The beauty of Obion County
This started as a comment but wordpress thinks I am spam. The situation where the fire department let a house burn because the owner didn’t pay is the perfect bogeyman for every ideology. We can blame libertarians! We can blame lack of lefty sensibilities*. We can blame the homeowner for not paying his fees. We can blame the county government for setting up such an arrangement. We can blame rich people. We can blame the city government for policies that require these guys to stand around while a house burns.
It’s a perfect storm of fucked.
* seriously, someone actually thinks there’s a social contract? That’s fucking funny, right there.
October 15th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Yes and no. I think there most definitely is a social contract, just that it doesn’t include putting out housefires in neighboring jurisdictions unless We The People specify that it does.
Unrelatedly: I hear that Nativity scenes in Tennessee traditionally show the Three Wise Men wearing red hats. Is this true?
October 15th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
I talked to some firefighters and they said that the place was a mobile home and probably would have been a lost cause even if they had tried to put it out. Of course, that doesn’t get mentioned.
October 15th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I ditto Heather, this is Clayton country. Look at what they did to the LAST admin. Think Katrina. Empty trailors, all over the south. Thank you, Democrats. I needed that.
October 16th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Dude you’ve made it! You got picked up by an uber-left LGBTQA magazine – you rarely even cover national politics! I suppose their group of readers would find your blog equally strange, shocking, and revolting as I just did browsing thru a Bowie revival orgy album..
October 16th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Social contract my ass – There is only one contract that you are born into to, have no rights to change, and can only escape through death or leaving your homeland: Slavery.
October 16th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Really?
October 18th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Hey, I blame the press.
The headlines were “Firemen watch house burn down!!!” and the reality was:
“Firemen arrive to find house almost fully consumed, and determine that the method of fuel starvation is the best way for it to be extinguished. They quickly leave, because there isn’t anything more for them to do there.
“Watching the house burn down” is something that they did not do, in spite of all the headlines and stories to the contrary.