Tag Archives: Wildfire

More Accurate and Truthful therefore not Libel about the Black Forest Fire 5 years later

Where does the time go? This is the fifth anniversary of the combined wildfires in Royal Gorge, Waldo Canyon, Black Forest and a few others locally. There’s new ones happening today. north of Durango, also Ute Park… I just woke … Continue reading

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Nutjob In Chief declares himself Global Emperor, all others TRAITORS…

I haven’t looked at it this morning… yet. Yesterday he said he would know within the first minute if Kim is going to (as Dumbshit Advisor il Douche Giuliani, most famous for being skunked twice by the same group {al … Continue reading

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Terry Maketa gets free pass on his crimes, just like every other pig EXCEPT…

…except for the piggies who had their cases tried in the Street Court. And got their ticket to Hell expedited. Soon or prolonged, they all go to Hell. I don’t have to do anything to them, they gather their arrogance, … Continue reading

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Will Act of God close Drake coal plant?

[FULL TEXT OF LETTER SUBMITTED TO CS INDEPENDENT MAY 14] Two years ago Colorado Springs lost 346 homes to the Waldo Canyon fire which precipitated floods expected to haunt the westside and Manitou for years to come. The next year … Continue reading

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Waldo Canyon concert fundraiser feted Colo. Springs self-interest & ignorance

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- All night local speakers proclaimed: “Colorado Springs knows how to look after its own.” And doesn’t it! But I’m almost positive that it used to be, if only everywhere else, the virtue was looking out for others, … Continue reading

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What’s happy about the Fourth of July?

AYFKM? Even “have a nice day” has more credibility, or have a holiday that’s happy. Should our national day of flag waving, specifically OUR celebration of patriotism as citizens of an ever broadening, ever more savage repressive empire, remind us … Continue reading

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KOAA thanks Waldo Canyon firefighters but doesn’t think their dangerous work merits healthcare benefits, apparently

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- Funny story. KOAA was covering the community thank you given to the firefighters returning from the Waldo Canyon Fire last night. Members of Occupy Colorado Springs joined the crowd with signs calling attention to the fact that … Continue reading

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Waldo Canyon Wildfire gives Colorado Springs a front range seat to war zone movie set, says Governor Hickenlooper

COLORADO SPRINGS- Governor Hickenlooper made the remark after touring the Waldo Canyon Fire by helicopter. After touching down on the grounds of Coronado High School, cleared mid-press-conference because it fell in the freshly designated evacuation area, the governor said the … Continue reading

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Anti- Austerity demonstrations spread to Czech Republic

Anti- Austerity rallies and demonstrations are spreading like wildfires across Europe. Czechs stage huge anti-government rally.

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How do humans know what’s edible? Nature or nuture? Pink Slime vs GMOs

SO I am going to brave the hypothesis that you can write about Twinkies without having to eat one. Actually I discovered Twinkie image aversion easily overcomes Twinkie the concept, and I don’t just mean examples like the phallic Strangelove … Continue reading

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Texas Gov. Rick GoodHair getting yet another job-creating Federal Bailout

38 new jobs but, like most of the “new jobs” of the “Texas Miracle” these are Federal “nanny state bailout” jobs which, like the other “new federal jobs” created, are pre-filled with existing out of state workers. And hopefully will … Continue reading

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The Australian version of Tea-Party Buffoons

Are forcing a vote that they hope will stall Climate law changes. To benefit the Coal industry. NEWS FLASH: The Australian climate has been so screwed for the past 10 years due to global warming, which the Tea Party Buffoons … Continue reading

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Ft Carson is Burnt Acres not Green Acres

For several years now Colorado Springs has watched in incredulous dismay as the Pentagon has tried to represent its local terrorism training center, Fort Carson, as being some sort of Green Acres to Coloradans. Incredibly, the local group of Democrats … Continue reading

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I want more change in the White House than just skin color!

Barack Obama is proving himself to be little more than Joe Lieberman in blackface. Oy gevalt. Cowardly Dems in the Senate (Led by Obama the Coward) passed FISA, out of fear that big meanie Bush might say something bad about … Continue reading

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PCMS wildfire initiates Army PHASE 1B

PINON CANYON MANEUVER SITE, Colo- The US Army refused assistance in fighting the PCMS Bridger Fire, and now it’s jumped the Pergatoire River and is leading the aquisition of PARCELS 1B and 2A, a year ahead of the Army’s until … Continue reading

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Some “Inflammatory” rhetoric…

About the Labor Day Fire on Pike’s Peak last year… And the Fascist editor at Westside Pioneer. You can tell whose pockets the El Paso County Fire Control District are in. The wealthiest of course. Y’all remember the fire, right? … Continue reading

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Sierra Madre threatened by wildfire

SIERRA MADRE, CALIFORNIA- My sister Lisa was evacuated last night from her home at the edge of the brush near Pasadena as a wildfire works its way down the canyon. You can check the latest status at the City’s website, … Continue reading

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Friendly-fire loss in Malibu

Two Malibu outcrops stood out like sore thumbs in the fabled community not lauded for its architecture (or history). Not counting Rockford’s trailer park in Paradise Cove. The Hughes Aircraft offices sit incredibly in the midst of Malibu’s most expensive … Continue reading

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The CDC report on MRSA severely understates the problem

‘The antibiotic-resistant infections, commonly called MRSA, were once confined to a few hospitals, but a new study by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2005 they made an estimated 94,000 Americans seriously ill and killed … Continue reading

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If people only knew how bad the breakdown of corporate medicine is getting

Most Americans don’t fully realize how bad the corporate model world medical system is actually doing. Here is Democracy Now in reportage about a man held in Arizona in solitary confinement within a hospital for almost a year, appropriately titled … Continue reading

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