Re: Californica idiots
- From: "Dan" <dnadan56@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:03:37 -0700
<r2000swler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It looks like the poor and ignorant aren't the only fools
> in modern America. I watched some of FOX's coverage of the
> Californica fires. The DJs, I can't for the life of me call
> them newscaster of journalists. were hand wringing over the
> stars that might loose their homes. And that if the fire jumped
> the interstate it would "burn everything to the ocean."
>
> Darwin in action again. Anyone who lives in a dry area frequented
> by fire and does not use fire resistant construction and plants
> around said home deserves to loose everything.
It is called chaparral, and it contains organic compounds called
turpenes. Think turpentine. Think acres of gasoline plants.
The stuff does not burn, it literally explodes.
The problem is, newbies are usually ignorant, and real estate
agents are not exactly the most veracious of creatures when
it comes to suckers, er, buyers.
Dan
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