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So you're saying nobody's dying but Fort Mac could very well be wiped off the map by tomorrow? And this is supposed to be a bad thing??? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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sitchensis posted:Posting on this forum won't make the fires burn any less hot. Hell, even if the people of Ft. McMurray had woken up one day and decided to start a people's revolution to overthrow the shackles of big oil and have a giant solar farm love-in, their town would still be burning down because climate change is an aggregate sort of thing. Got into a climate denial debate with my father in law last weekend. I fear his generation is going to die refusing to admit there might be something going on other than "it's been warm before". Almost as much fun as dealing with First Nations Traditional Knowledge: "The Climate's changed before." Whoa, I need to write a paper based on this amazing insight. On the positive side, sounds like the Okanagan cherry crop is a week earlier than anything on record. Hopefully the Okanagan doesn't burn before it comes in. Edit: Yep, definitely no place to stay now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAkg2BNShc Hexigrammus fucked around with this message at 07:34 on May 4, 2016 |
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ChairMaster posted:So you're saying nobody's dying but Fort Mac could very well be wiped off the map by tomorrow? And this is supposed to be a bad thing??? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. You have a good point. If this fire allows the towns population to avoid the long, slow and painful economic decline of a place like Flint MI by immediately packing up and leaving en masse, it could almost be a good thing now how can we make the same thing happen for every province on the east coast, most of the BC interior, and any town that isn't within 100km of a city with a population > 850,000 ...hmm...
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May 4, 2016 07:32
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Gaia the Earth Mother has spoken. vote green
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May 4, 2016 07:45
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I have friends who live in Fort Mac. I haven't heard from them.
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May 4, 2016 07:57
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Kafka Esq. posted:I have friends who live in Fort Mac. I haven't heard from them. https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/fortmcmurray-wildfire-may03-2016/
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sitchensis posted:now how can we make the same thing happen for every province on the east coast, most of the BC interior, and any town that isn't within 100km of a city with a population > 850,000 ...hmm... quote:Ever since 1949, the peaceful island of La Palma has been a ticking time bomb. Some scientists believe that another eruption could send 500 cubic kilometres of the island crashing into the sea. The result could be a colossal landslide with enough energy to generate the biggest wave humanity has ever seen, unleashed not upon the Pacific, but the Atlantic. It could be the first mega-tsunami in recorded history.
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I'm so glad a whole town is burning down HAHAHAHA loving losers, deserve to DIE
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DariusLikewise posted:lol Brian Pallisters Minister who handles Francophone affairs doesn't speak french Pallister probably figured that "Rochelle" sounded french enough so he put her in that portfolio. There's actually only one bilingual PC member (Jon Reyes). This is really weird, considering that if you stopped 40 random people in Manitoba, you'd have a hard time only finding 1 of them who was bilingual (official odds are that you'd find at least 4). Then again, the MB PCs are more representative of a Chamber of Commerce convention than the actual population anyway. If you're keeping score, he also put an agriculture advocate in charge of education and took a former school principal and put him in charge of agriculture. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 4, 2016 |
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May 4, 2016 14:36
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Do it ironically posted:I'm so glad a whole town is burning down HAHAHAHA loving losers, deserve to DIE Unironically this
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May 4, 2016 14:39
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Ugh! Why didn't Justin Trudeau summon Superman?!!?! What a hack - loving "thoughts with you" PM bastard. /s
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Vintersorg posted:Ugh! Why didn't Justin Trudeau summon Superman?!!?! What a hack - loving "thoughts with you" PM bastard. Someone in an online comments section was bitching "thoughts aren't enough, we need prayers!" Maybe they could find a genie that will grant them a wish, after!
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InfiniteZero posted:Pallister probably figured that "Rochelle" sounded french enough so he put her in that portfolio. There's actually only one bilingual PC member (Jon Reyes). This is really weird, considering that if you stopped 40 random people in Manitoba, you'd have a hard time only finding 1 of them who was bilingual (official odds are that you'd find at least 4). Then again, the MB PCs are more representative of a Chamber of Commerce convention than the actual population anyway. He also folded the environmental portfolio into "The Minister of Sustainable Growth" clearly we have priorities
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 16 kt west winds going to hit mcmurray this aft around 3pm est?https://www.windfinder.com/weather-maps/forecast/canada?utm_source=www.windfinder.com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=redirect#6/56.705/-111.286 and speaking of natural disasters, our premier is in the news. quote:Sexual harassment allegations have been made against at least two Ontario Liberal MPPs since Kathleen Wynne became premier in 2013, she revealed Tuesday. Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 15:04 on May 4, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/CPC_HQ/status/727849534420717569
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Ikantski posted:
Since 2013? But Patrick Brown has only been there since 2015  Cultural Imperial posted:Praise be to god. Ft McMurray deserves this. CI is a godly man 
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Rime posted:I'm remembering back when all you chucklefucks claimed we couldn't just abolish our worthless warhawking military because "what if there's a natural disaster!!!1111". Instead of a military, we should have some form of civil organization, organized on military lines, that teaches disaster relief skills, for use here an potentially abroad. It might be easier to do this under the military's existing organization, but in that case drop most of the firearms and combat training and replace it with first aid, fighting fires, flood relief, urban rescue, logistics, etc. Anyway, these fires are hosed up. Driving along a highway covered in smoke and fire would be loving terrifying. I wonder how much of the town will be rebuilt. I imagine its been hit hard by job losses, I'd think a lot of the people that are leaving won't have much reason to go back.
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NOTE: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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PT6A posted:Someone in an online comments section was bitching "thoughts aren't enough, we need prayers!" How about : "Place your trust in Allah, but tie your camel." "He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment." "I most humbly thank Thee, oh Noodly Appendaged One, for Touching me with the mental capacity to adapt the mythologies of This Universe to aid and comfort me here, until that day I am able to join together with my Pastafarian Brothers and Sisters at the foot of the Beer Volcano, and enumerate my specifications at the Stripper Factory, so that happiness and contentedness and good cheer be present for all, forever and forever, RAmen."
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 And with this, every Albertan can gauge the true cost of the fire. They shall weep for days, for the the alter of the almighty truck has been sullied by ash. Weep not for house equity, weep for truck and toy equity, and lost chances at mudding in your rig.
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jm20 posted:
I'm sorry, sir... your Truck Nutz did not survive the fire...
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May 4, 2016 15:41
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Conservative beliefs about surpluses and economic prudence are the result of a corporation creating a fantasy world. A good
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May 4, 2016 15:42
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But yet, when someone burns down a failing restaurant for the insurance money,we scoff.
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May 4, 2016 15:43
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InfiniteZero posted:NOTE: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Lmao in the 19 budgets filed by Conservative Prime Ministers, 3 have had surpluses and that counts Harpers final bullshitty surplus. The Liberal Party is better at being fiscally Conservative than the Conservative party.
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DariusLikewise posted:The Liberal Party is better at being fiscally Conservative than the Conservative party. I'm not sure what's sadder. The cons bragging about an attribute they don't have or an attribute that noooobody cares about. https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/727567681092784128 The Rona/Trudeau dynamic is more annoying than anything I thought possible, thanks NDP.
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A lot of people care about the fiscally conservative part. Particularly the ones that tend to vote.
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did the sulphur ziggurat burn and submerge the ruins of fort mcmurray in molten sulphur in the clearest sign of divine will since the old testament
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The Conservatives actually did leave a surplus  Someone buy Emay an account https://twitter.com/mikedesouza/status/727875215439470592
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TheKingofSprings posted:A lot of people care about the fiscally conservative part. Yeah, I mean 20 is a lot of people but it's not enough to win any elections. Your majority of Ontarians clearly don't and Trudeau has huge approval ratings that are still going up after a $30b deficit budget. It's dumb of the cons to pander to the tiny population of voters who care about whether the budget is slightly above or below zero rather than the voters who care what they spend it on. The meme should be talking about the legend of the universal means tested income supplements for parents. The bickering about the surplus/deficit is ridiculous. Whatever it was, it was small. PBO says it was a surplus but there's no point harping on it because it was small. 99% of canadians have no idea what our debt is or what it means. Some of them may care strongly about whether an accounting ledger shows a positive or negative at the end of the year but I think most will care more about the programs that affect them. It's too bad the conservatives didn't do more while they were in power that was worth bragging about.
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Neighbourhoods affected as of 4 a.m. MT: Abasand: Serious loss, south worse than north Beacon Hill: 80 per cent of homes destroyed Dickinsfield: Two houses destroyed Downtown: One house destroyed Draper: Unknown Grayling Terrace: One house destroyed Gregoire: No homes affected Thickwood: One house destroyed Timberlea: 12 trailers destroyed Watersway: Serious loss Wood Buffalo: Damaged but not as severe as Abasand or Beacon Hill from the cbc. that was hours ago tho so idk what's up now
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So to the residents of Fort Mac, will there be enlightenment over the consequences of global warming? I know the real answer here.
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OSI bean dip posted:So to the residents of Fort Mac, will there be enlightenment over the consequences of global warming? Hahahahahahaha good one
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CTV is saying the fires are out within the city limits.
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yes I'm sure the residents of fort mac will be able to convvince China and the US to significantly cut down their fossil fuel emissions, they've been enlightened
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Friends and family are safely out of Fort Mac. So with that in mind I can't feel sympathetic to self-mutilation unless caused by mental disease. Now I'm not saying Conservatism is a mental disease but...
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Do it ironically posted:yes I'm sure the residents of fort mac will be able to convvince China and the US to significantly cut down their fossil fuel emissions, they've been enlightened  Please... stop... too funny...  You do realize that the US has been going through the same thing for the same reasons, right?
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Those loving trucknutting losers working in the oil sands deserve to have their city burned, they should have got a sweet dece six figure IT admin job in Toronto in stead
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Do it ironically posted:yes I'm sure the residents of fort mac will be able to convvince China and the US to significantly cut down their fossil fuel emissions, they've been enlightened Yeah lol the tar sands are actually harmless and wouldn't be a good place at all to start giving a poo poo about the environment in our own country
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Pinterest Mom posted:Someone buy Emay an account No, I think this is a good idea. Half of a Canadian city being destroyed by wildfire is major news. It's an excellent time to examine why and how to prevent this from happening again in the future. What are the NDP/Liberals saying? Just "natural disaster" or are they digging a bit deeper? Is Notley's $15 million wildfire management budget cut still going to happen? I will laugh and laugh if it is.
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