Posts tagged US
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
Occupy, Do More Faster, back to TV: Jann Scott’s Journal
Nov 7th
Book Review: Do More Faster by Cohen and Feld is more like a digest of Broadway hits than it is a business book. I went to their Boulder book store book signing and that was more of a “little boys science club” then a book tour. Can you take these guys seriously? They are being touted as Boulders business start up gurus. They head up Tech Stars and the Foundry Group, but does any of this add up to a profitable balance sheet anywhere? It does for Cohen and Feld. Their devotes who appear to be about 50,000 strong will buy anything they are selling.
Do More Faster is written for recent college grads who have never worked before. It is for people who have never been in business before. It is written specially for code writers and social media geeks with an idea. More importantly it is written for kids who have an idea. Hopefully they will run their idea by Feld and Cohen so they can snap it up and make money off of it. All of this cloaked in hippy dippy love and share of course, but it is capitalism and hucksterism at it’s best. I just don’t drink the cool aide. Then again I have seen it all before here in Boulder.
Halloween was a slut-bomb attack on the Boulder Mall Last night a bunch of pizza delivery drivers were commenting how every girl on the Boulder Mall were dress up as a slut for Halloween. Not much creativity there. On the other hand the late night clubs in boulder look pretty much the same.
from the “hey sailor”
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
DEA begin busts in Denver Boulder you are NEXT
Oct 16th
The city of Boulder thinks it is above the law and it is about to find out what a roust of city hall feels like.
“DENVER (CBS4) – Federal drug agents have busted a medical marijuana dispensary in Adams County and have charged three people accused of running the business and another who owned a warehouse where pot was allegedly being grown..”
“Our federal government, which is supposed to serve us, the people of Colorado, instead declares war on us and somehow has the recourses to go against a harmless medicinal plant,” medical marijuana attorney Robert Corry said. “We are keeping our own house in order in Colorado and then the federal government comes in and basically declares war on the government of our state.”
Well, Corry I got news form you: Some of us are glad , glad glad the DEA is busting you drug dealing dirt ball scum. As far as I’m concerned everyone who authorized these Dope dealing gangsters belong in Federal penitentiary. Why? Cause they sold drugs to children and turned a lot of our kids in to drug addicts.
For those of you who are wondering what is up with my anti drug attitude. I got started in broadcasting as an anti drug dealing crusader way back in 1987. The DEA are heros . Thanks for doing what you do and good hunting here in Boulder.
FLASH: This morning, on Sunday Morning, on CBS, a feature on “pill mills” or pain clinics showed that this year, 2011, deaths by drug over dose surpassed death by automobiles. This is astounding. When I first reported on this topic in 1987 drunk driving deaths far exceeded drug overdoses. Drunk driving deaths have not gone down.
In 2009 I went after Dr Jacks pain clinics here in Boulder. But it was only this morning that the national news have finally done a story on drug overdose epidemic caused by pain clinics. It is now all over the country and it is legal. What have we done?
From the biggest dope dealin small city in America
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado