Sunday, October 27, 2019
Aw, he was only 48: What did he die of, heart disease?
California's fire problems are its own fault, not the climate's
For decades, environmental protection schemes have usurped common sense. For example, most fire ecologists say that the surest way of preventing massive forest fires is to use prescribed burns. ... Prescribed burns keep forests healthy by burning up the underbrush that accumulates on the forest floor and by thinning trees. ... Despite scientific evidence, the federal government continues spending more money on fire suppression than prescribed burns. The Forest Service has performed prescribed burns on an average of 2,187,64 2 acres a year for the past ten years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. This means the Forest Service has only performed prescribed burns on 11.3 percent of the land they manage. ...
President Bill Clinton introduced a rule that restricted the construction of new roads on 49 million acres of national forest. This limited the ability of the Forest Service from thinning trees. In 1993, 1,797,574 acres of wildlands burned, but in 2017 this number jumped to 10,026,086 acres. From 1960 to 1990, 10.3 billion board feet of timber were removed from federal forest land each year. From 1991 to 2000 that numbered dropped to 2.1 billion board feet of timber per year. ...
When trees are too close together, they fight for resources. Many of the trees are weakened and become more susceptible to disease and insect infestation. These conditions turn entire forests into tinder boxes.
More at the link.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe suddenly dropped his lawsuit against DOJ yesterday
Hm, imagine that.
https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6523676-Stipulation-of-Dismissal/
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
AG Barr's inquiry into Russia collusion story origin officially becomes a criminal inquiry
Because witnesses won't cooperate and answer questions from Barr and Durham.
Now testimony will be compelled.
CNN, fixated on Trump-Russian collusion hoax for three years, says AG Barr is fixated on Joseph Mifsud
Can't make this shit up.
Where is Joseph Mifsud anyway?
Journalists and Democrats, but I repeat myself, sure seem uninterested in the mystery man.
Democrat House member Katie Hill of California may have bigger problem than multiple sexual partners both male and female while married to man: She might be a Nazi
Shocking photographs of Democrat Katie
Hill posing naked with a tattoo of what appears to be a Nazi-era Iron
Cross on her bikini line while smoking a bong and making out with her
young female aide have been obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com ...
In a letter to her constituents on
Wednesday, Hill admitted the relationship with her 24-year-old female
aide but she did not name Desjardins. ...
'Allegations that I have been involved in a
relationship with Mr. Kelly are absolutely false,' Hill said in a
statement to website Politico. Hill continued: 'I am saddened that the
deeply personal matter of my divorce has been brought into public view
and the vindictive claims of my ex have now involved the lives and
reputations of unrelated parties.'
In 2018 68% of Americans couldn't afford a vacation, a concert, a ball game or even dinner out and a movie
Here at home, we see the ever-widening gap in our wealthiest cities — New York, San Francisco, LA — which are suffering from homeless crises of epic proportions. Forty percent of Americans don’t have $400 saved in case of emergency. Last year, 68 percent couldn’t afford a recreational activity — from a vacation to concerts to a professional sporting event to even dinner or a movie — for lack of funds.
This year, the Census Bureau reported that the gap between the rich and poor has hit its highest level in the 50-plus years since they began marking it. Adjusting for inflation, the average household income is the same as it was 20 years ago. The average American can’t afford to buy a house in 70 percent of the country.
More here.
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