18 Replies to “Red Rose Country”

  2. When you understand what it is really for you realise, yes, it works only too well. The problem is so many people think it’s purpose is what it claims to be.

  3. This was a result of internal budget cuts, with the amounts that were trimmed going, perhaps, to buying those fancy-schmancy battlewagons that they insist they need to drive.
    They can’t even manage their own operating budgets properly and they think they can solve the world’s problems through wealth “re-distribution”? Yeah, right.

  4. They pulled the water bomber contracts in the middle of fire season?
    THEY PULLED THE CONTRACTS IN THE MIDDLE OF FIRE SEASON!!!!?

  5. Forest fire fighting is beyond them and yet they believe that they can manage the planet’s climate – with taxes.
    A little trivia – that photo above is of a Martin Mars water bomber that is stationed at Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island. It is capable of dropping 7000 gallons per load. I have fought fires where that bird was deployed and in the right application it worked wonders. There are only two left in working condition and they are both for sale. They were originally built for the US Navy during WW2 for transporting men and material.

  7. I think if I lived in Fort Mac I would be starting a class action law suite against the NDP clowns. The insurance companies can’t be too happy about this as well.
    There was probably more carbon dixode put into the atmosphere than 20 years of coal power plant production and they are working on closing then down, unbelievable!

  8. Sadly, Plato’s right. If you don’t involve yourself in politics you are doomed to be ruled by your inferiors.
    Also, can’t fix stupid, etc.

  9. It seems that the various governments willfully do stupid things.
    They seem to count that somebody will call them on that.
    The governments and of course politicians don’t care, they, as its becoming common, would just say something to the effect that it happened in history and “we are looking into the future”. There is no need to deal with today. That way they are not responsible for anything.
    It happened in the past and we are working on the future.
    What’s to complain about?
    Today does not exist. As Descartes would say, nothing is, only your brain, because it thinks.
    They, the politicians, the international socialists are learning fast from the Clinton Crime Syndicate how to throw things into the out. So far it worked for them.

  10. Sure has the look about it that Red Rachel caused the Fort McMurray fire. A few fortuitous dumps from water bombers might have ended it within minutes.

  12. She may as well have lit the match to the Fort Mac fires herself.
    So where is Red Rachel’s “Carbon Footprint” today?

  13. A few years back I was reading about Obama screwing the same thing up almost the exact same way with similar results. The only difference being that cause and effect were a bit more separated over time. (just re-found this)
    http://dailysignal.com/2012/06/27/u-s-forest-service-firefighting-fleet-depleted-after-contract-cancellation/ (Is this not exactly the same fifty-one hotel sierra?)
    It occurred to me that I believe fire fighting is a sub set of civil defense. The national guard (U.S.) and Canadian Forces Reserves should be budgeted to acquire (re-fit) & maintain appropriate aircraft, train, and strategically locate, for this purpose. The forest service / state or province / private contractor planning is inadequate and quite obviously inept. This is a basic ongoing primary responsibility of national government that can be handled more cost effectively with better results on that level. Give it to the military already, sheesh! Red Rachel indeed. Twit.

  14. The military can usually manage to multiply the cost of a simple task five or ten times. I’m sure that communist politicians are driven nuts by businessmen being paid millions of dollars on standby. They’d rather the city burn down than a businessman be paid for doing nothing.

  18. Good point. The media seem to be carefully ignoring the fact that this fire was not a natural occurrence. Someone set it upwind of Ft.Mac late on a Sunday afternoon, shortly after the water bomber contracts were cancelled. Interesting way to curtail the oil industry, or just a coincidence?
    “When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events’ occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu’s answer: It’s all in how you think.”

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