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Kosh's Shadow
1/23/2025 5:46:33 PM
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JCM, this one is for you: Wife saw some smoke on the hill behind a couple of houses down. Fire department checked; person had a burn permit and everything seemed OK 7:30, she saw flames near there. I verified that. Fire department found smoldering embers but no one around. Hndled it, and thanked us. Seems like the person with the burn permit just left it burning or smoldering. Wife asked if they would educate him. "We were unable to contact him at this time" but I think he will not get a burn permit again. And they were very nice to us. "You have good eyes" to have seen the flames. This isn't LA, and it is cold and there is snow on the ground, but there is a big forested hill behind the houses on this side of the street, and all the houses are wood, so this could have been a lot worse. Still wouldn't have made the national news, or probably even the state news.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/23/2025 5:47:21 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1: And last week, there was a rabid raccoon.....
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Kosh's Shadow
1/23/2025 8:35:11 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1: My question is, does the fire department connect the earlier call with the later one, and will they rip the person with the permit a new asshole for leaving a fire unattended, and tell him he gets no burn permit again?
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:05:46 AM
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In #3 Kosh's Shadow said: My question is, does the fire department connect the earlier call with the later one, and will they rip the person with the permit a new asshole for leaving a fire unattended, and tell him he gets no burn permit again? My honest opinion? No, because chances are very good that the connection will never be made unless the department decides to do additional digging on purpose. I'm guessing the person who issued the permit is not the one at the fire, and even though they went to the same house twice. Unless.....one of the guys on the squad was at both calls and could push this. It would require someone to be proactive. Is that likely to happen in your area? If this had happened in California, I'd say no. Oh--and good morning, Kosh.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:20:09 AM
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Courtesy of Stephen Kruiser: "Today's big news is that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have "reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday on how to manage the Gaza Strip in the days following the war," according to a report today in Israel Hayom." His article includes this following snippet: "The Emirates leads the Arab world in opposition to jihad and the use of Islam for violent purposes, and is willing to instill these values." Is that really true? I thought I recalled UAE helping jihad more than a few times.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:24:41 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5:
Whoops. Courtesy of Stephen Green. Wrong Stephen.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:31:38 AM
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Trump Declassifies JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. Files--but I expect everything to get stalled, delayed, and thrown into a court to prevent it if at all possible. I have a feeling (it's only that) that there was a lot of coordination going on between government and some other entity. Whether this was cooperative or adversarial, I have no clue. The article mentions the Mafia, but given how cozy Obama was with the cartels via Fast and Furious might simply be an exemplar of how the US government has been run for many decades.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:50:15 AM
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Testing embedding video: may as well pick on a media personality while at it.....
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vxbush
1/24/2025 5:51:19 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 10: Success. Nice. Not the idiot chicks of the View, of course, but just so you know what low-information voters are hearing....
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Occasional Reader
1/24/2025 7:19:23 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 7:
JFK was murdered by a commie; MLK, by a white supremacist; RFK. by a Palestinian. That's it. There's no "there" there.
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Occasional Reader
1/24/2025 7:27:43 AM
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In #6 vxbush said: Whoops. Courtesy of Stephen Green. Wrong Stephen.
Green needs to fact-check his pieces. Syria kept tighter control over its Palestinian refugees but still found them plenty troublesome. Hamas takes its name from the city of Hama, which Assad père turned to rubble in 1982 as his heavy-handed solution to Syria's Palestinian problem.
Well, no. 1) "Hamas" is an abbreviation (in Arabic) of "Islamic Resistance Movement", Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah ; the name has nothing to do with the Syrian city of Hama.
2) The 1982 massacre in Hama was directed against an uprising led by the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood; it had nothing to do with Palestinians.
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Occasional Reader
1/24/2025 7:33:17 AM
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In #5 vxbush said: Is that really true? I thought I recalled UAE helping jihad more than a few times. They may have in the past, but they also signed the Abraham Accords more recently. Heck, a couple years ago, they had the Burj Khalifa illuminated with the shape of a menorah to honor the first night of Hanukkah - something I would never have dreamed possible. So the UAE government does seem fairly on-side in terms of wanting to end the jihad madness.
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JCM
1/24/2025 9:05:09 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1: Most place that allow burning require it be both contained and attended. Not likely but a fire can always spread in winter also.
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JCM
1/24/2025 9:06:17 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3: We always explained the laws the first time. Seldom saw a second. But yes a person who persists can get a burning ban.
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JCM
1/24/2025 9:10:30 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 5: The Emirates and Saudi are all Sunni, the terrorists are Sufi. The Sunni are also on the Sufi hit list. It's in there self interest to control and oppose the terror groups. It's not out of any altruistic motives, pure self interest.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/24/2025 9:32:54 AM
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In #17 JCM said: The Emirates and Saudi are all Sunni, the terrorists are Sufi. I thought the Iranians were Shi'ite.
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JCM
1/24/2025 9:37:08 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 18: Shia is the Persian of Shi'te which is the Arabic. Since I grew up in Iran that's the version of the word that comes to mind.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 9:44:28 AM
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In #14 Occasional Reader said: [The UAE] may have in the past, but they also signed the Abraham Accords more recently. I need to see a list of all the members now. I'm clearly behind.
In #13 Occasional Reader said: Green needs to fact-check his pieces. Thanks for that. The Hamas-Hama reference seemed odd to me, but I couldn't recall the specifics on that. Dealing with too many irons in the fire today to even think straight.
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Occasional Reader
1/24/2025 9:58:47 AM
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Reply to JCM in 17:
“the terrorists are Sufi”
Huh? I think you had a bit of a brain fart here, I cannot think of a single Sufi terrorist group.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/24/2025 10:16:49 AM
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In #19 JCM said: Since I grew up in Iran that's the version of the word that comes to mind.
Then why did you write "Sufi" above?
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JCM
1/24/2025 10:21:10 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 23: Brain fart.... lack of coffee...
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vxbush
1/24/2025 10:22:31 AM
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In #24 JCM said: Brain fart.... lack of coffee... Some days, no amount of coffee helps. Everyone needs a bit of grace now and then.
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Occasional Reader
1/24/2025 11:04:24 AM
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Reply to JCM in 26:
The UK also urgently needs common sense narwhal tusk control.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 12:12:09 PM
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In #27 Occasional Reader said: The UK also urgently needs common sense narwhal tusk control.
I take it I missed an out-of-control tusk attack.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/24/2025 12:28:31 PM
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In #28 vxbush said: I take it I missed an out-of-control tusk attack.
But a tusk force has been deployed to investigate.
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vxbush
1/24/2025 12:56:14 PM
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In #29 buzzsawmonkey said: But a tusk force has been deployed to investigate. I expect a progressive to horn his way on to the committee.
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JCM
1/24/2025 2:12:21 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 30: It would be a fluke for a conservative to be on the committe.
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