On Tweetie, the lt gov of Ca really ripped Bush. Said he wasnt welcome at the fire, he’d rather have the boys back from Iraq to help. Suggested that he not come out there for another photo-op as with Katrina.

Didn’t mince words

The Lt. Governor is John Garamendi. It was on today’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.

“CHRIS MATTHEWS: Is the federal government doing what it has to do here?

JOHN GARAMENDI: Well, they’re doing a lot and we appreciate what they have done thus far. Resources are coming in. The U.S. Forest Service, 70 units from Arizona and Nevada and all that’s good. I got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here . . .

MATTHEWS: Do you think it’s public relations rather than action?

GARAMENDI: Of course it’s public relations. The action’s taking place by the hard-working firefighters, the men and women and the police that are out there on the line and the community that’s pulling together to support each other, that’s where the action is taking place. I know — okay, President Bush comes out, we’ll be polite. But frankly, that’s not the solution. How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq? So that we have those people available here to help us?

MATTHEWS: Do you think the president’s arrival will distract from the efforts to fight the fire?
GARAMENDI: Absolutely. No doubt about it. The president goes some place, you’ve got a huge entourage, you’ve got Secret Service all over the place. And all the chaos that comes with whatever the president arrives — wherever the president happens to arrive. But, listen, what we really need are those firefighters, we need the equipment. We need frankly — we need our troops back from Iraq. We’ll get on here, whether he comes or not that’s not really the issue. I just hope that if he does come, he brings more than he brought to New Orleans.”

Bravo Garamendi…no photo ops by ANY politicians. The fires don’t “need” any attention to be drawn to them, so Bush’s presence merely distracts. At the very least, he should work to bring other States NG/firefighters and their equipment into the region to assist. Maybe order the military to use C-5A’s to bring equipment in.

Damn, the way this fire is spreading they may soon be needing fireboats off the coast!

Here’s something I did years ago on WMM, before shelling out for a Mac. I didn’t send it with the email, but what the hell:

http://citizen.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

The video editing was just grabs of old style Getty footage in google search for video (try typing in b/w and a search term, i.e. = b/w train). There’s all kinds of good old footage there, though I think none of it makes the song any better…

http://youtube.com/profile?use…..elixleiter

I’d love to have a new toy to play with, so I volunteer.

Felix

RG

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Bustednuckles @ 100

OH YOU GOTTA SHARE!

I’d be happy to. But, apart from using YouTube to upload videos (and I don’t want to get into YouTube) I have no idea where to post to make a link that I can give you, or anyone.

Hey VG, if you want to upload stuff for others to download, you can try http://www.mediafire.com/

It is not like YouTube where you can actually see the vids online. Mediafire is just a hosting place.

FWIW & YMMV