When the small brushfire that would go on to consume Pacific Palisades (and kill 12 people) was just one hour old, an urgent request for bulldozers to create a firebreak to contain it was met with this response from the Los Angeles Fire Department: “Heck no! That area is filled with endangered plants!”
The fire went on to consume 6,837 structures and burned for 24 days.
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Well guys, we ALL know some of them – space rocks more important than your own babies. We used to call them ‘space cases’ and ‘rocks in their head.’ Now they’re just space rocks.
you should have an episode of the 70,000 truckers that just left California because of the new law that turns independent truckers into employees.
As a firefighter I was trained to save lives first, then worry about the dwellings. I’ll take my chances with the bulldozers. Weeds be damned. I guess that Capt. didn’t have FAFO in mind.
The Captain was trained to protect his pension
For those of you who are curious, this is the heat map to which Bill was referring.
I would be an idiot to send out a dozer in that area. I am so trained.
I also read that text somewhere online. My first reaction was that he was being funny, and would follow on with OF COURSE I’M SENDING IN THE EQUIPMENT YOU IDIOT! Silly me, he was serious and afraid of the repercussions if he upset the psychogreens.
The reason that progressives are more concerned with the “other” outside of their scope of control is due to their innate need to control the “other” outside of their scope of control. In short, they are fundamentally authoritarian.
I want to give you 5 thumbs up, at least!
I’m thinking googleplex. Google is 1followed by 100 zeroes. Google is 1 followed by a Google number of zeroes.
IE: Google is ten to the 100th power Googleplex is ten is 10 to the Googleth power.
Hey, at least it has an end unlike infinity.😏
God bless you Scott for thinking the best of people. Yes these people really do believe this stuff. I work in landscaping and have a landscape architect friend that didn’t want me throwing some rotted wood with ants on it into my trailer before he shook the ants off into the plants. These are the same people that put dogs above humans and just want to live with pets because it’s too painful for them to interact with people and now we have to accommodate them by letting them bring their dogs into the stores while the rest of us… Read more »
A previous job had me in charge of a fairly large facility and all of its equipment and grounds. One of my employees came up to me one morning and said that there were a bunch of bees by the main entrance to the office. I went down to purchasing and took the purchasing manager’s credit card and told my employee to go get me two cans of foaming wasp spray as the nest was under some bushes. At sundown, we took care of the nest. No more swarm around people. I damn near got fired. The CO president was… Read more »
Yup. Use the bulldozer to move the plant. And hey, if you want to save the plant and you yourself do it, go ahead. It might cost more time and money to do it, but with what humans can do when they really want to, I’m sure we can set up the correct environment for it to flourish. Thats the real virtue. Just saying ” save the “whatever” and only do the easy part ain’t real virtue if that causes really important issues to fail. 😏 And I can’t resist. My dad grew up on a farm, that I went… Read more »
But what about the pebbles? What about those poor, helpless pebbles?!? They NEED to be SAVED!!
Let them become sand!
Exactly–let them transition.
I see what you did there
Shouldn’t saving common sense be something that should be preserved in the name of biodiversity?
As an educated man, you likely already know that the commonly used “common sense” term refers to a human trait that is not at all common. Therefore, the preservation of “common sense” is left to the minority of humans who exhibit the quality.
You can include “common courtesy” with that!
As in the Full Metal Jacket common courtesy?