How does rhetoric and sour grapes put out fires and will Trump thank Canada for their assistance?Trump has once again politicized the California wildfires. And once again it is probably sour grapes that motivate him. And it will likely be sour grapes that motivate him to hold or delay aid. Canada has already sent a lot of fire fighters and... See More »
What the NY Times has said in its editorial for online readers:A third day of devastating fires in Los Angeles The economic cost of wildfires in Los Angeles could exceed $50 billion, after three days of fast-moving fires that have burned tens of thousands of acres and forced tens of thousands of people from... See More »
Why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California's deadly fires.As crews have fought the fast-spreading fires across the Los Angeles area, they have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and fire hydrants that have gone dry. These problems have exposed what experts say are vulnerabilities in city water... See More »
All of Los Angeles County receives evacuation alert in error. Shades of the Hawaiian ballistic missile alert ("This is not a drill.")Los Angeles County officials accidentally sent an evacuation text to all residents in error on Thursday evening as wildfires continue to spread rapidly throughout the area. The city’s emergency management department retracted the statement on X and... See More »
L.A. Fires and the Lack of Electrical Power to Pump Water.Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) filed for bankruptcy in 2019 after being linked to a eseries of wildfires in California, including the Camp Fire in 2018, which caused 86 deaths and destroyed 14,000 homes, along with more than 500 businesses and 4,300... See More »
Given the devastation and many lives ended young by forest fires. Should the drinking age be lower? Let them enjoy life. B4 death.Should the age of adulthood be lowered so ppl get to experience life, before it is taken from them? Lot of wildfires. Wow!
Wife got an emergency alert ⚠She’s currently in the Los Angeles area. She’s relatively safe from the wildfires (she’s in Whittier), but she shared with me a screenshot of the LA County Fire Department issuing an evacuation warning on her phone. She’s supposed to be coming back... See More »
California Assemblyman Explains How State Has Mismanaged Fire Prevention Policies As Wildfires RageCalifornia State Representative Bill Essayli (R) explained how the mismanagement of the state’s fire policies made it vulnerable as a wildfire rages through Los Angeles County’s Pacific Palisades. Essayli, a Republican who represents California’s... See More »
3 words: Get your passportPlagues, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, wars... A senile president, a megalomaniac president ... The US is never going to recover.
Trump says Newsom is to 'blame' for 'apocalyptic' wildfiresPresident-elect Trump pinned blame for the "apocalyptic" wildfires tearing through Los Angeles County on California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would... See More »
LA fire department funding cut by Mayor Karen Bass by $17.6 million in 2024-25 city budgetLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism after it was revealed that she cut $17.6 million from the city’s fire department budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The reduction, the second-largest cut in the budget, had initially been proposed at... See More »
Newsom Assures Wildfire Victims He Is Diverting Millions Of Dollars To Emergency DEI InitiativesAs the world looked on in shock while multiple wildfires ravaged areas outside of Los Angeles, California Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference to assure victims that he was diverting millions of dollars toward the state's emergency DEI... See More »
how will the people of LA get over the wildfires and devastation it's causedi saw on the news , the mass fires in LA, how will they recover and rebuild what the devastation and fires has caused? i feel bad for them.
My wife is currently in the Los Angeles areaShe's a safe distance away from the wildfires going on over there, but she can see the smoke even from where she is in Whittier. I'm glad she's okay, but that's some scary stuff. She's supposed to be flying back this coming Sunday and the fires are... See More »
January 2020 Australia catches Wildfire. Month later Covid19 started. Jan 2025 now California on fire?What a coincidence! 😶
Australia - Home of the WildfireThe heartbreaking bushfire burning in The Grampians (National Park) Victoria has grown to 74,000 hectares 182,000 acres. Larger than the island of Singapore. More than 600 firefighters had sacrificed their family time at Christmas, to work on the... See More » (3)
California’s AG Asks Residents to Snitch on Stores That Don’t Comply With Gender-Neutral Toy LawCalifornia has many problems facing its residents, including earthquakes, wildfires, and housing crises. People are dealing with heightened crime rates in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Homelessness has become a near-epidemic in the... See More »
If I Wanted to Smoke a Brisket...I'd hang it in the backyard on the clothesline... The air this morning is cold and damp, smoke from nearby wildfires clings to the ground and my eyes are like two cherries in a bowl of buttermilk!
Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvaniahttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/28/trump-rally-puerto-rico-pennsylvania-fallout-00185935 Oh glory, Trump did a racism that might cost him the election. Love to see it. Like WHOOPS. You're racist!
Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in PennsylvaniaDonald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania. Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally. Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win... See More »
Joke ::Funny...First Heard in the Filmore Administration::A professional photographer was assigned to cover.....the wildfires that were raging in a national park. His editor told him to try to get some closeups of the fire fighters that were battling the wildfires. When he got to the forest the photographer realized the thick smoke would make it... See More »
What do you mean you won’t approve my mortgage if I don’t have homeowners' insurance?Photo above - triple threat. Which will happen next: house tumbles into the sea; burns down from a natural gas link, or an earthquake splits it in half? Normally, I diss California politicians as having the attention span of a butterfly, and only... See More » (1)
Giuliani claims litigation privilege shields him from Dominion VP’s 2020 defamation claimsCOURTHOUSE NEWs SERVICE reports: “ DENVER (CN) — Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani urged the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday to dismiss defamation claims filed by a former Dominion Voting Systems employee who unwittingly became the... See More »
