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CNN is reporting that some 500,000 Americans have now fled the wildfires in Southern California, in what is being called the biggest peace-time movement of Americans since the civil war. Thousands of Americans have lost everything they had and thousands more are at risk of the same.

I cannot understand a word of what FEMA claims it’s doing to help the hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk, and they aren’t helping anybody evacuate as far as I can tell. Refugees are camping out at high schools and Qualcomm Stadium. Churches are burning to the ground, as are the houses of both rich and poor people. Firefighters are literally collapsing of exhaustion in the streets.

I cannot find a photo of Michael Chertoff that has been taken over the past two days in which he isn’t grinning from ear to ear, though he’s publicly said that this won’t be like Katrina. Bush will be visiting the region on Thursday for a photo-op.

And Glenn Beck, that son of a bitch CNN anchor and right-wing talk radio host has said “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”

Oh, and Beck’s producers are standing by what he said. CNN, which has been covering the wildfires almost nonstop for the last couple of days has nothing to say about him.

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