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A Grateful American |
I do believe this may be where the drive to push this vile and disgusting "Alphabet Soul Cancer" which has metastasized across this nation into the Abyss, will have gained traction. (Or "dead hooked", in drag racing parlance...) When the time comes, and most all will know it, push back with all you have to bear. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’
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Were any Delta Smelt harmed? You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Para, I look at this and all I can think of is "Soup Sandwich" DEI = Didn't Earn It ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Yes, if you take out all of the things that make an urban area urban, you'd be left with wilderness.  | |||
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I don't get the stupid bickering over whether it's urban or wilderness. Houses are made of wood, just like witches. That's why they burn or float. The embers from the wilderness area are dropping down on the wood structures and setting them ablaze. As for the urban areas, I do believe lots of petroleum based items are used for the roofing material. It's like witches, too. You heap enough embers on a tar roof and it's going to burn. The wind has been so strong, it's been easy for the embers to be carried quite a long distance. The more the fire spreads, the more updraft there is to carry in more air to fan the fires. Yet there is petty myopic bickering over stupid shit. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONwjYOrCBV0 _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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If we eliminated the myopic posts, then there wouldn’t be much of a thread left. It’s not wildfire, it’s worse. It’s a man made catastrophe no different than building cities below sea level, in earthquake zones, in hurricane prone areas, next to volcanoes, etc. In the case of these urban fires, the urban infrastructure is incapable of mitigating the risk. Much of the thread seems to be focused on who didn’t do what. This problem was caused by what people did do: they built house stacked next to each other out of poor materials in an area not suited for it and didn’t properly plan for the inevitable. I say this as a person who bought a house in a flood zone and hurricane prone area. I came close to losing my house twice this year because of this. I take full responsibility for it. There’s no politicians to blame, no building inspectors, emergency services providers, etc., just me. It’s gut wrenching and heartbreaking to lose your stuff. I hope people take personal responsibility to heart going forward. | |||
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This will all be blamed on climate change and w're to blame for this. Not mismanagement. Everything I've seen so far on this fire is one big goddamn clown show.  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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| Internet Guru |
They will absolutely conclude that this is attributable to climate change. The emotions from this will result in more zealous climate warriors.. look for more bizarre legislation to take advantage of the coming propaganda. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
As previously posted on page 3.  "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
100% spot on. Former Southern California resident. Thus far where we elected to live has remained fine, but there is nothing magical about this, as the winds and embers can affect anywhere in the area. Southern California is massively overbuilt for what the area can naturally sustain and there has been no consistent vision nor diligent efforts to mitigate the risks in this level of development or address contingencies. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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Ironically CBS News reported P Diddy's, Mansion of Horrors burnt to the ground, along with all that evidence that remained.... _________________________ | |||
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Residents nabbed this idiot trying to start a residential fire. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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Well, as long as the mayor and governor get their tax money from all those crammed-in homeowners and businesses, who cares? I assume these poor, burnt-out people will still get charged later in the year for at least the value of the property. Politicians gotta get their money.  _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Meet the people in charge of LA’s fire response. All of them lesbians named Kristin. Kristina Crowley - First LGBTQ Fire Chief LAFD. Salary: $439,722 Kristina Kepner - First Lesbian Assistant Chief LAFD. Salary: $264,468 Kristine Larson - First black lesbian Equity Bureau Chief LAFD. Salary: $399,000 How does the "Equity Bureau Chief" make almost twice as much money as the Assistant Chief? | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Let's see his face:  I spoke to my sister last night and she confirmed that two houses we lived in as children, both rentals, were destroyed, the two neighborhoods gone, both maybe 1/2 mile away from the San Gabriel Mountains. Also our elementary school was destroyed. And our first home my dad bought in Pasadena, also 1/2 mile away from the mountains, was spared, but houses in the next block were burned down. I read this morning that the Eaton Fire destroyed 4000 structures. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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^^ Vigilance committees of private citizens used used to hang alleged arsonists like this when caught red handed. Dude should feel lucky he was handed over to the cops. A silver lining may be red pilled celebrities who have a platform like Adam carolla, Jillian Michaels, Justine Bateman and James woods, et. al. and may bring enough attention to what criminals some of these politicians are. Nero newsom, fish faced bass etc. | |||
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There seems to be some doubt in the CBS Broadcast report so, who knows. _________________________ | |||
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https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1877459997761659307 _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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