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Of course, what the super-fine congress folks are not asking for is any attempt to curb anthropomorphic climate change that is a major cause of the number, intensity and severity of these fires.
In fact, as noted by Oliver Milman writing in the Guardian, all six US'ian congress people who are signatories to the letter recently voted to accelerate fossil fuel emission-driven climate change:
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BreakOutTheRakesVille
The letter, above, comes from six republican congress people from Minnesota and Wisconsin who are demanding action from the government of Canada.
While, apparently, fentanyl traffickers have nothing to do with this, there are arsonists that must be dealt with. Not to mention the raking of the northern forests that we have failed so far to spend billions on:
BreakOutTheRakesVille
The letter, above, comes from six republican congress people from Minnesota and Wisconsin who are demanding action from the government of Canada.
While, apparently, fentanyl traffickers have nothing to do with this, there are arsonists that must be dealt with. Not to mention the raking of the northern forests that we have failed so far to spend billions on:
"...While we know a key driver of this issue has been a lack of active forest management, we’ve also seen things like arson as another way multiple large wildfires have ignited in Canada. With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken..."
Of course, what the super-fine congress folks are not asking for is any attempt to curb anthropomorphic climate change that is a major cause of the number, intensity and severity of these fires.
In fact, as noted by Oliver Milman writing in the Guardian, all six US'ian congress people who are signatories to the letter recently voted to accelerate fossil fuel emission-driven climate change:
...(A)ll of the authors of the letter (to the Canadian ambassador) – (Tom) Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Glenn Grothman, Michelle Fischbach and Pete Stauber – voted for the so-called “big, beautiful” Republican spending bill that, among other things, slashes support for renewable energy and provides new incentives for the production of fossil fuels...
Imagine that!
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Yeah, well, as ol' Neil said, "Got fuel to burn, Got roads to drive."
I like the comment from Utuber Jesse Dollimore, He said if he were the ambassador his response would be "FU". He says this is completely idiotic and really doesn't deserve a response of any kind.
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Base on this current information I don't see that America has a problem
These 'mericuns, need a Canute moment.
Canute set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the incoming tide to halt and not to wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: 'Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.'"
But then, the 'mericuns got a new god, the Mango Mussolini, who believes in the divine right of his rule.
Yes, the 'mericuns need a Canute moment, such as the divine Mango stopping the winds and foul smoke from the great white north!
Oh such fools we MAGA be!
If trump puts a 35 percent tariff on the smoke that’ll fix it.
From our friends over at the Tyee, by Steve Burgess …
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/14/Please-Advise-Sending-Smoke-US/
when I first heard about the crazy 6s thought it was a joke. . There is a basic problem with the American education system.
Now if it were possible to deal with forest fire smoke wonder why the americans didn't use if during the Paradise forest fire in California or the L.A. fires and all the other major American forest fires in the past 5 years. And then of course if you can move smoke around, that isn't from the end of a cigar or joint, why haven't the Americans not used it to move smog off their cities and highways. Perhaps the technology doesn't exist or these politicians don't want to use it because they don't care if their citizens die due to smoke.
These boys and girls really need to say excuse me, we are just ignorant American politicians who really ought not to be in Congress. We will resign, enrol in a class which would provided us with the information
What would be fun is if Canadians started writing these clueless 6 and explain things to them. We could send emails or texts but for this one it would be way more fun to send it via Canada Post and the American Postal system. It used to be fun to see the postal system deliver a few thousand letters to politicians.
TerryM--
Agreed.
The real issue here, of course, is that these fine folks know, given the current state of our media, that they will pay no political price whatsoever for their knowingly hypocritical idiocy.
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Anon-Above--
To be honest, I'm surprised that the new god has not yet declared the tides to be a bunch of communist fascists that are eating the cats and dogs of the newly constructed inland beach houses of those smart enough to have parlayed rising sea levels into mountains of meme coin fortified balustrades.
Or some such thing.
(as an aside, according to the Googleplex and the long ago departed Haloscan, there have been more than 50,000 comments at this little F-Troop blog over the years and as best I can recollect, or my seaman buddy can recall, yours is the first to speak of Canute and the story of the tides!)
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Keith--
Ha!
And that way, unfortunately, the good folks of Minnesota and Wisconsin will have to pay for the smoke in their eyes.
Which doesn't seem fair at all. Not that the good letter writing congress people would see it that way, of course.
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Thanks, as always, NVG.
Cap--
And their letter is, essentially, styrofoam garbage for the ozone layer!
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I think we have a couple fans that could be set up in the backyard.
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Well, it's Canada. If you get the munchies, we'll send you down a care package of Hawkins Cheezies.
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