Northern California Fire Update: 6-30-08

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Water Bomber Lands on Lake Shasta
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The mandatory evacuation for the Platina area was lifted by fire officials Sunday evening and Highway 36 is reopened, a spokesman for the Shasta County Sheriff’s office said.
Firefighters across Shasta County, 47,000 acres of which were still burning Sunday night, appeared to have a productive day battling the flames. In [...]

Fire Update: Northern California 6-29-08

The telltale crash of thunder and the prospect of more lightning-caused fires rattled residents in the Burney area this afternoon.
“Definitely, there’s thunder-bumping going on here, and that’s not a good sign,” said Patty Adams, a McArthur-Burney Falls State Park aide.
She and others in her office, about six miles north of Burney, hadn’t noticed any lightning [...]

Fire Update: Northern California 6-28-08

looking west from Round Mtn.
Ferocious fires forced evacuations near Ono on Friday as afternoon temperatures near the blazes vaulted to 107 degrees under sullen, smoky skies.
Authorities ordered 75 to 100 households out of their homes in the Rainbow Lake area just west of Ono as the Deerlick Fire began chewing through timber and brush stands [...]

Second Amendment Affirmed

I’d be remiss if I didn’t post something about the first Supreme Court decision on the second amendment in 70 some years. But I’m going to link you to a favorite blog of mine, and a favorite person as well. SwampWoman has this covered better than I could, so without further [...]

Northern California Fire Update 6-27-08

Smoke

Motion Fire Thurs Sunset

Hot north winds shoved wildfire smoke out of the far northern Sacramento Valley on Thursday, allowing air tankers to fight some of the 250 blazes chewing through more than 40,000 acres of north state timber and brush.
But the winds that banished the ashen overcast for a day also incited flames that had [...]

Fire Update: Northern California June 26, 2008

Bomber

Smoke taking the sun

Mandatory evacuations were ordered for 80 homes near Junction City late Wednesday as the Eagle Fire jumped Highway 299.
The Trinity County residents who live in Cooper Bar Estates were told about 10:45 p.m. to leave their homes, Shasta-Trinity National Forest spokesman Mike Odle said.
Firefighters were being pulled off other fires to make [...]

Update: Fires In Northern California

These are the fires burning in the area around me. Just part of the hazards of living in The State of Jefferson.
Firefighters are continuing to battle more than 100 fires in and around Redding today. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Roy Del Carlo said no homes or structures have burned. Listed below [...]

Obama is a Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with him. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is a post [...]

Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California

This one’s going to be big. It’s in my neck of the woods, but on the other side of the valley.

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Fire breaks out on south side of Shasta Bally on June [...]

Iceland Police Not Too Bright

The police in Iceland have killed as many polar bears in two weeks as all the oil companies combined have in 48 years.

Authorities in Iceland have been forced to shoot dead a polar bear that had travelled hundreds of kilometres across the north Atlantic Ocean atop an ice floe.
The polar bear, which they had hoped [...]

More From Drill Here, Drill Now

Here are some newer videos from American Solutions.

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You Are Not Robbing This Bank

NewsBusters has this great story about a guy and his gun.
In the latest in a long series of Armed Citizen stories that the media works strenuously to ignore, a man named Nabil Fawzi is the toast of the Detroit area. Courtesy of Cam Edwards once again, see the Detroit News report:
A longtime customer brazenly stood [...]

It’s About Time: Permission To Harass The Polar Bear

And it’s all Bush’s fault once again.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

WASHINGTON — Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
The Fish [...]

Chuck Norris Signs Up: Drill Here Drill Now

As gas prices are at an all-time high, the American people are demanding that Congress take action to drill here and drill now. More than 650,000 Americans have signed the “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” petition, and that number keeps growing rapidly each day.
Increasing domestic energy resources is not a Republican or Democrat [...]

Buy Guns And Ammo Now!

!!UPDATE!! BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT. HE WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS, DO NOT FALL FOR HIS LIES. SEE THIS POST NOW! Yes We Can…Ban Guns–Obama
If you live in California, and love your Second Amendment Rights, you need to do two things. First, stock up on ammo and buy some new handguns. Second, try [...]