President Thin Skin Won’t Like This

Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded [...]

Obama’s Govt. Motors pulls plug on longtime Fall River Chevy dealership

McARTHUR – Lawrence Agee and his family have sold Chevrolets in eastern Shasta County for 60 years. It’s that kind of loyalty Agee thought would be rewarded when General Motors Corp. in May started advising dealers nationwide who was in and who was out. But to his dismay, Agee was pink-slipped, which ends a run [...]

Chalk Fire Update

To give some perspective as to the size of the fire, in the smoke on the left side of the bottom picture, that little speck about a third of the way up is a double blade ‘copter with a bucket. Fire officials relied on bulldozers, air tankers and helicopters at the Chalk Fire on Friday [...]

Do You Really Need To Be Told?

How much money do we, the taxpayers, have to spend on dumb people? If you can’t figure out it’s smokey outside when the whole forest around you is burning, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to live unsupervised. And just how much is this costing me to move in equipment to tell me the obvious? A [...]

President Thin-Skin Can Dish It Out….

…. But he sure as hell can’t take it. The candidate who told his supporters “to argue with them and get in their face” now finds the shoe on the other foot. So they’re taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors. So this is hope and change — telling American citizens who in a democracy disagree with [...]

Shasta/Lassen County Wildfire Update 8-7-09

Officials backed off Thursday on their estimate for containment of a series of lightning-sparked fires that has burned more than 14,000 acres in eastern Shasta County. A day after saying the SHU (Shasta-Trinity Unit) Lightning Complex could be contained by Saturday, state officials now aren’t saying when the fires will be contained. Told ya so. [...]

Shasta/Lassen County Wildfire Update 8-6-09

A quick update of the fires around my neck of the woods. A series of 40 fires burning in eastern Shasta County around Burney and Cassel grew overnight to more than 12,000 acres, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported today. The SHU (Shasta-Trinity Unit) Lightning Complex has burned 12,704 acres since Sunday [...]

Shasta/Lassen Wildfire Upate 8-5-09

The series of fires burning in eastern Shasta County around Burney and Cassel are expected to be contained by Saturday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said today. Dubbed the SHU (Shasta-Trinity Unit) Lightning complex, the 40 fires have burned 7,678 acres since Sunday. Containment means there’s a line around the fire to [...]

Shasta/Lassen County Wildfire Update 8-4-09

Evacuation of RV Park UPDATED TUESDAY | 5:45 P.M. – Evacuation of the Rancheria RV Park in Hat Creek on the west side of Highway 89 has just been ordered. Highways 89 & 44 Closure Update UPDATED TUESDAY | 4:44 P.M. – State Route 44 currently closed from 5 miles west of junction SR 89 [...]

Lightning Starts 35 Fires in Eastern Shasta County. Evacuations in Some Areas

Fire crews were battling 35 blazes in the Intermountain area ranging in size from a quarter-acre to more than 600 acres. Residents evacuated from Big Eddy Estates near Fall River Mills and along VN Lane in Hat Creek. The Susanville Interagency Fire Center (SIFC) is dispatching ground forces and aircraft to nearly 100 reported fires [...]

The Lie Clock

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter’s desk at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks there for?” St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie Clock. Every time you [...]

R.I.P. Michael “Scott” Speicher

Officials said Sunday that they got new information from an Iraqi citizen in early July, leading Marines stationed in Anbar province to a location in the desert which was believed to be the crash site of Speicher’s jet. The Iraqi said he knew of two other Iraqis who recalled an American jet crashing and the [...]