This flier has been appearing all over the George Washington campus. We’re calling it “Adam Kokesh’s brain on academia:” Apparently the good folks at the Young America’s Foundation asked to have the posters relocated away from their event. We’re…

Why isn’t Garamendi out there with a shovel & hose?

Frantic Freddie on October 23, 2007 at 9:49 PM

Good question. Apparently, though, he drew the short straw and was sent out with his talking points by the party.

He’s doing his Democrat Party duty and spewing the party line — blame everything on Bush and Iraq.

Buy Danish on October 24, 2007 at 12:12 PM

Ask and ye shall receive.

abc7.com Web Superpages.com
Harsh Criticism from Assemblyman: ‘Day of Reckoning’
Orange County Fire Authority Chief Says State Failed to Provide Flying Tankers, Air Support
KABC LOCAL NEWS

FOOTHILL RANCH, Oct. 23, 2007 – Even as firefighters continue to battle massive wildfires, officials are criticizing the state’s response to the emergency.
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The wildfires, whipped by high Santa Ana winds and intense temperatures, has claimed at least two lives, caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee and forced the evacuation of some 346,000 homes in San Diego County.

Criticism came Tuesday from Orange County Fire Authority Chief Chip Prather. He says there aren’t enough resources to go around, and that the state failed to provide flying tankers and other air support, along with the equipment necessary to battle the blazes in his area.

A local assemblyman called this a day of reckoning.

“When the California legislature Monday morning quarterbacks this scenario, I know my colleagues are all going to be calling for additional resources,” Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, said. “And what Chief Prather has made clear, and every other fire chief in the state of California, is the blue ribbon commission was sanctioned to determine what we needed and to make recommendations. They made those recommendations and yet the legislature did not choose to follow those recommendations.

“To me that’s unconscionable. We always knew this day would come. This is the day of reckoning,” said Assemblyman Spitzer. “And what’s frustrating to me is that we are not able to deal with it and we’re putting not only property and citizen life at risk, but we’re putting firefighter lives at risk.

“We don’t have an off fire season in Southern California. That’s what everybody thinks. Oh, it’s October, November, no problem. We never can let our guard down in Southern California,” Spitzer said.

When asked about Prather’s criticism, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he people are working “well together under such difficult circumstances.”

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5722660

Do you have links to info about the angry fire chief or state legislature not funding fire prevention?

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on.

“Once you identify a potent adversary, seize every word, every event — no matter how trivial — and turn it around to your advantage. Make a big deal of it. Keep doing it. Over and over again. Eventually, you will wear down your opponent and win. And the bloodless revolution succeeds.” [see: page 128]

They’ve been doing it to Bush since 1999, and the Republican Party in general since before 1994.

For more, see the article by Kyle-Anne Shiver of BrookesNews.Com, titled Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and Rush Limaugh

They would never get away with it if the media wasn’t so corrupt!

Well lets see what Hillary was doing

But some of the political elite here in town were oblivious to the situation. They were down the hill in Brentwood hanging out with Hillary Clinton and funneling cash towards her campaign like she was a busboy from Chinatown. According to a report from ABC News, director Rob Reiner (yes that is ‘Meathead’ from All in the Family’ sang to Senator Clinton “Happy Birthday Mrs. President.” I’m guessing that Marilyn Monroe is spinning in her grave right now.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Magic Johnson arrived in time for cocktails and hour dourves, Eloise Harper reports. She writes, “Despite the massive fires miles away in Malibu, celebrities like Ted Danson, Bridget Moynahan and Chelsea Handler made the trip to the famous director’s house to catch the Senator from New York. Guests were greeted by men dressed in head to toe white, with lavender bow ties saying with “Welcome to the Reiner’s,” as they shuffled up and down the street parking Bentley’s, Porsche’s, and BMW’s.

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Hillary is no Bill Clinton. He would have made an appearance in Malibu and cried on cue at the disaster.

jackass…

Tragically, the next Governor of California.

juanito on October 24, 2007 at 12:59 AM

Nah – it’s going to be Villaraigosa, our very own Ovid.

You live in a freaking terraformed desert! Your trees are like kindling and you are going to hate on Bush?

Jackass.

Tragically, the next Governor of California.

I think it’s great that California is nice enough to let a retarded guy climb so high on the political ladder, but he probobly shouldn’t be doing TV interviews.

BadgerHawk on October 23, 2007 at 11:31 PM

That applies to our two Senators as well.

I think it’s great that California is nice enough to let a retarded guy climb so high on the political ladder, but he probobly shouldn’t be doing TV interviews.

Maybe the good Lt Gov can get his chainsaw out and do some
clearing if there’s anything left to clear. .

jummy on October 23, 2007 at 10:21 PM

Baloney. The liberal legislature is notorious for financial shenanigans like that.

Here’s hoping that this is the case in San Diego, too. I have friends in La Jolla, and our uncle and aunt are in town visiting grandkids — bad timing.

As for the DemonRats, let them embarrass themselves. This guy’s brainless attack on Bush only reveals what a coward he is.

that was every bit as desperate and tendentios as the attempt to blame the wildfires on bush.

jummy on October 23, 2007 at 10:21 PM

Truth stings huh boopy?

Speakup on October 23, 2007 at 10:13 PM

that was every bit as desperate and tendentios as the attempt to blame the wildfires on bush.

The 300 miles south of the grapevine to the Mexico border is semi arid and each year the very dry Santa Anna winds come down from the deserts in America’s midsection and create a serious fire condition.
What’s different this year is the number of fires all at one time, so who’s setting these fires?
The enviro whack job global warming activists fit the profile.
Those same enviro whack jobs are who beat back efferts to use controlled burns and brush clearing that would have saved billions of personal property.

the Cal. libs legislation refused to spend the money.

Care to guess where that money went instead of fire equipment?
The same place any tax money that’s not bolted down goes, it went to assure that Cal. remains the number one magnet state for illegal aliens, paying for their health care, housing and education.

When next Californians head to the polls, they need to ask themselves whether they want more illegals or fire protection and if the answer is more fire protection then they should vote Conservative.

Some local info:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/breakingnews/

Making a stand at Live Oak Canyon Road

Cooks Corner:

Firefighters are going to light a backfire in hopes of keeping the blaze from crossing Live Oak Canyon road. The fear is that if it’s not stopped here, the fire could run unchecked all the way to Rancho Santa Margarita.

OC Fire Chief Mike Rohde, who is in charge of the firefighting effort in the Lake Forest area, said, “We’re going to be in real trouble if it gets past us here.”

A fire strike team was sent in along the road to make sure that the backfire itself doesn’t jump the road.

– Mike Anton

04:48 PM, Oct 23 2007

I know this area like the back of my hand. Cook’s Corner is a popular biker hangout. Stables in my neighborhood are taking on hundreds of evacuated horses from the Live Oak Canyon and Santiago Canyon stables.

Bush accused of shortchanging wildfire preparation

Washington, D.C.:

Trying to avoid a repeat of the failures of Hurricane Katrina, the White House is taking pains to respond quickly to the escalating emergency posed by the Southern California wildfires. But a leading Democrat says the Bush administration has shortchanged funding for removing dead trees and dry shrubbery that provided the fuel for the fast-moving blazes. And a leading Republican member of the state’s delegation called on Congress to quickly provide $1 billion in emergency funds to help pay the costs of firefighting and disaster relief.

President Bush plans to visit the Southland on Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and David Paulison, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arrived in the state today. But as the White House scrambled to stay on top of the crisis, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the administration had not put a high enough priority on preventing catastrophic fires in the West. “We have fought for years during this Bush administration to have money for wildfire suppression,” Reid said. “It takes effort to prepare the landscape so that these fires don’t burn the way they have been.”

After the fires of 2003, Congress authorized $760 million a year for “fuel reduction” — clearing away dead trees. But less than half of that has been provided.

– Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and James Gerstenzang

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If I ever meet Harry Reid, I swear I will kick him in the F-ing balls and take whatever punishment they want to give me. God damned carpet bagging piece of sh-t.

maybe they could use another 1500. they wouldn’t have to come from irq either, but maybe they could be “brought home” from bosnia.