Hello all! Greetings from Seattle, where we’ve been breathing smog for days now from the wildfires. If you live here, or in Oregon or California, my prayers are with you… Here is something annoying I’d like to express… even though there have been at least two dozen incidents of arson in the last couple months here in my city (which have often been categorized as caused by ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters), the media messaging I’ve noticed the last few days is this smug opportunity to politic… stating that it probably has nothing to do with the arsonists committing arson, but rather, it is global warming… ‘Arsonists wouldn’t go to the woods to start fires; they stay in the city!’ (Ah yes, the supposedly ‘ethical arsonists,’ who so far have only burned one, almost two, innocent people alive in the last few months. This inhumanity is actually what set me on the path to re-examine my thoughts on what the activists have been doing; so far I still have not seen an instance where any BLm protester has condemned this kind of violence that happens during some of their protests. I invite anyone to share with me if I’m wrong about this. Truly I would be happy to be wrong about the lack of condemnation of arsonists. As far as I’ve seen, there has to be a spark to start a fire (spontaneous combustion is extremely rare), which is why it is predicted that 85 percent of fires are human caused. So it’s perfectly natural to at least suspect it might be those darn arsonists. Btw, even the most rigorous green policy, if initiated today, would take a hundred years to have even the teeniest sliver of effect, so why we have to turn it into a talking point to get Biden elected seems incredibly shallow and shortsighted.
Update: the arsonist in Oregon has been arrested for starting fires, for the second time…
Tales from the Little Shed 