[SOC] Devastating California Bush Fires

[Todd Butler]

Ian wrote:

>Amid the tragic devastation of California's bush fires emerges the most oddest
>of things.
>
>"Devastation . . . eucalyptus trees stand unscathed alongside a street of
>burned out homes in the San Diego suburb of Scripps Ranch yesterday...."
>
>http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=406242
>
>Obviously the print version of our newspaper carries a much, much larger
>photograph but, most of us here are confused by burned out houses amid
>untouched eucalypts. Strange...
>
>Our thoughts are very much with everyone affected. We know what it's like.
>
I read the Subject Line, and thought the president might have forcefully 
removed someone from the National Park Service, or perhaps the 
Department of the Interior.  Especially if it becomes a "terrorist act" 
as nearly everything on the evening news now appears to be on a daily 
basis.   So much for "old growth forests"  Ashcroft has a few more 
terrorists to hunt down, and in these cases they are arsonists in 
southern California.  Maybe the newly elected Terminator (Governor) will 
prevent this damper on the state's already bad economy.  Of course with 
87 billion dollars headed for Iraqi oil fields and defending troops put 
in "harm's way" looking to topple Saddam Hussein, and locate UMD, he 
will be second in line at the United States Treasury.  Like everyone 
says on Field Day -- Good Luck (in the contest).

73,   Todd   N0NCL    SOC #  533
Urbandale, Iowa