Sad to see when a fire hits one of our nature spots here in Michigan. (H/T Detroit News via AP)
FAIRHAVEN TOWNSHIP — A large fire that took place on Heisterman Island, less than four miles off shore from Fairhaven Township, wound up burning about one-third of the uninhabited island Tuesday evening and into Wednesday morning.
Members of the Fairhaven Township Fire Department were called out to the blaze around 5 p.m. Tuesday but had no capability to get to the fire. Members quickly responded to a good observation point to monitor the fire from shore while keeping in touch with the Department of Natural Resources’ Fire Division.
The DNR performed a fly over of Heisterman Island around 6:45 p.m.
“We provided the eyes on the ground for them,” said Fairhaven Fire Chief Roger Gothro. “(The DNR) decided to let the fire go because they were predicting rain last night, which fortunately came.”
Gothro said he went back out to check on things at 6:30 Wednesday morning and saw no signs of fire. He added that at this time, no one is sure what caused the fire.
According to the DNR, about 130 of the more than 400-acre island burned. Following another fly over of the state-owned island late Wednesday morning, officials reported that 90 percent of the fire was out with some smoldering. But it provided no threat and will soon burn out.
No residents live on Heisterman Island but the island is home to various wildlife and is frequented by hunters, anglers and campers. Gothro said they are unsure at this point whether anyone was on the island at the time of the fire.
I have purposefully avoiding this story, because I was a bit worried that I would come off sounding like the hyper-partisan bloggers that have covered this story. However, I believe it has come to point now, where this story is taking on a bit more uglier role. One where the Government, under Obama, simply screwed up horribly bad. In fact, they have screwed up to the point where even some media outlets are breaking from the Obama bias and are starting to ask questions too.
Heck, even Shepard Smith over at Fox News Channel, who is, they say, a liberal — even he is pissed off about this:
I mean, how bad has this gotten? This bad: (H/T AllahPundit)
I mean, this goes well beyond partisan politics, this is an utter disgrace and an embarrassment to the United States and the World. As an Americanist; I find this sickening as can be.
…and what does the Obama Administration’s talking-heads have to say about this?
Well, look, I think that’s quite a heady accusation from Congressman Chaffetz and I know Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have been out there making outrageous political accusations as well. The fact is, to the President and to the administration, this is not a political issue. No one wants to get to the bottom of this more than the President. …The administration is providing information they had access to at the time. And the intelligence community has come out and said that this was an organized act of terrorism. But for us, it’s not political. For the President, it’s not political. And it’s unfortunate it’s being brought to that.
To wish AllahPundit replies, and I believe he speaks for a good part of Americans, especially Independents, like me:
Please spare us all the sanctimoniousness about getting “political,” because whether or not the president of the United States and his administration are equipped with the capabilities to deal with serious threats to our national security sure seems like kind of a big deal that voters deserve to know about.
And let’s not pretend nobody in the Obama administration got political with this by trying to portray a dishonest narrative downplaying the true motives behind the attack. Blaming the entire thing on some stupid video was an embarrassing ploy designed to depict to voters that Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East have been more successful mitigating terrorist influences than they actually have, and the administration’s inability to keep its story even remotely straight suggests that there was perhaps a little more on their minds than only U.S. security interests. Sure, everybody wants to get to the bottom of this — but the Obama administration also has a very vested interest in misdirecting voters’ attention away from their foreign-policy failures, more so now than ever.
I have to agree, it is no wonder that there is a poll showing Romney leading Obama by one point, which erased a six point lead by Obama. Some would say that this is due to Obama debate performance; but I think it is more than that; Independents like me have watched this Libyan case for a long while and I believe Independents are going to see this President for what he really is. Which is a rank Amateur, who rode a wave of affirmative action and black empowerment to the White House, only the realize that job was a bit tougher than he thought.
But, this is far from over; I believe that the bus tossing has begun and I believe before it is over with, there are going to be political friendships ruined for life. Michael Walsh at the NRO’s Corner agrees:
Now, it seems, that Team Obama has decided to try and save U.N. ambassador Susan Rice — whose reputation in the IC could hardly be lower — and perhaps press secretary Jay Carney as well by tossing the nation’s spooks under the bus, in which direction they’re also nudging Hillary Clinton.
But you can’t burn all your friends, and the Obama forces already have a lot fewer allies than they think they do. The disrespectful way they treated former White House chief of staff William Daley is likely to come back to haunt them in the graveyards of Chicago, and the bad blood between them and the Clintons hasn’t gone away, despite Bill’s bonhomie at the convention. Should the Romney surge continue, and Ryan mop the floor tomorrow night with Mr. Foreign Policy, Joe Biden, Barry might be pretty much down to Michelle and Valerie Jarrett in the chum department.
Alienating spookdom, however, is a new order of magnitude stupid. Because spooks fight back — hard and dirty. Bob Woodward and Jake Tapper are only phone calls away. And CIA Director David Petraeus is just one press conference shy of bringing down the whole house of cards.
As the saying goes, it’s worse than a crime — it’s a blunder.
Indeed, this is going to be a very interesting story to cover; even after the election. Because, at this point, I do not believe that Obama has a prayer. I believe when it is all said and done, there are going to be ramifications for the Democratic Party for years to come. So far, they have damaged their brand in a big way. This Benghazi thing, is just lighter fluid for the furnace, so to speak.
A while back, I gave an analogy of political capital and wood, I cannot find it in my archives anywhere. But, I liken political capital to a wood burning stove, and a huge pile of wood. Every President gets an allotted amount. Bush got a BIG pile after 9/11, which he burned very well, until 2006, when the Iraq war turned to a meat grinder, and then he really burned through it. This took him 7 years. Obama, on the other hands, he burned through his pile, IN THREE FREAKING YEARS! Obama and his idiocy, has set back the progressive cause for many years. The Democrats outlook is quite bleak.
Glass Jaw be damned; this is going to be a massive screw up on the Democrat’s part, which is going to be felt for a very long time. As a former Democratic party voter; it saddens me that the Democratic Party went this route and is now having to pay the price. The former honorable party, has become the stupid party and for that; the Democrats have no one to blame, but themselves.
I am almost certain that these leftists most likely believe that George Wallace was a Republican too. It is a typical tactic of the liberal left to parrot that talking point. George Wallace was, in fact, a southern Democrat, who left the party to run as an Independent, because he resented the Democrats move towards civil rights for blacks. George Wallace was also a bitter racist, who eventually, after ending up in a wheelchair, because of getting shot by a deranged man; became a born-again Christian and turned his back on his racist views and his ideas on segregation. But, none of that matters to the left-wing propagandists, like these people. They have a narrative to push! The narrative that all white Christian Conservatives, like me, are racists and George Wallace wannabe’s and that all black or Latinos,who are Conservatives, are race traitors and house Negroes!
I notice that it says, “Homegrown Media Revolution” in their front page. Oh, it is a revolution alright. The same kind of revolution that started on July 23, 1967 and lasted for almost a week. Some advice for the Dateline Detroit folks, drop the pretense; just come out and say it, that you are a group of leftists, who do not like corporate media and are looking to become the Detroit version of DailyKos or The Nation. Yeah, I know, I linked to them; sometimes they actually have good stuff on that site. But, the majority of the time, it is the same old, tired, far left liberal stupidity.
It is sad that Detroit has gotten that bad. But it is to be expected; seeing the decline has gotten worse in that city —– since I left in 1989.
I hate to admit it, but I am getting that feeling again. Hits are down, ad revenue is horribly bad; it is just bad now. I am not whining or anything, I picked my battles and decided to take the stand that I did for a reason. I am a man of principle. But, when I get accused of crap that I did not do, and people believe the words of a neo-Nazi and a serial liar over you, what can you do?
Another thing is my bank account is low as hell, take a look:
All I have in the bank now.
$34.75. Pitiful isn’t it? Me, an American, in the most prosperous land in the Country and I cannot find a freakin’ job anywhere around here. Of course too, I do not have a car; because the one I did own, was a POS and I had to junk it. So, now, I have to use my Dad’s truck, if I want to go anywhere. It is like being in prison, quite honestly.
Of course, when you have people slandering your name on the internet, calling you a racist and a Jew Hater, you can only do so much. That’s okay, I have a lawyer friend who owes me a favor. I might just call him, and see what I can do legally to go after those who slandered me. They know who they are and they will be hearing from my lawyer soon.
Yup, that is my bank account at the moment. You cannot make any money on blog, if no one is coming around and clicking ads. I hope the jerks who railroaded me are really happy with themselves. I bet if I were defending that Marxist puke I’d be rolling in the dough. But, even I cannot fake it that badly, I mean, when Andrew Sullivan is losing his mind, what does that tell you?
I am still voting for Romney, I believe we can do better than this idiot that is in the White House now. I mean, I remember it so well, I remember saying on my old blog, this guy is a joke! Well, it now turns out, that I, and a whole bunch of other bloggers were right.
Anyhow, I just felt like sharing what is really happening here. Things are just not good at all. Only reason I don’t just pull the blog and disappear is that, one, I have to keep a record of my activity since 2006, and too, I do have some invested for hosting. So, there’s that. I dunno, I thought I could at least drum up traffic, but I guess not. I guess being pro-American and anti-Wilsonian is not very popular anymore. I bet if I were black or some other protected minority, I would be rolling in the hits. But, we white boys are just not popular anymore. We that dare to stand up for Jesus Christ and real Christianity.
But, again, I am just rambling. I am just sick of the staleness of the blogging world too. It is all just an echo chamber anymore, no originality, no free thought; just parrots with talking points. It is the same on the left too. It was back when I was on that side and I got no respect over there either, so this is not a right-wing thing. The truth is, we white people are not wanted anywhere.
I think I’ll just quit early tonight and try again tomorrow. Because now, I am just not feeling it.
I will be honest with you, I am all for the protesting against radical Islam and radical Jihad. But that is not what this man is about at all. What Terry Jones is about, is the promotion of Terry Jones and that is all he is about. I mean, burning a Koran simply is inciting a riot. But, that is not what he is doing, the story is below:
Dearborn — Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones is scheduled to protest Wednesday outside Edsel Ford High School.
The minister plans to hold from 1-4 p.m. a demonstration against what he calls bullying by “Muslim gangs.”
Jones has grabbed national headlines for protests where he’s set afire copies of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, and his promotion of an inflammatory anti-Islamic film blamed for sparking deadly demonstrations across the Middle East.
City officials have given Jones permission to hold the protest and say the community’s police department is prepared to handle any problems that may arise during the event.
Now, what Pamela Geller is doing, yes, that is the real deal; but this guy, no way, he is nothing more than a provocateur. There is a big difference and the stark differences are plain as the nose on your face. I mean, when even other Christians are questioning your tactics something is really wrong. There are other ways to make your message known and this man’s way is not one of them.
Again, if this guy were a legitimate Anti-Jihadi person, I would have nothing but good to say about him. But this guy is all about self-promotion, to prop up his failing Church — which is nothing more than a two-bit cult, from what I have read. The best thing that the Islamic Community and the Christian Community can do, is ignore this two-bit attention whore and let him fade back into obscurity; where he truly belongs. There are some who try to put this guy, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in the same league. They are not even close, not at all. I have done my homework on this guy, and believe me; he is not even remotely in the same league.
Consider this my official statement about these events:
As many of my readers know, I post videos by the website CBNNews.com, which is owned by Christian Evangelist Pat Robertson. Pat Robertson also owns the The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) as well. It is my understanding that one of their lawyers was recently outed by two liberal websites as having possibly sexual activity with a 17-year-old boy. I find this to be quite disturbing news and I applaud Pat Robertson and Ministry of The American Center for Law & Justice and by proxy the Christian Broadcasting Network for the swift action against this man. I make no bones about this: I find the homosexual lifestyle to be absolutely and totally morally reprehensible and when things like this happen, damage is done to the body of Christ and the message of the Gospel of Christ is hindered.
I will continue to post videos by CBNNews.com and I will continue to support the mission of CBNNews.com and the CBNNews service; which is to present World news and events from a Pro-Christian, Pro-Conservative and Pro-Israel perspective.
The only person responsible for the actions of James M. Henderson is in fact —- James M. Henderson. Anyone who says otherwise, is a collectivist or an idiot — or both.
The Absolutely mind-numbing story via the Progressive Magazine, The Nation:
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets.
On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.
In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a fucking mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”
“He grabbed me by my bookbag and he started pushing me down. So I’m going backwards like down the hill and he just kept pushing me, pushing me, it looked like he we was going to hit me,” Alvin recounts. “I felt like they was trying to make me resist or fight back.”
Alvin’s treatment at the hands of the officers may be disturbing but it is not uncommon. According to their own stop-and-frisk data, the NYPD stops more than 1,800 New Yorkers a day. A New York Times analysis recently determined that more than 20 percent of those stops involve the use of force. And these are only the numbers that the Department records. Anecdotal evidence suggests both figures are much higher.
This ought to be, but will not be, because it does not fit the narrative of the so-called “right”; on every front page of every last darned Conservative blog out there. Before anyone even remotely says it; I might be a racial realist, but I do not support this sort of idiotic nonsense. This is nothing more than thug and racist tactics by the New York City police department. I have condemned racism on this blog and I will continue to do so. However, this goes well beyond racism, this is also police state thug tactics. Law enforcement is supposed to serve and protect, not intimidate and threaten its citizens. Furthermore, it is not supposed to stop and frisk people, for the sole purpose of checking to see if they are criminals or not. This is unconstitutional.
You see, the difference between this Conservative blog and the rest is this here: I happen to know that America is trending towards a police state and has been for many years. I also happen to know that this slide towards a police state is not based on partisan leadership in Washington D.C. The Police State in trend in America has been in place under Republicans and Democrats both. I give major kudos to The Nation magazine for having the brass balls to bring this issue to light and I hope as a Constitutional Conservative that some sort of investigation into this activity is started.
Again, this is not about partisanship at all —- this is about that which happens to be morally right and morally wrong; and this little story here is just morally wrong. I just hope something is done about it, and quickly, before someone out there, police or civilian; gets hurt really bad or worse, ends up dead.
We can do better than this, as Americans — we can do better.
Update: I thought of this after I hit publish. This right here is nothing more than what the Detroit Police Department had back in the 1960’s and early 1970’s; which was the S.T.R.E.S.S. program. It was racist, it was thug tactics and it was ended by Mayor Coleman Young, when he took office. This is the same thing and it is unconstitutional. If there is any sort of morality in New York City, this little operation will be stopped and quickly.
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