Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

So you are saying that the forests have been managed in the most effective way to prevent fires of this type? 

Yes they have. The fires primarily originated city-town suburban areas and spread elsewhere. Most of the forested areas are federally managed. A number of them have been caused by faulty electrical equipment from Southern California Edison or arson or homeless cooking fires left abandoned. In contrast. most of the huge forest fires in Arizona in the past were caused by lightening strikes.

Looking at the facts:
https://www.apnews.com/a08ad27091674fdc8926c32c310bc4ad
and:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/13/trumps-itchy-twitter-finger-his-latest-false-claims/?utm_term=.34046fbed00f

As usual Rich is all over the map with his BS,
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/13/fact-check-trumps-latest-false-claims-and-tweets/
And he'll likely never understand the difference between climate and weather...

Since Rich and his gang choose to ignore fact checks, I'll let the fire fighters in California weigh in on Tump's "expertise" on the issue...
https://people.com/politics/fire-officials-denounce-trump-tweets-california-wildfires/
In particular:
The Pasadena Fire Association also corrected the president, writing that the fires “have NOTHING to do with forest management.”

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Wow!  That's certainly a shocker, guys who have egg on their faces when wildfires got out of control, don't like to be criticized, and want to blame something else for the problem.  

The average firefighter out there battling blazes deserves utmost respect, but that doesn't mean the now "pencil pusher" guys in charge won't make every excuse in the book to cover for bad press on their industry.

I didn't notice the guy saying it was "caused by global warming" did you?  

And the fact that the head of firefighter assn, is blaming Washington is certainly no shock.  

He wants more money and like all bureaucrats, figures if he can get the public behind them, he'll manage to receive more funds from the Feds.  

Your state clowns running that place are more concerned about a $66 Billion transit train PET PROJECT of the idiot governor out there,  that will most likely hemorrhage money, is more important than giving firefighters the funds they need. 

Typical California liberal morons running that place.  

And they depend on fools like you to tell them "keep it up guys, you're doing a great job"!  

As long as buffoons living in California don't hold their feet to the fire for their mismanagement of virtually everything in that state, they'll keep mismanaging it, and dummies out there will blame someone else for the idiots running their state.

Know anybody like that Rod?  

Gee Rich, I didn't know the Pasadena Fire Association had so much political clout and are so-well connected that they could make their views known on Trump's "tweet" just because of it:
The Pasadena Fire Association also corrected the president, writing that the fires “have NOTHING to do with forest management.”

The traditionally Republican and conservative state of Arizona just voted in a Democrat to the US senate. The primary reason given by women voters polled as to why? 
Trump's tweets...

Hey Big Jim,
"Could it be that the market is driven by forces bigger than the chap who sits in the Oval Office?"
Of course, but when you listen to Trump tout how great the market is doing because of him(like everything else in his book), then you take on a different look when the market downturns and Trump exits along with the investors. 
I hope this turns out to be a cyclical bear market as one analyst remarked in the link and not some protracted market meltdown we witnessed back in '08. Today, the market was up nearly two hundred points either because of some relatively good financial news or because the bottom feeders came out after selloff looking for bargains in stocks. But it ended up a point down for the day and that's not a good sign when investors sell off on good news. If you look at the financial forecasts for 2019, the best consensus seems to be single digit gains which sucks but it's better than the red tide.
I think we'll see big oli come back as it usually does and that'll help stocks. The wild cards are the trade war with China and another round of indictments from the Mueller investigation. The word on the street is that there's a huge number of sealed indictments sitting in a federal court and they may be the ones arising from the investigation. If that's accurate, it'll probably rattle the markets.
I think the lousy forecasts from the financial gurus are making things much worse that they really are and fear is a major driving force on the market.
Anyway, have a very happy thanksgiving...

All we can hope for now is a Santa Claus rally...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-poised-to-open-lower-in-black-friday-trade-notch-weekly-loss-of-more-than-3-2018-11-23

JPMorgan Chase estimated on Friday that the White House's trade agenda may have erased up to 10% of the S& 500's value this year.
"The risk that many market participants underestimated this year was the destabilizing impact of the US administration's trade policies," Marko Kolanovic, global head of quantitative and derivatives strategy at JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients."
In other words, Jim, the market's dump is due to Trump...

The president's characterization of himself as 'Tariff Man' is juvenile and unpresidential," Dennis Gartman, editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter, wrote on Thursday. "We can only shake our heads in wonder and dismay."
The president also suggested tariffs will "MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN," despite the fact that these levies are paid by American companies and consumers.
"The payment comes from my pocket and yours," David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors, wrote to clients on Thursday. "In a trade war the guns are pointed inward. No one wins."

Add to that:
Former Nixon White House lawyer John Dean said he thinks Congress will have "little choice" but to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump following a Friday evening court filing involving Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.
John Kelly has resigned and reportedly will not talk to Trump. Trump continues his alternate reality charade while taking his cues from Fox's Geraldo Riveria.
I'm sure all of this will inspire confidence in the market and in our economy..