Oregon lawmakers approve more than $218M to pay wildfire bills during special session. For those of you who’re grappling with why this happened, allow me to enlighten you. The reasons are: 1. The federal Endangered Species Act, and 2. The successful lobbying efforts conducted by the treehugger earthfirsters. Before we go through another devastating $318 million fire season, how about we inject some common sense into the equation and allow more thinning, logging, and undergrowth removal? The reason the past fire season was the most expensive on record is that in recent years, this state’s slowly allowed its hippies to exert undue influence over Salem’s policy decisions. And where did the hippies come from? That’s right, California. Since the ‘60s, things’ve been getting steadily crazier down there, so, in ever-increasing numbers, they packed up their politics, took the tons of money they got from selling their overpriced homes, and drove north across the state line to turn their political baggage into our problem. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the data from 1960 – 1980. Compared to the info below, it’s almost flat.
