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"Texas officials: ATF touched off 150-acre wildfire"

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Anonymous Bones said...

The Feds sent aid to help with the Mexican fires. Obama, the "Blue States of America" president.

11:18 AM

Anonymous astonerii said...

Why even bother? Document the disaster, and then use that documentation to demand the federal government not help every other state. By demanding disaster relief, they are only strengthening the argument that the state is the slave of the fed.

12:24 PM

Anonymous Whitehall said...

The leading nuclear power project, next in line for the federal loan guarantees, was also cancelled by its principal investor. It was to be built to serve Houston.

I suspect that the Obama Administration's hasslement of the state of Texas had something to do with it.

12:51 PM

Anonymous heartlander said...

As a former Texan who still cheers that state on, I can only cry, "SECEDE!"

9:03 PM

Blogger Georg Felis said...

Hm. A bit of perspective might be needed. 1 square mile (a Section) is 640 acres, so this is about a quarter of a Section. In very dry Texas grassland, this could support anywhere from 1-20 cows.

Now consider the local bomb squads AND the BATF have stacked unsafe explosives up for destruction in this remote area (you don't do it around houses), are ready to light the fuse....and the wind picks up.

It costs $$$ to keep your guys standing around, you can't just leave the explody stuff unguarded, and you sure don't want to pack it back up again (its unstable, thats why it needs to be destroyed). So light the fuse and fight the resulting fire, which burnt (not "consumed") about a quarter-mile of Texas dry grass. Not bad in areas that light off tens of miles of grass in "Controlled burns" every spring in order to allow the new grass to grow in without being smothered by the dry top cover. (Admittedly this year is freakishly dry, and all burning would do is to expose dry dirt with no new grass)

I'll give this one about a 3 on the Government Stupidity-o-Meter. And the meter goes to 11. :)

11:42 PM

Blogger Chaz said...

If Texas Secedes I'm volunteering to serve.

6:54 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kiss our ass Texas. Deal with it.
Signed America

2:36 PM

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