Steaming Load Award - Bullhead City (Arizona) buttheads snuff out the Eternal Flame.

From Politically Incorrect Gazette --

Steaming Load of the Week

Steaming Load #1: Bullhead City (Arizona) buttheads snuff out the Eternal Flame.

It’s called the Medal of Honor Memorial and it’s located at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Park, alongside the Colorado River. Paid for, and built by, American veterans, the memorial had a special meaning for any patriotic individual who wants to honor those who died defending us. That’s why the memorial includes an eternal flame, which signifies, among other things, they we remember, we honor, those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

The problems started, after the memorial was turned over to the Elected Tormentors in Bullhead City. Everything was spiffy, for these political punks, until the first gas bill for the eternal flame landed on the desk of a Bullhead City bean counter, in late December. Patriotism is one thing, but they’re not willing to spend $961 a month to prove it.

"It caught us by surprise," City Manager Tim Ernster said Thursday. "What we decided to do for the time being is to turn the flame on ... for special events, for Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day — those types of activities." (Mohave Daily News)

The asshats snuffed out the flame on a Monday. On the following Friday, the local fishwrap published the thrilling news. By the next Monday, the blowback was so impressive that the Elected Tormentors relit the flame. Game, set, match? Not quite yet.

The Bullhead City bean counters are still whining about the gas bill, but they’re backing away from snuffing it out. Now, they want to have a ‘smaller’ flame for regular use, and reserve the bigger, more impressive, one, for those special, remember the troops occasions. The idea sucks, and you can quote me.

If Bullhead City’s bean counter can’t carve $1,000 a month out of the city’s budget to pay for this flame to salute our honored dead, then it’s time for Bullhead City’s rational adults, to flush these Elected Tormentor turds.