Louise Mensch self-owns on forest floor raking

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8. Yeah, for a supposed neverTrumper, it was a headscratcher for me, too.

What tickled me (grimly, because behind all this is a whole lot of horrible tragedy with more to come) was her typical know-all faux-Google-fu instant expertise on a subject she evidently knows nothing about, insisting that mechanical rakes are used in Finland while repeatedly citing reports (that she'd obviously done a simple Google search for and never read) that do nothing to prove her right, and in fact say that ground clearance of whole forests isn't a good idea.

She'll just never accept she's wrong, no matter how much evidence people point her to (something some folks here should bear in mind when she's speculating authoritatively about other matters ...).

I don't know what's next. I suppose when you've raked those 20 million acres, you just lift the edge of Nevada, sweep the leaves under it, then flop it back down, take a breather and start all over again.

Not to mention the boring technicalities like the fact these latest fires have generally involved scrub rather than forest, and the winds have been such that embers have been traveling miles, of course.