I'm so pleased that at least SOME of the commenters know something

[ssurgul]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/fox-news-al-qaeda-is-causing-the-ca-wildires/

And no, I'm not just talking those that spew venom at Faux News, or the 'reich-wingers' (found that in the comments, gotta use it from now on! ;))

The fires in SoCal are an annual event. Period. They happened when I lived there 30+ years ago, they happened there 20 years ago, they happened there 10 years ago. It's a fucking desert down there! It's arid and nasty, and then the winds come in late fall/early winter, and that's that. Instant tinderbox waiting to go up. Sure, maybe al Quaida might consider using it to their advantage, but where's the hoopla if they did? They're not the sort to sit idly by and let their own well-earned credit sit when they bomb stuff.

However, I did especially like this quote, and wanted to store it for posterity, just in case the comments get scrapped or something:

Faux NoNews Reports

I bought some Milk and it was sour, AQ did it.
My lawn mower was swiped, AQ did it.
I had a flat tire, AQ did it.
Someone tagged our neighborhood, AQ did it.
The block up the street had a gas leak, AQ did it.
Fall came and my tomato plants died, AQ did it.

We are gonna hear this crap for decades.

And the best sig of the bunch: "Impeach Bush and Cheney. Save our Constitution."

Comments

[tsear.livejournal.com]

I've been living in SoCal for almost five years now. I've been living in California since I was born. We have fires every year. Every year we drove through Altamont pass or Pacheco, different hills were blackened. People have this vision of California as a near tropical paradise. It's not. It's dry, there's no water. The LA basin is an arid, hellspawned dusty wasteland. It has fires every year. This year, the Santa Ana winds came at a bad time. They sparked small fires into an inferno. I can look out my window right now. The sunlight is brown, there's a column of smoke from the Santiago fire, fifteen miles away that eats up half the horizon.

People don't understand these winds. They turn over cars, shatter windows, crush trees. They blow over a hundred miles an hour at times, hotter than any air California can produce.

The prevailing theory down here is that La Raza started the Santiago fire.

Also, there's no such city as Santiago. Santiago is a canyon where the fire started. It's also not near San Diego. That's about a hundred miles south.

[ben-raccoon.livejournal.com]

People are @$%&ing stupid. Ugh. -.-

This happens every year. Not *nearly* this badly, but it happens.