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January 13, 2025
Ice fishing returns to Lake Mendota.
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does Meade have 'ice in the hole'
LA Times reports that the now-empty Santa Ynez Reservoir has been offline since Feb 2024 because the EPA-mandated cover was damaged.
The cost to repair? $130k!! Not millions, not billions. thousands.
That reservoir holds 117M gallons for Pacific Palisades.
Down for essentially 2 fire seasons and they couldn't prioritize or expedite the repair? That is malfeasence or incompetence.
Magic 8 ball says...."both"
I once told my Spousal Unit (from CA) about how sturgeon fishing is done and she thought I was making it up.
I figure that Biden's EPA will blame Trump. "Kids in cages. Kids in cages."
Saw on another source that they had to hire someone to repair the cover and it took 9 months to award the contract. Ridiculous!
101: Your info conforms with my source. Libs in LA are saying 'it wouldn't have made a difference any way."
That's why they get the government that they have. Good and hard.
I'd've added some crass sexual innuendo in my last comment, but I'm too angry.
Innuendo...teehee teehee teehee
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1878894729602949421
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1878934975275479328 oh really
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-latest-effort-to-deny-reality
Enigma mentioned in a yesterday's comment section a problem that exists, that's known to exist, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop it before the fact. Firefighters who enjoy fires so much and/or want to be the hero and first on the scene so much that they join FDs then- set fire as surreptitiously as possible. So they can enjoy just watching the fire or be the first on the scene or even the one who discovers the fire! A problem for both professional and VFDs. Shortly after I moved here to ruralville our local FD removed a volunteer who was suspiciously first on the scene at too many fires for it be an accident... but not enough proof to formally charge him with any crimes. I found out about this through a backhand route when the same person volunteered to be a Scout leader- and I was advised to not approve his application for whatever excuse I wanted to muster up. Apparently there were other suspicions about him as well.
Weeding out potential problems with regards to people is a problem itself. Why were there Scout leaders who molested young men? Because that's where their prey was. And if they had no history of abuse, there's no way of knowing what they may do in the future. My criteria for accepting volunteers was simple. No childless unmarried males with no prior association with the troop. So a former Scout not yet hitched was acceptable- and I had two of those, one of them one of my sons. Every other accepted volunteer was a parent with a child in the troop or a child that used to be the troop. Foolproof? No, but we never had problems.
Why do schools have problems with child molesters? Because that's where the prey is. Something new, or something was remarkably unreported in the past, female teachers seducing- or allowing themselves to be seduced- by students. How do you preemptively weed them out? Same with male teachers who abuse students- how do you preemptively weed them out?
Then there's the opposite end of the problem- believe all accusers. We had a popular teacher accused of sexual abuse by a trio of HS juniors- with bad grades, particularly in his class. Immediately suspended without pay. Of course, police involvement, family services, etc. and so on and so forth. After two years, turns out there was plenty of evidence the girls made it up- to get even for their poor grades he deservedly awarded them. He received a half hearted apology from officialdom, back pay, and promptly retired.
There'll always be an England.
https://x.com/ZavalaA/status/1878937721315668079
Watching The Morning Meeting on 2Way with Mark Halperin from today. Main guest was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of LA Times. If you love this country and you think things have been off kilter for a long time, please watch the long form discussion with Dr.Patrick Soon-Shiong.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1878940952816922638
Bloomberg headline: Chinais contemplating selling Tik Tom to [drumroll] Rlon Musk.
I love it.
3 days old- and just finding a story today- Russian merc wading across the Rio Grande with cash, two passports, and a drone in his backpack...
https://texasscorecard.com/state/former-russian-mercenary-arrested-after-crossing-rio-grande-river/
Obviously just another freedom seeker...
There have been about 20,000 of those russians coming through in the last two years
Laura Ingraham reports that neighbors back in LA are saying that looters are swarming.
Chris Wray has some news about China having embedded malware in our infrastructure's computers.
The good doctor was very impressive on many topics. Recommended.
Hes been laser focused...on 70 year old grannies praying
looters are swarming
Redistributive change.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/01/13/lawyer-veteran-choked-homeless-man-running-trump-attorney/
LAFD’s $300K-per-year diversity chief sparks fury for defending DEI by blaming the victim: ‘He got himself in the wrong place’
https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/us-news/lafds-diversity-chief-sparks-fury-for-defending-dei-by-blaming-the-victim/
In a video defending the department’s DEI hiring practices, Deputy Chief Kristine Larson — who heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau — addressed accusations that female firefighters aren’t strong enough to carry a man out of a burning building.
Her response: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”
What do you suppose the odds of continued employment would be for a man who made a similar comment about rescuing someone like... well, her?
I appreciate the nod to tradition, but it's been very liberating to no longer need to fish for ice.
i.e. is he an icehole?
cold.... brrrrr. stay cozy.
Why is the protagonist in the movie “The Brutalist” named Laszlo Toth, given that Laszlo Toth is notorious for attacking the Pieta with a hammer?
Easier than having skin in the game? Or is ice in the hole worth two in the box?
The need is to get out of the house after duck hunting ends.
When they say "hurt the economy," what they mean is "raise wages for the working class."
If you have laid in a supply of venison stew for the hut. But in Madison, it might be more the Grumpy Old Men style ice fishing, which was the pinnacle of the pastime. It's too high tech now.
The bureaucracy first had to come up with a requirement for contract. This needed a committee to figure out just what was needed. The committee first had to be selected and appointed. Then they had to decide just what was needed in the contract, then how to word the requirements so that just the right contractor would be able to fill it.
I wouldn't be surprised in all that they forgot to include a completion date.
He's more famous for The Lazlo Letters (vol 1 is the best)
From USA Today, today: "The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive." Click HERE for Story
Apparently, AI can't read cursive.
More from the story: "To volunteer, all that’s required is to sign up online and then launch in. “There's no application,” she said. “You just pick a record that hasn't been done and read the instructions. It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week.”"
I would do this, if I had spare time.
Jen PsakiGets a small tiny clue pill.
Is it any wonder - tyrannical mobster Soviet-Democratics in the US - support the corrupt tyrannical regime in Bazil?
Glenn Greenwald has more.
President Musk will reportedly allow Trump to use office space in the White House complex. Eisenhower Executive Building?
Rumor says BLM Founder has lost 2 of her 3 homes in the LA fires.
Can a fire be racist? LA Fires are systemic. Just saying.
That was also confirmed by my Cal fire retired brother who's son is currently supervising a national guard hand crew in Malibu. There's nothing you can do to stop a wildfire in hundred mile an hour winds. Maybe could have saved a couple homes, maybe a dozen... it wouldn't have stopped the overall devastation.
Walk Away ... Walk Away... Walk Away
YouTube: The front fell off
Oldie but goodie.
Most ice-fishing is ice-drinking.
You really zinged us there, Kaki!
Melania back in the game! #28 on Amazon’s best seller list. Amazing!
Howard: I believe that the 3x1M gallon tanks were exhausted @ 4 hrs in. If true, the consumption rate is about 1.3M gallons/hour. That reservoir could have supplied water under pressure for another 150 hours, roughly. Had it been up and running it could have been sending water under high pressure via gravity to the firefighters while being filled by the pumps. That could have gone on much longer. Weeks? A month or two? It is really a huge scandal in the making.
Mason: I saw that female FC. She couldn't have carried her twin sister out of a burning building.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 THE VIEW'S SUNNY HOSTIN: In terms of politicizing this fire, I am disgusted. I am thrilled to learn Mexico sent aid. You know, the very people Trump wants to build a wall against. Well, they must've climbed over the wall, because now they're here, putting out the fires. Canada, who he wants to make the 51st state - they are here helping us. https://twitter.com/i/status/1878845258210906206
She is so disgusted that she politicized her own comment. Can't wait until her husband goes to prison for bilking insurance companies with the RICO charges they have against him after she said she understands why the United Health guy got shot. Wonder if she would feel the same about her corrupt thieving husband. Karma is going to hit you hard little Sunnyless girl.
She was too fat to get herself out of the way anyways. Maybe there SHOULD be some type of regimen to keep firefighters in shape so they CAN save people. Enough about black gay women. They proved over and over again, that they suck at jobs they get put in BECAUSE of their gender and color. It's time for merit based hiring again. PERIOD!! We aren't paying taxes so we can say, Look how tolerant we are!!!
Neither can children anymore, because Progressives want to take cursive out of the schools now. The Dumbing down of America is continuing at a rapid rate.
Does he want the Secret Service to shoot them?? This delusional husk should be no where near our White House or the Nuclear codes, but the Deep State got what they wanted.
BIDEN: "Let's get something in mind about the border. When I became president, the numbers came way down!"
He also says he "pushed very hard" to "put more Secret Service agents" on the border 🤔 pic.twitter.com/WofMS4OFFQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 13, 2025
Enter Bill Melugin...probably the ONLY actual journalist who has covered the border constantly and knows more about what is going on than many in the Biden Regime.
The Guy Benson Show
@GuyBensonShow
"JAW-DROPPING":
@BillMelugin_
just joined us LIVE on the #guybensonshow and reacted to today's comments by Biden claiming that border numbers came "way down" during his presidency.
Melugin said Biden's claims are from "an alternate reality," 🎧🔽:
https://t.co/Kiqv53Nj2B pic.twitter.com/aLcO6yrMrC
IF CNN were smart, and we all know that isn't true....they would hire Scott Jennings for a Prime Time show. HE is the ONLY reason to even watch the programming, since he is the only actual journalist there. The others just repeat the talking points they are handed every morning. He is a gem among a pile of feces.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
CNN Panelist Squirms as Scott Jennings Exposes Who’s Really Fueling Division Over LA Wildfires
John Avlon never saw this coming.
AVLON: “I think also in this environment right now, where immediately there’s disinformation flowing through social media networks that cleaves down partisan lines, that is stopping our ability to be united. And we should not just accept that as inevitable. That is weakening our ability to unite as a nation and as cities.”
@ScottJenningsKY
: “Let me answer your criticism by asking you a question. Do you think it was uniting or dividing while in the midst of these fires for the Democrats to go to Sacramento and, in an emergency session, vote to appropriate $50 million to ‘Trump-proof’ California, to sue the Trump administration, which hasn’t even taken office yet? Do you think that was a good priority and a good time to do that, or no? Was that dividing, was that divisive, or was that uniting?”
AVLON: (Gives up) “I’m not going to go take that, you know, bait because I don’t know the details of that particular [story].”
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1879015777602327007
Poor little Li. She found out too late that she has been lied to over and over again, and now they are attacking her because she stepped off the Progressive plantation that minorities MUST stay on, or be labeled the (in her case) "Chinese face" of White Supremacy. They use you, and abuse you for their OWN gain, and will throw you out with the rest of the garbage (Trump supporters) Vote wiser!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14278643/lindy-li-liberal-defected-democrat-cult-raising-money-trump.html
Asians are in a weird place in the US. Immigrants often come from home countries with facto one-party rule, which mixes center-right finance with (tribal) moderate social support. The've tended to join left-wing parties as being non-white, yet have never dealt with woke grievance hierarchy stuff. All Asians in the US also face the "white adjacent" tag or are considered white by blacks (see the Korean resistance to the Rodney King riots in LA). Not long before that, they were treated like garbage by whites in California too.
Biden's redistribution/equity programs are likely the biggest factor here, as Asians in the US are financially strong and know what it takes to succeed. They did not get ahead through grievance politics, and per the race hierarchy they must outperform to succeed in an affirmative action environment.
As Enigma said, a weird place. I worked with a Chinese M.E. on a project and got to know him pretty well. In a conversation he mentioned that, like many Chinese, his parents expected him to grow up to be a doctor or a scientist. He further mentioned that he didn't pay attention to bigotry because "everybody doesn't like somebody". That was thirty years ago and I carry it with me today.
Only one of our four grandchildren can read and write in cursive.
He was Taiwanese Chinese.
I knew several in Atlanta decades ago. Ukrainians too. Came in the 80’s and 90’s. Flew to JFK, one to New Hampshire. Fake ID from what they all called “Polish mafia.” In one case, the guy just used regular postage stamps on a crudely fashioned “passport.” He wanted to live in the same country as Angela Davis, his hero.
Most of them were trafficked laborers, locked up at night and forced to build houses during the day. Fed very little. Beaten and threatened if they tried to escape. No way the employers didn’t know that then — or now. E -Verify could have rescued them.
The border still has coyotes who do this … and now American nonprofits colluding with foreign governments. And with the coyotes. The lucky ones and violent gang members (many of whom know the ropes by being coyotes themselves) surrender at the border and get government bennies. The unlucky ones are still basically enslaved by coyotes. Thanks, Democrats.
If you irrigate and live in the windy desert that is Southern Calfornia, there will be many wildfires. If the region had been developed in the fashion of much of Arizona and New Mexico (adobe houses; rocks and desert plant landscaping), then there wouldn't be as much vegetation to burn. If wooden houses hadn't been built near native trees in wind corridors...
It's not the "libs" here, rather, it's everyone who took the risk of living there for 100 years. The region was developed by free-range explorers and many people on the right wing. California didn't vote deep blue until the 1980s and 1990s, when military base closures took away defense jobs and the economy shifted heavily to recent non-European immigrants.
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