This one is interesting, much like the Seminoles down in Florida with the whole kerfuffle over Florida State…
Washington’s WJLA reported Monday that “in a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change.” Healy Baumgardner, who is president of NAGA’s Global Impact Campaigns, said that NAGA has asked the Commanders for a meeting several times before, and been repeatedly stonewalled: “We attempted to have an open dialogue with the now Washington Commanders since they made the name change several years ago with no response by them to have a conversation. We felt that it was time to apply public pressure.”
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
We’ve got a major cell moving in, so I’m cutting this short before the power goes out. Go read the folks on the sidebar!!!
I’d post this on facebook but I’d get crucified.
Lahaina’s water supply was effectively taken over by the government last year.
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/blog/2022/06/15/nr22-085/
All sorts of new rules on water usage came out of this, you can be sure.
Now when things have been fine for over a hundred years – and suddenly unexpected disaster strikes – you have to ask ‘what major changes just got instituted’? I know in pretty much all of the California wildfires that wiped out entire towns there was always something that the government suddenly decided to do – but you have to go looking for it, because the last thing the government ever wants is responsibility – that was the direct cause of the wildfire.
Now, maybe I’m wrong, but I’m a naturally suspicious and un-trusting person.
RE: the Redskins. Since there is no possible name for the team that someone will not take umbrage with, how about just not naming them at all? Does the NFL require a team name? If so, just call them “the Blanks” as in “this space intentionally left blank.” Are numbers and player name required at all on the uniforms? Use plain all-white uniforms with the smallest allowable black numbers as the light color uniform, and plain all-black with small white numbers (or maybe, just one one unform that’s gray, dead center in the middle of the photographic gray scale; since no other team uses plain gray, those should work no matter who they’re “playing”).
The Washington Redtapers, Washington Corrupters, and Washington Vermin are all good choices, though.
Washington Lobbyists. Washington Special Interest Groups. Washington Military Industrial Complex. Washington 3-Letter Agencies.
Soo many opportunities, so little time.
I’ve always been a fan of renaming them the Washington Potatoes (after Redskin Potatoes). Seems fairly accurate to me.
It’s all about timing. The team just switched ownership, and they’re already dropping hints about another possible name change. The Native Americans are striking while the iron is hot.
John: You’re right to look for something. Even if it doesn’t rise to “direct cause”, there might be a significant contributing factor. Reagan was right about government not being the solution, but being the problem. Solve non-existent problems to justify department/budget growth, which causes actual problems which also need to be “solved”. Perverse and twisted growth, much like cancer.
I look at that because a friend of mine used to fight forest fires and wild fires in California. And he pointed out what caused every major fire in California that wiped out a town, and in every case it was due to a state law or state policy that had just been implemented by people who didn’t have a clue.
Those laws/policies always suddenly and drastically increased the amount of ‘fuel’ on the ground that was needed to feed the fires, and in many cases added ignition sources to light that fuel off.
And it’s been like a hundred years, so obviously something major changed, and changed recently. I bet they stopped letting people water their lawns and the local fields, that kind of thing, and increased the fuel load out there dramatically.
Yep, exactly. Looked into it myself a few years ago and it was the same information. Deciding to fight each and every tiny outbreak of fire was the wrong decision.
Better a slow moving fire that clears out the dead-fall without destroying the larger trees (and signals the remaining ones to germinate in a lot of cases) than having to fight absolutely massive fast-moving and intensely hot fires that can destroy anything and everything in their path, including the larger trees.
Maui Fires: I’m seeing claims in the news that it was natural factors (Dry season, drought conditions, 60 MPH wind from Hurricane Dora several hundred miles away driving the flames.) These sound like plausible and reasonable factors on the surface, but given how badly the media has shredded its credibility, I’m left with doubts and questions.
Like you, I’m looking for the human factors and decisions that further contributed to this, and may even turn out to be the root cause.
John/Ag- Good points. Sadly, death toll now over 50 and rising, and the village of Lahaina and the museum are GONE!
Arthur/TOS- Snort, love it!
Washington Swampers.
What the media won’t tell you about fires in CA is that when they get out of control (which is ALL of them), it is due to the absolute stupidity of the politicians. They mandated that NO ONE can cut ANY wood in a forest that isn’t owned by them. Even deadwood.
In the 90’s a disease (fungus?) that kills oak trees killed virtually every one in CA. My sister had property in Big Sur, and after she had all the oaks removed, all that was left was Redwoods. Lots of open space at that point. A hell of a lot of fuel remained in the Big Sur National/State Forest since you couldn’t even cut it for firewood. The resulting fire couldn’t be put out until the forest was gone. PG&E isn’t allowed to trim trees growing next to their powerlines, so the result is things like the Paradise disaster. BTW, their only allowable response is to shut off our electricity when the winds look like they might push a branch into the lines.
Big money in firefighting, though. I suspect that might be one of the drivers in that idiotic mandate.
Another tale of government policies by people who don’t have a clue.
When I was in college, there was an issue in the West about the presence of an invasive species of large herbivores devastating native plants and negatively impacting native species of wildlife. Until some activists “discovered” this problem, the Bureau of Land (mis)Management’s solution was to periodically round up these herbivores and sell them to dog food companies. The activists were appalled that these symbols of a Western history that existed only in Hollywood or in novels, AKA “Wild Mustangs,” were being rounded up and slaughtered.
Ignoring the scientific evidence about the devastation caused by the wild horses, the activists and Easterners, who had never been west of the Mississippi, fixated on the romance of the wild West and lobbied Congress to protect the wild horses. The BL(m)M responded by continuing the round up but auctioning off the horses to be domesticated. After all who doesn’t love ponies? Unfortunately the demand for domestic horses without a documented breed history was considerably less than the ability of the horses to procreate. A problem that exists to this day.
Sounds similar to the “They’ll love electric cars, we’ll MAKE them love them” mentality.
Rumblings over at AoSHQ that the Maui Fire Department suspects arson.
Meanwhile the governor of Hawaii blamed the fires on “climate change”.
*facepalm*
I was wondering about arson.
Heh.