Email from my brother, a 5th grade teacher in So. Cal.

[monkeyboy]

FOR TWO YEARS LOCAL GOVT. HAS ASKED FED GOVT. FOR FUNDS TO TAKE OUT DEAD TREES FROM BARK BEATLE INFESTATION FROM LOCAL MOUNTAINS. NOW LOOK AT IT. THE TREES ARE LITERALLY EXPLODING AS THEY CATCH FIRE. I WOULD RAM THIS DOWN BUSH'S THROAT DURING CAMPAIGN. MANY LOCAL SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED. OUR AIR QUALITY IS VERY BAD. I HAVE A HEADACHE SITTING IN MY ROOM AT 7:30 THIS AM. IT IS EXTREMELY DARK AND HAZY. SUN LOOKS BLOOD BROWN. i AM loosing MotOr rEfLexeS................... I gyuognmo liu

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Funny and sad

I am in San Diego right now and my lungs are black.

[La_Serpiente]

2. Have you had to evacuate?

How close are you to the fire? Can you see it?

[onebigbadwulf]

7. Close

but not that close. The flames are about a half an hour freeway drive away. I'm on the coast luckily. However, the winds are pushing all the smoke over us out to the ocean which gives us a freakishly high pollution index.

My friends had to evacuate, but luckily, their houses are okay.

[Skittles]

3. I hope he teaches his students

the difference between LOSING and LOOSING. x(

[monkeyboy]

9. That was part of the joke, genius

Lighten up.

[Skittles]

11. I

am not so sure

[BiggJawn]

4. Not to fear, help is on the way!

Why, Herr Groepenfuehrer is in DC as I type this, asking Karl Rove for help...

Since Collie-forn-eye-yea has seen the error of it's ways and climbed aboard the "Bush/Cheney Tax Cut Special", help will be forthcoming....
Just as soon as they finish raking Davis over the coals....

[Beaker]

8. ...And when we get be-hind clo-sed do-ors...

Can you even imagine the type of conversation that the Boy King and the Governator would have, just the two of them alone in a room? mano-a-mano if you will. When do you think they'd get around to discussing the plight of the California people...?
They'd both spend all their time talking about how great AH-nuld was in all his movies-
and then Ahnuld would ask if he could see "za Football.." and the Boy King would gladly oblige...and they'd laugh and play with it and put in fake launch codes, and someone would say "you sunk my battleship" and then they'd laugh some more, and then start playing 'catch' withit like it was an actual football...(Of course the real one is with Dick Cheney, they don't know that.)
It sure must be fun to be a figurehead these days.

[proud patriot]

5. Ask you brother to help spread the word

All Californians should write a letter to the editor
about this very thing .

I wonder if the Media would be interested in this

[madfloridian]

6. Tell your brother they are already using the fires to further Bush agenda.

The one where he says if we cut down the trees now, there won't be any fires. Or something like that. I have seen two or three articles just this week.

They are going to play this up big time. I forgot the name he gives it....but like the Clean Air agenda rest assured the result will not be pretty.

This is a horrible time for them, and it is unbearable to watch.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. "Healthy Forests Initiative"....

That's what Bush Boy wants.

"Healthy" my ass.....

[madfloridian]

12. That's what it is.

They fully intend to use the fires as an excuse to get it started.

[GregD]

13. Arnold on C-SPAN

Just said he believes strongly in the HFI... Oh good, here we go again...