washington in dramatic ways.” 

The fact that these fires are so widespread and out of control speaks strongly to the ongoing lack of proper landscape management in that region.  It seems the utilization of prescribed burning and routine abatement of kindling on the ground is not a standard practice.  Instead, the fuel is allowed to accumulate to the point that when it finally does ignite (for whatever reason) the results are much more catastrophic. 

The governor is correct that this not an act of God, given that dry lightning has been ruled out as an ignition source.  This narrows it down to human activity, intentional or not.  But to blame it on climate change is what draws my ire. Once again, this is yet another crisis being used to advance a false political narrative. It's sickening.   

It makes me wonder...if the governors of these states are okay with their inner cities and towns being burned and looted for political reasons, then why not the surrounding landscape too.  After all, the suburbs are where the so called "peaceful protesters" have been successfully repelled by armed residents.  So...what a better way to get around the resistance and burn down suburbia too.  Set ablaze all that kindling that has been accumulating for years, burn the residents out of their homes, then politicize it by blaming it on climate change.  That'll surely get everyone on board with the Green New Deal...right?  Just food for thought.