In their heads?
This is just…over the top, COMPLETELY over the top…
The University of Wisconsin-Madison just spent $50,000 to move a rock. Chamberlin Rock was named after a former university president and a geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin — a scholar of some note in the 1920s. He had no known racist tendencies. He has no racist writings to his name. But when did facts ever matter to the woke cretins on college campuses?
One newspaper story from 1925 referred to the rock as “n****r head rock” — a common term at the time for any dark-colored boulder. That was enough to condemn the rock to the outer darkness.
Full article, HERE. And another take HERE.
In other news, yet ANOTHER huge fire is burning in northern California…
The Dixie Fire… 679 square miles (so far), less than 25% contained and already burned one town (Greenville) to the ground.
HERE is the official link to CalFire. Thankfully, this one is nowhere near PP and family, but prayers go out to those folks in harm’s way.
Of course nobody in California politics is talking about this one, because it’s ALL due to the Econazis, their lawsuits, and the Pol’s unwillingness to stand up to them and do the right thing for the forests (and not letting USFS do their jobs either)…
Somebody ought to put the Woke to sleep.
Wildfiretoday dot com noted that a lot of the vegetation burned in the Dixie fire hadn’t burned in 40 years. Fire behavior seems to be similar (but worse) than the southern Oregon Bootleg fire, the one that used to get all the attention. I haven’t seen much notice that PG&E (cause of the Camp fire that destroyed Paradise, CA) is “pretty sure” their equipment started the fire.
We were about 10 miles from the origin of Bootleg when the direction of the burn was “outward”. Everybody around was very nervous for several days. Fuels have been extremely dry; winter was quite dry as was the spring.
I hope fall and winter are wet; the big fires are going to need that moisture to finish off the smokes. I’m assuming that the major burns will be done by then. Bootleg is mostly contained. Dixie keeps on burning.
TOS- Can’t disagree…
RC- Excellent point! And glad you were in the opposite direction. from the Bootleg fire! I’m hearing all kinds of different guesses on the winter, I’m just going to wait and see what mother nature actually brings.
What RC said.
Wife and I born, raised, and raised our kids in California. We lived in Chico for 30 years, bailing for Texas is 2015. We knew many folks in Paradise, including some who didn’t make it out.
Yeah, the Environazis BS “hands off, all natural” management combined with the USFS “Only you can prevent forest fires” mindset let decades worth of fuel pile up. You could see it. I remember driving the mountain highways and thinking “Man, this just a bomb waiting to go off”. It’s not like they didn’t know. Across the Central Valley on the Mendecino Forest they dropped napalm by helicopter to start control burns after it rained in the fall. Last I looked, that operation was scrapped for lack of funds.
What a perfect storm – land and water mismanagement over 40 years leading to low lake levels everywhere and fueled-up land ready to go.
Every year the eneMedia announce “It’s the Worst… Fireseason… Ever!” (best said like Shatner only can say it.)
Yeah, no. Not even.
Though it tells me much about the idjits in California (not the trapped and oppressed peoples, the idjits) that they (the idjits) can be surprised that wild fires just keep happening.
Duh.
Maybe, just maybe, if nobody cared about the snail darters and stopped dumping all the reservoir waters out… And built power plants and desalination plants along the coast so people aren’t reliant on reservoir water… And if reservoirs were properly maintained…
Oh, what am I saying. It’s Califrutopiastan, so, well, expect the worst and be surprised when they exceed it.
(Like the upcoming recall election, which is already being set up to be more fraudulent exponentially than the 2020 presidential race.)
The term niggerhead, or nigger-head, was used by Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel, Live and Let Die, and referred to clumps of dead coral covered in vegetation that stuck up above the waterline.
The OED defines the offensive (to some) term primarily as:
1. a.1.a N. Amer. (See quot. 1859.) Also, N.Z., the tussocks formed in swampy ground by species of Carex, esp. C. secta.
and goes on to cite one quotation:
1872 Schele de Vere Americanisms 281 They were Democrats, and retorted upon violent Union men by calling them Niggerheads.
I’m surprised, but not astounded. The university in Mad City was a gathering point for pot smoking anti-war, anti-establishment protestors in the 1960s. Some things never change.
RHT- My ex and her husband lost their house in Paradise. Got a whole $40k for a $200k home… And NO insurance, because it was paid for and no company would touch it due to the ‘fire danger’… Re the rest, agreed!
Beans- No argument… sigh
MJ- Good point…
You know, if an insurance company won’t insure a home, I’d say that was a good reason to sell and move out.
I’m sorry they lost their home and money, but if you build on a flood plain and can’t get flood insurance – my sympathies are limited.
My late MIL had a home in Paradise, but it was sold to the neighbors a few years before the fire when she passed. Nothing was left, though the neighbor’s house was fairly untouched (concrete block to 3′ above ground saved it).
$SPOUSE’s kid sister grew up there, and her MIL had a house in Paradise. She managed to get out, but it was way too hairy. House a total loss, but insurance was kept up.
The times I was there, I looked at the fuels in the neighborhoods and shuddered. The town had survived one bad fire some years previously, but it was clear to me that it was a place bound for trouble.
Ashland, Oregon is in a similar case, with worse exits, though that and the anti-cleanup attitudes are starting to change. Now, if they’d stop thinking of Lenin as a conservative white guy, it might be worth it.
Appeasement never works and that is what happened here. The shouters, more embolden, will find a new target soon.
Accommodation can work, but only when all parties operate in good faith.
Enduring example? Gun control.
Seems the business of relocating statues and rocks is monumental these days. I know, I know…I ROCK!
MJ- Yeah, but not my decision…
RC- Thanks for the background.
WSF- Excellent point!
Ohio- LOL
What a ferociously racist rock. Thank Gaia it’s gone. Now we can BREATHE.
Regarding the forest fires, I ran across this over at wirecutter’s place: https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/sorry-forest-service-fire-is-not-our-friend/
I want to hit someone. 😐