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2020-10-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Trump administration REJECTS plea for disaster assistance following worst wildfires in state's history
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Governor Gavin Newsom requested a major presidential disaster declaration
  • The request for cost-sharing between state and federal government was denied
  • Five of California's six largest fires in recorded history have broken out this year
Posted by Skidmark 2020-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 With all due respect to the good ones still in Cali:

Bwahahahaha!!!

Trump to Newsom: "Drop dead."
Posted by charger 2020-10-17 00:36||   2020-10-17 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Trump just reversed that decision.
Posted by Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-10-17 00:47||   2020-10-17 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Too bad if true.

There are no rewards to bailing these people out.
Posted by charger 2020-10-17 01:02||   2020-10-17 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if they would use the money for illegals or fixing the forests.
Posted by gorb 2020-10-17 04:11||   2020-10-17 04:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump needs to make the money contingent on controlled burns EVERY YEAR.

If you don't burn the dead wood every year it builds up...

The federal reserve would be wise to follow with their bailout also keeping the financial deadwood around to really sink the economy..
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-17 04:31||   2020-10-17 04:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Insurance companies will reject claims that are the result of 'reckless abandonment'
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-17 06:09||   2020-10-17 06:09|| Front Page Top

#7 QUESTION I have been meaning to ask for sometime.

Are these all State owned or is some Federal National Forests?

If a major part of these are US Forest controlled then Screw the Tree Huggers and do control burns.

Demonstrate to the Public the animal life and environment saved. eg. Ft. Bragg NC. does control undergrowth burns regularly and I cannot think of any out of control forest fire in the years I was there.

To be fully forthright. Aside from the Wacko-West Coast Tree-Hugger problem. There is also an annual weather pattern that promotes massive wild fires in the West Coast states.

A quick Wiki (List_of_California_wildfires) check by anyone will halt any false claims of climate change and etc. Because West Coast Wild Fires have proven to be pre-Columbus.
Posted by NN2N1  2020-10-17 06:50||   2020-10-17 06:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if they would use the money for illegals or fixing the forests.

Is that a rhetorical question?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-17 07:12||   2020-10-17 07:12|| Front Page Top

#9 California, U.S. Forest Service Establish Shared Long-Term Strategy to Manage Forests and Rangelands

Trump called Newsom's bluff earlier this year
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-17 07:22||   2020-10-17 07:22|| Front Page Top

#10 And climate change (read: cycles) are pre-Columbus as well. Caliphornia does not deserve one thin dime.
Posted by Clem 2020-10-17 07:52||   2020-10-17 07:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Controlled burns on federal land. Right, what could go wrong?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-17 10:28||   2020-10-17 10:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Trump U-TURNS and approves California's relief funds for record-breaking wildfires - as Joe Biden says the money should never have been withheld in the first place
Posted by Skidmark 2020-10-17 12:07||   2020-10-17 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 Appeasing these people never works.

You bail them out, and as Biden's words show, they still shit on you.
Posted by charger 2020-10-17 12:16||   2020-10-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Sensible. Trying to help California GOP candidates down in the ballot.
Posted by Butch Angugum1577 2020-10-17 12:21||   2020-10-17 12:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Is that a rhetorical question?

It was me. If it's not rhetorical or sarcastic, I tag it.
Posted by gorb 2020-10-17 16:58||   2020-10-17 16:58|| Front Page Top

#16 ^Gimme an example when they used fed funds for an intended purpose.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-17 17:08||   2020-10-17 17:08|| Front Page Top

#17 I can't think of one. /notSarc
Posted by gorb 2020-10-17 23:44||   2020-10-17 23:44|| Front Page Top

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