Tripnsweep

Johnni DiJulius played Matt McDonough in the movie. I think Cory Janzten was in it somewhere too. There were some liberties, like ASU losing a whole season, the program for dropped for less than 2 weeks. Also there was no mention of Thom Ortiz, the ASU coach when Anthony started as a walk on. Overall it was pretty accurate, just some Hollywood liberties to make it more dramatic like you'd expect.

This isn't about municipal fire departments. The people who fight wildfires are not part of that. How stupid are you? The forest service and other agencies handle these things. Not your local municipal fire department. They definitely can help but they are not the primary agency that handles wildfires. That is handled by specialist crews who are trained to handle it. I swear that it's a miracle you don't suffocate by forgetting to breathe.

No you aren't. You're laying the blame at politicians you disagree with, when it has nothing to do with them.

I'm sure something will change, but as usual it's too little too late. This is unprecedented really, which is why even if this was floated as a possibility, it just wasn't seen as likely to ever happen. About 10 years ago where I live we had really heavy rain for like 4 days in a row. I had to actually get sandbags because I thought where I lived might flood. That's an anomaly because we live in a desert. But because our infrastructure isn't designed to handle that, we had flooding in places nobody ever expected it to happen. After that, people made a big deal about upgrading our infrastructure to handle this when it happened again. So they upgraded some things and made a big deal about it. We haven't had storms that have even come close to that since, which even though money was spent, it is basically useless since there hasn't been a need for it. So I'm sure the results of this are going to be reactionary, and in 5 or so years, we'll have idiots who question the wisdom of having spent money to make those changes. But I doubt the changes that are made are going to really solve the problem.

Lack of preparedness for something like this. Generally with disasters, you plan for the worst, and I don't think anyone anticipated this as being something that could happen. Or they did but just considered it unlikely. Because they are dealing with 3 separate major fires in and around the LA basin right now, there aren't enough crews to quickly tackle it, I know that crews from other parts of the state and other states were mobilized, again because nobody anticipated something like this. It's like saying you should have police stationed inside a bank to prevent robberies. The problem is you can't put police everywhere, and even if you got lucky and the police were present when a robbery happened, they might not be able to stop it anyway. Wildland firefighting is a very difficult job, most of them it's a seasonal gig. My friend who was a hotshot was also a fisherman in Alaska when he wasn't doing this. The pay is shockingly low, and a solid 40% of them in California are convicts in prison who have extensive training and do this to shorten their time. Regular municipal firefighters are trained differently, they have different tactics and even though many of them are in great shape, it's like comparing a regular enlisted soldier to a Navy SEAL. Hotshots regularly work 18 hours days with little rest, no breaks, and a decent chance of being killed. Part of why they're attracted to it because of the thrill. So blaming the lack of preparedness of local firefighters and apparatus to fight local fires is stupid. Because you're talking about two different things. This is the absolute worst case scenario that somebody could have come up with, and I'm sure somewhere somebody floated the idea, but nobody seriously prepared for it because of it being unlikely. Except here we are. Where you can lay blame locally is with fuel not being cleared away or poor choices of construction materials, planning, layouts, etc. But municipal planning is a whole different thing, since nobody expected this to happen.

Tell us you don't understand how wildland firefighting works without telling us you don't understand how wildland firefighting works.

I like how many people here are all of a sudden experts on land management and blame the political party they don't like for anything that goes wrong. We have had many destructive fires here, including one that sadly killed 19 hotshots a few years ago. A close friend of mine was a hotshot/smoke jumper for 15+ years and he's told me that the only real way to avoid this 100% is to get rid of anything flammable in the wilderness. Since that isn't feasible, most of what they do is eliminating corridors for fires to get out of control. They'll back burn, dig breaks, etc. Those people are insane too. I thought I was in good shape wrestling, my friend put me to shame every time we hit the trails. I was happy with what I thought was a fast time, he practically lapped me while carrying a 50 lb pack. So anyone who does the insane stuff they do is pretty badass in my opinion. I once looked into it as a summer gig and I probably could have met the PT benchmark, but they want their people to exceed it always. And for what they get paid? I can see why it attracts lunatics like my friend, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Are you really that stupid?

I could see it as a very bad idea. Suppose Greenland went for it. Now we have the added expenses of not just taking care of the entire population of Greenland, which isn't big, but it's remote, isolated and more expensive to maintain. Not to mention being responsible for defending, administering, and dealing with a massive new territory, that is largely unexplored. Then there's other considerations, such as how to handle local conditions, disasters that may happen, etc. To a lot of people that doesn't sound complicated, but it is. Also transportation for anything coming or going is massively expensive. My guess is Trump is saying this for one of two reasons. One, somebody told him it's full of untapped resources which if we owned we could mine or take. Or two, he is saying this to distract from other problems that he knows are coming.

I wonder when or if we'll ever learn how old he really is. At this point there's no penalty for admitting it. Not like they can revoke his Fargo championship.

You mean like the teen beauty pageant circuit that parents push their kids on? Or the one Trump bragged about owning and being backstage at to peep at underaged girls?

Australia has guns, it's just a lot of people don't need them. People have hunting rifles and such now, but before they had a few episodes where mass shootings happened and passed laws to make sure guns were more restricted. You know, common sense. I personally don't think more guns is a good answer to mass shootings or criminals. Most civilians with guns don't shoot them enough or practice enough to be proficient in a combative situation. It's like owning an F1 car and saying you could be a pro race car driver, but you only drive it once a month or something.

You and @Husker_Du should team up to form an unstoppable investigative team. Apparently between the both of you, you can find information that nobody else can or is privy to.

Your English needs improvement.

Better than: I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it.The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is. I believe that.

I think Trump just says crazy thing after crazy thing in hope that by the time people figure out it's just some crackpot idea, that he's already into the next crazy thing. Mexico is going to pay for the wall! I'm going to retake the Panama Canal! Greenland should be ours! And in between are things that only sound slightly less crazy.

Did you actually read these articles or just the headlines? Also what I was saying doesn't happen is people hopping the border and being rewarded with free things. The government gives things to refugees absolutely. There are several apartment complexes a couple miles from here that are almost all refugees from various parts of Africa, and their rent is heavily subsidized if they meet certain conditions. I believe you are confusing or conflating illegal immigrants with refugees. There is a difference. But I applaud you for showing the depths of your ignorance in not being able to distinguish between the two.

Except that doesn't happen and it would be against somebody's best interest to do that. If your presence here hinges up on not attracting attention and not breaking the law, then it seems reasonable you wouldn't commit a crime that is easily traceable, there is zero incentive to commit, and would get you removed and declared inadmissible for a decade.

Ok so let's imagine that registering to vote when you aren't eligible to do so, or are registering under somebody else's name. Nobody can really answer this question: What is the incentive to do so? Because there isn't some high risk high reward. You don't gain anything. When people lie about how masses of illegal immigrants are registering to vote supposedly, I wonder if the people who repeat that lie have suffered brain damage. There is no incentive for somebody who isn't eligible to vote, to register to vote. There are only negative possibilities that come from it. People who are here illegally, I don't think they are looking to put their name down on any kind of official government list, with their address and name. That kind of defeats the purpose of them being here and trying to stay under the radar. It actually makes so little sense, I wonder if people who claim this happens regularly forget how to walk and breathe at the same time. That must be why only advanced geniuses with investigative powers of perception beyond those of mortal men like @Husker_Du are the only ones aware of this vast conspiracy.

I'm not talking about Detroit. I don't live there, I don't know how they do things. I'm telling you why it's a bad idea. Because some people don't need an ID or care about it because they don't need one. I would guess there's other communities where that is the same. Also if you have proof of mass fraud as you say, then you should switch careers because you apparently found what nobody else could find. In fact you're wasting time arguing here when you should be off presenting your obviously superior knowledge of election law and procedures.

They essentially live in a different country. Their way of life existed long before this country did. And you don't like it because it forces our norms on theirs? Give me a ***ducking** break.

You don't face the issues people do who live on the nation do. So forcing them to do things our way, when they live by a different set of laws and way of life isn't right. When you don't have a car, live in a remote area without water and or electric service, and get mail once a month, then you might be able to have a say in it.

They vote by mail mostly. They have a tribal ID number and register using that or something. Most people don't realize the reservation is a separate nation, they have their own laws and customs that we don't get much of a say in. Some of the local ones nearby the city here basically ignore our laws when it comes to certain things. When I was doing my training working for the county years ago, we had to have a guy come in and explain that if any of us working for the court had cases that involved tribal members who lived on the reservation, we couldn't enforce those orders ourselves since it would be violating their tribal sovereignty. We had to hand it off to the tribal magistrate who would supposedly review it and decide whether to do anything. In the words of one of the old timers in my office he confirmed that doing that was like "pissing into the wind". In essence if a tribal member does something wrong off the reservation and is able to get back onto their reservation where they live, they can escape consequences for some things. Around here it's usually things like DUI, shoplifting, etc because by the time the police get to it, they're gone and the local police have no power on the reservation, and the rez cops aren't exactly known for their speediness either. Also since whatever they're accused of didn't happen on the reservation, so there isn't much they can or will do besides give them a lecture about doing dumb things. So when it comes to nuances like voting, in rural places, they don't need the same things we do because they are so far removed from us. Their parents and grandparents got on without, and they do too. It's a separate nation that has their ways, and both culturally and administratively does things their way.

I lived in a reservation border town for a few years. Even back then saying that to someone could earn you a fight pretty quickly. I don't think you are comprehending what the nation here is like. Most of it is rural, news takes a long time to reach people, and a lot of them either don't have basic modern convenience we do. Some don't care. They don't have a need for ID because they are on their land, living the same way for years. If they need something they don't need to show ID because people know them. The tribal police, etc aren't going to hassle them nor will anyone else. It's a huge area, bigger than a lot of states, that has about 300,000 people on it, and at least 2/3 live in a rural area. A lot don't even have a proper address, which is why on voter registration forms it says to draw a map of you don't know or have a numerical address. Also if you throw in a deep distrust of outsiders, specifically white people, then they're much less likely to have those things unless it's absolutely necessary. Like leaving the nation to go to school or work somewhere else. It's a much different culture that I wouldn't expect to confirm to our ideals.

Trump thinks this is the work of immigrants. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-insists-he-was-right-about-everything-after-wrongly-tying-new-orleans-attack-to-immigration/ Even though this guy is from Texas.