Cover image: Woodford State Park, Vermont
Badlands News Brief – January 8, 2025
Trump’s Lawyers Have Assailed Jack Smith. They Could Soon Have Power to Go After Him
California wildfires live updates: At least 5 dead, over 100,000 forced to flee
But not the Getty Museum. Not surprising as most modern museums have massive fire suppression systems.
Comedians Begin to Admit They Were Pressured Into Pushing the Leftwing Propaganda Line
Exclusive — Andrew Huff: Preemptive Pardon of Anthony Fauci, if Accepted, ‘Incriminates Everyone’
MKUltra Documents Declassified
Doug Casey Exposes the Real Issues Behind the H-1B Controversy
Pfizer’s secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID
TWEETS!
Just one to set the record straight.
https://twitter.com/CarloMVigano/status/1877041960189366605
The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is a decision that the State can legitimately take, and this is a principle dictated by Natural Law even before positive civil law or Canon Law. Conversely, the “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and indisputably incompatible with the network of pseudo-charitable organizations in the hands of the Bergoglian Hierarchy, the Democratic Party and the NGOs attributable to George Soros, and with the system of complicity between the deep state and the deep church, both of which are actively engaged in the dissolution of the social, economic, cultural, and religious fabric of the Nations in which they have taken control of the institutions. Stopping illegal immigration would make them lose an inexhaustible source of profit, paid for by citizens’ taxes. The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and unquestionably incompatible with the subversive plan of ethnic substitution shared by the globalist elite, because it thwarts it and prevents the creation of the premises for social revolt that are intended lead to a further restriction of fundamental freedoms. When we hear representatives of the deep church (i.e. the Bergoglian “church”) or the deep state speak, we ought to realize that these people are emissaries of the subversive globalist lobby, and that every word they say is false, because behind an apparently acceptable excuse they actually hide unmentionable criminal purposes. Let us not be surprised then if “Cardinal” McElroy – appointed by Bergoglio as “Archbishop” of Washington, heir of the serial abuser and right-hand man of the Argentine Jesuit, Theodore McCarrick – is so busy with immigrants, LGBTQ+, the environment and vaccines: these are the points of the Agenda 2030, which the Bergoglian “church” has been promoting since the Mafia of St. Gallen managed to have a puppet of the World Economic Forum elected “pope”. And let us not be surprised if what the exponents of the deep state and the deep church have in common is corruption, vice, and perversion.
MEMES and FUN STUFF
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SATIRE
‘This Is Worse Than The Holocaust!’ Shouts Sunny Hostin After Barista Forgets To Put Cream In Her Coffee
New Check Engine Light For Women Will Show Ryan Gosling’s Face So They’ll Actually Pay Attention To It
Mike Johnson Calls LEGO To Order Another Set Of Hair
‘It’s Too Expensive To Have Kids,’ Says Woman Whose Ancestors Raised 11 Kids In A Two-Bedroom House
WEEKEND STARTER
Tanqueray Almond Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 ounce gin
- 1/2 ounce amaretto liqueur
- 1 dash bitters
- 1 splash sour mix
- Maraschino cherries, for garnish
Steps to Make It
- Gather the ingredients.
- In a snifter with ice, pour the gin, amaretto, and bitters.
- Top with a splash of sour mix.
- Garnish with maraschino cherries. Serve and enjoy.
Have a good weekend, y’all.
Have a good one y’all.
ELEVEN days, ELEVEN hours and (well crap there goes the streak) 42 minutes until our Once and Future President, Donald John Trump, is restored to his Rightful Office.
Not that I’m counting, mind you.
LMAO!!!
You could have waited another 31 minutes….
LOL
We’re gettin’ there.
That’s barely more than a tennight.
42 minutes isn’t bad either. Just remember to bring your towel!
to soak up all those liberal tears?
Nick Sortor:
All that wood could have been air-conditioning those same homes in the summer, and heating them in the winter, if only Gavin Newsom would have listened to me!
Wood reactors. Net Zero compliant. It’s time!
Blow that — there’s more potential energy in the thorium in coal than can be realized by burning the coal, so we should build power plants that “burn” the thorium to convert the hydrocarbons to gasoline.
Ah, “more” may be true, but the energy needed to remove and concentrate the thorium is such that, I suspect most of that thorium energy would be used to get the thorium, because the concentration is still extremely low. IOW, you have to mine and remove the coal anyway – might as well burn it.
Or just burn the wood that’s going to burn down your house otherwise, since the coal and the thorium aren’t going to do THAT either way.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
The real truth is, nuclear waste isn’t all that radioactive, and while coal is even less so, if you burn it, the ash that’s left is slightly more radioactive.
Which is not to say that SciAm isn’t lying, because I still don’t trust them.
Gone completely WOKE!
Yup – Workers involved in a TVA power plant coal ash spill disaster here in east TN unfortunately learned the hard way what happens with that.
https://www.epa.gov/tn/epa-response-kingston-tva-coal-ash-spill
https://lhsfna.org/hundreds-of-workers-sickened-or-killed-following-coal-ash-cleanup/
What’s interesting is that if you have enough energy, that waste turns into an ore for all those elements!
Could it be because all the “radiation” was condensed into a smaller pile?
Yes! In fact, concentrating sea water quickly would presumably do the same thing. This seems to be a recurring theme in natural processes, to create concentrated whatever.
Stuff from geologically “concentrated” deposits (ores are barely concentrated, TBH) gets released by some process or processes, and must then be reconcentrated by us, somehow, for our use.
Note similar situations with rare earths in beach sands – except that there may be good (energy efficient) ways to separate the rare earths (though still requiring some energy).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653523025249
All of this is relevant to the error of “green energy” which, even when nuclear, must pay to get the nuclear fuel, and can’t pay its costs otherwise. Note also that deuterium in the water here is a kind of ore, and water on this planet is a kind of ore, too. Costs of concentrating fuel most always be paid.
The whole thing is beautiful, just by the fact that it works to sustain life, frankly, and then [more conscious] intelligent life! This planet really is a Garden of Eden.
in replies seen on Nitter
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1877059976838995968/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/g2ga3F16MqkVZ5Ex.mp4?tag=12
https://nitter.poast.org/mazemoore/status/1877060446844314071#m
https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1877060446844314071#m
YHWH Hesed
MAZE
@DailyWinne59667
3h
Replying to @nicksortor
@mazemoore
11h
April, 2021. Gavin Newsom explains that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.
Also
https://nitter.poast.org/bill_c10/status/1877203690957783395#m
https://twitter.com/bill_c10/status/1877203690957783395#m
Steven Guilbeault Minister of Environment PARODY
@bill_c10
2h
Replying to @nicksortor
As I squint my eyes to focus on the flames and the fire, I am reminded of the indescribable leadership which has been so success-divergent in protecting citizens. The California Government is the greatest in competence.
The world will be a better place when both of those azzhats are no longer the subjects of soundbites and quotes. Criminal liars.
They need the Mussolini treatment.
Yea. That would be a shame.
Team Humorous Old Peckerwoods
“Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles is GONE.”
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Don’t forget to vote Democrat, 2026.
They’ve earned your vote. They have delivered on every insanity, every lie, every assault on reality that they ever promised, and so much more.
Right now, as the fires rage and your cities burn, they’re flushing fresh water out into the Pacific ocean, under the ridiculous pretense of saving a ‘smelt’.
Your mayor is in Ghana pretending to get in touch with her African roots. The same mayor that oversaw slashing the fire department budget by nearly $18 million (IIRC), while spending millions on Leftist pet projects.
The mental illness of the Democrat Party has finally reaped a reward worthy of their policies.
The only surprise is that it took so long.
Newscum 2028.
Yup.
California is a sovereign state in a sovereign nation. Cali residents need to handle their own issues and leave the rest of the 49 out of it. No more federal funds to bail them out. They are receiving what they wanted with their votes and inattention to state and local government activities.
You reap what you sow. No bail outs, PDT. Hold the line.
We need to inundate our Congress Critters and Trump with letters, phone calls, faxes, and emails to that effect.
North Carolina was left to deal with their disaster ALONE so the same for CA. Afterall you VOTED to seend the $$$ to Ulraine. ‘nough said.
and the fire equipment went to ukraine too
Never to be used more than a few times.
Collin Rugg:
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1877048612519121223
Of the top dozen exploitable petroleum sources in the US — including Texas and Alaska — five are in California. It’s a fantastically wealthy state being impoverished by tree-hugging commies.
Anti-Human totalitarian Fabian ‘Progressives’
It’s time to start calling Democrat policies and their proponents what they really are.
Mentally ill.
It’s mental illness at the top of government and business. The entire power structure is mentally ill, and they call it ‘virtue’.
The Delta Smelt they are “saving” are not native to California!
Now is the time to introduce an idea.
Democrats are stupid. The “smart” party and their “smart” mouthpieces in media and entertainment are actually stupid.
Spontaneously combusting in what heat? It’s the middle of winter!
I figured as much. I suspected it was illegal invaders or acts of intentional sabotage by foreign government agents.
An easy way to continually weaken your enemy from within, and put yet another constant strain on limited resources.
There’s also a history of hate-filled radical environmentalists setting fires – intentionally, malevolently burning down people’s homes in California!
Western Lensman:
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1876797978242892231
Y’know, Senator Fester Addams is not too bad….
….but I’m looking forward to a Gomez.
Morticia.
Fetterman feeling a flip to MAGAmerican? 😉
Let’s not get out over our skis.
If I’m being honest, I think this guy is probably better than Oz would have been. I think Oz is a touchy-feeling lefty in too many ways.
Fetterman has been a pleasant surprise. I think he managed to get out from under his handler/wife’s thumb.
Bingo. Brazilian commie. Yup, yup, yup.
i am from PA. Oz was a hold your nose and vote for him choice for me.
Fetterman is so much better than i had hoped for
He’s a liberal, for sure. But at least he’s reasonable. More like Democrats used to be.
Wonders never cease. It’s just marvelous.
Yea. Fester is evolving. Pleasant surprise, as Gail posted. I never saw it coming.
Me, either. All I saw was a stroke victim, honestly. I didn’t think he would recover.
The stroke must have taken out the Marxist crud infecting his brain.
This might be the first case of a beneficial stroke. 😆
We are caught in the middle of a war between Good and Evil. When Evil is ascendant (which we have allowed), then we are losing. When Good is winning, the world is better.
In the end, of course, God wins. But until such time as He deems, we are in the struggle.
Amen!
This is somewhat confusing, particularly for those of us who are of a certain age….
J. Paul Getty built an art museum in 1974. It’s in Malibu and is a copy of a Roman villa from Herculaneum that was buried in the famous Pompeii eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
After Getty’s death, his estate built an art museum in 1997. It’s in Brentwood, in the hills above the 405 freeway. It’s connected to a seven story underground garage by a private cable-pulled tram. (As a personal note, on one of the previous occasions my car’s battery died, I push-started my car in this garage about four floors down.)
Subsequent to this, the original Getty museum was renamed the Getty Villa, and the new one was to be known as the Getty Center. The old one specialized in antiquities, and other works were moved to the new one.
The villa, being modeled after an ancient Roman structure, but built to 1974 code, is reasonably fireproof — and its contents are generally pretty rugged. By contrast, the Getty Center is reputed to have every modern safeguard and may be impervious to natural phenomena (some say its collections can be made secure against an adjacent atomic bomb with six hours warning). The new Getty has been threatened by fire before, and it didn’t even muss its gardens.
So far, I’ve been hearing about the grounds of the Villa burning in the Palisades fire. That is not the Getty that has the Van Gogh in it.
Again, the most famous piece at the Villa is an ancient bronze. It would most likely shrug off smoke damage.
They only have one Van Gogh? We have at least three.
Originals? And who is this ‘we’ of whom you speak?
DePat’s MKULTRA link above leads to THIS – the newest mother lode of MKULTRA information.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly
I don’t know how this works, but Repubs have a majority in the Senate. I don’t know if there’s some committee that can gum up the works.
So go around them.
You’re the POTUS. You have a Constitutional obligation to get things done. If the criminal legislative branch seeks to obstruct you in your Constitutional duties and obligations, then go around them.
Use the resources at your command to accomplish the objectives that would otherwise be accomplished by the appointees who are being blocked.
If it is something the military can do, then use the military.
If it is something private industry can do, then use private industry.
If it is something that another agency can be redirected or repurposed to do, then do that.
In the meantime, use Elon Musk to expose every single Republi-con senator and representative who is obstructing. Begin very open and public and very well funded plans to primary these exact Republi-con traitors.
Use fear, intimidation, money, power, every tool of force and coercion at your disposal.
In other words, treat them as they treat everyone else.
“…she hasn’t provided required vetting Materials…”
Well that is VERY EASY for POTUS to correct on Jan 20th at 12:01
Grant her the HIGHEST CLEARANCE. As POTUS Trump has the right.
Security Clearances and Presidential Authority
Screw the committee. Send it to the Floor for a vote.
I think the Senate rules say that that would make it a two/thirds vote to pass.
Thanks.
Guessing that would apply to Committee voes down, sent to Floor anyway.
I’m going to say right now; I have no patience for the bullshit games.
That means I expect Trump to bulldoze right over whomever and whatever he needs to in order to enact his agenda.
Piss on the Congress, to hell with the Demoncrats. Get the shit done. America has suffered enough.
I’d guess that is Trump’s plan. Pedal To The Floor. Fuck All Who get In The Way.
We’, Trump have been obstructed every step of the way, since Trump came down the escalator, ~nine years ago.
The obstruction continues will All of the shit happening. Maggot, hussein, their criminals doing everything they can to derail Trump.
The DemCommunists are playing the “Go along to get along, or we’ll fix it so that no POTUS47 nominee gets approved” game. The so-called Republicans in the Senate, led by Sen. John “I’m a clone of Mitch McConnell” Thune, will fall into line. And don’t forget, The Turtle is still in the Senate. He’s now controlling it via Thune and similar types.
It has a nice ring. 😅
Neither can we!
Is there any possible way to recall him?
It’s been tried, and a recall was on the ballot — but what the people vote for doesn’t matter much in this state.
Where is the military?
Why hasn’t Hussein ordered the military to take over the firefighting effort?
I wonder how many illegals and homeless are being burned alive? A lot of them do not have transportation.
I don’t know how Gruesome can even show his face in public going forward.
He should be running for his life.
I’m astounded that so many people will just allow the leader of their state to destroy them, to literally wipe them out, to BURN them out, and the People do what, nothing?
How is he not in so much danger now that his security detail won’t even allow him to remain in the state, because there is no way they can protect him against a population of 39 million people who want his head on a pike?
If a Republi-con was responsible for this, he’d already be dead or chased out of the state and his own home burned to the ground. Californians would be lining up to do it, high-fiving and virtue-signalling to each other.
The criminals know we’re a peaceful people.
I think this time may be different for Gruesome. Not in terms of danger to him, but in terms of people making it so that he can’t walk the streets without jeering and mockery of his every statement.
Heckling Newsom at every single opportunity should be the duty of every Californian.
THAT is protected free speech, and even when it’s “not”, it’s valid non-violent civil disobedience.
part of the plan. California’s in the hole money wise. CA’s constituents are SOOL because of the lack of fire insurance. They will plead for FEDERAL assistance. They will get it. the homeowners will get a small amount and the rest will flow into CA coffers, so the CA gov’t can continue on it’s merry way.
By design.
Trump will bury Newscum and California incompetence with in their face fury.
Republican California — built the California Water Project.
Democrat California — this.
Those Billions of dollars voted for water storage are gone.
Supporting illegals, homeless and lining D-Rat pockets. Money laundering.
Wall Street Apes:
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1877032321469264185
“She was just PULLED OUT OF SURGERY”
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If you allowed it to happen, that’s on YOU.
If you’re in surgery, it doesn’t matter if the POTUS calls, you tell him you’ll get back to him when the surgery is over and your patient is in recovery.
WTH is wrong with people.
my question exactly!
She’s just as much of the problem as the insurance company. Why is she just now speaking up?
Everything was okay until it effects her.
Her personal testimony is more powerful than just blanket pronouncements, IMO.
When a surgeon leaves a patient on the table to speak to a fucking administrator, HERE’S YOUR SIGN.
What the hell is wrong with so-called doctors now? Seriously. They’re like mindless automaton sheep.
Death Of Common Sense, is front and center.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Leftist.
Rude awakening.
I’d prefer to lock to standard time, but this is a great example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I’m about 97% for not changing times, and 3% for it being standard time instead of daylight time. If 97% of my irritation on this issue is removed, I’ll probably forget about the other 3% until my other problems are solved.
We tried year-round DST during the energy crisis and people hated it, we ended up right back where we were before.
According to what reputable source — the NY Slimes? The Feral Government?
My memory of when it happened.
As it turned out many people hate a late sunrise which is what they had in the dead of winter with DST.
I LOVED sun in the afternoon when I got off work. Of course I have been known to go horseback riding in minus 40F …. I did not bother to take the blanket off my horse,🙃
For which the horse was grateful.
True!
We also used to do ski joring thru a big field.
They should try living up here in the Puget Sound – the land of winter late sunrises, no matter which scheme is used.
I get that people are irritated with the one hour flip, twice a year.
I prefer get on one. Don’t care which one.
SMDH, Scott has this legislation as his hot button of the day.
R-Cons are a really, really bad joke.
Low hanging fruit for votes.
Darren Grimes:
A minute and 30 seconds of Trump zingers with the media.
TOO MUCH WINNING!!!
That brings a big smile to my face. So nice to see the Fake News get treated they way they should be.
Best part. FOUR More Years. Trump will be totally unleashed.
Thank you, dear De Pat, for setting such a bountiful table of a post before us on this day.
There’s a 28 second video in the article showing almost completely destroyed buildings but very close by them there are articles that appear to have not heat/flame issues, a planter, a barbeque, a bench, a green painted box (newspaper or possibly utility box?), & many trees. These anomalies make me think it Possible that DEWs could be in play.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14265045/billy-crystal-pacific-palisades-los-angeles-home-california-fire.html
From a relative of mine who’s a Believer but bought into A Lot of leftisms…
She called this “Trump and the Environment”
“God put us in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and make sure it kept producing clean air, water, soil, plants, animals and people as God planned it to sustain all life. President Trump is evil in his plans to destroy our healthy and, safe environment for more money and profits to the rich and powerful destroyers of our Eden!”
Then she appended this item that was emailed to her…forewarned & all 😉 😉
Donnie R. Dann
January 2025 – Volume 29 Number 1
Conservation Alert
IS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEAD?
Trump Administration and Conservation
“Climate change is a hoax”. The president-elect has promised to practically wipe out federal climate, clean air, and clean water regulations. His administration’s plans aim at rules applying to everything from auto emissions to power plant pollution to drinking water standards. To those of us who care deeply for the natural world, these and similar statements and proposals by the president-elect are disheartening. But despair not.
Most Blue states have been ardent fighters in the battle against climate change deniers and air and water polluters. Their attorneys general and lawmakers are preparing to fight back by filing lawsuits, enacting their own regulations, and staffing up state environmental agencies.
In the first Trump administration, his agencies tried to roll back more than 100 environmental rules. The courts struck down many of those rollbacks after legal challenges.
Where and what will the anti-environmentalists attack first? Environmental advocates say the likeliest might be the EPA’s waivers that allow California to set its own limits, stricter than federal rules, for automotive emissions. Many other states, comprising 40% of the light-duty vehicle market, follow the California standards.
“[California] needs federal support on reducing transportation emissions, really centered on our waivers from the EPA,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said in an interview, “There’s a way for regulations to be created, and a way for them to be changed. If the law isn’t followed, as it often was not during the first Trump administration, we will sue, and as in the past, we will win.”
Of the roughly 120 lawsuits brought by California against the first Trump administration, 70 were environmental cases, Bonta said. The state won a majority of those cases.
The Wall Street Journal reecetntly wrote that etven some MAGA Republicans are unwilling to roll back significant portions of the Biden-era climate bill where it could negatively affect their constituencies’ economic interests.
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Some of the above is courtesy of Oregon Capital Chronicle.
This is too easy.
California is either a state, subject to all the rules for all the other states, without exceptions or waivers…..
…..or it can be a territory, with special rules unto itself.
Per that dubious newsletter it apparently expects waivers AND federal bailouts 😡
Normal. They think they’re invulnerable.
Hope the Trump team helps them revise their views of themselves & US…
I want every single freakin’ subordinate clause of potential exception to be REVOKED. California should live under the rules that everyone else does.
100%
At this point, I think a very hard lesson needs to be learned.
NO FEDERAL BAILOUTS PERIOD!!!
From yesterday there was this video from para59r
https://nitter.poast.org/JohnLeFevre/status/1876869458561556738
https://twitter.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1876869458561556738
From that thread:
Tara
https://nitter.poast.org/Tara15482537174/status/1876936716835012697
Map showing locations of many fires & pict of a fire.
I’m reading rock solid about 80% of 12G of RAM, and about 20% of 16G of swap. This is before I changed my swap to a different device and doubled it from 8G — because I’d frequently go 100% of RAM and 100% of swap and my system would semi-hang.
First impression — I gave it more swap, and now it doesn’t need as much as it previously used. WTF?
Second note — both Brave and Firefox pushed updates while I was dorking around. Would it not be ironic if they fixed (in software) the problem I was working to fix (in hardware)?
I’d previously diddled with “swappiness”. Ubuntu standard is 60 — I’d tried 40 and 80 and they both seemed to make my memory management worse. I’m continuing to watch the current setup, but it is not doing the pre-misbehaving I expect.
Just to make this comment interesting, here’s “Ride to Happiness” —
I’m not a code guy but my speculation is that there are lines of code commanding the performance of something and directing the use of a specific size allotment of RAM not located in the swap file. By changing the amount of RAM, you are changing the base address of the RAM which is somehow the root by which all commands are to be used in certain execution sub-schemes.
Or some such similar thing. 😜
[I’m done now]
In your case it’s not irony.
It’s karma.
[j/k good buddy 😍 ]
Weird I hopped back to the Q-Tree tab after checking out some other tabs. The way the page looked was really strange, in a way I’ve Never seen before. The post was shrunken with wide margins on the right & left & boxes around some of the sections. I reloaded the page & the typical appearance returned…hmmm…
Would that be the format supposed to be used on a mobile phone? I can recall having seen that tall and narrow version of this and other sites, even as I use a desktop system,
but it has been a while
sunnydaze
January 9, 2025 12:48 am
Edink
January 9, 2025 1:00 am
L.A. Officials Complain There Aren’t Enough Firefighters — After Firing Hundreds Who Refused to Take COVID Vaccine
As fires rage across Los Angeles, city officials are complaining there are not enough firefighters to manage the situation.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said that the department was incapable of managing such a massive natural disaster.
“There are not enough firefighters in all of Los Angeles County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,” he said.
“The LA County Fire Department was prepared for one or two major wildfires, but not the four. This is not a normal red flag alert.”
While their lack of manpower is completely understandable given the incredible ferocity of the fires, it is worth noting that many firefighters were fired for their refusal to take the COVID vaccine.
As pointed out by the popular End Wokeness account X, local news media even ran reports back in 2021 about how firefighters had their employment terminated after refusing to provide proof of vaccination or requesting an exemption.
In fact, a group of hundreds of the city’s firefighters even filed a lawsuit against the city for violating their constitutional rights.
Chiefio captures my thoughts on S T O O P I D California.
100% Newscum and assholes further destroying California and its citizens should be run out of power and strung up. <<<
Every election, Californians double Down On Failure – Demand Failure.
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This is a good read.
Los Angeles Burning & Did It To Themselves
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/
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Admittedly this will NOT fix a damn thing, in California.
California Joe
January 9, 2025 2:21 am
LGBTQ LA Fire Chief announces new $1 Million EV All Electric Fire Truck
PG&E Announces Power Shut-Off to Fire Ravaged Pacific Palisades….
https://lafd.org/news/lafd-chief-debuts-arrival-first-electric-fire-engine
EV Emergency Vehicles.
right? now there’s no water for the fire truck but that’s okay there’s no power to charge the dang thing anything. AND no fireman cuz they got fired.
hollywood couldn’t write a disaster this bad.
FAFO
Let them stew in their own (very hot) juices. YOU voted for it, YOU got it.
At this point I can not find any empathy at ALL.
That IS where I am. Hence, my blunt posts today.
ALSO remember ‘Build Back Better’ Means building Agenda 21/30 housing.
California Housing Laws That Go into Effect in 2025by Muhammad Alameldin @ UC Berkley
California’s 2023 Housing Laws: What You Need to Know
AB 2295 (Assembly Member Richard Bloom) – Educational Employee Housing. This law addresses the dire need for teacher housing. It will allow a qualifying rental housing development project to be an “allowable use,” entitled to certain exemptions…
s entitled to be exempt from any use, density and height limitations that would preclude a residential development of at least 35 feet in height, and a minimum density ranging from 10 to 30 dwelling units per acre depending upon whether the jurisdiction is metropolitan, suburban or unincorporated. A qualifying development is also exempt from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land.
So NEW building codes in 2025 JUST IN TIME for rebuilding Californicate according to ‘sustainability strategy.’
Sept 2009 National Multi-Housing Council: Green Practices/Sustainability
NYC mayor Bloomberg was putting it into effect in New York. He really must have LOVED Sandy since it means they can insist on Smart Growth housing as replacement.
Gallery: 5 Super Efficient Tiny New York Apartments
But even for some, 400 square feet is a luxury.
Lahaina is the beta test.
Exactly what I was thinking. However Christchurch NZ was the actual Beta test.
March 2016 The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand
This blog has LOTS of info.
2011?? From the Ground Up : Re-building Christchurch…aemslab.org.nz›from_the_ground_up
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The Republican mayor and Republican city council here voted to change housing regulations. So now homeowners can turn their garage or divide the house into small aprartments. All in the name of offering more opportunities for low income people.
So now we’ll start seeing all these tiny rat holes pop up. To compliment the influx of all the 5-6 story high rent apartment building’s being built.
The writing is on the wall where this will all end.
November 23, 2022 SMART Cities’ worldwide being converted into ‘open concentration camps,’ says ex-Silicon Valley engineer turned whistleblower
I live in a rural RED area, I was told that our house was only one of THREE in the are that did not have a SMART METER!!
Once our current meter dies, there are no more Non-Smart meters available. We pay $30 a month for the privilege of not having a SMART METER.
When the smart meters went on the electric and water, we weren’t given a choice. The gas company moved all the meters outside on the side of the houses, so they don’t have to come in or ask to go into back yards. Sneaky.
we had no choice with our electric meter–half a mile driveway up a mountain in bad weather was a no go for the meter reader.
The reading every month is GASLIGHTING BULL💩. We had the old style for a good ten years and it sent in the reading with no hands on.
Second, over 70 years ago, as an 8 yr old child, Hubby used to read the meter and send in the post card. ONCE A YEAR the meter reader would come around and check that the diagrams on the card were correct.
I remember those post cards too.
They looked something like this:
100% ^^^
Was the fire chief elected?
If not, the people who hired her were.
i think so according to this…
jim
January 9, 2025 9:54 am
…they will not vote Democrat:
Statewide, CA stacks the deck for Dumrats. Two highest vote getters in a Primary, are on the ballot for the General election.
No idea if it applies to County or local elections.
CA is a fraud.
sorry–that was the mayor
Oh, the mayor!. What we know so far…
Prime Time DEI from Mayor.
“If you need help (bla bla bla) all of this can be found at URL” and she didn’t include what the URL was, just said U-R-L.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1877176401599615319
GO ELON!!!
There is a reason why the Constitution is written as it is, and why State’s Rights exist.
If you live in a state where the majority of people vote for policies you do not like, MOVE to a state where people like you live.
Why any Conservative with the money to live in an over-priced place like Pacific Palisades would continue to live there, when the sale of the house they own would likely support them for 20 years in a state like Nebraska or Kansas, or South Carolina, is just beyond me.
My SIL lives in a motor home in our yard, having sold their home in Fresno.
They got rewarded for moving here. Her husband won the lottery a few months after they got here.
$50,000. They don’t write fairy tales as wild as my wife’s family has had.
That there Is The BEST news of my day. Thanks for posting.
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FWIW. Several within a few blocks of the hood when I was in NV.
Exactly why I left CA in 2015.
Left NV in 2024.
If TX goes to shit, I’ll be on the move again. Thus far, TX Redder than I had thought.
They don’t keep voting them in.
Unless you believe that California elections are clean and honest.
“…California elections are clean and honest.”
…… 
Of course California elections are Not honest. Duh.
Rigged to keep conservatives out. ID is banned by law. Mail voting…
From yesterday, I think this can of worms needs to be addressed.
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The problem is they have been told for years by the Left, the Fake News and
Marxist indoctrination centerspublic schools that they are CITIZENS! This is part of the left’s attack on the USA. I think the whole matter will have to go back to the Supreme Court to REAFFIRM Babies Don’t Provide Anchors!THE POLITICAL MISREADING OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT
A couple more articles:
Babies Don’t Provide Anchors!
Anchor babies, birthright citizenship, and the 14th Amendment -CAIRCO [Concerned Americans our Independent Republic and Constitution]
Alien Birthright Citizenship: A Fable That Lives Through IgnoranceChange U.S. law on anchor babiesThe UnConstitutionality of Citizenship by Birth to Non-AmericansTrack ‘anchor babies’
For decades I have been saying that there’s no such thing as an anchor baby.
If I ever get around to it, I should do a piece on the meanings of residence versus domicile in our laws.
That right there is how ‘anchor babies’ gets meat on the bone so to speak.
Please do!
And then there is ‘Premises’…
https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-SCAM-behind-NAIS–Ou-by-Derry-Brownfield-081130-795.html
Have posted a few times.
MADDENING: Watch Adam Carolla Explain How He Applied to be a Los Angeles Firefighter But Was Turned Away for Being a White Male (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/maddening-watch-adam-carolla-explain-how-he-applied/
Same thing happened to DH in California in the late eighties.
and probably any incriminating evidence as well
Hunter Biden’s Malibu home burned to ground.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Rep. Jasmine Crockett completely loses it after Scott Jennings calls out DEI in the LAFD, claims black women are the most educated people in America.
Crockett started making random comments like how her ancestors built the White House.
“The last time I checked y’all didn’t say that anything was wrong with the White House. And I can promise you it was my ancestors that built the White House.”
“The fact is, stop trying to act as if only white men are the ones that are capable. Because right now you sitting at a table with three very capable black women.”
sync
January 9, 2025 7:51 am
400k a year for what?
…you sitting at a table with three very capable black women.
^^^ One or more DEI / woke hires.
i love how words evolve…
brother turned into bro
i didn’t do anything…morphed into dindu nuffin
and token turned into dei
She seems smart. Not.
Her brains match CNN ratings.
So let those “ three very capable black women” go out and fight those fires!
Time to make them put their money where there mouth is. I have shut down and made a laughing stock, more than one idiot lib that way.
(Someone back stage should walk on stage carrying 3 firefighters suits….)
They don’t have to fight fires, literally. But they have to prove to us all that they are something other than empty DEI hires.
Yes I mean LITERALLY. I am sick to death of the Woman = Man crap. We are DIFFERENT, not better, not worse, just different. We should be happy that people have different strengths and weaknesses instead of being forced to be interchangeable cogs.
Very capable of being stupid – sure.
Hate to break it to her but slaves might have hauled materials for building the WH but they didn’t build it. Slaves were not skilled at that time. They were kept unskilled deliberately [according to some sources].
sync
January 9, 2025 7:48 am
NY Governor Hochul’s Deputy Linda Sun
Another surprise. Commies PUSH DEI in the USA.
Charlotte99
January 9, 2025 7:47 am
Video:
Andrew D Huberman PhD
People are lighting fires in otherwise non-burning urban areas of LA. Saw this happen first hand at 302 Pico in Santa Monica. Called it in & fire dept & police responded. Stay safe and call in any activity ASAP. We don’t need more flames out here.
https://nitter.poast.org/hubermanlab/status/1877236580676493784#m
guessing this is so they can overwhelm the city emergency resources and loot to their hearts content
Charlotte99
January 9, 2025 7:46 am
911 Callers are reporting that a Group of at least Five Men in Ski Masks are starting Fires in the Studio City Neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Unknown Individuals are claimed to be starting Fires in parts of Los Angeles that are not already burning because of the Wildfires. Complete insanity!
https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1877247451687489797#m
Street Justice can end this problem in 3, 2, 1.
Think the Koreans during the Riots.
100%
Problem IS fixable, locally.
well they’re burning the rooftops so they can’t be exactly the same
Easily adapted. Where there is a will. There is a way. 
Guessing Big Pharma paid bigly, quietly, under the table, to get this determination.
NO CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS: Florida Grand Jury Finds No Evidence of Criminal Activity by COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/no-criminal-indictments-florida-grand-jury-finds-no/
kalbo
You bet Big Pharma paid $$$$ to get this scrubbed.
Now, Big Pharma will go after Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, via the Florida State medical licensing board, to get Dr. Ladapo’s License to Practice Medicine either Revoked or Restricted. Ditto with any medical specialty board certifications that he has.
i dunno. when you give them immunity does that mean nothing they did was technically against the law therefore no criminal activity?
My understanding, which our legal types AND informed medical types can correct.
Immunity, IF they acted above board, honestly. Did NOT lie or hide data / truth.
My understanding is Big Pharma dummied tests, curtailed tests to give the illusion of Safe AND effective.
Certainly Feds, CDC, FDA, NIH are also guilty. But, Big Pharma Is Guilty.
Hollywood is done. (A dream come true, if it is.)
Lemme pause here for, Mission Impossible. In search of “give a shit.”
Seems like an appropriate picture for what Hollyweird has been representing lately.
EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Thursday, January 9, 2025
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“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped…”
Psalms 28:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
THE SPECIAL PLACE
Weary of the world travails and troubles
With each day that passes the trial doubles
What must we do when life gets in the way
We go to our Special Place and we pray
The only peaceful place in His Presence
His Holy Word wherein lies His essence
To Him we come to refresh and renew
From the hardships that dost daily accrue
We trust in His love to see us through
What He has decreed and brought us to
We can do nothing aside from His care
Without Him we would be going nowhere
In the busyness of our daily routine
We have little time to stop and come clean
Our prayers are hurried and incomplete
Our growth in grace is oft bittersweet
We need to break free of the vicious trap
The enemy squeezes into the gap
Despite our armor and our daily prep
The enemy pursues at ev’ry step
He will not retreat til we demand it
By the power in us we command it
Greater is He that is within us than
He in the world who is lower than man
When life makes no sense we must retreat
When burdens are heavy and we are beat
There’s only one place where God can be found
It is that Special Place you keep around
D01: 07/14/2023
Thank You Duchess! 🙂
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/05/23/the-poetry-tree/#comment-1267431
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
prayeveryday777
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
Jiimmuh Carter’s big day at the National Cathedral
Being a liturgy nerd, I’m curious to how a Southern Baptist man is being buried out of an Episcopal church. They can out pomp us Catholics. So far, one difference, no Scripture readings. That can be a difficult decision, choosing the right ones for the person involved. Grandson currently giving a eulogy with a bit of Scripture in it.
A few observations:
No Big Mike
Hillary is wearing purple glasses. That must be the new signaling color.
Mrs. Trump is not interacting with anyone.
All these eulogies…. It’s just foreign to me. If they are allowed at funerals in my Faith, they go before the Mass really begins so it is not disrupted.
The Episcopal church used to have Mass at funerals.
“Eternal Father Strong to Save” is just glorious. My compliments to the choir.
Mrs. Trump has been shit on by those assholes – Big Mike, hildabeast…
Mrs. Trump owes them zero pleasantries.
Common sense.
h/t Filly
EXCERPT: “There’s so much sad news coming out of the Los Angeles area the past couple of days as wildfires rage uncontrolled in Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other communities, wiping out entire neighborhoods and turning the sky into an apocalyptic pall.
But this is ‘Merica, and during these types of disasters, you often see heroes go above and beyond to help others. Veterinarian Annie Harvilicz is one of those heroes, as she turned an empty hospital into a sanctuary for pets stranded by the evacuations when their owners were sometimes unable to take them with them.
She runs two animal hospitals, but neither of them is close to the Palisades. What to do? It was when she was asked by her brother to look after his cat and his bunny that she had a brilliant idea:
And so she did, and the idea was an immediate hit.
Watch her tell her story:
https://x.com/ABCNewsLive/status/1877123526164959467
So far, she’s taken in approximately 40 dogs and cats and Oreo the rabbit. “I had a family bring in 10 dogs, and they had to leave behind their horses,” she said. “To me, this is a no-brainer. I looked around and said, ‘I have a lot of space here. I can help.’”…..
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/01/08/hero-vet-has-a-genius-idea-of-how-to-take-care-of-pets-stranded-by-devastating-palisades-fire-n2184121
LA MAYOR – IS A RADICAL MARXIST – CASTRO FAN – MANY CUBA TRIPS
https://x.com/MichelleMaxwell/status/1877164442367975919
And surprise surprise… “A Smart City” is in the cards for LA!
https://twitter.com/NotOpCue/status/1877232908420698599
From that tweet:
Smart LA 2028 – December 2020 PDF
Wicked Wicked Witch!
Per the latest CalFire map, the Eaton Fire (Altadena CA area) is now 8 miles from the street where my maternal uncle lives in La Canada-Flintridge. The town is under mandatory evacuation. God help them all.
Yes. God help them.
True, a number of celebrities lost their homes, but so did thousands more regular Americans in these fires.
Regular folks would be my concern.
Celebrities, don’t even register on my “give a shit” meter.
I do hope he has fled the area.
https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1877384884949258357#m
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877384884949258357#m
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1877384884949258357#m
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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And Soros is being defeated
NEWS: Meloni at a press conference: “Musk is not a danger for democracy, Soros is”
Awesome!!!