Comments on: Wildfire Burns 100 Homes, Dorm In Calif.
Explosive Blaze Also Injures 13 In Ritzy Montecito, About 2,500 Acres Scorched
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- It''s okay, we''re bailing out AIG so they can still party, oops I mean help out these big estate owners. We surly don''t want them to be hurt by all this inconvenience.
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- BTW, don''''t assume to know something about someone as in the state they as you made an as# out of your yourself.
Posted by au_fait
Have you ever BEEN to California? I lived in LA for 25 years from 1979. It was a wonderful place to live. Moved out in 2001, overcrowded, expensive, way too many Republicans moving out of Orange County. The North''s still gorgeous though. - Reply to this comment
- H-m-m-m, I wonder how many of those homes were in foreclosure?
Posted by nojoy01
Probably not many. Santa Barbara has strong over development laws so the place has been essentially "full" for years now. Most of the homes, especially in Montecito, have long term residents who''s mortgages are paid up. Hopefully they''ll have kept their insurance up with the house prices, otherwise they''ll be in deep doodoo. - Reply to this comment
- What sh*thole state, hmm I belive Florida has outranked California on the place to move.
Posted by au_fait
That''s only because NewYork Jews are the only people who can afford to move any more. - Reply to this comment
- Let''''s try to remember there are real people up in those hills losing real homes. Rich; poor; somewhere in between, it makes little difference if it is you or a loved one.
A loss like this is never fully recoverable, even with insurance. The wedding pictures, the child''''s first teddy bear, the old man''''s favorite coffee mug, the prom dress, the bowling trophy, that special tee shirt, the combat medals.....All those keepsakes; the stuff that is worthless to me and practically everyone else - but to the owner. You don''''t get that back no matter how well you''''re compensated.
You can rebuild your home but rebuilding your life is a tougher thing altogether. My thoughts go out to those whose lives are disrupted by this disaster.
Posted by LloydBest1
I''m reposting Lloyd''s contribution because it deserves it and it says just what I was going to post but way than I would have put it. Thanks Lloyd - Reply to this comment
- THIS GOVERNMENT IS TOTALLY CORRUPTED?????????????????????
NOTHING THEY DO IS RIGHT./?????????????????? - Reply to this comment
- WHERE ARE ALL THOSE HELLICOPTERS BUILT BY TAX DOLLARS MONEY??????//////?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
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- Insurgeon1 will be the one begging for forgiveness during his dying hours.
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- Welcome to America. Where we cheer the misery of our own countrymen. This nation needs to be wiped off of the map like the sh-t stain that it is. Burned to the ground. Set asunder and fueled by its own hubris and conceit. Burn Baby Burn. LOL
Posted by Insurgeon1 at 12:44 PM : Nov 14, 2008
1st time on a message board? - Reply to this comment
- Wonderful, religious bigots are reveling in this disaster. What they don''t realize is that Westmont College, a Christian school, was one of the first things under threat by this fire. Academic buildings, dorms, and prof''s homes have all burned there.
This is not God punishing Californians. This is not God punishing Christians. This is nature being nature in a climate where wildfires are part of the ecosystem. People obviously take a risk living in this ecosystem, but it is the same risk as living near the Mississippi. Every few decades, there will be a disaster.
Show some humanity, people. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by Insurgeon1 at 12:44 PM : Nov 14, 2008
Can''t say I disagree with ya.... - Reply to this comment
- Wonderful, religious bigots are reveling in this disaster. What they don''t realize is that Westmont College, a Christian school, was one of the first things under threat by this fire. Academic buildings, dorms, and prof''s homes have all burned there.
This is not God punishing Californians. This is not God punishing Christians. This is nature being nature in a climate where wildfires are part of the ecosystem. People obviously take a risk living in this ecosystem, but it is the same risk as living near the Mississippi. Every few decades, there will be a disaster.
Show some humanity, people. - Reply to this comment
- H-m-m-m, I wonder how many of those homes were in foreclosure?
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- You can rebuild your home but rebuilding your life is a tougher thing altogether. My thoughts go out to those whose lives are disrupted by this disaster.
Posted by LloydBest1
My thoughts and prayers go out to these people who have to attempt to rebuild their lives with nothing. Insurance companies certainly do not even get close to compensating you on your loss.
Going to delete this one CBS? - Reply to this comment
- Burn, Baby Burn...LOL
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- Let''s try to remember there are real people up in those hills losing real homes. Rich; poor; somewhere in between, it makes little difference if it is you or a loved one.
A loss like this is never fully recoverable, even with insurance. The wedding pictures, the child''s first teddy bear, the old man''s favorite coffee mug, the prom dress, the bowling trophy, that special tee shirt, the combat medals.....All those keepsakes; the stuff that is worthless to me and practically everyone else - but to the owner. You don''t get that back no matter how well you''re compensated.
You can rebuild your home but rebuilding your life is a tougher thing altogether. My thoughts go out to those whose lives are disrupted by this disaster. - Reply to this comment
- It''s not our fault that our state is in the craphole its been.
Let''s blame California since they are so much richer and better off than ours.
Posted by au_fait at 10:08 AM : Nov 14, 2008
Typical fascist.
You see California the way the rest of the world sees America.
Go ahead and be jealous. It won''t change the fact that more people want to live in California than in whatever sh*thole state you live in. - Reply to this comment
- The sooner that states dissapears the better off this country will be!
Posted by au_fait at 10:08 AM : Nov 14, 2008
Don''t worry. By the time that happens, the U.S. will have self destructed by then anyways. - Reply to this comment
- Whether the people living there are rich or not, it''s still a devastating scene.
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- blublucollar-so when there were hurricanes, wildfires (thanks sierra club for baning culling of forests, what''s left is called KINDLING!!)it was due to global warming. Now, with the chosen one standing in the wings it''s a natural disaster. My, my how things change.
Now, where''s all the angst and glee about the rich, rich getting thier due?? Oh, the poor lear/limo libs. - Reply to this comment
