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The Morning Report — 1/10/25

Good morning kids. While the title of the estimable Daniel Greenfield's essay provides instant fodder to create one of our trademark memes here at the HQ, to wit, submitted for your approval, or not, or embellishment/alteration as is the wont of the Horde:

I had tickets to see Three Lesbians Named Kirsten open for Men Without Hoses at the Hollywood Bowl in '93, but it got cancelled by the Malibu wildfire.

The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.
Crowley’s status as the first LGBTQ fire chief appears at the top of her bio on the LAFD site. It’s what got her on the Kelly Clarkson show under the headline, “Meet LAFD’s First Female & LGBTQ+ Fire Chief” and made her one of the marshals of the Los Angeles Pride Parade (some of whose attendees no longer have homes after the wave of fires.)
But DEI wasn’t done with the LAFD just yet. Not until two other lesbian ‘Kirstens’ were also running the LAFD.
Kristina Kepner, the first lesbian Assistant Chief and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, was accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. Kristine Larson, who has a degree in Sociology, headed ‘Equity on Fire’, an organization complaining that the LAFD was sexist and racist, was then rewarded with the title of the LAFD’s first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief with a $399,000 salary.
Diversity mandates had led to three lesbians named some version of ‘Kirsten’ running the LAFD.
Meanwhile, Jamie Brown became the LAFD’s first lesbian Training Commander. Her accomplishment was being the only one of the four lesbians running the LAFD who wasn’t named ‘Kirsten’.
Many glass ceilings were being broken, but there was no one who actually knew how to fight fires. Unless it was by asking the fire about its preferred pronouns.

If only Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Red China were run by this kind of lunacy. Meh, their insane asylums and prisons are filled with sane people insane enough to reject glorious socialism and who yearn for liberty. Hell, it was those regimes, especially the Soviets starting in the 20s through the collapse of the Berlin wall and now the Red Chinese infiltrators and our own homegrown traitor infiltrators (Infill Traitors!) in and out of government who have mind- and body-raped three generations of Americans into dismantling and destroying our society from within. As for Nazi Germany, the tragedy is quite a few refugees before and after the Second World War (Theodore Adorno and Hebert Marcuse aka the Frankfurt School) laid the groundwork for all this woke madness that has undermined the foundations of the greatest nation and society in human history by capturing American academia and holding it hostage right up to the present time.

If this is a story, and it's not a one-off. I've had many similar ones over just the last year if not many more over the past four for sure.

The University of Utah’s medical school paid over $75,000 to be a member of the influential Association of American Medical Colleges, the DEI-focused organization that facilitates medical education throughout North America, according to an invoice shared with The Daily Wire.
The invoice, obtained through a public information request by Do No Harm, an organization opposed to the politicization of medicine, shows that the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine paid $75,760 for a year-long institutional membership in the AAMC starting on July 1, 2024. The AAMC counts as members all 158 American medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which the organization co-sponsors.
The AAMC has been accused of harming medical education through leftist political initiatives, including its commitment to DEI initiatives, “anti-racism,” and promoting transgender ideology. A comprehensive report from Do No Harm highlights the full extent of the AAMC’s DEI programs.

Now take that story and substitute every profession, from janitor to nuclear physicist, and you get what was known as the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, with such individuals as Billy Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and others who from the 60s to the present day fantasized, plotted and committed actual acts of terrorism to overthrow and destroy the United States of America from within and replace it with, let's just say the metaphorical equivalent of what we are seeing in Pacific Palisades, even if it takes a literal inferno that sweeps from coast to coast. Hence the name Prairie Fire.

Founded in 1975, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) describes itself as “a grassroots activist organization” that works to bring “social change” to an American nation it characterizes as rife with “racism, sexism, homophobia, classism and imperialism” — a land governed by “a capitalist system that favors a select few and oppresses the majority.” PFOC derived its name from a 1974 book published by the Weather Underground Organization. Titled Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, this screed spurred the creation of radically minded “Prairie Fire” discussion groups in cities across the United States. Portraying American history as an uninterrupted narrative of brutality and “imperialist expropriation,” PFOC accuses the U.S. of “systematically us[ing] its military, political and economic might to dominate and control the government, people and resources of other nations for its own benefit.” The organization refuses to recognize the United States as an entity with a legitimate right to exist — on grounds that the country’s creation and historical development were steeped in what PFOC views as irredeemable wrongdoing: “The early colonists stole Native American land and killed indigenous people. White settlers enslaved millions of Africans and used their labor to build the U.S. . . The issues of major concern to PFOC include the following:
White Supremacy: “White supremacy remains a dominant ideology in the United States. This country was founded on the belief that white people are superior to people of color. … White supremacy is … a system of privilege that benefits all white people and permeates every aspect of our society … a society that blames people of color for poverty and crime.” As evidence of the degree to which white supremacist attitudes suffuse American life, PFOC cites “racial profiling by the police, extreme bias in the application of the death penalty and in sentencing, and denial of adequate education” for minorities.

If the term White Supremacy seems familiar, it should since that has been the constant drumbeat from the DemoKKKrat-Left since the electrifying victories of Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024, and the equally electrifying persecution of him and us via the theft and its aftermath of the 2020 election.

On that score, the Supreme Court has turned down his request to have his sentencing on sham charges by hack in black Juan Merchan of menace before his inauguration. Donald Trump is America's Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Alfred Dreyfus all rolled into one ORANGE MAN-DELA.

Pivoting back to the LosAngeles wildfires, Climate Change strikes again!!!! This time in the form not of a hockey stick computer model but a Homeless scumbag playing with fire...

How — and why — the fire was started is still not clear, he added, but the blaze is “being investigated as a crime.”The suspect is a homeless man in his 30s, according to Fox LA’s Elex Michaelson, who added that firefighters “appear to have gained the upper hand” on the blaze.

Would not surprise me if this guy was paid to start the fire by the Earth Liberation Front to blame global warming, ditto to be used as cover to light the other fires in the region.

There are quite a number of links speculating that these wildfires are the ultimate mugging by reality that potentially if not likely could turn California Red. My gut tells me that it will likely destroy the political futures of Newsome and Bass. But for people, especially lifelong liberals to look in the mirror, if they can find one in the smoldering rubble of their homes and pull an Alec Guinness River Kwai moment and ask "What Have I done?!!!" is too much for me to expect.

The Democrat/Leftist bench is dark and deep, so likely they will place the blame on global warming and that pair's ineptitude for sabotaging Comrade Stalin's glorious plan and the glorious socialist cause and replace them with two more just like them. Lather, rinse and Napalm again 10 years from now.

As Trump might say, we shall see. I hope he can make political lemonade from this cyanide laced Jonestown flavorade, and Make California normal again.

On a positive note, the moldering corpse of Jimmy Carter is heading for wherever. It deserves a spot in the Marianas Trench, next to his hero, Osama bin Laden.

Have a great weekend, and prayers for deliverance, safety and strength to all of those affected by the wildfires.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Rumors spread after the attack that Islamist terrorists like Boko Haram or the Islamic State had attempted to kill the president, but Koualmallah said the attackers were actually local youths from the national capital of N’Djamena who were either drunk or taking drugs.
Chad Suffers Deadly Presidential Palace Attack as Chinese Foreign Minister Visits
Socialists the world over blame everyone but themselves for the problems they cause.
Socialism update: No lights in Cuba, no water in L.A.

LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES

One person has been taken into custody in connection to the Kenneth Fire, which broke out Thursday in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, according to reports. (His climate changed!!! - jjs)
Homeless man taken into custody in connection to Kenneth Fire in LA’s West Hills as residents detain him: police
Daniel Greenfield: The LA Fire Department went woke. Now LA is on fire.
The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten’
Los Angeles has lost sight of the reason fire departments exist.
Here Are All The Ways DEI-Crazed Officials Made The LA Fire More Deadly
The story of the Hebrew Bible is, at least in some part, the story of God punishing the wicked. Welcome to wildfire-beset Los Angeles, or as The Post so poetically put it, HELL.A. I don’t mean to suggest that Angelenos somehow deserve the catastrophe that has befallen them; to do so would be not only misguided but unforgivably cruel. But as we’re reeling from one of the greatest disasters ever to befall an American city, we must be brutally honest, especially if we want to prevent this kind of calamity from happening again.
Blame LA fire horror on the woke religion bringing ruin to our cities
The text message was sent at approximated 3:57 PM Pacific time to residents throughout Los Angeles County. It stated: “NEW: This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area. Remain vigilant of any threats and be ready to evacuate. Gather loved ones, pets, and supplies. Continue to monitor local weather, news, and the webpage alertla.org for more information.”
Los Angeles County Fire Department Accidentally Sends Evacuation Alert to All of L.A. County
Some people just want to watch the world burn which is exactly what Democrats are doing in the face of multiple rapidly expanding fires burning through Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Democrats Who Exacerbated California Blazes Give Angelenos A Giant Middle Finger
For the love of all that is good. Please, stop voting for your own destruction!!!! - jjs
Timeline: Bass Knew of Fire Risk Before Abandoning L.A. for Ghana Trip
Bass cut $7 million from overtime, then allocated $5 million for electric fire vehicles
Los Angeles Fire Chief Warned That Mayor Karen Bass’s Budget Cuts Limited Wildfire Response: 'At Risk of Reduced Effectiveness'
Fires swept through Southern California on Wednesday, destroying hundreds of homes in Los Angeles County, and high winds only fueled the destruction. The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was slammed for slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) budget by $17.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to 2025, Fox 11 reported, citing LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia.
Gay Choirs, Trans Cafes And Social Justice Art: What LA Spent Money On While Cutting Its Fire Budget
The fires have raged for three days causing mass destruction.
‘Gross Incompetence’: Trump Calls For Newsom To Resign Over Deadly L.A. Fires
“Thank you Airbnb,” X user Ana Mostarac sarcastically wrote in a Wednesday post, sharing a message she received from Airbnb informing her that her cancelation “is not covered” under the company’s “Major Disruptive Events Policy.”
Silicon Valley Sickos: Airbnb Tells Customer Los Angeles Wildfires Don’t Count as ‘Major Disruptive Event’
“I didn’t vote for Karen Bass. I did not vote for her. It has nothing to do with what I’ve done or what anyone has done,” Darvish said. “What is important now is — is when I was at my house, just peacefully working and turning around and getting a notification, walking out of my house and seeing the blazes that you see on — on the screen right now, what is disappointing to me is — is that the response time was so deficient and unfortunate that we have an — an enormous amount of damage that could have been avoided. That’s the unfortunate part. The other sad part about this is I’m a native. I was born and raised in Pacific Palisades. And to go back, I don’t know if that’s going to be possible.”
‘Why Wasn’t There Any Water?’: Pacific Palisades Resident Lights Into Karen Bass Over ‘Deficient’ Response To Wildfire
Bass on February 19, 2021, posted: “Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger patern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out.” (Ted Cruz is a senator and as such is not responsible for what happens day to day in Texas, - jjs)
LA Mayor Karen [Big Mouf] Bass - tard in 2021 Bashed Ted Cruz for Being out of Texas During Hurricane
California literally turned into a red state overnight.
Palisades Fire Incinerates Future Career of Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations(Inshallah, but the Dems' bench is deeper than Harris throat - jjs)
It immediately occurred to me however that this present outrage is only a foretaste of the real outrage soon to come. You see, all of these celebrities have enough money to rebuild. All of them love where they live. And all of them have not the slightest idea what they will face when they attempt to weave their way through California’s Byzantine regulations to do so.
The new conservatives who have been mugged by a wildfire
Is a mugging of this magnitude sufficient to turn woke to MAGA?
Can California's fires change woke to MAGA?
"Government is there to serve the people, not the other way around."...
SENATOR MIKE LEE: 'California's own leadership hasn't prepared for fires like this, which is stunning'
A crime wave of fire hydrant thefts in Los Angeles has been hindering fire fighters’ efforts to save lives and property, even before this week’s deadly fires broke out in the area. Hundreds of L.A. fire hydrants have been stolen from the ground over the past two years, with the surge in thefts appearing to peak last June.“Catalytic converters, bronze statues, copper wire: Nothing is safe from theft in Los Angeles. And as of the last couple years, you can now add fire hydrants to the list,” LAist reported at the time:
L.A. Hit with Hydrant Crime Wave Prior to Current Fires
‘The good news is: I’m a great-grandfather as of today!’ Biden said at wildfire presser
WATCH: Newsom Passes the Buck, Bass Won't Talk Budgets, and Biden Celebrates his Great-Grandchild: How Democrats Are Responding to the LA Infernos

NEW YEARS EVE NEW ORLEANS ISLAMIC TERROR [BIRM] ATTACK
Fred Fleitz: Despite FBI denials, mounting evidence suggests Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s New Orleans attack involved foreign Islamist operatives and radical clerics, not “self-radicalization.” (The bigger canard is that there is some benign form of Islam - jjs)
The New Orleans Terrorist Attack and the Self-Radicalization Canard
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: Well-known academic and go-to source for U.S. intelligence and military agencies, Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University, insists that nothing bad was happening during the "five centuries of peaceful coexistence" between Muslims and Christians prior to the First Crusade, which was launched by cynical and evil Europeans, forever turning Islam against the West.
Did the Crusades Spoil 'Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence' With Islam?
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
Arrests 240 suspected Hamas jihadis who had been in the hospital.
IDF Closes Down Kamal Adwan Hospital
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
With Republicans back in control, it can pass a new version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
How Congress Can Champion Religious Freedom
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Victor Davis Hanson: The corrupt war on Trump that eroded our republic.
Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?
The actions of January 6 pale compared to the lies, corruption, and damage wrought by those undermining democracy and accountability at the highest levels.
Pardon the Candy-Snitchers
UHC CEO MURDER
What's behind this strange, dewy-eyed worship of what looks like a cold, remorseless, killer?
That Strange, Persistent, Cheering at a CEO's Murder is Proof We Are Now an Idiocracy (Meh, ever since Leonard Bernstein hosted the Black Panthers - jjs)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
In a post on X, the U.S. Capitol Police revealed that a man was “stopped and arrested” on Wednesday afternoon during a screening on the north side of the CVC after a machete was “spotted” in his bag. The Capitol Police also reportedly discovered three knives in the man’s bag.
Capitol Police: Man Arrested Attempting to Bring Machete, Knives into Visitor Center
Two death row inmates have rejected President Joe Biden’s offer to commute their sentences as he prepares to leave the White House, stating they are intent on proving their innocence instead. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, are refusing to accept the change from the death penalty to life in prison, citing the legal advantages they possess while on death row, according to court documents.
Death Row Inmates Reject Biden’s Clemency to Fight for Innocence.
The DA’s office said all of the suspects are also homeless.
Homeless man, 69, seen on video stabbing thugs terrorizing him on NYC subway, killing 1, won’t face charges: DA
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
A staggering 76% of Maryland voters said they are in favor of requiring local officials to work with federal immigration authorities to detain and deport foreign nationals who have committed crimes, according to a survey released Wednesday by Annapolis-based Gonzales Research & Media. The poll — which reached 811 registered voters and holds a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5% — demonstrates the broad appeal of federal immigration enforcement across the political spectrum.
Vast Majority Of Voters In Deep Blue State Think Illegal Migrant Criminals Should Be Handed Over To ICE, Poll Reveals
Patrick Lechleitner, who became acting ICE director in July 2023 and will be leaving once President-elect Donald Trump returns to power, expressed deep frustration with the outgoing administration’s slow pace to stem illegal immigration into the country, according to an exit interview he gave with NBC News. The comments follow criticism from other top immigration officials who served under Biden, such as retired Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who have also accused the administration of ineptitude in its handling of the crisis.
Millions Of Illegal Migrants Later, Biden’s Own ICE Director Now Says Junta ‘Could Have Done More’ About Border
In our age, slavery is swept under the rug. But that can change with a new administration.
A 2025 Year of Jubilee Could End Slavery in America
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Despite the incoming sentencing, Judge Merchan is not expected to impose any incarceration on the president-elect.
Supreme Court Denies Trump Effort to Stay His Sentencing Hearing in New York
Judge Juan Merchan scheduled Trump’s sentencing for his New York case to take place on Friday morning, a decision Trump asked both the New York Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to block.
New York’s Highest Court Declines To Stop Trump’s Sentencing
Initially, Willis’s office claimed no such records existed.However, the court discovered that Willis had withheld key documents, including a letter she sent to the chair of the January 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Under legal pressure, she acknowledged the documents’ existence but insisted they were exempt from disclosure, a claim the court dismissed.
Judge Orders Fani Willis to Pay THOUSANDS in Fees.
Margot Cleveland: Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: Time is running out for the last vestiges of lawfare against Trump.
Lawfare Against Trump Flares For Final Time
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
'If Meta is truly committed to the free-speech principles that it recently announced, it will act swiftly'
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Accounts Demand Meta Lift Suspensions After Free Speech Promises
Mollie Hemingway: Even by the standards of the left-wing press’s campaign against Alito, this week’s hit is particularly stupid.
Media’s Latest Alito Conspiracy Theory Is Particularly Ridiculous
The left would love nothing better, in the days leading up to his second inauguration, than to repeat over and over again that Trump is the first convicted felon to serve as president. But just like his two (two!) show-trial impeachments, most Americans won’t care. Why? Because the name-calling won’t lower their grocery or energy prices. It won’t fight violent crime in their communities. It won’t end the largely avoidable California wildfires.
Media flail as their anti-Trump narratives fail — again and again
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The six largest banks in the United States have abandoned a climate change “alliance” just ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. In early December, JP Morgan joined Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs in distancing themselves from the United Nations-supported Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).Paddy McCully from Reclaim Finance described the banks’ withdrawal as a calculated move to sidestep challenges from Trump. McCully noted that while climate commitments were previously emphasized, with changing political winds, such priorities seem less central.
Major US Banks Exit ‘Net Zero’ Alliance Ahead of Trump Inauguration.
If the evaluations of these societies are erroneous, these measures could impoverish much of the world, to say nothing of wasting trillions.
Scientific Societies Err on 'Climate Change'
'Californians could pay $80 billion, plus a large tab for transmission, and get little to nothing in return,' Cato Institute scholar says
Newsom's Offshore Wind Plan Will Likely Cost Californians Tens of Billions of Dollars. They Already Pay Some of the Nation's Highest Electric Bills.
As everyone knows, one of the Democrats' main guiding principles is Rahm Emanuel's infamous line, "Never let a crisis go to waste." The Dems' overwhelming Number One guiding principle, however, is, "Never let a crisis go without reminding everyone that you're a loathsome human being."
People Who Blame All Natural Disasters on Climate Change Should Be Clubbed Like Baby Seals
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
‘Hiding the details, methodology and results of scores of safety investigations from public view does not build public confidence; it undermines it.’
8 Bombshell Findings In Florida’s Grand Jury Report On Big Pharma’s Covid Shots
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Hell has officially frozen over.
Gavin Newsom actually does something right for once
Conservatives must amplify their opposition to gender ideology as it infiltrates public institutions, while ensuring the growing evidence of its harms is neither ignored nor silenced.
Education Officials Promote Gender Ideology, a Destructive Pathology Targeting Kids
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Joe Biden claimed he would have beat former Donald Trump in the election, essentially admitting to Kamala Harris’ silent coup.
By Claiming He Would Beat Trump, Biden Basically Admits He Was Forced Out In A Coup
Carter was the first president to pardon a child molester and take millions in laundered drug money.
Divorce Records Dumpster Diver Praises Decency of Drug Funded President
POLITICS
The Trumps were the first to enter. The President-elect met with and shook hands with former Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Al Gore before taking his seat.
WATCH: Donald Trump Gets Chummy with Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral
I giggled.
Harris Not Happy to See Obama Speak to Trump
According to Freeman’s translation, Trump, 78, told Obama, 63, that they would have to “find a quiet place” later in the day to discuss a “matter of importance.”
‘Matter of Importance’: Lip Reader Reveals What Trump and Obama Talked About During Jimmy Carter’s Funeral
From the border crisis and DEI to trans-identifying soldiers, these are Trump's top priorities
Trump Prepares To Issue ‘Day 1’ Executive Orders On Key Issues
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“If autocrats conclude that democracies will lose their nerve, surrender their interests, and forget their principles, we will only see more land grabs. If tyrants learn that aggression pays, we will only invite even more aggression, chaos, and war,” Austin opined at a gathering of approximately 50 nations supporting Ukraine. The coalition has collectively committed an estimated $122 billion in military support.
Biden Greenlights $500M for Ukraine as California Burns.
Ukraine’s Western backers are meeting in Germany at the major U.S.-NATO Ramstein airbase on Thursday through the Ukraine Defence Contract Group, President Volodymyr Zelensky having arrived at the base this morning. Per Ukrainian state media, he is due to have group meetings through the forum as well as individual talks with other leaders during the summit.
Western Troops in Ukraine to ‘Force Russia Into Peace’, Says Zelensky at Ramstein Summit
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Among the ceremonial obligations to honor the former president, the spectacle of political posturing and strained handshakes was enough to quite the sideshow. It began with President Donald Trump walking past Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau’s side-eye was practically a headline in itself.
Yikes: The Tense and Awkward Moments at Jimmy Carter's Funeral
The reality check for the Liberals and Canada itself is the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
The untold story is that Trudeau hasn’t retired yet and may run again despite the growing hostility of Donald Trump
The battle over Muslim rape gangs heats up.
Could Musk-Starmer Spat Threaten US-UK Security Alliance?
“The US-Canada border is the frontier of the American Revolution. . . America is revolutionary or it is nothing.
The Future Belongs to America. So Should Greenland.
“The Arctic is a zone of our national interests, our strategic interests. We are interested in preserving the atmosphere of peace and stability in the Arctic zone,” Peskov said.
Kremlin Warns Donald Trump to Stay Away from Greenland – Russia Has ‘Strategic Interests’ in Arctic(But but but Trump and Putin are colluders, nyet?!!! - jjs)
Un declared that selling a dish made with hot dogs constituted an act of treason.
Kim Jong Un bans hot dogs in North Korea to crack down on western culture—violators risk detainment in labor camps
Why care about North Korea; that's a question many will ask.
North Korea is China's Proxy
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
In California, one pet-owner is suing after his cats died of H5N1 infection from drinking raw milk.
Cat Foods Containing Bird Flu Virus Found in California, Oregon
An invoice reveals how much University of Utah's school of medicine paid to the AAMC.
Here’s How Much Medical Schools Pay For Membership In Woke Academic Association
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The rules would have allowed men to compete in women's sports
‘Colossal Win For Women And Girls’: Federal Court Strikes Down Biden Title IX Rewrite Nationwide
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
If Costco's board is so convinced its DEI program is beyond reproach, they'd gladly study its effectiveness.
Costco’s Oversized Faith In DEI
Chaney is just one of dozens of online influencers recruited by the food industry to promote corporate-friendly narratives.
Pro-Obesity Activist Sponsored By McDonald’s Plans ‘Operation Fat Liberation’
HITHER & YON
“The proposal, a collaboration of the four power leagues, would grant the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC rights to manage postseason championships, such as the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, assuming control over events that have long been operated by the national association,” reports Ross Dellinger at Yahoo Sports.
Could a Proposal Floating Around College Sports Conferences Upend the NCAA As We Know It?
Christian Toto: Pamela Anderson's career reinvention powers this Vegas reality check
‘The Last Showgirl’ Shares Uncomfortable Truths

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1 Hook 'em Horns

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde! 264!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

3 Good morning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:43 AM (HnUIn)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 07:44 AM (lRY8a)

5 Fast day and I gotta a headache! But the BBQ'ing went great.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 07:45 AM (lRY8a)

6 Hook 'em Horns
Posted by: rhennigantx

Go Bucks!

Posted by: Tuna at January 10, 2025 07:45 AM (oaGWv)

7 first?? or funny posing day??

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 07:46 AM (iMpf5)

8 by Do No Harm, an organization opposed to the politicization of medicine, shows that the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine paid $75,760 for a year-long institutional membership in the AAMC starting on July 1, 2024
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Talk about late to the party! What are the odds they do *not* renew in 2025? I'd guess about 50/50

But the odds are 100% that they'll join the newly-renamed "Association of American Medical Educational Institutions of Excellence" and the AAMEIE is *totally* not the same thing and has a different mission. Swearsies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:47 AM (HnUIn)

9 "Meanwhile, Jamie Brown became the LAFD’s first lesbian Training Commander."

I didn't know lesbians needed training. How hard can it be?

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

10 If the term White Supremacy seems familiar, it should since that has been the constant drumbeat from the DemoKKKrat-Left since the electrifying victories of Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024, and the equally electrifying persecution of him and us via the theft and its aftermath of the 2020 election.
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There is deep irony in your deliberate misspelling of "Democrat"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:48 AM (HnUIn)

11 Would a lesbian firefighter fighting a fire at your house save the carpet first?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 07:48 AM (kTd/k)

12 Happy Friday, one and all. It's a bitterly cold day here at the GPROMD and I'm back to work after multiple days off this week. The dogs have been acting rather goofy due to the weather and it's a lot of fun watching greyhounds sprint in the snow.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (lXoJ5)

13 This is the same lady who attacked Sen. Ted Cruz who happened to be in Cancun when the Texas power grid collapsed.

Also socialism. Socialist demand magic mirrors and windmills that work on perfect days but are worthless when the sun dont shine and the wind does not blow or blows TOO FAST.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

14 Looks like the Eaton fire started at the base of an electrical tower. My neighbor thought he spotted the small fire under a tower from the freeway. Told us as much yesterday. Now there appears to be video from someone confirming it.

So Eaton is probably on SoCal Edison and the winds. Palisades? I dunno. The smaller random fires certainly look like arson.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (1bfKT)

15 The only thing that may change about CA's voting is the names of the incompetent Dems they elect. They will not consider actually changing parties or policies.

That's not who they are. (And we are icky.)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (1bNHn)

16 Yonder Horde

When everyone's a Kristen, nobody is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (Q4IgG)

17 ...POSTING day!!!

And I guess not -- a normal post that I read first, assuming it had been up since 7 or whatever, then see the empty first comm-box and get a 7th.

Lost all for the want of a horseshoe nail and a crotch-sniffing dog.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 07:49 AM (iMpf5)

18 Introduction to Scissoring 101.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 07:50 AM (YeGMU)

19 All these glass ceilings shattered and the city left crawling over the shards.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 07:50 AM (ZlOcj)

20 11 Would a lesbian firefighter fighting a fire at your house save the carpet first?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 07:48 AM (kTd/k)

Save, or did you mean "SHAVE?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

21 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF
From downstairs- it's either Gizelle leaving Fetterman or the
lump maybe thar was rotting his brain. But either way I am actually surprised and hope he continues.

And thinking about Britain's Muslim problem, if that is slavery what is?

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 07:50 AM (aNNFk)

22 Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79 10h
Lesbian Firefighters

Expectations: __________ Reality:

https://tinyurl.com/yt4rfrvz
photos

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 07:51 AM (iMpf5)

23 I saw Adam Corollla’s rant yesterday and sadly he is wrong…. The incompetence of CA governance by Dems and leftists (redundant) revealed by these fires will not cause large defections away from Dems by NPC blue voters. They could no sooner flap their wings and fly to the moon than vote republican. Voting blue is a fundamental part of their identity…. Oh there’ll be a few exceptions but absolutely no preference cascade.

Karen Bass might be a scapegoat but they’ll move on to voting for another (more competent) leftist Dem. BTW… Caruso who got beat by Bass is also a Dem just probably more competent and not a complete imbecile

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 07:51 AM (i5Vkf)

24 LA sacrificed on the fiery altar of gaia.

Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 07:51 AM (jgmnb)

25 No government layabout at any level; federal, state or local, is worth $399,000.00 in salary per year. By the time this sexually disordered deviant retires she will have multiple government checks hitting her account each month for accomplishing absolutely nothing of value to anyone, anywhere.

Madness.

Posted by: Fire Them All at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (jiYtH)

26 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (hoCmQ)

27 Proposal coming up to change the LAFD uniform to plaid flannel shirts. Discussions ongoing with Subaru about EV fire trucks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (gm9Sb)

28 I think that these people seeing the terrible decisions that they've made over the past few decades with regards to rubber-stamping a 1 party rule, where that party is batshit insane.... is not going to happen.

Leftism is a religious devotion practiced by the mentally ill. Those who have hero complexes; those who see a black man paying a white man for a burrito at a Chipotle and think "that right there is racial injustice!"...

Not even the apocalypse of the inferno that they now witness will lift the veil from their eyes.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (WYStd)

29 It's Flapjack Friday! We got about 6 inches of wet snow yesterday here in NE Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (Rcnd3)

30 "Homeless man, 69, seen on video stabbing thugs terrorizing him on NYC subway, killing 1, won’t face charges: DA"

This guy used a 10" kitchen knife to defend himself. I guess it's ok to carry one on the subway now.

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

31 Homeless man taken into custody in connection to Kenneth Fire

Maybe he felt that it was unfair that other people had a home and he was implementing social justice.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 10, 2025 07:53 AM (lXoJ5)

32 Poor guy needs a Cold Steel Spartan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 07:54 AM (YeGMU)

33

I always thought of California as Sodom and Gomorrah and or Zimbabwe on the Pacific.

Yup.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)

34 But for people, especially lifelong liberals to look in the mirror, if they can find one in the smoldering rubble of their homes and pull an Alec Guinness River Kwai moment and ask "What Have I done?!!!" is too much for me to expect.
++++
Politics are tribal first and logical second, and California politics are particularly tribal. People have no conception of the relationship between politics, policy and outcomes.

I was in CA for a conference in, I think, 2018 or 2019. We were in a swanky hotel in San Francisco and one of my colleagues who I knew and who was a "good CA liberal" from the home office in the Valley had come down for it. We were standing on the sixth floor and looking out the window at the street below and all of its filth, graffiti, tents, bums, trash and so on.

She suddenly and plaintively said, "how did this happen?"

I couldn't stop myself. I asked her, "Have you ever considered not voting for the people who permitted this to happen?"

She became visibly confused. And she isn't stupid. Just a "good person" and therefore a California Democrat. She's not a garbage person, so she has no choice but to keep re-electing them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:55 AM (HnUIn)

35 En fuego this morning, JJ !

Infill Traitors! Orange Man-Dela! & so much more!

Thanks!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 10, 2025 07:56 AM (cY18j)

36 The Older Millennial @teameffujoe 12h
East Palestine: $750 Loan
Maui: $750 Loan
Southeast US: $750 Loan
LA: 100% of the Recovery Costs!

It pays to be a blue state!

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 07:56 AM (iMpf5)

37 Bass cut $7 million from overtime, then allocated $5 million for electric fire vehicles

They are NOT electric. They have batteries that move them down the road. They start a big old oil burning diesel to pump the water.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

38 28 Posted by: Defenestratus at January 10, 2025 07:52 AM (WYStd)

Yup, always blame it on some people, never on the faith!

Same deal with this so-called "radical Islam," It's Islam itself in its entirety that is radical. Impying some other form that is pure and wonderful is a titanic lie that has killed thousands since 9/11 alone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

39 > Homeless man taken into custody in connection to Kenneth Fire in LA’s West Hills as residents detain him: police
--------
So, is this guy the cause? Or climate change? Come on LA, get your freaking story straight.

Then the capitol city will send you a check.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

40

Obama asked Trump if he knew a good plastic surgeon who could remove the Wookie's penis and mold it into a joy buzzer and piss flaps.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 07:57 AM (x0n13)

41 "This guy used a 10" kitchen knife to defend himself. I guess it's ok to carry one on the subway now."

This guy intended to kill, unlike Fearless Penny. He could have run away but didn't. Personally I'd vote to acquit but this is two-tier justice, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 07:58 AM (Gqoy+)

42 Mentioned last night but apparently illegal aliens / cartels are now starting fires in California in order to loot the homes in the areas.

Coordinated efforts with crews, spotters, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/269n6x6w

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 07:58 AM (eXq2O)

43 Dang, imagine how long the battery in an EV fire truck would last. That would be hilarious.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 07:59 AM (eXq2O)

44 It immediately occurred to me however that this present outrage is only a foretaste of the real outrage soon to come. You see, all of these celebrities have enough money to rebuild. All of them love where they live. And all of them have not the slightest idea what they will face when they attempt to weave their way through California’s Byzantine regulations to do so.

I suspect that the "pretty people" will have the way smoothed for them to recover.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

45 @teameffujoe 12h
East Palestine: $750 Loan
Maui: $750 Loan
Southeast US: $750 Loan
LA: 100% of the Recovery Costs!

It pays to be a blue state!
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 07:56 AM (iMpf5)
++++
It's outrageous on many levels. Not just the comparison of outlays, but the timing and the relative fiscal condition.

They moved *fast* to hurl money at the core constituency in CA. They drag their feet usually, but not for CA.

They weigh local fiscal capacity for places not called "California." For CA, it's 100% covered despite how rich CA boasts about being.

These fires are a nightmare scenario and I wouldn't wish them on anyone, but the contrast in federal reaction to "disaster in CA" vs "disaster in a Garbage Part of the Country" is illustrative.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:00 AM (HnUIn)

46 Breaking911 @Breaking911 7h
TRAGIC: There have been at least 10 fire-related deaths in Los Angeles, according to the county's Department of Medical Examiner.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:00 AM (iMpf5)

47 norks have hot dogs? who knew?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 10, 2025 08:01 AM (cY18j)

48 47 norks have hot dogs? who knew?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 10, 2025 08:01 AM (cY18j)

Treebark Brats!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 08:01 AM (x0n13)

49 The fires are not obeying the smoking bans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:02 AM (YeGMU)

50 The Older Millennial @teameffujoe 12h
East Palestine: $750 Loan
Maui: $750 Loan
Southeast US: $750 Loan
LA: 100% of the Recovery Costs!

It pays to be a blue state!

Posted by: andycanuck

That should be 100% of the "firefighting costs". In the land of Hollywood accounting, who knows where that money will go. But you can be sure that it won't reach those who've lost their homes in any meaningful way. It's a promise to make the state's government whole, not the fire victims.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:02 AM (1bfKT)

51 By the way John Fettermans wife didn’t leave him. Not sure why so many people repeat this. Married in 2008 and still a couple.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2NHgQ)

52 The Malibu homes of A-listers burning to the ground is a Biblical Message, no? It's out of a novel. Like Day of the Locust.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (Gqoy+)

53 Ask one of the Kristins why sex toys for lesbians are always shaped like a penis?

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (z+ik4)

54 Pull up to the nearest windmill to recharge.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (YeGMU)

55 Breaking911 @Breaking911 8h
SEE IT: The suspect who lit the Kenneth Fire being taken into custody.

Does anyone want to guess what his nationality is?

https://tinyurl.com/yc527m37
41 seconds; arrest video; unfortunately no beatdown.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 9h
🚨 JUST IN: Police say LOCAL CITIZENS were the ones who detained the alleged arsonist who set the Kenneth fire tonight in the LA area. Wow.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (iMpf5)

56 @teameffujoe 12h
East Palestine: $750 Loan
Maui: $750 Loan
Southeast US: $750 Loan
LA: 100% of the Recovery Costs!

-

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but western NC is having weather in the teens and Asheville is getting something like 8" of snow.

And our federal government is kicking 3500 or so parents and children out of the hotels they were staying in after their homes were destroyed.

They gave in to requests of taxpayers and gave those losers an additional 24 hours, though.

https://tinyurl.com/yj65ch8n

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:04 AM (eXq2O)

57 CA is dry. Always has been. Fire is always a threat and a problem.

But how much has policy amplified the disaster?

What if PG&E were permitted to do right-of-way maintenance?
What is local authorities were serious about slash collection and destruction?
What if street bums weren't coddled to the point that there are thousands of them crazily setting fires (as is alleged to have happened here)?
What if the state had finished the CA Water Project instead of pursuing enviro-insanity?
What if water levels weren't permanently lowered and reservoirs destroyed in a gambit to save the Delta Smelt?
What if the fire department had been organized according to merit instead of ideology?

Fires - if not this one, then one like it - are bound to happen in California, just as they are bound to happen in Colorado and Alberta. But how much worse is this because of feckless and retarded policy? There is no way to know, but my bet is "enormously worse."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:06 AM (HnUIn)

58 Read FEMA's tweet to people that lost everything they'd ever had very carefully:

"FEMA Region 4
@femaregion4

#NorthCarolina: Due to the incoming winter storm we are extending our Transitional Sheltering Program stays for 24 hours to those households who are scheduled to check out of their hotels/motels Jan. 11.

If you STILL need assistance with housing, call 1 (800) 621-3362."

--

Did you notice it?

That capitalization is on purpose. Someone intentionally wrote that way. It has not been edited, and is still capitalized as of seconds ago.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:06 AM (eXq2O)

59 A homeless man starting the fire is going to give Newsome and Bass a way out. Of ourselves, they won't be able to blame climate change.

Newsome wi survive because of his silver tongue. Bass won't. Not after that terminal interview beat down.

And don't forget, the Olympics are 3 years away.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 10, 2025 08:06 AM (b8J4P)

60 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 10, 2025 08:06 AM (cY18j)

61 Trump is going to make Gavin the poster child for Woke Government Malfeasance. He'll beat him like a pinata. Then he'll club him like a baby seal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Gqoy+)

62 He looks like a Danish Greenlander. Cassius belly. Attack!

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (YeGMU)

63 That should be 100% of the "firefighting costs". In the land of Hollywood accounting, who knows where that money will go. But you can be sure that it won't reach those who've lost their homes in any meaningful way. It's a promise to make the state's government whole, not the fire victims.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:02 AM (1bfKT)
++++
On the news this morning (so an unreliable source), the newstalker said, "100% of recovery costs for the next 180 days."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (HnUIn)

64 If you STILL need assistance with housing, call 1 (800) 621-3362."

--

Did you notice it?

That capitalization is on purpose. Someone intentionally wrote that way. It has not been edited, and is still capitalized as of seconds ago.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:06 AM (eXq2O)

With a built in eye-roll.

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (z+ik4)

65
I don't have much doubt Chief LGBTQ+ humped fire hose and ate smoke for the exact minimum of time, if at all, before going into administration and ladder-climbing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (dxSpM)

66 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - Germany reports foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo: official

Cast of the View hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (iMpf5)

67 Did the Crusades Spoil 'Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence' With Islam?

The objective (of the First Crusade) was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years (no doubt annexed via totally peaceful means), by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover of the region threatened local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West, and the Byzantine Empire itself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

68 I remain convinced that all the DEI stuff is ultimately being funded by China. It's a weapon they are using to destroy the US.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (CHHv1)

69 I don't have much doubt Chief LGBTQ+ humped fire hose and ate smoke for the exact minimum of time, if at all, before going into administration and ladder-climbing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

-

I'm going with friends/ sexual partner with some lesbian in HR, at some point threatened lawsuit if expected to perform minimum amount of qualifying effort.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (eXq2O)

70 If you Still haven't managed to pull yourself up by your bootstraps cracker.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (YeGMU)

71 He looks like a Danish Greenlander. Cassius belly. Attack!
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (YeGMU)
++++
I saw Cassius Belly get his ass whipped by Cassius Clay at the county gym between the Thrilla in Manilla and the Rumble in the Jungle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (HnUIn)

72 Last Minute Leak @LastMinuteLeak 2h
BREAKING: CHINESE HACKERS BREACHED US OFFICE ASSESSING FOREIGN INVESTMENTS FOR SECURITY RISKS.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (iMpf5)

73 It immediately occurred to me however that this present outrage is only a foretaste of the real outrage soon to come. You see, all of these celebrities have enough money to rebuild. All of them love where they live. And all of them have not the slightest idea what they will face when they attempt to weave their way through California’s Byzantine regulations to do so

--

Somebody's probably already mentioned it, but my first thought the last few days on this matter was that, for those celeb and ultra-wealthy types living on the coast in their paradise homes, all likely good little leftists, will somehow, magically, have all the red tape waived for them to rebuild. I hope I'm wrong and they get a strong taste of what they've voted for.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 10, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

74 He'll beat him like a pinata. Then he'll club him like a baby seal.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Gqoy+)

Then hopefully flog him like a rented mule.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:10 AM (ZlOcj)

75 Daniel Greenfield: The LA Fire Department went woke. Now LA is on fire.
The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten’
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Go woke, get smoked.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:10 AM (BpYfr)

76 It's been 90 days and there aren't roads built back to your property yet, so why haven't you got a new house?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (eXq2O)

77 Fires - if not this one, then one like it - are bound to happen in California, just as they are bound to happen in Colorado and Alberta. But how much worse is this because of feckless and retarded policy? There is no way to know, but my bet is "enormously worse."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That should be the discussion coming out of the Eaton fire. Since it looks like it was sparked by power lines, we need to know the last time brush was cleared near the Eaton Canyon transmission lines.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (1bfKT)

78 It's out of a novel. Like Day of the Locust.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (Gqoy+)

Good reference. I'd forgotten.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (ZlOcj)

79 Just came in from leaf blowing snow off truck. Pretty dry snow.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (hoCmQ)

80 Kamal Adwan Hospital would make a great soap opera.
Maybe add a few kookie terrorist or two for a little bit of humor.
Also needs a love interest, maybe a you boy of 12 or 13 who is a part time janitor and the main head doctor of the hospital.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

81
I remain convinced that all the DEI stuff is ultimately being funded by China. It's a weapon they are using to destroy the US.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (CHHv1)

__________

I remain convinced that China would pack off to the remotest desert any cadre who proposed DEI in China.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 08:12 AM (dxSpM)

82 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW - Hammer attacker wounds 8 at Japanese university: media

insiderpaper.com/hammer-atta…

Hammer attacker wounds 8 at Japanese university: media
Eight people were wounded in a hammer attack at a university in Tokyo on Friday, with a 22-year-old student arrested at the scene, Japanese media said.

Police are rounding up all homeless Canadian visa overstayers for questioning.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:12 AM (iMpf5)

83 68 I remain convinced that all the DEI stuff is ultimately being funded by China. It's a weapon they are using to destroy the US.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (CHHv1)

As I state in my essay, the undermining of education and culture started with the Soviets in the 20s and ramped up by the war's end. The Chi-Coms with the Confucius institutes on campuses everywhere have supersized it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 08:12 AM (x0n13)

84 I always thought of California as Sodom and Gomorrah and or Zimbabwe on the Pacific.

Sacramento and north are fine . LA and South are second only to the NYC - BOS - DC - Philly insanity zone as far as institutionalized public dysfunction.

Never forget - LA isn't suffering under some kind of dictatorship. This is exactly what they picked by wide margins. And will again.

Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 08:13 AM (IIUZn)

85 Just came in from leaf blowing snow off truck. Pretty dry snow.
-----
Max Domi??
/canadian joke

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:14 AM (iMpf5)

86 I expect to be invited to only the best parties in 2025. Only the very, very best.

Posted by: Amy Cornhole Barrett at January 10, 2025 08:14 AM (paSBy)

87 80 Kamal Adwan Hospital would make a great soap opera.
Maybe add a few kookie terrorist or two for a little bit of humor.
Also needs a love interest, maybe a you boy of 12 or 13 who is a part time janitor and the main head doctor of the hospital.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

"Think of Laura (Bush)"

- - Christopher Crescent, FKA Cross

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)

88 73 Somebody's probably already mentioned it, but my first thought the last few days on this matter was that, for those celeb and ultra-wealthy types living on the coast in their paradise homes, all likely good little leftists, will somehow, magically, have all the red tape waived for them to rebuild. I hope I'm wrong and they get a strong taste of what they've voted for.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 10, 2025 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

Biden will personally roll out the Billions to make them whole, at our expense.

Posted by: XTC at January 10, 2025 08:14 AM (UnA8+)

89 That should be the discussion coming out of the Eaton fire. Since it looks like it was sparked by power lines, we need to know the last time brush was cleared near the Eaton Canyon transmission lines.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:11 AM (1bfKT)
++++
And how complete the job was.
And who's responsibility it was.
And what the requirements were.

It came out after the last CA mega-fire that PG&E wasn't doing much forest right-of-way maintenance because they weren't allowed to by regulation (can't cut down trees because environment). Is that still true?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (HnUIn)

90 I got some schaudenfreude-type enjoyment out of watching Kamala be ignored at the Carter funeral yesterday. I really think she has zero future in politics; not even in California. She’s toxic for losing to Orange Hitler on her side… she has no base

She’ll sit on foundation boards and teach a class as Berkeley

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (i5Vkf)

91 Leading Report @LeadingReport 7h
Reporter asks Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman what it is like to be the first Black head coach to go to a National Championship game.”

“I hope all coaches, minorities, Black, Asian, white, it doesn't matter, great people continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this.”
===
I seem to recall him denigrating woke labels a few weeks ago too.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:16 AM (iMpf5)

92 On the news this morning (so an unreliable source), the newstalker said, "100% of recovery costs for the next 180 days."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

They specifically said firefighting costs last night on the local LA coverage, but that's not necessarily reliable. I also don't know how much recovery you can rack up in six months. Debris removal? Remediation? Can't start new construction, that's for sure.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:16 AM (1bfKT)

93 Also if it helps anyone else:

After some experimentation with X, I have determined that users are free to say ANYTHING about men (of course), whites (of course), Jews, Christians, blacks to a degree so long as you don't use a certain word (videos of violence and related comments seems to be everywhere) , women to an extent (apparently noting whorish behavior leading to STDs and broken families/psyches as a negative is frowned upon), and many if not all other racial groups *up to a point*, but if you say anything directly about the rainbow bunch you're likely to be banned.

Something something you are the media.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (eXq2O)

94 I got some schaudenfreude-type enjoyment out of watching Kamala be ignored at the Carter funeral yesterday. I really think she has zero future in politics; not even in California. She’s toxic for losing to Orange Hitler on her side… she has no base

She’ll sit on foundation boards and teach a class as Berkeley
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (i5Vkf)
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She's finished. She might enter the Party machinery somewhere, but as a politician, it's over. You can't go home again.

"I was the Senator from Big Tech before trying for president and failing, then being an incompetent VP, then trying for president and failing again. How about you put me back in as Senator from Big Tech?" is not a compelling pitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

95 She’ll sit on foundation boards and teach a class as Berkeley
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (i5Vkf)
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Each of those positions will pay a six-figure salary with very little work involved (teaching a class will be the most work).

Not a bad gig if you can swing it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (BpYfr)

96 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)

97 :: looks at gas bill ::

Yup. It's winter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:18 AM (HnUIn)

98 NEW - Hammer attacker wounds 8 at Japanese university: media

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Has the attacker been identified as a man or a woman yet?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: P. Pelosi at January 10, 2025 08:18 AM (eXq2O)

99 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 08:18 AM (ys+zb)

100 It came out after the last CA mega-fire that PG&E wasn't doing much forest right-of-way maintenance because they weren't allowed to by regulation (can't cut down trees because environment). Is that still true?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yes, I think it is. The only change after the deadly Paradise fire was that PG&E went into bankruptcy.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:19 AM (1bfKT)

101 Getting light outside. Looks like we have about ten inches of snow.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:19 AM (gm9Sb)

102 good morning JJ, Horde

And just like that, the drones over Jersey were forgotten.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 10, 2025 08:19 AM (JwwkB)

103 The Trump sentencing thing--is this some means by which "a convicted felon cannot propose legislation" or "issue executive orders"?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (CHHv1)

104 She’ll sit on foundation boards and teach a class as Berkeley
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (i5Vkf)

I agree completely! Watching the body language at the funeral yesterday was revealing; it wasn’t as though they disliked Kamala, it was worse. She was treated as someone who didn’t even exist.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (7MHHr)

105 It's time to put a stop to the Danish opressors and their domino theory.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (YeGMU)

106 Apparently it is only a local story that the Richmond, Virginia water system is down due to a cascade of problems this week. No or low water pressure and boil water advisories.
There are other more serious news stories and not a lot of sensational images ( LA ) to show in this case.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 10, 2025 08:21 AM (IN6Re)

107 Maybe black, lesbian immigrant KJP can get hired by LAFD.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 08:22 AM (kTd/k)

108 Yes, I think it is. The only change after the deadly Paradise fire was that PG&E went into bankruptcy.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:19 AM (1bfKT)
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I'll take your word for it. It was my assumption.

Saw this in CO when I lived there, too, though to much a lesser degree.

The forests are too thick since we stopped them from burning down, and there is widespread objection to both controlled burns and logging/right-of-way clearance, for different reasons. Controlled burns *can* get out of control and be disastrous (happened a couple of times in my area when I lived there), but they probably do more good than harm on balance. And logging along the right-of-way is good, period. But tree-huggers gonna tree-hug.

Nobody tell them how many wildfires the Indians set in their version of land management. It's crude, but it does work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:22 AM (HnUIn)

109 I agree completely! Watching the body language at the funeral yesterday was revealing; it wasn’t as though they disliked Kamala, it was worse. She was treated as someone who didn’t even exist.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Imagine Al Gore treating you that way.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:22 AM (eXq2O)

110 107 Get her a dalmatian costume.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:22 AM (gm9Sb)

111 JJ, your Alec Guiness River Kwai quote is outstanding. So spot on.

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

112 Get her a dalmatian costume

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LOVE IS LOVE

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (eXq2O)

113 Supreme Court Denies Trump Effort to Stay His Sentencing Hearing in New York

Once again, SCOTUS has the opportunity to stop an injustice and says, "nah, bro, we're good."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

114 I agree completely! Watching the body language at the funeral yesterday was revealing; it wasn’t as though they disliked Kamala, it was worse. She was treated as someone who didn’t even exist.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (7MHHr)
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She doesn't. Not anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (HnUIn)

115 The best name for the LA Fire:

Kirstennacht

Posted by: Minuteman at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (yARCz)

116 Biden's "help" is to help out the governments, not the people.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (ZmEVT)

117 103 The Trump sentencing thing--is this some means by which "a convicted felon cannot propose legislation" or "issue executive orders"?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (CHHv1)

Means nothing but Dems will try to use it for something. I think they will try to say that a felon should have no control over DOJ and then probably any Department that has guns.

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:23 AM (QfvaV)

118 At least Gore stood up to shake Trump's hand.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:24 AM (ZlOcj)

119 R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 5h
🚨#BREAKING: At least 8 people injured after hammer attack at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan; suspect in custody. - local media

R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 5h
🚨#UPDATE: All injured are conscious in hammer attack at Hosei University (法政大学

in Tokyo, Japan; suspect in custody.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:25 AM (iMpf5)

120 Come back tomorrow!

https://tinyurl.com/3u2wjyt5

Or is it pay no attention to that man behind the ~~curtain~~ limo?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 08:25 AM (lRY8a)

121 Big Game James Franklin and Penn State were true to form last night. Ohio State or Texas will beat Notre Dumb by at least 10

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

122 10 days left. I wonder how many other emergencies will spring up before then?

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 10, 2025 08:25 AM (JwwkB)

123 if they can find one in the smoldering rubble of their homes

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Speaking of, people are beginning to notice lots of those blue garbage bins survived these fires, same as in Maui.

Engine block of vehicles? Melted to liquid. The blue garbage bin is fine, though.

Odd stuff.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:26 AM (eXq2O)

124 suspect in custody.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:25 AM (iMpf5)
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Nailed him!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 08:26 AM (lRY8a)

125 >I remain convinced that all the DEI stuff is ultimately being funded by China. It's a weapon they are using to destroy the US.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:09 AM (CHHv1)

Alternative is that DEI is a catspaw for the C-suite. They just want to harness the power of the hostility between groups inside your company.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (lhenN)

126 Speaking of, people are beginning to notice lots of those blue garbage bins survived these fires, same as in Maui.

Engine block of vehicles? Melted to liquid. The blue garbage bin is fine, though.

Odd stuff.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:26 AM (eXq2O)
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Huh. I wonder what it would cost to build a house out of the stuff, and if it can take paint.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (HnUIn)

127 It's National Oysters Rockefeller Day.🦪

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

128 I think there's going to be a stark contrast in the assistance provided to LA residents vs. what was provided to NC residents. This is going to be something that can't be hand-waved away.

But it will be anyway. The media will never contrast the two catastrophes in that light. Ever.

Not related to that, but I'm curious who will be permitted to rebuild, and where, in the burned out husk that was costal LA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

129 "I was the Senator from Big Tech before trying for president and failing, then being an incompetent VP, then trying for president and failing again. How about you put me back in as Senator from Big Tech?" is not a compelling pitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

Competence is a thing now?

She's still a woman, black, and South Asian. And a big Democrat.

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (QfvaV)

130 If Trump has any more SCOTUS openings, he cannot nominate another woman. Not to be sexist, but O'Connor and now Barrett, become to soft when placed in D.C.

My God, I wish Trump would find a way to retire Roberts

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

131 Maybe black, lesbian immigrant KJP can get hired by LAFD.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 08:22 AM (kTd/k)
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~~LOL'd~~ LAFD

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (lRY8a)

132 Oh another thing I learned: Apparently Mike Pence’s wife has a very high opinion of herself. Why I can’t imagine. I thought super Christians were supposed to be forgiving….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:28 AM (ANuwa)

133 Engine block of vehicles? Melted to liquid. The blue garbage bin is fine, though.

Odd stuff.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:26 AM (eXq2O)
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Maybe they should rebuild the houses using those blue bins as the primary building material.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:28 AM (BpYfr)

134 TGIF, horde!

Is life feeling like an Ayn Rand book, or what?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:28 AM (u1uWe)

135 Finding a place to dump the rubble when the cleanup starts will be interesting. Probably some nice little desert town that voted Republican.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:29 AM (gm9Sb)

136 118. Yes Gore showed class, as did Obama. Cannot believe I just said that. George Bush is now a POS.

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

137 Alright! A new Pixy inadvertent Smiley Face -- Japanese character plus an end-parenthesis

( 法政大学 ) in Tokyo

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:29 AM (iMpf5)

138 Thx JJ, good morning Horde.
I noticed that some of the usual leftist idiots have been screaming about climate change . However it seems to me that the vast number of independents, and even more than a few Dems are realizing that the Dems in California have created this horror show. That actually may have caused some of Trump's approval rating going up, everyone else sucks in comparison

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 08:30 AM (RLc6v)

139 Houthi TV (Al-Masirah) reports numerous airstrikes in Sanaa, north of Sanaa, and on the port at Hodediah. They say the strikes north of Sanaa were carried out by US and British forces. No word on who conducted the other strikes. This follows an attack of three drones from Yemen against Israel yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/44yarudv

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 10, 2025 08:30 AM (paSBy)

140 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

There terrible news out of CA gets me to awondering: Have we reached peak DEI? You can't find an org. much more incompetent right now than the LA FD. An event of this magnitude will not quickly be moved to the ashbin of history. (SWIDT?) Hopefully, it will be the apex of DEI incompetency and the movement begins to die it's long deserved death.

I pray that the incompetence of these carpet munchers is remembered long after the fires have burned themselves out.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 08:30 AM (WXNFJ)

141 If Trump has any more SCOTUS openings, he cannot nominate another woman. Not to be sexist, but O'Connor and now Barrett, become to soft when placed in D.C.

My God, I wish Trump would find a way to retire Roberts
Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

ACB…. What a disappointment. And you’re right: so was Sandra Day O’Connor back in the day

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:30 AM (ANuwa)

142 Pramila Jayapal
@PramilaJayapal
Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.

https://tinyurl.com/nhkasdma

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

143 Competence is a thing now?

She's still a woman, black, and South Asian. And a big Democrat.
Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (QfvaV)
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And tainted by her hatred and, yes, incompetence. Incompetence is tolerated - even encouraged - in the stupid game of politics, but only if you stay in your lane. She exited hers and will not be allowed back onto the highway. She's lost too many times now. Her wings melted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (HnUIn)

144 I just noticed my keyboard has another screen of symbols for the first time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (YeGMU)

145 I warned about Barrett early on. A mousy academic completely unequal to the standard the nation required. I supported Raymond Kethledge -- surpassingly the best choice. I know the fix was in for a woman. Still, there were far better ones.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (ZlOcj)

146 According to Freeman’s translation, Trump, 78, told Obama, 63, that they would have to “find a quiet place” later in the day to discuss a “matter of importance.”

You have 48 hours after the inauguration to vacate the US. Take all the money you can and sell all your property. I'm exposing everything after that. Have a good day.

Posted by: Trump at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (0eaVi)

147 Here's how I see things today:

Kamala is finished in politics. But she will still find work in either academia or television.

Newsom is finished in politics. He won't resign or be recalled, but he is currently serving his last term in any office.

You've seen the drone footage of the destroyed neighborhoods. It won't look too much different a year from now.

In 10 days, this will all be Trump's fault for not being made whole instantly the day following his inauguration.

The Democrat Party will maintain its stranglehold on politics in California. Republicans may make some inroads, make some races closer, but that's as far as the red-pilling will go.

Again, this is all IMO.

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (AOsQT)

148 Finding a place to dump the rubble when the cleanup starts will be interesting. Probably some nice little desert town that voted Republican.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:29 AM (gm9Sb)
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That's a good point. The fire is an environmental disaster, but the wreckage left behind will be just as bad, if not worse, since they have to dispose of all that material *somewhere*.

Being California, they will have to spend years on environmental impact studies to find a suitable location where the rubble won't kill off a mythical endangered creature.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:32 AM (BpYfr)

149 Yes Pence's wife has no class. She is mad that her Husband's gravy train stopped, due to him being non grata to MAGA

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

150 Getting light outside. Looks like we have about ten inches of snow.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

The Paolo, how you say, can confirm that for you very quickly.

Nothing yet in Tonypete's neck of the woods but it should start soon.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 10, 2025 08:32 AM (WXNFJ)

151 My God, I wish Trump would find a way to retire Roberts
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John Roberts is a great American!

Posted by: Amy Cornhole Barrett at January 10, 2025 08:33 AM (paSBy)

152 Harris Not Happy to See Obama Speak to Trump

Saying your opponent is a Nazi or Hitler is one thing.

Believing it shows your are an idiot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

153 And have a nice day!

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 08:33 AM (AOsQT)

154 >>There are quite a number of links speculating that these wildfires are the ultimate mugging by reality that potentially if not likely could turn California Red.

Ha, no.
Did Katrina turn NOLA red -- or did it turn Houston blue?

I know there are a lot of non-progressives in CA, but I would bet that many of the CA people that flee the state after this settle into nice, stable states and then get busy promoting the same, d@mn policies and values that turned CA into a sh#tshow.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:33 AM (u1uWe)

155 Rumors spread after the attack that Islamist terrorists like Boko Haram or the Islamic State had attempted to kill the president, but Koualmallah said the attackers were actually local youths from the national capital of N’Djamena who were either drunk or taking drugs.

>>> Wow, that's terrible security if kids can get drunk and nearly overthrow the country.

Posted by: pookysgirl, dealing with the morning grind at January 10, 2025 08:34 AM (dtlDP)

156 The California legislature seems to think that a meeting to discuss how to "resist Trump" was more important than addressing the fires in LA.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

157 Pence and his wife are complete caricatures, walking emblems of false piety and pettiness.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:35 AM (ZlOcj)

158 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 5h
"According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and other sources, a report was received around 4:00 PM on the 10th about multiple injuries at Hosei University’s Tama Campus in Machida, Tokyo.

At least eight people are believed to have been injured, but all are reported to be conscious.

The individual who wielded the hammer has been apprehended at the scene, and the police are investigating the details of the incident."

All 8 people injured are conscious after hammer attack at Hosei University (法政大学 ) in Tokyo, Japan. Suspect in custody.

Suspect in Tokyo hammer attack at Hosei University (法政大学 ) believed to be female student in her 20s. At least 8 people injured, all of them conscious. - NHK
( 法政大学 ) =/= (法政大学

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:35 AM (iMpf5)

159 Maybe they should rebuild the houses using those blue bins as the primary building material.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

My wife said the same about bricks, given all the chimneys still standing.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:35 AM (1bfKT)

160 "Being California, they will have to spend years on environmental impact studies to find a suitable location where the rubble won't kill off a mythical endangered creature.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

The Mojave desert is not far away, but they can't dump stuff there because it's a desert.

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (vFG9F)

161 147. did you see Senator Pencil Neck standing behind Bass at the press conference? This guy is like a barnacle

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

162 Rumors spread after the attack that Islamist terrorists like Boko Haram or the Islamic State had attempted to kill the president, but Koualmallah said the attackers were actually local youths from the national capital of N’Djamena who were either drunk or taking drugs.
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I blame Wolf Cola, the official drink of Boko Haram.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (BpYfr)

163 I really hope the angry lesbos that populate the California coastal commission deny all permits to rebuild for those rich lefties and their mansions along the Malibu coast that got burned down…. Or at least 3 years of frustration dealing with bureaucracy. I’m a bad person….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (ANuwa)

164 They say the strikes north of Sanaa were carried out by US and British forces.
****

Excellent. How many of its own planes did the U.S. Navy shoot down?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Y1sOo)

165 Unless Merchan pulls a fast one, Trump being sentenced is blessing in disguise, otherwise this thing gets strung out till 2029 and they sentence Trump to prison.

It's an abomination but no court is going to throw out this bulls*t so this is the best result sadly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (XV/Pl)

166 Where is the Reagan ranch and museum in relation to the fires?

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

167 George Bush is now a POS.
Posted by: Jonah
"You can't beat up my little brother! Only I can beat up my little Brother!"

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (j4U/Z)

168 @PramilaJayapal
Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.

https://tinyurl.com/nhkasdma
Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)
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No one can escape climate change. Climate is big. Changes are felt by everyone, for better or for worse.

But riddle me these, Pramila:
1. What is your evidence that the climate has meaningfully changed over the past period (duration is your choice)?
2. What is your evidence that the changing climate, once demonstrated, is caused by human action?
3. What is your evidence that corporate business action is the factor of greatest significance in the demonstrated human actions that caused the demonstrated climate change?
4. What is your evidence that the demonstrated corporation-caused climate change resulted in these fires?

Being as generous as possible, you're arguing a *fourth* order effect, Pramila. That requires pretty stupendous evidence. So go ahead and provide it. I'll wait.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:37 AM (HnUIn)

169
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 10, 2025 08:37 AM (w9Ycv)

170 Alright! A new Pixy inadvertent Smiley Face -- Japanese character plus an end-parenthesis

( 法政大学 ) in Tokyo
Posted by: andycanuck

You feeling Japanese?

I really think so.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 08:37 AM (WXNFJ)

171 That's a good point. The fire is an environmental disaster, but the wreckage left behind will be just as bad, if not worse, since they have to dispose of all that material *somewhere*.

Just wait until a real rain starts to fall. Mudslides are a cocktail too I believe. My advice to californians is to drink heavily.

Posted by: I Point And Laugh At Commifornia at January 10, 2025 08:37 AM (jiYtH)

172 Hammer attacker was a South Korean woman.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:38 AM (YeGMU)

173 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 4h
South African police said Friday that they had rescued 26 undocumented Ethiopian nationals who were being held captive without clothes in a suburban house in Johannesburg by suspected human traffickers.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:38 AM (iMpf5)

174 I couldn't stop myself. I asked her, "Have you ever considered not voting for the people who permitted this to happen?"

She became visibly confused. And she isn't stupid. Just a "good person" and therefore a California Democrat. She's not a garbage person, so she has no choice but to keep re-electing them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:55 AM (HnUIn)

People like this are why you get videos of people freaking out over the election. They were promised that Harris would win. There's never been a more qualified candidate. She ran a perfect campaign. Losing is impossible.

They'll shriek for a few days, of be sad and confused, and then the curtains will close, the next act will begin, and they'll all be back to knowing that leftism is good.

NPCs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

175 Will Rogers ranch house was completely destroyed. Terrible to hear. I worked there for several years. Such a splendid array of well-preserved Americana.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ZlOcj)

176 142 Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.

Will no one rid me of these troublesome commies?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 10, 2025 08:39 AM (lXoJ5)

177 I really hope the angry lesbos that populate the California coastal commission deny all permits to rebuild for those rich lefties and their mansions along the Malibu coast that got burned down…. Or at least 3 years of frustration dealing with bureaucracy. I’m a bad person….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:36 AM (ANuwa)
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No chance. They are major industrial players, power players and money players. They get special treatment.

If this fire happened in Detroit or Silicon Valley, the relevant authorities in those places would clear the way for Big Auto and Big Tech (and their various important players) to rebuild toot sweet.

Hollywood is a company town.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:39 AM (HnUIn)

178 @PramilaJayapal
Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.
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She has a tenuous grasp of reality at best, so I'm not sure she is the most reliable expert on the "devastating reality of climate change."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:40 AM (BpYfr)

179 According to Freeman’s translation, Trump, 78, told Obama, 63, that they would have to “find a quiet place” later in the day to discuss a “matter of importance.”

Yeah.
"Leave the country and move to some shithole with no extradition treaty or I'm coming after you and hell's coming with me!"

Posted by: Wyatt Trump

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 08:40 AM (ys+zb)

180 g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson

AJ! AJ! AJ!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 08:40 AM (WXNFJ)

181 A long time ago I was clerking a job in AZ. When it finished, the superintendent asked if I wanted to make a few extra bucks doing some work on his rentals. They were in Compton. If the fire would have gone through there it would have been like the Tokyo fire bombings. Pretty much a bunch of small houses, close together, and probably being held together by chicken wire and stucco.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (gm9Sb)

182 >>@PramilaJayapal
Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.

Oh look! One of the wreckers is politicizing these devastating fires to promote one of her pet peeves. How predictable.

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (u1uWe)

183 172 Hammer attacker was a South Korean woman.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:38 AM (YeGMU)

Kim Kim?

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (z+ik4)

184 Here's a thing: 'saving' the delta smelt or whatever the little fish is called, has zero tangible benefit to anybody. It doesn't make anyone's life better in any measurable way.

Whenever gov't hatches some hare-brained scheme, my question is always 'what problem are they trying to solve, who will benefit, and in what way?' If there aren't really good answers, then whatever is being considered is probably a bad idea.

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)

185 It is time for common sense hammer control.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (YeGMU)

186 It's outrageous on many levels. Not just the comparison of outlays, but the timing and the relative fiscal condition.

They moved *fast* to hurl money at the core constituency in CA. They drag their feet usually, but not for CA.

They weigh local fiscal capacity for places not called "California." For CA, it's 100% covered despite how rich CA boasts about being.

These fires are a nightmare scenario and I wouldn't wish them on anyone, but the contrast in federal reaction to "disaster in CA" vs "disaster in a Garbage Part of the Country" is illustrative.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:00 AM (HnUIn)

And they'll continue to build in fire-prone areas, and they'll continue to take no steps to prevent/minimize fire because everyone else will always take the hit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

187 A long time ago I was clerking a job in AZ. When it finished, the superintendent asked if I wanted to make a few extra bucks doing some work on his rentals. They were in Compton. If the fire would have gone through there it would have been like the Tokyo fire bombings. Pretty much a bunch of small houses, close together, and probably being held together by chicken wire and stucco.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (gm9Sb)
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Chicken wire and stucco is probably pretty good. Inside will be reduced to ashes, but the buildings would probably still be standing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

188 185 It is time for common sense hammer control.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (YeGMU)

See this hammer? You can't touch this.

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:42 AM (z+ik4)

189 Pence and his wife are complete caricatures, walking emblems of false piety and pettiness.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 08:35 AM (ZlOcj)

So in prain engrish they are Asshoe.

Posted by: Hong Kong Phooey at January 10, 2025 08:42 AM (jiYtH)

190 Blackrock will buy up all of Pacific Palisades for pennies on the dollar. Homeowners will be worried about air quality for 5 years and just bail.

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

191 Last night: Breaking911 @Breaking911
Everyone in Los Angeles county just received an alert to evacuate.

KTLA reports the advisory does not actually impact the entire city.

More incompetence from LA officials. 🤦‍♂️

https://tinyurl.com/mssyc52u
screencap

This AM:
Los Angeles Scanner @LosAngeles_Scan 1h
Are you serious? Another alert just went out to all of LA County.

Once again, not everyone in LA County needs to evacuate.
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Top men! ...or whatever.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (iMpf5)

192 >>She has a tenuous grasp of reality at best, so I'm not sure she is the most reliable expert on the "devastating reality of climate change."

She has a good grasp on Communism and never letting a crisis go to wastes, especially when you've created the crisis precisely for this moment.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (u1uWe)

193 For the love of all that is good. Please, stop voting for your own destruction!!!! - jjs
Timeline: Bass Knew of Fire Risk Before Abandoning L.A. for Ghana Trip
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Duuude, sha, reaaaaally? We already voted against Trump, who is going to destroy the world! Like, gag me!

Posted by: California at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (fs1hN)

194 Being as generous as possible, you're arguing a *fourth* order effect, Pramila. That requires pretty stupendous evidence. So go ahead and provide it. I'll wait.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:37 AM (HnUIn)

Asking for evidence is White-dominated thinking, Rayciss!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (7MHHr)

195 Ask one of the Kristins why sex toys for lesbians are always shaped like a penis?
Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:03 AM (z+ik4)

I asked that question once. I was told that they love cock, they hate men... at least as romantic partners.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

196 This AM:
Los Angeles Scanner @LosAngeles_Scan 1h
Are you serious? Another alert just went out to all of LA County.

Once again, not everyone in LA County needs to evacuate.
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Top men! ...or whatever.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (iMpf5)

WOLF! I really mean it this time.

Posted by: Little Boy at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (z+ik4)

197 I don’t mean to suggest that Angelenos somehow deserve the catastrophe that has befallen them; to do so would be not only misguided but unforgivably cruel.

How is it misguided and unforgivably cruel? I mean, one is bringing up the Hebrew Bible and God's Wrath and its misguided to ask what God's Wrath is against? That God's judgements are cruel?

What kind of arrogant psychopath feels they have the authority to question the Almighty and define what is cruel?

Nonethless, the error is on the author's part suggesting that physical calamities are God's judgement. Rather earthquakes, fires and famines are God's tools to move people and to be used as signs and markers.

The Bible is clear that when God judges a people, its through that people's leaders. Demons can't create whirlwinds, they can possess people and drive them into madness.

This is spiritual warfare, not one against the Elements.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (rHxhM)

198 On Wednesday, Jae’lynn Chaney, who also goes by “Jae Bae,” unveiled plans to kick off “#OperationFatLiberation2025” on Jan. 13 to her nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram.

If the O/U for her death is 47 I take 100 bux on the U.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

199 Water chopper traffic has slowed. No glow over the ridge, so that's good news. No idea where they were dropping.

One of the most frustrating parts of being in this is the inability to see where the actual fire lines are. Now that they can get choppers up, the news still won't show it. There's no map that's actively updated. It almost seems willful, which is weird.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (1bfKT)

200 Ask one of the Kristins why sex toys for lesbians are always shaped like a penis?
Posted by: Roy

I asked that question once. I was told that they love cock, they hate men... at least as romantic partners.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Well that's dicked up!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (WXNFJ)

201 200

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

202 All this talk of hammer time is making Paul Pelosi nervous…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (ANuwa)

203 Top women and bottom women.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:44 AM (YeGMU)

204 The real winner in LA?

The California Costal Commission. They'll get massive bribes from the most wealthy to be permitted to rebuild on the beach cliffs.

The rest of you? Not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

205 Here's a thing: 'saving' the delta smelt or whatever the little fish is called, has zero tangible benefit to anybody. It doesn't make anyone's life better in any measurable way. ...
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)
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This was always my objection.

The complaint/argument often goes along the lines of "they destroyed a dam and its reservoir, and drew down other reservoirs, and stifled agriculture, and reduced water availability for an experiment to save the delta smelt - and it didn't even work!"

That's the wrong complaint, in my opinion. The right complaint is, "the Government of California put higher priority on the survival of a bait fish than it did on human development and security." That it didn't work is immaterial. It was the wrong decision in the first place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:45 AM (HnUIn)

206 From I learned from Nancy Pelosi, you can't cry "Wolf" in a crowded fire.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (rHxhM)

207 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Are you serious? Another alert just went out to all of LA County.
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They're like Bart Simpson repeatedly sticking his finger in a live light socket.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (paSBy)

209 LA is the poster child for DIE.

Don't do it your you will actually DIE.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

210 >>I asked that question once. I was told that they love cock, they hate men... at least as romantic partners.

A logical phallacy

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (u1uWe)

211 184 Here's a thing: 'saving' the delta smelt or whatever the little fish is called, has zero tangible benefit to anybody. It doesn't make anyone's life better in any measurable way.

Whenever gov't hatches some hare-brained scheme, my question is always 'what problem are they trying to solve, who will benefit, and in what way?' If there aren't really good answers, then whatever is being considered is probably a bad idea.

IMO
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)

There is no such thing as a snail darter.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

212 Asking for evidence is White-dominated thinking, Rayciss!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (7MHHr)
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:: looks at public sanitation ::
:: looks at refrigeration ::
:: looks at energy production ::
:: looks at the moonshot ::

Okay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

213 Blackrock will buy up all of Pacific Palisades for pennies on the dollar. Homeowners will be worried about air quality for 5 years and just bail.

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Yep. There are already reports of $5M+ home's owners being offered $700K or so for their land.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (eXq2O)

214 Top men! ...or whatever.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:43 AM (iMpf5)

I have relatives in LA County… yep yesterday they all got evac orders popping up on their phones and they’re so far from the fires they knew it was a mistake

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (ANuwa)

215 A logical phallacy
Posted by: Lizzy

Oh, nicely done! That is punny.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (WXNFJ)

216 They say the strikes north of Sanaa were carried out by US and British forces. No word on who conducted the other strikes.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 10, 2025 08:30 AM (paSBy)
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Israel, as confirmed here in the local new. First time there was such a joint attack.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (lRY8a)

217 210 >>I asked that question once. I was told that they love cock, they hate men... at least as romantic partners.

A logical phallacy
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:46 AM (u1uWe)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (z+ik4)

218 Here's a thing: 'saving' the delta smelt or whatever the little fish is called, has zero tangible benefit to anybody. It doesn't make anyone's life better in any measurable way.

What if they are the one species that aliens can talk to and when they come back to talk to them and they aren't here they start destroying the planet?

Don't think of THAT, did you?

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (QfvaV)

219 I do not think much rebuilding will happen for many reasons - environmental permits, lack of insurance, shortage of supplies, shortage of construction crews. I think much of the burned areas will still be vacant a decade from now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:47 AM (7MHHr)

220 Since I was at work yesterday, I didn't see Carter's funeral.

I remember the funerals for Reagan and Nixon but I don't seem to recall Ford's funeral at all.

Does anybody remember Ford's funeral?

Posted by: dantesed at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

221 Those of you thinking that the celebs and beautiful people in LA will get smacked in the face with the fury of navigating the kafka-like labyrinth of the building process in California ...

Sorry to burst your bubble.

They have *people* that handle this. These celebs will just zoom off to their French Riviera chalet or NY 5th Avenue penthouse and be like "call me when its done".

They won't even lift a finger to get any of this done themselves. They won't experience the infuriating tyranny of the unaccountable bureaucrat like you and I do.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (WYStd)

222 > One of the most frustrating parts of being in this is the inability to see where the actual fire lines are. Now that they can get choppers up, the news still won't show it. There's no map that's actively updated. It almost seems willful, which is weird.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor
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firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

223 The California Costal Commission. They'll get massive bribes from the most wealthy to be permitted to rebuild on the beach cliffs.

When it comes to determining the time and amount of the lavish awards that LA politicians and wealthy are expecting from a supercharged Trump FEMA, I submit that we let the victims of Helena and Biden's FEMA decide.

Its only fair.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (rHxhM)

224 Same as always, there will be exceptions for the wealthy donors who would like to rebuild. There won't be any environmental concerns whatsoever, and the trash can just be taken over to the next county.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:49 AM (eXq2O)

225 Trump, 78, told Obama, 63, that they would have to “find a quiet place” later in the day to discuss a “matter of importance.”

Please let it be the list of Obama's friends getting arrested for treason the day of the inauguration.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 08:49 AM (j4U/Z)

226 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (53oGX)

227 >>Here's a thing: 'saving' the delta smelt or whatever the little fish is called, has zero tangible benefit to anybody. It doesn't make anyone's life better in any measurable way. ...

And why are the delta smelt more important than whales?

It's never been about saving the [whatever animal], it's been about stopping something they don't want.

Meanwhile, wind farms are slaughtering birds and driving whales to beach themselves and not a peep from any of the usual activists, experts and MSM.

They don't have values.
They have desire for power, and will use whatever is effective to grasp it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (u1uWe)

228 @PramilaJayapal
Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change.
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The worst part of that twatt was that it linked video of a McDonald's burning and not e.g. a gas station.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (iMpf5)

229 It Sucks to be in California. Maybe someone should make a show like that and make millions?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (jFCkp)

230 “ Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.”

Isaiah 1:7

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (IjQcV)

231 That's the wrong complaint, in my opinion. The right complaint is, "the Government of California put higher priority on the survival of a bait fish than it did on human development and security." That it didn't work is immaterial. It was the wrong decision in the first place.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:45 AM (HnUIn)
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This is also my position on DDT and "Silent Spring."

Even if Rachel Carson hadn't been wrong (and she was - her methodology sucked and it's likely DDT has no relationship with eggshell robustness), it was the wrong decision. A smaller bird population, even if it had happened, is better than mountains of human dead lost to preventable disease. Humans are more important than birds.

The beloved Rachel Carson killed more black people than anyone else in history and ranks among the top tier of mass killers, yet she is celebrated.

Human life is not the top priority for these people. It never has been. They hate man as such. To set a man as *equal* to a bird or a first is contemptible, let along butting him lower in the hierarchy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:50 AM (HnUIn)

232 Oh, just remembered: They are all about protecting the whales when it comes to curbing sonar from military bases. But offshore windfarms? You're own your own, whales!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (u1uWe)

233 So, he had excruciating back pain but he certainly had enough money to get help. As far as we have learned, he wasn’t turned down by the insurance company the victim headed. Nor is any CEO actually responsible for those transactions. The real villain behind the health crisis is Obamacare.
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This is where our side sounds like out of touch idiots. If certain CEO's were running corporations who were doing surveillance and censorship for the State, I'm not saying we would en masse be holding rallies for their murderers or getting tattoos, but pretending like all Republicans would be clutching their pearls and fainting over the act is a bit rich.

I'm not justifying anything I'm just saying stop pretending like you don't "understand" what is being celebrated and why. Your commentary on it is useless if you can't acknowledge certain truths about human nature.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (Unq3t)

234 She’ll sit on foundation boards and teach a class as Berkeley
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:15 AM (i5Vkf)

Blowing for Success: How a Little Oral Action Can Propel You to (Almost) Greatness

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

235 Probably won't get a chance to use this, but it is great for the uninformed.

From Libs of TikTok:
Don’t you hate it when climate change appoints a DEI hire to run the fire dept, gives away fire equipment to Ukraine, stops critical controlled burns, defunds the fire dept, refuses to build more water reservoirs and store water, cancels fire insurance, mismanages forests and brush, and fires firefighters for refusing an experimental vaccine?

Posted by: sal at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (f+FmA)

236
Smelt is delicious. It's the aquatic version of a French fry.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (j4U/Z)

237 I don't want anyone else around Trump at the inauguration. Mar A Lago, swear on the Bible, get to work. Especially since O'Keefe exposed that DHS has requested increased medical staff on site for Trump's inauguration.

Wasn't it Obama that set that precedence by having his actual swearing in ceremony in private?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (eXq2O)

238 One of the most frustrating parts of being in this is the inability to see where the actual fire lines are.

Yeah, about that. There was an agency that dedicated itself to making GIS mapping of fires.

But they farmed that out to a co-op, and for over a year, they did an absolute miserable job of keeping up with the nation's fires.

I quit caring a few years ago and stopped trying to incorporate their "data", such as it was, into our live earth mapping software product.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:51 AM (rHxhM)

239 One person has been taken into custody in connection to the Kenneth Fire

I always say "in connection with," not "in connection to." I wonder if this is a new usage coming in, or a regional one.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

240 220 Does anybody remember Ford's funeral?

Funny story about that. When it happened I was working out in VA on a contract. The announcement went out that the government employees could take the day off but we contractors had to show up.

We called the boss and said it was highly unlikely that anyone would submit tickets and asked if we could work early.

0300-1100 was my shift that day. And for the first 20 minutes of the drive home, the Beltway was empty.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 10, 2025 08:52 AM (lXoJ5)

241 >>Does anybody remember Ford's funeral?

Very well, but only because I was living in the Grand Rapids area at the time and the news coverage was wall-to-wall on the local TV stations.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 08:52 AM (Y1sOo)

242 They won't even lift a finger to get any of this done themselves. They won't experience the infuriating tyranny of the unaccountable bureaucrat like you and I do.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (WYStd)

There are levels of wealth. You’re describing the very top. However there are a cadre of folks that can afford a $5-10M mansion but that property was he biggest portion of their net worth… those folks might be screwed and they don’t necessarily have “people” or other mansions on the Riviera….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 10, 2025 08:52 AM (ANuwa)

243 >>“ Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.”

Isaiah 1:7

Wow.
Thanks, MarcusT

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:52 AM (u1uWe)

244 Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than you know who.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 08:53 AM (YeGMU)

245
Does anybody remember Ford's funeral?
Posted by: dantesed

I was up at Riverside Park having a picnic while it was going on.

The F-15 flyover was cool.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 08:53 AM (j4U/Z)

246 The Let It Burn School of Government seems to have quite a following in Democrat circles, from the former mayor of Atlanta to Tim Walz to Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. Maybe the voters will catch on?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 10, 2025 08:53 AM (zVGVg)

247 She became visibly confused. And she isn't stupid. Just a "good person" and therefore a California Democrat. She's not a garbage person, so she has no choice but to keep re-electing them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 07:55 AM (HnUIn)

People like this are why you get videos of people freaking out over the election. They were promised that Harris would win. There's never been a more qualified candidate. She ran a perfect campaign. Losing is impossible.

They'll shriek for a few days, of be sad and confused, and then the curtains will close, the next act will begin, and they'll all be back to knowing that leftism is good.

NPCs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And people gasp when I laugh at the cali fires and all the loss.

You f'n people voted for this shit for fifty f'n years.
F you. Don't whine because what we told you would happen happened.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 08:54 AM (ys+zb)

248 NEW - Hammer attacker wounds 8 at Japanese university: media
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Has the attacker been identified as a man or a woman yet?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: P. Pelosi at January 10, 2025 08:18 AM (eXq2O)

More importantly, did every attack begin with the perpetrator saying "stop, hammer time"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

249 FLA Shoot looters
CAL Arrest looters

Show you which one really hates people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

250 Does anybody remember Ford's funeral?
Posted by: dantesed at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

There needs to be one today thanks to that horrific “Mustang” EV.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:55 AM (7MHHr)

251 Why don't blonde lesbians use vibrators?

It chips their teeth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 08:55 AM (RLc6v)

252 "Alternative is that DEI is a catspaw for the C-suite. They just want to harness the power of the hostility between groups inside your company."

I saw a statistic that something like 70% of senior executives at the S&P 500 have a large part of their bonuses tied to meeting DEI goals. A lot easier than increasing profits.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 08:56 AM (Gqoy+)

253 Imagine all the wealthy Climate nuts whose houses burned down in LA. They will not rebuild, once the first reports of soot and ash syndrome come out, they will amscray with their permanent masks on

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

254 “ Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.”

Isaiah 1:7
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I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 08:56 AM (Unq3t)

255 The Trump sentencing thing--is this some means by which "a convicted felon cannot propose legislation" or "issue executive orders"?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2025 08:20 AM (CHHv1)

It accomplishes nothing for the left beyond the media liars lying to the retarded seals of the Dem base so they can run around shrieking "felon, felon, felon".

For the right, it is another example of how the "justice" system COULD have stopped an injustice and chose not to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

256 Blackrock will buy up all of Pacific Palisades for pennies on the dollar. Homeowners will be worried about air quality for 5 years and just bail.

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Yep. There are already reports of $5M+ home's owners being offered $700K or so for their land.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

They should get their $750.00 check & tent just like the hillbillies.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 08:57 AM (ys+zb)

257 firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Thank you for that. Seriously. It's still pretty active nearby, so that explains the choppers. That area isn't contained but it isn't soreading, either. At least I can keep an eye on it.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 10, 2025 08:57 AM (1bfKT)

258 >>Blackrock will buy up all of Pacific Palisades for pennies on the dollar. Homeowners will be worried about air quality for 5 years and just bail.

If you want to build a 15 minute city, the easiest way to clear out the space - and make it affordable - is fire. Can be BLM, or "wildfires."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:57 AM (u1uWe)

259 These LA areas will become permanent mask areas for 10 years. It will make Covid seem minor

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

260 That's the wrong complaint, in my opinion. The right complaint is, "the Government of California put higher priority on the survival of a bait fish than it did on human development and security."

You are too kind and generous to the Enemy. The survival of the bait fish was never more than an empty excuse to flush the water out to the ocean. If they cared about the bait fish, they would have gone ahead and squander the money dedicated to building three reservoirs (that the people voted for) into some feeble but grift rich attempt to build actual reservoirs so that the fish would have a more reliable water source.

They didn't care about bait fish. They do hate the people of California and these demon possessed sadists engineered this failure out of malice.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:58 AM (rHxhM)

261 Amy sucks JUST LIKE I TOLD YOU GUYS

hmm? right again

little miss can't be wrong

never a good idea to have a Head Girl leading much of anything - AP Bio should have taught everyone that lol

(I count Roberts as a girl also)

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

262 I’m expecting Gavin Newsome to buy up much of the now vacant Pallidades area and then build a great golden house on the site - call it the Domud Aurea - with a colossal nude statue of himself out in front.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (7MHHr)

263 They have *people* that handle this. These celebs will just zoom off to their French Riviera chalet or NY 5th Avenue penthouse and be like "call me when its done".
They won't even lift a finger to get any of this done themselves. They won't experience the infuriating tyranny of the unaccountable bureaucrat like you and I do.
Posted by: Defenestratus at January 10, 2025 08:48 AM (WYStd)

Blah Blah says that he is happy to see the overworked, underpaid government employees at the local building and zoning department not approve building permits in a fast and timely manner as it keeps the riff raff out and protects our properties when we are out of the country on vacation. Being on a fixed income, social security barely covers the cost of admission to the wine and cheese tasting this spring in the Loire Valley, let alone pay for security for our vacant properties when we travel.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (jiYtH)

264 If only Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Red China were run by this kind of lunacy.

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That's the scary part for sure. Our militaristic, authoritarian, one-party aggressor state developed *after* our republican period made us so rich and powerful that it didn't need tough or smart people to staff. Anybody could grab a hold of this machine, turn the key, and wreak havoc.

So we get Comeys and Milleys and Brennans at the top, and beef-headed dykes like the ones at LAFD and NOPD at the bottom. We're lorded over by the most mediocre, incapable maniacs in the history of unaccountable oligarchies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (BI5O2)

265 Carters funeral day off was the same except it meant the closure of a lot of offices and contractors had to take PTO.

Thankfully the division I support is essential and we were able to work.

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (QfvaV)

266 >>I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Heh. Stop sniffing glue the week Trump is sworn in!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:59 AM (u1uWe)

267 They didn't care about bait fish. They do hate the people of California and these demon possessed sadists engineered this failure out of malice.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 08:58 AM (rHxhM)
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Getting closer.

They don't like people. Period. Any excuse to do something destructive to people for the putative benefit of non-people is a good excuse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:00 AM (HnUIn)

268 258. Agree Lizzy. I assume many people there bought their homes in the the 60's and 70's and have humble income with paid off houses . Blackrock just got rid of those people

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

269 Mail delivery resumes today. Yippee!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

270
The biggest star of the Ford funeral was the big black SUV that had a 20 mm pop-up rotary cannon for crowd control.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 09:00 AM (j4U/Z)

271 Forecast said 0.2 inches of snow. We have at least 2. Vehicles have started to stall out at the bottom of our hill where I live. Ain't no way I'm getting out in this.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (Y6IkP)

272 People who would move heaven and earth to save a small baitfish are living their lives ruled by their emotions.

People who want to dam a river or build a reservoir to stockpile water for drinking and firefighting and other civic uses are living by critical thinking.

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)

273 >>They didn't care about bait fish. They do hate the people of California and these demon possessed sadists engineered this failure out of malice.

There's a "fish or cut bait" joke in there somewhere, but I'm not awake enough to form it. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (u1uWe)

274 @219 Malibu wasn't always exclusively expensive. It became a status good as A-listers outspent each other. This isn't coming back. These locusts will move on to the next trendy place. Another pillar of LA knocked out.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (Gqoy+)

275 I'm told the roads around DFW are slushy.

Guess I'll find out here in a bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

276 154 >>There are quite a number of links speculating that these wildfires are the ultimate mugging by reality that potentially if not likely could turn California Red.

Ha, no.
Did Katrina turn NOLA red -- or did it turn Houston blue?

I know there are a lot of non-progressives in CA, but I would bet that many of the CA people that flee the state after this settle into nice, stable states and then get busy promoting the same, d@mn policies and values that turned CA into a sh#tshow.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 08:33 AM (u1uWe)

This round of fires will be memory-holed by the MSM by Monday or Tuesday. A thousand wealthy Leftists along with their families and friends voting Republican rather than Democrat won't even change local politics. Bassmouth and Newscum will give preferential recovery treatment to fat cats, as under-the-radar as possible. Heck, the Cali Legislature could pass bills voiding all the permitting red tape in the fire-destroyed areas. Because reasons. But who can afford to rebuild? The Democrats know who.

Posted by: Gref at January 10, 2025 09:02 AM (aBgBM)

277 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

.@JustinTrudeau: Wildfires will get worse "if we’re not serious about reducing our emissions"

Wildfires will get worse so long as Californians keep electing Democrats who believe we should upend thousands of years of water management experience, routing fresh water into the ocean, and then making giant sacrifices of wealth in hopes of appeasing their pagan gods

https://tinyurl.com/47yjzk3f

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

278 LGBTQ fire chief

... does the LAPFD have sex with the fires in their area ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

279 265 Carters funeral day off was the same except it meant the closure of a lot of offices and contractors had to take PTO.

Thankfully my boss realized that it was not fair to have us burn 24 hours of PTO so he allowed yesterday to be charged as overhead.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (lXoJ5)

280 261. Remember when RBG passed. Month before election, and GOP wanted a woman without any Drama, to confirm quickly.

She did vote for immunity and to overturn Roe, but she makes me nervous.

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

281 People who want to dam a river or build a reservoir to stockpile water for drinking and firefighting and other civic uses are living by critical thinking.

IMO
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)
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It's also so much worse than that. The failure to complete the California Water Project and the destruction of dams and permanent draw-down of remaining reservoirs also also brutal for California agriculture. CA agriculture is extremely important and it's being devastated in slow motion through continuous water mismanagement.

The cities will go dry last. The farms are dying off first.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (HnUIn)

282 That's the wrong complaint, in my opinion. The right complaint is, "the Government of California put higher priority on the survival of a bait fish than it did on human development and security."

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Look up who owns water rights in the area. That's one of the many entrances to this rabbit den:

https://tinyurl.com/347vpd6x

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (eXq2O)

283 There might be a bit of a struggle between the really hardcore, climate justice types and the really wealthy types between who can, and can't rebuild and where in costal LA.

If it comes to fruition, it will be fun to watch.

But, in the end I do not think everyone will be permitted to rebuild. There will be a stark line drawn between the "haves and the have nots."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

284 #55 I think this is video of the citizens holding the arson suspect...

Matthew Seedorff @MattSeedorff 4h
NEW: @FOXLA has exclusively obtained video of a man carrying a blow torch in Woodland Hills, CA Thursday not far from the Kenneth Fire. LAPD says the man is in custody but “can’t confirm any connection to any fire by this suspect”. #CaliforniaWildfires #KennethFire

https://tinyurl.com/29atywrh
15 seconds; and he does get 'physically restrained' unlike by the arresting cops.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (iMpf5)

285 "I was the Senator from Big Tech before trying for president and failing, then being an incompetent VP, then trying for president and failing again. How about you put me back in as Senator from Big Tech?" is not a compelling pitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

Competence is a thing now?

She's still a woman, black, and South Asian. And a big Democrat.
Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 08:27 AM (QfvaV)

I dunno. If...and it's a big if...Kamala had any real ambition beyond blowing her way to a sinecure,

she would take this opportunity to go hard against Newsome and position herself as the next Dim guv of CA. Very doable for an ambitious self-starter.

Unfortunately, Kamala is still burdened by what has been and what she is. A slot of The View or her own mid-afternoon talk show is about it.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

286 Forecast said 0.2 inches of snow. We have at least 2. Vehicles have started to stall out at the bottom of our hill where I live. Ain't no way I'm getting out in this.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:01 AM (Y6IkP)
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The university where I work says its resumed "normal operations" but the roads are quite slippery and treacherous. I'm also not going out in this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (BpYfr)

287 I will admit, I'm a bit pissed off at Not the Bee for doing it's "Texans are STUPID" article from videos of people doing various things to drive in the recent ice and snow.

Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced.

Geez. Everyone's an egotistical asshole nowadays. Piss off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

288 Thankfully Gascon was kicked out. New DA says he will prosecute looters and arsonists

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

289 During a press conference Thursday morning, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced the arrest of at least 20 individuals for looting homes damaged or destroyed by the fires.

“Last night and this morning, we are up to 20 individuals who chose to go into our areas and deprive these poor people who have been through so much of their property. Absolutely unacceptable,” Luna told reporters.

Handcuff them to something solid and come back in a week or 2 to see if they are still there.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

290 Thankfully Gascon was kicked out. New DA says he will prosecute looters and arsonists

He can start with the Big Fish in Sacramento.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 09:05 AM (rHxhM)

291 Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 6h
ELON: IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO REBUILD LA

He said that people in LA hit by the devastating fires will realize how much local government bureaucracy works against them when they try to rebuild their homes:

“The real red pill will come when people try to get permits to rebuild their homes and face multiyear waits.

This might finally spell doom for the Coastal Commission, which should not even exist as an organization.”

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 09:06 AM (iMpf5)

292 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7m replying to Mario
I need a fact-check on my current assumptions about rebuilding after the fire:

1. It can take years to get anything approved in normal times in California. The backlog from the fire could push it out a decade.

2. The cost of building a custom home in California is roughly double the market value of the home when done.

3. The new home will get a property tax step-up to become unaffordable for anyone who owned the original home for a decade or more.

4. The fire risk will return once everything regrows, and insurance companies will not come back. Here I assume continued state incompetence.

5. There are not enough qualified builders to rebuild.

6. Owners would be rebuilding in the midst of unchecked and growing crime.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 09:06 AM (iMpf5)

293 That video of Trump shaking hands with Pence and Gore.... Gore has lost some weight. He was looking like a Macy's parade balloon for awhile. But in the video he looks much slimmer. Good for him!

I am not a lawyer but I'm wondering if James Woods could lead a class action lawsuit against the L.A. mayor and Governor Brylcream for the stupidity that has led directly to a fire destroying that city and many homes?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 10, 2025 09:06 AM (4XwPj)

294 Handcuff them to something solid and come back in a week or 2 to see if they are still there.

At what point does a person gnaw their hand off?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 09:06 AM (rHxhM)

295 "Is a mugging of this magnitude sufficient to turn woke to MAGA?
Can California's fires change woke to MAGA?"

If this doesn't, wait until the California Coastal Commission mandates that affordable housing gets constructed in the Pacific Palisades. That'll MAGA-size the residents.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 09:06 AM (yz6cm)

296
I'm told the roads around DFW are slushy.

Yes.

Unfortunately, the only flavor is cherry-lime.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (iJfKG)

297 Pam Anderson is still working?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (Aqu9a)

298 LGBTQ fire chief

... does the LAPFD have sex with the fires in their area ?

No, but they did manage to fuck up large parts of town

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

299 That video of Trump shaking hands with Pence and Gore.... Gore has lost some weight. He was looking like a Macy's parade balloon for awhile. But in the video he looks much slimmer. Good for him!

--

It's safe to assume all celebrities are Ozempic-ing now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (eXq2O)

300
Unfortunately, the only flavor is cherry-lime.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (iJfKG)

I do enjoy a Sonic cherry lime ade on occasion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

301 I am not a lawyer but I'm wondering if James Woods could lead a class action lawsuit against the L.A. mayor and Governor Brylcream for the stupidity that has led directly to a fire destroying that city and many homes?

Given today's quality of "justice", Woods will die of old age before the lawsuit would finally be settled.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (rHxhM)

302 278 LGBTQ fire chief

... does the LAPFD have sex with the fires in their area ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

When we all have the balls to say WHO DA FUCK CARES!

Just do your fucking job.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)

303 ... Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced. ...
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
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And it can't be dealt with even if you do know how to drive in it. Places that don't get snow don't have the infrastructure for snow management. Snowplows, staging for sand and salt (and the sand and salt), men to operate the snowplows, etc. are all very expensive. You don't maintain that kind of sunk cost unless you need to. The south doesn't need to.

So snow doesn't get cleared. Roads don't get deiced. Everything turns into one big ice sheet pretty quickly and then inexperienced drivers pour onto it. Even experienced drivers struggle on ice, and the roads just become ice. One inch of snow or two feet might as well be the same thing in terms of road conditions (though not the duration of the awful period that follows).

Had a big snow (30-year storm, basically) last year and my town was shut down for a week. We had some plows in storage that they bolted onto dump trucks to clear roads, but it took a long time to cover everything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

304 That's a good point. The fire is an environmental disaster, but the wreckage left behind will be just as bad, if not worse, since they have to dispose of all that material *somewhere*.

Being California, they will have to spend years on environmental impact studies to find a suitable location where the rubble won't kill off a mythical endangered creature.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 10, 2025 08:32 AM

I seriously doubt we will see much rebuilding. Most building codes in california have been drastically changed since those houses were built and single family houses are discouraged or actually prohibited in parts of LA. I guess they can give them waivers to rebuild to what they had but I don't see that happening on a massive scale.

Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of the homes destroyed had no insurance and there is no vast pool of money sitting around to rebuild them. So unless the federal government steps in, rebuilding ain't gonna happen on any sort of large scale.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (Rcnd3)

305 Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced.

They ban short track dirt ovals in Texas ?

Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 09:09 AM (IIUZn)

306 When we all have the balls to say WHO DA FUCK CARES!

Just do your fucking job.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)

The problem is, they're paid handsomely to not be ABLE to do their f*cking jobs.

That fat dyke that said your husband wouldn't be carried out of a fire because he likely f*cked up should be fed to sharks. But no. She's ASSISTANT CHIEF.

America is dying rapidly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

307 I'm told the roads around DFW are slushy.

Guess I'll find out here in a bit.
Posted by: Sponge

Be careful. I'm not even trying. I easily have 8 to 10" on the ATV fender.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ys+zb)

308
They ban short track dirt ovals in Texas ?
Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 09:09 AM (IIUZn)

No. But the entry fee is a bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

309
I SAVED THE FISH
LOOK UPON MY WORKS, AND DESPAIR

(morning coffee buzz here)

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (AOsQT)

310 You took a calculated risk. You knew this was a possibility, yet you still moved forward. The insurance companies cancelled policies or won’t offer insurance because they know how great the risk is. They know the incompetence that exists in your elected officials which you won’t acknowledge or accept. It’s not that they are greedy. It’s that the people you put in charge are not capable of protecting you. They are thieves and grifters. Now you want everyone in the country to bail you out? Not a chance. It’s not my lack of empathy. Clear out the shelters of foreigners and take their place. Those are your services. But I will not subsidize your bad decisions so you can avoid what you knew the consequences would be.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (IjQcV)

311 Just heard Mayor Bass say "our job is to save lives and property".
She doesn't appear to be doing either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (RLc6v)

312 I assume the paths of the rich will be greased, given the numbers involved. Regulations are for thr little people.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (RIQol)

313 Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced.

Geez. Everyone's an egotistical asshole nowadays. Piss off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

This x 100,000.
We also don't build our houses to Northern standards because we're not the North.
This started back in the 70's when all those corporations moved to TX.

Posted by: sal at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (f+FmA)

314
Be careful. I'm not even trying. I easily have 8 to 10" on the ATV fender.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ys+zb)

I walked outside a bit ago. I've got 2 maybe on the ground and there's slush underneath. Ground wasn't cold enough to keep the top frozen. I won't be driving the Ranger, but the diesel will give it a go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

315 Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced.

They ban short track dirt ovals in Texas ?
Posted by: Watch The Show

No. But they won't let us drive those vehicles on the streets.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ys+zb)

316 Is Jimmy Carter still dead?

Posted by: Zombie Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Commie Killer at January 10, 2025 09:11 AM (jiYtH)

317 Just heard Mayor Bass say "our job is to save lives and property".
She doesn't appear to be doing either
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (RLc6v)

Well, the Ghanan's are plenty pleased, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

318 Geez. Everyone's an egotistical asshole nowadays. Piss off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Let me guess - you got your truck stuck in a ditch?

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (QfvaV)

319 Now cars are starting to gather up inside and through our yard. Which isn't great.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (Y6IkP)

320 Pam Anderson is still working?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2025 09:07 AM (Aqu9a)

I got recommended some yt video where she was commenting about movies? She has reinvented herself somewhat I think.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (Unq3t)

321 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

But the South does get ice storms fairly often, right? So you'd think they'd keep stuff on hand to deal with those, at least.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

322
Let me guess - you got your truck stuck in a ditch?
Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (QfvaV)

Not yet. Maybe later.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

323 I saw that androgynous fat f*** 'firefighter' on X

firefighting requires top physical fitness and endurance. That land-whale would be winded and useless in minutes.

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:13 AM (AOsQT)

324 In a genome-wide association study of 6,169 Latin American individuals, an international team of scientists identified 32 gene regions (loci) that influenced facial features such as nose, lip, jaw, and brow shape, nine of which were entirely new discoveries while the others validated genes with prior limited evidence; one of these genes appears to have been inherited from Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neanderthals.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

325 Nobody expects the fire chief to go into actual burning buildings, that's not their job, so that ability is meaningless. We DO expect competency at what their actual job is, and because they have none of that either, she trots out this "fuck yo husband let him burn" canard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 09:13 AM (+iIV1)

326 Starlet whores are upset that Awards shows are being cancelled, so they cannot wear their million dollar jewelry and dresses

Posted by: Jonah at January 10, 2025 09:13 AM (YCxFk)

327 >>I dunno. If...and it's a big if...Kamala had any real ambition beyond blowing her way to a sinecure,

she would take this opportunity to go hard against Newsome and position herself as the next Dim guv of CA. Very doable for an ambitious self-starter.
- - - -

She has a ton of ambition. What she doesn't have is any skill at taking advantage of opportunities -- because she's always been given jobs.

As Biden faded she could have jumped at the chance to take over various programs/projects for him. Any normal person who's wanted a promotion instinctively seeks opportunities and makes a move when one presents itself. That goes double for politicians.

And yet -- Kamala did nothing, likely waiting for someone to hand her the new responsibilities and take care of the details to make it work. That's the thing her supporters always miss -- the best person to "position you for success" is. . . YOU!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

328 Certain areas of costal LA will be cleaned up fast. Others, not so much. It's all about appearances. I think the uber wealthy who were burned out of their places will rebuild. They can afford whatever the state wants... plus they likely won't have many nearby neighbors. Lower density will be seen as a net plus.

"Exclusive" "Earth Friendly" "Sustainable"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Q4IgG)

329 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7m replying to Mario
I need a fact-check on my current assumptions about rebuilding after the fire:....

After reviewing the list, it now becomes abundantly clear how so many "lost civilizations" were made.

Back in the day when the city was thriving, they entertained DEI and, well... disaster struck and DEI still prevailed, so the producers moved on to build somewhere else and the rubble ended up being the foundation for the city landfill.

Seriously though, there is ample evidence that DEI was practiced when Joshua led a march around the city of Jericho.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (rHxhM)

330 seriously- is obesity NOT a bar to service at the fire department?

Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (AOsQT)

331 Life is a risk.

A leftard I associate with went on a huge rant about how North Carolina doesn't care about its citizens by virtue of being more conservative. "You get what you pay for in taxes!".

Let's see how that works out for Californians in the most caring state in the world.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Unq3t)

332

Damn. Bass was supposed to go to Gaza not Ghana. Wrong turn at Pismo Beach!!! Ever since the IDF fucked up the terror tunnels, baby?????

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (x0n13)

333 Let me guess - you got your truck stuck in a ditch?
Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (QfvaV)

My ranger had two perfect slots in the bed to put two 2x8s and then pile up a bunch of sand bags between them. Without that extra weight over the rear axle driving in snow was pert near impossible.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Y6IkP)

334 But the South does get ice storms fairly often, right? So you'd think they'd keep stuff on hand to deal with those, at least.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

No. Every few years. When it's a threat to ice, they spray some stuff on the major thoroughfares that's supposed to help, then spread sand on the overpasses. Most of Texas doesn't have plows or salt or anything like that, so it's just "hope people don't get out" for a couple days.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

335 seriously- is obesity NOT a bar to service at the fire department?
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (AOsQT)

No. The bar is to keep short people out. I don't even know what that means. Maybe you have to step over it.

It's Friday. I'm tired. Cut me some slack.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Unq3t)

336 Seriously though, there is ample evidence that DEI was practiced when Joshua led a march around the city of Jericho.
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Watch a show on Jericho. The physical evidence is that Jericho was sacked roughly 400 years before Joshua was active.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:15 AM (jFCkp)

337 Driving a 2wd Ranger in the snow is like trying to ice skate on roller skates.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (+iIV1)

338 Los Angeles has the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Wonder how that's going to turn out?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

339 Now cars are starting to gather up inside and through our yard. Which isn't great.

Why not ? Do some shopping. Have you swapped out for a stubby radio antennae yet ? Today is your day. LED headlights ? They're on sale - at least for you.

Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (IIUZn)

340 Harris County, Texas (home to city of Houston) covers 1,777 square miles. The County Commissioners Court, the elected executives who run the county, recently announced an increase to their fleet of road de-icing trucks. We had 5 trucks. Now we have 15 trucks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Aqu9a)

341 But the South does get ice storms fairly often, right? So you'd think they'd keep stuff on hand to deal with those, at least.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
++++
Some parts. I don't know what they do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (HnUIn)

342 They are thieves and grifters. Now you want everyone in the country to bail you out? Not a chance. It’s not my lack of empathy. Clear out the shelters of foreigners and take their place. Those are your services. But I will not subsidize your bad decisions so you can avoid what you knew the consequences would be.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (IjQcV)

But I can't get any property insurance!

Posted by: Asssholes Who Build On Beach Sand at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (jiYtH)

343 seriously- is obesity NOT a bar to service at the fire department?
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (AOsQT)

Not in the new diversity world. They keep lessening the physical fitness requirement. Even in the military.

We're a dying country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

344 And leftards really believe that higher taxes from other leftards results in some dramatically better quality of life.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Unq3t)

345
Kristennacht. Hilariously tragic.

Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 09:17 AM (lCppi)

346 328 Certain areas of costal LA will be cleaned up fast. Others, not so much. It's all about appearances. I think the uber wealthy who were burned out of their places will rebuild. They can afford whatever the state wants... plus they likely won't have many nearby neighbors. Lower density will be seen as a net plus.

"Exclusive" "Earth Friendly" "Sustainable"
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They need to invent a gated community that is fire proof.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:17 AM (jFCkp)

347 Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

Exactly.

Excellent synopsis.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2025 09:17 AM (d9fT1)

348 Lesbians and hoses. I see the problem.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 09:18 AM (MZXFo)

349 Los Angeles has the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Wonder how that's going to turn out?
Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

I'm going with an earthquake on my bingo card.

Posted by: dantesed at January 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)

350 One of the Super Scooper planes which scoop water from lakes and the ocean to dump on fires was damaged and grounded. Why? Some jackass with a drone flew it into the plane. FAA is looking for the owner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 09:19 AM (RLc6v)

351 I'm in the middle of Georgia and I have a car that wears snow tires all the time. For mud though, not snow. It's not street legal, but I might take a spin in it if we actually got some snow.

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 09:19 AM (vFG9F)

352 But I will not subsidize your bad decisions so you can avoid what you knew the consequences would be.

It used to be just as great a sin to be an Enabler of bad behavior.

I don't want to be accused of being an Enabler.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 10, 2025 09:19 AM (rHxhM)

353 Is Jimmy Carter still dead?
Posted by: Zombie Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Commie Killer at January 10, 2025 09:11 AM (jiYtH)

Funeral intermission. The second chukker will be starting Monday.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Aqu9a)

354 Maybe northern Texas. Ice storms happen but are much rarer in south and central Texas. Kinda hard to justify spending limited resources on that there.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (RIQol)

355 They may not need to light the torch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (YeGMU)

356 Be careful. I'm not even trying. I easily have 8 to 10" on the ATV fender.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ys+zb)

I walked outside a bit ago. I've got 2 maybe on the ground and there's slush underneath. Ground wasn't cold enough to keep the top frozen. I won't be driving the Ranger, but the diesel will give it a go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:11 AM

We just got back from our morning walk with the dogs. There is at least 6 inches of wet snow on the roads. It is a biotch to walk on. Not really slippery but your feet sink to the bottom with every step.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Rcnd3)

357 Any lot that can’t get property insurance should either be turned back onto a field or fully insured by the county and state who takes their tax money. There should not be any federal liability.

Why are we subsidizing people’s bad decisions and counties greed when they decide to build in flood and fire zones?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (IjQcV)

358 Look, assholes. It snows and ices down here once every few YEARS. No one knows how to drive in it because it DOESN'T HAPPEN often. Its not something that can be practiced.

Geez. Everyone's an egotistical asshole nowadays. Piss off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Amen. Southern Indiana doesn't get a lot of snow. Maybe a few inches per year. And every 5 or 6 years we get a bigger snow event. Hubbymayhem is from upstate NY where they get 36 inches of snow in 30 hours on a regular basis. He used to make fun of Indiana drivers because they either forgot how to drive in snow or hadn't learned yet. "Seriously, there's only 4 inches of snow out there, why is everyone freaking out?"
I think I told him to shut the fuck up often enough that he has now stopped doing it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (4XwPj)

359 fd! Everything back to relative normal?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (eXq2O)

360 >>> Driving a 2wd Ranger in the snow is like trying to ice skate on roller skates.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 09:16 AM (+iIV1)

You grow up doin it, back in the old no traction control days you either die or you get a good sense of it. My brushes with death were more often than I'd like but I eventually figured it all out. I learned snow in ice in Kansas driving a 70s nova.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Y6IkP)

361 Los Angeles has the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Wonder how that's going to turn out?
Posted by: redridinghood

My wife thinks that's one of the reasons for the fires -- to clear land that the city can then buy up cheap to build athletic facilities on.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)

362 FYI, Fetterman's wife isn't gone. There was a tweet from some politician that showed him and his wife at lunch with Fetterman and his wife.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 10, 2025 09:21 AM (NQtI0)

363 are quite a number of links speculating that these wildfires are the ultimate mugging by reality that potentially if not likely could turn California Red. My gut tells me that it will likely destroy the political futures of Newsome and Bass.

—

Wishful thinking. Has these fires happened in Florida, everyone would have resigned or been run out of town by now.

But it’s California. None of them will be blamed. Hell they’ll probably get medals of freedom then next time a Democrat is in the White House.

Posted by: Alec Costanza Baldwin at January 10, 2025 09:21 AM (72WJX)

364 I'm in the middle of Georgia and I have a car that wears snow tires all the time. For mud though, not snow. It's not street legal, but I might take a spin in it if we actually got some snow.
Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 09:19 AM (vFG9F)

You get mud in your tires too?

Posted by: Vincent LaGuardia Gambino, Esq. at January 10, 2025 09:21 AM (Aqu9a)

365 Maybe the elites will go the gentrification route rather than rebuild. Watts and Compton are calling.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 09:21 AM (gm9Sb)

366 It deserves a spot in the Marianas Trench, next to his hero, Osama bin Laden.

The Marianas Trench is in the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic, where they buried Osama bin Laden at sea.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 10, 2025 09:22 AM (a3Q+t)

367 >>I am not a lawyer but I'm wondering if James Woods could lead a class action lawsuit against the L.A. mayor and Governor Brylcream for the stupidity that has led directly to a fire destroying that city and many homes?

Watched Scott Adams daily video yesterday out of curiosity, and he was very carefully conveying that the mood in CA is not stoic or sad as it may appear.

He said people are "homicidal" because they know that this was done to them intentionally through: 1] Incompetent fire preparedness, and 2] Knowingly changing insurance regulations to chase Insurers out of the state, leaving people uninsured.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 09:22 AM (u1uWe)

368 The Marianas Trench is in the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic, where they buried Osama bin Laden at sea.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

They buried him in the Indian Ocean, I believe.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)

369 When are property tax payments due in L.A.? That will be an interesting story and it should be linked to the stories out of western North Carolina.

"I'm literally on the phone with the president right now."

"Can I listen in?"

"I can't get connected. I'm moving around."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 10, 2025 09:23 AM (KiBMU)

370 354 Maybe northern Texas. Ice storms happen but are much rarer in south and central Texas. Kinda hard to justify spending limited resources on that there.
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Try riding in a Fiat 850 Spyder in an ice storm with no heat from Laurinburg to Raleigh. Its sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:23 AM (jFCkp)

371 LA Olympics gon be lit, yo!

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 09:24 AM (Y1sOo)

372 I live in the Hudson Valley . Last year we had an ice storm and power was out in some parts not my county for over a week. This is despite the fact that we are used to such things. Nature rules

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 09:24 AM (RLc6v)

373 My property is becoming a parking lot of winter doom. A corner lot. One road comes down a hill to my corner and then goes up another. Both steep climb/descents. They get stuck, try to power out of it, and then slide up onto my yard. I don't have anything to put out, or I would grit up the road there just to keep the cars off my lawn. Oh well, note for next time.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:24 AM (Y6IkP)

374 You grow up doin it, back in the old no traction control days you either die or you get a good sense of it. My brushes with death were more often than I'd like but I eventually figured it all out. I learned snow in ice in Kansas driving a 70s nova.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Y6IkP)

I used to travel a lot to snowy areas and was relatively good with it. I even used to laugh at idiots in their 4wd SUV's in the ditch as I rolled passed them in my 5.0 5spd. Occasionally, I would yank the ebrake and do a spin, correct, and carry on, just to show off.

It's been a LONG TIME since I've had to get out and drive in this shit. I'm out of practice.

But Texans are STUPID because they can't drive in snow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

375 321 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 10, 2025 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

But the South does get ice storms fairly often, right? So you'd think they'd keep stuff on hand to deal with those, at least.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

Depends on where in the South you live. In my part of Georgia, we haven't had an ice storm in a long time. The blizzard of 2014 was the last time we had any bad winter weather here. And now it's snowing and sticking when the forecasters said it was only north Georgia and metro Atlanta expecting to get a winter storm. Winter-mix my ass.

Posted by: Farquad at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (CFMhl)

376 are quite a number of links speculating that these wildfires are the ultimate mugging by reality that potentially if not likely could turn California Red.

Put whomever wrote those links on your permanent Ignore list - because those authors are wishcasting. Most people don't work like that - never have and never will.

Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (IIUZn)

377 I'm surprised that Texas doesn't get more snow, seeing as how there's nothing to stop the cold air flowing down from Canada.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

378 A leftard I associate with went on a huge rant about how North Carolina doesn't care about its citizens by virtue of being more conservative. "You get what you pay for in taxes!".

Let's see how that works out for Californians in the most caring state in the world.
Posted by: ...

WE ALL WILL PAY FOR CALIFORNIA while Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee still suffers.

See, the Kalifornicators sre the pretty people.
F those hillbillies.

F California.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ys+zb)

379 371 LA Olympics gon be lit, yo!
Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 09:24 AM (Y1sOo)

The less than $950 makeup shoplifting 100 M LBGTQ+ event is my fav.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

380 "Everything back to relative normal?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie"

As normal as it gets. We are all fine here. And you?

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 09:26 AM (vFG9F)

381 #284 #55 Update but no confirming link e.g. to the cops.

Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi 32m
Good news, they just arrested Climate Change!
Apparently, Climate Change is a Guatemalan dude in this country illegally.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 09:26 AM (iMpf5)

382 Driving a 2wd Ranger in the snow is like trying to ice skate on roller skates.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I have to fill the bed with snow to have a chance. I could get stuck on a banana peel.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 09:26 AM (DKHqY)

383 Any lot that can’t get property insurance should either be turned back onto a field or fully insured by the county and state who takes their tax money. There should not be any federal liability.

Why are we subsidizing people’s bad decisions and counties greed when they decide to build in flood and fire zones?
Posted by: Marcus T

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This is a tad tricky now that we're no longer a high-trust society.

Someone no longer able to get insurance because Blackrock threatened financing the insurance company for week-to-week budgetary concerns is COMPLETELY different than a code violation.

And the Asheville area, 2000 feet above sea level, is now being designated as a "flood zone" so the (D) governor can seize land. This is not a "CoNSPiraCY ThEOry!!" Gov. Cooper stated it outright:

"In some areas, you just shouldn't build back...convince certain communities and people that buy outs are better" - Roy Cooper

https://tinyurl.com/bdns8ct9

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 09:26 AM (eXq2O)

384 I think I told him to shut the fuck up often enough that he has now stopped doing it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Am I married to you?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 09:27 AM (WXNFJ)

385 372 I live in the Hudson Valley . Last year we had an ice storm and power was out in some parts not my county for over a week. This is despite the fact that we are used to such things. Nature rules
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 09:24 AM (RLc6v)

Love that part of the state! I vividly remember the ice storm of 1974. Cut my chin open slipping on the ice in my JHS school yard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:27 AM (x0n13)

386 I need a Devo Energy Dome this morning.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:27 AM (jFCkp)

387 Put whomever wrote those links on your permanent Ignore list - because those authors are wishcasting. Most people don't work like that - never have and never will.
Posted by: Watch The Show at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (IIUZn)

Yep. Lots of imaginations running wild out there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 09:27 AM (Wl+1U)

388 Gary Hall Jr. is on Fox talking about how he has lost everything including his Olympic medals. He said State Farm canceled his insurance a year ago. All he has is a toothbrush.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

389 384 I think I told him to shut the fuck up often enough that he has now stopped doing it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem

Am I married to you?
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Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:28 AM (jFCkp)

390 They said California aint the place you out to be
So he loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly
Mass that is

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:28 AM (gbOdA)

391 But Texans are STUPID because they can't drive in snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Pennsylvanians are stupid because our pizza and barbecue sucks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 09:28 AM (+iIV1)

392 As normal as it gets. We are all fine here. And you?
Posted by: fd

-

Getting there. About to get interesting again for a little bit it looks like.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at January 10, 2025 09:29 AM (eXq2O)

393 Ice storms? In winter? Told ya climate change is real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Wl+1U)

394 >>You grow up doin it, back in the old no traction control days you either die or you get a good sense of it. My brushes with death were more often than I'd like but I eventually figured it all out. I learned snow in ice in Kansas driving a 70s nova.

I went to high school with a two brothers, one a year ahead and one a year behind. Big family so their mom had a VW bus. She gave it to the two brothers when she got a new station wagon. It became our road trip machine.

5 or 6 guys heading up to Vermont or NH to ski in a VW bus.I've cheated death so many times I'm pretty sure I'm immortal.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2025 09:29 AM (LkLld)

395 I'm surprised that Texas doesn't get more snow, seeing as how there's nothing to stop the cold air flowing down from Canada.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

Global warming. Duh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

396 Apparently fire will melt gold.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 09:30 AM (YeGMU)

397 All he has is a toothbrush.

See? All is not lost!

Posted by: Three Lesbians And A Hose at January 10, 2025 09:30 AM (FrKFd)

398
ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 10, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

399 I've cheated death so many times I'm pretty sure I'm immortal.
Posted by: JackStraw

Do you wake up every morning to "I've Got You Babe?"

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

400 Nood. Fire!

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (vFG9F)

401 Hey, one of the neighbors just stopped by. He said he'll sweep off my car when he does his. Sometimes it's nice being one of the village elders.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (gm9Sb)

402 I went to high school with a two brothers, one a year ahead and one a year behind. Big family so their mom had a VW bus. She gave it to the two brothers when she got a new station wagon. It became our road trip machine.
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Did it smell of weed?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (jFCkp)

403 Read the fine print in your Deed of Trust (Mortgage in Calif). If you lose your house in a fire and you don't have fire insurance, you still owe the mortgage and it becomes immediately due.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ZmEVT)

404 But Texans are STUPID because they can't drive in snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

It's okay. We just take our helicopter from the ranch to go check our oil wells on the way to the bank to make a deposit, then lunch at Ruth's Chris'.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Aqu9a)

405 It’s not stupid to not know how to drive in snow. Driving in snow is a skill that needs to be learned. And also tired and the right vehicle makes a yuuuuuuuge difference.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Wl+1U)

406 You've seen the drone footage of the destroyed neighborhoods. It won't look too much different a year from now.

In 10 days, this will all be Trump's fault for not being made whole instantly the day following his inauguration.

Posted by: Don Black

Correct.

Thing is, these rebuilds, or what wl be called that, wi have to comply to new regulations.

Mandatory solar. No gas appliances. Building regs. Do you think some of those homes directly above the surf coming in will have the same bud? Not too mention the INSANE permit process.

Those permit sig offs will be excruciating. Just to insure there's no code not scrutinized so to insure if something goes sideways in the future it can't be blamed.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 10, 2025 09:32 AM (b8J4P)

407 >>> But Texans are STUPID because they can't drive in snow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 10, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

I saw that texas vid. But see, I live in Georgia. There isn't anything people are doing in Texas that I haven't seen worse here. And honestly, at least a quarter of the drivers in the upper midwest are bad at this too. And it just takes a few to mess up everybody's day.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Y6IkP)

408 Read the fine print in your Deed of Trust (Mortgage in Calif). If you lose your house in a fire and you don't have fire insurance, you still owe the mortgage and it becomes immediately due.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ZmEVT)

Good luck collecting mortgage companies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Wl+1U)

409 >>I think I told him to shut the fuck up often enough that he has now stopped doing it.

You sound like a real catch, hon.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Y1sOo)

410 Pennsylvanians are stupid because our pizza and barbecue sucks.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Thank goodness we have hoagies and scrapple. Our pizza does seem to be the gas station sushi of pizzas.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 09:35 AM (Fr3vV)

411 Did it smell of weed?
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Not before Jack got in the back.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 09:35 AM (iMpf5)

412 396 Apparently fire will melt gold.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 10, 2025 09:30 AM (YeGMU)

Lavender Hill Mob, and Mission Impossible with the Rolls Royce parts made from the dictator's melted gold

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:37 AM (x0n13)

413 What few outsiders don't understand about Malibu is that it's a dump. I wouldn't live there if you paid me. Pacific Palisades on the other hand is quite lovely. But I still wouldn't live there. My home was Hollywood; I loved its honest, unabashed seediness.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 09:38 AM (ZlOcj)

414 413 What few outsiders don't understand about Malibu is that it's a dump. I wouldn't live there if you paid me. Pacific Palisades on the other hand is quite lovely. But I still wouldn't live there. My home was Hollywood; I loved its honest, unabashed seediness.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 09:38 AM (ZlOcj)

I lived in the Beverly Hills Flats just above Wilshire and then on South Beverly Drive just below Pico.

The flats had very old classic bungalows that the Iranian ex-pats bought, bulldozed and transformed into Gaudy Saddam palaces. Sad really.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:41 AM (x0n13)

415 A Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles has been grounded after it collided with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said. The collision left the plane, known as Quebec 1, with a "sizable hole in its wing," said Christopher Thomas, a spokesperson with the California state firefighting agency, Cal Fire. "Fortunately, they landed the plane without incident," Thomas said in an interview Friday. The incident downed all aircraft fighting the fire for nearly half an hour on Thursday while officials made sure the skies were clear, he said.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

416 415 Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

Lesbian air traffic controller named Kirsten?????

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:43 AM (x0n13)

417 In case you missed this from Ace yesterday, the arrogance is outrageous: https://tinyurl.com/42b4vp6e

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 10, 2025 09:48 AM (hMCYe)

418 The flats had very old classic bungalows that the Iranian ex-pats bought, bulldozed and transformed into Gaudy Saddam palaces. Sad really.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 09:41 AM (x0n13)

Nothing like the old bungalows. I lived in one on Fountain for a while. Ever been to Mt. Olympus up on Nichols Canyon? Talk about Iranian gaudy palaces.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 10, 2025 09:54 AM (ZlOcj)

419 “This is a coup d’état announced. You know that 125 foreign mercenaries of 25 nationalities have been captured,” Maduro said. “Yesterday, three Ukrainian mercenaries were captured; they come from the war. Two Americans were captured. One a senior FBI official and the other a senior military official.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 10:02 AM (RHGPo)

420 The story of the Hebrew Bible is, at least in some part, the story of God punishing the wicked. Welcome to wildfire-beset Los Angeles, or as The Post so poetically put it, HELL.A.

Squirrel Nut Zippers has Hell.A.'s theme song:

Hell

https://bit.ly/40qzGEJ

Maybe someone can create an L.A. fire video with this song in background as they did for Obama and Cake's "Building a Religion".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 10, 2025 10:27 AM (P5BPp)

421 The beloved Rachel Carson killed more black people than anyone else in history and ranks among the top tier of mass killers, yet she is celebrated.

There is a middle school named after her in Fairfax County, VA. I give it a 'silent salute' on the occasional time I drive past.

Posted by: Grumpy Old Ham at January 10, 2025 10:45 AM (b6Yv0)

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