The Frankish Reich

The Fox News Takeover is On!

Why'd you just edit out the breaking news about the latest Fox News commenter nominated to be a key DOJ official?

Again, just plain ignorance. Since 1988? Here's a list of the major Malibu area wildfires since 1929 October 26, 1929 – Malibu Colony, 13 homes burned.[62] 1930 – "Potrero," Decker Canyon Road Corridor, 15,000 acres (61 km2), accidental blaze caused by walnut pickers in Thousand Oaks area.[62] October 23, 1935 – "Malibu" or "Latigo/Sherwood," Kanan/Decker Corridor, 30,000 acres (120 km2).[62] November 23, 1938 – "Topanga," Topanga Canyon, 14,500 acres (59 km2).[62] October 20, 1943 – "Las Flores," Malibu Canyon, 5,800 acres (23 km2).[62] November 6, 1943 – "Woodland Hills (Las Virgenes)," Kanan/Decker Corridor, 15,000 acres (61 km2).[62] December 26, 1956 – "Newton," Kanan/Decker Corridor, 26,000 acres (110 km2), 100 homes, one death, Frank Dickover.[62] December 2, 1958 – "Liberty," Malibu Canyon, 18,000 acres (73 km2), eight firefighters injured, 74 homes destroyed (17 in Corral Canyon).[62] November 6, 1961 – "Topanga," Topanga Canyon, 8,000 acres (32 km2).[62] September 25, 1970 – "Wright," Malibu Canyon, 28,000 acres (110 km2), 10 deaths, 403 homes destroyed.[63] October 30, 1973 – "Topanga," Topanga Canyon, 2,800 acres (11 km2).[62] October 23, 1978 – "Kanan," Kanan/Decker Corridor, 25,000 acres (100 km2), 2 deaths, 230 homes.[63] October 9, 1982 – "Dayton," Malibu Canyon Corridor, 44,000 acres (180 km2), 15 homes in Paradise Cove destroyed.[64] October 14, 1985 – "Piuma," Las Flores area, Topanga Canyon, 4,700 acres (19 km2).[62] October 14, 1985 – "Decker," Kanan/Decker Corridor, 6,600 acres (27 km2). Both arson-caused; six homes destroyed; $1 million damage.[62] November 2, 1993 – "Old Topanga/North Malibu." One of the largest fires in Malibu history, which burned more than 16,516 acres (67 km2) from November 2 to 11.[65] The 1993 firestorm was composed of two separate fires, one ravaging most of central Malibu/Old Topanga, and another, larger fire affecting areas north of Encinal Canyon. Three people died and 739 homes destroyed in the central Malibu/Old Topanga blaze. 18,949 acres (77 km2) were torched in the north Malibu fire, with no deaths and few homes destroyed in the less densely-populated region. Los Angeles County Fire Department officials announced suspicions that the fire was started by arson.[66] The fire and widespread damage to properties and infrastructure resulted in the City of Malibu adopting the strictest fire codes in the country.[67] October 21, 1996 – "Calabasas," Malibu Canyon Corridor, Brush fire ignited by arcing power line, 13,000 acres (53 km2). January 6, 2003 – "Trancas", Trancas Canyon, 759 acres (3.07 km2).[68] January 8, 2007 – At approximately 5:00 pm a fire started in the vicinity of Bluffs Park, south of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The fire hit near the Colony area, burning down four houses on Malibu Road, including the oceanfront home of Step By Step star Suzanne Somers. Los Angeles County Fire Department officials announced that a discarded cigarette stub started the blaze. October 21, 2007 – At approximately 5:00 am a fire started off of Malibu Canyon Road. As of 1:00 pm there were 500+ personnel on scene. 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) burned with no containment. 200+ homes were evacuated. Five homes were confirmed to have been destroyed, with at least nine others damaged. Two commercial structures were completely destroyed. Castle Kashan and the Malibu Presbyterian Church were both destroyed. November 24, 2007 – The "Corral Fire" destroyed 53 homes, damaged 35, and burned over 4,720 acres (19.1 km2), forcing as many as 14,000 people to evacuate. Damages from the fire were expected to reach more than $100 million. The blaze originated at the top of Corral Canyon, where a group of young people who were in closed parkland after dusk had started a bonfire despite the presence of high Santa Ana winds. The individuals responsible for starting the fire were later identified, and are the subject of ongoing civil and criminal litigation.[69][70] November 8, 2018 – The Woolsey Fire, a wildfire that burned from November 8–21 that burned 96,949 acres (392 km2) and destroyed 1,500 structures and left 341 buildings damaged. The fire also resulted in 3 firefighter injuries and 3 civilian fatalities. In 2020, authorities blamed faulty Southern California Edison equipment for the blaze.[71][72][73] December 9, 2024 - The "Franklin Fire" began shortly before 11:00 pm on December 9 near Malibu Canyon Road. The fire spread quickly under strong Santa Ana winds, burning a total of 4,037 acres (16.3 km2) over the next few days. The fire prompted mandatory evacuations for much of Malibu and destroyed a total of 19 structures

At last he is free. Only because the Supreme Court rejected his latest attempt to delay, delay, delay

He and Ashli Babbit will make a fine couple in hell.

Loyal Jack Poso feedbaggers - please tell us what Happy Jack had to say about this, because I sense a conspiracy afoot! Come one, could the real story be as simple as "Known, Convicted Idiot Shot After Pulling Gun on Police?"

As do Vivek and Elon. We need to import a better middle class, one that cares more about SAT scores and less about prom kings and queens!

Trump's sentencing to go forward tomorrow thanks to a 5-4 Supreme Court vote. Completely sensible decision. The trial judge is on record as saying that he will not be imposing jail time or any other punishment, so it is appropriate that the case below is completed and Trump's appeal may raise any/all issues at once. Before you say "oh, of course he agrees with the liberal NY judge," listen up: the Supreme Court should also not disturb FL Dist Ct Judge Aileen Cannon's decision stopping the immediate release of Jack Smith's classified documents report. There are still active defendants in that criminal case, and the general rule is that the trial court judge is granted great leeway in deciding how to ensure a fair trial.

I realize that the shots are quite effective in preventing you from getting the disease, and in turn from transmitting the virus. So firefighters, who routinely provide EMT care, ought to be vaccinated against COVID, the seasonal flu, RSV, and other transmissible infections. That this is somehow a controversial proposition still amazes me. I was in a public contact job (a lot less intimate contact than an EMT, mind you) and I was properly vaccinated as soon as vaccines became available. In part to protect myself, in part to protect those people who had business to conduct with me. Personal responsibility, community responsibility: these used to be core American virtues. Used to be ...

How about applying conservative, market-based principles here? We are subsidizing people to live in places like Malibu by artificially limiting their insurance premiums. Let the market work, let Malibu depopulate.

Just want to be left alone? Then don't work for the government in a job that often requires close contact with vulnerable individuals who may acquire and die from the infection you give them. Selfish jackasses is what they are.

Exactly. Parts of Florida's coast and Malibu/Pacific Palisades are two sides of the same coin: overbuilding in an area that is virtually certain to create catastrophic loss. All created by Democrats? Think again. https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/ “Total fire suppression,” the official policy in the Southern California mountains since 1919, has been a tragic error because it creates enormous stockpiles of fuel. The extreme fires that eventually occur can transform the chemical structure of the soil itself. The volatilization of certain plant chemicals creates a water-repellent layer in the upper soil, and this layer, by preventing percolation, dramatically accelerates subsequent sheet flooding and erosion. A monomaniacal obsession with managing ignition rather than chaparral accumulation simply makes doomsday-like firestorms and the great floods that follow them virtually inevitable. After one of the most protracted legal battles in California history, the court granted the state right-of-way through Rancho Malibu. Opened to traffic in 1928, the Pacific Coast Highway gave delighted Angelenos their first view of the magnificent Malibu coast and introduced a potent new source of ignition—the automobile—into the inflammable landscape. The indefatigable May Rindge continued to fight the road builders and developers in the courts, but in the end the costs of litigation forced her to lease choice parts of Malibu beachfront to a movie colony that included Jack Warner, Clara Bow, Dolores Del Rio, and Barbara Stanwyck herself. The colony’s unexpected housewarming was a lightning-swift wildfire that destroyed 13 new homes in late October 1929. Exactly a year later, walnut pickers in the Thousand Oaks area accidently ignited another blaze, which quickly grew into one of the greatest conflagrations in Malibu history. The 1930 Decker Canyon fire was a worst-case scenario involving 50-year-old chaparral and a fierce Santa Ana. Faced with a five-mile front of towering flames, 1,100 firefighters could do little except save their own lives. As the firestorm unexpectedly wheeled toward the Pacific Palisades, there was official panic. County Supervisor Wright, his nerves shaken by a visit to the collapsing fire lines, posted a hundred patrolmen at the Los Angeles city limits to alert residents for evacuation. Should the “fire raging in the Malibu District get closer,” he gasped, “our whole city might go.” Ultimately, this apocalypse (which may have given Nathanael West the idea for the burning of Los Angeles in his novel Day of the Locust) was avoided—no thanks to human initiative—when the fickle Santa Ana abruptly subsided. In hindsight, the 1930 fire should have provoked a historic debate on the wisdom of opening Malibu to further development. Only a few months before the disaster, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.—the nation’s foremost landscape architect and designer of the California state park system—had come out in favor of public ownership of at least 10,000 acres of the most scenic beach and mountain areas between Topanga and Point Dume. Despite a further series of fires in 1935, 1936, and 1938 which destroyed almost four hundred homes in Malibu and Topanga Canyon, public officials stubbornly disregarded the wisdom of Olmsted’s proposal for a great public domain in the Santa Monicas. The county of Los Angeles, for example, squandered an extraordinary opportunity in 1938 to acquire 17,000 acres of the bankrupt Rindge estate in exchange for $1.1 million in delinquent taxes. At a mere $64 per acre, it would have been the deal of the century. A monomaniacal obsession

So, so much ignorance on display here. The southern California Santa Ana winds are a special case. Learn some geography. Joan Didion, c. 1969: Easterners commonly complain that there is no "weather" at all in Southern California, that the days and the seasons slip by relentlessly, numbingly bland. That is quite misleading. In fact the climate is characterized by infrequent but violent extremes: two periods of torrential subtropical rains which continue for weeks and wash out the hills and send subdivisions sliding toward the sea; about twenty scattered days a year of the Santa Ana, which, with its incendiary dryness, invariably means fire. At the first prediction of a Santa Ana, the Forest Service flies men and equipment from northern California into the southern forests, and the Los Angeles Fire Department cancels its ordinary non-firefighting routines. The Santa Ana caused Malibu to burn as it did in 1956, and Bel Air in 1961, and Santa Barbara in 1964. In the winter of 1966-67 eleven men were killed fighting a Santa Ana fire that spread through the San Gabriel Mountains. Just to watch the front-page news out of Los Angeles during a Santa Ana is to get very close to what it is about the place. The longest single Santa Ana period in recent years was in 1957, and it lasted not the usual three or four days but fourteen days, from November 21 until December 4. On the first day 25,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains were burning, with gusts reaching 100 miles an hour. In town, the wind reached Force 12, or hurricane force, on the Beaufort Scale; oil derricks were toppled and people ordered off the downtown streets to avoid injury from flying objects. https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01000508/Centricity/Domain/1538/The Santa Anas.pdf

Oh, you mean these jackasses who were on paid leave for more than 2 years? https://www.foxla.com/news/suspended-lafd-firefighters-called-back-work-after-vax-mandate-ends-could-still-be-fired They're back, and probably crappy firefighters who won't follow orders.

Buddy, he just took credit for the rise in the stock market after the election. And yes, that signals that the markets expect him to add fuel to the fire. And with that comes the risk of higher inflation, and in turn, higher interest rates. You can't have it both ways. I know he thinks you and yours are too dumb to figure that out, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt here.

Or take a look at the landscape that brought us the deadliest fire in recent history, in Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarnell,_Arizona

I'm not sure at this point if you've even been to southern California, much less hiked on the trails through these canyons. If you had, you would never say something this silly. And not just California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fire

You just don't get it. Two old men, both losing it in their own particular ways. One insists on enforcing his own will, regardless of how unfocused (and even idiotic) it may be. One defers to his advisers, who may not espouse the policies you prefer, but who are clearly focused and sane. The former is less fit than the latter. Got it?

Wait a minute, am I Mr. Snob? Or is Doc Ferguson? We're an elite group. Put down the PBR and come join us. The good life awaits (albeit not in Cuba). I'll wait for you before I start muddling the mentha x villosa.

Maybe we should focus on how North Carolina is doing months after a frickin rain storm. I understand the Amish have thrown up a few tuff sheds.

Stick to your Blue label piss water.

https://www.instructables.com/If-You-Love-Mojitos-You-Need-to-Grow-This-Mint/ I'm gonna get a start on this in March. Remember, never plant mint in a planting bed! Always in a container. (I learned the hard way)

Two different things. Yes, California doesn't have the infrastructure to save water in years of excess snow melt, and winds up pitting environmental interests against residential interests. No, there is no such thing as dampening the forests (or scrublands) in any way that would result in any appreciable wildfire prevention.

I always wear my summer poplin suit when I'm participating in canal construction.

Perfect characterization, except that: - no one is "demanding" anything; they are advising at most - nothing in the article mentions "cloth masks," and the accompanying photo shows a man wearing a serious looking mask.