Flash! Al Qaeda! Fire! Fear!

Subhead: Only Repuglicans Can Save You From Nonexistent Dangers That They Invented To Scare You Into Voting For Them

Under a big, bold headline at the very top of Raw Story:

Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires?

As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn't help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California.

Correspondent Adam Housley said he's received "hundreds of comments" from readers of his Fox News blog speculating about a link to terrorism.

Thus solidifying the opinion of folks like me who think you have to be an ignorant, misguided moron to watch FAKENews'

And then, under a teeny tiny blurb at the very bottom of Raw Story:

Wildfires ravaging California are the result of the region's unique climate and geography combining with a burgeoning population that is increasingly encroaching on rural areas, experts say.

Now that's more like it. Of course, the F** viewers who can read might notice that that story is from AFP, and you know how those Frogs lie!

I was born in Southern California and lived there for 35 years. These fires have been occurring annually as far back as I can remember, and historically as far back as the Spaniards could remember and the Indians before that. The fires weren't really much of a problem until the coastal flatlands got all built out and people started spreading up the surrounding hills, to the 'wildland interface' of dry, brush-covered hills that are all over the place surrounding the urban areas down there.

I guaran-goddam-tee you that SoCal doesn't need any terrorist help to catch fire. The F** Noise bullshit is just more fear-mongering from paranoid Repuglican operatives who want their daddy to save them. It's too much to hope that they would ever develop a sense of shame and disgust at their own verbal diarrhea from passing on such utter crap from WH/neocon talking points.

By the way, when I'm Emperor of California, there will be a $100,000 cash bonus, or more if needed, for each person who leaves the state for good. Anybody who wants to move here will be required to bring a year's supply of water with them as the price to gain entry. After I wrote that last sentence, I got a vision of little brown people with many, many water jugs on really long poles trudging northwards...