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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Analyzing The Politics Of The LA Fires
A friend says: L.A. from the standpoint of the average citizen runs OK as long as there isn’t an emergency. The fault is that the persons elected to high office believe things will continue to run OK and do not … Continue reading
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California Democrats See Their Political Ambitions Go Up In Smoke (1-17-25)
01:00 California symbolizes Democratic party governance05:30 LAFD administrators call for chief’s retirement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJ4_g4VJqI08:20 Fire Department DEI Explained (by a firefighter), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormDCbI37Zo14:00 Female firefighters, https://technium.substack.com/p/firemen-firewomen-and-firefighting20:00 ‘No one can find a rental, it’s insane’: Real estate mogul, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNkr6wJdZA23:10 Housing developer discusses the … Continue reading
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California Burning (1-16-25)
01:00 Real talk vs tv news talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDQLQOl8f004:00 Karine Jean-Pierre was not selected as White House press secretary for her excellence12:00 NYT: We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html15:00 Los Angeles mayor facing growing … Continue reading
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Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25)
01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here’s … Continue reading
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LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for this important story: As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines … Continue reading
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The Dog Who Didn’t Bark – Nobody Argues California Has Great Governance (1-14-25)
01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt014:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality19:00 Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War … Continue reading
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Who By Fire? (1-13-25)
01:00 Judaism’s Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn’t rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyIn Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant designs remained standing amid neighborhoods of … Continue reading
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Decoding LA’s Fires (1-12-25)
05:00 WSJ: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns09:00 Politics Fueled LA’s Fires, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15855510:00 California voters destroyed private home insurance, https://apple.news/AeXdYZP1qSfeNes1AGLzSAg11:00 Fire experts describe how we can reduce these urban blazes, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-los-angeles-blazes-amid-changing-times12:00 Disputes kill people, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHFz5Jj7a021:00 Your Home Can Survive … Continue reading
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The LAFD Is Run By A Lesbian Mafia
2. Kristina Kepner – first Lesbian Assistant Chief LAFD – Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations Greatest achievement – accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. pic.twitter.com/zG21Xk1zo0 — Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) January … Continue reading
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American Glasnost Enters California (1-8-25)
01:00 Power went out so I talked to people IRL05:30 Matt Continetti on the California inferno and the rebuild of the rules regime at Meta, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t42Qzg2QRI08:00 Rick Caruso: There’s no water in the Palisades, https://www.foxla.com/video/157315639:40 Mark Halperin: Biden’s decline is … Continue reading
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