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Originally posted by Jefffive:
The Governor was too busy auditioning to be Trump's VP, surrounded by the Texas National Guard, to worry about such trifles.

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Originally posted by jdollar:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:
The Governor was too busy auditioning to be Trump's VP, surrounded by the Texas National Guard, to worry about such trifles.

It would be hard to fight a fire from a wheelchair…And I seriously doubt he has the training to direct the effort. But feel free to make stupid, inane comments.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
So what’s happening at the Texas border isn’t a crisis? Then why did Senate Democrats vote for a new border security bill? Why are thousands of illegals poring across daily in an unchecked migrant flow? Good thing Tennessee isn’t a border state…….

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Originally posted by Scott King:
What is the cause of this fire? Drought, poor land management?

I know you guys have seen that now on some urban public lands the local governments are paying grazers to reduce fuel load since they stop letting grazers pay to let their livestock out on public land decades ago.

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
So what’s happening at the Texas border isn’t a crisis? Then why did Senate Democrats vote for a new border security bill? Why are thousands of illegals poring across daily in an unchecked migrant flow? Good thing Tennessee isn’t a border state…….

It's certainly an issue that needs to be addressed, and the remaining adults in D.C. made a good faith effort to address it, but it's only a "crisis" in the minds of those determined to save it as a campaign issue for the Orange Mussolini, because he has nothing else to run on. The economy is far better by every metric, his attempt to destroy NATO for Putin failed miserably, his SCOTUS picks overturning Roe v Wade is backfiring, without a "crisis" at the border he has nothing.

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Originally posted by bluefish:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
So what’s happening at the Texas border isn’t a crisis? Then why did Senate Democrats vote for a new border security bill? Why are thousands of illegals poring across daily in an unchecked migrant flow? Good thing Tennessee isn’t a border state…….

It's certainly an issue that needs to be addressed, and the remaining adults in D.C. made a good faith effort to address it, but it's only a "crisis" in the minds of those determined to save it as a campaign issue for the Orange Mussolini, because he has nothing else to run on. The economy is far better by every metric, his attempt to destroy NATO for Putin failed miserably, his SCOTUS picks overturning Roe v Wade is backfiring, without a "crisis" at the border he has nothing.

Jeez having a secure house is no biggie got it. Douche.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Numbers matter. There are only a few Boeberts but millions of illegals.Simple math for simple minds, I guess….

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Numbers matter. There are only a few Boeberts but millions of illegals.Simple math for simple minds, I guess….

I thought my use of simple words like "per capita" would help folks but I guess it wasn't simple enough.

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Originally posted by jdollar:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Numbers matter. There are only a few Boeberts but millions of illegals.Simple math for simple minds, I guess….

I thought my use of simple words like "per capita" would help folks but I guess it wasn't simple enough.

If one person out of a 2 person group commits a crime, that’s a 50% occurrence rate. Is that simple enough for you? It’s simply stupid to compare 1 family to hundreds of thousand of people. Overall numbers matter, simpleton..

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Numbers matter. There are only a few Boeberts but millions of illegals.Simple math for simple minds, I guess….

I thought my use of simple words like "per capita" would help folks but I guess it wasn't simple enough.

If one person out of a 2 person group commits a crime, that’s a 50% occurrence rate. Is that simple enough for you? It’s simply stupid to compare 1 family to hundreds of thousand of people. Overall numbers matter, simpleton..

One?

Every known Boebert old enough to be charged as an adult has been.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Scott, range fires are a natural and important part of the prairie/plains ecosystem, but this one started in a perfect storm of weather conditions with unusually high winds, unusually high temperatures and unusually low humidity. The average temperature for Amarillo on Feb. 26 is 58, but it was 81 with winds gusting beyond 60 the day of the ignitions. The cause is still under investigation but the Panhandle is under yet another day of Red Flag conditions and has the Smokehouse Creek Fire has the potential to grow by 1500 acres PER HOUR today, according to incident command.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Scott, I am an Oregonian who went to high school in Humboldt County in the late 60s, early 70s. Dad was a forestry professor, so I grew up not just in the woods, but around the timber industry and remember all the family wage jobs associated with every little mill and wigwam burner.
When the industry began its death spiral and the mills and dry kilns and wigwams went quiet, you are right that it did not take long at all for the fuel loadings to get out of control. A recipe for total disaster if there ever was one. When I lived in south-central New Mexico a few years back, I did a lot of hiking in the Lincoln National Forest -- famous for the fire that gave us the real Smokey Bear -- and the fuel loads and ladder fuels buildup made it just plain creepy to be in those forests once the weather began to warm. (It is just a matter of time before communities such as Cloudcroft and Ruidoso are left in ashes.)
Decades as an Oregon newspaper editor gave me a front-row seat for the wildfires we struggled through -- and the ongoing effort to educate "wildland interface" residents that they simply MUST practice brush and fuel management -- and build defensive perimeters around their homes. Sometimes the lessons soaked in, but there were always the damned idiots who turned a deaf ear and continue to put themselves and their neighbors at risk.