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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 11:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


LA Times Owner: We Endorsed Karen Bass, That Was A Mistake

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/14/la_times_owner_we_e
ndorsed_karen_bass_that_was_a_mistake.html


Apology not accepted. Go fuck yourself.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:21 PM

SIGNYM

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You're arguing with me about which state pays the most when we're $37 Trillion in debt. I'll let you sit on that for a while.

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That's not California's fault, SIX.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're arguing with me about which state pays the most when we're $37 Trillion in debt. I'll let you sit on that for a while.

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That's not California's fault, SIX.



Yes. It is.

California is a cancer to the entire planet and the birthplace of every bad idea that got us to where we're at today.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:30 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Cenk Uygur: Newsom, Karen Bass Are Utterly Lying When They Make Excuses For Their Lack Of Preparation

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/15/cenk_uygur_karen_ba
ss_is_a_ghana-er_no_chance_of_re-election.html


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"The Young Turks" host Cenk Uygur declared Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass a "goner" after being on vacation as wildfires started.

If you don't know, Karen Bass is a Ghana-er. Gone, no chance of re-election. If you're listening to shows that are lying to you, pretending the people of LA are okay and still back Karen Bass because of unity and because Trump lied about something, you're totally wrong. Everyone in LA hates Karen Bass now," Uygur said. "It's not like nobody could have seen this coming. When there was a profit on the line, all the insurance companies saw it super clearly. So when Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, or any Democrat lies to you and says no one could have seen this coming, ask them about State Farm. That shows you everyone saw it coming. They're totally an utterly lying when they make excuses for their lack of preparation."




Yup.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:47 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh... and why do I not get all riled up when Florida gets hit by hurricanes?

First off, there ain't no preparation you can make for a Hurricane short of piling up sand bags around your house and praying.

How about ... DON'T BUILD RIGHT ON THE BEACH, DUMMIES?


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There are a lot of ways of doing fire prevention, and California has done NONE OF THEM.
Oh yeah? BE SPECIFIC.

It's easy to run around in a froth, waving your arms and blaming "them" for nonspecified "things".

Like JAYNZE blaming fire department "diversity hires" for the problem, when there was not a single obese black female or 110 -lb weakling soyboy on the line.

Stop spewing, SIX. That's beneath you.

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SIX: And I don't remember a single person from Florida telling me how to live my life or that I was going to murder my grandmother by not getting a shot.




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SOX: Fuck California. I hope it burns to the ground.
Well, then.
I guess I hope Indiana sinks into economic oblivion?

When your temper flares you really stake out extreme positions, don't you?
"Nobody ever died of Covid"

And you don't learn from those episodes either, do you?

There are A LOT of Californians who don't deserve that anger, SIX. Good, solid, hardworking, commonsense people.

Where a lot of bullshit spreads from is Hollywood and Silicon Valley. I know you focus on movies, but yanno what's really pernicious? Television.

I could go on and on about how televison (including cable) and advertising mold people's minds continuously. And now we have the same phenomenon on the internet, and some of that is headquartered in CA. (And some in NYC)



But that conversation belongs somewhere else.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:52 PM

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I've already been specific.

Also... Nobody died of Covid.

Also, Also... All of you good, hardworking Californians need to take your state back.

Sitting around watching all the evil and dumb shit your politicians have been doing for 50 years and you do nothing about it.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:56 PM

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Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.

Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-

A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.

Next?

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 2:58 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.

Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-

A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.

Next?



I already told you. Karen Bass is the poster child for it.

You don't have anybody employed in your state or local governments that knows how anything works anymore or how to fix it. You fired them because of their skin color and genetalia, and didn't even bother to keep them around long enough to teach the women and minorities how any of it actually works.

Your government is completely fucked.

And that poison has been spreading all across the country.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 3:01 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


There's no way we're going to stop people from rebuilding in fire-prone areas, but there's something we can do: insist that new homes be hardened against fire.

Here's the thing: In fires like the ones in LA, most of the damage is caused by showers of burning embers that are blown into neighborhoods by strong winds and then spread from there. These embers can travel a mile or more, so clearing brush at the wildland-urban interface won't do much when winds are as heavy as they were last week. The only thing that works is hardening every house within a mile or two. This includes things like fire-retardant roofs and siding, automatic sprinkler systems, cleared zones around property lines, and so forth. And it has to be done universally for it to be effective.

So yes to streamlining rebuilding permits, but with one exception: every house has to be rebuilt to fire-hardening standards. This costs money and won't be popular, and for that reason it probably won't get done. But it's the only real answer. If we ignore it, this will happen all over again no matter how many airplanes we buy or how big our reservoirs are.

The LA Times ran a good piece about this a few days ago based on interviews with Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne, a pair of experts on urban fires. Here's an excerpt:

“The assumption is continually made that it’s the big flames” that cause widespread community destruction, [Cohen] said, “and yet the wildfire actually only initiates community ignitions largely with lofted burning embers.”

Experts attribute widespread devastation to wind-driven embers igniting spot fires two to three miles ahead of the established fire. Maps of the Eaton fire show seemingly random ignitions across Altadena.

“When you study the destruction in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, note what didn’t burn — unconsumed tree canopies adjacent to totally destroyed homes,” he said. “The sequence of destruction is commonly assumed to occur in some kind of organized spreading flame front — a tsunami of super-heated gases — but it doesn’t happen that way.”

“In high-density development, scattered burning homes spread to their neighbors and so on. Ignitions downwind and across streets are typically from showers of burning embers from burning structures.”

....The 1991 Tunnel fire in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills marked the start of the modern era of urban fires, destroying 2,843 homes. More recently, fires devastated Gatlinburg, Tenn., in 2016, the towns of Superior and Louisville in Colorado in 2021 and Lahaina, Hawaii, two years ago.

“It’s not just a California quirk,” Pyne said. “California, I think, gets there first in exaggerated forms, but this is a national issue. And, in fact, it’s becoming an international issue.”

....“We don’t necessarily need a trillion-dollar program and a fire czar to get control of the fire problem,” Pyne said. “What we need are a thousand things that tweak the environment in favorable ways such that we can prevent these eruptions.” For example, municipal and fire prevention agencies must give property owners advance — and continual — warnings to clear dead vegetation and to wet dry brush within 10 feet of the house with periodic, prolonged sprinklings.

https://jabberwocking.com/streamline-rebuilding-after-the-la-fires-yes
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 3:04 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I can't even go to Home Depot anymore without waiting in line all day while some brat black girl with a 75 IQ, metal shit in her nose, and 9" finger nails struggles to count out the change as if she were trying to decipher hieroglyphics.

To be fair to her, I'm sure she was a wonderful person before YOU put her in a position that she wasn't even remotely qualified for. No wonder why she's stressed as fuck and bitch. Because every customer has been in line 5 times longer than they should have been, and they all have shit to do. I'm sure some of them let her know all about it already too.


Things are going to change. There is no reason that any of us need to be living in this bullshit construct anymore.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 4:23 PM

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 11:48 PM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.
Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-
A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.
Next?

SIX: I already told you. Karen Bass is the poster child for "it."

"It" covers a multitude of sins....

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You don't have anybody employed in your state or local governments that knows how anything works anymore or how to fix it.
Oh, c'mon SIX. I worked in a government agency. I worked with OTHER government agencies. There are a lot of sharp, hardworking people there. Engineers, field techs, modelers, chemists, lawyers ... people that I was in awe of. People, TBH, way smarter and more dynamic than you. Even our office assistants and maintenance guys were sharp.

Do you know where our problems came in? Politicians who didn't know shit about shit, with some Big Idea that we had to turn ourselves into pretzels to try to implement, knowing it was never gonna work. [Trump is sometimes in that group] Wild hairs that for them were nothing more than a convenient/ sound bite or ... worse... an envelope on the front seat of a car. One of the sillier ones was eliminating the word "Division" from our org chart ("Because there are no divisions in our agency"). One of the more consequent ones was "Pollution markets" ... an unworkable libertarian pipe dream that continues to cost months and months of staff time and set pollution control back years.

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fired them because of their skin color and genetalia, and didn't even bother to keep them around long enough to teach the women and minorities how any of it actually works.
Oh, I guarantee you, son, those bright hardworking people are still there.

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Your government is completely fucked.
This place would run so much better if 99% of politicians disappeared.



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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 11:54 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.
Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-
A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.
Next?

SIX: I already told you. Karen Bass is the poster child for "it."

"It" covers a multitude of sins....



Indeed it does.

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You don't have anybody employed in your state or local governments that knows how anything works anymore or how to fix it.
Oh, c'mon SIX. I worked in a government agency.



With all due respect, in the stone ages you did. A lot has changed since 2012.


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This place would run so much better if 99% of politicians disappeared.


You want to keep some of them around.

I plan to keep a few as pets.



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Thursday, January 16, 2025 3:47 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.
Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-
A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.
Next?

SIX: I already told you. Karen Bass is the poster child for "it."

SIGNY: "It" covers a multitude of sins.

SIX: Indeed it does.

...

SIX: You don't have anybody employed in your state or local governments that knows how anything works anymore or how to fix it.

SIGNY: Oh, c'mon SIX. I worked in a government agency.

SIX: With all due respect, in the stone ages you did. A lot has changed since 2012.

Hey! I only retired 6 years ago! I hired the last batch of chemists and everyone before that. I know the lab manager, I hired him (white male) bc he taught himself GREP (general regular expression parser). Scott (white male) can fix any instrument. Andrew (white male) is an amazing wet chemist. Brad (white male), supervisor, is an excellent problem solver. I even know the CEO - he came on a year before I retired. Top notch admin. Also, white male.

You have some STRANGE ideas, SIX! Unfounded, pretty much. Not based on experience.



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SIGNY: This place would run so much better if 99% of politicians disappeared.
You want to keep some of them around.

SIX: I plan to keep a few as pets.






Hahaha!
But then, all they'd do is eat a lot of food and shit on the floors.

Since I don't like to use words like “everybody“, “ nobody“, “never“, “always“ etc .... there are probably a few good politicians that made it thru the system. Somehow.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025 8:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Then repeat yourself bc it got buried in froth.
Here's one point that I can stick on local (County?) officials-
A local reservoir was empty bc cover repairs had not been completed in a timely fashion.
Next?

SIX: I already told you. Karen Bass is the poster child for "it."

SIGNY: "It" covers a multitude of sins.

SIX: Indeed it does.

...

SIX: You don't have anybody employed in your state or local governments that knows how anything works anymore or how to fix it.

SIGNY: Oh, c'mon SIX. I worked in a government agency.

SIX: With all due respect, in the stone ages you did. A lot has changed since 2012.

Hey! I only retired 6 years ago! I hired the last batch of chemists and everyone before that. I know the lab manager, I hired him (white male) bc he taught himself GREP (general regular expression parser). Scott (white male) can fix any instrument. Andrew (white male) is an amazing wet chemist. Brad (white male), supervisor, is an excellent problem solver. I even know the CEO - he came on a year before I retired. Top notch admin. Also, white male.



6 years is an eternity ago. You keep forgetting that covid happened, along with nearly 20 million people furloughed or flat out of work. I'm assuming you've seen the article I posted, I believe it was from Forbes, bragging that only 6% of new hires in 2021 at any company with more than 100 employees were white and male. This timing was not on accident.

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You have some STRANGE ideas, SIX! Unfounded, pretty much. Not based on experience.



I reject this assessment with extreme prejudice, smiley face notwithstanding.


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SIGNY: This place would run so much better if 99% of politicians disappeared.
You want to keep some of them around.

SIX: I plan to keep a few as pets.






Hahaha!
But then, all they'd do is eat a lot of food and shit on the floors.

Since I don't like to use words like “everybody“, “ nobody“, “never“, “always“ etc .... there are probably a few good politicians that made it thru the system. Somehow.



For all the good it does us.

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Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:25 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


more evacuation orders in place for California

LA wildfires latest: Number killed rises as highest-level fire alert returns
https://news.sky.com/story/los-angeles-wildfire-around-30-000-people-o
rdered-to-evacuate-as-life-threatening-winds-fan-flames-across-la-hillside-13285299


Moss Landing battery plant fire continues to smolder
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/moss-landing-battery-depot-fire-co
ntinues-to-smolder
/

A fire at one of the world’s largest battery storage facilities


Menendez brothers resentencing hearing rescheduled due to LA wildfires
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/menendez-brothers-r
esentencing-hearing-rescheduled-la-wildfires/3744488
/

LA wildfires maps show evacuations, power outages, air quality
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-wildfires-maps-show-evacuations-p
ower-outages-air/story?id=117460700


Trump will 'probably' visit California wildfires area next week
https://www.foxla.com/news/trump-will-probably-visit-california-wildfi
res-area-next-week



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Sunday, January 19, 2025 4:34 AM

SIGNYM

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JAYNZE, I've been looking everywhere for that video of Newsom doing that creepy little shimmy dance, and it's been scrubbed from everywhere. I know you posted it but I can't find it. Can you repost or point me in the right direction?

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