daz28

Feeling guilty?

Thanks for trying......I guess.

How long for the eggs and gas?

I did a little looking into the call from trump to Alito. They want people to believe that some former law clerk of Alito's managed to get a hold of the president-elect, and then asked that president-elect to call a SCOTUS justice for a job reference. On it's face seems absurd(because that's not how references work and many other reasons), but if you told me that this "clerk" had already served in the last trump administration for 2 years, and held the position of chief of staff for Bill Barr, then I'd say you're so full of **** your eyes are brown.

Just want to say how proud I am of the political propaganda machine, that disasters can now be politicized as the people are literally still dying, and the disaster is active. They've divided the country, and now we literally fight each other as mother nature herself is still giving it to us. Bravo!!! What's worth more than a bucket full of mis/disinformation during a wildfire? Maybe a bucket of water? tHe dUmBoCrAtS RaN OuT oF waTEr!!! I wonder if the powers that be sit back and read this crap they filled your heads with, and laugh their asses off at how dumb and misled you've become. Their little puppets.

So "brutal" that no one bothered to record any of it. I can download and have a recoding app on my phone in less than one minute. If someone was calling and threatening, by call #3 most people would be recording. This is 99% BS created for the ears that long to hear it.

Find someone with a junior high education to help you. I'm done with you.

She doesn't have any jurisdiction on the election case. That was Chutkan's case. I'm flabbergasted that the news is not all over her ridiculous overstepping. Anyhow, more good news for trump, the appeals court has allowed the DOJ to release the report, but we still somehow have to wait for Cannon's 3 day wait period. Of course the maggats will claim everything in it is a lie, but Monday will be fun for sure. Which poor SCOTUS justice will be getting a call this weekend from Don??? My money is on Thomas.

I'd prefer that my taxes weren't used for those socialistic approaches, and the insurance companies charge whatever rate is necessary to cover the damages. If you can't afford those rates, then you can't live there. If someone wants to build a castle up there, and take that risk, that's fine with me as long as I'm not subsidizing their risky means of enjoying the benefits of having prime real estate. I realize this fire isn't just the hills, but most are. Same goes for hurricanes and earthquakes too. How much you want to toy with mother nature shouldn't be anyone else's problem.

The flood insurance scam is federal.

Uh no. It isn't that I didn't want to discuss it, it's that you were responding to me like I was discussing it. I wasn't. I was mainly just praising Coney-Barrett, which I wouldn't have done if I was living in the partisan hack world, that you believe I do. Hunters charge was just as far-fetched as promoting trumps to a felony was. It seems you're having trouble swallowing that fact.

But Daddy I want to enjoy all the benefits, and accept none of the risks associated-Veruca Salt.

By my understanding, they could get an approval if they wanted an increase over 7%, with considerations on insolvency. I just looked this up, so I don't understand it well, but my main point was I don't trust a press release from an insurance company any more than I would one from the government, especially in the day and age of mis/disinformation memes and X post. The government did set up a poorly planned program to insure these people, much like the flood insurance program I discussed before. The one that subsidizes expensive waterfront properties at the taxpayers cost.

Did you forget about everyone running out of gas on the highways??? Not trusting that "science". Release Date: September 25, 2024 WASHINGTON -- In advance of Hurricane Helene’s landfall in Florida, the Biden-Harris Administration approved a pre-landfall emergency declaration for Florida. This declaration enables FEMA to provide federal resources to the state for emergency protective measures and aid initial response and recovery efforts.

Is this still about the hydrants, because that's not how they work. They're tanks that need refilling, and they aren't designed to fight wildfires. In preparation for the windstorm LADWP activated its emergency preparation plans and filled all 114 available water reservoirs and storage facilities throughout the city including the three 1 million-gallon tanks in the Palisades area. We also fueled all our generators serving our pump stations to ensure water will flow out through the emergency. We saw four times the demand of water than we've ever seen in the system. We opened every valve available to push as much water into the Palisades area. This fire was different and unprecedented because they didn't have air resources to fight it. So you're fighting a wildfire with a fire hydrant system. Fire hydrants are not made to fight multiple houses, hundreds of houses at a time. They're made to fight one or two houses when they come in. There's about 1,000 hydrants in that Palisades area. About 20% of those were without water so less than 200 hydrants were without water, the rest we were supplying water to. The shortage in the Pacific Palisades happened, Quiñones said at an earlier news conference (time stamp 52:17), because the three, full, million-gallon tanks supplying the area ran dry overnight into Jan. 9. After the tanks were depleted, pressure in some hydrants also fell. However, Quiñones said that water was flowing through the main system in the Pacific Palisades. She later said (time stamp 28:45) that 19 water tankers with a capacity of around 4,000 gallons each were ferrying water to the areas where firefighters needed it. Officials said that normally, emergency teams would rely more on air support like firefighting helicopters, which would lessen the strain on water tanks by using more water from other sources like above-ground reservoirs. However, high winds and a lack of air visibility have meant those firefighting operations have been grounded, Pestrella said. “County and city water reservoirs — open reservoirs — are available and on standby once [aerial firefighting] support becomes available,” he said.

I wasn't discussing the case itself, just trumps ridiculously stupid claim that his less than a slap on the wrist sentencing would cause so much damage to the country if it happened. He just wanted to avoid the stain it puts on HIM. Anyways, now apply your same logic to Hunter Bidens gun/drug charges. I personally am an accessory to many people I know who own guns, but smoked weed. If you're going to hate lawfare, hate ALL lawfare.

He will face sentencing, as the handmaiden once again shows that she might not be a political hack. Judge Cannon could learn a lot from her example.

I just read an article that the fires are the reason. At this point in time, I don't think you're going to get enough of the facts to make an informed opinion on why, because partisanship is more important than facts most of the time. Here's what they said, for what it's worth: Musk and his cronies have since attacked Mayor Karen Bass for supposedly fostering the aforementioned water shortages in the fire hydrants because of poor reservoir management. This is not only untrue, it completely misunderstands how water supply for firefighting works. Water lines that feed those hydrants have been hurt by the fires, while the widespread need for L.A.’s ample water reserves outpaced the rate at which officials could refill the tanks (and their paths were obstructed along the way by the fires). Plus, water pressure has long been lower than ideal on the West Coast, especially for high-altitude neighborhoods, because of the yearslong drought crippling the region.

You do understand that this also has the appearance that you can't educate on it, right? I don't feel like I'm having a mental breakdown, and my thoughts were coherent, especially the ones where I thought you were being political, like the "liberal stupidity" about the fires. You'd think someone so adamant that they know where the shortcoming were, would be eager to explain them. Not just to me, but everyone you stated the claims to. If you do want to claim it's all a matter of lack of precautionary burns, then also add in the issues associated with them. In New Mexico for example, it started the largest wildfire ever there. Right. Everyone, including his supporters, knows trump says all kinds of dumb stuff. Going to be a LOOONG 4 years for the people who have already forgotten this.

It's funny you think wildfires are new and political. LOL. Prop 103, which State Farm is claiming doesn't allow them to increase rates, was voted up in 1988. It limits increases to 7%. The only thing I trust less than government is insurance companies and their lawyers.

You might have been able to stop right after your first sentence. Low humidity, high winds, and 1/4 inch of rain in the last 8 months might be the real cause. As for being out of water, I wouldn't be a fan of creating another disaster to avert a possible disaster elsewhere. That isn't a great solution at all, and blaming it on a fish is weak political BS. As far as I'm concerned, when you build in a high frequency event area, whatever happens is between you and your insurance company. If you can't afford to live somewhere, then you move, like Andy has been explaining. Simple as that. I'll bet the insurance company would love for socialism to intervene to lower their payouts, and increase profits. Could you share a comprehensive list of the measures that the insurance companies suggested, yet California ignored, that were actually feasible, which should have been implemented? Lastly, California is not Florida. It's not apples to oranges, but close.

Then why does everyone have to continually remind you this is NOT A FOREST FIRE, and that your proposed "culling" would have been ineffective. I'll admit I know next to nothing about fire prevention/management, but you've not provided one ounce of information to make one believe you know any more than they do.

Social media is doing exactly what it is designed to do then. Unfortunately, people can't break the hold it has over them. EVERYTHING is politicized, and the near perfect 50/50 split shows that it's working perfectly as designed.

I'd prefer that when I'm told I'm in way over my head that it be by a person that understands why, and can explain it.

I'd be willing to bet they spent WAYYY more on fire prevention than other state. Were the measures enough? That's a question I'm not prepared to answer. My point was simply pointing out that you're talking out your ass. You don't know what caused the fire, what could have prevented it, or if California faces conditions that are different from other states. The few people with functioning brain cells here can answer the last question quite easily. Again, I don't live in Cali, don't pay taxes in Cali, or worry about forest fires, so it means nothing to me. People talking like they know things, because they're political hacks, DOES bother me though.