Re: Newsom's 'Compassion' for Wildfire Victims

On Jul 15, 2025 at 1:50:33 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
 

I think you or someone else posted about people getting fines if their
plots weren't cleared. I saw a video just a week or two ago about a
guy who had lost his home in the fires that just got the people to
clear his lot. The people that did the work had to wait for multiple
other people to show up to either give approval or to watch the work
being done. There was even a biologist to check if there was some
protected animal there (luckily there wasn't.)

 
Bonk
 
The hypothetical animal benefitted from the debris remaining place?

Back during Bush the II's term, Congress had the Base Realignment Commission,
which basically closed or consolidated a lot of military bases around the
country. When they were looking at Fort Hood in Texas, they proposed shutting
it down and moving its functions and personnel to Fort Sill in Oklahoma. The
local community, whose livelihood depends on the 35,000 troops at Fort Hood,
sued the government, claiming an environmental study showed that a species of
rabbit would be adversely affected by the cessation of training activities at
the base. They said the rabbit had become accustomed over the decades to all
the shelling and explosions on the training ranges and if the military stopped
bombing its habitat on a regular basis, it would suffer and fail to
reproduce.

That argument at least had uniqueness going for it.

It all became moot anyway when the commission decided to keep Fort Hood as
is.

(Incidentally, the base was renamed Fort Cavazos during the post-Floyd spasm
of political correctness that pervaded all levels of government, but Trump has
nullified that and it's now Fort Hood once again.)