Karen Bass Slashed $17 Million from LA's Firefighting Budget, With the Monies Cut Mostly from Fire Prevention.<br>Here's What Angelinos Got In Return.

Karen Bass Slashed $17 Million from LA's Firefighting Budget, With the Monies Cut Mostly from Fire Prevention.
Here's What Angelinos Got In Return.

They used that money to pay for "gay men's choruses" and "trans cafes."

I'm sure you're all shocked. Stunned, even!

The City of Los Angeles cut funding for its fire department and allocated thousands of dollars to various progressive programs, including a "Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe" and a Gay Men's Chorus.
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.
Bass claimed in a press conference that none of the reductions made "would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days." She added that the city is "in tough budgetary times."
Los Angeles allocated $100,000 to the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a "Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe," according to its 2024 to 2025 budget. The funding's purpose is to "support a safe haven for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood," the document noted.
Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards.
The budget also appropriated $8,670 for the "One Institute the International Gay and Lesbian Archives."
The ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries currently has an exhibit titled "Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation," which focuses on the occult and "the LGBTQ movement."
The budget also allocated $13,000 for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month Programs" and $14,010 to the "Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles."
Los Angeles' African American History Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month and Asian American History Month Programs were each allocated $13,000.
The budget also appropriated $170,000 in total for "Social Justice Art-Worker Investments."
The LAFD was blasted for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and its 2023 to 2026 strategic plan stated that DEI was one of its "key goals." A stated priority of the city's first "LGBTQ" and woman fire chief, Kristin F. Crowley, is "promoting a culture that values [DEI]."

DEI in a fire, as Boss Moss said.

Governor Hairgel is also to blame. He vetoed spending for the training of seasonal firefighters -- that is, firefighters who would not be paid all year long, but just for wildfire season.

He claimed that he would later restore money to train this pool of emergency wildfire firefighters but, get this, he lied.

I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I think Newsome, Bass, the Woke Lesbian Fire Brigade have now given millions and millions of Democrats the permission necessary to finally walk away from the party.

I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history. At some point, people just get sick of the endless excuses for catastrophe and failure and decide they're tired of the government they pay for police and fire services being turned into little but a massive transfer-of-wealth mafia to take money from Enemy Groups and pay off Friend Groups.

Last year Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have let CalFire retain seasonal firefighters to help with staffing shortages. His veto forced the layoff of thousands of seasonal firefighters, who he never replaced despite his promises. This is negligence of the highest order. pic.twitter.com/f5c4Hvj073
— Kate Sanchez (@KateSanchezCA) January 9, 2025

Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.
Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires.
It's true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It's true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.
But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.
It's hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven't had the water they needed. Newsom hasn't built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.
Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.
And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.
Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.
The Democrats in California aren't like Democrats in other states. They are radicals. I would know, since when I was a young radical I moved to California for that reason.
As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical. We understand firefighters and police officers are necessary. We are reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools.
But more than that, I saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals, in particular, are devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California.
The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles, like City of Quartz by the Marxist author Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the problem in Los Angeles is that too much money goes to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods.
They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies. They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from around the United States to camp illegally and start fires.
Over half of the fires in places like Los Angeles and Oakland are caused by the homeless committing arson, often out of some petty revenge.
We don't know what started all of the fires, but at least one started within the housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wildlands. Or it could have been started by the homeless.
Whatever the case, California and LA didn't invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical Left causes.
When Rick Caruso ran for Mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department's budget.
A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn't vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black.
The Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about their policies.
It was the radical Left that invented the racist idea that white people alive today should feel guilty about things white people did in the past. Racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles and California to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires.
And so, over the next few weeks, when you hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing they could have done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles, don't believe them.
It's time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile Leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We can't trust our leaders to run anything. It's not just incompetence. It's that they really don't care.
It's time for Californians to demand new leaders -- ones who aren't beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic Party.

Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.

Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor… pic.twitter.com/zmVuZXAl3W
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 9, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:25 PM

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1 >>> "gay men's choruses"

Pretty sure that that's redundant.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (i24o9)

2
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (3ek7K)

3 This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

4 Has there ever been a deadlier cargo cult than DEI?

At least Spam takes time to kill you.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:27 PM (CaELB)

5 So much negligence. I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 01:27 PM (fs1hN)

6 Some stupid with a blow torch burned the place to the ground.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 01:27 PM (63Dwl)

7
They won't wake up. Most of them are idiots.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 10, 2025 01:27 PM (3ek7K)

8 I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history. At some point, people just get sick of the endless excuses for catastrophe and failure and decide they're tired of the government they pay for police and fire services being turned into little but a massive transfer-of-wealth mafia to take money from Enemy Groups and pay off Friend Groups.

It will be interesting, to say the least. If CA went Republican again, the Dems would never win another national election. I don't actually expect that to happen, but the margin should get a lot smaller.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (xCA6C)

9 Why would California NOT run a Surplus Staff for Santa Ana Season?

It's the same time, each year.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (oLK8+)

10 Lies, or "damn lies?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (Q4IgG)

11 "gay men's choruses"

Is that the one that sang about coming for your kids?

Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

12 3 This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I'll take the under. Contractors likely will be required to show DEI compliance before homes can be rebuilt.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (CaELB)

13 En fuego!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (iJfKG)

14 At some point, voting Dem is an admission that one is a moron, and that's something most people prefer to avoid.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (xCA6C)

15 >>Is that the one that sang about coming for your kids?

You missed it by one word

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (Y1sOo)

16 None of this would have happened had they not let Rob Lowe leave the LAFD. That guy is a super fireman.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (jFCkp)

17 5 So much negligence. I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 01:27 PM (fs1hN)

The illegal alien arsonists are doing the work of Gaia.

So, yes.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (CaELB)

18 This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I'll take the under.

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I'm going to take the over. What the heck. Trump's win should make us optimistic.

Even if only temporary.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (sX1BW)

19 First LA turned red from fires.

Now it is turning red on the electoral map.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:29 PM (pMi6S)

20 I'm pretty sure gay men will form a chorus with or without government money.
You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints. We just build them and go.

Posted by: Wally at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (KAV+b)

21 A stated priority of the city's first "LGBTQ" and woman fire chief, Kristin F. Crowley, is "promoting a culture that values [DEI]."

I value competence. And sister, you ain't it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (ys+zb)

22 *reads headline only*

Was it anti-white gay communism?

Now I’m going to read the actual content.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (FC8SQ)

23 She's a real piece of work.

Posted by: m at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (VnUSN)

24 Daily Mail received a leaked internal email in which Karen Bass called for an ADDITIONAL $49 million in cuts to the fire department just one week before the fires.

http://tiny.cc/zq15001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (Odg76)

25
The cow did it.

Posted by: Karen Bass at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

26 They won't wake up. Most of them are idiots.
____

How dare you! I have a degree in Managing Diverse Organizations!
-Fire Cheiftess, PhD, MBA, POC, LGBTQIA+

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (fs1hN)

27 They also fired a bunch of firefighters for not getting vaxxed.

Posted by: Vlad at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (Hadg9)

28 13 En fuego!

Posted by: naturalfake

Through the tragedy, I LOLed.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (pMi6S)

29 From a DU commenter:

"Are you as sick as I am at MAGATs incessantly bleating about DEI?

I've found a way that, so far at least, tends to shut them right up:

"Sorry, dumbass, but DEI actually stands for Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka ... three worthless trust fund brats who never accomplished a fucking thing on their own, and owe everything they possess to the circumstances of their birth. Now piss off."

As I said, so far not a single MAGAT has had a word to say in response."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (a3Q+t)

30 Money well spent, like how BLM spent money on mansions...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

31 She added that the city is "in tough budgetary times."

Hey!!!
We've been told this is the best economy EVAH!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 01:31 PM (rCYnW)

32 This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I'll take the under.

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I'm going to take the over. What the heck. Trump's win should make us optimistic.

Even if only temporary.
Posted by: SH

I'm definitely taking the under. If the Chicago Fire and the San Fran Earthquake didn't change people's long term thinking, this won't either.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:31 PM (ys+zb)

33 1) remember, she was on the short-list to be "moderate" Biden's VP.
As noted below, she isn't just a radical communist, she's an extremely radical communist who went regularly to Cuba for communist training.

2) we haven't seen the worst yet in CA. After the fires, always comes the rain. Massive mudslides and flooding are next.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (7+f8Q)

34 I would be fitting if the Transgender Cafe burned down in the fire. An ouroborous of waste and incompetence.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (pMi6S)

35 Why would California NOT run a Surplus Staff for Santa Ana Season?

It's the same time, each year.

Posted by: garrett

Eh, yes and no. It's a weather pattern that can occur anytime from Oct through March. That's 6 months, meaning it's a permanent threat. It's essentially a year-round need.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (IG4Id)

36 There are reports that Hizzoner Bass was demanding an additional $49 million LAFD budget cut a week before the fires.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (a3Q+t)

37 Their citizens will get it "gooder and harder" a second and third time when they attempt to rebuild. The process will be agonizing to initiate and almost impossible to complete.

And yet they'll continue to reliably vote for Democrats (mostly) because of their satanic obsession with abortion and LGBQT ideology.

Posted by: Crusader at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (TN0g+)

38 As I said, so far not a single MAGAT has had a word to say in response."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (a3Q+t)

That means something different than perceived.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (CaELB)

39 Kane 謝凱堯@kane

Now would be a good time to remember that every single eucalyptus tree in San Francisco is invasive and wildly flammable, but the city has been blocked from culling them by busybodies like the @SierraClubCA (who also lobbied to stop prescribed burns in Los Angeles to tragic effect).

https://tinyurl.com/55uevfwr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (OVrCp)

40 12 I'll take the under. Contractors likely will be required to show DEI compliance before homes can be rebuilt.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (CaELB)

=======

People cling to partisan identification like it's part of their personal identity...because it is.

People who still call themselves Democrat but haven't voted for a Democrat since 1996 in Michigan, or something.

Southern California is a one-party area culturally. There's massive pressure to only be Democrat because the alternative is so unthinkably evil that you know you don't even bring up the idea in polite company.

Apparently, everyone's been cursing local D politicians for a few years, starting with Gascon (successfully recalled). So, it feels like something is brewing.

But...CA's elections are mail in only and it's illegal for localities to require ID. I don't expect to see a swath of Republicans winning office in the state, but the cultural changes will be subtler and more interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

41 > So much negligence. I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.
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Need to look into who, or what entity would benefit from a bunch of prime, near ocean real-estate suddenly being wiped out. And potentially up for re-sale.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (Q4IgG)

42 >> You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints.

Uhh..

Posted by: Secret Service Agents at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (FC8SQ)

43 They also fired a bunch of firefighters for not getting vaxxed.
Posted by: Vlad

113.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (ys+zb)

44 >I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I think Newsome, Bass, the Woke Lesbian Fire Brigade have now given millions and millions of Democrats the permission necessary to finally walk away from the party.

Not trying to be contentious, but have any supporting evidence for this? All I see is endless cope and "Republicans pounce".

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (LR55f)

45 Now it is turning red on the electoral map.
Posted by: zombie
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I rather doubt that. A leopard doesn't change its spots. We're not dealing with issues here, we're dealing with ingrained psychology.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (XeU6L)

46 WeirdDave also posted this last night:
John A Konrad V @johnkonrad
CEO @gCaptain Maritime News, ship captain, author of Fire On The Horizon and cofounder @UnofficialNet - Blacklisted by Wikipedia - K5HIP; Great Barrington, MA

@amuse @amuse 8h
DEI: LA Department of Water and Power CEO Janisse Quinones makes $750,000 per year. Listen to her explain how LA ran out of water. One job…
Jan 9, 2025 · 2:11 PM UTC

John A Konrad V @johnkonrad 6h
She is a 20 year USCG Veteran and should understand the importance of marine pumping to refill fire department water supplies.

This topic is a MAJOR pet peeve of mine.

Let’s explore how California and Hawaii have utterly failed to use the natural resource we have: salt water. 🧵

I have been relentless in my anger towards San Diego and the US Navy for not providing proper fireboats to protect hundreds of billions in taxpayer ships, drydocks and equipment in the harbor after the Bonhomme Richard fire.

US Navy Stonewalls Congress In Working Ship Reports
The US Navy has used a trail of misinformation to stonewall Congress and divert funding from working ships to naval aviation.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3pxytp

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (iMpf5)

47 DailyMail: Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

48 27 They also fired a bunch of firefighters for not getting vaxxed.

Posted by: Vlad at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (Hadg9)

Kalifornia: During COVID, closed down churches, but let Strip Clubs stay open. I guess lap dances were kept 6' apart...
Also Kalifornia: fining and threatening arrest when a church met in cars...
But COVID was so dangerous, Newsom was eating at a high-end restaurant flouting COVID rules because...COVID rules for thee, but not for me! Tee Hee Hee!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:33 PM (ynpvh)

49 "I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history. At some point, people just get sick of the endless excuses for catastrophe and failure and decide they're tired of the government they pay for police and fire services being turned into little but a massive transfer-of-wealth mafia to take money from Enemy Groups and pay off Friend Groups."

Seeing a lot of this lately, but you could not be more wrong. Over on the other side, they are saying this is all YOUR fault, and that this will be a wake up call for YOU, because finally YOU will have to accept climate change is real.

The idea this could be Democrats' fault has not even crossed the mind of most Democrat voters.

Posted by: TallDave at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (98TtQ)

50 So much negligence. I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.
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Need to look into who, or what entity would benefit from a bunch of prime, near ocean real-estate suddenly being wiped out. And potentially up for re-sale.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Considering a bunch of deep blue rich actors and actresses homes went up, I'm not sure who would benefit.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (ys+zb)

51 34 I would be fitting if the Transgender Cafe burned down in the fire. An ouroborous of waste and incompetence.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (pMi6S)

Sounds more like a human centipede...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

52 >>Eh, yes and no. It's a weather pattern that can occur anytime from Oct through March. That's 6 months, meaning it's a permanent threat. It's essentially a year-round need.

So, like Fire Season everywhere else out West?

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (oLK8+)

53 If you're wondering what's next for Matt Gaetz, wonder no more.

Matt Gaetz says he is 'starting to think' about a bid for Florida governor in 2026

Former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz on Tuesday said that he is "starting to think" about running for Florida governor next year, but will be spending more time praying about it and talking to his wife Ginger before making any official decision.

The conservative firebrand, who left Congress late last year to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general before he withdrew from consideration, is considered a polarizing figure in Republican politics. But the former lawmaker is particularly popular among Trump's supporters.

https://is.gd/M59kHU

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (xCA6C)

54 Question for anyone who knows: can they do another recall election right now?

Strike while the iron is hot.

Posted by: Dandalo at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (3QsZU)

55 Daily Mail Online@MailOnline
Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

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Look! Private planes to Ghana are not cheap!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (L/fGl)

56 >>> Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards.

Actress Jean Smart suggested that they cancel all the stupid awards shows coming up, including the Oscars, and donate all the money that would have gone to them to fighting the fires and helping rebuild people's lives.

100% agree. But I don't know if Hollywood can go a full year without being feted.

Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (gWBY1)

57 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.

Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (f8rQN)

58 Hey!!!
We've been told this is the best economy EVAH!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 01:31 PM

Well it is, until noon on January 20th. Then it's going to be the wurst.

Posted by: MSM at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (a3Q+t)

59 >> You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints.

There was the one guy in England who sued the NHI for Prostitution Services...

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (oLK8+)

60 She's the type of communist that would, upon seeing the bent trees in Cambodia from the baby executions, would express regret only that they were not grown to be soldiers for the state.

The people of LA are the babies thrown against the tree--she feels nothing for them.
And they deserve her in turn.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (7+f8Q)

61 People are missing the role of the LA City Clowncil in this mess. I have been watching these idiots for the past few months on Smoke N Scan, mostly for the crazy public comments.

They meet three days a week, and pander to various ethnic groups and leftist causes, before rubber stamping various monetary disbursements to questionable entities.

Their management is so messed up, they pay out legal settlements just about every week in the millions of dollars.

Being a one party city, the votes are almost always 15-0.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (ufFY8)

62 Massive mudslides and flooding are next.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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FEMA will come!

Posted by: Appalchia at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (XeU6L)

63 39 Kane 謝凱堯@kane

Now would be a good time to remember that every single eucalyptus tree in San Francisco is invasive and wildly flammable, but the city has been blocked from culling them by busybodies like the @SierraClubCA (who also lobbied to stop prescribed burns in Los Angeles to tragic effect).

https://tinyurl.com/55uevfwr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (OVrCp)

Yes, Aussie imports for the railroad industry that didn't work out quite as the liked. The trees have brittle branches and due to their oils, but quite brightly.
In 2003, the Sandy Eggo region of Scripps Ranch was chock-full of eucalyptus trees...about 400 homes burned to the ground during the fires that fall...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (ynpvh)

64 45 Now it is turning red on the electoral map.
Posted by: zombie
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I rather doubt that. A leopard doesn't change its spots. We're not dealing with issues here, we're dealing with ingrained psychology.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

Yeah, I dn't think California overall will become a reliable Red State.

I do think however that it will creep several percentage points redward.

Every little bit helps.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (pMi6S)

65 100% agree. But I don't know if Hollywood can go a full year without being feted.

I know some people have that fetish, but I don't know that Hollywood is THAT attached to it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (xCA6C)

66 50 So much negligence. I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.
------
Need to look into who, or what entity would benefit from a bunch of prime, near ocean real-estate suddenly being wiped out. And potentially up for re-sale.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Coastal Commission... They want rid of all homes built on or near the ocean shore

Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (VE6XX)

67 It will be interesting, to say the least. If CA went Republican again, the Dems would never win another national election. I don't actually expect that to happen, but the margin should get a lot smaller.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (xCA6C)

We shall see.
I'm not optimistic. The cheat there has been institutionalized and there are millions of foreigners voting.
It may flip a few districts but not enough.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (rCYnW)

68 But hey! We did finally lay the very FIRST Rail of Track for the High Speed Raid project! Which will take 2 hours to go from Bakersfield to Merced... because so many people want to go from Merced to Bakersfield.

And of course, you'd still need a car on either end to get anywhere... but hey, you'd save that 2.5 hour drive!

Only took 30 years for the first rail to be laid!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (QAkQ3)

69 The dems want CA to burn. Environmentalists want fewer people. Gays and trannies despise straight people. POC's hate white people. And the only way they see to drive the undesirables away is to burn them out.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (g8Ew8)

70 I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history.
_______
Believe that if it comforts you. I don't. Look at New York. They went through this through my life, then finally tried Rudi. That worked. So what did they do? After Bloomberg, they went back to inept commies.

I think it'll take more than this to wake up those idiots.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (1bNHn)

71 Speaking of teh gheys, RIP Anita Bryant.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

72 I'm pretty sure gay men will form a chorus with or without government money.
You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints. We just build them and go.
Posted by: Wally at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (KAV+b)

Can you imagine a Government-run strip joint? The dancers would all look like the leaders of the LAFD. Or Stacey Abrams.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (8zz6B)

73 The voters got what they wanted.
Will they learn a lesson? No.
So whatever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (oowNi)

74 Do NOT order a steamer at the transgender cafe!

Posted by: Disappointed--and Messy--Cafe Customer at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (FC8SQ)

75 White liberals are mostly impervious to new evidence.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (rJ48h)

76 What’s the root meaning of “Apocalypse”? I think it is something something about scales falling from one’s eyes. Maybe it is “Armageddon”?

At this rate there may well be a bounty on “progressives” in government. Lord knows there oughtta be.

Cue up Flounder: “This is Gonna be Great!” About damn time, looking forward to it. One thing about societal collapse, in the chaos a lot of old scores get settled. Way past time to take out the Trash.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (x1CgS)

77 Apparently, everyone's been cursing local D politicians for a few years, starting with Gascon (successfully recalled). So, it feels like something is brewing.

But...CA's elections are mail in only and it's illegal for localities to require ID. I don't expect to see a swath of Republicans winning office in the state, but the cultural changes will be subtler and more interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

Bass' main opponent also was a Democrat, somewhat less crazy. He was white so he lost. Granted, that was pre-official burning down the house, but that's not very comforting.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (CaELB)

78 You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints.

What exactly is it that you think is going on in Washington, D.C. ?

Posted by: Vlad at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Hadg9)

79 >>> I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history.

I hope so.

The journofluffers everywhere are still pretty heavily stanning for west coast libs. Devoting whole front pages to countering "disinformation" about mismanagement. Like when they all talked up Biden's mental acuity right up to the discontinuity point and then flipped to get him out. That's the problem I guess. As weaselly as they always are I don't think they're even useful as a predicter of a preference cascade. They're just a useless GIGO black box.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (Y6IkP)

80 Anyone else noticed there are no Indigenous Lands Proclamations at these Press Events?

Poor form.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (oLK8+)

81 As I said, so far not a single MAGAT has had a word to say in response."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:30 PM (a3Q+t)

Do these dipshits really actually talk to people or are they just imagining this crap sitting in a basement?
I wear my MAGA hat all the time and nobody has ever said anything negative to me about it.

Posted by: Reforger at January 10, 2025 01:37 PM (xcIvR)

82 CA is a different landscape. These people have gotten used to stepping around poop and hypodermic needles regularly.
This won't change them, they still need their 2 minutes hate of Emmanuel "Trump" Goldstein, they still believe in big govt, they still believe you are evil.
Bass is finished but she's disposable. They'll get a new DEI hire for the job. Newsom is corrupt enough to possibly survive all.this but may resign. He will be replaced by a new anti trump savior. CA will probably only get bluer once the net citizen outflow settles from this

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (CuU+V)

83 56 >>> Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards.

Actress Jean Smart suggested that they cancel all the stupid awards shows coming up, including the Oscars, and donate all the money that would have gone to them to fighting the fires and helping rebuild people's lives.

100% agree. But I don't know if Hollywood can go a full year without being feted.

Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (gWBY1)

They still have their young actresses and actors to molest; they'll be fine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)

84 She added that the city is "in tough budgetary times."

---

When AREN'T cities facing "tough budgetary times?!" They, like public school districts, always claim their budgets are tough, then when they get their bonds and tax increases, start anew with the complaints about their budgets.

JFC. My own county saw declining home values and RAISED PROPERTY TAX RATES. The budget was so tough, you know, and basic services were in doubt.

That's what is so incendiary here - "pay us more in taxes or we won't put out fires."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (ky8PV)

85 To prevent fires, we'd have to spend our own money, which is stupid. If, instead, we steal our own money, then we can guarantee catastrophic fires, blame it on someone or something else, and get showered with Federal disaster funds! (which we also embezzle) Rinse and repeat, we can't lose!

Posted by: Gruesome Newsom at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (KfN19)

86 71 Speaking of teh gheys, RIP Anita Bryant.
Posted by: Bulg

The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

Very few people know that.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (pMi6S)

87 I wonder if maybe most gay and trans weirdos will start being more concerned that their city is burning down than whether somebody thinks they're weird.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (GD2xa)

88 I hope you're right, Ace. But if there's one thing we've learned, it's that leftists will always, always, always find a way to rationalize their bad decisions if they can.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (jGGMD)

89 "So they may be left with nothing and so there are going to be a lot of people who are going to need help. They’re going to need help from a Democrat president, or a Republican president. I know Sen. Padilla and I are determined to do everything we can to make sure they get the resources they need – Governor Newsom, the same. We’re committed to all our constituents, regardless of party," Schiff said.

... you know it is a major clusterfuck when Schiff goes bipartisan/multipartisan

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (RHGPo)

90 Considering a bunch of deep blue rich actors and actresses homes went up, I'm not sure who would benefit.
Posted by: rickb223

About that:
@ShadowofEzra
California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes.

The developers have stated that it is their dream to fill that area with apartments.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (IG4Id)

91 White liberals are mostly impervious to new evidence.
——

Well they disregard the old evidence too, going back 5,000 years. Everybody learns at their own pace, I always say. What did you expect?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (x1CgS)

92 I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.

-
One mystery of Ancient history is whether Nero started the fire or just took advantage of it to build his Golden House. Maybe Big Mouf Bass wants a Golden House.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)

93 Good thing the president understands the impact codes and regulations have on construction and re-construction. This event may be the genesis of California's reintroduction into rational civility and legal politics. Or maybe the majority are really batshit leftists. We'll see.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (OVrCp)

94

So that's = the definition is of a "Greek Chorus"

- - Al Sharptones

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (x0n13)

95 She added that the city is "in tough budgetary times."

Times so tough that you're cutting executive and administrative staffing and salaries to the bone? Didn't think so.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (Rfq0b)

96 We're working with FEMA and DHS to bring you the kind of assurance and comfort you need before evacuation notices are required by your local state authorities.

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (hXQfZ)

97 My water is going to be off for four hours. I was just about to take a shower.

I'm going to improvise with a washcloth, six bottles of drinking water, and a crock pot.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (lhenN)

98 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

Very few people know that.
Posted by: zombie

It was a cover for Anita, too. It was originally from The Music Man, by Meredith Willson.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

99 The Left:
The people of NC deserved to lose their homes and lives because they don't believe in climate change and voted for Republicans who cut funding to FEMA.

Also the Left:
The funding cuts to fire departments in CA wouldn't have stopped the wildfires.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (7+f8Q)

100 The nightmare will get worse for them when (or if) they try to rebuild. Josh Altman was on FBN this morning describing what is already happening to the displaced residents.

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)

101 "Social Justice Art-Worker Investments."
_____________________

Ah, the colorful rainbows painted on the road at an intersection directly in violation of the Federally mandated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and Street Signs, which results in prison time if you spin your tires a little over the Leprechaun's bucket of gold.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (dIske)

102 99 Also the Left:
The funding cuts to fire departments in CA wouldn't have stopped the wildfires.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (7+f8Q)

=======

Also also the Left: "Brush clearance is a right wing invention created by Fox News to sell diapers to Boomer Republicans."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

103 If you’re the typical LA voter everything you read in the media says this is due to global warming. No Dem voters in Cali know anything about the DEI shit or the lack of forest management. They just know Republicans bad democrats good, climate change is real and anyone who says otherwise hates science.

If anything this will make Cali even more left wing and accelerate the green new deal nightmare.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (oowNi)

104 The developers have stated that it is their dream to fill that area with apartments.

Developers being Rick Caruso, et al? To be fair, the kickbacks on apartment complexes are extravagant.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (NCclz)

105 burning down than whether somebody thinks they're weird.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (GD2xa)

They're not mad because people think they're weird. They're mad because people stopped thinking they're weird. Now they feel the need to convince us again.

But it isn't working. Now everybody just thinks they're assholes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (+iIV1)

106 That's what is so incendiary here - "pay us more in taxes or we won't put out fires."
=====
One of the most direct exhortations Rush Limbaugh ever gave was "NEVER vote yes on a even a single penny of sales tax supposedly devoted to police and fire departments--police and fire departments are supposed to be the FIRST role of local government and not something to be figured out later via a sales tax increase."

Posted by: Crusader at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (TN0g+)

107 Breaking911 @Breaking911
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; unfortunately no beatdown.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 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.

Matthew Seedorff @MattSeedorff
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.

No confirming link e.g. to the cops but:
Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi
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 01:41 PM (iMpf5)

108 99 The Left:
The people of NC deserved to lose their homes and lives because they don't believe in climate change and voted for Republicans who cut funding to FEMA.

Also the Left:
The funding cuts to fire departments in CA wouldn't have stopped the wildfires.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (7+f8Q)

Depends what the funding was used for. A flaming gay spectacle? Fiery...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:41 PM (ynpvh)

109 >>> This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

Adam Carolla thinks so too, once they start rebuilding their homes and the red tape overtakes their lives. He's more optimistic than I am that LA can change.

I love his anecdote about having to wait seven years to sign up to be a firefighter, despite being poor and his mom on food stamps, because of DEI requirements even back then. When he finally got approved to sign up, the black girl signing up the same day only had to wait like three days to be approved. This has been going on a while.

Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (gWBY1)

110 which focuses on the occult and "the LGBTQ movement."

So, demons.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (ReaN0)

111 In other news, two of the three Big Tits Sisters are talking about Nice Bod Brooke's lack if getting Greasy Ridge's dick, since he is back to banging his ex-wife Scrawny Taylor. Brooke us still in her tight blue dress, and Curvy Katie is in a nice sheer outfit. Sadly, Big Tit Donna was not there, but she just appeared, spying on Ridge and Taylor, peeking through the door.

So, a sighting!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (ufFY8)

112 98 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

Very few people know that.
Posted by: zombie

It was a cover for Anita, too. It was originally from The Music Man, by Meredith Willson.
Posted by: Bulg

Yes, but in interviews, Paul and John later said they first heard the song on an Anita Bryant 45 they bought at a record shop, and used it as the basis for their version. They didn't know it was from a musical.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (pMi6S)

113 98 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

Very few people know that.
Posted by: zombie

It was a cover for Anita, too. It was originally from The Music Man, by Meredith Willson.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

Very pretty song, well done by the Beatles. They had a few nice ones… “ In My Life” was very nice.

Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (PCK5/)

114

I see teh rape gangs of the UK and this shit as part of the same corruption in government.

Same woke shit, just a different category.

And in both cases, the government doesn't care about the damage it caused.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (et1vG)

115 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora

[recollects Garrison Keillor re-wording the lyrics of 'In The Bleak Midwinter' into a paen to the Obamas moving into the WH]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (XeU6L)

116 90 Considering a bunch of deep blue rich actors and actresses homes went up, I'm not sure who would benefit.
Posted by: rickb223

About that:
@ShadowofEzra
California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes.

The developers have stated that it is their dream to fill that area with apartments.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (IG4Id)

More density will make it an even higher fire hazard to insure in the future...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (exHjb)

117
How about the City of LA sponsoring a "LGBTQ+ Bed of Coals Walk"?

They's already prepared the beds of coals and never let a crisis go to waste!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (xG4kz)

118 Considering a bunch of deep blue rich actors and actresses homes went up, I'm not sure who would benefit.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (ys+zb)

George $oro$ profits from chao$. It's his specialty. And guess who funded the election of so many of those insane Democrats?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (8zz6B)

119 Is it time to try something different in California? Since R governance is out of the question, maybe try Mexican cartels?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (fs1hN)

120 107
...

No confirming link e.g. to the cops but:
Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi
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 01:41 PM (iMpf5)

Hah! During Santa Anas, I figure quite of the few of the fires we get are caused by folks named Climate Change too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

121 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

I never noticed before, but McCartney sings "sawr" for "saw". He does it twice.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (xCA6C)

122 Coastal Commission... They want rid of all homes built on or near the ocean shore
Posted by: It's me donna
---

Something or someone is feeding that thought into the Commission. What's the benefit to the Commission of taking land from the citizens?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:44 PM (OVrCp)

123 There was the one guy in England who sued the NHI for Prostitution Services...
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (oLK8+)

The Netherlands provides taxpayer-funded “sex care” prostitutes for disabled people as part of their universal healthcare.

Of course, with Obamacare, Americans don’t have to be disabled to be f*cked by their government.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 01:44 PM (FC8SQ)

124 Governor Hair Gel is already talking about “affordable housing” Soviet block apartments?

Have the wildfires been extinguished yet, or did I miss something? LOL. This is gonna be a shitshow like nothing ever seen. Maintain existing stocks of Popcorn at minimum prescribed levels.

(“Ha ha ha” the way dear old dad used to intone).

Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 01:44 PM (x1CgS)

125 121 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

I never noticed before, but McCartney sings "sawr" for "saw". He does it twice.
Posted by: Archimedes

He was trying to imitate an American accent, with little success.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (pMi6S)

126 114

I see teh rape gangs of the UK and this shit as part of the same corruption in government.

Same woke shit, just a different category.

And in both cases, the government doesn't care about the damage it caused.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (et1vG)

UK rape gang coverup and collusion.
Epstein's flights.
just the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

127 @ShadowofEzra
California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes, so next time there is a fire, there will be even more people to evacuate.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (RHGPo)

128 92 I'm starting to wonder if was deliberate.

-
One mystery of Ancient history is whether Nero started the fire or just took advantage of it to build his Golden House. Maybe Big Mouf Bass wants a Golden House.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)

Yes, every fire was a deliberate arson. Once the 1st showed their was no water and almost no fire response, it was an arsonist's wet dream..start a fire and know you'll watch it spiral out of control...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (exHjb)

129 The worst part of all of this is that a great number of Californians will now be moving to normal states.

Before it was those that couldn't stand liberalism and state policies. Now it will be just run-of-the-mill slowboi and screeching-girl Californians.

May the Lord have mercy on Arizona, Texas and other states that must welcome these half-wits.

Posted by: Vlad at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (Hadg9)

130 their = there (dang typo).

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (exHjb)

131 118 Considering a bunch of deep blue rich actors and actresses homes went up, I'm not sure who would benefit.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 01:34 PM (ys+zb)

George $oro$ profits from chao$. It's his specialty. And guess who funded the election of so many of those insane Democrats?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2025 01:43 PM (8zz6B)

$oro$...heh. oro=gold

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

132 Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.
Those will be lies.

-
Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (L/fGl)

133 There is no "accountability," "responsibility" or "accomplishment" in DEI.

But there are "excuses," "evasions," and "deflections."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (7+f8Q)

134 Bass wanted to cut an additional $49m from the fire department which would have shut an additional 16 firehouses. These people are pathological ideologues

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (RLc6v)

135 At some point, people just get sick of the endless excuses for catastrophe and failure and decide they're tired of the government they pay for police and fire services being turned into little but a massive transfer-of-wealth mafia to take money from Enemy Groups and pay off Friend Groups.

==

They have nothing to lose, but their chains! And even those went up in smoke!

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

136 California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes.

—

California basically banned R1 zoning a few years ago already.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (oowNi)

137 107 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 01:41 PM (iMpf5)

Thank the lord it's not a black person this time.

Posted by: XTC at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (UnA8+)

138 123 There was the one guy in England who sued the NHI for Prostitution Services...
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (oLK8+)

The Netherlands provides taxpayer-funded “sex care” prostitutes for disabled people as part of their universal healthcare.

Of course, with Obamacare, Americans don’t have to be disabled to be f*cked by their government.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 01:44 PM (FC8SQ)

The latter is a lot less consensual...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

139 This really is the kind of event to wake people up out of partisan stupor.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

Well that and the red tape those trying to rebuild are going to experience, as Adam Carolla and a few commenters yesterday pointed out. Absent some expedited path created solely for this tragedy, those who wish to stay are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.

Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day when there's a mass exodus to other places and a handful of well-monied companies get premium land at fire-sale prices.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (FCbAQ)

140 LA elected an actual Communist as mayor and then things don't turn out well.

Huh.

Who could have see. That coming?

Posted by: blaster at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (QfvaV)

141 Justices on the Supreme Court signaled Friday they may uphold the federal law banning TikTok unless it divests itself from ByteDance, expressing skepticism of TikTok’s opposition to the law during oral arguments, increasing the likelihood the popular video app could be banned Jan. 19 unless TikTok starts separating from its Chinese-owned parent company.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (RHGPo)

142 I never noticed before, but McCartney sings "sawr" for "saw". He does it twice.
Posted by: Archimedes
-------

Hmm. What about "... I sawr standing there"?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

143 As I said, so far not a single MAGAT has had a word to say in response."
Posted by: Duncanthrax

That's because what was said was so stupid that they couldn't make their will saves and were stunned into silence.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (hB7mE)

144 Reality bites.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (0gVsH)

145 LA mayor is such a basshole

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (RHGPo)

146 Is that the one that sang about coming for your kids?
Posted by: fd at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

That was a SF gay mens chorus.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (FCbAQ)

147 109 Adam Carolla thinks so too, once they start rebuilding their homes and the red tape overtakes their lives. He's more optimistic than I am that LA can change.

I love his anecdote about having to wait seven years to sign up to be a firefighter, despite being poor and his mom on food stamps, because of DEI requirements even back then. When he finally got approved to sign up, the black girl signing up the same day only had to wait like three days to be approved. This has been going on a while.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (gWBY1)

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I'm full of doubts, though.

I can imagine the local governments laying down bureaucratic rules for the benefit of these people trying to rebuild. I can imagine the pain of reconstruction being hidden from the rich leftists, absorbed by contractors. I can imagine them all just saying, "It's Trump's fault for not passing a carbon tax while he should be in prison."

It's hard to get people off of political reservations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

148 >> The voters got what they wanted.
Bull$h!t. Many of us did not vote for Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass. Unfortunately, the mail-in ballot system enables the Democrats to win without much effort.

In the last recall, Gavin was polling at 33% approval and somehow won 67% of the vote. Amazing!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (uWF4x)

149 >>> FEMA will come!
Posted by: Appalchia at January 10, 2025 01:36 PM (XeU6L)

I am really REALLY interested to see what kind of FEMA payouts LA citizens get for the fires, vs the Maui wildfires or the NC hurricane.

And not that anyone there has any political yard signs left standing, but if they can determine if someone is MAGA and they get passed over for payment.

Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (gWBY1)

150 142 I never noticed before, but McCartney sings "sawr" for "saw". He does it twice.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Hmm. What about "... I sawr standing there"?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

Violence.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (ynpvh)

151
It is very sad anyone lost their home. The celerys have second or third homes they can live in.

The people who are truly fucked are the true workers there. A lot of them have no home now and no job.

Unemployment costs for the state will increase. It is the workers who will suffer.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (3ek7K)

152 >>>I'm going to improvise with a washcloth, six bottles of drinking water, and a crock pot.

Posted by: BourbonChicken

>A whore bath is a time-tested and truly respectable cleansing technique in the wide world of personal care and hygiene.

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (hXQfZ)

153 Whether parts of California shift red will likely depend on how much money the *biden administration throws at them on their way out the door.

Then... how much money Trump throws at them when he's in charge.

If the feds stave off enough misery I think CA stays true blue. If not... there will likely be some infighting among the various sects inside CA government itself. That could be interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (Q4IgG)

154 Welp, another quake.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (KAi1n)

155 More density will make it an even higher fire hazard to insure in the future...
Posted by: Nova Local
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Hazard, schmazard, we collect more tax money. The more money we collect the more we grift. Next fire burns it down - even more grift. Words out just fine for us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (OVrCp)

156 I can't believe we're talking about some lady with the last name of "Bass," and there are no fish puns to be seen anywhere. Come on, you pikers!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

157 Their citizens will get it "gooder and harder" a second and third time when they attempt to rebuild. The process will be agonizing to initiate and almost impossible to complete.
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Instead of donating money to fund aid, donate to the most radical environmental groups in CA.

Especially the ones that promise to litigate each and every building permit.

That would be true charity for the people of CA--to teach them unforgettable lessons in consequences of voting.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (7+f8Q)

158 The British government is not self-correcting, and will require a Cromwell-sized event to see justice done for those girls.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (lhenN)

159 147 I'm full of doubts, though.

I can imagine the local governments laying down bureaucratic rules for the benefit of these people trying to rebuild. I can imagine the pain of reconstruction being hidden from the rich leftists, absorbed by contractors. I can imagine them all just saying, "It's Trump's fault for not passing a carbon tax while he should be in prison."

It's hard to get people off of political reservations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

Pretty much. Biden will fast-track Tens of Billions of dollars at our expense to make the celebs in LA whole again.

Posted by: XTC at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (UnA8+)

160 148 >> The voters got what they wanted.
Bull$h!t. Many of us did not vote for Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass. Unfortunately, the mail-in ballot system enables the Democrats to win without much effort.

In the last recall, Gavin was polling at 33% approval and somehow won 67% of the vote. Amazing!
Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (uWF4x)

You have to organize your own state. You have to watch your own balloting. You have to protest your own laws.

If VA could take back its R party in a decade, CA could, too. VA has more true blue in it than CA thanks to fed gov...so it's possible anywhere (except maybe DC)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (exHjb)

161 Pretty good rumble just now rolled thru...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (c6hLR)

162
Government programs should be for the benefit of the greatest number of people possible. It should focus on having the best police, fire, sanitation, education, water and roads that tax dollars can provide. Not spending on niches like lesbian poetry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (dxSpM)

163 113 98 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.

Very few people know that.
Posted by: zombie

It was a cover for Anita, too. It was originally from The Music Man, by Meredith Willson.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)

Very pretty song, well done by the Beatles. They had a few nice ones… “ In My Life” was very nice.
Posted by: tubal

The highlight of the Beatles version is George Harrison's guitar solo. Absolutely crisp and flawless, melodic and completely on-point. Yet very short. Not a note wasted. He was 19 years old at the time.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (pMi6S)

164 Definitely expecting additional missionaries from CA moving to MT. Only problem for them is finding affordable housing. Before they were burnt out of LA they could sell their shacks for big bucks and spend a small portion here and live like kings and queens. Unless they had lots of savings to fall back on they are hopefully stuck in la la land.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (2NHgQ)

165 156 I can't believe we're talking about some lady with the last name of "Bass," and there are no fish puns to be seen anywhere. Come on, you pikers!
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

She's a piece of shit.

Wait no, that's not it.

She's a piece of... fish shit?

Oh, whatever. Fuck that dirtbag.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (+iIV1)

166 153 Whether parts of California shift red will likely depend on how much money the *biden administration throws at them on their way out the door.
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Not a technician but clawing back everything Biden's instituted since election seems probable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (OVrCp)

167 Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 01:42 PM (gWBY1)

Agreed, sadly. This is analogous to mothers who virtue signaled by sexually mutilating their children for the feelz. If they ever admit the trans craze was psychotic, it also will acknowledge the evil they have done to their own children. The people who burned down with the Waco compound were infinitely saner (and, yes, I know the feds murdered them, but the point is the same).

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (CaELB)

168 127 @ShadowofEzra
California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes, so next time there is a fire, there will be even more people to evacuate.
Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:45 PM (RHGPo)

They will make property Taxes based on the original value of the now burned down property, then when people can't or won't pay, seize it for the State. All those who lost their Insurance, are boned, and will be victims of this land grab.

Remember folks, you don't own you property, you only rent it from the State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (QAkQ3)

169 LA Wildfires are still working hard to overcome the statistical advantage of the Maui disaster.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

170 148 >> The voters got what they wanted.
Bull$h!t. Many of us did not vote for Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass. Unfortunately, the mail-in ballot system enables the Democrats to win without much effort.

In the last recall, Gavin was polling at 33% approval and somehow won 67% of the vote. Amazing!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 10, 2025 01:47 PM (uWF4x)

Until the voter rolls are cleaned...you end up with cities in Kalifornia that have over 100% registration rates. All ballots are sent by mail. No ID checks for meeting voter requirements (just say you're a citizen non-felon and you too can vote!).
Now, add to that the jungle primary system and you end up with a match-up of dem vs. dem for various offices; it's voting for bone cancer vs. lung cancer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:51 PM (ynpvh)

171 You don't see straight men begging for government money for strip joints. We just build them and go.

It’s not about the gay activities. It’s about getting straights to pay for gay activities. It’s about forcing approval.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 10, 2025 01:51 PM (EXyHK)

172 162
Government programs should be for the benefit of the greatest number of people possible. It should focus on having the best police, fire, sanitation, education, water and roads that tax dollars can provide. Not spending on niches like lesbian poetry.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (dxSpM)

I made that point that libraries should get more than schools b/c libraries can train age 1-100, vs schools that only do age 5-18. Libraries still always lose...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:51 PM (exHjb)

173 I don't expect to see a swath of Republicans winning office in the state, but the cultural changes will be subtler and more interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

We may see the return of the Conservative Democrat.

They used to be common and kept the Democrats from straying too far to the Left cuz if so they'd vote with Republicans.

This might bring some common sense back to the Dims and would be more acceptable than voting for icky, evil Republicans cuz they're all "life-long" Democrats just like their Mommy and Daddy and their Mommas and Daddy's and...
...

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (iJfKG)

174 164 Definitely expecting additional missionaries from CA moving to MT. Only problem for them is finding affordable housing. Before they were burnt out of LA they could sell their shacks for big bucks and spend a small portion here and live like kings and queens. Unless they had lots of savings to fall back on they are hopefully stuck in la la land.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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There is high expectation that the insurance cos will stiff them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (OVrCp)

175 "I really think this is one of those major inflection points in history. At some point, people just get sick of the endless excuses for catastrophe and failure and decide they're tired of the government they pay for police and fire services being turned into little but a massive transfer-of-wealth mafia to take money from Enemy Groups and pay off Friend Groups."

I hope you are right. I don't think you are right. I don't think actual people even vote in CA any more, or at least not enough compared to the millions and millions of votes that are legally and illegally harvested and "cast." The actual people in CA might indeed be outraged. But their votes aren't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

176 I hope there's not a shortage of fiddles for Big Mouf Bass to play!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)

177 136 California Governor Gavin Newsom is teaming up with developers to reshape Pacific Palisades, pushing to change its zoning from exclusively R1 (single-family homes) to a mix of R1 and R3, paving the way for apartment complexes.

—

California basically banned R1 zoning a few years ago already.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 01:46 PM (oowNi)
_________________________

Now, THIS will be entertaining to watch. The value of those homes is nothing compared to the value and the exclusivity of the land that they sat on. Technically, the land owners have an investment. And, building up apartments is going to reverse gentrify the value of the land. The hits just keep on coming for those folks in Elite LaLa Land. I'd wager this pisses off the residents of the Hills more than the piss poor fire response.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (dIske)

178 Whether parts of California shift red will likely depend on how much money the *biden administration throws at them on their way out the door.

Biden has already said the Feds will cover *ALL* of the expenses for the next 6 months. That means when Trumps says, errr.....no, the Dems can cut him up for being coldhearted.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (xCA6C)

179 Only took 30 years for the first rail to be laid!

Haste makes waste.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (ExV1e)

180 Governor Hair Gel is already talking about “affordable housing” Soviet block apartments?
......

Perfect. Put them right along PCH where the $20 million homes on postage stamp lots all disappeared.

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (v0R5T)

181 154 Welp, another quake.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 01:48 PM (KAi1n)

Big or small?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (ynpvh)

182 Straight men beat up other straight men in normie bars, of course they should beat up gay men in gay bars.

Men exist to fight, straight OR gay.

Beat up, or get beaten up.

Law of the Jungle.

Posted by: XTC at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (UnA8+)

183 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (f8rQN)

It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)

184 CA will probably only get bluer once the net citizen outflow settles from this
Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at January 10, 2025 01:38 PM (CuU+V)

Yep, accurate. We’ve seen this play out many times before. The left aren’t suddenly going to get common sense.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (FC8SQ)

185 To paraphrase the Mocha Messiah, “You did build that”.

Way to go Progressives! You just shit in your messkit on an epic, Biblical scale, the likes that nobody has ever seen. I am profoundly saddened, but at the same time acknowledge these sorts of things have to happen, apparently. It doesn’t need to be this way, but it is a defect in the human condition.

Dishelief and shock will soon to anger and outrage. Commie Karen might want to unass herself back to Ghana if she values her body parts being generally in the same location. Ask Ghadafi about this.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (x1CgS)

186 This last one was more of a bouncy kind of quake. The one earlier today was more of a sudden thing, though it depends on ground density. I'm not on bedrock, but the next best thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (KAi1n)

187 Sure thing that’ll move the needle, LOL.

Even if it did all come they’ll get is a “Republican” that is 1% to the right.

I’m dooming here.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (Vh9CX)

188 The odds were low in the first place, but I'm never eating anything prepared in BourbonChicken's crock pot.

Posted by: PabloD at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (S9Xmr)

189 I hope the silver lining from this event is the realization democrats in charge = bad. Their policy on illegals got them an arsonist, their mayor and governor got them zero fire management/ prevention measures. Their DEI push got them angry lesbians who are worried about people showing up who look like them versus saving actual victims (your sexual orientation doesn’t matter - can you do the job? seems a prudent thought process for most jobs, but especially first responders). Their policies got their homeowners canceled. Going forward, the rebuild process will be amazingly convoluted and probably impossible in many cases. I hate the pain, I hate the destruction regardless of political affiliation, this is truly awful. But I also hope it brings forward a change.

Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (p4NUW)

190
It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)

________

Homo for the holidays...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (dxSpM)

191 There is high expectation that the insurance cos will stiff them.

I believe many of the insurance companies stopped writing coverage in CA because CA denied them a rate increase, an increase they needed so, you know, they wouldn't lose money.

You and I will pay for it. Mark my words.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (xCA6C)

192 161 Pretty good rumble just now rolled thru...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 10, 2025 01:49 PM (c6hLR)

Where be that? I'm only seeing 3.0-ish in Bay area...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (ynpvh)

193 They bought their ticket. They knew what they were getting into.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (63Dwl)

194 One mystery of Ancient history is whether Nero started the fire or just took advantage of it to build his Golden House. Maybe Big Mouf Bass wants a Golden House.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)

I look forward to Gavin Newsome buying up the Pallisades land and building a huge resorton most of it, with a colossal naked statue of him out in front.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (wyMQY)

195 I hate that people are blaming the fires on Santa's winds. Look, when a guy's gotta fart, he's gotta fart.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

196 191 There is high expectation that the insurance cos will stiff them.

I believe many of the insurance companies stopped writing coverage in CA because CA denied them a rate increase, an increase they needed so, you know, they wouldn't lose money.

You and I will pay for it. Mark my words.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (xCA6C)

Or we won't, and CA will look like NC and HI...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (exHjb)

197 Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles? You're going to have to be a lot more specific than that!

Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (y9ksN)

198 190
It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)
________

Homo for the holidays...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (dxSpM)

Wait until you see how they're stuffing their LGBTBBQWTF turkey...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (ynpvh)

199 180 Governor Hair Gel is already talking about “affordable housing” Soviet block apartments?
......

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People who were living in multi-million dollar homes?

I don't expect them to get anything but "affordable housing" is simply a ghetto-making boondoggle.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (gaKF9)

200 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM

===

It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM

Walking 'round in women's underwear ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (a3Q+t)

201 173 They used to be common and kept the Democrats from straying too far to the Left cuz if so they'd vote with Republicans.

This might bring some common sense back to the Dims and would be more acceptable than voting for icky, evil Republicans cuz they're all "life-long" Democrats just like their Mommy and Daddy and their Mommas and Daddy's and...
...
Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (iJfKG)

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Obama eradicated them at the altar of massive payoffs to the insurance industry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

202 Homo for the holidays...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:54 PM (dxSpM)
______________________

Little Hummer Boy (that's big in the UK)

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (dIske)

203 Sorry, I don't buy that this will "fix" California by getting folks to stop voting for this bullshit. This is the level of shit that requires, well, basically Denazification, and the sort of shit needed for folks who fall into cults. Except for 40 million people, more or less.

Good luck doing that by standard means.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (OUMaO)

204 If I were a betting genital retainer, I'd suspect that Puffy Combs is the reason that G_d is punishing the hoi polloi of Hollywood with fire and brimstone.

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (hXQfZ)

205 Libraries designate books of their choice as obsolete and sell them off. They lost a vote when that was discovered.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (OVrCp)

206 Wait until you see how they're stuffing their LGBTBBQWTF turkey...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

PeTA got Butterball in trouble for that...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (hB7mE)

207 This last one was more of a bouncy kind of quake.
Posted by: SFGoth

I know what those feel like.
-- Solomia Maievska's bra

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

208 >> I can't believe we're talking about some lady with the last name of "Bass," and there are no fish puns to be seen anywhere.

Those were played out yesterday. Mine was the best, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (Y1sOo)

209 Fortunately Newsome and Bass will be able to console themselves with the fortunes they have accumulated for being Democrats, and sleep in the comfort of knowing that qualified immunity to their various offices confers protection from any and all damage that has been done to the population and property of their fair state

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (D7oie)

210
Governor Hair Gel is already talking about “affordable housing” Soviet block apartments?

_______

Pruitt-Igoe-Cabrini-Green

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (dxSpM)

211 This might bring some common sense back to the Dims and would be more acceptable than voting for icky, evil Republicans cuz they're all "life-long" Democrats just like their Mommy and Daddy and their Mommas and Daddy's and...
...
Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 01:52 PM (iJfKG)

Right now, with Trump taking office in ten days, is the time to start the National Divorce. It makes absolute sense to do it while the hand is strong.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (CaELB)

212 199 People who were living in multi-million dollar homes?

I don't expect them to get anything but "affordable housing" is simply a ghetto-making boondoggle.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM (gaKF9)

Burn them out, build pods for all the illegals in their place.

Posted by: XTC at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (UnA8+)

213 208 >> I can't believe we're talking about some lady with the last name of "Bass," and there are no fish puns to be seen anywhere.

Those were played out yesterday. Mine was the best, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (Y1sOo)

Well, Bass is in treble...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (ynpvh)

214 $17 Million buys a lot of tranny surgeries.

"I study lesbo-fire science, I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, she smokes dark grasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (d9Tn5)

215 BTW, I've now seen two ads on X, plus other comments on X, explaining who is really responsible for the LA fires.

You'll never guess.

Go ahead, guess.

It's Jews, of course.

In particular, the Resnick family. One ad claimed that the Resnicks controlled 80% of California's water, and the other claimed that the Resnicks controlled "all" of California's water.

Being Jewish, they of course are refusing to let "their" water be used to fight the fires.

This is insane, of course - virtually all the water in California is controlled by one governmental entity or another.

But the interesting question is: precisely who is paying for these ads?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (uxCna)

216 Does The Governor's hair products have fire retardants?

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

217 Good Queen Wenceslas

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)

218 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

http://tiny.cc/rt15001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (Odg76)

219 >> I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back.

I think you underestimate the absolute political fanaticism of these people. Most of the people who want to leave Southern California have left. They are largely busy polluting other states with their radical agenda. The current resident holdouts are the Lefts vanguard, the foot soldiers and the ideological base. I’ve heard some of these people on tv making excuses and basically saying this wasn’t preventable and nobody is to blame. A lot of them can either move to one of their other homes or find a place to wait out rebuilding at the taxpayer expense. I don’t see much changing. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (58AQ5)

220 BREAKING (From Politico - this is their exact statement - no joke)...(PS - I see this as AWESOME as an American taxpayer b/c I'm not paying for a worthless party...but you know liberals - there's no graft if they can't stick it to the American taxpayer)...

POLITICO
@politico
Donald Trump is the first U.S. president whose transition will be fully funded by private donors.

We explore the secrecy around Trump's presidential transition donors – and the troubling precedent it could set – with
@BusinessInsider
👇
http://politi.co/4fMzTXi

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (exHjb)

221 Right now, with Trump taking office in ten days, is the time to start the National Divorce. It makes absolute sense to do it while the hand is strong.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:57 PM (CaELB)

This is an analogy to the Israel-Hamas situation. Why quit fighting when you're on the edge of victory? Unconditional Surrender, the only terms acceptable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (wyMQY)

222 216 Does The Governor's hair products have fire retardants?

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

He's retarded enough as is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (ynpvh)

223 214 $17 Million buys a lot of tranny surgeries.

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A trillion didn't buy one EV charging station.

National Divorce.

Don't take the eye off the prize.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (CaELB)

224 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (f8rQN)

It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)

It's beginning to look a lot like syphilis...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, random is my middle name at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (xPJvm)

225 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM

===

It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM

Walking 'round in women's underwear ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM

Frosty The Blows Men

Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (y9ksN)

226 "A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn't vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black."

I rate this as True.

-CA Governor Larry Elder

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (oqgEn)

227 The election process in California has so many ways that it can be corrupted that even if a majority of voters decided to "throw the bums out" it would not matter. What matters is, as Stalin said, who counts the votes. From top to bottom, that's the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Only the vote counters matter at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (F3eCL)

228
Actually, this fire will result in a huge Curley Effect exodus of reasonable people with the usual true believers remaining, fortified by illegals.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (dxSpM)

229 Democrats have lost a LOT, if not most, of the will they engendered through fakery and the rank assholishness of their supposed enemies during the Bush and then Obama years.

Over 10 years they have been encouraged systematically by Trump, who has stood with a steel spine and rarely if ever wavered, to throw it all away, bit by bit. And the dummies have accepted the challenge each time with a shit-eating grin on their stupid face, thinking this time they "got 'em".

It's been Wile E Coyote running in slow motion off of his own cliff. November 5th was the day they finally gingerly felt with their toes to find nothing but air below. But they still refuse to look down.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (Unq3t)

230 You and I will pay for it. Mark my words.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 01:55 PM (xCA6C)

Yep. Cuckold Mike Johnson is doubtlessly drafting the $100 billion bailout now.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (FC8SQ)

231 There are still Russians who look back fondly on the days of Joseph Stalin. Humans can don amazingly thick rose-colored glasses.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (xCA6C)

232 Carol with the Balls.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

233 Schellenberg’s article was awesome.

I wish it would be an op-ed in every paper and on every nightly newscast of the lamestream media.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (1S1te)

234 Firefighting is FABULOUS!

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (nx43N)

235 A trillion didn't buy one EV charging station.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM

Paid parental leave isn't cheap, you know.

Posted by: Petey B. at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (a3Q+t)

236 This is an analogy to the Israel-Hamas situation. Why quit fighting when you're on the edge of victory? Unconditional Surrender, the only terms acceptable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (wyMQY)

Precisely. This is as good of a time as we will ever get. Formalize the National Divorce while the judge is neutral.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (CaELB)

237 "Who is paying for these ads?"

Anybody seen Mel Gibson lately?

Posted by: PabloD at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (S9Xmr)

238
Jingle Bell Cock

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (dxSpM)

239 228
Actually, this fire will result in a huge Curley Effect exodus of reasonable people with the usual true believers remaining, fortified by illegals.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (dxSpM)

And what do Larry and Moe have to say about it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (ynpvh)

240 226 "A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn't vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black."

I rate this as True.

-CA Governor Larry Elder
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:00 PM (oqgEn)

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This is like the DEI office at the FBI protesting because white man Chris Wray is being replaced by brown man Kash Patel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

241 Good grief. That's obscene.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (kTd/k)

242 I saw daddy kissing Santa Claus

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (+iIV1)

243 Something or someone is feeding that thought into the Commission. What's the benefit to the Commission of taking land from the citizens?
Posted by: Braenyard

Like any leftist institution, it's an evil mix of True Believers and grafting, grifting corporate criminals. I wholly expect the Commissioners are being paid by investment banks to sideline the properties and then auction them off.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:01 PM (IG4Id)

244 Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would quickly move in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (wyMQY)

245 "Who is paying for these ads?"

Anybody seen Mel Gibson lately?
Posted by: PabloD

He's another one who lost his house.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

246 So that guy that was busted setting a fire in LA yesterday? Yeah, they already let him go.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (lUFok)

247 The point of American government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible. Anything else it does is incidental

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (t0Rmr)

248 We Three Queens?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (1bNHn)

249 DEI is the process whereby unqualified people are given jobs based on non job related attributes, and on their loyalty to the party.

In most government jobs, the citizen is not the customer, the party is. They don't care if the actual job gets done, only that they check a box.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (lTGtQ)

250 Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would quickly move in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (wyMQY)

We need a regime change in CA! *we are good at it !

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (g47mK)

251 Someone on FBhas suggested that the areas withthe fires is supposedto be developed for the 2028 Olympics. No idea if that is true. But I have no problem believing that they would destroy towns to get the land cheap.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (NQtI0)

252 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

http://tiny.cc/rt15001
Posted by: bonhomme at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (Odg76)

This is all Trump’s fault!

Posted by: Typical California Voter at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (FC8SQ)

253 Don't even have the energy anymore to rage against this nonsense. These people are career criminals.

This is just wealth redistribution.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (mzM2O)

254 250 Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would quickly move in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (wyMQY)

We need a regime change in CA! *we are good at it !

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (g47mK)

The CIA is good at regime change...but it may not be the kind of change you're looking for.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (ynpvh)

255 Donald Trump is the first U.S. president whose transition will be fully funded by private donors.

Trump doesn't want his transition sabotaged by Democrat civil servants.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 10, 2025 02:03 PM (uxCna)

256
Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would ~~quickly move~~ be invited in.

Fix'd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (dxSpM)

257 T - 8 minutes

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-12
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Lift-Off is scheduled for January 10
New T-Zero: 2:11 p.m. ET, 1911 UTC, 20:11 CET. in a launch window which is open till 2:15 p.m. ET, 1915 UTC, 20:15 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/live/IoAkoR-XgN8

Posted by: Ciampino - mini-me not me at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (i0xsb)

258 Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would quickly move in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (wyMQY)

Golden opportunity. Split. Let China take it. Invade, beat their asses silly, take it over again. Kick all the sympathizers out on the next boat to Shanghai.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (+iIV1)

259 You have already heard from scientific geniuses Barbra Streisand and Bernie Sanders that climate change is the culprit here. Never mind that the Santa Ana winds is a natural occurrence that has been happening for thousands of years. But won't they won't tell you is the gross mismanagement of forests and canyons, not building dams and reservoirs due to draconian environmental laws, etc. etc. and of course, gross incompetence is literally killing people, wildlife and infrastructure. I read this morning that 2200 cubic sq feet of water runoff a second goes in to the ocean because it has no other place to go.

This is my home state although I no longer live there and it makes me sick what has happened to it. My question is, is this enough to wake up the rest of the people there?

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (oiNtH)

260 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.

Are these the same guys that were singing about coming for your children?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

261 The leftist bastards running states and the country into the ground are retarded gay terminators. Whither Sarah Connor...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (UZVey)

262 The supposed mayor of LA could not even answer any question from reporters, before first checking in with her party bosses as to what to say.

I believe she is functionally retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (lTGtQ)

263 >>>Does The Governor's hair products have fire retardants?

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

He's retarded enough as is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>That's just mean spirited. Why are you always picking on this gracious man?

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (hXQfZ)

264 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 01:35 PM (f8rQN)

They were the principle voice backing of Rob Cantor's video Shia LaBeouf (Probably not worth what was spent in state monies)

youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (D7oie)

265 I think you underestimate the absolute political fanaticism of these people. Most of the people who want to leave Southern California have left. They are largely busy polluting other states with their radical agenda. The current resident holdouts are the Lefts vanguard, the foot soldiers and the ideological base. I’ve heard some of these people on tv making excuses and basically saying this wasn’t preventable and nobody is to blame. A lot of them can either move to one of their other homes or find a place to wait out rebuilding at the taxpayer expense. I don’t see much changing. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (58AQ5)

Precisely. When the gibs for the illegals and other protected classes run out, this feudal arrangement is exactly as intended. The deadenders are exactly who would be expected, and I realize innocents are caught up in the madness but that's a smaller sliver than it ever was.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (CaELB)

266 172 162
Government programs should be for the benefit of the greatest number of people possible. It should focus on having the best police, fire, sanitation, education, water and roads that tax dollars can provide. Not spending on niches like lesbian poetry.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Are you suggesting that good management practices should be transcendent, rather than socio-political idealogies?!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

267 Source:

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati 3h
I’m hearing very credible reports that @GavinNewsom & developers are collaborating to change the zoning in Pacific Palisades from R1 (single family) to R1 and R3 (adding apartments).

Was told “it’s developers’ dream to pack that place with apartments.”

There you go.
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For the above reports.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (iMpf5)

268 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

Oopty.

Posted by: Dyke Fire Chief at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (v0R5T)

269 Welp, another quake.
Posted by: SFGoth

You've now had four (2.2 to 3.7) in the same spot on the fault, just 2 mi offshore, but that seems to be the least active fault and least active stretch in the Bay Area. East Bay and Pinnacles are getting most of them.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (LbnIB)

270 Golden opportunity. Split. Let China take it. Invade, beat their asses silly, take it over again. Kick all the sympathizers out on the next boat to Shanghai.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (+iIV1)

A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (D7oie)

271 It's not just incompetence. It's that they really don't care.

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One might even say nihilistic ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (BCqG1)

272 Gay men's chorus probably bastardized Christmas songs about perversion and pedernasty.

They do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (uxCna)

273 Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (RHGPo)

274 But the interesting question is: precisely who is paying for these ads?
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Saw a Code Pinker comparing it to the Israelis running the poor Gazinians off their land.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (OVrCp)

275 263 >>>Does The Governor's hair products have fire retardants?

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 01:58 PM (v0R5T)

He's retarded enough as is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>That's just mean spirited. Why are you always picking on this gracious man?

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (hXQfZ)

I guess he hasn't reached Sniffy Joe retarded dementia levels yet...got ice cream?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

276 244 Although a divorce is fun to talk about, you can't hand the west coast over to the Chinese Empire, which is who would quickly move in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:02 PM (wyMQY)

They are running police stations in NYC even now.

The time for divorce is here.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (CaELB)

277 Are these the same guys that were singing about coming for your children?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

No, I think that was the San Francisco gay men's choir. Totally different.

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to Minuet In G at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (dtlDP)

278 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

279 Janisse Quiñones chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is making $750,000 per year and she can’t even explain why there was no water

The assumption is that this part of the government exists to maintain adequate water reserves.

It doesn't. Quinones is paid the big bucks to maintain high levels of government spending, not to do anything for the taxpayers, but instead to funnel as much money as possible to the government and its clients.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (t0Rmr)

280 I believe she is functionally retarded.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (lTGtQ)

I believe she is trying not to say anything that will get her indicted. Also she looked full of absolute fury for being questioned or blamed in any way for what she has done.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (D7oie)

281 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

282 265 I think you underestimate the absolute political fanaticism of these people. Most of the people who want to leave Southern California have left. They are largely busy polluting other states with their radical agenda. The current resident holdouts are the Lefts vanguard, the foot soldiers and the ideological base. I’ve heard some of these people on tv making excuses and basically saying this wasn’t preventable and nobody is to blame. A lot of them can either move to one of their other homes or find a place to wait out rebuilding at the taxpayer expense. I don’t see much changing. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (58AQ5)

Precisely. When the gibs for the illegals and other protected classes run out, this feudal arrangement is exactly as intended. The deadenders are exactly who would be expected, and I realize innocents are caught up in the madness but that's a smaller sliver than it ever was.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (CaELB)

Um, some of us morons are still in Kalifornia...just like there are morons in Joisey and New Yoik.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh)

283 A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (D7oie)

Scraping a barnacle off my boat doesn't make it weaker.

If i had a boat.

But screw that, man.

I don't want to own anything i have to scrape little weird crab volcanoes off of on a regular basis.

....

What the hell were we talking about again?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (+iIV1)

284 Newsom and Bass, as the salient figures, in the destruction of a significant chunks of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County seem to find that their role as government leaders is not to manage the public infrastructure efficiently but rather to cram down your throat and up your ass that you need to shut up and listen to them tell you that they care about telling you they care.

The residents of California cannot hate these people enough.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (Q8Bj8)

285 Government programs should be for the benefit of the greatest number of people possible.

Our thinking exactly, which is why government employment and salaries and embezzlement outpace the economy. You're welcome!

Posted by: Big Gov at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (633JL)

286 Accept their faulty premise for the sake of argument.

If global warming is an existential threat, then they logically would not cut LA Fire department resources. One would INCREASE the fire suppression capabilities. One would loudly proclaim that we need to take active measures to protect life and property.

They are so fucked 6 ways to Sunday it would be funny were it not so tragic. They have absolutely NO clue what is headed their way.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (x1CgS)

287 Gay men's chorus?

Kid's these days. Should have gone with the more traditional violins.

Don't they teach history in CA?

Posted by: Just Lily at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (DzlPc)

288 Unbelievable. So CA now thinks it can simply command insurance companies to write policies.

BREAKING: California Insurance Commissioner @RicardoLara4CA
has issued a mandatory one-year moratorium that will prohibit insurance companies from enacting non-renewals and cancellations of coverage for home owners within the perimeters or adjoining ZIP Codes of the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County regardless of whether they suffered a loss. The moratorium will expire on Jan. 7, 2026.

https://is.gd/bf0vfg

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (xCA6C)

289 Here's What Angelinos Got In Return

Not sure if the ASCII can handle it, but residents of L.A. are "Angeleños." Or I suppose "Angeleñx these days.

Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (pMi6S)

290
Um, some of us morons are still in Kalifornia...just like there are morons in Joisey and New Yoik.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh

Yes we are

Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (VE6XX)

291 The Biden admin just extended "Temporary Protection Status" for 18 months to 600,000 Venezuelans and 200,000 Salvadorans in the US

-
Well, there's lots of cities that haven't burned yet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (L/fGl)

292 273 Pharmageddon: Walgreens to shutter 12 San Francisco stores

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:06 PM (RHGPo)

Shoplifting: a San Francisco Treat!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ynpvh)

293 A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese

Yes but a significant portion of the population is busy intentionally destroying the country from the inside.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (t0Rmr)

294 No idea if that is true. But I have no problem believing that they would destroy towns to get the land cheap.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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The governments are buying up properties here, damaged by The Storm. Plan to make it 'Greenspace'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

295
278 With no water what could they do to put out fires?
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9

'Shut up', they explained.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:09 PM (mzM2O)

296 With no water what could they do to put out fires?
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

In the Chicago fire the city started dynamiting blocks to create firebreaks.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:09 PM (D7oie)

297 278 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

Dirt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

298 Kid's these days. Should have gone with the more traditional violins.
Posted by: Just Lily

There's already too much sax and violins in music.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

299 Mel Gibson was on the Joe Rogan show yesterday.
Meanwhile, back home, his CA home burned down.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 02:09 PM (Hkcdp)

300 With no water what could they do to put out fires?
Posted by: Skip

You ask a fine question, Citizen! We should probably convene a blue-ribbon panel to study the question and give us a report in a few years.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (RFx0q)

301 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip

With that big old Pacific Ocean just sitting there...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (ys+zb)

302 Unbelievable. So CA now thinks it can simply command insurance companies to write policies.
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By definition, 'Fascism', I would say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

303 If global warming is an existential threat, then they logically would not cut LA Fire department resources. One would INCREASE the fire suppression capabilities. One would loudly proclaim that we need to take active measures to protect life and property.

See also global warmists buying beach front property at top dollar... Barkey Obama may tell us global warming is going to flood our coast lines soon...but he put his money on the assumption it won't.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (t0Rmr)

304 A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese
Posted by: Kindltot
_________

But at what point are we shackled to a corpse?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (Dm8we)

305 With multiple reports of arsonists running around the LA basin right now, how long until instead of calling the cops the the people on the spot just start beating the arsonists to death?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (lUFok)

306 Trump will continue paying for it, then take it out of California's ass.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (Unq3t)

307 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

Inferior vintage Chardonnay?

Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (y9ksN)

308
Bass -o- matic '76:

https://youtu.be/2HKTx5WFcs0

Posted by: When SNL was funny at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (DobEs)

309 I believe she is functionally retarded.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I believe she is trying not to say anything that will get her indicted. Also she looked full of absolute fury for being questioned or blamed in any way for what she has done.
Posted by: Kindltot

Aw c'mon. She is perfect for the job.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (v0R5T)

310 If they only had electric firetrucks!!

Posted by: Diddly Squat at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (z3RCW)

311
In the Chicago fire the city started dynamiting blocks to create firebreaks.
Posted by: Kindltot
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It was that damned cow, I tell you!

Posted by: Mayor Bass at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

312 Bureaucracy just sucks up tax money

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (fwDg9)

313 301 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip

With that big old Pacific Ocean just sitting there...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (ys+zb)

Rub some dirt on it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

314 I believe she is trying not to say anything that will get her indicted. Also she looked full of absolute fury for being questioned or blamed in any way for what she has done.

Just like Kamala's Presidential Run the job she did was perfect...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:12 PM (t0Rmr)

315 Golden opportunity. Split. Let China take it. Invade, beat their asses silly, take it over again. Kick all the sympathizers out on the next boat to Shanghai.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

History says that is a deeply stupid idea.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:12 PM (IG4Id)

316 People like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have one job. It’s not to run things. It’s to be sacrificed when things go sideways so the system never has to reform.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 02:12 PM (FC8SQ)

317 But at what point are we shackled to a corpse?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM

Tell me about it....

Posted by: That's DOCTOR Jill Biden at January 10, 2025 02:12 PM (y9ksN)

318 304 A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese
Posted by: Kindltot
_________

But at what point are we shackled to a corpse?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (Dm8we)

But a tightly bound America is Fascism! I've seen what fasces are in Italian!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

319 When will Bassmouth and Newscum switch their CYA messaging from "Our first priority is saving lives, plebs!" to "It's time to move on and deal with current problems, like fighting the cruel, family-breaking deportation of harmless, hard-working undocumented migrants!"

A week from today is my bet. Those two will count on the pending inauguration then inauguration of Literally Hitler, to sweep the LA fires and all other news out of the local and national news cycles for a week.

Posted by: Gref at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (aBgBM)

320 I don't want to own anything i have to scrape little weird crab volcanoes off of on a regular basis.
------------------
What about a manatee? They just have moss and slime.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (jFCkp)

321 I guess it turns out that Democrat voters are not crazy, they are retarded.

Posted by: Prowl McCartney at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (qUkBO)

322 Personally, I don't think this disaster is done. It's been slowed, but red flag warnings are still in effect and this thing could go up in flames again and go out of control.

Let's hope not, but no time to relax yet.

Moving out 2.5 years ago was probably a good decision.

Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (Rfujk)

323 So Bass says they have to make cuts to the Fire Departments while she flies off to Ghana ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (VE6XX)

324
*Inferior vintage Chardonnay?*

Never!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (DobEs)

325 Beautiful liftoff! Falcon 9

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (oiNtH)

326 Um, some of us morons are still in Kalifornia...just like there are morons in Joisey and New Yoik.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh

Yes we are
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

Present!

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (v0R5T)

327 Old and busted: government of the people, by the people, and for the people

New and cool: government for the gay men's chorus

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

328 Not sure if the ASCII can handle it, but residents of L.A. are "Angeleños." Or I suppose "Angeleñx these days.
Posted by: zombie at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (pMi6S)

I have spent the majority of my career as a bilingual working in Spanish and English, and I have long come to the realization that the concern Spanish orthography takes with foreign words is "absolutely zero fncks" and the care with pronouncing foreign words is actually less.
I am an advocate of giving equal consideration for loanwords and foreign toponyms.

That being said, good morning Zombie! You always make my day brighter for your posting.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (D7oie)

329 311
In the Chicago fire the city started dynamiting blocks to create firebreaks.
Posted by: Kindltot
--------

It was that damned cow, I tell you!

Posted by: Mayor Bass at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

I thought she was a bass...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (ynpvh)

330 But a tightly bound America is Fascism! I've seen what fasces are in Italian!
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They talk with their hands. Very disturbing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (jFCkp)

331 So Bass says they have to make cuts to the Fire Departments while she flies off to Ghana ?

Leftwing LIVs don't vote based on competence or success, so she'll pay no price for doing this - just like the hobgoblin that destroyed Chicago...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (t0Rmr)

332 Personally, I don't think this disaster is done. It's been slowed, but red flag warnings are still in effect and this thing could go up in flames again and go out of control.
Posted by: InZona

Expect a 'long hot summer' as the 2nd act.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (IG4Id)

333 POLITICO
@politico
Donald Trump is the first U.S. president whose transition will be fully funded by private donors.

We explore the secrecy around Trump's presidential transition donors – and the troubling precedent it could set – with
@BusinessInsider
👇
http://politi.co/4fMzTXi
Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (exHjb)
_______________________________

More proof that Trump learned his lesson from the first time around. By going private, the caveat is not instituted that allows the Federal Govt. to inject their personnel into the transition team. That was one of the ways they continued the re-application of the FISA warrants on the Trump campaign and administration. Also, folks like Jennifer Wu were sent over by the DOJ...and eventually she prosecuted Steve Bannon, and let McCabe off the hook. It by no means is foolproof, but it sends a message to the Fed govt...,."not this time, bucko."

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (dIske)

334 What about a manatee? They just have moss and slime.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:13 PM (jFCkp)

"Sorry, i can't make it to your party, i got to scrape the slime off the manatee."

I would literally buy a manatee just to be able to use this excuse and not have any detectable hint in my voice or body language that I'm lying.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (+iIV1)

335 I've seen what fasces are in Italian!
Posted by: jim
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Well, and on the Roosevelt dime.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (XeU6L)

336 It's the most wonderful time, to be queer...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 10, 2025 01:53 PM

Walking 'round in women's underwear ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 01:56 PM

Frosty The Blows Men
Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 01:59 PM (y9ksN)

...don we now our gay apparel... shit, no change necessary. Nevermind

Posted by: Dummily Litella at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (FCbAQ)

337 301 With no water what could they do to put out fires?

Posted by: Skip

With that big old Pacific Ocean just sitting there...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2025 02:10 PM (ys+zb)

Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Slap hot iron to it... oh, wait.

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 02:15 PM (v0R5T)

338 Yes but a significant portion of the population is busy intentionally destroying the country from the inside.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 10, 2025 02:08 PM (t0Rmr)

Then the proper response is to suspend state government and declare martial law. No elections for a decade, offiicials appointed by the Fed Gov only allowed. Break it up into several pieces before readmission to the Union.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (wyMQY)

339 Sorry I am not living next to a China Mexico Venezuela Soviet Afghanistan Cuba hybrid with nukes. Nope. Ain't happening. It's like shacking up with your bitter psychotic ex wife the day after the split, separated by a single layer of drywall. Fuck that.

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (Unq3t)

340 But at what point are we shackled to a corpse?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:11 PM (Dm8we)

We can be shackled to California, over whom we have some measure of influence, or we can be shackled to Brussels and the Bank of England, over whom we have none, and is more malign and opposed to our success than the USSR ever was.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (D7oie)

341 Musk is going to provide Starlink to people in SoCal who need it for free.

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (oiNtH)

342 City overrun by teh ghey burns to the ground.

Biblical.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (aXJwO)

343 Imagine a firetruck.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (5IxCM)

344 >>>In the Chicago fire the city started dynamiting blocks to create firebreaks.

Posted by: Kindltot

>In the 21st Century, we can utilize EV lithium batteries as a substitute to back-burn and save our favorite, celebrity personal real estate empires.

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (hXQfZ)

345 343 Imagine a firetruck.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (5IxCM)

Is it a spherical one?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (ynpvh)

346 Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Slap hot iron to it... oh, wait.
Posted by: wth

Rub snow on it and move out.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

347 Looks at Pacific Ocean.
Looks at fire next to Pacific Ocean.
Looks at Pacific Ocean.

Posted by: Modern Ahhhhh at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (qUkBO)

348 Mel Gibson was on the Joe Rogan show yesterday.
Meanwhile, back home, his CA home burned down.
Posted by: Lizzy

Rumor has it that Mel Gibson is remaking The Wild Bunch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (L/fGl)

349 Imagine a firetruck.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (5IxCM)

Is it a spherical one?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (ynpvh

This is about me isn't it senor?

Posted by: Some Spherical Guatemalan at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (t0Rmr)

350 Then the proper response is to suspend state government and declare martial law. No elections for a decade, offiicials appointed by the Fed Gov only allowed. Break it up into several pieces before readmission to the Union.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 10, 2025 02:16 PM (wyMQY)

Find a way to declare California to be in a state of insurrection. Then send in Federal troops.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (8zz6B)

351 Remember a PhD from Harvard in gender management leading a major cities fire department.

Did she even have any fire management training?

Someone should ask her.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (OA79/)

352 346 Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Slap hot iron to it... oh, wait.
Posted by: wth

Rub snow on it and move out.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

No Yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (ynpvh)

353 In shocking twist, Democrats release another convicted felon from jail.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:18 PM (mzM2O)

354 The real tragedy here is the shortage of Dalmatians.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

355 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

Oopty.

Posted by: Dyke Fire Chief at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (v0R5T)

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It's actually filled with baby oil for Diddy sex parties.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:19 PM (jUz81)

356 We can be shackled to California, over whom we have some measure of influence, or we can be shackled to Brussels and the Bank of England, over whom we have none, and is more malign and opposed to our success than the USSR ever was.
Posted by: Kindltot
_____

Why would the second part of that necessarily follow?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Dm8we)

357 Rumor has it that Mel Gibson is remaking The Wild Bunch.

His current project is a film about the resurrection of Christ, as a sort of sequel of Passion of the Christ.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (2VST1)

358 Rumor has it that Mel Gibson is remaking The Wild Bunch.

His current project is a film about the resurrection of Christ, as a sort of sequel of Passion of the Christ.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (2VST1)

Do i want these to be the same movie, or not?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (+iIV1)

359 Golden opportunity. Split. Let China take it. Invade, beat their asses silly, take it over again. Kick all the sympathizers out on the next boat to Shanghai.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:04 PM (+iIV1)

A split America is a weak America. This is the goal of the EU and the Chinese
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:05 PM (D7oie)

There is something wrong with you if you think this country is not split already. Those hollyweird leftists want us normies dead and they don't care how that gets achieved.

You think any of them will pick up a rifle and defend you from anything?

Yeah right

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (89Sog)

360 Has unconditional discharge.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (5IxCM)

361 Its a pity the fires didn't consume SoFi Stadium. Its a fucking alien space ship.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (jFCkp)

362 357 Rumor has it that Mel Gibson is remaking The Wild Bunch.

His current project is a film about the resurrection of Christ, as a sort of sequel of Passion of the Christ.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (2VST1)

=======

He said on the Joe Rogan show that it's not filming until 2026 at some point, that he hasn't even started pre-production.

He's been on the verge of making it for years. In the meantime, he made Flight Risk which comes out later this month.

Who knows what his next movie will be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

363 I do absolutely know fire trucks in my town have the ability to go down a few blocks to the river and fill the truck up

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

364 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

We need to increase capacity!

Posted by: Karen Bass-o-Matic at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (+9G3c)

365 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

366 Its a pity the fires didn't consume SoFi Stadium. Its a fucking alien space ship.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Hope the Rose Bowl's OK.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

367 The real tragedy here is the shortage of Dalmatians.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

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I'm surprised that Disney & Hollywood haven't come out yet with a rebooted "101 Transgendered Dalmatians."

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:22 PM (jUz81)

368 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.

Posted by: beckster at January 10, 2025 02:22 PM (NLtte)

369 Mel returning for an "Old Man Max" Mad Max movie would be great

Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (y9ksN)

370 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

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Ruin the pumps.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (jUz81)

371 I'm surprised that Disney & Hollywood haven't come out yet with a rebooted "101 Transgendered Dalmatians."
Posted by: ShainS

Sam Brinton could play Cruella Deville!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

372 368 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.

Posted by: beckster at January 10, 2025 02:22 PM (NLtte)

Sara Lee >>> Barbara Lee

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

373 Why aren't there any transgender animals?

Hmmm

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (mzM2O)

374 Whenever I meet a Dalmatian I ask: what number are you?

Posted by: Steven Wright joke at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (DobEs)

375 #107 Update:
End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
BREAKING: LAPD says no probable cause for arson regarding suspect arrested with *blow torch* trying to IGNITE FIRES.

His name is still unknown.

https://tinyurl.com/4csut74r
35 seconds; video says they're still holding him over a felony probation violation and further investigation.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (iMpf5)

376 370 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

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Ruin the pumps.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (jUz81

Only once.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (mzM2O)

377 You're screwed.

(Cue "Theme from Sanford &Son")

Posted by: Caruso at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (zze5/)

378 Posted by: Karen Bass-o-Matic at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM

Who ever did that nic is genius! My hats off!

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (oiNtH)

379 Why did firemen, back in the day, need dogs?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (jFCkp)

380 I wonder if someday we'll have firefighting drones?

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (jUz81)

381 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

Kinda' like fire?

Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (Rfujk)

382 I learned a fascinating global warming fact this week: apparently climate change stops at the Orange County border.

Posted by: Candidus at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (YOYV1)

383 369 Mel returning for an "Old Man Max" Mad Max movie would be great
Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (y9ksN)

Do you really want to see max lectured to do better and beat up by and outsmarted by a boyish looking 16 year old 110 lb girlboss?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (OA79/)

384 I dont think Dem voters are dumb. I think they are increasingly overpaid government employees. Why would they vote for conservatives who are demanding competence and fiscal responsibility?

Posted by: Wally at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (KAV+b)

385 Trying again. Now with pictures -

MSN, Billionaires Building New California City

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (NFX2v)

386 370 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)
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Ruin the pumps.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (jUz81)

There are pumps that are built to handle salt water, e.g. fire boats. Some of those millions spent on DEI could have been used for that instead, but DEI -> DIE.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

387 If they had set the money on fire in the middle of the street last month at least it wouldn't have been windy.

Posted by: DaveA at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (FhXTo)

388 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 1h
🚨 WTF?! LA County just admitted they’ve LOST CONTROL of their emergency alert system

You can even hear one going off in the room as the Emergency Management Director speaks

MILLIONS of people are getting erroneous alerts telling them to evacuate, even if they’re 10+ miles from any fire or evacuation zone.

These people are wildly incompetent.
====
False Evacuation Alerts were made last night and earlier this AM too. See the EMT for links.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (iMpf5)

389 375 #107 Update:
End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
BREAKING: LAPD says no probable cause for arson regarding suspect arrested with *blow torch* trying to IGNITE FIRES.

The neighbors who nabbed him said he went from place to place trying to light it.. Saw them on TV.. No probable cause ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VE6XX)

390 374 Whenever I meet a Dalmatian I ask: what number are you?

Posted by: Steven Wright joke at January 10, 2025 02:23 PM (DobEs)

How many folks from Dalmatia have you met?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

391 379 Why did firemen, back in the day, need dogs?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (jFCkp)

They kept the horses calm.

Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (p4NUW)

392 326 Um, some of us morons are still in Kalifornia...just like there are morons in Joisey and New Yoik.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh

Yes we are
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

Present!
Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 02:14 PM (v0R5T)

I agree, as a former CA resident. It's a beautiful state that the liberals have ruined. What really gets me is that I haven't heard a peep from the CA GOP about this. It would be nice to have some fighters for the CA morons to get behind.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (PrPcQ)

393 Axios reports that Meta is eliminating its biggest DEI efforts, effective immediately, including ones that focused on hiring a diverse workforce, training, and sourcing supplies from diverse-owned companies. Its DEI department will also be eliminated. In a memo leaked to the outlet, Meta said it was making these changes because the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (RHGPo)

394 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.
Posted by: beckster

Fabulous. And whose former Police Chief disaster is now the Police Chief disaster of NOLA.

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (oiNtH)

395 365 But can imagine salt water would start wrecking things quickly

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

This. Guess what commie politicians would soon slash. Maintenance of systems that had salt water flowed through them. Including replacement as-needed of valves, pumps, seals, hydrants, etc.

Posted by: Gref at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (aBgBM)

396 Why aren't there any transgender animals?

Hmmm
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Actually, there are certain species that can change their sex, depending on conditions.

The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

397 Why would the second part of that necessarily follow?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:19 PM (Dm8we)

a divided America is a weak America, and the Bank of England and the EU control most of US Eastward trade and most of its eastward finances. A split America is controllable through financial manipulations, and those two have the resources to do it.
Our success is a danger to them, without the USA, Germany, France and Italy would not be facing the voter revolts they have

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (D7oie)

398 Didn't we just see the progressive 'bonafides' at work in LA???? Sure, lady........

"[Lee] is perfect for right now. She has the progressive bonafides, but she is also willing to make compromises and she is pragmatic," said Keally McBride, a University of San Francisco politics professor and an Oakland resident. "That is what Oakland is desperately needing right now."

Posted by: beckster at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (NLtte)

399 382 I learned a fascinating global warming fact this week: apparently climate change stops at the Orange County border.
Posted by: Candidus at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (YOYV1)

I learned that we can't control seasonal brush fires by rational planning and management techniques but we can control the climate with carbon taxes and unicorn farts.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (OA79/)

400 379 Why did firemen, back in the day, need dogs?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (jFCkp)

Cats are less obedient

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ynpvh)

401 Ace! U.K.'s Daily Mail (link in nick): Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

Posted by: Baldy at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ImjYr)

402 There are pumps that are built to handle salt water, e.g. fire boats. Some of those millions spent on DEI could have been used for that instead, but DEI -> DIE.
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Yep. You'd just need a floating platform with ample power to pump sea water inland. Its not that hard to do. Lifting water high enough might be the problem.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (jFCkp)

403 389 375 #107 Update:
End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
BREAKING: LAPD says no probable cause for arson regarding suspect arrested with *blow torch* trying to IGNITE FIRES.

The neighbors who nabbed him said he went from place to place trying to light it.. Saw them on TV.. No probable cause ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VE6XX)

If he was an illegal alien, they would have had to arrest him and move to deport him. I think that CA still values being a sanctuary state over taking care of its citizens.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (PrPcQ)

404 Only once.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 10, 2025 02:24 PM (mzM2O)

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Heh

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (jUz81)

405 Fire in Hollywood is a whole lot different than fire in Redding.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (AOt8X)

406 Great post by Shellenberger but he's giving Bass & Newsome way too much credit. He makes it sound like they could be good leaders if they didn't feel compelled to adopt the crazy Leftism of today's Democrat leadership. Bass & Newsome aren't good leaders but victims or pawns of the Left, THEY ARE THE LEFT, and by definition awful leaders. They weren't distracted from fire prevention; they deliberately had no interest in prioritizing fire prevention / protection because they didn't believe it was important. And they arguably still don't. I think they're getting miffed how the "global warming!" or "woman of color!" excuses aren't giving them a pass like they've been for years / decades. I don't see CA goin red, but the 2024 election has seriously changed the playbook...

Posted by: bearski at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (Bhsk7)

407 California can mandate that Ins policies are written; but, I don't believe they can set the cost of those policies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (Ux0wf)

408 396 Why aren't there any transgender animals?

Hmmm
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Actually, there are certain species that can change their sex, depending on conditions.

The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

Certain clams, like the ones that were used for royal purple in ancient times.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (ynpvh)

409 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/one of- ust two cl-415 super scooper planes out of action by a drone collision
https://tinyurl.com/ycy4reu6

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (fwDg9)

410 The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).
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I met that chick in the Philippines.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (jFCkp)

411 408 396 Why aren't there any transgender animals?

Hmmm
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Actually, there are certain species that can change their sex, depending on conditions.

The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

Certain clams, like the ones that were used for royal purple in ancient times.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:28 PM (ynpvh)

Or were those snails?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (ynpvh)

412 BREAKING: LAPD says no probable cause for arson regarding suspect arrested with *blow torch* trying to IGNITE FIRES.

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We will never know his motive ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (jUz81)

413 You think any of them will pick up a rifle and defend you from anything?

Yeah right
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. at January 10, 2025 02:20 PM (89Sog)

hey dude, congrats! You just found another subject to try to spur someone into arguing with you. This is what, three weeks straight? That takes a lot to show that sort of tenacity.
Good on you, man, I bet you can go a month without missing.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (D7oie)

414 394 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.
Posted by: beckster

Fabulous. And whose former Police Chief disaster is now the Police Chief disaster of NOLA.
Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (oiNtH)

...and is, I believe, lesbian as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (PrPcQ)

415 Go ahead dump saltwater on the place. It's already a mess.

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (v0R5T)

416 All those firefighting boats you see in New York Harbor parades have figured out how to pump ocean water.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (OkFiN)

417 We burnt this city
We burn this city on gay men's chorus
Burnt this city
Burnt this city on gay men's chorus

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (L/fGl)

418 401 Ace! U.K.'s Daily Mail (link in nick): Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

Posted by: Baldy at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (ImjYr)

Those African junkets are expensive!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (ynpvh)

419 I wonder if getting water from the ocean would also mean sucking up sea critters along with it and throwing them on the flames, too.

Roasted sea bream, FTW!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

420 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.
Posted by: beckster

Fabulous. And whose former Police Chief disaster is now the Police Chief disaster of NOLA.

Yes and she got a 1.5 M payout from the city of Oakland after she was fired and then sued.

Posted by: beckster at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (NLtte)

421 Our success is a danger to them, without the USA, Germany, France and Italy would not be facing the voter revolts they have
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (D7oie)

There is no magic rubrik that says 50 states can survive but 49 can't. We did just fine in the 30s and 40s for quite a while.

And Europe is a fucking basket case. We control their success, not the other way around. Cut off Brussels from the US Dollar and US credit instruments, and they're just a passel of broke ass pederasts with credit cards what don't work work no more.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (+iIV1)

422 Yep. You'd just need a floating platform with ample power to pump sea water inland. Its not that hard to do. Lifting water high enough might be the problem.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (jFCkp)

Nope. Just need a small step reservoir and start the process over. Could be as small as a large pool.

Posted by: Dummily Litella at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (FCbAQ)

423 388 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 1h
🚨 WTF?! LA County just admitted they’ve LOST CONTROL of their emergency alert system

You can even hear one going off in the room as the Emergency Management Director speaks

MILLIONS of people are getting erroneous alerts telling them to evacuate, even if they’re 10+ miles from any fire or evacuation zoneparts.se people are wildly incompetent.
====
False Evacuation Alerts were made last night and earlier this AM too. See the EMT for links.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:25 PM (iMpf5)

This is like NOLA being below sealevel and not having a workable Evac plan if the levels get overtopped.

This shit is boring. All the pols want to peacock around and hope someone else is doing the work. No one wants to do the boring but vital stuff.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (OA79/)

424 I agree, as a former CA resident. It's a beautiful state that the liberals have ruined. What really gets me is that I haven't heard a peep from the CA GOP about this. It would be nice to have some fighters for the CA morons to get behind.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

What a lot of people don't know is that there are large parts of CA that are conservative but they are run by Bay Area, LA, San Diego liberal massive graft machines and rampant voter fraud. This latest holocaust may just be the change it needs. Time will tell.

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (oiNtH)

425 a divided America is a weak America, and the Bank of England and the EU control most of US Eastward trade and most of its eastward finances. A split America is controllable through financial manipulations, and those two have the resources to do it.

Posted by: Kindltot
_______

I just can't see it. We're talking about a scenario in which Red America has the balls to cut loose from Blue. If that was the case, I just don't see Red America then doing the same thing over again with the EU.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (Dm8we)

426 AoS Style Guide: never mention Bass without mentioning that she was a long-serving member of the Venceremos Brigade, founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and officials of the Republic of Cuba.

She's not a socialist, not a marxist. She is a revolutionary communist, and was on Joe Biden's short list for VP.

Posted by: Candidus at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (YOYV1)

427 410 The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).
-----------------
I met that chick in the Philippines.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (jFCkp)

it's called a pseudo-penis, e.g. fake.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (ynpvh)

428 Go ahead dump saltwater on the place. It's already a mess.

Salt water blows onto those Palisades hillsides every single stormy day.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (OkFiN)

429 The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).
-----------------
I met that chick in the Philippines.
Posted by: Pudinhead

*snort*

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

430 The video of Karen returning from Africa is perfect. She acts like she no speaky English or is deaf. However, she's just plain stupid and liberal, as both are intertwined deeply in the neurological parasitic worm holes in her brain.

I also hate her haircut and face.

I forget where I saw a meme, either here or somewhere else, where Iran said on the 7th that the world would soon see crap (my paraphrase). We do indeed.

Someone somewhere mentioned DEW for the fires. Of course I had to look that up. No clue if real or connected to the glowing globes mystery. So far 2025 is really showing herself to be not boring. I could use some boring as already, with the fires in LA, both the NOLA and LV terrorists are old news like the hurricane horrors in W NC and E TN.

With the wonky emergency alerts in LA there may be a hacking, too. If I was in LA I'd leave right now, but that's just me.

The earthquake up in San Fran is just CA earthquakes and no connection. Probably Pelousy fell out of bed and forgot to use her walker. Old bitch.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (gi+MR)

431 414 394 And 78 year old marxist Barbara Lee just threw her hat in the ring to run for mayor of my old hometown, Oakland. What a sick joke.
Posted by: beckster

Fabulous. And whose former Police Chief disaster is now the Police Chief disaster of NOLA.
Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:26 PM (oiNtH)

...and is, I believe, lesbian as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (PrPcQ)

I thought lesbians were good at cutting costs...or maybe that was just scissoring...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

432 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

Let's not bring Politics into this!

Posted by: Soy Camping Boy at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (q/LY2)

433 I do absolutely know fire trucks in my town have the ability to go down a few blocks to the river and fill the truck up
Posted by: Skip
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That happened here during The Storm. There was at least one truck filling up at the local lake, constantly. All trucks kept topped up. They were also being used to transport water to the local hospital.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (XeU6L)

434 Bass-O-Matic>>>>>>>>>>>Karen Bass

Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (KQk9m)

435 Leo Kearse - on YouTube & GB News @LeoKearse 17h
Great to see the community in California rallying together to help people evacuate cherished items from their homes 🙏

https://tinyurl.com/m6dutvf8
20 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (iMpf5)

436 >> The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).

Wow, just like Barack..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (FC8SQ)

437 >>>The neighbors who nabbed him said he went from place to place trying to light it.. Saw them on TV.. No probable cause ?

Posted by: It's me donna

>Neither Einstein nor Svengali would ever come into the country with a desire to damage the bountiful breadbasket of prosperity offered by a Democrat's vision of our sacred Democracy.

Posted by: Dr. Jill's Fishnet Knickers at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (hXQfZ)

438 The among hyenas, the alpha female develops organs that mimic male genitalia (though they are non-functional).
-----------------
I met that chick in the Philippines.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (jFCkp)

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Please tell me "her" name was Lola.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (jUz81)

439 Why would California NOT run a Surplus Staff for Santa Ana Season?

It's the same time, each year.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 01:28 PM (oLK8+)

Silicon Valley has always been at war with Tinseltown.

Posted by: mrp at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (rj6Yv)

440 Rankin-Bass > all other basses

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

441 Global warming caused DEI hiring. Everybody knows that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (L/fGl)

442 The time for divorce is here.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat
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Not going to happen. This is our continent. CA is a free state if they want to kill themselves it's their business. This fiasco will end their national influence on products and purchasing, that's been coming anyway.

If CA does something that endangers NatSec then the Fed will take over that problem. NOTICE that the Monroe Doctrine has been re instituted and we are in the progress of acquiring more territory not divesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (OVrCp)

443 LA Police- No probable cause to charge man walking around with a blow torch of arson

Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (KQk9m)

444
I wonder if someday we'll have firefighting drones?
Posted by: ShainS

No, but we'll have firestarting drones.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (63Dwl)

445 440 Rankin-Bass > all other basses

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

Well, if you had to rank them I guess.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (ynpvh)

446 She's not a socialist, not a marxist. She is a revolutionary communist, and was on Joe Biden's short list for VP.
Posted by: Candidus at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (YOYV1)

Awesome! NOT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (gi+MR)

447 She's not a socialist, not a marxist. She is a revolutionary communist, and was on Joe Biden's short list for VP.
Posted by: Candidus at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (YOYV1)

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Holy shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 02:35 PM (gaKF9)

448 And Europe is a fucking basket case. We control their success, not the other way around. Cut off Brussels from the US Dollar and US credit instruments, and they're just a passel of broke ass pederasts with credit cards what don't work work no more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 10, 2025 02:30 PM (+iIV1)

I say it is a risk, you say it isn't. Until 3 years ago, the Europeans had a deep control over the US Dollar and credit insturments, which was cut off by SOFR. It is a start, but the problem in CA is not chuckleheaded socialists, it is the fact that their stupidity had no cost because of zero interest money backing deficit spending that was hidden by bad bookkeeping.

The reason stupid stops is because it becomes too expensive to tolerate.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:35 PM (D7oie)

449 I do absolutely know fire trucks in my town have the ability to go down a few blocks to the river and fill the truck up

It's what they do out here. We don't have hydrants out in the farm lands. They'll be full when they leave the station, but then they'll find a lake or pond.

Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (OkFiN)

450 There are pumps that are built to handle salt water, e.g. fire boats. Some of those millions spent on DEI could have been used for that instead, but DEI -> DIE.
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Yep. You'd just need a floating platform with ample power to pump sea water inland. Its not that hard to do. Lifting water high enough might be the problem.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (jFCkp)

California dismantled their never used desalinization plant and sold it for parts for Pennie's on the dollar. You think they would build and use a salt water pump ? Build yes. Use no.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (D6PGr)

451 A brush fire has erupted in Granada Hills prompting evacuation orders amid what fire officials described as “erratic winds” Friday.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

452 I just can't see it. We're talking about a scenario in which Red America has the balls to cut loose from Blue. If that was the case, I just don't see Red America then doing the same thing over again with the EU.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 10, 2025 02:31 PM (Dm8we)

Besides, we don’t need to kick out all of Cali. Just the blue areas. Repeat for every other blue city.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (FC8SQ)

453 Looks at Pacific Ocean.
Looks at fire next to Pacific Ocean.
Looks at Pacific Ocean.
Posted by: Modern Ahhhhh

Looks at scoured landscape.
Looks at yearly dust storms.
Looks at yearly mudslides washing away more land.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (IG4Id)

454 Please tell me "her" name was Lola.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:33 PM (jUz81)
Lola. Lola Flambeaux

Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (jgmnb)

455 I guess Admiral Ackbar missed out on NOODING the last thread with a NOOD Karen Bass notification...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)

456 If he was an illegal alien, they would have had to arrest him and move to deport him. I think that CA still values being a sanctuary state over taking care of its citizens.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Note to citizens - you see this shit going on or with looters, shoot, shovel and shut up. With all of the chaos going on, a few "missing" people won't matter.

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (oiNtH)

457 Next launch 1am Jan 12.
Blue Origin - New Glenn - Maiden Flight DarkSky-1

Posted by: Ciampino - mini-me not me mimi at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (i0xsb)

458 443 LA Police- No probable cause to charge man walking around with a blow torch of arson
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:34 PM (KQk9m)

Perfectly normal foe LA homeless...er, unhoused...illegal criminals. Have them in every neighborhood! This was raciss targeting! Everyone has a blowtorch!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (gi+MR)

459 "Rankin-Bass > all other basses"

Lousy propaganda unit, if you ask me.

Posted by: Burgermeister Meisterburger at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (KAV+b)

460
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:29 PM (D7oie)

I wasn't inviting an argument.

I do believe I ended it with "yeah, right" Like no further comment was needed.

But , yeah, right.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (89Sog)

461 457 Next launch 1am EASTERN Jan 12.
Blue Origin - New Glenn - Maiden Flight DarkSky-1

Posted by: Ciampino - mini-me not me mimi at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (i0xsb)

462
With the wonky emergency alerts in LA there may be a hacking, too. If I was in LA I'd leave right now, but that's just me.

The earthquake up in San Fran is just CA earthquakes and no connection. Probably Pelousy fell out of bed and forgot to use her walker. Old bitch.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (gi+MR)

The emergency alerts never work correctly. I will get one to evacuate and my husband sitting right next to me won't get the alert. People 3 hours to the north of me will get an alert and I won't. They're hit and miss.
The earthquake warning a few months ago, I got an alert that said earthquake and then I felt the rolling.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (qPFUY)

463 Good and hard. I have little to no sympathy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (/U5Yz)

464 450 There are pumps that are built to handle salt water, e.g. fire boats. Some of those millions spent on DEI could have been used for that instead, but DEI -> DIE.
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Yep. You'd just need a floating platform with ample power to pump sea water inland. Its not that hard to do. Lifting water high enough might be the problem.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:27 PM (jFCkp)

California dismantled their never used desalinization plant and sold it for parts for Pennie's on the dollar. You think they would build and use a salt water pump ? Build yes. Use no.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:36 PM (D6PGr)

But they have some GREAT sewer-to-tap programs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

465 Empty reservoirs reminds me of empty Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Odd.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:38 PM (jFCkp)

466 LA Times reports the Pacific Palisades reservoir, which has a capacity of 117 million gallons of water, was empty at the start of the fires.

==

Climate change!

---Barbary Streisand

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 02:38 PM (g47mK)

467 Eh, police arrest the guy and DA throws him back on the street immediately.
One might think they want LA to burn to the ground.

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:38 PM (fwDg9)

468 Oh it's EVEN WORSE.

Allegedly Bass sent a memo just weeks ago saying she was cutting ANOTHER $40 million from the firefighter budget and closing 16 fire stations.

A whistoeblower has leaked the memo.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 10, 2025 02:38 PM (Or/xy)

469 I do believe I ended it with "yeah, right" Like no further comment was needed.

But , yeah, right.
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (89Sog)

Yeah, right.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

470 Breaking911 @Breaking911 13m
WHO GOES TO JAIL OVER THIS? The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades, a key part of LA's water system, was EMPTY for "repairs" during the wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (iMpf5)

471 No body says "Joisey". Not in my 77 years have I heard anyone pronounce it that way, except for people from Brooklyn. And TV shows. When I was in the army in 67, I served with a few guys from California. They asked me where I was from, and when I replied, New Jersey they thought I was kidding. There was no descernable accent. If you were from Jersey City or Hoboken....maybe. But from Perth Amboy area? Nope. My wife's parents (Irish) were born and raised in Newark. Neither one of them had a discernable "stereotypical" Jersey accent.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (iODuv)

472 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.

Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Rfujk)

473 449 I do absolutely know fire trucks in my town have the ability to go down a few blocks to the river and fill the truck up

It's what they do out here. We don't have hydrants out in the farm lands. They'll be full when they leave the station, but then they'll find a lake or pond.
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Usually the local fire company will come out and do a dry run on any lake or pond they are adding to their resource list. You have to figure out where the trucks can go without sinking in, where you can draw water without emptying the gravel etc.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (RHGPo)

474 California needs to be put back in territory status for rehabilitation...

Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (KQk9m)

475 Large mouth bass > Small mouth bass > Mayor Bass

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (/U5Yz)

476 Bass-O-Matic>>>>>>>>>>>Karen Bass
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025

***
"Mr. Bass Man" by Johnny Cymbal >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Karen Bass

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (J2vNu)

477 462
With the wonky emergency alerts in LA there may be a hacking, too. If I was in LA I'd leave right now, but that's just me.

The earthquake up in San Fran is just CA earthquakes and no connection. Probably Pelousy fell out of bed and forgot to use her walker. Old bitch.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 02:32 PM (gi+MR)

The emergency alerts never work correctly. I will get one to evacuate and my husband sitting right next to me won't get the alert. People 3 hours to the north of me will get an alert and I won't. They're hit and miss.
The earthquake warning a few months ago, I got an alert that said earthquake and then I felt the rolling.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:37 PM (qPFUY)

The P-waves (compressional) are used for the alert, as they are faster than the S-waves (perpendicular) you mainly feel. Of course, the closer you are to a quake, the smaller the time differential between the arrival of the waves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (ynpvh)

478 It's what they do out here. We don't have hydrants out in the farm lands. They'll be full when they leave the station, but then they'll find a lake or pond.
Posted by: t-bird
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Most places have a stock tank or more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (OVrCp)

479 If you let Red States vote to secede together to form a new country I believe it would pass . The Blue states and Left in the Red States would fight tooth and nail to prevent it. They know that as a Leftist woke country that would remain would be a disaster that wouldn't survive.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (D6PGr)

480 472 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.
Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Rfujk)

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Lots of psychos starting fires. Lots of videos of it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (gaKF9)

481 Haven't we seen the movie before in Maui ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (RHGPo)

482 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.
Posted by: InZona

Helluva coinkydink!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (L/fGl)

483 Rogan dropped his podcast with Zuck. Should be interesting.

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (g47mK)

484 NOOD META

Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (VE6XX)

485 I remember seeing an installation at the Gene Autry museum about old Native American ways and one was a video about controlled burns. It was presented as ancient wisdom that we should adopt.

Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (Rfujk)

486 472 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.
Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Rfujk
Remember, a whole buttload of military-age males crossed into California illegally during the past four years.

Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (jgmnb)

487 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.
Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Rfujk)

Remember the chatter that various people were calling for the activation of terror cells in the US?

This is going to go on all summer and beyond.
"why plant a tree in Israel? Because the PLO keeps burning down the ones they already had"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (D7oie)

488 Rumors are, as the fires are still burning, LA county is already planning to change the zoning of the entire fire area from private residential to multifamily housing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 10, 2025 02:42 PM (/U5Yz)

489 Scientific American, July 29, 2016
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs By Rowan Jacobsen & Ensia

Aqua Tech, Sorek 2 desalination project moves ahead with seven bidders, Friday, 12 October 2018
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Father worked for Westinghouse Steam (and Turbine) Division in Lester, Pa when I was a kid and it turned out at least some giant turbines for desalination. I remember because he took us down to the plant and explained how important desalination would be for much of the world.

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 02:42 PM (NFX2v)

490 Fortunately though, California officials are laser-focused on resolving this crisis. And when I say laser-focused, what I really mean is this: CA Dem Becomes Sputtering Mess When Asked Why Assembly Is Holding Special Session on Trump As Fires Rage.

Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (RHGPo)

491 Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department

I wonder if their budget is > $17 million.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (ARlwA)

492 >>Great to see the community in California rallying together to help people evacuate cherished items from their homes 🙏

Thanks, bro! We do what we can to help our community.

Posted by: Affirmative Shopping Action Network at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (Y1sOo)

493 New fire just popped up in Granada Hills. This is not over.
Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (Rfujk

Remember, a whole buttload of military-age males crossed into California illegally during the past four years.
Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (jgmnb)

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The Junta's terrorists are coming home to roast.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (MQTc2)

494 Back around 2000 the USFS abandoned their “fire camps” that were sited deep within national forests and used as staging areas for brush clearance - the crews lived in mobile barracks- those barracks were simply like a tracker trailer with bunks.

I know this as fact because for some reason the USFS abandoned a bunk trailer at the Daniel Zink staging area on the western slope, Plumas National Forest - and we used to use it as cover if it rained

Posted by: 13times at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (iT/im)

495 "Mr. Bass Man" by Johnny Cymbal >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Karen Bass
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (J2vNu)

"Mr. Bass" (Descendants) > Karen Bass

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 10, 2025 02:46 PM (lg881)

496 One illegal from Iran, goes to a store, and buys a box of flares. Wait for the wind to blow and...? Drive around LA tossing them into the bushes.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the cause of these fires will NEVER be determined, not if they can help it.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (ARlwA)

497 My prediction: Dem voters will keep f*ckin that chicken. Dems simply won't hear about politicians' misfeasance and malfeasance from their sources of "news" and will instead be told that the fires are all due to climate change.

Posted by: Bud Norton at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (/8Jbh)

498 I remember seeing an installation at the Gene Autry museum about old Native American ways and one was a video about controlled burns. It was presented as ancient wisdom that we should adopt.
Posted by: InZona at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (Rfu

They did it just to clear lands to put their village on. I don't think it was for fire prevention. But I think your point was that if these Indians could safely do control burns we should be able to . And it's must be okay environmentally because native Americans do everything environmentally correct. /s

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:48 PM (D6PGr)

499 98 The Beatles best song, "Til There Was You," was actually a cover version of an Anita Bryant hit.
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"Til There Was AIDS?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

500 And then some Hollywood Studio gose up in Flames and burns to the Ground

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (wGqjj)

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Karen Bass Slashed $17 Million from LA's Firefighting Budget, With the Monies Cut Mostly from Fire Prevention.Here's What Angelinos Got In Return.

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Karen Bass Slashed $17 Million from LA's Firefighting Budget, With the Monies Cut Mostly from Fire Prevention.
Here's What Angelinos Got In Return.