Well, here we are, less than a week into the fire season and we already have 2.3 million acres burned and burning. I would like to express my gratitude to the tree-hugging, animals-before-humans, conservation fascists who've made all this possible.

There was a time when ranchers were allowed to graze their livestock on B.L.M. land and guys like me could go into B.L.M. land and cut "dead and down" for firewood. Then some pissy-faced Sierra-clubber got cow shit on his (or her) Nikes and started whining until the government banned the grazing rights. The tree-huggers got logging banned in such a vaguely worded manner as to curtail the cutting of "dead and down". This took away the unfunded forest management.

The government (in it's infinite wisdom) gives our money to welfare nations (and otherwise pissing the money away on pork projects) instead of funding foresters to complete the funded land management. So, now we have an immense fuel overload. On top of this we are in a drought cycle, creating fires burning so hot that firefighters can't get close enough to fight and the winds generated by the fires are so intense that the slurry-bombers can't fly. Not to mention the fire tornadoes that are ripping whole trees out of the ground, igniting them and tossing them down hundreds of yards away thus spreading the fires faster.

My dad taught me to conserve. He always told me to "take only what I need and what I take, use it up, wear it out, make it do." That is the correct definition of "Conservation".

The "animal rights" Nazis in California got their panties in a bunch over the Pupfish that live in Devil's Hole (in Death Valley) a tiny half-inch fish with no use what so ever. They made sure that the ranchers and farmers were prevented from using too much water for livestock and crops to save the Pupfish. In Oregon they have stopped the farmers from pulling irrigation water so the salmon in those rivers (which are inedible due to pollutants) don't suffer. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, there are so many man-made fountains, pools, creeks and canals that they are actively evaporating 2 million gallons of water a day. In New Mexico they stocked the Rio Grande with Silver minnows, then told the farmers not to open their irrigation gates so the minnows (another virtually useless inch long fish) don't end up fertilizing the crop lands.

To all you "conservationists", go and sit on the banks of these water bodies and admire the fish you have protected. When you get bored, go bury the fricasseed Spotted Owls that burned up in these fires. When you get hungry, go out and compete with the animals (whose rights you have so diligently "protected") for roots, tubers, nuts, berries and grubs. Do not go to the grocery store and buy any cultivated food. Thanks to your machinations there won't be enough veggies and fruits to go around and I'm taking your share. If I see you in the store, I'm going to prove to you that "beating the shit out of someone" is not just a figure of speech. .

The Eco-freaks want to drain the lakes behind Hoover Dam and Davis Dam. They want the dam at Page, AZ. dismantled and all the rivers restored to their original flows. What in the fuck are you ass-holes going to do for bath water? You drink Evian, try showering with it.