Leaked Memo: Karen Bass Demanded Fire Department Slash Budget by an <i>Additional</i> $49 Million... One Week Before the Wildfires Blazed

Leaked Memo: Karen Bass Demanded Fire Department Slash Budget by an Additional $49 Million... One Week Before the Wildfires Blazed

Guys, I'm starting to think the left has a bunch of very misplaced priorities.

Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out
By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed.
This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget.
The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said.
DailyMail.com interviewed current and former senior LAFD officers briefed on the shocking proposed cuts, and exclusively obtained the memo from an LA Fire Department (LAFD) whistleblower who posts on social media under the moniker 'LAFD Watchdog'.
The memo is dated January 6, only a day before the devastating Palisades Fire started.
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'They did not want this out. It's an internal memo not to be distributed,' one currently-serving 25-year veteran of the Fire Department told DailyMail.com.
'It comes from top brass downtown, City Hall.
'They're trying to allocate more money for the homeless, and they need to start taking from everybody.
'But we already exhausted our budget. It's already tapped. That's why they cut the fire academy in half, so they could save more money. That's why we're not testing if hydrants work any more. We're doing everything we can to save money.
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'We have fire engines we can't get parts for. When one breaks down we strip it of parts to put on other fire engines because we can't buy any more parts.
'If you shut down 16 stations, that's about 750 personnel. Then they expect us to take the same call volume. And yesterday we did 3,800 calls, almost twice of what our daily call volume usually is.
'We're already shy 200 paramedics, and we're on the verge of another 200 quitting because we can't do this any more.
'If we don't work overtime, they suspend and threaten to terminate us. It's untenable.'
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Meanwhile, Bass, who was on a trip to Ghana to attend the West African country's presidential inauguration on Tuesday has been heavily criticized for the trip - as a warning was sent out about 'critical' weather conditions days prior.
Bass defended her leadership when asked at a press conference on Thursday and said: 'I just said what I believe is the most important thing for us to do right now. That's going to continued to be my focus.'

Even celebrities, who are not only the most gonzo-leftwing people in the country but who further will literally lose their careers if they upset the Progressive Blob, have had enough.

Now, to be honest, most of the celebrities making noise about Newsom and Bass resigning were already Suspected Conservatives. Sarah Michelle Gellar, for example, supports Israel, and I think Gillian Michaels supports keeping girls sports for, you'll never believe this, girls.

Still, they seem emboldened, which suggests to me that they're themselves receiving strong signals from their friends and colleagues that the Never-Criticize-the-Left rule is suspended, at least for now:

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jillian Michaels and Sara Foster have joined Donald Trump in slamming local and state officials amid the devastating Southern California wildfires.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the fitness personality, 90210, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer stars took to social media to express their frustrations while slamming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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Gellar, 47, took to Instagram to air her frustrations at Bass, 71, who has been slammed online for her response in the midst of the disaster as well as previous fire department budget cuts.
She tagged Bass in her story and wrote: "City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping."
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Foster, 43, made her feelings clear on X, writing: "We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared.
"Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits."
Like Trump, 82, Foster also called on Newsom and Bass to resign as she claimed their "far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party."
The Barely Famous actress is not the only celebrity to call out Newsom and Bass.
Former Biggest Loser trainer Michaels, 50, didn't hold back when expressing her "outrage" at state officials.
The fitness guru understands first-hand the trauma victims are experiencing as her Malibu home was burned in the 2018 Woolsey fire.
Although she consider her family "lucky" because they "didn't lose everything," she said the experience still greatly impacted herself and her children.
She told the Daily Mail: "People are dead, homes have burned, it is not your first rodeo. It is not.
"And when you know that you have a state that is prone to fire and -- I'm going to give it to you -- you've got global warning, you have literally have a tinderbox.
"Isn't this the part where you take the highest taxed, highest income tax, highest sales tax, highest gas tax and rebuild the infrastructure?"
Michaels further claimed Newsom did not take swift enough action and believed the National Guard should have been called in sooner to help with firefighting efforts.
The 50-year-old added: "I'm sorry, and the reason for me this is super serious is because this guy wants to be your president. This now goes from a California problem to a country-wide problem."

Obviously Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson are no longer afraid to be associated with the right. They called out Newsom and California's gonzo progressive circus.

Chuck star Zachary Levi was fulsome in demanding accountability and consequences:

I don't think these people are overly courageous. That's why I take their statements as not being reflective of just what they believe, but what they believe, based on conversations had with others, is now the acceptable and widely-accepted mode of thought.

Posted by: Ace at 03:36 PM

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1 Corgis Called.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (VNX3d)

2 Modest proposal

Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (5ibPC)

3 first?

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (pJWtt)

4 * shakes fist at "Hour of the Wolf" *

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (pJWtt)

5 So, are actual firebugs running the government out there?

Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (mADJX)

6 Pyromaniacs would be more competent.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (5ibPC)

7 7th!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (fxCK2)

8 * shakes fist at "Hour of the Wolf" *
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (pJWtt)

Sometimes I get lucky. Not often, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (VNX3d)

9 They're trying to allocate more money for the homeless, and they need to start taking from everybody.

Some fires caused by homeless.
Cut $49 from firefighting to help the homeless.
Get more fires caused by homeless...
...
PROFIT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

10 I've been saying for a while that Dems should not run anything and any level.

I regret that reality has been illustrating it so well lately.

But it really illustrates what I saw as potential.

Posted by: Dems on X at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (krQz2)

11 Black and female politicians are a blight on the land. Black female politicians are hopelessly, hopelessly, bad. Every. One. Of. Them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

12 But ... but ... Biden just assured me it was the fault of the evil energy company for cutting power when it was most needed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (Gqoy+)

13 5 So, are actual firebugs running the government out there?

Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (mADJX)

And pederasts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

14 Some fires caused by homeless.
Cut $49 from firefighting to help the homeless.
Get more fires caused by homeless...
...
PROFIT!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)
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Firemen won't take the phony vax --> FIRE ALL 113 OF THEM!

Posted by: Dems on X at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)

15 "Obviously Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson are no longer afraid to be associated with the right."

I dragged that little coward over to the right kicking and screaming, thank you very much.

And you're welcome.

Posted by: Donald J Trump, 3X POTUS at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (QGSOa)

16 When the Left starts clamoring for low income housing to be built in the areas destroyed by fire, you'll wonder if this was all intentional.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (qUkBO)

17 >>>Guys, I'm starting to think the left has a bunch of very misplaced priorities.

Look at the crazy conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (i24o9)

18 I don't think a lot of people understand this. The entire concept of DEI and modern liberal governance is about giving jobs to unqualified people who are loyal, and members of the in group, who happen to be minorities in terms of race, sex, or proclivities. It is also about social justice being carried out at the expense of the citizens.

There is not a government operation anywhere whose first mission is to the citizens, not one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (lTGtQ)

19 I understand a lot of you are upset with our informal "Lesbians Only" hiring practice for firefighters. But let me say that -while we're not that good at fighting fires- we have one helluva softball team.

Posted by: Mayor Bass-o-Matic at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (KAV+b)

20 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)

21 Friends, don't let DNC happen to your town.

Only you can prevent Democratic politics.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)

22 Those penii aren't going to sip themselfs.

Posted by: Karen Totally to the Gay Marxist Bass at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (zze5/)

23 All politics is local.

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (NFX2v)

24 17 >>>Guys, I'm starting to think the left has a bunch of very misplaced priorities.

Look at the crazy conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (i24o9)

I wear a tin-foil (well Aluminum foil) hat and cod piece, thank you very much...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

25 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)
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They opened for Porno For Pyros at Pyrofest in 2012.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

26 Perhaps we are at an inflection point in regards to Environmentalism(tm). It is ironic that it takes a bunch of rich Lefties getting burnt-out of their multi-million dollar homes, however.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (pJWtt)

27 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...

Well, some of those kids are pretty smokin' hot.

Posted by: FJB at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (xCA6C)

28 You've got a mayor who cuts the fire department budget, a governor who refuses to build dams and reservoirs and senior fire-fighting bureaucrats who are just lesbians who like to dress up as Bolivian admirals, and they wind up telling you to heave your own a$$ out the window if your home catches fire.

Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (mADJX)

29 2 Modest proposal

Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (5ibPC)

But what if they know the cheat code to give the city $1,000,000?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (FGFJD)

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

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

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (Gqoy+)

31 Do you also have a potato on your belt?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (5ibPC)

32 20 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)

We need Ace's clowns...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

33 It's me it's me it's Karen T!!!

Posted by: Karen "T" Bass at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (zze5/)

34 Did they close Station 51?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (63Dwl)

35 Do you also have a potato on your belt?
Posted by: Anna Puma

I have a potahto. Does that count?

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

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

It may well be that this is a death knell for Newsom's '28 chances, although he'll certainly try to get everyone to simply ignore what he's done. However, if not Newsom, who?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (xCA6C)

37 19 I understand a lot of you are upset with our informal "Lesbians Only" hiring practice for firefighters. But let me say that -while we're not that good at fighting fires- we have one helluva softball team.

Posted by: Mayor Bass-o-Matic at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (KAV+b)

Lesbians with soft balls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

38 I got bad news for you guys.

If you think this would:
A) End Bass' political career
B) Make a democrat radioactive for LA mayor
C) Make a republican acceptable for mayor of LA
D) None of the Above

It's answer D.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (17s+e)

39
It's me it's me it's Karen T!!!
Posted by: Karen "T" Bass

Stop throwing rocks!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (63Dwl)

40 That's why I take their statements as not being reflective of just what they believe, but what they believe, based on conversations had with others, is now the acceptable and widely-accepted mode of thought.

Isn't that a preference cascade or something?

Which reminds me, I think the Ceaușescus would like to have a word. If they still could.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (/HDaX)

41 Perhaps we are at an inflection point in regards to Environmentalism(tm). It is ironic that it takes a bunch of rich Lefties getting burnt-out of their multi-million dollar homes, however.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (pJWtt)
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A very dear and longstanding friend of mine is among them. And he didn't live in a multi-million dollar home. All that's left of his home in Altadena is the chimney.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

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

I've definitely had that thought. If San Francisco suddenly burns on a widespread basis it'll be Sodom and Gomorrah all over again.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

43 At minimum shouldn't Bass be fired?

I know these idiot DEI hires end up suing and making millions but sheeesh can't they get rid of these incompetent scumbags??

This reminds me of Buttigieg, they put him as head of Transportation because he's seen a train before but he knew nothing about the job and didn't start until a month or two after he should have (no one noticed). He's made no improvements and only looked constipated while making speeches after transportation disasters.

The left loves incompetence.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (gaKF9)

44 Looking forward to Felonious Trump inspecting the LA Ruins with Hair Gel and Bass. This is gonna be great!

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (jFCkp)

45 29 2 Modest proposal

Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (5ibPC)

But what if they know the cheat code to give the city $1,000,000?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (FGFJD)

More like playing GTA

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (ynpvh)

46 YES, LET'S HELP THE HOMELESS BY CREATING MORE OF THEM BY BURNING DOWN HOMES.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (wtvvX)

47 I'm starting to think it weird that they include people's ages after pretty much every reference to them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (6K6Eu)

48 With their minds on ideology, the progressives really become dilettantes to all pragmatic matters of governing.

We need to build Ark B.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

49 [2] Modest proposal

Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City. - Anna Puma

I think that's an absolutely first rate idea! And not the less first rate for also being hilarious.

Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (mADJX)

50 Y'know something? I'm convinced now California is cursed. Seemingly such a paradise...and yet, those there are inexorably driven to madness...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (OUMaO)

51 It's me it's me it's Karen T!!!
Posted by: Karen "T" Bass

Stop throwing rocks!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

She's a nut!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

52 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)
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They opened for Porno For Pyros at Pyrofest in 2012.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

Next year they hope to be at Burning Man.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (VNX3d)

53 YES, LET'S HELP THE HOMELESS BY CREATING MORE OF THEM BY BURNING DOWN HOMES.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (wtvvX)
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Don't look at me!

Posted by: David Byrne at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (krQz2)

54 Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (5ibPC)
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Who the hell enabled Godzilla?!?!?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (6K6Eu)

55 There may be a silver lining to this catastrophe: it may well have put "paid" to Karen "DEI" Bass's political career, and to Governor Hairgel's Presidential aspirations.

The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

56 That's why I take their statements as not being reflective of just what they believe, but what they believe, based on conversations had with others, is now the acceptable and widely-accepted mode of thought.
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Reality is a bitch with pointy teeth and she likes to bite. The message going forward everywhere should be vote like your lives depend it. Because if you don't you get. ... pictures of buring neighborhoods....

Posted by: The Pope of Hope and Change....um about that at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (RCmT7)

57 My favorite Def Lepard album? Pyromania.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (dR6yv)

58 "However, if not Newsom, who?"
_____

Tanned, rested, and hirsute.

Posted by: Mike Obama at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (qUkBO)

59 52 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)
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They opened for Porno For Pyros at Pyrofest in 2012.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

Next year they hope to be at Burning Man.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (VNX3d)

They ain't burnin' for men, if you get my drift...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

60 It's answer D.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (17s+e)

It took Bass two weeks of vote counting and a Buick trunkload of ballots to win. She's absolutely vulnerable if someone like Scott Presler sets up shop out there.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

61 Y'know something? I'm convinced now California is cursed. Seemingly such a paradise...and yet, those there are inexorably driven to madness...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (OUMaO)
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Madness that was imported from the Northeast and upper Midwest.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

62 Ha........ Ha.... Ha...

Trump is guilty of lying to our Black President and his breath stinks too !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (7uGna)

63 19 I understand a lot of you are upset with our informal "Lesbians Only" hiring practice for firefighters. But let me say that -while we're not that good at fighting fires- we have one helluva softball team.
Posted by: Mayor Bass-o-Matic at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (KAV+b)

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Alright, alright, at least that's something.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (gaKF9)

64 61 Y'know something? I'm convinced now California is cursed. Seemingly such a paradise...and yet, those there are inexorably driven to madness...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (OUMaO)
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Madness that was imported from the Northeast and upper Midwest.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

Policies have consequences...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

65 Y'know something? I'm convinced now California is cursed. Seemingly such a paradise...and yet, those there are inexorably driven to madness...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (OUMaO)
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There are probably a lot of Native Americans buried throughout California.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (krQz2)

66 Funny how all these vapid Hollyweird celebrities suddenly get serious when their ox is gored

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (iFTx/)

67 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Give us a few months.

Posted by: The media at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (xCA6C)

68 So, are actual firebugs running the government out there?
Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (mADJX)

No, they're Communists that do not acknowledge that human beings have any innate value. Thus, you get the world-view in which Human = Delta Smelt = Dead Brush. Of course, being Minions of Satan tends to suppress the conscience, too.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (pJWtt)

69 Tanned, rested, and hirsute.

Posted by: Mike Obama at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (qUkBO)
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And hung like a horse.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

70 Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM (7uGna)

Kumala Harris? Oh sorry, she, like Hilary Clinton, will never be President...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

71 The San Andreas is seriously in dereliction of duty, just sayin' is all

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (OUMaO)

72 The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qPFUY)

73 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

The body count will rise. Their malfeasance is being noted. I think they're done.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (dR6yv)

74 I'm starting to think it weird that they include people's ages after pretty much every reference to them.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

"Today, on Ace of Spades HQ, one Sponge (29) engaged in repartee with one Doof (29) and TheJamesMadison (15), while one Bulg (29) bitched about the art posted by a certain Charlie Brown's Dildo (104)..."

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

75 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Give us a few months.

Posted by: The media at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (xCA6C)
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You didn't help Chlamydia much, now did you?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (YqDXo)

76 Somehow Bass, Newsom and the rest of the Democrats will find a way to blame Trump as soon as he is sworn into office.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC)

77 Watch out for the pyro-pederasts...
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (5ibPC)
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They opened for Porno For Pyros at Pyrofest in 2012.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

Next year they hope to be at Burning Man.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (VNX3d)

They ain't burnin' for men, if you get my drift...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

If there's a Burning Child meeting, I'm sure they keep it quiet.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (VNX3d)

78 The moron at the Daily Mail that wrote this article said Trump is 82

Posted by: keena at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (biznJ)

79 74 "Today, on Ace of Spades HQ, one Sponge (29) engaged in repartee with one Doof (29) and TheJamesMadison (15), while one Bulg (29) bitched about the art posted by a certain Charlie Brown's Dildo (104)..."
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

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Le sigh...

Ages and the passage of time...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

80 What would they have done differently if they had wanted L.A. to burn?

Not ignored dry brush
Built dams and reservoirs
Hired enough staff
Prepared in advance

They did none of this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (RIvkX)

81 They voted for these idiots and what did they would happen when crisis strikes ????

I will continue to hit myself on the head with a hammer until my attitude improves.........

Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (UYPBJ)

82 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Give us a few months.

Posted by: The media at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (xCA6C)
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You didn't help Chlamydia much, now did you?

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: The media at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (xCA6C)

83 44 Looking forward to Felonious Trump inspecting the LA Ruins with Hair Gel and Bass. This is gonna be great!
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (jFCkp)

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I'm not because that only means writing checks from OUR account. I'd prefer North Carolina get some infrastructure first.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (gaKF9)

84 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM
👍

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (fwDg9)

85 75 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Give us a few months.

Posted by: The media at January 10, 2025 03:48 PM (xCA6C)
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You didn't help Chlamydia much, now did you?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (YqDXo)

Wasn't there a poll that found that actual Chlamydia was more popular than Congress?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

86 Most of America learned their lesson between 2021-2024 but it will take a lot more for CA, NY, IL, OR, and WA to get the message.... if ever.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (17s+e)

87 72 The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
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Yep. That started somewhere in 80s. Used to be just an EMT/Ambulance. Methinks its about the Union and billable hours.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (jFCkp)

88

No no no it was an INCREASE in 50 billion!!!

IT WAS.

YOU HATE HER BECAUSE SHES A BLACK WOMAN.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (et1vG)

89 If I told my wife a week ago "hey, we oughta consider giving away stuff in our pantry to make some room for new stuff," it would've been a reasonable thing to do.

And then, when this snowstorm hit... "You gave our food away, and now we're as good as dead," she'd say. Even though that's not very reasonable, I'd still be in dutch.

But the people in CA said "put the water in the holes, or we're as good as dead," and the politicians said "no that's fascism you Nazi," and those people will thank those politicians next election.

It's the damnedest thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (BI5O2)

90 That's why we're not testing if hydrants work any more. We're doing everything we can to save money.
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Plus fat, winded lesbians, who say they've done enough and their "over it".

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (krQz2)

91 The charlie foxtrot those two are now indelibly associated with is going to be very hard to live down.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

The body count will rise. Their malfeasance is being noted. I think they're done.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (dR6yv)
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I think Bass is clearly done. Just her inability even to make nice noises on landing at LAX will finish her.

Newsom might live this down, but I think J.D. will stick this whole fiasco up his ass if Newsom runs for President.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

92 No amount of money or water can quench the fires in my loins. My mommy is very angry, and will punish me accordingly.

Posted by: Sid at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (n3iby)

93 How long before the chact feckers break bad on this one?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (1bNHn)

94 61 Y'know something? I'm convinced now California is cursed. Seemingly such a paradise...and yet, those there are inexorably driven to madness...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (OUMaO)
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Madness that was imported from the Northeast and upper Midwest.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM

Thank you. Very few of the people I meet that are the big rabble rousers for change are from here. Most of them are from LA by way of New York.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (qPFUY)

95 So, not to start a new conspiracy theory, but...

Ummm, there's now 16 fire departments that had a great reason to start the ball rolling with the 1st fire...

And while we have the follow on arsonists, I don't think we have the 1st yet, right?

And we know black gay firefighters don't care to pull men out of burning houses...but they might care about getting their paycheck taken...

Just sayin...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (exHjb)

96
If Jillian Michaels had prefaced her criticism of Bass with "....as an out and proud gap-lapper..." it would have been epic.

Talk about a missed opportunity...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (y9nCu)

97
Old & Busted: "DEFUND THE POLICE!"
New Hotness: "DEFUND THE FIREHOUSE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (xmNAu)

98 If only they voted for a different Democrat will be their mindset.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (NpAcC)

99 The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qPFUY)

wasn't that the background of that wonderful slice of life show, Emergency?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (D7oie)

100 80 What would they have done differently if they had wanted L.A. to burn?

Not ignored dry brush
Built dams and reservoirs
Hired enough staff
Prepared in advance

They did none of this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (RIvkX)

Keep water AVAILABLE in reservoirs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

101 Sarah Michelle Gellar is mad. She spent a decade trying to close up that Hellmouth, and the whole place burned up anyway.

Posted by: mikeski at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (DgGvY)

102 Plus fat, winded lesbians, who say they've done enough and their "over it".

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (krQz2)
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And are now "socializing," IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

103 86 Most of America learned their lesson between 2021-2024 but it will take a lot more for CA, NY, IL, OR, and WA to get the message.... if ever.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Dange

There are vast swaths of each of those state which are NOT blue. It's the cities.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (W2Pud)

104 Confound these evil, stupid bureaucrats! They make me think bad thoughts. Like sitting in the air-conditioned cab of a souped-up bulldozer, and chasing them across a broad, treeless plain.

Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (mADJX)

105 I think J.D. will stick this whole fiasco up his ass if Newsom runs for President.

Hillbilly Enema

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

106 I do read satellite images sometimes on my real job, and I had already sleuthed out the Santa Ynez Reservoir - since I knew something like it MUST exist. However, it was clearly dry when I checked it on Google Earth, so I investigated further.

Here is the link to the construction rehabilitation project that began in 2009. Please note that the reservoir HELD WATER prior to this project.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfsdt6n

I then used Google Earth to go back in time to see if the reservoir had EVER been filled following the rehabilitation project. I could not find a single satellite image showing water impounded in the reservoir.

I then investigated the California State Water Resources Control Board site to see if there are any records of the historical water levels in the reservoir. Bing says there is a document from July 8, 2024. However, when I clicked on the link, I got a 404 error.

I don't know if that error has existed for a long time, or if they are scrubbing their tracks.

IMO, there may be some criminal negligence involved in this disastrously inept fire preparation and response!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (HlyYF)

107 You didn't help Chlamydia much, now did you?
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I don't even LIVE in her hood!

Posted by: Daquan at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (krQz2)

108 83 44 Looking forward to Felonious Trump inspecting the LA Ruins with Hair Gel and Bass. This is gonna be great!
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (jFCkp)

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I'm not because that only means writing checks from OUR account. I'd prefer North Carolina get some infrastructure first.
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Understood, but all of CA watching Trump walk around the ruins of LA with the arsonists is big theater.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (jFCkp)

109 This reminds me of Buttigieg, they put him as head of Transportation because he's seen a train before but he knew nothing about the job and didn't start until a month or two after he should have (no one noticed). He's made no improvements and only looked constipated while making speeches after transportation disasters.

The left loves incompetence.

Posted by: Seems Legit

He has also pulled a few trains in his day.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (lTGtQ)

110 44 Looking forward to Felonious Trump inspecting the LA Ruins with Hair Gel and Bass. This is gonna be great!
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (jFCkp)

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I'm not because that only means writing checks from OUR account. I'd prefer North Carolina get some infrastructure first.

Posted by: Seems Legit

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As soon as Helene victims are set, the little bit of FEMA funds can then flow to Cali. Not before. No line jumping.

Posted by: Donald Trump at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (17s+e)

111 >>> The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qPFUY)

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In our Midwest town of 60K, they do the same. Makes no sense. I’m mean, I'm sure there is some fiscal reason for it. But a logical one? I’m open to understanding.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (JfxgE)

112 I think a lot of the leftism among celebrities is just an act. It helps them network, gets them attention and feeds their sense of worth. Mostly it's about furthering their careers.

The best way to make it in LAla Land is through connections -- sex, causes, relationships -- almost never about talent.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (wBaIH)

113 72 The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qPFUY)

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Don't they have ambulances with paramedics who respond to calls like they do here? Yes, they are mostly calls from ODing addicts for Narcam but it's not the fire department.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (gaKF9)

114 Gellar, 47, took to Instagram to air her frustrations at Bass, 71,

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A 71 year old? When is it enough with these people? When have you screwed enough money out of taxpayers that you can retire? Apparently never.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (unUNN)

115 Keep water AVAILABLE in reservoirs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)
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Lake Hodges here in San Diego had to release water because it was filled to the brim from last year's torrential rains.

Thank God Newsom & Co. didn't build another reservoir, the bloody Indians and their salmon permitting, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

116 Sid is preaching "Sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (6K6Eu)

117 Madness that was imported from the Northeast and upper Midwest.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM

Thank you. Very few of the people I meet that are the big rabble rousers for change are from here. Most of them are from LA by way of New York.

Charles Manson was from OH.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (xCA6C)

118 Kamala will fix this when she's governor.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (NpAcC)

119 Sid is begging to be thrown in the volcano.

Posted by: Rex B at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (A75H2)

120 Gellar, 47, took to Instagram to air her frustrations at Bass, 71,

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A 71 year old? When is it enough with these people? When have you screwed enough money out of taxpayers that you can retire? Apparently never.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (unUNN)
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71 isn't her age, it's her IQ.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

121 105 I think J.D. will stick this whole fiasco up his ass if Newsom runs for President.

Hillbilly Enema
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

Ron D has a poop map that he can give to JD.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (FGFJD)

122 97
Old & Busted: "DEFUND THE POLICE!"
New Hotness: "DEFUND THE FIREHOUSE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (xmNAu)

"DEFUND BOTH!"
Give the money to the politicians' friends to "help" the homeless...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

123 I'm not mean, I meant.

Spell check is your friend.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (JfxgE)

124 [deleted]
Posted by: Sid

Perhaps, if you lead by example by throwing yourself into a volcano, you can get some action going.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (W2Pud)

125 Can we drop the farcical "wild fires" usage?

It was and always has been arson for the last 10 years

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (f90GG)

126 Black and female politicians are a blight on the land. Black female politicians are hopelessly, hopelessly, bad. Every. One. Of. Them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
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Not every one. Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

127 I'd prefer if we prevented these bums from getting elected in the first place rather than throwing them out 5/10/20/50 years after they've FUCKED THINGS UP.

Good Lord amighty, there are a lotta stupid voters...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (wtvvX)

128 [deleted]
Posted by: Sid at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (n3iby)

Lol ...

Sid has to be fuqing with us. No one can be this gullible / stupid / naïve.

Posted by: browndog doing his part to increase global warming at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TTAGa)

129 Requirements to apply for Office in the State of California are the following.....

1. Gay or Transgender
2. Non-Binary
3. IQ less than 75
4. Person of some color but definitely not a White-Honky
Conservative
5. English as a second language and Ebonics as the first
6. Unable to read a Teleprompter
7. Must cackle a lot
8. Word Salad Projection
9. Hate America
10. Poster of Maarx and Mao in Home
11. must hate Trump

ALL OTHERS NEED NOT APPLY..............

Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (smB1O)

130 Thank God Newsom & Co. didn't build another reservoir, the bloody Indians and their salmon permitting, of course.

This house is clear!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (xCA6C)

131 There are vast swaths of each of those state which are NOT blue. It's the cities.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (W2Pud)

An amazing number of people want to sell us to China. Apparently they think they can get a good price or something.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (D7oie)

132
Don't they have ambulances with paramedics who respond to calls like they do here? Yes, they are mostly calls from ODing addicts for Narcam but it's not the fire department.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (gaKF9)

Yes, we have ambulances but the fireman and their big trucks go on every medical call along with the ambulance.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (qPFUY)

133 That last thread zipped by too fast:

Zuckerberg is protecting his interests. Not getting any play in the media (at least until now) is that there is a Class Action suit filed by 41 states with hundreds of plaintiffs against Meta. The basis of the suit is that Instagram and Facebook negatively effect the mental health of minors. Throw in your usual "suicidal thoughts" memes and the like and you have the basis of the suit. It's a nasty one because juries are sentimental idiots when kids are involved.

It has the potential to take a huge financial chunk out of Meta, not to mention the investment repercussions. You might, also, recall some statements made by Zuckerberg years ago worried about this very issue. Well, the States are now looking to cash in on it...and Zuckerberg will need friends in high places (like the DOJ) to limit the damage.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (dIske)

134 Charles Manson was from OH.
Posted by: Archimedes

So is JD Vance!!! So Vance must be a mass-murderer, too!!! Reeeeeeeeeeee....!!!

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

135 111
In our Midwest town of 60K, they do the same. Makes no sense. I’m mean, I'm sure there is some fiscal reason for it. But a logical one? I’m open to understanding.
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (JfxgE)

My town of 32k does it too. It is a manpower issue. Sometimes you need more than 2 people to lift the gurney, extract the patient from their residence, etc. Face it - a lot of people out there who are obese.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (N39Ws)

136 If california was a normal state the governor would be demanding her resignation at this point. But we all know that CA is a failed DIE state.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (Rcnd3)

137 [deleted]
Posted by: Sid

Perhaps, if you lead by example by throwing yourself into a volcano, you can get some action going.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (W2Pud)

Self-immolation works too, just like the monks.

Posted by: Roy at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (z+ik4)

138 At minimum shouldn't Bass be fired?

I know these idiot DEI hires end up suing and making millions but sheeesh can't they get rid of these incompetent scumbags??

This reminds me of Buttigieg, they put him as head of Transportation because he's seen a train before but he knew nothing about the job and didn't start until a month or two after he should have (no one noticed). He's made no improvements and only looked constipated while making speeches after transportation disasters.

The left loves incompetence.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (gaKF9)

No, the Left loves PARTY LOYALTY.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (pJWtt)

139 Charles Manson was from OH.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (xCA6C)
__________________

Pelosi was from Baltimore, where her Mafioso father lived.

Jim Jones was from Indiana, IIRC.

Scott Wiener is from Philadelphia.

Not even to mention prominent Dems who are from Mexico.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (YqDXo)

140 125 Can we drop the farcical "wild fires" usage?

It was and always has been arson for the last 10 years
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 10, 2025 03:54 PM (f90GG)

95 percent of fires in California are human caused whether by accident, like scraping a road and sparks ignite brush or arson.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (qPFUY)

141 Sid has to be fuqing with us. No one can be this gullible / stupid / naïve.
Posted by: browndog doing his part to increase global warming at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (TTAGa)

It is merely the catechism of the Church of the Most Sainted and Holy Algore.
every time he says it he gets a cookie.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (D7oie)

142 Sid has to be fuqing with us. No one can be this gullible / stupid / naïve.

Of course he is. That's his MO. It escapes me why people still engage with him.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (xCA6C)

143 43 This reminds me of Buttigieg, they put him as head of Transportation because he's seen a train before

they didn!t check urban dictionary, did they?

Posted by: anachronda at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (qmXXH)

144

Angry Blue Planet > Angry Red Planet

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (63Dwl)

145 But this is not my fault because I am Gay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mayor Bass at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (7uGna)

146 2 Modest proposal

Voters have to watch live as each mayoral candidate tries to play Sim City.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Heh!! This is actually a GREAT idea!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (sAmhv)

147 >>At minimum shouldn't Bass be fired?

She's an avowed Marxist.

Firing is the least that should be done to her.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (oLK8+)

148 Our world is very angry, and will punish us accordingly.

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I thought that way of thinking went out with the pagans. At least 300 years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:56 PM (lTGtQ)

149 Sorry. Here is the link for the story I referenced in my comment at 106. (I thought I had already read the story on AOS.)

There is a reservoir up in the Palisades that was bone dry at the start of fire season. It should be filled with 117 million gallons of water.

https://tinyurl.com/2z9ykfs3

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (HlyYF)

150 115 Keep water AVAILABLE in reservoirs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)
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Lake Hodges here in San Diego had to release water because it was filled to the brim from last year's torrential rains.

Thank God Newsom & Co. didn't build another reservoir, the bloody Indians and their salmon permitting, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

It's NEVER dry in Kalifornia! We don't need no steenkin' dams and reservoirs!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

151 Trump should send a new intern to be guided by Newscum and Bassass.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (17s+e)

152 The Los Angeles County fiscal tax year or tax roll year begins July 1 of one year and ends June 30 of the next year (e.g., July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024).

Now, examine the budget cuts that occurred mid-year 2024 - 2025.

BTW, the new fiscal year for the feds begins Oct. 1st.

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (NFX2v)

153 We learned from our time in the Venceremos (We Will Win!) Brigade that you can never trust honkys and crackers with money as they will use that money to exploit the working class and try to have sex with all the colored wimmen. Viva Fidel! Viva Cuba!

Posted by: Karen Bass, Marxist at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (R/m4+)

154 Charles Manson was from OH.
Posted by: Archimedes

So is JD Vance!!! So Vance must be a mass-murderer, too!!! Reeeeeeeeeeee....!!!

I can find no flaw in your argument.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (xCA6C)

155 They came to this after they were personally victimized.

So they're late to the party at best. Gotta wonder how sincere that change of tone is though...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (DJPFk)

156 This reminds me of Buttigieg, they put him as head of Transportation because he's seen a train before but he knew nothing about the job and didn't start until a month or two after he should have (no one noticed). He's made no improvements and only looked constipated while making speeches after transportation disasters.
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He didn't start right away because he was still lactating, after an especially difficult birth that required a lot of prunes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (YqDXo)

157 Junipero Serra was from Majorca.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

158 Firefighters respond when a 500 pound persyn needs to be put in an ambulance and taken to the ER. Two EMTs on an ambulance ain’t adequate.

Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (jgmnb)

159 111 >>> The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qPFUY)

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In our Midwest town of 60K, they do the same. Makes no sense. I’m mean, I'm sure there is some fiscal reason for it. But a logical one? I’m open to understanding.
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (JfxgE)

Why do you do both? In NOVA, the fire department handles all emergency 911 ambulance calls...the hospital doesn't...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (exHjb)

160
They're trying to allocate more money for the homeless, and they need to start taking from everybody.

'But we already exhausted our budget. It's already tapped. That's why they cut the fire academy in half, so they could save more money. That's why we're not testing if hydrants work any more. We're doing everything we can to save money.

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And more homeless bums means more fires will be set. It's synergy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (Ijbq0)

161 There is a reservoir up in the Palisades that was bone dry at the start of fire season. It should be filled with 117 million gallons of water.

https://tinyurl.com/2z9ykfs3

Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Fucking Trump!!

Posted by: The Democrat Party at January 10, 2025 03:58 PM (17s+e)

162 132
Don't they have ambulances with paramedics who respond to calls like they do here? Yes, they are mostly calls from ODing addicts for Narcam but it's not the fire department.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (gaKF9)

Yes, we have ambulances but the fireman and their big trucks go on every medical call along with the ambulance.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (qPFUY)

I had my son drive me to emergency. Faster and less expensive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

163 Systematic Intelligence Deficit

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 10, 2025 03:58 PM (wtvvX)

164 Jed Clampett was from Appalachia.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

165 This must stop before they burn down the Mogan Davis Winery....

Cackle............ Cackle........... Cackle.........

Posted by: Kamal Harris at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (Lcdqc)

166 Even celebrities, who are not only the most gonzo-leftwing people in the country but who further will literally lose their careers if they upset the Progressive Blob, have had enough.
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All these poor progressive-pimping celebs who lost their home! Unlike James Woods, they didn't deserve it.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (krQz2)

167 Just for grins, lets run the numbers on how much water could have been sent to the reservoirs, and how much money could be spent on firefighting if CA hadn't spent close to 30 billion on illegal aliens over the past several years.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (lTGtQ)

168 homeelss-illigals

Suck it up LA

Posted by: Ripley at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (PTDkx)

169 Fires in SoCal are a terrorists dream. It doesn’t take military brilliance or a top notch, expensive war machine to absolutely destroy a massive portion of the state. I’ve been expecting a coordinated terrorist attack there since before 9/11. There is NO WAY that people and think tanks in charge of protecting our country haven’t expected it. It HAS to be on leaders minds. Cutting these funds should be criminal. Sedition or treason. It is absolutely disgusting. I can’t think about it for very long without getting extremely agitated.

And to make it worse, this traitor is 71 years old. Seriously? WTF?

Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (I1PWt)

170 The homeless were already a crisis issue in California so where are they going to house everybody whose homes have burned down? Are they going to be as understanding to them as they are to illegal immigrants?

The most pressing issue is where do people stay now? Or will the answer be "karma" like was thrown at James Woods?

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (unUNN)

171 And Kamala Harris lies again in order to shift attention to the Left's boogeyman, the evil capitalist.

She falsely claimed insurance carriers were canceling insurance policies of those with losses from the fires.

So absurd that she should have known that it would be immediately bite her in the ass about how incompetent she is. Though again she just might be that dumb.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (D6PGr)

172 Continuing...

Honestly, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of the rich "elite." I'm fed up with the entitlement and the snobbery. I tired of them owning government. To hell with them.

If that makes me woke, then whatever.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (DJPFk)

173 It's NEVER dry in Kalifornia! We don't need no steenkin' dams and reservoirs!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Dems and liberals seem to think that California is like Britain, which doesn't have any reservoirs, and where two weeks without rain triggers a "hosepipe" ban.

Rain in California comes in the form of 3-5 huge storms off the Pacific, where it rains like hell for days on end (hence the mudslides). God forbid we catch any of that rain.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

174 So, yes, as I learned with the little kid tours, 80% of all calls to my county's fire department are medical. And they have the EMTs and ambulances at those departments.

They do not always dispatch a truck for the emergency, but if they need extra people on the call (more than what's in the ambulance) they will...so at schools or public plazas, they usually send one to keep the public away from the emergency situation or keep folks calm...they sent one to my Church when someone had a serious medical issue b/c again, lots of folks there...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (exHjb)

175 It's truly stunning to see the left defending Newsom, Karen Bass, and the lesbian Kristen what's-her-name.

I love one idiot on X who said it's not Newsom's fault that he couldn't make it rain.

Okay, Corky. 🤡

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:01 PM (4tmpE)

176 It sure is a shame that those displaced by the fires won't have hotel rooms to stay in, since those are being used for giving illegals rent free rooms.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 04:01 PM (lTGtQ)

177 I would expect that it's pretty dry if it Never Rains In California.

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 04:01 PM (krQz2)

178 157 Junipero Serra was from Majorca.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

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HA!

Although, he was responsible for some of the most beautiful Missions in the whole country.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (gaKF9)

179 Former Biggest Loser trainer Michaels, 50, didn't hold back when expressing her "outrage" at state officials.

The fitness guru understands first-hand the trauma victims are experiencing as her Malibu home was burned in the 2018 Woolsey fire.

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Doesn't she comment here as Piper?

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Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (fdMzR)

180 Raiding the emergency funds to spend on globohomo is typical for ProgTards. Usually by time the emergency funds are needed everybody has alredy forgotten it used to be there and that it was pissed away.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

181 173 It's NEVER dry in Kalifornia! We don't need no steenkin' dams and reservoirs!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Dems and liberals seem to think that California is like Britain, which doesn't have any reservoirs, and where two weeks without rain triggers a "hosepipe" ban.

Rain in California comes in the form of 3-5 huge storms off the Pacific, where it rains like hell for days on end (hence the mudslides). God forbid we catch any of that rain.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

Or puts feet of snow in the Sierras that becomes feed for aquifers and rivers in the spring and summer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)

182 [deleted]
Posted by: Sid at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (n3iby)

We are polluters in the hands of an angry Gaia!

Posted by: Climate Prophet at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (FC8SQ)

183 No FEMA money to rebuild in proven wildfire areas.... like all of LA.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (17s+e)

184 She falsely claimed insurance carriers were canceling insurance policies of those with losses from the fires.

So absurd that she should have known that it would be immediately bite her in the ass about how incompetent she is. Though again she just might be that dumb.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (D6PGr)
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Not "were canceling" but "had canceled" fire insurance policies when the state insurance commissioner would not let them raise rates to cover their enormous liabilities from previous wildfires.

I guess they were just supposed to eat all the losses, filthy capitalists that they are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

185 So absurd that she should have known that it would be immediately bite her in the ass about how incompetent she is. Though again she just might be that dumb.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (D6PGr)

Can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (dR6yv)

186 Obviously, the fire was set on purpose......

Good potential it was Domestic/Foreign Terrorism, Illegal Immigrant, or a Homeless Person ........

It does not take a Kamala Harris; I mean a Rocket Scientist to figure out the conditions were ripe for this to happen.....

Posted by: Ferd berfall at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (1U5p7)

187 178 157 Junipero Serra was from Majorca.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

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HA!

Although, he was responsible for some of the most beautiful Missions in the whole country.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (gaKF9)

WTF's wrong with his club, the Sierra club?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)

188 HA!

Although, he was responsible for some of the most beautiful Missions in the whole country.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Yes. I loved visiting the various missions when I lived in Cali.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

189 There is not a government operation anywhere whose first mission is to the citizens, not one.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (lTGtQ)

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There will be one after January 20.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:03 PM (unUNN)

190 Posted by: Sid at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (n3iby)
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Asshole, wildfires have been a feature in California from before the arrival of the Spaniards.

Arrival of shitheads like you merely aggravated an existing problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

191 Shake and bake! (God I'm old....)

Posted by: pahound at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (oD06T)

192 190 Posted by: Sid at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (n3iby)
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Asshole, wildfires have been a feature in California from before the arrival of the Spaniards.

Arrival of shitheads like you merely aggravated an existing problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

Since well before.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (ynpvh)

193 Insurance companies in CA were strangled by state regulations.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (gaKF9)

194
The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?
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Yep. That started somewhere in 80s. Used to be just an EMT/Ambulance. Methinks its about the Union and billable hours.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:50 PM (jFCkp)

As I recall, it was more about giving the firemen something to do on a day to day basis, because modern houses rarely burn, so many fire stations had firemen sitting on their asses most of the time. The exception was the ones in the 'hood, where old wooden clapboard houses light up like they store gasoline in the attic.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (y9nCu)

195 The left forgets that the unofficial Trump 2024 campaign slogan was "No More Bullshit."

I really don't think they understand the anger there is out there about ... everything.

10 years ago, Newsome would be riding high on media appearances with an impressive imitation of concern and sympathy while portraying himself as a leader ready to solve the problems.
With zero blame for having caused them.

Now?
Everyone is seeing though the phony stagecraft bullshit that is the whole beginning and end of Democrat governance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (7+f8Q)

196 Wow...not sure how this will hold up in court, but the California Insurance Commissioner just enacted a 1 year moratorium against insurance carriers canceling policies and doing any non-renewals.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (dIske)

197 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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Replace the $49 million with money taken out of the EBT and SNAP budgets.

If you don't work, you don't eat.

Simple, really.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

198 In our Midwest town of 60K, they do the same. Makes no sense. I’m mean, I'm sure there is some fiscal reason for it. But a logical one? I’m open to understanding.
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 10, 2025 03:52 PM (JfxgE)

My town of 32k does it too. It is a manpower issue. Sometimes you need more than 2 people to lift the gurney, extract the patient from their residence, etc. Face it - a lot of people out there who are obese.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM

When we lived in CT it was all about workmans comp issues. It seemed like every other para medic I came across was on WC due to back issues from lifting up 400+ pound people onto gurnies.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (Rcnd3)

199 Former Biggest Loser trainer Michaels, 50, didn't hold back when expressing her "outrage" at state officials.

The fitness guru understands first-hand the trauma victims are experiencing as her Malibu home was burned in the 2018 Woolsey fire.

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Doesn't she comment here as Piper?

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Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (fdMzR)

Not unless Piper likes the vajayjay.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (D6PGr)

200 Perhaps we are at an inflection point in regards to Environmentalism(tm). It is ironic that it takes a bunch of rich Lefties getting burnt-out of their multi-million dollar homes, however.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 10, 2025 03:42 PM (pJWtt)

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Maybe, but it will be a hard slog back to sanity.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (unUNN)

201 ------------

Doesn't she comment here as Piper?

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Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (fdMzR

Bad news bears. I am not a lesbian celebrity fitness guru who lives in a huge CA estate. 😂

Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (p4NUW)

202 Insty:

In fact, according to Just Facts Daily, (check out the “Global Rainfall Trends” question) there is no record of more or fewer droughts or floods in the past 150 years. One might expect that a correlation of wildfires and droughts would be evident going back centuries, but that just doesn’t appear to be the case.

“Contrary to predictions that global warming would cause more droughts and floods, studies published by the International Journal of Climatology, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and the Journal of Hydrology all found no significant trends in rainfall or droughts over periods that extend back to as far as 150 years ago,” Just Facts explains.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (xCA6C)

203 Official statement from our beloved POTUS is below on the situation in LA County.........

And I quote: “Gunter, Glieben, Glauten, Globen” .....

Posted by: MJP alias t at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (0/Ssx)

204 I've lived in SoCal all my life. Santa Anas happen all the time. But now when they happen the crazies, the environmentals, and the terrorists but I repeat myself go out and start fires knowing that they will quickly escalate into horrendous tragedies that they can then blame on global warmening and get more money.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (17s+e)

205 Honestly, I'm tired of this. I'm tired of the rich "elite." I'm fed up with the entitlement and the snobbery. I tired of them owning government. To hell with them.

If that makes me woke, then whatever.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:00 PM (DJPFk)

*fist bump*

NC Helene victims are being kicked out of their temporary housing by FEMA. Right in the midst of a snow storm. Body parts are still being recovered. Over 200 deaths and counting, schools, churches, homes and businesses destroyed, but these people are "hillbillies" or something.

Any losses of lives and homes are tragic, but some seem more "tragic" than others.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (4tmpE)

206 >>Doesn't she comment here as Piper?

In my imagination, Piper isn't a Butterface.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (oLK8+)

207
Why do you do both? In NOVA, the fire department handles all emergency 911 ambulance calls...the hospital doesn't...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (exHjb)

Money. My county is fighting a scandal right now where the ambulance company AMR, that had the contract for the last 45 years and the county opened the ambulance contract to bids and guess who won the contract? The county fire dept. AMR scored higher and they awarded the contract to the fire dept after lobbying by the fire dept and unions. AMR got an injunction against the county in 2023. They are still fighting and it's not resolved.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (qPFUY)

208 The exception was the ones in the 'hood, where old wooden clapboard houses light up like they store gasoline in the attic.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (y9nCu)
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Every time after a black gets stopped by the police and ends up getting shot wrestling a cop for his weapon.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

209 Stop cutting and pasting droll droppings.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (d9fT1)

210 These rich elites will get be staying at their summer estates while these houses get rebuilt, better than before, and then will stop talking about the government's incompetency.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (DJPFk)

211 202 Insty:

In fact, according to Just Facts Daily, (check out the “Global Rainfall Trends” question) there is no record of more or fewer droughts or floods in the past 150 years. One might expect that a correlation of wildfires and droughts would be evident going back centuries, but that just doesn’t appear to be the case.

“Contrary to predictions that global warming would cause more droughts and floods, studies published by the International Journal of Climatology, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and the Journal of Hydrology all found no significant trends in rainfall or droughts over periods that extend back to as far as 150 years ago,” Just Facts explains.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (xCA6C)

Because Globull Warmening is a farce.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (ynpvh)

212 You've got a mayor who cuts the fire department budget, a governor who refuses to build dams and reservoirs and senior fire-fighting bureaucrats who are just lesbians who like to dress up as Bolivian admirals, and they wind up telling you to heave your own a$$ out the window if your home catches fire.
Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:43 PM (mADJX)

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What do you think they were there for? To save lives? Nah, that's for those rednecks in flyover country.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (unUNN)

213 President Biden's official statement on the LA County fires is the following:

Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen”

No further questions at this time.... Thank You

Posted by: KJP alias "The Binder Babe" at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (0/Ssx)

214 Jeez...

it's almost like we didn't just have a Terrorist Attack and a False Flag event in the last 10 days!

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (oLK8+)

215 10 years ago, Newsome would be riding high on media appearances with an impressive imitation of concern and sympathy while portraying himself as a leader ready to solve the problems.
With zero blame for having caused them.

Now?
Everyone is seeing though the phony stagecraft bullshit that is the whole beginning and end of Democrat governance.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM (7+f8Q)

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That's why it's so important that Twitter and Facebook are allowed to let users post what they've heard and seen. Truth is amazing cleanser. See also: Covid.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (gaKF9)

216 In my imagination, Piper isn't a Butterface.
Posted by: garrett

Neither is Jillian Michaels.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

217 Some thoughts on the CA wildfires you may not have considered, from a (almost) lifelong Californian (and one who thinks like us):

https://tinyurl.com/5b2yuk74

Well worth your time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (a3Q+t)

218 I've lived in SoCal all my life. Santa Anas happen all the time. But now when they happen the crazies, the environmentals, and the terrorists but I repeat myself go out and start fires knowing that they will quickly escalate into horrendous tragedies that they can then blame on global warmening and get more money.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (17s+e)
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I have to wonder if the fires that weren't caused by vagrants were intentionally set by warmistas trying to gin up "evidence" for "climate change."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

219 202 “Contrary to predictions that global warming would cause more droughts and floods, studies published by the International Journal of Climatology, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and the Journal of Hydrology all found no significant trends in rainfall or droughts over periods that extend back to as far as 150 years ago,” Just Facts explains.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM (xCA6C)

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Yeah, but Twitter Ph.D. Bernie Sanders said it's global warming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

220 I just can't get it.

My whole life, we had horrible wildfires in the Front Range, in no small part due to the bad deal CO made with CA for water rights.

But they pissed away all that water, and their own, too. Unreal. They're like drunks, but with water instead of wine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 04:09 PM (BI5O2)

221 Stop cutting and pasting droll droppings.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM

I can't be droll anymore, and must revert to snark?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)

222 That's why it's so important that Twitter and Facebook are allowed to let users post what they've heard and seen. Truth is amazing cleanser. See also: Covid.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM (gaKF9)
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Yes. Thank God Elon bought Twitter, or otherwise the lid would be on tight.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:09 PM (YqDXo)

223 Official statement from our beloved POTUS is below on the situation in LA County.........

And I quote: “Gunter, Glieben, Glauten, Globen” .....
Posted by: MJP alias t at January 10, 2025 04:06 PM (0/Ssx)
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I got something to say!
Better to burn out!

Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 04:10 PM (krQz2)

224 IL take years to clean this up. You don't just put the ashes in a plasticironic) trash bag and have it picked up.

Plus, 2028 Olympics will be in the heart of LA. With charred hillsides to make sure the memory remains.

Wait until these folks realize how many new regulations for "new" housing there is.

Went thru "tilt up" building rebuild after fire. And that was 3.5 years with being grandfathered in regarding regulations.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 10, 2025 04:10 PM (FxH7T)

225 >>Neither is Jillian Michaels.

She has a face like a shovel.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:10 PM (oLK8+)

226 If Newsome wanted to save his ass he'd be like Trump, fill the reservoirs and when asked by environmentalists he'd look at them and say, "That's a stupid question, we care about our residents, their homes, and the wildlife surrounding them."

" I said what I said."

Then walk off.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:10 PM (gaKF9)

227 At American Thinker is a article with lots of short video clips of more than likely Illegals settings fires.
This isn't going to stop anytime soon

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (fwDg9)

228 Wait until these folks realize how many new regulations for "new" housing there is.

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Regulations are for the poor people.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (DJPFk)

229 Bad news bears. I am not a lesbian celebrity fitness guru who lives in a huge CA estate. 😂
Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 04:05 PM

Well, if you want to identify as such, we won't judge.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (a3Q+t)

230 As I recall, it was more about giving the firemen something to do on a day to day basis, because modern houses rarely burn, so many fire stations had firemen sitting on their asses most of the time. The exception was the ones in the 'hood, where old wooden clapboard houses light up like they store gasoline in the attic.

Death by fire is one of those things that really went down in the 20th Century.

Part of it is fire codes and building materials, but also awareness of fire safety and more efficient firefighting techniques and technology. IMO it's kind of interesting how a lot of little things add up.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (1Idb6)

231 a governor who refuses to build dams and reservoirs
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And ... who brags about tearing down existing dams.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (YqDXo)

232 Not "were canceling" but "had canceled" fire insurance policies when the state insurance commissioner would not let them raise rates to cover their enormous liabilities from previous wildfires.

I guess they were just supposed to eat all the losses, filthy capitalists that they are.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

That's not what she said or meant but even so
they didn't cancel existing policies prior to the fires either. They just didn't renew policies for the reasons you pointed out. It's against the law to cancel policies within the policy period except for rare instances such as non payment.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (D6PGr)

233 And who gives a shit about Sarah Michell Gellar?! She's been riding that "Buffy" horse for so long that's it's now almost as ugly as she is.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (DJPFk)

234 >>At American Thinker is a article with lots of short video clips of more than likely Illegals settings fires.

You know who was working those Fire Camps across the NW this Summer?

That's right. Illegals. Vans filled with them, sporting USFS / Gov't Plates.

You know who sets a ton of Forest Fires?

Firefighters.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (oLK8+)

235 Any losses of lives and homes are tragic, but some seem more "tragic" than others.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Well, it may be snowing here, but at least the temperature is up to 28 deg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

236 I'm probably wrong but I would think even a transgender would prefer safety and a place to live over a transgender coffee shop.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)

237 Damn phone - too many typos.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (DJPFk)

238
Fires in SoCal are a terrorists dream. It doesn’t take military brilliance or a top notch, expensive war machine to absolutely destroy a massive portion of the state. I’ve been expecting a coordinated terrorist attack there since before 9/11.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 10, 2025 03:59 PM (I1PWt)

If memory serves, lighting up CA chaparral was an entry into a domestic Al Qaeda or ISIS terror manual about 12 or so years ago. I'm surprised they never did it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 10, 2025 04:13 PM (y9nCu)

239 I wonder if the "leaking" is indicative of something going down in LA or just general backstabiness among thieves.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 04:13 PM (Y6IkP)

240 Well, it may be snowing here, but at least the temperature is up to 28 deg.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

Downright balmy! 😄

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (4tmpE)

241 I wonder if the "leaking" is indicative of something going down in LA or just general backstabiness among thieves.

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Preemptive blame assignment...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (DJPFk)

242 Wait until these folks realize how many new regulations for "new" housing there is.
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And until they realize that their Prop. 13 property taxes will be reset to stratospheric heights.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

243 They're understaffed, underequipped, underfunded, and underprepared but by God their fat diesel dyke hiring rate is up by 300%.

Posted by: LAFD: Los Angeles Fat Dykes at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (ybSPO)

244 Downright balmy! 😄
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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FEMA workers comfortably housed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (XeU6L)

245 If memory serves, lighting up CA chaparral was an entry into a domestic Al Qaeda or ISIS terror manual about 12 or so years ago. I'm surprised they never did it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 10, 2025 04:13 PM (y9nCu)
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Maybe they did. Or maybe the vagrants and the climate change nutjobs just took care of it for them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (YqDXo)

246 Karen Bass.
Rhymes with GASSSSS.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (rCZBa)

247 JUST IN: The Carter Center releases a new photo of the seating section where the former presidents and current White House occupants were sitting.
Someone was left out of frame.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfa8t5z

Posted by: Ciampino - Roll, Crash & Burn at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (i0xsb)

248 242 Wait until these folks realize how many new regulations for "new" housing there is.
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And until they realize that their Prop. 13 property taxes will be reset to stratospheric heights.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

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The GOP should send in crisis actors to these hotels where the rich are coalescing to ask for signatures to turn the land into section 8 housing for illegal immigrants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

249 >>They're understaffed, underequipped, underfunded, and underprepared but by God their fat diesel dyke hiring rate is up by 300%.

I still can't believe she's getting paid 400k+.

And that pension!

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (oLK8+)

250 Stop cutting and pasting droll droppings.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

droll -
- Amusingly odd or whimsically comical.
- Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.
- Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.

Queer Droppings? Ewww

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 10, 2025 04:16 PM (/lPRQ)

251 And who gives a shit about Sarah Michell Gellar?! She's been riding that "Buffy" horse for so long that's it's now almost as ugly as she is.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM (DJPFk)

I think her and her long time husband, Freddie Prinze Jr are part of the non woke Hollywood.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (D6PGr)

252 On a much lighter note, Mollie Hemingway is dragging David Muir on X for having the waste of his firefighter costume pinned in the back to make himself look more buff. 😂😂

Someone described him as a cross between Ron Burgundy and Zoolander.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (4tmpE)

253 That's not what she said or meant but even so
they didn't cancel existing policies prior to the fires either. They just didn't renew policies for the reasons you pointed out. It's against the law to cancel policies within the policy period except for rare instances such as non payment.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:11 PM (D6PGr)

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Or misrepresenting the risk. Misrepresenting the purpose of the risk (like working out of your house). And, yes, most of the time is is a non-renewal that will end a policy, which has to be approved by the State Insurance Commissioner. Most are rubber stamped. HOWEVER, the California Insurance Commissioner just issued a statement and a moratorium stating that all HO policies in the State of California cannot be cancelled or non-renewed for a full year from the present.

This is obviously after pressure from the Governor's office. Because most carriers would have their underwriters figuring in the failings of the fire dept. and inept funding into their premiums going forward. A lot of carriers and re-insurers on the mansions would just cut them loose and not renew the risk.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (dIske)

254 I’ll believe there’s a change in attitude when I see a burly white guy as head of LAFD again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (MSZJ6)

255 I hope they find out about the recursive regulatory hellscape that awaits normies trying to build in places like California.

But, of course, they won't. They donated to the right campaigns. They'll get a pass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (BI5O2)

256 Waist not waste. Dang.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (4tmpE)

257
You know who sets a ton of Forest Fires?

Firefighters.
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:12 PM

The firemen near me I think get bored and they will come to my house from time to time and I asked them about who starts the fires when the Santa Ana's start blowing and I could tell they didn't like my question. They told me it's lightning or power lines. I dropped it because I want them to save my house if there's a fire.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (qPFUY)

258 I thought Gellar was a conservative as is her husband.

But I don't know shit about crap.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (gaKF9)

259 216 In my imagination, Piper isn't a Butterface.
Posted by: garrett

Neither is Jillian Michaels.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

Dude,

She Webster's definition of a "butterface" ...

Posted by: browndog doing his part to increase global warming at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (TTAGa)

260 217 Some thoughts on the CA wildfires you may not have considered, from a (almost) lifelong Californian (and one who thinks like us):

https://tinyurl.com/5b2yuk74

Well worth your time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (a3Q+t)

Concur.... it's like the folks in Florida who have had their houses rebuilt 3 or 4 times due to Hurricane damage...

Uh.... once? OK, I'll help... after that? Yer on yer own. Mother Nature is a bitch who is trying to kill us, but is semi predictable if you pay attention...

and some things, are totally predictable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (QAkQ3)

261 As a chemist I like the name Quinones - I'd be tempted to call them Hydroquinones and when they screw up, Semiquinones.

Posted by: Ciampino - Film photography too at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (i0xsb)

262 >>Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (qPFUY)

Wildland Firefighting attracts Firebugs the same way the Boyscouts attract pedos.

Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (oLK8+)

263 seems to me if the insurance companies did a cursory audit and noticed the proposed reservoirs that were voted for were never built, were aware the fire hydrants didn't have water, noticed the LAFD was more concerned with cis-jiz issues than actual capability...then yea why take an obvious high risk gamble on insuring wooden structures surrounded by highly combustible dry vegetation?

Posted by: DanMan at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (8uzBS)

264 247 JUST IN: The Carter Center releases a new photo of the seating section where the former presidents and current White House occupants were sitting.
Someone was left out of frame.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfa8t5z
Posted by: Ciampino - Roll, Crash & Burn at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (i0xsb)

The Carter Center is just as petty as Jimmy was. Obviously this was deliberate.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (uwiSB)

265
I still can't believe she's getting paid 400k+.

And that pension!
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (oLK8+)

The rank and file make over 300,000 here. And then the 3 percent per year at 50. I should have been a fireman.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qPFUY)

266 Hell the Japanese in WW2 had plans to burn the west coast down with incendiary balloons.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (D6PGr)

267 These are not cuts! It’s wealth redistribution.

Posted by: Mark at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (kvfeK)

268 261 As a chemist I like the name Quinones - I'd be tempted to call them Hydroquinones and when they screw up, Semiquinones.

Posted by: Ciampino - Film photography too at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (i0xsb)

The Japanese name Kimiko..."químico" is chemical in Spanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ynpvh)

269 Hell the Japanese in WW2 had plans to burn the west coast down with incendiary balloons.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Yep. One of them made it as far east as Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

270 Wow...not sure how this will hold up in court, but the California Insurance Commissioner just enacted a 1 year moratorium against insurance carriers canceling policies and doing any non-renewals.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 04:04 PM

Overblown theatrics....that is not going to hold up in any court outside of california. SCOTUS has already ruled you can't force a private business to sell products to customers.

Now it may come to pass that the state of CA may force insurance companies that want to continue to do business in the state to play by the new rules, but the state can't force a private company to engage in a money losing business.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)

271 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, anyone?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (yvwEU)

272 Wildland Firefighting attracts Firebugs the same way the Boyscouts attract pedos.
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (oLK8+)

See Terry Barton, arsonist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (BI5O2)

273 In almost anywhere else, there would be political repercussions for this malpractice. But in LA, Karen Bass will be quietly subsumed back into the Borg and be replaced by another Democrat promising shiny things.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (CwhoI)

274 Glad to see celebrities mad, I guess?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Hkcdp)

275 The rank and file make over 300,000 here. And then the 3 percent per year at 50. I should have been a fireman.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qPFUY)

Pack on 100 pounds, get a mullet, develop a liking for the poontang, and you're a shoo-in.

Posted by: Physical standards? Secondary. at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ybSPO)

276 269 Hell the Japanese in WW2 had plans to burn the west coast down with incendiary balloons.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Yep. One of them made it as far east as Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Japanese balloons...
Chinese balloons...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

277 the state can't force a private company to engage in a money losing business.

Like selling electric vehicles?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (yvwEU)

278
Got on board a westbound Subaru Outback
Didn't think before deciding what to do
Ooh, that talk of opportunities
DEI jobs and money
Rang true, sure bang you

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before

It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
All fours, on all fours

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (2HI9m)

279 Chuck also had Adam Baldwin a bigtime one of us and not a Baldwin

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (Unq3t)

280 Schools are not for educating children
Fire departments are not for putting out fires
Police departments are not for enforcing laws
Hospitals are not for healing the sick
Roads are not for cars

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (RIvkX)

281 275 The rank and file make over 300,000 here. And then the 3 percent per year at 50. I should have been a fireman.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qPFUY)

Pack on 100 pounds, get a mullet, develop a liking for the poontang, and you're a shoo-in.

Posted by: Physical standards? Secondary. at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ybSPO)

Lots of guys fit that profile...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

282 JUST IN: The Carter Center releases a new photo of the seating section where the former presidents and current White House occupants were sitting.
Someone was left out of frame.

It's good to know the adults are in charge.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (xCA6C)

283 My family on both sides were NYC firefighters except my father who was career military. I think they all had a side business .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (D6PGr)

284 Hell the Japanese in WW2 had plans to burn the west coast down with incendiary balloons.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (D6PGr)

One landed near Thermopolis WY.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, random is my middle name at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (Ad8y9)

285 281 275 The rank and file make over 300,000 here. And then the 3 percent per year at 50. I should have been a fireman.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 04:19 PM (qPFUY)

Pack on 100 pounds, get a mullet, develop a liking for the poontang, and you're a shoo-in.

Posted by: Physical standards? Secondary. at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ybSPO)

Lots of guys fit that profile...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

Yeah, but most of them won’t self-ID as a woman.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (FGFJD)

286 incendialy barroons.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (yvwEU)

287 In a just world, Karen Bass, Newsom and the Kristen LAFD ladies would be in hiding for fear of being tarred and feathered.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Hkcdp)

288 I’ll believe there’s a change in attitude when I see a burly white guy as head of LAFD again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (MSZJ6)
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I'll admit it: I want white men in charge, pretty much across the board. Why? Because they don't get put in charge on the basis of any identity pull; they presumably have to rely on a track record of competence, because they have nothing else.

So spare me the "historic firsts" and DEI types, who do NOT get put in charge on that basis, but on an identity politics basis.

I denounce myself, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

289 I'm starting to think it weird that they include people's ages after pretty much every reference to them.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (6K6Eu)

I think the NY Times used to do that as their signature. I thought it was stupid.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (n7h9X)

290 My family on both sides were NYC firefighters except my father who was career military. I think they all had a side business .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (D6PGr

Arson for hire?

Posted by: I mean, it's a natural fit at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ybSPO)

291 Posted by: Ciampino - Roll, Crash & Burn at January 10, 2025 04:15 PM (i0xsb)

Still their president bitchezz

Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Unq3t)

292 Pack on 100 pounds, get a mullet, develop a liking for the poontang, and you're a shoo-in.

Posted by: Physical standards? Secondary. at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (ybSPO)

What if you just identify as a 300 lb. lesbian?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (4tmpE)

293 In almost anywhere else, there would be political repercussions for this malpractice. But in LA, Karen Bass will be quietly subsumed back into the Borg and be replaced by another Democrat promising shiny things.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (CwhoI)
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This bint had already been speaker of the state Assembly and a Representative. The only thing left for her is Gavin's job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (RIvkX)

294 The press must be really conflicted on how to present the disaster in LA. Hard to blame Trump... for at least the next couple weeks. I'm sure some will anyway. Can't rag on the Democrat/leftist power structure in CA either.

Ramp up climate crisis? Demand and end to fossil fuels?

Design a more dystopian gas can?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)

295 In a just world, Karen Bass, Newsom and the Kristen LAFD ladies would be in hiding for fear of being ~~tarred and feathered~~ lynched.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Hkcdp)

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

296 286 incendialy barroons.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (yvwEU)

99個の赤い風船

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ynpvh)

297 Lots of guys fit that profile...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, random is my middle name at January 10, 2025 04:25 PM (Ad8y9)

298 here you go again, balloon discrimination

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 04:25 PM (g47mK)

299 Hell the Japanese in WW2 had plans to burn the west coast down with incendiary balloons.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Yep. One of them made it as far east as Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
***

Baroons?
We know nofing of baroons.

Posted by: CCP at January 10, 2025 04:25 PM (W/lyH)

300 Probably deliberate. If it turns out that some arsonists were just let out of jail due to 'equity' or somesuch bullcrap, I will elevate my assessment to: 'damn straight it was deliberate'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 04:25 PM (fs1hN)

301 Yeah, but most of them won’t self-ID as a woman.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

Well, a lot of us guys ARE lesbians trapped in a man's body.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

302 Obviously, the fire was set on purpose......

Good potential it was Domestic/Foreign Terrorism, Illegal Immigrant, or a Homeless Person ........

It does not take a Kamala Harris; I mean a Rocket Scientist to figure out the conditions were ripe for this to happen.....

Posted by: Ferd berfall at January 10, 2025 04:02 PM (1U5p7)

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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 04:26 PM (2HI9m)

303 just because a bunch of balloons are flying in formation over critical/sensitive facilities does not mean there is malicious intent..they could be joy flying

Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)

304 So far on X I have won $10,000, a Tesla and a VIP membership, $15,000 a Tesla and a VIP membership, part of a $270,000 and an invitation to join an unannounced crypto currency, all from various fake Elon Musks. Most recently I was contacted by a fake Jennifer Aniston. I tripped up the fake Elons by asking them technical questions which the Real Elon would know the answers to but which you couldn't answer from Google. I tripped up the fake Jennifer by asking her an insider question about TV production which a real TV actress would know, but people outside the industry wouldn't know. (My brother was a TV producer, and I've run camera on some of his shoots).

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (Da7Vv)

305 In a just world, Karen Bass, Newsom and the Kristen LAFD ladies would be in hiding for fear of being tarred and feathered.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Hkcdp)

I was wondering if there was enough tar available, then remembered the La Brea Tar Pits. Not so sure about the feathers, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (VNX3d)

306 I was wondering if there was enough tar available, then remembered the La Brea Tar Pits. Not so sure about the feathers, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

If the fires hit those, it's gonna get really interesting.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

307 L.A. County's tax basis is going to suck next year. Lotta adjustments going to have to be made.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (KAi1n)

308 If Terry Barton's story were true, she wouldn't have been convicted of arson. It wasn't true, and so she was. She started the fire on purpose.

But she said feminism stuff.

So she went free. Disgusting. I'll never forget it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

309 305 In a just world, Karen Bass, Newsom and the Kristen LAFD ladies would be in hiding for fear of being tarred and feathered.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (Hkcdp)

I was wondering if there was enough tar available, then remembered the La Brea Tar Pits. Not so sure about the feathers, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (VNX3d)

Gotta heat up that tar; it's quite cool.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

310 As a chemist I like the name Quinones - I'd be tempted to call them Hydroquinones and when they screw up, Semiquinones.

Posted by: Ciampino - Film photography too at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (i0xsb)
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My man. I always think we should treat Quinones with sodium borohydride to make hydroquinones.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

311
Zuckerburg, Jillian Michaels, yes, even Musk.

You've discovered how demonic the Marxists in charge of the Democrat party are, and now want to bring your money and voice over to be the new opposition.

Well, that's as maybe
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (j4U/Z)

312 My family on both sides were NYC firefighters except my father who was career military. I think they all had a side business .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:23 PM (D6PGr

Arson for hire?
Posted by: I mean, it's a natural fit at January 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ybSPO)

Hah no . No money in that.

One uncle had a pesticide company . Another Uncle had a House painting and Renovation Company. A number of people that worked for them were newer firefighters.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (D6PGr)

313 L.A. County's tax basis is going to suck next year. Lotta adjustments going to have to be made.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (KAi1n)
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They've got lots of slop in their budgets.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

314 So all Buffy the vampire slayers, in all the dimensions are becoming based now. All my plans are finally coming to fruition, (tents fingers)... excellent ...

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 04:29 PM (Y6IkP)

315 313 L.A. County's tax basis is going to suck next year. Lotta adjustments going to have to be made.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (KAi1n)
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They've got lots of slop in their budgets.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

Sueeeeee!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ynpvh)

316 Don't name your daughter Kristin, there's a one in three chance she'll be a lesbian.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 04:29 PM (gaKF9)

317 Bonfire of the vanities.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 04:29 PM (ARlwA)

318 Now it may come to pass that the state of CA may force insurance companies that want to continue to do business in the state to play by the new rules, but the state can't force a private company to engage in a money losing business.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Rcnd3)

They are cutting the insurance because they can't pay the cost of rebuilding without increasing rates. They are pretty out of business in the state.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:29 PM (n7h9X)

319 I was wondering if there was enough tar available, then remembered the La Brea Tar Pits. Not so sure about the feathers, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (VNX3d)
______________________

Well, if it's still standing, there is the Wax Museum...and the rendition of Zsa Zsa Gabor likely has a feather boa. That should be sufficient.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

320 I was wondering if there was enough tar available, then remembered the La Brea Tar Pits. Not so sure about the feathers, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

If the fires hit those, it's gonna get really interesting.

Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (77rzZ)
________________

Nah. Little access for air.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

321 This might be the epitaph of the LA Fire Dept: "He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire."

People may want to see people that look like them when they're stuck in a fire, but it's not the top priority. Top priorities would be (1) someone who can save me from the fire and (2) someone who can save my home from the fire.

Way down the list would be, (99) I want to be able to look out the window of the burning room I'm trapped in and see that the LA Fire Dept hires lesbians now.

Posted by: Dave at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (nLwaa)

322 Wow...not sure how this will hold up in court, but the California Insurance Commissioner just enacted a 1 year moratorium against insurance carriers canceling policies and doing any non-renewals.

Posted by: Orson

I asked before: Can CA set the price of those policies?
If not, you will not be able to afford one no matter how much you earn/have in the bank.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (XyJbh)

323 Glad to see celebrities mad, I guess?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 04:21 PM (Hkcdp)

Reminds me...

They had to put fido to sleep last week.

Was he mad?

Well, he wasn't any too pleased.

Posted by: CCP at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (W/lyH)

324 They are in such a hurry for hell that they have to do one here on earth first. Sad sacks

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at January 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Zw4up)

325 So FEMA spokeswoman sez FEMA has all the funding they need to help the LA fire victims.

That's interesting. I thought they were short on funds to help Helene victims?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:31 PM (4tmpE)

326 Gotta heat up that tar; it's quite cool.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

Adam Carolla has a funny scene about the Tar Pits in his movie, The Hammer. ( highly recommended in addition to his other movie Road Hard)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:31 PM (D6PGr)

327 Good potential it was Domestic/Foreign Terrorism, Illegal Immigrant, or a Homeless Person ........
__________________

I would bet my life that 90% of the problem derives from those three sources.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

328 304 … r an insider question about TV production which a real TV actress would know, but people outside the industry wouldn't know. (My brother was a TV producer, and I've run camera on some of his shoots).
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 10, 2025 04:26 PM (Da7Vv)

I never get this fun stuff! I am so disappointed.

Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (2N3ca)

329
I’ll believe there’s a change in attitude when I see a burly white guy as head of LAFD again.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 10, 2025 04:17 PM (MSZJ6)

Tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Gen "Fatso" Milley, USAR (Ret) at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (y9nCu)

330 Stop cutting and pasting droll droppings.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2025 04:07 PM

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Oops.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (amTrm)

331 Is this the point where Dem leadership fecked up so badly that it kicks off the long expected California death spiral back towards territory status? One can hope.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (fs1hN)

332
Karen Bass would be ecstatic to start back up drilling and refining oil in California if it were to be shipped to Cuba free of charge.

And she would not deny the assertion.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (j4U/Z)

333 327 Good potential it was Domestic/Foreign Terrorism, Illegal Immigrant, or a Homeless Person ........
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I would bet my life that 90% of the problem derives from those three sources.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

Some people did things.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (ynpvh)

334 L.A. County's tax basis is going to suck next year. Lotta adjustments going to have to be made.

Posted by: SFGoth

Just yesterday I read that some place that got wiped out by a hurricane is NOT going to adjust the property tax on property that was wiped out.
LA will try the same...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (XyJbh)

335 Another thing: Terry Barton always poor mouthed the courts, and never paid a penny.

I knew a couple kids who actually did start a fire by ACCIDENT, not INTENTIONALLY, and it was just a little fire, not the worst fire in state history, and ended up paying for a very long time. Well into adulthood.

But those were boys, so it's different.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (BI5O2)

336 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (GYt5+)

337 307 L.A. County's tax basis is going to suck next year. Lotta adjustments going to have to be made.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 10, 2025 04:27 PM (KAi1n)

Under Prop 13 unless you have at least 1 wall standing, a rebuild is considered a new build, and can therefore be reacesed at the new Property 'value'....

Lots of prop 13 Grandfather stuff just went away.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (QAkQ3)

338 Adam Carolla has a funny scene about the Tar Pits in his movie, The Hammer. ( highly recommended in addition to his other movie Road Hard)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:31 PM (D6PGr)
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"Last Action Hero" had a funny scene involving them (hilariously, the movie universe puts them in Long Beach), where Arnold's character gets dumped in the tar and cleans himself up with a couple of paper towels.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)

339 I love Adam Carolla but could not make it through The Hammer

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

340 332
Karen Bass would be ecstatic to start back up drilling and refining oil in California if it were to be shipped to Cuba free of charge.

And she would not deny the assertion.

Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 04:32 PM (j4U/Z)

Does she stay away from Japanese research ships?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:34 PM (ynpvh)

341 268 261 As a chemist I like the name Quinones - I'd be tempted to call them Hydroquinones and when they screw up, Semiquinones.

Posted by: Ciampino - Film photography too at January 10, 2025 04:18 PM (i0xsb)

The Japanese name Kimiko..."químico" is chemical in Spanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ynpvh)
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In Italian it's chimico (ch=k sound)

Posted by: Ciampino - Film developer at January 10, 2025 04:34 PM (i0xsb)

342 Zuckerburg, Jillian Michaels, yes, even Musk.

You've discovered how demonic the Marxists in charge of the Democrat party are, and now want to bring your money and voice over to be the new opposition.

Well, that's as maybe
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles.
Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 04:28 PM (j4U/Z)

If you think that I don't know about
The little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately
You put things in my way

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles.
I can see for miles and miles.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:34 PM (n7h9X)

343 This might be the epitaph of the LA Fire Dept: "He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire."

California?

Or maybe you're just in the wrong line of work, huh?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:35 PM (YqDXo)

344 I've pointed it out before but property and casualty insurance carriers pay out more in claims than they get in premiums. They make their money investing the premium dollars.

I remember my company being very happy that we reduced our ratio to 1.14 / 1.00

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:35 PM (D6PGr)

345
Too bad all of these DEI hires aren't in Japan.

They would've apologized, taken responsibility, and quit in disgrace or been fired, as well as -

most likely taken their own lives out of pure shame.

What do we get?

A lot of excuse making and "yeah, buts" cuz they performed their jobs perfectly. Per. Fect. Ly.
None of this was their fault.

Everyone of them ought to be driven from office in a hail of rotten fruit and eggs. At the very least.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

346 Black and female politicians are a blight on the land. Black female politicians are hopelessly, hopelessly, bad. Every. One. Of. Them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
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Not every one. Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

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The distinction is that Sears is a Republican while all the others are Democrat.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:36 PM (unUNN)

347 So FEMA spokeswoman sez FEMA has all the funding they need to help the LA fire victims.

That's interesting. I thought they were short on funds to help Helene victims?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2025 04:31 PM (4tmpE)

Huh. And here I was just thinking that I hated the gubmint enough. Turns out I can dial it up. Probably more of an asymptote of hatred.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, random is my middle name at January 10, 2025 04:36 PM (Ad8y9)

348 Lots of prop 13 Grandfather stuff just went away.

Newsom cackles. Rubs his hands together. He's giddy.
MOAR money for my big fat ghey agenda.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:36 PM (yvwEU)

349 Kristy Swanson, the best Buffy, has been consistently an outspoken conservative over the years. And I don't know what jobs she's got since other than Psyche.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Y6IkP)

350 I love Adam Carolla but could not make it through The Hammer
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

Different strokes for different folks. I thought it was great.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 04:37 PM (D6PGr)

351 nood

Post

Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 04:38 PM (Y6IkP)

352 An amazing number of people want to sell us to China. Apparently they think they can get a good price or something.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (D7oie)

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They can now hold a fire sale for California.

Posted by: Decaf at January 10, 2025 04:38 PM (unUNN)

353 And look, I'm going to say right now, 80% chance these fires started at homeless encampments. And the government will never, ever admit that.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ARlwA)

354 Nah. Little access for air.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah, the pits look just like a dirty pond unless they are pulling a chunk out to pick the fossils out indoors.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

355 I asked before: Can CA set the price of those policies?
If not, you will not be able to afford one no matter how much you earn/have in the bank.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 10, 2025 04:30 PM (XyJbh)
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Ever since 1988 (as voted on by the Californians) the Insurance Commissioner of California has to approve any rate increases. And, this is the same guy that just required carriers NOT to cancel or non-renew. So, do you think he will let the carriers increase rates in any significant way? Nope.

But, worry not. The carriers will make up the difference by (drum roll) increasing your rates in your state.

Posted by: Orson at January 10, 2025 04:39 PM (dIske)

356 Arson and looting, good job Sundowner and California

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 04:39 PM (fwDg9)

357 Not every one. Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 10, 2025 03:55 PM (RIvkX)
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OK, not every single one - there's always an exception. But I've never heard of her.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:40 PM (YqDXo)

358 And look, I'm going to say right now, 80% chance these fires started at homeless encampments. And the government will never, ever admit that.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ARlwA)
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A conservative estimate. I was discussing this with a neighbor, whose daughter (a local cop) was standing nearby when I expressed the sentiment above. She turned around and said, "Absolutely."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:41 PM (YqDXo)

359 The radical, far-Left ideology driving this disaster in California is a kind of madness. At some level, the people running California must know fire is their state's primary natural threat much as floods, snowstorms, and tornadoes are the big natural threats in my home state of Indiana.

These threats are real, not abstractions. You plan for such threats. You take whatever steps are necessary to mitigate the damage they can cause and budget and plan accordingly. This is reality. Hiring preferences in fire departments given to, say, overweight lesbians because they're overweight lesbians is simply insane.

Posted by: troyriser at January 10, 2025 04:42 PM (DPeYO)

360 And look, I'm going to say right now, 80% chance these fires started at homeless encampments. And the government will never, ever admit that.
Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ARlwA)

The west hills one that started yesterday was arson. Easy to tell = started on the end of a decent road where it goes into the open land, was mid-afternoon, no fires upwind to carry sparks.

Took me two hours to get home instead of 20 minutes and I started early.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:42 PM (n7h9X)

361 Arson and looting, good job Sundowner and California

Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 04:39 PM (fwDg9)
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Looting is such an ugly word. The liberals prefer to call it "informal reparations."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

362 These threats are real, not abstractions. You plan for such threats. You take whatever steps are necessary to mitigate the damage they can cause and budget and plan accordingly. This is reality. Hiring preferences in fire departments given to, say, overweight lesbians because they're overweight lesbians is simply insane.
Posted by: troyriser at January 10, 2025 04:42 PM (DPeYO)

It is the mysticism of socialistic group think. You must think that all people in your group are identical, which is idiotic. You must think all other groups are opposed to your group. At this point you have left science and practical planning and are in delusion land. I mean in what world does anyone in a fire department head off to Ghana? There's plenty of trips to fire equipment expos to satisfy normal graft.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:46 PM (n7h9X)

363 Lots of prop 13 Grandfather stuff just went away.

Newsom cackles. Rubs his hands together. He's giddy.
MOAR money for my big fat ghey agenda.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 04:36 PM (yvwEU)

someone has to rebuild first.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2025 04:47 PM (n7h9X)

364 The FF union guys says there are fewer fire stations now than 30 years ago when they had half the population.

https://tinyurl.com/2xp9747z

Posted by: PJ at January 10, 2025 04:49 PM (RRCAT)

365 Former Soviet caller to Gorka's last talk radio show: this is analogous to Chernobyl -- which exposed and laid bare the utter failures and dysfunctions of socialism.

[BTW, Hugh Hewitt is filling in for and will be taking this radio slot -- and he really referred to pro-abortion people as "pro-reproductive rights." Jeebus ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 04:52 PM (+Q2yk)

366 Black and female politicians are a blight on the land. Black female politicians are hopelessly, hopelessly, bad. Every. One. Of. Them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

It's almost like they can't get hired at a real job.

Posted by: wth at January 10, 2025 04:58 PM (v0R5T)

367 117 Madness that was imported from the Northeast and upper Midwest.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 03:47 PM

Thank you. Very few of the people I meet that are the big rabble rousers for change are from here. Most of them are from LA by way of New York.

Charles Manson was from OH.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (xCA6C)

I totally agree!

For once the South isn't being blamed for something!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 05:02 PM (gi+MR)

368
A conservative estimate. I was discussing this with a neighbor, whose daughter (a local cop) was standing nearby when I expressed the sentiment above. She turned around and said, "Absolutely."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 10, 2025 04:41 PM (YqDXo)

Last night I read that over 13k fires were started in LA in 2023 by the homeless in LA. Numbers had doubled since 2020. I don't have stats for 2024. I would also like to see the numbers of San Fran, Portland and Seattle, but I never get what I want.

Now we have the influx of the cultural guests and they have hell to pay for it with their fire throwers and UN debit card bullshit. Add a soupcon gazillion of mental illness, alcoholism, major drug addicts with needles and stir well. Welcome! All the liberals can blow me (Mel Gibson's most famous words other than Freedom!)

Mel, if you are reading this and need a place to stay, I have room. I also have a husband but he's known I love you since Mad Maxx and will be ok about it. I am your age but a former supermodel. Holding up well.
(I lie sometimes)

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 10, 2025 05:11 PM (gi+MR)

369 Re: "The firemen go on every medical 911 call. Maybe we don't need fireman making over 300,000 per year on every twisted ankle call with three big fire trucks?"

The firemen go because they never know the physical size of the victim and they may need additional help moving them. Picture, ironically, that LAFD Training Blob.

Posted by: Walsingham at January 10, 2025 05:25 PM (c7eB0)

370 One problem. Mayor Karen Bass left for Ghana on Saturday, the Fourth of January. That memo was written by one of her bomb-throwing Deputy Mayors who, no doubt, also turned off the water for Pacific Palisades and issued stand-down orders to all firefighters.

Posted by: wferrin at January 10, 2025 06:11 PM (jLPm3)

371 Did Deputy Mayor Brian K Williams ignite any fires in the Pacific Palisades? Were any other Deputy Mayors complicity in turning off the water to hydrants in the Palisades. Yes, I know about their explanation, but who kept the reserve tanks from being filled? Who ordered the $50 million in additional FD cuts while Mayor Bass was getting drunk in Ghana?

Posted by: wferrin at January 10, 2025 06:22 PM (BXDM3)

372 Not every one. Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears
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The distinction is that Sears is a Republican while all the others are Democrat.
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Sorry, but the rest of the data set is so remarkably skewed to a horrific mix of bravado, arrogance, incompetence, and graft that I could never vote for her to even a "Chief of County Nursing" position. Its just not worth the risk, and yes I have heard of her and know who she is.

Posted by: Crusader at January 10, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

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