DISASTER MAJOR
I never thought I’d be living in the midst of a major
disaster but here I am. Fortunately my home and office are about a 10 miles
west of where the inferno stopped. They are still counting but it appears about
7,000 houses and businesses were burned down , as well as more than 20 deaths
attribrituted to it. This monster came
into to the foothills and town in the middle of the night, as some unfortunates
had to run out without shoes , wallets,
with nothing else but with their lives.
We were inconvienced only with things like a heavy smoke, long lines at
gas stations, and lots of traffic. My
sign shop, Who made our 30th anniversary banner had just moved to
his location but the building he was in burn out totally. His name is Amier and
may be Arabic so he may not be able to get a grant or much to keep going.
How many can
re-build? Other fires had destroyed up
to a thousand houses, not all homes were rebuilt, some say ½. Evan at that , we’re talking about 3500
projects. That is impacting all local Architects, Builders, Consultants beyond measure. Looking at the phone book,
there are only about one page ( 100
Architects in this area, But 24 pages of
Attorneys!). That adds up to 35 houses
per each Architect. Small offices can do
two or three houses a year! Obviously,
folks from all over the West will have to be involved. A lot of the houses, apartments were built in
the early 1980’s, maybe the tract builder is still around and has the original
drawings, soil tests, structural calculations and could re-build like he did
originally, on a mass scale. FEMA is
onsite with their heavy handed folks in moon-suits scouring burn sites for
toxics and want to take it all away along with a foot or two of topsoil. To
where? Maybe a toxic fill site in central California or maybe Nevada? They
worry about things like paint that had lead in it! It’s too early to see where this is going to
go. There are horror stories that each house site may cost $50,000 to clear of
debris & toxics! Let’s see, times
6000 is how much?
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| THE FUZZ |
ALL IS NOT LOST
It appears that the
New York police are exchanging their horses for Smart cars. The horses may me
faster, but not as cute.
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| FALL VINEYARDS |
WINE COUNTRY
All is not lost,
however, as the grapes were just harvested and their vines are shedding their
golden leaves as we speak.
BOOK REVIEW
I just finished a
book titled “Invisible Armys” about Guerrilla warfare. (by Max Boot 2013). A good sized volume of
700 pages, delineating the history of the term and who was doing it. From
the Greeks and Romans to our current problem with ISIS, He does deleneated how the U.S. didn’t
understand (and still may not) the
methods of offense when confronted with a non-State. Have you ever considered that the American
Indian was a Guerilla fighter?, That the early American Revolutionaries also could
be called that. From Book I; The Origens
of Guerlilla Warfare, Book 2; The rise of the Liberal Revolutionaries, To Book
8; God’s Killers (Radical Islam) yuo’ll see why the us Military didn’t
understand what was happening until too late,
and wonder why we need Billion dollars F-22 to fight someone in the streets
of Afganistan.
BOOK REVIEW 2
If there are a lot
of Americans who are suffering from anxiety about our politics, they will
really be upset after reading Philip Roths’
book. THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA written in
2003 about the beginning of WW2, and mostly about a Jewish family . Charles Lindberg becomes President as he
vowed to keep the US neutral and out of the war. Well, he is aligned with the
German higherarchy and it isn’t long
before the Nazi are taking control of the army and National Guard, and begin
arresting and killing people (Jews, of
course) like the popular radio commentator, “Walter Winchell”. The author gets
us out of this sticky situatiion in a cavalier way, and we were able to
re-align with the actual history to end the war. Whew!! I’m certainly happy we have a stable
and intelligent president to keep this from happening.
I did enjoy the
short notes the author inserted an the APPENDIX
regarding most of the players in the ww2 drama. For instance, Lindburg did receive in 1938 the Service Cross of the
German Eagle, a gold medallion with four swastikas, conferred by order from
Hitler. Also Ford’s labor policies were condemned
by the National Labor Relations Board and considered the worst in auto
industry. We get a glimpse of the seamy
side of a lot of our heroes.
A TELEGRAM FROM HARRY TRUMAN, PAST PRESIDENT (This may be
false news, but I don’t care.)
Political
Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition
that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end.
I HURT
Am I the only want
upset by how our army guys wear their
berets plastered down over their eye but their logo has to be offset to do it? I
did appreciate that at least they got rid of that stupid cap they used to wear. That upsets me almost how all our polititians
must wear a little American flag pin on their lapel. At Last Bernie didn’t. Or how about coming to attention when the anthem is being played? Shall we just jail any
basatrd who doesn’t act like it was a
sacred religious song . ( All now, for der Fatherland!).
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