Posts tagged poor
US fire fighting Air Attack fleet terribly inadequate
Jul 7th
In the 1990s and early 2000’s America used old WWII bombers to fight fires. Many of them crashed. In 2012 the US has less than 250 aircraft contracted and some of them sit while fires rage across America. They sit because the US Forest Service refuses to pay them. In other cases Air National guard C-130s now sit because of the poor training given guard pilots to fight forest fires. They have been crashing too.
The US has thousands of big airplanes capable of being retrofitted to carry water and retardants to wild land fires,but the government has completely lost it’s way.
Sitting here typing at a computer in a smoke filled room in Boulder Colorado, this week I have seen first hand the devastation cause by forest fires to Colorado cities. Where was the air attack in the early hours of these fires? Parked in hangers 1000’s of miles away.
The US needs at least 100 air tankers It has 32. They need them on the tarmac in Denver ready to in 10 minutes not two day latter after the fire has destroyed 100’s of homes as happened in Ft Collins Colorado in June. We need another 300 air attack panes of all sizes. We need 400 helicopters ready to go. We need an air fleet of 1500 aircraft capable of carrying water to fight fires. We have 232. Just terrible.
What’s left when the air attack does not come. America is burning and our government has let us down. Shame on them.The Department of the Interior, FEMA USFS, Congress, Senate, Air force, National Guard have all let America down. This is Katrina all over again and it is happening on president Obama’s watch. It is also happening in my state and I am sick of watching it burn. Obama needs to take responsibility and get us the air fleet we need. End all the buck passing.
from fire ravaged Colorado
Jann Scott
Boulder, Colorado
Who and what to Vote for in Boulder…………whatever
Oct 26th
For city council, you can vote for whoever the hell you want. They are all the same in my book. Well, except Ken Wilson. I don’t like him. I think he’s a controlling little sneak. He won’t take phone calls and will not co operate with the press and he’s a hider. So right there is enough to not vote for him. He works for Xcel and lies about that too. And he voted again Public Access TV so he hates free speech all to hell. And he doesn’t like me so fuck him. 🙂
I like Lisa Morzel because she did vote for Public Access Tv consistently. She is a big supporter of the poor and disenfranchised. A bit of a whiner, and hider but she is OK.
I do like George Karakehian. He returns phone calls, will talk to you, will talk to the press, is fair minded and honest. He is also a local Boulder businessman. So I like him.
The others , I don’t know and I don’t trust either. but they are all cut from the same cloth. Liberal, tree hugging anti capitalist government workers with top down mentality who embrace Group think. Fascists essentially.
The only truly important ballot issue to vote on are 2B2C which will take that coal burning piece of crap out of the hands of Xcel and put it in our hands where with hope we will tear it down in 100 years and rep/ace it with cold fusion. so no
matter how much it costs we have to do it for our children, grand children, the city, the future of Boulder, the earth and humanity. This is a no brainer. Xcel had their shot, now fuck em. It is time to Occupy Xcel and take over that god damned power plant. FUCK XCEL.
On Corporate Person hood. I am sorry I am not a commie. Leave the corporations alone.
Jann Scott Live – Homeless Freezing in Boulder
Feb 22nd
It’s freezing in Boulder and Jann Scott hits the street to interview the people outside and finds that the homeless people are yet again freezing in the city of Boulder.