Firefighters Watch as Home Burns to the Ground

[Phox]

Awesome story, Charley. Makes me think that there is a tiny bit of hope for humanity after all. 

[Adios]

Thanks guys, Phox, there are a LOT of good people still. They usually get made fun of for being bumpkins.

[Phox]

Thanks guys, Phox, there are a LOT of good people still. They usually get made fun of for being bumpkins.

Unfortunately, I have met very few of them, and very many of the bad people. Its hard to trust people, when you've never found a reason to.

[BadBeast]

Thanks guys, Phox, there are a LOT of good people still. They usually get made fun of for being bumpkins.

Some of my best friends are Bumpkins! 

[Adios]

Thanks guys, Phox, there are a LOT of good people still. They usually get made fun of for being bumpkins.

Some of my best friends are Bumpkins! 

I am a bumpkin.

[BadBeast]

Thanks guys, Phox, there are a LOT of good people still. They usually get made fun of for being bumpkins.

Some of my best friends are Bumpkins! 

I am a bumpkin.

I am a "Carrot cruncher". (Like a bumpkin, but with carrots instead of sheep)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My biggest question in this whole thread are about the people who keep making comments and asking questions that don't make sense if you read the fucking article. It's a short article written at about a 4th-grade level, so fucking read it before making yourself look like an illiterate jackass with a stupid opinion.

But I treasure my stupid opinions.   

Dok,
American.

[Adios]

I do know that if those people hadn't removed our stuff we would have lost irreplaceable photos and memories. We are forever grateful.

[E.O.T.]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

[Adios]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

IT'S LIKE
         extortion

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

75 dollars a year isn't much, but there should be a law that they'll still save your house, but give you a bigger bill if you haven't paid.

It's bad for the town's economy to let a house burn over seventy five dollars.

IT'S LIKE

          oregon's education budget!

IT'S LIKE
         extortion

Same thing.

[the last yatto]

'Or is it monstrous that he was unsafe with his garbage fire and set his neighbor's house field on fire?'

[the last yatto]

Richard Chestean designed the detailed plan in 1987. It would have given everyone in the county fire protection. County commissioners liked it and voted yes.

And then nothing happened for 23 years.


About two years ago, county leaders voted to scrap the whole thing and start over. The creator of the plan said county leaders ignored because no one could agree on how to fund it.

[Cain]

Latest talking point: Jesus would have let the house burn down.  Discuss.

http://feeds.wonkette.com/click.phdo?i=5b9ce52f89b4ed2ed055516d3403a08f

American Family Association blogger Bryan Fischer said a couple days back that letting that firefighters in Tennessee letting that house burn down was the "Christian thing" to do, and after we picked it up and it spread across the Internets, it turns out a lot of people, Christian and non-Christian, thought he was quite incorrect about that! But Fischer has come back on the blog to refute his communist critics, because he is CERTAIN Jesus likes to see His children suffer to make a point about government expenditure. "It's frankly odd to see the Christian community blame the fire department for something that was somebody else's fault. I'm used to hearing that from liberals, socialists, and Marxists, but not from followers of Christ." This guy is the best!

The left, of course, has grabbed the "What would Jesus do?" mantra – as if they really cared about anything Jesus would do – and used that as a cudgel. Friends in the faith community have likewise taken aim, saying that they too know what Jesus would do.

These people are idiots. Non-Christians put Jesus on the cross, and Christians need to read between the lines in their Bibles and discover it's actually just an older version of Atlas Shrugged. Jesus does not have compassion! He is a cold, calculating proponent of personal responsibility. DUH.

It's a strange thing to hear evangelicals saying we ought to take resources without permission from responsible citizens (the ones who had been faithfully paying their fire protection premiums) and use them to bail out the irresponsible ones.

Yes, it is strange to hear evangelicals giving a cogent argument. By the way, Fischer, this fire department could have perhaps could have just charged the guy for their cost to save his house after the fact. But no, you're right, destroying his house and pets to make some Aesop-fable point is what Jesus would have wanted.

And once again, Fischer knows for sure what Jesus would have done if he was wearing a firefighter uniform standing by that burning house:

Well, as long as we're speculating on what Jesus would do in this situation, I'm as entitled as anyone.

What would Jesus do? That's easy. He'd tell Mr. Cranick, "Man up, accept full and total responsibility, and don't blame anybody but yourself for what happened. That's the Christian thing to do. And next time, Gene, pay the 75 bucks, all right?"

"Man up!" That's right! That is Jesus' favorite catch-phrase! "Lo, bros, when I see the most needy, I tell them to man up and have some personal responsibility. If you tell this to the needy too, you are serving me."

Your Lutheran-raised afternoon editor seems to remember something about a prodigal son and a son who was responsible. The point of that was that Jesus hated people who weren't careful with their firefighter fees, right? He would never forgive such a thing. God does not love and He does not forgive.

[Thurnez Isa]

These people need a new God.
One that actually shares their lack of values.