Posted on 06/27/2012 7:20:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a fiercely aggressive wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that has forced at least 35,000 people from their homes and was nipping at the edges of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
The so-called Waldo Canyon Fire, fanned by gusting winds, has gutted an unknown number of homes on the wooded fringes of Colorado's second-most populous city and prompted more evacuations as flames roared out of control for a fifth day.
President Barack Obama plans to pay a visit to the area on Friday to view the damage, the White House said.
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My guess he is going to Vail, for some big bucks. This town will be like Dallas to Kennedy, so Obummer please go to the School book depository, and get the hell out of our lives!
Rest assured, Pike’s Peak is still there!
11:51 p.m.
A pair of 16-year-olds brought smiles to evacuated children at the Cheyenne Mountain High School shelter.
Alexa Batzel, a junior at Air Academy High, and Conni Gilstrap, a Sand Creek High junior, arrived Wednesday evening with armloads of stuffed animals after seeing pictures of the fire and displaced children on television.
"It makes you sad when you see that," Batzel said.
The two teens aren't done helping others in their community.
"We're buying $100 of food for Care & Share tomorrow," Batzel said.
Batzel has classmates who've been evacuated and another family is staying at her family's house after being forced to leave their own home. Of a good friend of her father, she said, "I'd never seen him cry."
Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/charred-140903-waking-city.html
I wonder what Michelle Malkin thinks of Obummer’s visit? Her family has been evacuated for 5 days now. She’s got good coverage of the fire on her website: http://michellemalkin.com/
We all known dam well the Obama black hole will arrive, oh yes it will shut down any percieve threat, that includes aerial firefighting equipment, Life flights and news choppers.
people will die most likely.
And Obama will turn his landing spectacle into a campaign speech, probably saying he will send more food stamps to Colorado.
OOOH the first black President is coming to my State to show us How much he Cares. That means our State and local police and the average citizen will be called to make this photo-op /campaign stop look good for the Jacks and Jennies that watch MSNBC. HE will NOT do anything at all to help -but he will get in the way and look soooo Presidential and the recently legalized illegal aliens and others too dumb to be anything but useful idiots will repeat the mantra “well at least he came and saw Colorado burning. “and they will insist we are racist if we remind them of the cost such a purely political campaign stop will mean in actual terms.
It is time for us to stop living for ourselves, as though there is no God, and start living for Him with all of our hearts.
Also, the time is way past, for us to put away worldly entertainment. It burns up our time and our inclinations. We must be centered on doing The LORD’s will. We must start considering ourselves as soldiers in His holy, and loving army.
Probably going to have Air Force One dump fuel over the fire area.
It is time for us to stop living for ourselves, as though there is no God, and start living for Him with all of our hearts.
Also, the time is way past, for us to put away worldly entertainment. It burns up our time and our inclinations. We must be centered on doing The LORD’s will. We must start considering ourselves as soldiers in His holy, and loving army.
AMEN, AMEN, MAY IT BE SO, THANKS BE TO GOD!
It is time for us to stop living for ourselves, as though there is no God, and start living for Him with all of our hearts.
Also, the time is way past, for us to put away worldly entertainment. It burns up our time and our inclinations. We must be centered on doing The LORD’s will. We must start considering ourselves as soldiers in His holy, and loving army.
AMEN, AMEN, MAY IT BE SO, THANKS BE TO GOD!
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