Rick Perry's Chances Of Being Elected President..Going Up In Flames!

[The T]

You really are a joke. In a lot of parts of the country they have ALL volunteer firefighters, emts, etc etc. They do it NOT FOR THE MONEY and they do a damn fine job..
but you seem to think people can't do shit without getting paid for it. You don't care about others, you just care you can use them TO SMEAR A POLITICIAN.

shame shame shame on some of you here. but it is TOTALLY expected you'd use another tragedy for your stupid political views. you always come through for that one.

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

They're sick puppies.

 

[bodecea]

You really are a joke. In a lot of parts of the country they have ALL volunteer firefighters, emts, etc etc. They do it NOT FOR THE MONEY and they do a damn fine job..
but you seem to think people can't do shit without getting paid for it. You don't care about others, you just care you can use them TO SMEAR A POLITICIAN.

shame shame shame on some of you here. but it is TOTALLY expected you'd use another tragedy for your stupid political views. you always come through for that one.

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

 

[Stephanie]

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

They're sick puppies.

can't stand people like that.

 

[Old Rocks]

You really are a joke. In a lot of parts of the country they have ALL volunteer firefighters, emts, etc etc. They do it NOT FOR THE MONEY and they do a damn fine job..
but you seem to think people can't do shit without getting paid for it. You don't care about others, you just care you can use them TO SMEAR A POLITICIAN.

shame shame shame on some of you here. but it is TOTALLY expected you'd use another tragedy for your stupid political views. you always come through for that one.

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Does Texas use Disposable Fire Trucks that need to be replace after each use?

Given the amount of fires, and the amount of use the equipment has had this year, I would be willing to bet that a significant percentage of that equipment is going to need to be rebuilt or replaced next year. And all of it will need major maintenance. That is not cheap.

Oh ya, how would I know any of this? Had two summers fighting fire in Eastern Oregon many years ago. Nothing like the fires in Texas, but still hard on equipment.

 

[Wicked Jester]

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

So, MOM.........Why don't you go lend your expertise and put out the fires, since you seem to be all knowing?

And why are you disgustingly politicizing the tragedy of the poor souls who have died or lost their homes?

 

[Old Rocks]

What is sick is that your whole philosophy of no need for government is taking a beating from the need for assistance in the states where the disasters have simply overwhelmed local resources. And that is what you are crying about. Ten times as many deaths in Irene, and you people were glad handing each other that it had shown what a dupe President Obama is because he prepared for the worse.

Perhaps if Perry spent less time publicly beating his chest and calling on God, and more in thinking about what was needed in worse case scenerious for this drought, Texans would be losing less homes. Texas is in a worse case scenerio. Everybody connected with government in Texas should be acting in a manner reflecting that.

 

[The T]

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

So, MOM.........Why don't you go lend your expertise and put out the fires, since you seem to be all knowing?

And why are you disgustingly politicizing the tragedy of the poor souls who have died or lost their homes?

Because she is far removed and sees it easy to capitalize on others' misery like the political hackjob heshe is.

 

[Stephanie]

Yup. And Perry just cut the funds for those departments by 75%. That means, since they are volunteers, the funds were used for equipment. Maybe Perry will buy a bunch of buckets and they can form a line all the way down to the Gulf. Or, just pray a lot.

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

I lived in California during the 90's and they LOST 1000's of homes and lives from wildfires. so you saying they are BETTER somehow IS ALL MADE UP. So stop with the BS or you live in another universe

 

[The T]

Knowing some of you here, you all will be PRAYING for MORE DEATHS so you can crow about that to use against Perry and Texas. I'm done with someone like you..dismissed

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

I lived in California during the 90's and they LOST 1000's of homes and lives from wildfires. so you saying they are BETTER somehow IS ALL MADE UP. So stop with the BS or you live in another universe

Nail? Meet hammer.

 

[Wicked Jester]

No, I've already stated I hope the people stay as safe as they can. It's truely a shame that it is taking so long to put out the fires. If they had been out before these latest winds, I wonder how many homes and lives would have been saved. I guess we'll never know.

I lived in California during the 90's and they LOST 1000's of homes and lives from wildfires. so you saying they are BETTER somehow IS ALL MADE UP. So stop with the BS or you live in another universe

Nail? Meet hammer.

No shit!

Game, set, and match!

 

[The T]

What is sick is that your whole philosophy of no need for government is taking a beating from the need for assistance in the states where the disasters have simply overwhelmed local resources. And that is what you are crying about. Ten times as many deaths in Irene, and you people were glad handing each other that it had shown what a dupe President Obama is because he prepared for the worse.

Perhaps if Perry spent less time publicly beating his chest and calling on God, and more in thinking about what was needed in worse case scenerious for this drought, Texans would be losing less homes. Texas is in a worse case scenerio. Everybody connected with government in Texas should be acting in a manner reflecting that.

First get your premise straight. It is the need for Less FEDERAL Government intrusion...assistence...since the States should be able to handle these things on thier own IF...they budget wisely.

 

[Stephanie]

What is sick is that your whole philosophy of no need for government is taking a beating from the need for assistance in the states where the disasters have simply overwhelmed local resources. And that is what you are crying about. Ten times as many deaths in Irene, and you people were glad handing each other that it had shown what a dupe President Obama is because he prepared for the worse.

Perhaps if Perry spent less time publicly beating his chest and calling on God, and more in thinking about what was needed in worse case scenerious for this drought, Texans would be losing less homes. Texas is in a worse case scenerio. Everybody connected with government in Texas should be acting in a manner reflecting that.

 

[CaféAuLait]

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud and cause iced tea to run out of my nose..

I was watching the weather channel yesterday and the weather dude was standing next to a map of god ol Texass and there were little fire symbols on the map...not just a few..maybe hundreds of them..they literally COVERED the whole map of Texass.

Then it struck me like a wild fire.. This dumb ass Perry is the last man on earth I want to manage any crisis as the POTUS.

What I find astounding is that this lack of action on Perry's part is not talked about much.

There are two things I know about fire. One is that they are almost entirely man made and therefore preventable...and the other is that with enough resources applied...they are ALL extinguishable.

While that dodo Perry is busy praying for rain(howz that workin for ya Ricky?)... His WHOLE fuckin state is burning to cinders.

I know that if one tenth of the fires burning in Texass were alight here in Washington state we would have Christine Gregouir's head on a platter.

All that bragging about how well his state is doing is a load of crap when one ganders at a map of the still burning fires in his pitiful state.

Perry for president? I wouldn't trust him to watch over a sanican. The shithole might catch fire and burn up with ya sittin in it!



Hey Rickster!!!! Fires are NOT a natural disaster.. You are supposed to put them out ya dumb fuck!!!

OOPS! A thousand double tankers filled with water and a hundred extra pumpers imported from nearby states wouldn't look good on your states bottom line?

Fuck you Perry. I'm just thankfull you aren't the gubner here in Washington.

Your thoughts?

So drought driven fires are not a natural disaster but broken levees are? Strange the horrid damage from Katrina causing the levees to break were Bush's fault but these drought driven fires are Perry's fault/responsibility and not Obama's? How one president ( Bush) was blamed but this disaster is different somehow. It took a month and a over million acres burned before Obama declared some counties in Texas a Disaster Area. The rhetoric is thick. Why the double standards?

 

[Avatar4321]

is this another "Perry should control nature" threads?

Bush should send his hurricane machine over Texas.

I thought that's where he kept it.

 

[Toro]

boedicca v boedeca

I don't know who to cheer for! It's so confusing.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud and cause iced tea to run out of my nose..

I was watching the weather channel yesterday and the weather dude was standing next to a map of god ol Texass and there were little fire symbols on the map...not just a few..maybe hundreds of them..they literally COVERED the whole map of Texass.

Then it struck me like a wild fire.. This dumb ass Perry is the last man on earth I want to manage any crisis as the POTUS.

What I find astounding is that this lack of action on Perry's part is not talked about much.

There are two things I know about fire. One is that they are almost entirely man made and therefore preventable...and the other is that with enough resources applied...they are ALL extinguishable.

While that dodo Perry is busy praying for rain(howz that workin for ya Ricky?)... His WHOLE fuckin state is burning to cinders.

I know that if one tenth of the fires burning in Texass were alight here in Washington state we would have Christine Gregouir's head on a platter.

All that bragging about how well his state is doing is a load of crap when one ganders at a map of the still burning fires in his pitiful state.

Perry for president? I wouldn't trust him to watch over a sanican. The shithole might catch fire and burn up with ya sittin in it!



Hey Rickster!!!! Fires are NOT a natural disaster.. You are supposed to put them out ya dumb fuck!!!

OOPS! A thousand double tankers filled with water and a hundred extra pumpers imported from nearby states wouldn't look good on your states bottom line?

Fuck you Perry. I'm just thankfull you aren't the gubner here in Washington.

Your thoughts?

Obama was gonna stop the rise of the oceans.

Why hasn't he put out the wildfires?

And where are the JOBS?

 

[Conservative]

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud and cause iced tea to run out of my nose..

I was watching the weather channel yesterday and the weather dude was standing next to a map of god ol Texass and there were little fire symbols on the map...not just a few..maybe hundreds of them..they literally COVERED the whole map of Texass.

Then it struck me like a wild fire.. This dumb ass Perry is the last man on earth I want to manage any crisis as the POTUS.

What I find astounding is that this lack of action on Perry's part is not talked about much.

There are two things I know about fire. One is that they are almost entirely man made and therefore preventable...and the other is that with enough resources applied...they are ALL extinguishable.

While that dodo Perry is busy praying for rain(howz that workin for ya Ricky?)... His WHOLE fuckin state is burning to cinders.

I know that if one tenth of the fires burning in Texass were alight here in Washington state we would have Christine Gregouir's head on a platter.

All that bragging about how well his state is doing is a load of crap when one ganders at a map of the still burning fires in his pitiful state.

Perry for president? I wouldn't trust him to watch over a sanican. The shithole might catch fire and burn up with ya sittin in it!



Hey Rickster!!!! Fires are NOT a natural disaster.. You are supposed to put them out ya dumb fuck!!!

OOPS! A thousand double tankers filled with water and a hundred extra pumpers imported from nearby states wouldn't look good on your states bottom line?

Fuck you Perry. I'm just thankfull you aren't the gubner here in Washington.

Your thoughts?

Obama was gonna stop the rise of the oceans.

Why hasn't he put out the wildfires?

And where are the JOBS?

Obama should have been able to put out the Texas wildfires with the water he removed from the worlds oceans.

 

[Conservative]

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud and cause iced tea to run out of my nose..

I was watching the weather channel yesterday and the weather dude was standing next to a map of god ol Texass and there were little fire symbols on the map...not just a few..maybe hundreds of them..they literally COVERED the whole map of Texass.

Then it struck me like a wild fire.. This dumb ass Perry is the last man on earth I want to manage any crisis as the POTUS.

What I find astounding is that this lack of action on Perry's part is not talked about much.

There are two things I know about fire. One is that they are almost entirely man made and therefore preventable...and the other is that with enough resources applied...they are ALL extinguishable.

While that dodo Perry is busy praying for rain(howz that workin for ya Ricky?)... His WHOLE fuckin state is burning to cinders.

I know that if one tenth of the fires burning in Texass were alight here in Washington state we would have Christine Gregouir's head on a platter.

All that bragging about how well his state is doing is a load of crap when one ganders at a map of the still burning fires in his pitiful state.

Perry for president? I wouldn't trust him to watch over a sanican. The shithole might catch fire and burn up with ya sittin in it!



Hey Rickster!!!! Fires are NOT a natural disaster.. You are supposed to put them out ya dumb fuck!!!

OOPS! A thousand double tankers filled with water and a hundred extra pumpers imported from nearby states wouldn't look good on your states bottom line?

Fuck you Perry. I'm just thankfull you aren't the gubner here in Washington.

Your thoughts?

So drought driven fires are not a natural disaster but broken levees are? Strange the horrid damage from Katrina causing the levees to break were Bush's fault but these drought driven fires are Perry's fault/responsibility and not Obama's? How one president ( Bush) was blamed but this disaster is different somehow. It took a month and a over million acres burned before Obama declared some counties in Texas a Disaster Area. The rhetoric is thick. Why the double standards?

Because he's a partisan hack?

 

[The Infidel]

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud and cause iced tea to run out of my nose..

I was watching the weather channel yesterday and the weather dude was standing next to a map of god ol Texass and there were little fire symbols on the map...not just a few..maybe hundreds of them..they literally COVERED the whole map of Texass.

Then it struck me like a wild fire.. This dumb ass Perry is the last man on earth I want to manage any crisis as the POTUS.

What I find astounding is that this lack of action on Perry's part is not talked about much.

There are two things I know about fire. One is that they are almost entirely man made and therefore preventable...and the other is that with enough resources applied...they are ALL extinguishable.

While that dodo Perry is busy praying for rain(howz that workin for ya Ricky?)... His WHOLE fuckin state is burning to cinders.

I know that if one tenth of the fires burning in Texass were alight here in Washington state we would have Christine Gregouir's head on a platter.

All that bragging about how well his state is doing is a load of crap when one ganders at a map of the still burning fires in his pitiful state.

Perry for president? I wouldn't trust him to watch over a sanican. The shithole might catch fire and burn up with ya sittin in it!



Hey Rickster!!!! Fires are NOT a natural disaster.. You are supposed to put them out ya dumb fuck!!!

OOPS! A thousand double tankers filled with water and a hundred extra pumpers imported from nearby states wouldn't look good on your states bottom line?

Fuck you Perry. I'm just thankfull you aren't the gubner here in Washington.

Your thoughts?

You guys are un-fukin-believable!

 

[Stephanie]

just ran across this. wtf
Contract Dispute Grounds Firefighting Planes
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Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother and her child, and destroying 100,000 acres.

The massive blazes forced Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry to abruptly call off a campaign appearance in South Carolina earlier this week to respond to the crisis, and may force him to cancel his first debate appearance Wednesday night.

The U.S. Forest Service terminated the contract with Aero Union five weeks ago to operate seven P-3 Orions that are critical to the agency’s firefighting mission, leaving the federal government with 11 tankers under contract to help battle more than 50 large uncontained wildfires now burning nationwide.

That’s down from 40 tankers used by the Forest Service just a decade ago, according to Rep. Dan Lungren (R.-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Administration, who is challenging the decision to dismiss the largest provider of heavy air-tanker support to the federal government.

“We were certified to fly all season, but they just terminated us and threw 60 people out of work and left the country vulnerable to fires, as you can see right now in Texas,” said Britt Gourley, CEO for Aero Union.

“This is our 50th anniversary fighting fires for the Forest Service. It’s not quite the way we wanted to celebrate it,” Gourley said.

Gourley said the government did not provide details on why the contract was canceled, but that they did not agree with Aero Union’s 15-year maintenance plan.

“We wanted to sit down with them and ask why it was canceled and find a quick resolution, but they didn’t want to talk about it. They just said, ‘We don’t want the airplanes, have a nice life,’ ” Gourley said. “I had to let go of my staff–60 people and their families were devastated,” Gourley said. “It’s really been tragic.”

The Forest Service says it will not use aircraft that does not meet its requirements, and in this case that included the long-term airworthiness inspection program, although the company passed its annual inspection.

“Our main priority is protecting and saving lives, and we can’t in good conscience maintain an aviation contract where we feel lives may be put at risk due to inadequate safety practices,” said Tom Harbour, director of the Forest Services fire and aviation management program.

“This contract termination notwithstanding, we possess the aircraft support needed for this year’s fire season,” Harbour said.

In a letter to the administration questioning the canceled contracts that was obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, Lungren said the aircraft “are some of the best available for fighting fires in the United States.”

“The [Federal Aviation Administration] representative stated that the disrupted contract issues which led to the grounding of Aero Union’s entire fleet do not relate to the suitability of these aircraft to perform for the remainder of this fire season,” Lungren said in the Aug. 15 letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, whose agency oversees the Forest Service.

“I am deeply troubled by the Forest Service’s sudden action, particularly as California enters into the fire season. Our aerial firefighting fleet is already seriously undercapitalized,” Lungren said.

In addition to the 11 tankers in the fleet still operating, two air tankers are under contract to operate on-call, and up to eight military firefighting aircraft can be called to assist if needed.

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Contract Dispute Grounds Firefighting Planes - HUMAN EVENTS