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Campaign Crawlers
GOP Soul Check
Though it knows it should, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is not about to withdraw its hasty endorsement of Charlie Crist.
TAMPA -- Conservative Marco Rubio enjoyed a good September in his race against popular, liberal Florida Governor Charlie Crist for the 2010 Republican nomination for the Florida U.S. Senate recently vacated by Mel Martinez.
Though he's trailed Crist by double figures in polls of Florida Republicans, when it comes to the people active in the Florida Party, Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida House, has wowed them with speeches full of values such as fiscal restraint, social conservatism, strength abroad, and opposition to massive government intrusions into the economy such as cap and trade, which Crist fancies. In straw votes among eight county Republican executive committees, Rubio has swamped Crist 358 to 32. In Hernando County, just one county away from Crist's home county of Pinellas, Rubio pitched a 46-0 shutout.
In other Republican groups Rubio has also done well. He charmed the ladies of the Northwest Orange County (Orlando) Republican Women Federated 49-3, and those of the Republican Women's Club of Duval County (Jacksonville) 65-4.
The Volusia County (Daytona Beach) executive committee passed a resolution condemning Crist for supporting Obama's stimulus piñata. A similar censure resolution lost in Palm Beach County on a tie vote.
So the folks who do the day-to-day work of the party, and who follow political developments most closely, like Rubio and have little use for the shallow and opportunistic Crist. In these circles Crist is sometimes referred to as "Wind-sock Charlie" for a history of predicating his political actions on the last focus group report he read. The same polls that show Crist ahead among all Republicans, show that among those familiar with both Crist and Rubio the race is dead even.
Rubio has been getting some help from the national conservative press, where he's seen as the great right hope in this race. John J. Miller did a profile of Rubio in National Review, calling him a rising star in the Florida GOP with an unambiguously conservative voting record. Rubio's gotten positive mentions in Human Events, as well as in the Weekly Standard blog. Regular TAS readers know of Rubio and how he stacks up against the pretend conservative Crist. Many Florida newspapers last weekend carried a column by George Will in which Will not only whooped up Rubio's conservative virtues, and chastised national Republicans for supporting Crist, but flatly predicted a Rubio victory in the primary next August.
One group Rubio continues to do poorly with is D.C. insiders. At a Sarasota event last week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush praised Rubio's biography and platforms and criticized the National Republican Senatorial Committee, headed by Texas Senator John Cornyn, for endorsing Crist just hours after Crist announced his candidacy last spring. Rubio had already announced his candidacy.
"I think he (Rubio) should be given a chance," Bush said. "I think the idea that the national party should pick a winner a year and a half before an election is the wrong way to go."
But the NRSC is unrepentant. I asked NRSC communications director Brian Walsh if he and Cornyn were familiar with Bush's invitation for them to butt out of the Florida race. He allowed as how they were, but they've declined Jeb's request that they take a hike.
"We did see that statement," Walsh told me. "The former governor has certainly more than earned the right to share his thoughts. But the NRSC believes Governor Crist is the best candidate to maintain the checks and balances needed in the Senate."
It's truly hard to see how a politician like Crist, who has supported Obama's stimulus package, who's enthusiastic about cap and trade and other costly enviro-disasters, and who's as silent as the tomb about conservative social issues, could in any way be a check on the Obama socialist agenda. He's more of an enabler. This is probably why a friend of Rubio's told me he had come up with a great slogan for Crist's campaign: "Send Charlie to Washington -- he'll fit right in."
The claimed issue, Cornyn has said and Walsh reiterated in our conversation, is electability. "Charlie Crist is the candidate with the best chance to win," Cornyn recently told the New York Times. "This is not to disparage Marco Rubio. He has a bright future."
Pretty patronizing thing to say about a guy who has a strong conservative record in the Florida Legislature, and has, in stark contrast to Crist, walked the walk of what the Cornyns of the world say are Republican principles.
The notion that Crist has a big electoral edge over Rubio is right peculiar. The most likely Democratic candidate for the Senate seat is Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek, a young, very liberal but not very articulate Obama wannabe, who has little support outside of South Florida and would stand little chance in center-right Florida against either Crist or Rubio.
"Winning Senate seats is our priority," Walsh told me. "We want to keep the Florida seat in the Republican column. The voters in Florida will be the ones who make the final decision there."
Walsh brushes aside concerns about Crist's walks on the liberal side and conservative concerns that he would be a very unreliable vote in the Senate on matters that concern conservatives. He continued his "deal with the devil" argument.
"We don't have a litmus test," Walsh said. "We want as many people with R's behind their name in the Senate as we can get. If you're concerned about cap and trade, we need to be sure that Mitch McConnell is the Senate leader. Nothing is voted on that the Senate leader doesn't allow on the floor."
True enough. But it was clearly unnecessary for the NRSC to put its thumb on the scale in Florida in favor of Crist, a man the conservative base of the Republican Party prays is not the future of the party. Cornyn and others in the national Republican establishment have created real enmity in the conservative base of the Florida party (and elsewhere where they've supported liberal candidates over conservatives). If only the conservative base could vote, neither Cornyn nor Crist could be elected assistant county rat-catcher anywhere in Florida. To them it is just one more example of the Republican Party sticking its thumb in the eyes of conservatives. Mention either Crist or Cornyn to these folks and I hear verbs and adjectives (and the odd gerund) I've rarely encountered since I was a Sixth Fleet sailor.
The race between Crist and Rubio has been described as a battle for the soul of the Republican Party in Florida. Rarely do primaries present so clear a choice between two candidates with different views on the proper role of government and how a good and just society can be achieved. But if the Machiavellian approach of the NRSC is to prevail (I don't believe it will), perhaps it should be described as a battle to determine if the Republican Party has a soul.
And if it's true there is no standard for support from the Republican establishment beyond having an R behind the name and good electoral prospects according to the political cognoscenti, then I have a bumper strip I recommend the NRSC send out with its fundraising letters. It reads: "Our liberals can beat your liberals."
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John Bolton and His Walrus Mustache Are the GOP's Only Hope Against Rand Paul
With pseudo-isolationist Rand Paul increasingly looking like a real 2016 contender, only one man can stop him from weakening America's military and ending the country's unstated policy of never-ending worldwide conflict. And that man is
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Enter John Bolton. Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is being encouraged by several leading conservative power brokers to consider a presidential bid.
Bolton, after all, possesses everything required of a successful presidential candidate. He is closely tied to the foreign policy of the Bush administration. He is known for once throwing a tape dispenser at a professional counterpart and spreading rumors about her sexuality. He has an enormous walrus mustache. Rand Paul has none of these things and would clearly struggle to overcome Bolton's popularity and charisma.
Bolton, for his part, is
pretending to be interested so people will pay attention to him "giving the idea serious consideration — serious enough to travel to Iowa and New Hampshire." We know this is something that Serious Candidates do, because Donald Trump is also doing it.
In addition to traveling to a whole different state, Bolton plans to "give speeches, huddle with GOP leaders," and continue growing out his walrus mustache, so that it will be as walrus-y as possible should he decide to run.


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At a Glance: Black Leaders in Key House Posts
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The 110th session of Congress has an unprecedented number of African-American lawmakers in key positions of power. Black lawmakers with long seniority are taking over committees with influence on such fundamental issues as taxes, homeland security, trade and Social Security.
Some of these representatives – such as Charles Rangel and John Coyners – have been in Washington for decades. Coyners, who was first elected in 1964, helped establish the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.
The Black Caucus gradually accumulated considerable influence on Capitol Hill, until the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Since then, Caucus members have seen their influence wane, rarely winning the ear of the Bush White House.
But last November's election brought a massive reversal of fortune for the Caucus. Now six of its members are poised to have a considerable impact on what happens in the House in the next two years. Here, a guide to who's who:
House Majority Whip
As House majority whip, Clyburn will assist the speaker of the House in building and solidifying support for legislation. The members of the new Democratic majority are hardly monolithic in their politics; they are divided on major issues ranging from Iraq to tax cuts, so Clyburn will have his hands full. Clyburn has been a political trailblazer. He is the first African-American to represent South Carolina in Congress since 1897.
House Judiciary Committee Chair
John Conyers, 77, is the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. Conyers first came to Congress in 1965; this year he assumed the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. Conyers sponsored the legislation that made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. He has also proposed a commission to study the issue of reparations to African-American descendants of slaves. Conyers has expressed support for impeachment proceedings against President Bush, but has been overruled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He is a big jazz fan, with photos in his office of some of the great players.
Chair of the Congressional Black Congress
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was first elected to Congress in 1996. This year, she became chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, in addition to her duties as a member of the Appropriations Committee. She has worked to steer federal aid to her inner-city Detroit district and has been a supporter of increased foreign assistance for Africa. Her son, Kwame, is Detroit's mayor.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair
"Charlie," as he's universally known, is famous for his gravelly voice, his "New Yawk" accent and his stories. Now 76, he considered retiring before the last election but decided to return to the Hill, given the prospect of finally becoming a committee chairman. Now at the helm of the Ways and Means Committee, Rangel has an opportunity to put his imprint on a vast range of issues, including taxes, trade, Social Security and Medicare.
Homeland Security Committee Chair
Thompson represents the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest districts in America. As chairman of the Homeland Security panel, Thompson will become a visible figure in Washington, with influence over a wide array of issues. He was floor manager of the first legislative item to come up in the 110th Congress, a bill to implement some of the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission. He has supported more funding for first responders, and vows that his committee will provide greater oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
Ethics Committee Chair
Members of the ethics committee have the thankless job of sitting in judgment of their colleagues in cases where it is alleged that lawmakers broke the rules of the institution. As a former county judge and prosecutor, Tubbs Jones has been tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a position that few members covet. Tubbs Jones also holds a seat on the Ways and Means Committee, the first African-American woman on that powerful panel.
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NPR's Scott Horsley acted as a stenographer for President Obama on Tuesday's Morning Edition, as he reported on the Democrat's Monday slam of the news media. Horsley played up how the President "spoke as a politician who's been on the receiving end of tough questions; but also as a somewhat cranky news consumer who thinks too many reporters are falling down on the job." The correspondent also turned to a talking head who backed up Obama's criticism of the press.
Discussing rumors of a possible Hillary Clinton campaign shakeup in an attempt to right the ship after a close race in Iowa and what looks to be like a Sanders blowout in New Hampshire, CNN's Anderson Cooper on his eponymous program tonight made a humorous comparison to how struggling cable TV executives handle programs that just aren't cutting it in the ratings.
Tuesday's All Things Considered on NPR followed the lead of CNN earlier in the day in spotlighting a pro-euthanasia activist's reaction to California Governor Jerry Brown signing the "End of Life Option Act." Host Kelly McEvers allowed only a brief mention of opponents calling the governor's move "a dark day for California." McEvers then gave guest Christy O'Donnell, who has terminal lung cancer, the kid glove treatment. O'Donnell appeared on CNN's At This Hour earlier on Tuesday, where anchor Kate Bolduan thanked her for her "strength" and "courage."
Don Lemon spotlighted the racist motivations of Vester Flanagan, the fired journalist who murdered two of his former associates, during a Thursday commentary on Tom Joyner's syndicated radio show. Lemon zeroed in on how the "discussion about Flanagan has mainly centered on mental health....The other, lesser discussion has been whether he was racist." The CNN anchor bluntly contended that "if one objectively looks at Flanagan's actions and history, one can't help but come to the conclusion that both are probably true."
On Tuesday's installment of The Rush Limbaugh Show, a caller seemed to stun the eponymous conservative radio host when he explained that his wife "works the operating room at Planned Parenthood" in St. Paul, Minnesota and argued that while it's "rather hard to believe," the abortion provider "does a lot of good things, and not just, you know, baby killing and now I guess throwing fetuses into bags."
"[W]e in journalism need to come to a place and realize that when you make mistakes you need to own up to them immediately and apologize." -- Jake Tapper
It's among the most annoying phrases in the lexicon and a worthy target for dissection. Rush Limbaugh took a chainsaw to it today and the results weren't pretty.
In the aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's allegedly stunning re-election victory, attention has predictably turned to widespread concern over the so-called "Middle East peace process."
On his February 5, 2015 program on WMAL in Washington, D.C., conservative radio host Chris Plante suggested a new theme song for the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Check it out.
On Monday's CNN Tonight, Don Lemon refreshingly pointed out a problematic component of the Ferguson protests. Former police officer David Klinger pointed out that "all the forensic evidence indicates that it wasn't [Michael] Brown with his hands up standing still. All the evidence indicates that he was coming back at Officer Wilson." Lemon replied to his guest by wondering, "So the question is, this 'hands up' rallying cry has – is it a false narrative that people are using to fit their own agenda?"
On Wednesday's AC360, CNN's Dana Bash was hesitant to address President Obama's past remarks on immigration reform, where he repeatedly denied that he couldn't act alone – to the point that she first touted the Democrat's supposed academic credentials. After host Anderson Cooper played five clips of Mr. Obama making this point, Bash replied that "we should also remind people that he's not just the President. He also...was a constitutional professor...so, he speaks...with academic knowledge.
ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts on Wednesday glossed over the radical left-wing ideology of the Turkish protesters who assaulted three U.S. sailors in Istanbul earlier in the day. ABC's Martha Raddatz reported that the "the attackers [are] members of an ultra-nationalist group called the Turkish Youth Union, angry at what it calls 'American imperialism.'" NBC's Brian Williams underlined that "these were apparently the actions of a fringe group."
On Monday, Dr. David Agus injected the media's regular hype about climate change into CBS This Morning's coverage of the outbreak of Enterovirus D68 in the U.S. and the Ebola crisis in Africa. The CBS medical contributor admitted that science didn't have any answers at this point, but that didn't stop him from wildly speculating: "We don't know exactly why there was a dramatic spread this year, but something is happening now. We have multiple viruses. And together with global climate change, things are changing in the virus world, and we have to pay attention."


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I agree, the white looks fantastic! and the elfen look works
erm the jeanne is erm wrong
unless its not jeanne anyway its amazing
unless its not jeanne anyway its amazing
this is me and my friend characters NOT bayo or jeanne lol
great job, they're both hott!
Love it
awesome, white fits Daggy great >=3
beautiful image
Haha, lovely
Que dupla !Ótimo desenho !!!
That white suit is super sexy.
Sensacional como sempre!
And sexis!!!
And sexis!!!
uuuuh ... sexy *drool*
uh... isn't her hair supposed to be brown? she should dye her hair first before cosplaying as jeanne right? hahaha
...i meant her costume.. X(
still tho, you drew nicely sexy proportion
still tho, you drew nicely sexy proportion
Epic! X3
Heehee~! Wow, this looks soo amazing, Leily-chan
Love the expression >:3
Love the expression >:3
very nice sissy! 8D
Sexy work here..... Now make out *killed*
Thats super sexy! xD
Hehe Really lovely and sexy job, meu amor, it look fantastic x3
Daggy look really nice and sexy also, you did a wonderful job
Daggy look really nice and sexy also, you did a wonderful job
only Daggy? lol [p]
I think this draw really radiates passion for this game hehe, love the colouring and the cute/cool expressions you're both having :3 ! It's a really nice idea for cosplay too >:3 !
very nice the outfit make them have such lovely long legs
shiney and sexy!~ <3
Wooow Leily-san you looks very beautiful like Bayo-sama! and your friend no words...
Very sexy indeed, though I can't imagine the two of you as rivals...
hehe in the game Bayo and Jeanne are actually friends, but well they do fight...guess its part of any friendship lol
me and daggy are not fighting, tho XDD
me and daggy are not fighting, tho XDD
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I usually double this and freeze the extra as it is used in a lot of the things I cook. I also like this a lot better than broth from a can.
Put all the ingredients in a large sauce pan and cook for 2 hours. Remove foam as necessary and add more water during cooking to keep at same level. It will taste flat because the salt is added when the stock is used. If you leave in fridge, you can skim all the fat later. Keep in fridge up to one week and freeze the left overs.
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 265 Calories; 1g Fat (3.8% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 62g Carbohydrate; 18g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 357mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 11 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fat.
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Child of the Earth: Tarjei Vesaas and Scandinavian Primitivism
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Hermundsgard's knowledge of Vesaas is undeniable and he has read widely, carefully, and thoughtfully in other sources for this book. He provides a working definition of primitivism (not just a literary style, but a philosophy of life), explains how this is expressed in Vesaas's writing, and demonstrates how the primitivism of Vesaas fits into the context of Scandinavian primitivism in general. He succeeds in presenting this complex thesis in a clear style that encourages the reader to turn to Vesaas's own works not only to verify that thesis but for personal enrichment. Extensive bibliographic notes plus a good primary and secondary bibliography of sources in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, and English. "Choice"
A distinguished modern Norwegian novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, and poet, Tarjei Vesaas occupies a unique position in Norwegian and Scandinavian letters. Considered highly individual in his use of lyrical and symbolic language, Vesaas was profoundly concerned with spiritual themes and the interplay of the great forces of the nature. This study examines Vesaas' development as a writer with an eye to his role in the evolution of modernist primitivism in Scandinavian modernist literature.
Hermundsgard begins with a discussion of primitivism and the ways in which primitivist literary, philosophical, and artistic trends from the United States, England, and Europe have influenced Scandinavian writers. Focusing his attention primarily on four of Vesaas' best-known novels, Hermundsgard offers a sensitive analysis of the work and assesses the writer's contribution to the primitivist tradition. The discussion deals with Vesaas' literary legacy in the broader context of Scandinavian primitivist literature. Besides providing new perspectives on a writer who merits a wider English-language audience, "Child of the Earth" advances some speculations on the emergence of primitivist movements throughout the world. Relevant for classes or studies in twentieth-century Scandinavian and Norwegian literature, the modern novel, and world literature.
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Rundle: What has Black Saturday taught us?
Without surrendering the notion that we can dramatically improve our reaction to fire, a little circumspection about easy answers might be the least we owe to the dead, writes Guy Rundle.
Feb 10, 2009
Without surrendering the notion that we can dramatically improve our reaction to fire, a little circumspection about easy answers might be the least we owe to the dead, writes Guy Rundle.
However inured one is to the havoc wreaked by bushfires, to the horror and waste of life, to how things could have been otherwise, the "Black Saturday" fires can cut through any amount of world-weariness — from the burnt out collided cars on the road, to the stories of young girls going back for their horses, to the man handing his one daughter over to others as the skin fell off him … it is obvious that something of quite another order has happened in the country.
When the Ash Wednesday bushfires took eighty lives in 1983, it had been forty four years since an occurrence of similar magnitude, the "Black Friday" fires of 1939, an event buried under the war that immediately followed it, lost to history. In the inquiry that followed the '39 fires, it became clear that the whole practice of fire and land management were so chaotic that the fires had been a disaster waiting to happen. One problem testified to was that Victorian farmers were ready to burn-off at the drop of a hat, in conditions where fire could quickly get out of control.
Whether the improved practices did anything to stave off a large-scale disaster for two generations or whether it was just luck, we can never really know. The previous big fires had been 1851, 1898, and 1926. In the last analysis, what looks from the ground like a reign of death is also, in the last analysis a weather system, and weather systems are chaotic in the literal sense. Without surrendering the notion that we can dramatically improve our reaction to fire, a little circumspection about easy answers might be the least we owe to the dead.
Not according to sections of the right it would seem. With the embers still flying the fire has been put into service as yet another item in the culture wars and the endless attempt to paint anyone of a greenish hue as a social fifth column. And it all depends on a few twigs.
For fire management specialists, the issue of forest fuel — the detritus that accumulates on the forest floor — is one of the most contentious and complex aspects of land and fire management. As summarised by Bill McCormack in a 2002 report numerous bushfire commissions and inquiries have considered the issue of reducing the amount of forest fuel. It would seem obvious that this would reduce the intensity and occurrence of bushfires, but the issue is more complex.
For a start, the back burning required to reduce forest fuel is best done under the same conditions — dry and hot — that maximise fire danger in the first place, a fact which turned out to be one of the causes of the 1939 disaster. Secondly in an ecosystem where fire plays an important role in regeneration, a level of burning back will cause a successively more dense regeneration of material. As Claire Miller and John Schauble found in a 2003 report for The Age, most experts found a bewildering series of arguments for and against burning off forest fuel, with no one clear guideline as to whether or nor burning off should occur in any given condition.
But comes the hour, comes the mendacity. The Australian managed to find an expert who was less interested in ambiguity. David Packham regards forest fuel levels as the determinant of catastrophic bushfires, despite the fact that virtually identical fires have occurred across vastly different land clearing regimes from 1851 to the present. Why are we ignoring this plain common sense? Because some dastardly people want "high-intensity fires" with "resulting mudslides" that "spread nutrients", because these "secure uninformed city votes" of "latte conservationists". Oh come on, you remember the great mudslide debates of the last decade don't you? It was all the talk at the film festival.
Packham's article seems to be setting a few academic scores and has about the same measure of probity as Wilson Tuckey's intervention, the iron-barred one arguing that a lack of roads and development in national forest areas had contributed to the spread of the fire. Given that the bulk of these fires have occurred in working, developed land and that the one picture dominating the media is the place where the fire has shown roads to be no barrier — ie where people have died in their cars — you would think that even Tuckey would be circumspect.
But in any case Packham's argument was good enough for The Oz which went way further in an editorial, tsking the Packham thesis as given and painting anyone who thinks that fuel management is not the be all and end all as supporting the "the misguided goal of agglomerating pristine-like bushland that is largely excluded from interventions such as bushfire management — just so we think forest in pre-human conditions is there".
Forest fuel levels have nothing to do with the severity of fires like on Black Saturday, which had sufficient force to blast through all forest burnt back and unburnt alike. In 2002, the least burnt back part of the state burnt up in bushfires — the fatalities? None. The main killer in this week's fires was the extreme speed. The effect of fuel on fire-speed? Zero.
One can only agree with The Oz's urge that everything has to be re-examined. But they have no real interest in that. They're primed with a single oversimplified idea — that Greens are anti-human and the root of all suffering — and they bang it out like a bunch of shopworn Stalinists on every occasion. Even the dead do not shame them into a deal more circumspection. It would be pathetic if it were not so malign.
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The Shropshire lad wants to have it both ways here. Condemn those who wish to look into the causes of the tragedy and yet at the same time enter into arguments about the matter. By all means attack the blinkered ideological approach of the Australian but don't vilify the desire to know, and speculate about, why bad things occur.
If you trip and skin your knee you immediately want to know why it happened – it's an innate response and nothing to be ashamed of. The attempt to stop the discussion smells of sanctimoniousness and a desire to conspicuously exhibit one's 'special' sensitivity.
As a former Victorian now living in the Adelaide Hills, two initial thoughts. 1. Shock and horror – I have been a regular vistor to Marysville for over 30 years, two weekends last winter. 2. There but for pure luck went SA. It was a godawful day but luckily, no fires started in SA. If they had, the outcome would have been identical.
I don't know anything about forest fuel reduction, nor do I have an opinion. But when we went to a CFS bushfire information session, we were taught that fires that get into the crowns of gum trees are very very dangerous. We were advised trimming all lower branches to not less than 3 metres off the ground to help minimise the spread into tree crowns. So if control burning results in a thicker and more dense understory, I might be missing something, but wouldn't this seem to be a bad thing?
Finally, can someone tell me why SA water reduced the volume of water being pumped down the Onkaparinga by a metre of river height on Friday night and Saturday? It was back to normal on Sunday however. Extraordinary good luck there was no fire, because there was also now limited water on the one day it would have been needed.
What is this bloke Guy Rundle claptrapping about ground fuel not a major contributor to the Victorian bush fires? Of course it is. A fire requires: fuel, oxygen and heat. A fire generates it's own wind thus increasing the amount of oxygen thus creating more heat. The fuel is already accumulated on the ground and in the trees. So periodic hazard reduction by way of burning the ground fuel is absolutely necessary. That would certainly reduce the intensity of a bush fire and idiots like Guy Rundle and the Greens cannot convince me otherwise. Bless the poor animals that cannot escape.
Lives could be saved if in or next to each house in fire prone areas there is somewhere to shelter from the fire as it passes. This could be in a pool or under ground. Perhaps a small shipping container buried underground with steps down to its door. This would allow people to fight to protest their properties to the very last minute then reemerge to continue when the danger has passed.
As reported in The Sun (London) and some US papers but not in ours. US Intelligence monitored messages in which a fundamentalist group spoke of "forest jihad". A web site told muslims in Europe,US and Australia "scholars have justified chopping and burning infidels forests when they do the same to our lands". If these reports are true the mainstream media has let us Aussie's down. I INVITE ALL TO READ THE SUN'S REPORT AND MAKE YOUR OWN MIND UP IT'S A REAL EYE OPENER.
Thank you for taking this line.
I have been distressed and dismayed that, even while the horror of Saturday was unfolding, people were already laying blame and touting their ideologically-based stance – whatever that may have been, even though they clearly were not in possession of any facts.
I sincerely hope that in the subsequent reviews and Royal Commission there will be sufficient people in decision-making roles who will truly open their minds, suspending their own personal viewpoints while all the facts and research is put on the table for consideration.
This should not be viewed as an opportunity to blindly pursue long-held beliefs because we 'know we are right'. Rather we will need to be hard-nosed and systematic in our investigation of what took place and try to develop better ways of managing horrendous days like last Saturday in the event the unbelievable and unprecedented weather conditions are repeated in the future.
David Sanderson "don't vilify the desire to know, and speculate about, why bad things occur" those are your words that i quote. The supposed revalations are easily found by typing "forest jihad" and remember "don't vilify the desire to know, and speculate about, why bad things occur " quote. Hypocrite.
Shane, I didn't think it was necessary to add the qualifier "within the bounds of reason and good sense" but obviously you needed it so there it is.
Hazard burns will do very little in these conditions. When hot weather and wind combine, the fire will move through the crowns a lot faster than on the ground. Fire authorities can't hazard reduce the crown because the trees will die. More than anything bad fires happen because of the flukes of weather.
Unfortunately, houses which don't burn down are not news stories. The Victorian fires have filled the news, for good and understandable reasons. The lack of fires in South Australia has hardly rated a mention, despite the same record heat-wave and fire potential. I believe thist is highly significant. The local police and fire authorities have had a long term activity – Project Nomad – targeting known and suspected arsonists and keeping them under surveillance. The idea is to prevent them from lighting fires, and as it seems that most such fires in Victoria were deliberately lit, the South Australian strategy would appear to have been effective.
Unfortunately, preventing crime is nowhere near as sexy and attractive to the news media as an actual crime which has had devastating effects. Of course, if you have our weather and fuel loads, there will be fires, but if you can minimise the cause of most of them, and arson is such a cause, this is likely to be more effective in saving life and property than any action taken to fight or survive fires once they have occurred.
To those quiet achievers of Project Nomad -well done!
Bill V: no one is suggesting that ground fuel plays no role in the intensity of a fire – and the disputes haven't been about whether to burn off or not. Everyone agrees there should be burning off. The dispute centres around a) the risk inherent in doing it, since the 1939 fires were caused in part by burning off, b) whether excessive burning off makes things worth by promoting regrowth and c) whether burning off makes any difference to mega-fires such as the most recent ones, which burn through burnt off land anyway. Read the reports I hyperlink to, and you'll see that the issues are debated by bushfire experts, although I suppose they can be dismissed as pointy-headed intelelctuals if that's what you're really interested in.
David S: try reading the article. I didn't say that people should stop arguing about the causes of the fires. I suggested that cheap and easy stories about who's to blame – such as the Australian delights in – have nothing to do with learning from the experience. They're about finding easy social enemies to blame, to make us feel better about the horror.
Good article Guy, and your observations jell with my own knowledge of the area. I know Kinglake West well. Kinglake West is paddocks and open, recently burnt, bush. Fuel reduction was not an issue, at least in that area. If you have the conditions we had on Saturday, no number of firebreaks, no number of fuel reduction burns are going to save you. What made this fire so deadly were the speed it moved and the long hotspell we had just gone through which completely dried out Southern Victoria. The Australian can try and blame the greenies for that, but I think it's a bit of a stretch.
Lives could be saved if in or next to each house in fire prone areas there is somewhere to shelter from the fire as it passes. This could be in a pool or under ground. Perhaps a small shipping container buried underground with steps down to its door. This would allow people to fight to protect their properties to the very last minute then reemerge to continue when the danger has passed.
As an eye witness to the Ash Wednesday fires along the west coast, I have seen the unbelievable and cowered in the face of overwhelming natural forces. I defy any fire break or forest litter reduction program to in any way minimise what I observed – a howling, illogical runaway fire train of such ferocity that you couldn't imagine anyone or anything surviving. If this fire had occurred during a weekend / holiday and not along the sea – a natural and close point of refuge – we would have seen a catastrophe. Nature conspired again , and a series of record temperatures put everyone on edge and hunkered down. Clearly there are lessons to be learnt – and relearnt -, especially in these emerging semi rural communities, and science methodology cannot be ignored. The micro science of fuel reduction and protection strategies, as well as the larger picture – climate change. I can understand, and in many ways concur with the vehement tone of David Packham's article in The Australian but I can't excuse it's odious self importance. We all knew that this summer would be dire – record low rains in Spring, no rain in January, unprecedented temperatures – and we must insist that no stone is left unturned to make sure that this tragedy was not in vain. But to rail against your fellow citizens with tired and shallow pejoratives does not help your cause to make " our bush healthy and safe." From my experience, "safe' is a relative word as the bush is a tectonic force that possibly tolerates our presence but punishes any hubris. My feeling is that the 'stand and fight' message was misplaced and encouraged a 'macho' attitude to firefighting, which became a roll of the dice. An upside to these experiences is a rekindling of community and a connection to the Anzac spirit – mateship in the face of unmitigated disaster.
Guy, it is usually inevitable when when you argue for a point of view that there is an attack, explicit or otherwise, on the views that some others are expressing. The writers for the Australian are entitled to make such an attack, just as you are. There may also be an attack, explicit or otherwise, on the motivations of those holding opposing views – that is also quite normal and your article is a good example. You provide no evidence that those writing for the Australian are not principally motivated by a desire to put forward a view about the causes of the fires. Your premise, that the writers are principally driven by a desire to vilify the greens, went entirely unproven in your article – it was a given that readers were expected to just accept on your say so. The talk about a green "fifth column" suggests that the Australian writers have a lock-em-up, concentration camp mentality – another completely unsupported opinion.Your final comment about "a deal more circumspection" suggests, as I argued previously, that you believe that they should shut up altogether out of respect for the dead.
The writers for the Australian are entitled to put their views, just as those who, like me, believe that the fires are a nail in the coffin of climate change denialism, are entitled to put theirs.
As one called to the 1994 Parliamentary Inquiry and Coronial Inquiry here in NSW as state campaign co-ordinator for The Wilderness Society, and released with in effect 'no case to answer' a few words if I may.
May those poor victims rest in peace. The best of British to the injured with their recovery.
Secondly Rundle is on the right track. Let me add some pieces to the jigsaw. NSW is well known to lead the regulatory pack in Australia:
A. You can't physically hazard reduce (it's not "a backburn" which is done during the fire threat) all the forested land scape. IT"S NOT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE. There isn't enough favourable days in the winter and spring and autumn. So you have to hazard reduce strategically for buffer zones.
That's why Phil Koperberg elected to parliament here in NSW after 20 years stirling service particularly as Bushfire Commissioner said this:
1/1/02…Koperberg dismisses burn-off, Sydney Morning Herald, copy here http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/id39.html
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1/1/2002… Fire reduction burn offs useless: Daily Telegraph, copy here
B. I caution allies of the logging industry trying cheap gutless shots at greens like me, because what's good for the goose is good for the gander, see the picture here
Jan/Feb 2000…Serious forest fires in the Otways are started by careless logging practices
at …… http://www.oren.org.au/issues/water/report/16firelogging.htm
13/5/02…Clearfell logging is making the wet forests of the Otways drier and more fire prone
Patchy, rare fire occurrence in wet forests of Otways, Vic
1997….scientific refutation of the 'burn lots and burn often' simplistic approach allegedly used by pre European Aboriginal society
at ……http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/id42.html
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