So they don't want to use the basically free dinosaur-based energy source right under their feet, and now we have moved on to the thing that provides for all life on earth: they don't want to use free, fresh, cold water that's right under their feet either, and it just happens to be the thing that puts out 'The Fires Currently Killing People' that they are running out of. This news dovetails nicely with my theory that these people are anti-life, people-hating, misanthropic trash. Thanks for putting another piece in the puzzle for me.
Are they people though? I mean in the true sense of the word - in possession of functioning consciousness and souls, who are connected to the rest of humanity in the fundamental way the rest of us are that know what is essentially the right or wrong thing to do. I've become convinced that not everyone on this planet is in possession of a soul and the reason we are all in the shit that we're in is because scum floats to the top.
I think they are people, or more correctly, the empty husks of former humans. Soulless for certain. I think it is Evil that inhabits these bodies. I don't offer that lightly or irresponsibly. I'm acutely aware that a majority will read my words and scoff. Most won't even register the words in a meaningful manner. But I've been in their presence and it haunts me to this very moment. I've shaken their hands and felt the psychic push (for lack of a better term). I've seen their eyes and there isn't anything back there. It's terrifyingly empty, devoid of life.
I get it. I've encountered them. In my experience there are 2 types: people who have been taken over by whatever you want to call it - evil will do - the Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden types or the drug addicts who stove their grandfather's head in for his coffee tin of cash (that happens, trust me); then there are the ones who are, in my experience, not people - Something elemental is just not there. I've come across a couple in my time. You can't mistake them; you can feel it in your core. I don't care if that sounds crazy. I think for the Cali is suffering an overdose of the first type - the sell-outs.
You're alluding to the demonic, though without use of the term. It sounds completely uncrazy to me.
Why does a middle aged man visit a playground full of children, not to give them ice cream sandwiches, but to murder them? He actually had a reason which makes sense if you're as lunatic with syphilis as he was, but I have always been aware that there was the demonic in what he did. This actually happened to me. I survived, but my two best friends, another little boy whom we did not know but who was no less precious, and two gloriously heroic adults who tried to save our lives did not. Hundreds of lives were at best marred permanently, some left walking dead.
I wish that had been my only encounter with the demonic. It hasn't been. In my seventy - two years I have come face to face with three people of the kind you describe. Something elemental was just not there. Each was unrelated to the other two, yet each looked identical to the other two. All three had the most appalling smiles: lightless smiles, the smiles of those whose souls have been subsumed by unholy spirits.
C.S. Lewis was right. There are two opposite but equally assaultive errors which Christians are subject to in their thinking about the demonic. Either we think about it not at all or we think about it too much. Christians in the United States have tended toward the first error, but circumstances in the last few years have tended to yank our attention in the direction of the second.
If even half of what we have heard about the Diddy parties, Epstein Island, the rape/grooming gangs in Europe and particularly in England, and the hundreds of thousands of missing children in the United States is true, how can we deny the energetic presence of the demonic?
What are UAP? The scholar and writer, Diana Pasulka, says that there isn't anyone in the Silicon Valley/D.C. axis who has studied them who doesn't believe they are demonic in nature. Rod Dreher writes about this a lot.
The answer, always, is God Incarnate, The Lord Jesus Christ. For the believer there is nothing to fear.
Here is a recommended podcast and a book, the latter being for those with steely faith. The podcast is Lord of the Spirits. The book is Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil." The Martin book was published in the mid 1970s. As far as I am aware, no one has ever challenged the credentials or the credibility of Malachi Martin, who died many years ago.
Mr. Lime, so good to see you! I haven't been on Mr Dreher's SS in some time. (It's hard for me to carve out the time to commit to his lengthy and thought provoking words). I've been studying and reading the Bible along with OCIA class. What you share today is absolutely the truth. The very words that are in my mind and heart.
We are in dangerous times, I'd say *the* most dangerous times in hundreds of years, and that's what has moved me from being reticent to share my faith and journey to being open for every opportunity to mention it genuinely, openly and honestly. I pray multiple times a day for guidance, discernment, and of course for my fellow man. We will prevail but many will be lost. Much will be lost.
@Bobby I remember Martin from Arr Bells radio show. I've read that book you wrote about and profound and scary is a word easily used and I'm not one to scare easily.
It scared me. I tried to read it in 1977, and couldn't. I gave it another try in 2008, and made it. I wanted to read it a year later and just could not hack it again.
And no doubt the sellouts attract other sellouts like magnets, as they realise they will suffer no setbacks if they are amongst a great many like-minded soulless ones.
In the end though, I truly believe it’s all just communism, something that has been around a very long time, not just since 1917. Ordinary, perfectly ok people are sucked into communist beliefs at a very young age because they think it means fairness for all. Perhaps it is those who don’t grow out of stupid beliefs who become the soulless ones.
Marion, I think there is huge truth in that, but the reason communism could get a foothold is because there was a vacancy. A vacancy of belief. Of faith.
We are here... western civilization is here, because we thought we were smarter than religion. Than God. We didn't need him anymore because we were smart. We had science to explain the world and psychology to explain people. We were wrong. Our world demonstrates that and I lived it for a very, very long time. Raised a Catholic, tried to be a good person, live a good life etc. Only to discover that without faith I was rudderless and easy prey for the evil that walks. And I am truly not devout or a bible thumper. I am a searcher. And this is my experience and understanding. Thank you for your comment. I think it is the tip of the iceberg.
I loved hearing this, PB. Truth is, if you have no faith then you will believe in something or anything. You will be an empty vessel only to be filled with some or all of the seven deadly sins.
I am not a religious zealot. I have faith and I believe God is our saviour.
California has been my home for over 30 years. It’s become satan’s den and it’s high time to end satan’s run!
I wonder if the question is: ‘is religion knocked into us, or is it knocked out of us? Or is it something we either have or not, no matter what the powers that be do or don’t do to our societies?
I believe that there have always existed those who believe in one or many gods, those who just pay lip service because of social or even legal or financial pressures and those who never believe in any religion - the ‘when you’re dead you’re dead’ mentality, no matter what external pressures there are. Some grow out of religion (most children believe what adults tell them); some grow into it - perhaps they meet someone so inspiring, so convincing that they have an epiphany. That person may be a conman, a charlatan, misguided but charismatic, but still… Perhaps some, like me, would like the comfort that belief brings but just can’t find that faith in their heart or mind. My sister is an evangelical Christian and has very great faith; I know the arguments.
I don’t believe being moral depends on one’s religious belief, we all know what is right and what is wrong. Do unto others as you would be done to is the golden rule for everyone, is it not? Some ‘religions’ preach otherwise - we should believe Muslims when they say they want to wipe all other religions from the face of the earth, they make a good job of it when they become a majority in a country, after all. So, having a belief in god isn’t everything in my opinion. All religions have killed in the name of god. I have decided all we can do is follow the teaching of Christ - perhaps belief in his resurrection will follow, perhaps not, would that matter? Would he forgive us if heaven exists and he knew we had lived a good life or would he send the innocent to hell because that final, supernatural step was beyond us?
God killed god to save us from god - this could sum up Christianity if we were to be cynical; it’s trite, but it resonated with me.
Precisely. Communism attempts to separate the human being from their spiritual being. That tactic is now being employed across the West and in other places too: Paris Olympics opening ceremony; Christmas tree in Syria burned down; Buddhist statues in Afghanistan destroyed; the Orthodox Church in Ukraine banned. The Pledge of Allegiance in schools not being mandatory; Satanists being afforded the same rights as other religions; Churches being burned down; Churches closed during Covid. Too many examples to name but they all boil down to the same thing - to control people it is necessary to separate them from their higher power - to dilute or outright wash away their belief systems. And that is downright evil.
The “not people” exist. I met a couple during my time in the Army. They lusted after the opportunity to hurt people. The glee in one’s eyes as we lined up to practice with pugil sticks – he could beat on someone legally. The issue was not the willingness, it was the avid desire.
I believe you will find interesting, informative, and, maybe, disturbing. Given your posts, though, I think you'll not be disturbed, but, instead, affirmed.
Peck has another good book, "The Road Less Traveled", which preceded "Lie".
If you believe in Quantum Physics there is absolute basis for what you are saying. We are not made up of matter but frequency. There are plenty of low vibration, dense people out there who emit a certain leaden, even menacing vibe, and if you are sufficiently empathic and aware you can sense them and don't want to be enmeshed with their energy/ aura. The vibratory range goes from 100 to 1000 hz(?) At the low end you have the outright sociopaths with the narcissists above them and the materialists above them. Admirable traits like compassion, empathy, and integrity kick in around 500. And you head on up from there to enlightenment, with folks like Jesus, Buddha, and the great yogi/ ascendant masters at the top of the heap.
I totally agree. I'm exploring this topic. I really feel that there is a current raising of vibration happening across the world. Not enough space here to explore that but here is a link that I share often. It is a clip that I visit whenever I start to feel overwhelmed by the sheer scale of badness in the world. I hope it helps anyone who clicks on it
My parallel theory is Faustian, that is, people like Newsom and most of the people in charge of LA sold their souls to the devil in exchange for power long ago. “If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.” ― Goethe
The same suspicion I have come to regarding these psychopaths. Our souls are connected to the central nervous system of our earthly avatars. I'm convinced there is a part of the human brain that connects to our spiritual ability to connect to all other living beings. We call it "empathy" or the ability to feel what others are dealing with and feeling. There is a scripture that talks about 'having their conscience seared with a hot iron' (1 Tim. 4:2 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.) How does it get seared. I think those who participate in the satatnic rituals involving the violation of the innocent and partake of the innocent blood lose that connection and are hardly any longer truly spiritual beings, but become demonic robots in a way, unable to feel those deeper feelings any longer. This is the "sin against the Holy Spirit" that is said to be unforgiveable, since after this sincere repentance is impossible.
Be careful, here, Amanda. I understand the sentiment, but there's a difference between saying that a person is consumed by evil (even possessed) and that they are not a person. The former says that they are abusing their soul and provides a possible route to redemption. That is the "universal dignity of man" in a Judeo-Christian sense. The latter divides the world into 2 classes of humans, one with a soul and one without, and thus forecloses the possibility of redemption for the latter. This is fundamentally Nietzschean since the only basis for the division is power.
Nietzsche is who got us into this mess. (Well, actually Bacon, Machiavelli, Hume, Mill, and Nietzsche, but he'll do to categorize the group.) Doubling down on Nietzsche isn't going to be the answer.
This makes my head hurt. Gavin is afraid. He’s spending $25 million taxpayer dollars because, basically, dad told him to clean his room. Someone—maybe one of those whose multimillion dollar house is now ash—should take him aside and explain a few things. (And wasn’t that close to the amount the la mayor cut out of the fire dept budget?)
So true in all respects. I decline to use the Nazis as comparators to much (and Hitler to no other thing), but the hate-fueled frenzy in the progressives is very close to the key stages of genocidal rage (dehumanization and focused attribution of worldwide evil into the opponent). We’ve seen this in the anti-Semites, the Serbs against the Bosnians & Kosovars, and the Hutus against the Tutsis.
It’s interesting that in the lead-up to the Civil War, there was only one basic disagreement: economics (and the political control manifesting in abusive economic policies). There was not disagreement about the basic functioning of society or the roles of government.
Today however, there appear to be 2 different nations with 2 radically different views of the Constitution occupying the same territory. It’s inherently unstable.
At a minimum, we need to terminate Federal funding of humanities degrees to stanch the flood of Marxism. It’s intolerable that we’ve lent gargantuan amounts of public money to disfigure the minds of scores of millions of young minds, who then vote for policies that manifest in a $100B catastrophe of biblical proportions.
It’s been some time since the Democrats have done ANYTHING substantive; for years it’s been 100% performative. Who can forget the 2020 kente cloth fashion sweeping the halls of Congress?
We need to be sure of our own and never stop praying and speaking of the good vs evil paradigm of our world. The space for our desire to be left alone to live our life in peace will continue to evaporate like water from a SoCal hydrant.
Elizabeth Nickson (Substack) has done yeoman’s work laying it out. It’s about power, and water, and farming people. And evil. Highly recommend reading her work.
Yup, that’s pretty much the program. The Dems retort that it’s possible to walk & chew gum at the same time. But they’ve just been chewing gum (DEI, Trans, saving the Delta Smelt) and not walking (law enforcement, water & power systems improvement, quality of life (homeless) regulation).
BUT that gives the opposition a clear rally point, if they choose to make it one. Trump can help by re-engineering Federal funds: instead of grants which CA wastes, move to a reimbursement mechanism, where CA only gets back what they spent properly. Alternatively, they could sell the high speed choo-choo. That should pay for a couple of dozen reservoirs.
It takes a really special kind of gall to spend $33B, have just a couple of concrete towers to show for it, and proudly announce you’re starting to lay track 10 years after you promised to be 100% finished. But OTOH, it’s understandable given that the high speed railroad had only been invented THIRTY years earlier.
I've also been struck by the "it wouldn't have mattered, you can't stop this fire anyway" argument. That seems like thesis sitting on shaky ground. The implication being: a fire like this is inevitable, it cannot be stopped and everyone who lives in LA is just cool with it. Oh drats, my entire neighborhood burned down, but I knew it could so who cares.
We just built an entire city in a place that cannot be protected from a major fire. Hopefully nobody starts one when it's windy. Everyone cross your fingers!
It's so weird to hear that argument because it leads to such insane places.
Where I live we get blizzards in winter and it can go week without getting above freezing. In my car I carry a heavy wool blanket, extra clothes, hand warmers, a battery jump start kit, a Leatherman and I never let the gas go below a quarter tank. Because I recognize that there's always the off chance I could slide off the road in some rural area and not get help for hours. But the LA attitude seems to be, "oh well, we slid off the road into a ditch and it's 15 degrees out. Guess we're just going to freeze to death. Shucks!"
Did anyone else catch the female reporter in front of the burning Aldi supermarket. I watched her report at that spot for 45 or so minutes. Two fire trucks showed up in that time separately. The first trucks hoses had the wrong attachment for that hydrant. He left. 20 or so minutes later a second truck showed up and his hose didnt fit either. Once they got the right hose they had to bring in a water truck anyhow . I wondered as I witnessed the insanity of the situation if there was evidence based on the tv report to sue the city. How could there not be a standard hose .
How long would it take for the US Army corps of engineers to lay 30 miles of pipes and install pumping stations et c, if they were given the order and carte blanche to get it done?
Three shift rotation, using every means at their disposal.
Pacific Palisades is so named because it is next to the (expletive deleted) Pacific Ocean. Did that go dry from climate change as well? You know they make really big pumps, they make generators the size of locomotives, and hoses are not exactly high tech items lost in the Taiwanese supply chain. How about running some pipes or large diameter hoses from the beach to supply water to a series of firehouses with the whole thing run by large diesel generators?
If the slightest bit of effective emergency planning had been done, or if one person with some creativity and practical know-how were in a decision making role they could have pulled something like this off. There was even an article somewhere about a 62 year old neurosurgeon who had prepped for years and stored a bunch of firehose at his house and managed to save half his Malibu neighborhood with only himself and his son working around the clock.
Unfortunately salt water is corrosive to just about everything it touches, including pumps. Biggest reason not to use salt water to fight fires, plus it’s bad for the soil. Granted, if my house was burning, I wouldn’t care. Maybe Rancho Palos Verdes should have sent their excess groundwater north? Shaking my head over this insanity, and I live here.
Pick ANY friend/ family you have that voted D and think if you would have to shape your words, in regards to this matter, in order to either not offend them or as them seeing it as some personal indictment.
There's your answer. I have had no such luck despite being VERY delicate, on this matter, with those of my friends/family in CA. At best, so far, its been like Chris mentioned; "what does it matter" or "it's climate change ".
Both assertions are to immediately stop discussions about reality.
Until they face reality it's really hard to have productive conversations. There is no "uniting" if you can't have reality based conversations and no amount of finesse with how you approach that will change it.
No kidding: a Facebook friend who had become something of a friend, knowing that I would be voting for Trump, asked me several months ago how I could live with being a "misogynistic racist." At least she managed to work in a category in addition to the one which your idiot came with.
The amount of "well AKSHULLY" that I'm seeing on social media is extremely familiar, and yes. We're right back into the denial of reality. Oh, right, Chris, the fire department could have fought the fire if they'd had water, what a stupid MAGA CONSPIRACY THEORY!
There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see. This old adage has been proven time and time again with the leftist democrats. They are immune to facts and WILL NOT ever see the truth.
Losing everything has a way of focusing the mind on reality.
I’m not jumping on the “Diversity and inclusion caused the problem” bandwagon but it seems like the focus on DEI instead of being fire focused could be a contributing factor in why there is an inferno ripping through unsuspecting neighborhoods.
It’s not like they didn’t know there was a fire hazard. It’s been a discussion for 20 years. Guess they got distracted by the shiny chicken of diversity.
For decades now, we have delegated control of most aspects of our lives to people who inhabit a reality far, far different from the one our forefathers knew. These people, (If they ARE actually 'people'), seem to lack the ability to connect with, or even be aware of the real, physical, world we inhabit.
We have become inured to the blatant incompetence, the utter stupidity, and totally corrupt behaviours of the cretins we placed in charge of our lives.
Is it possible that burning a measurable percentage of the second largest city in the country might, maybe, perhaps, cause us to re-examine our tendency to elect, or hire, these exemplars of evil?
Or will we just sweep it under the rug - like we usually do?
The self defeating excuse of, “it would’ve happened anyway”, reminds me of a famous industrialist who once told his management team, “I pay you to tell me HOW to do it! Not that it CAN’T be done!”
That’s the difference between a leader and an overpaid bureaucrat.
That’s also the difference between private enterprise and government. A business will go bankrupt if it’s not run effectively. In government not running effectively is a feature, not a bug.
You can always identify complete bullshit with a simple exercise. Just flip the party affiliations of the bad actors and imagine the rhetoric. If instead of Gavin Newsom it was, say, Governor Devin Nunes, would anyone be dismissing the lack of water, the policies that resulted in a lack of water, or the failure, after nearly annual wildfires, to manage the forests and brush to mitigate their spread? Everyone knows the answer. They also know that a Governor Nunes would spend his mythical governorship fighting lawsuits against any new water conserving or fire mitigation policies. Unless smart and powerful people start calling bullshit where it lives, California is lost.
You may thank the press for that. They are owned. And now, would a young conservative college student pursue a degree in journalism, knowing he’d be working alongside the most corrupt, ruined people of the world? No. He or she wouldn’t. It’s a field owned by people that think they are smarter than anyone, and as such, have the right to tell you what to think. So until the press is restrained from lying on an hourly basis, it will be business as usual.
At bottom, what’s needed is honesty. But that well ran dry a long time ago. No one’s even digging for it anymore. Was there money and know-how to better manage the land? Of course. Has that money been put to other uses, like the Kristen Full-Employment Act? Apparently. Could arson be behind some of these fires—or was a fellow with a blow torch just a one-off? (And the police found no probable cause to charge him.) Is the flood tide of illegal aliens involved in any way? Don't know, don’t wanna know. Maybe the owner of the LA Times, Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong, can assign a crack team of reporters to the story. (You available, Chris?) But, see, there’s no market for honesty. The truth is an Edsel.
"The truth is an Edsel". Wow Josh, what an image! It made me think. What made the Edsel a failure? It was over decorated and unable to bear (from a design and manufacturing point of view) the weight of all its ambitious 'positioning.' I wonder sometimes if decorating the truth to make it more palatable isn't a huge disservice to those who receive it. The unvarnished simple truth is uncomfortable. And I don't like making those around me uncomfortable. Probably something I need to get over.
BBC yesterday had a long story (8-10 minutes -- that's why I like Euro News) about the LA fires. At the end of the story was a hilarious 20 seconds where the anchor dutifully lamented the "this is caused by climate change" mantra. This was what he said:
"These fires in Los Angeles were exactly the sort of event that climate scientists have been predicting for years. Floods that destroyed towns in Spain last year were from climate-change caused excessive rainfall. Meanwhile, droughts in Africa and Asia have been made far worse from climate change."
So... climate change causes fires. It also causes too much rain. It also causes too little rain.
If you had a friend that blamed ALL the woes in their life on a hidden force, you would suspect they were crazy. The fact that the entire ruling class believes such a thing doesn't make it any less crazy.
According to this theory, "Climate Change" would also have to cause "excessively mild" weather where formerly it was more volatile. Where are these places? Here in North Texas we didn't have any major tornadoes last spring, so maybe it's here, and if the "climate" becomes cooler our weather will become more volatile, in order to make the weather in California less volatile. That sounds like no deal to me.
The global temperature climbing by a degree wouldn't just happen to disturb the weather everywhere from some idyllic norm to unconstrained volatility without the entire atmosphere just flying off into space.
We all have an innate capacity for self-deception. But at a certain point you stop banging your own thumb with the hammer because it hurts. Pain provokes change. How much pain does it take to become attuned to the concept that these people have no idea what they’re doing and hate you? I mean besides the frequent overt spectacles of death, incompetence, and destruction in California, while also telling you point blank that they hate you because you’re a functional human outside of their endangered victim group/species list. Maybe some people enjoy the danger of electing people who are trying to punish and kill them. 🤷🏼
One of the features of all socialist regimes, and as Hitler said, there was very little difference in them, is the intense hatred of their own citizenry. Hitler killed more Germans than Weimar politicians he replaced, Lenin and Stalin killed more Soviet citizens than Hitler, Mao and later communists killed more Chinese than anyone in the last 3k years, and the Kims, over 3 generations, have killed more Koreans than the Chinese of Japanese ever did over centuries. So, while much of what we see in CA, and all of the U.S. and Western countries is the result of stupidity and incompetence, that's part of the effort to reduce populations generally and Western ones specifically and end up with a much smaller world population that is more servile and pliant, hence the mass, government-sponsored invasion from the 3rd world.
So, we all have some very hard work ahead of us in replacing these socialist orcs and fixing the many problems they have created over the past 70 years or so, then accelerated in the last 20 or so.
Also in Mandeville Canyon, “perched on an approximately 8.29 acre promontory with breathtaking park-like grounds,” as described in the real estate listing, is the Norman and Lyn Lear Estate at 1911 Westridge Road. I had the distinct pleasure of having dinner there many years ago when TV writer friend was house sitting while the Lear’s were out of town. For younger readers, Norman Lear was a prolific television producer, writer and director who made his indelible mark on network television with “All in the Family” that aired from 1971-1979.
The web site for the real estate listing includes extensive interior, exterior, and overall site photos. Worth a look for anyone curious about the properties located in Brentwood and Mandeville Canyon.
What a beautiful estate. Nice to now understand what’s in some of those canyons . Hard to tell from the helicopter views . The sight lines from the home are extraordinary. Some very historic homes burnt to the ground including the lovely Rand McNally home I think in Altadena. A prime example of Queen Anne architecture. Just a gem that could never be recreated. It’s a horror our minds can’t comprehend as it’s happening
I saw a video of a community that was completely destroyed. It looks like an atom bomb hit the place. The homes were small - it was basically a trailer park - but I could see from the remains that the people did their best to make their modest homes and properties look nice. The owners are not rich, and they have lost everything.
It appears so, according to Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank):
“The devastating fires in LA have taken so much from so many this week. The beloved Tahitian Terrace Mobile Home Park in Pacific Palisades, my little slice of heaven, was entirely destroyed when the devastating Palisades Fire rapidly moved through the park on Tuesday,” she wrote in the caption."
The Lear’s each had separate bedrooms and each was exceptionally large as you noted. I got the full house tour. The size of the bathrooms and walk-in closets was amazing. Norman Lear was know for his hats, and he had a closet full of them.
My Mother lives in Monrovia and had no power for 3 days. This is the longest power outage in the 60 years she lived there. My guess the unlimited fire liability scared Edison, since it bankrupted pg&e.
I can’t remember a controlled burn above Monrovia since the 70’s. A controlled burn gets out of control, such as New Mexico, and it gets huge attention. The Biden Administration shut down controlled burns on Federal Land for a while because of that in 2021.
A very insightful article about controlled burns in California from 2020. Nothing has changed since then. Basically 20 million acres in California would need to be controlled burns, and we are doing around 20,000 a year. And the person in charge of a burn may be personally liable.
And Karma, the la mayor asked for $49 m in cuts a week before the fires. And supposedly basic maintenance was not being done due to excessive overtime due to lack of personnel / understaffing. So fire hydrants were not tested. My guess the Dei jihad caused retirements. Plus Covid jab firings. Academy was at 50%. But they are at 8% women! And all 3 fire department leaders are Lesbians.
So they don't want to use the basically free dinosaur-based energy source right under their feet, and now we have moved on to the thing that provides for all life on earth: they don't want to use free, fresh, cold water that's right under their feet either, and it just happens to be the thing that puts out 'The Fires Currently Killing People' that they are running out of. This news dovetails nicely with my theory that these people are anti-life, people-hating, misanthropic trash. Thanks for putting another piece in the puzzle for me.
Are they people though? I mean in the true sense of the word - in possession of functioning consciousness and souls, who are connected to the rest of humanity in the fundamental way the rest of us are that know what is essentially the right or wrong thing to do. I've become convinced that not everyone on this planet is in possession of a soul and the reason we are all in the shit that we're in is because scum floats to the top.
I think they are people, or more correctly, the empty husks of former humans. Soulless for certain. I think it is Evil that inhabits these bodies. I don't offer that lightly or irresponsibly. I'm acutely aware that a majority will read my words and scoff. Most won't even register the words in a meaningful manner. But I've been in their presence and it haunts me to this very moment. I've shaken their hands and felt the psychic push (for lack of a better term). I've seen their eyes and there isn't anything back there. It's terrifyingly empty, devoid of life.
I'd best stop now.
I get it. I've encountered them. In my experience there are 2 types: people who have been taken over by whatever you want to call it - evil will do - the Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden types or the drug addicts who stove their grandfather's head in for his coffee tin of cash (that happens, trust me); then there are the ones who are, in my experience, not people - Something elemental is just not there. I've come across a couple in my time. You can't mistake them; you can feel it in your core. I don't care if that sounds crazy. I think for the Cali is suffering an overdose of the first type - the sell-outs.
You're alluding to the demonic, though without use of the term. It sounds completely uncrazy to me.
Why does a middle aged man visit a playground full of children, not to give them ice cream sandwiches, but to murder them? He actually had a reason which makes sense if you're as lunatic with syphilis as he was, but I have always been aware that there was the demonic in what he did. This actually happened to me. I survived, but my two best friends, another little boy whom we did not know but who was no less precious, and two gloriously heroic adults who tried to save our lives did not. Hundreds of lives were at best marred permanently, some left walking dead.
I wish that had been my only encounter with the demonic. It hasn't been. In my seventy - two years I have come face to face with three people of the kind you describe. Something elemental was just not there. Each was unrelated to the other two, yet each looked identical to the other two. All three had the most appalling smiles: lightless smiles, the smiles of those whose souls have been subsumed by unholy spirits.
C.S. Lewis was right. There are two opposite but equally assaultive errors which Christians are subject to in their thinking about the demonic. Either we think about it not at all or we think about it too much. Christians in the United States have tended toward the first error, but circumstances in the last few years have tended to yank our attention in the direction of the second.
If even half of what we have heard about the Diddy parties, Epstein Island, the rape/grooming gangs in Europe and particularly in England, and the hundreds of thousands of missing children in the United States is true, how can we deny the energetic presence of the demonic?
What are UAP? The scholar and writer, Diana Pasulka, says that there isn't anyone in the Silicon Valley/D.C. axis who has studied them who doesn't believe they are demonic in nature. Rod Dreher writes about this a lot.
The answer, always, is God Incarnate, The Lord Jesus Christ. For the believer there is nothing to fear.
Here is a recommended podcast and a book, the latter being for those with steely faith. The podcast is Lord of the Spirits. The book is Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil." The Martin book was published in the mid 1970s. As far as I am aware, no one has ever challenged the credentials or the credibility of Malachi Martin, who died many years ago.
Mr. Lime, so good to see you! I haven't been on Mr Dreher's SS in some time. (It's hard for me to carve out the time to commit to his lengthy and thought provoking words). I've been studying and reading the Bible along with OCIA class. What you share today is absolutely the truth. The very words that are in my mind and heart.
We are in dangerous times, I'd say *the* most dangerous times in hundreds of years, and that's what has moved me from being reticent to share my faith and journey to being open for every opportunity to mention it genuinely, openly and honestly. I pray multiple times a day for guidance, discernment, and of course for my fellow man. We will prevail but many will be lost. Much will be lost.
Bless you for sharing your thoughts.
You're very kind. I wish I had the ordained right to offer a benediction, but please know that it's in my heart, P.B.
Bobby, you are right. As a society, we are marinated in evil, disguised as angels of light.
@Bobby I remember Martin from Arr Bells radio show. I've read that book you wrote about and profound and scary is a word easily used and I'm not one to scare easily.
It scared me. I tried to read it in 1977, and couldn't. I gave it another try in 2008, and made it. I wanted to read it a year later and just could not hack it again.
And no doubt the sellouts attract other sellouts like magnets, as they realise they will suffer no setbacks if they are amongst a great many like-minded soulless ones.
In the end though, I truly believe it’s all just communism, something that has been around a very long time, not just since 1917. Ordinary, perfectly ok people are sucked into communist beliefs at a very young age because they think it means fairness for all. Perhaps it is those who don’t grow out of stupid beliefs who become the soulless ones.
Marion, I think there is huge truth in that, but the reason communism could get a foothold is because there was a vacancy. A vacancy of belief. Of faith.
We are here... western civilization is here, because we thought we were smarter than religion. Than God. We didn't need him anymore because we were smart. We had science to explain the world and psychology to explain people. We were wrong. Our world demonstrates that and I lived it for a very, very long time. Raised a Catholic, tried to be a good person, live a good life etc. Only to discover that without faith I was rudderless and easy prey for the evil that walks. And I am truly not devout or a bible thumper. I am a searcher. And this is my experience and understanding. Thank you for your comment. I think it is the tip of the iceberg.
I loved hearing this, PB. Truth is, if you have no faith then you will believe in something or anything. You will be an empty vessel only to be filled with some or all of the seven deadly sins.
I am not a religious zealot. I have faith and I believe God is our saviour.
California has been my home for over 30 years. It’s become satan’s den and it’s high time to end satan’s run!
Thank you for your response, P.B.
I wonder if the question is: ‘is religion knocked into us, or is it knocked out of us? Or is it something we either have or not, no matter what the powers that be do or don’t do to our societies?
I believe that there have always existed those who believe in one or many gods, those who just pay lip service because of social or even legal or financial pressures and those who never believe in any religion - the ‘when you’re dead you’re dead’ mentality, no matter what external pressures there are. Some grow out of religion (most children believe what adults tell them); some grow into it - perhaps they meet someone so inspiring, so convincing that they have an epiphany. That person may be a conman, a charlatan, misguided but charismatic, but still… Perhaps some, like me, would like the comfort that belief brings but just can’t find that faith in their heart or mind. My sister is an evangelical Christian and has very great faith; I know the arguments.
I don’t believe being moral depends on one’s religious belief, we all know what is right and what is wrong. Do unto others as you would be done to is the golden rule for everyone, is it not? Some ‘religions’ preach otherwise - we should believe Muslims when they say they want to wipe all other religions from the face of the earth, they make a good job of it when they become a majority in a country, after all. So, having a belief in god isn’t everything in my opinion. All religions have killed in the name of god. I have decided all we can do is follow the teaching of Christ - perhaps belief in his resurrection will follow, perhaps not, would that matter? Would he forgive us if heaven exists and he knew we had lived a good life or would he send the innocent to hell because that final, supernatural step was beyond us?
God killed god to save us from god - this could sum up Christianity if we were to be cynical; it’s trite, but it resonated with me.
Your native faith is calling you home, P.B. Probe a bit. :-)
Precisely. Communism attempts to separate the human being from their spiritual being. That tactic is now being employed across the West and in other places too: Paris Olympics opening ceremony; Christmas tree in Syria burned down; Buddhist statues in Afghanistan destroyed; the Orthodox Church in Ukraine banned. The Pledge of Allegiance in schools not being mandatory; Satanists being afforded the same rights as other religions; Churches being burned down; Churches closed during Covid. Too many examples to name but they all boil down to the same thing - to control people it is necessary to separate them from their higher power - to dilute or outright wash away their belief systems. And that is downright evil.
The “not people” exist. I met a couple during my time in the Army. They lusted after the opportunity to hurt people. The glee in one’s eyes as we lined up to practice with pugil sticks – he could beat on someone legally. The issue was not the willingness, it was the avid desire.
Absolutely spot on Ms. Amanda. Well stated.
Not scoffing here. You nailed it. The Spirit testifies and if it’s not there, you know instantly.
Have you read "People of the Lie", by M Scott Peck?? Urge you to do so,, if you haven't.
Just added to my Kindle app. Thanks.
I believe you will find interesting, informative, and, maybe, disturbing. Given your posts, though, I think you'll not be disturbed, but, instead, affirmed.
Peck has another good book, "The Road Less Traveled", which preceded "Lie".
I’ve seen what you describe as well. Coldness that is truly dreadful.
If you believe in Quantum Physics there is absolute basis for what you are saying. We are not made up of matter but frequency. There are plenty of low vibration, dense people out there who emit a certain leaden, even menacing vibe, and if you are sufficiently empathic and aware you can sense them and don't want to be enmeshed with their energy/ aura. The vibratory range goes from 100 to 1000 hz(?) At the low end you have the outright sociopaths with the narcissists above them and the materialists above them. Admirable traits like compassion, empathy, and integrity kick in around 500. And you head on up from there to enlightenment, with folks like Jesus, Buddha, and the great yogi/ ascendant masters at the top of the heap.
I totally agree. I'm exploring this topic. I really feel that there is a current raising of vibration happening across the world. Not enough space here to explore that but here is a link that I share often. It is a clip that I visit whenever I start to feel overwhelmed by the sheer scale of badness in the world. I hope it helps anyone who clicks on it
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=350902236433441&vanity=Michael.B.Beckwith
My parallel theory is Faustian, that is, people like Newsom and most of the people in charge of LA sold their souls to the devil in exchange for power long ago. “If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.” ― Goethe
The same suspicion I have come to regarding these psychopaths. Our souls are connected to the central nervous system of our earthly avatars. I'm convinced there is a part of the human brain that connects to our spiritual ability to connect to all other living beings. We call it "empathy" or the ability to feel what others are dealing with and feeling. There is a scripture that talks about 'having their conscience seared with a hot iron' (1 Tim. 4:2 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.) How does it get seared. I think those who participate in the satatnic rituals involving the violation of the innocent and partake of the innocent blood lose that connection and are hardly any longer truly spiritual beings, but become demonic robots in a way, unable to feel those deeper feelings any longer. This is the "sin against the Holy Spirit" that is said to be unforgiveable, since after this sincere repentance is impossible.
There is a whole book about this. It's about ~2000 years old. I went 40 years without it, and now I know.
Amen
Be careful, here, Amanda. I understand the sentiment, but there's a difference between saying that a person is consumed by evil (even possessed) and that they are not a person. The former says that they are abusing their soul and provides a possible route to redemption. That is the "universal dignity of man" in a Judeo-Christian sense. The latter divides the world into 2 classes of humans, one with a soul and one without, and thus forecloses the possibility of redemption for the latter. This is fundamentally Nietzschean since the only basis for the division is power.
Nietzsche is who got us into this mess. (Well, actually Bacon, Machiavelli, Hume, Mill, and Nietzsche, but he'll do to categorize the group.) Doubling down on Nietzsche isn't going to be the answer.
They don't live in reality.
Here's their priority:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/infrastructure/3282808/california-democrats-criticized-for-holding-trump-proof-special-session-as-fires-rage/
Feed them chapparal!!!
This makes my head hurt. Gavin is afraid. He’s spending $25 million taxpayer dollars because, basically, dad told him to clean his room. Someone—maybe one of those whose multimillion dollar house is now ash—should take him aside and explain a few things. (And wasn’t that close to the amount the la mayor cut out of the fire dept budget?)
Newsom’s reaction (and that of all CA Dems) is explained in Milton’s Paradise Lost: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
Perfect analogy
Gavin is not fear capable. He’s a stone sociopath
A reporter asked the CA Speaker about this… platitudes in response.
https://x.com/zavalaa/status/1877476444193898890?s=46
If you recall, it was CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra, currently HHS secretary, who sued the last Trump Administration 100 times:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/politics/california-ag-xavier-becerra-sue-donald-trump/index.html
That’s their plan this go-round too. Wasting my money to fight the federal government, instead of solving the problems right under their noses.
Well they're Fuhrer-ious, after all!
TDS is incurable.
I just can't believe the hate in so many peoples hearts.
So true in all respects. I decline to use the Nazis as comparators to much (and Hitler to no other thing), but the hate-fueled frenzy in the progressives is very close to the key stages of genocidal rage (dehumanization and focused attribution of worldwide evil into the opponent). We’ve seen this in the anti-Semites, the Serbs against the Bosnians & Kosovars, and the Hutus against the Tutsis.
It’s interesting that in the lead-up to the Civil War, there was only one basic disagreement: economics (and the political control manifesting in abusive economic policies). There was not disagreement about the basic functioning of society or the roles of government.
Today however, there appear to be 2 different nations with 2 radically different views of the Constitution occupying the same territory. It’s inherently unstable.
At a minimum, we need to terminate Federal funding of humanities degrees to stanch the flood of Marxism. It’s intolerable that we’ve lent gargantuan amounts of public money to disfigure the minds of scores of millions of young minds, who then vote for policies that manifest in a $100B catastrophe of biblical proportions.
It’s been some time since the Democrats have done ANYTHING substantive; for years it’s been 100% performative. Who can forget the 2020 kente cloth fashion sweeping the halls of Congress?
Wow.
They have their priorities straight.
We need to be sure of our own and never stop praying and speaking of the good vs evil paradigm of our world. The space for our desire to be left alone to live our life in peace will continue to evaporate like water from a SoCal hydrant.
AMEN
The Democrat party is the party of death. It doesn't care about actual people, except for their utilitarian value to the agenda.
It is a sick party.
That is a scary theory because it means it's intentional and they wanted this outcome, hence nothing will change and things will only get worse.
Elizabeth Nickson (Substack) has done yeoman’s work laying it out. It’s about power, and water, and farming people. And evil. Highly recommend reading her work.
If you’re not subscribed to Elizabeth’s Substack, then you may want to tune in to reality. This is most definitely, 💯 planned and executed.
She's done great reporting on this
Yup, that’s pretty much the program. The Dems retort that it’s possible to walk & chew gum at the same time. But they’ve just been chewing gum (DEI, Trans, saving the Delta Smelt) and not walking (law enforcement, water & power systems improvement, quality of life (homeless) regulation).
BUT that gives the opposition a clear rally point, if they choose to make it one. Trump can help by re-engineering Federal funds: instead of grants which CA wastes, move to a reimbursement mechanism, where CA only gets back what they spent properly. Alternatively, they could sell the high speed choo-choo. That should pay for a couple of dozen reservoirs.
There are no physical choo choos to sell. There are a couple of towering viaducts in the middle of Central California farmland. It seems that only last week they began laying track. https://californiaglobe.com/fr/gov-newsom-heralds-in-the-track-laying-phase-of-the-high-speed-rail-project-at-kern-county-ceremony. I’m not sure where the money went either but we think a lot of consultants and political cronies have done well.
It just gets worse and worse…
California government is very good at spending taxpayers’ money on stuff that does not benefit said taxpayers.
It takes a really special kind of gall to spend $33B, have just a couple of concrete towers to show for it, and proudly announce you’re starting to lay track 10 years after you promised to be 100% finished. But OTOH, it’s understandable given that the high speed railroad had only been invented THIRTY years earlier.
The Malthusian death cult is real
The only water in LA that's "right under someone's feet" is water that's been pumped there from hundreds of miles away.
I think a shift in the zeitgeist is afoot.
"Lord hear our prayer."
“And let our cry come unto Thee!”
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I've also been struck by the "it wouldn't have mattered, you can't stop this fire anyway" argument. That seems like thesis sitting on shaky ground. The implication being: a fire like this is inevitable, it cannot be stopped and everyone who lives in LA is just cool with it. Oh drats, my entire neighborhood burned down, but I knew it could so who cares.
We just built an entire city in a place that cannot be protected from a major fire. Hopefully nobody starts one when it's windy. Everyone cross your fingers!
It's so weird to hear that argument because it leads to such insane places.
Where I live we get blizzards in winter and it can go week without getting above freezing. In my car I carry a heavy wool blanket, extra clothes, hand warmers, a battery jump start kit, a Leatherman and I never let the gas go below a quarter tank. Because I recognize that there's always the off chance I could slide off the road in some rural area and not get help for hours. But the LA attitude seems to be, "oh well, we slid off the road into a ditch and it's 15 degrees out. Guess we're just going to freeze to death. Shucks!"
Not “shucks”. More like “Trump did it”
MN gal here! Car is always winter storm ready. Alerts for severe thunderstorms are always on… Guess it’s basic common sense & self reliance??
Did anyone else catch the female reporter in front of the burning Aldi supermarket. I watched her report at that spot for 45 or so minutes. Two fire trucks showed up in that time separately. The first trucks hoses had the wrong attachment for that hydrant. He left. 20 or so minutes later a second truck showed up and his hose didnt fit either. Once they got the right hose they had to bring in a water truck anyhow . I wondered as I witnessed the insanity of the situation if there was evidence based on the tv report to sue the city. How could there not be a standard hose .
Standard from which year? Don’t you know how to EU?
How long would it take for the US Army corps of engineers to lay 30 miles of pipes and install pumping stations et c, if they were given the order and carte blanche to get it done?
Three shift rotation, using every means at their disposal.
Pacific Palisades is so named because it is next to the (expletive deleted) Pacific Ocean. Did that go dry from climate change as well? You know they make really big pumps, they make generators the size of locomotives, and hoses are not exactly high tech items lost in the Taiwanese supply chain. How about running some pipes or large diameter hoses from the beach to supply water to a series of firehouses with the whole thing run by large diesel generators?
If the slightest bit of effective emergency planning had been done, or if one person with some creativity and practical know-how were in a decision making role they could have pulled something like this off. There was even an article somewhere about a 62 year old neurosurgeon who had prepped for years and stored a bunch of firehose at his house and managed to save half his Malibu neighborhood with only himself and his son working around the clock.
If there's a will there's a way.
Or a whip.
It's almost as if they revel in destruction, it being the easiest way to show they have/are in power.
Unfortunately salt water is corrosive to just about everything it touches, including pumps. Biggest reason not to use salt water to fight fires, plus it’s bad for the soil. Granted, if my house was burning, I wouldn’t care. Maybe Rancho Palos Verdes should have sent their excess groundwater north? Shaking my head over this insanity, and I live here.
Someone could invent a salt filter but that would be too hard
True!
Where can I read this? I need the info for when they bring fire to my area.
It’s California. It could all be above ground. My thoughts exactly.
I’m wondering if this fire will unite us or divide us even further. If people don’t wake up I’m not sure we can co-exist, because we’ll all be dead!
Here's the answer to that question:
Pick ANY friend/ family you have that voted D and think if you would have to shape your words, in regards to this matter, in order to either not offend them or as them seeing it as some personal indictment.
There's your answer. I have had no such luck despite being VERY delicate, on this matter, with those of my friends/family in CA. At best, so far, its been like Chris mentioned; "what does it matter" or "it's climate change ".
Both assertions are to immediately stop discussions about reality.
Until they face reality it's really hard to have productive conversations. There is no "uniting" if you can't have reality based conversations and no amount of finesse with how you approach that will change it.
Just my two cents.
Agreed.
I was recently called an "Aryan racist" for noting that illegal immigrants are, well, illegal.
No kidding: a Facebook friend who had become something of a friend, knowing that I would be voting for Trump, asked me several months ago how I could live with being a "misogynistic racist." At least she managed to work in a category in addition to the one which your idiot came with.
Just inform her that her "guilting" toolkit is shop worn.
Sounds like to me. You have smarter idiots or maybe dumber. Idiots, whatever the case may be They are. still idiots, God help us all.
The amount of "well AKSHULLY" that I'm seeing on social media is extremely familiar, and yes. We're right back into the denial of reality. Oh, right, Chris, the fire department could have fought the fire if they'd had water, what a stupid MAGA CONSPIRACY THEORY!
Over and over and over and over. "This is fine."
There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see. This old adage has been proven time and time again with the leftist democrats. They are immune to facts and WILL NOT ever see the truth.
Truth hurts, and they’re risk adverse. At least you tried…
You are right:: they are impervious to reality.
Climate change, that's the ticket!!
Losing everything has a way of focusing the mind on reality.
I’m not jumping on the “Diversity and inclusion caused the problem” bandwagon but it seems like the focus on DEI instead of being fire focused could be a contributing factor in why there is an inferno ripping through unsuspecting neighborhoods.
It’s not like they didn’t know there was a fire hazard. It’s been a discussion for 20 years. Guess they got distracted by the shiny chicken of diversity.
Yup.
It's a crescendo effect of multiple things. Slowly...and then all at once. It's all just culminating after 30 years of incompetency/ineptitude.
Midwits hire dimwits. And nobody holds onto a dead position like a midwit who's spent their entire lives trying to APPEAR smart.
Ryan I so so agree
That’s the way it goes down for me
It’s a climate all the time to CA family and friends
We saw what people put up with in 2020, 2021, into 2022. You couldn't even talk to them, because they thought that was dangerous.
"if you can't have reality based conversations"
And therein lies the fundamental core issue.
For decades now, we have delegated control of most aspects of our lives to people who inhabit a reality far, far different from the one our forefathers knew. These people, (If they ARE actually 'people'), seem to lack the ability to connect with, or even be aware of the real, physical, world we inhabit.
We have become inured to the blatant incompetence, the utter stupidity, and totally corrupt behaviours of the cretins we placed in charge of our lives.
Is it possible that burning a measurable percentage of the second largest city in the country might, maybe, perhaps, cause us to re-examine our tendency to elect, or hire, these exemplars of evil?
Or will we just sweep it under the rug - like we usually do?
Spot on, Andy
The self defeating excuse of, “it would’ve happened anyway”, reminds me of a famous industrialist who once told his management team, “I pay you to tell me HOW to do it! Not that it CAN’T be done!”
That’s the difference between a leader and an overpaid bureaucrat.
That’s also the difference between private enterprise and government. A business will go bankrupt if it’s not run effectively. In government not running effectively is a feature, not a bug.
You can always identify complete bullshit with a simple exercise. Just flip the party affiliations of the bad actors and imagine the rhetoric. If instead of Gavin Newsom it was, say, Governor Devin Nunes, would anyone be dismissing the lack of water, the policies that resulted in a lack of water, or the failure, after nearly annual wildfires, to manage the forests and brush to mitigate their spread? Everyone knows the answer. They also know that a Governor Nunes would spend his mythical governorship fighting lawsuits against any new water conserving or fire mitigation policies. Unless smart and powerful people start calling bullshit where it lives, California is lost.
You may thank the press for that. They are owned. And now, would a young conservative college student pursue a degree in journalism, knowing he’d be working alongside the most corrupt, ruined people of the world? No. He or she wouldn’t. It’s a field owned by people that think they are smarter than anyone, and as such, have the right to tell you what to think. So until the press is restrained from lying on an hourly basis, it will be business as usual.
At bottom, what’s needed is honesty. But that well ran dry a long time ago. No one’s even digging for it anymore. Was there money and know-how to better manage the land? Of course. Has that money been put to other uses, like the Kristen Full-Employment Act? Apparently. Could arson be behind some of these fires—or was a fellow with a blow torch just a one-off? (And the police found no probable cause to charge him.) Is the flood tide of illegal aliens involved in any way? Don't know, don’t wanna know. Maybe the owner of the LA Times, Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong, can assign a crack team of reporters to the story. (You available, Chris?) But, see, there’s no market for honesty. The truth is an Edsel.
"The truth is an Edsel". Wow Josh, what an image! It made me think. What made the Edsel a failure? It was over decorated and unable to bear (from a design and manufacturing point of view) the weight of all its ambitious 'positioning.' I wonder sometimes if decorating the truth to make it more palatable isn't a huge disservice to those who receive it. The unvarnished simple truth is uncomfortable. And I don't like making those around me uncomfortable. Probably something I need to get over.
BBC yesterday had a long story (8-10 minutes -- that's why I like Euro News) about the LA fires. At the end of the story was a hilarious 20 seconds where the anchor dutifully lamented the "this is caused by climate change" mantra. This was what he said:
"These fires in Los Angeles were exactly the sort of event that climate scientists have been predicting for years. Floods that destroyed towns in Spain last year were from climate-change caused excessive rainfall. Meanwhile, droughts in Africa and Asia have been made far worse from climate change."
So... climate change causes fires. It also causes too much rain. It also causes too little rain.
If you had a friend that blamed ALL the woes in their life on a hidden force, you would suspect they were crazy. The fact that the entire ruling class believes such a thing doesn't make it any less crazy.
According to this theory, "Climate Change" would also have to cause "excessively mild" weather where formerly it was more volatile. Where are these places? Here in North Texas we didn't have any major tornadoes last spring, so maybe it's here, and if the "climate" becomes cooler our weather will become more volatile, in order to make the weather in California less volatile. That sounds like no deal to me.
The global temperature climbing by a degree wouldn't just happen to disturb the weather everywhere from some idyllic norm to unconstrained volatility without the entire atmosphere just flying off into space.
We all have an innate capacity for self-deception. But at a certain point you stop banging your own thumb with the hammer because it hurts. Pain provokes change. How much pain does it take to become attuned to the concept that these people have no idea what they’re doing and hate you? I mean besides the frequent overt spectacles of death, incompetence, and destruction in California, while also telling you point blank that they hate you because you’re a functional human outside of their endangered victim group/species list. Maybe some people enjoy the danger of electing people who are trying to punish and kill them. 🤷🏼
"Karen Bass probably isn’t going anywhere, and would probably be replaced by someone worse if she did."
See Chicago for example.
One of the features of all socialist regimes, and as Hitler said, there was very little difference in them, is the intense hatred of their own citizenry. Hitler killed more Germans than Weimar politicians he replaced, Lenin and Stalin killed more Soviet citizens than Hitler, Mao and later communists killed more Chinese than anyone in the last 3k years, and the Kims, over 3 generations, have killed more Koreans than the Chinese of Japanese ever did over centuries. So, while much of what we see in CA, and all of the U.S. and Western countries is the result of stupidity and incompetence, that's part of the effort to reduce populations generally and Western ones specifically and end up with a much smaller world population that is more servile and pliant, hence the mass, government-sponsored invasion from the 3rd world.
So, we all have some very hard work ahead of us in replacing these socialist orcs and fixing the many problems they have created over the past 70 years or so, then accelerated in the last 20 or so.
Danny Huckabee
Also in Mandeville Canyon, “perched on an approximately 8.29 acre promontory with breathtaking park-like grounds,” as described in the real estate listing, is the Norman and Lyn Lear Estate at 1911 Westridge Road. I had the distinct pleasure of having dinner there many years ago when TV writer friend was house sitting while the Lear’s were out of town. For younger readers, Norman Lear was a prolific television producer, writer and director who made his indelible mark on network television with “All in the Family” that aired from 1971-1979.
The web site for the real estate listing includes extensive interior, exterior, and overall site photos. Worth a look for anyone curious about the properties located in Brentwood and Mandeville Canyon.
You can find it here:
https://marylututhill.com/property/the-norman-and-lyn-lear-estate
This is fascinating.
What a beautiful estate. Nice to now understand what’s in some of those canyons . Hard to tell from the helicopter views . The sight lines from the home are extraordinary. Some very historic homes burnt to the ground including the lovely Rand McNally home I think in Altadena. A prime example of Queen Anne architecture. Just a gem that could never be recreated. It’s a horror our minds can’t comprehend as it’s happening
I saw a video of a community that was completely destroyed. It looks like an atom bomb hit the place. The homes were small - it was basically a trailer park - but I could see from the remains that the people did their best to make their modest homes and properties look nice. The owners are not rich, and they have lost everything.
There's a celebrity trailer park in Malibu, with $6 million mobile homes.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-americas-priciest-trailer-park
I wonder if it burned.
It appears so, according to Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank):
“The devastating fires in LA have taken so much from so many this week. The beloved Tahitian Terrace Mobile Home Park in Pacific Palisades, my little slice of heaven, was entirely destroyed when the devastating Palisades Fire rapidly moved through the park on Tuesday,” she wrote in the caption."
https://people.com/barbara-corcoran-reveals-her-mobile-home-burned-down-in-l-a-fires-8772622
This one too:
https://x.com/LaInaMinute/status/1879006080371724342
That bedroom looks like it's the size of my entire first floor.
The Lear’s each had separate bedrooms and each was exceptionally large as you noted. I got the full house tour. The size of the bathrooms and walk-in closets was amazing. Norman Lear was know for his hats, and he had a closet full of them.
Monrovia’s city manager has been posting useful updates on the fire:
https://www.monroviaca.gov/your-government/city-manager-s-office/city-news-highlights
My Mother lives in Monrovia and had no power for 3 days. This is the longest power outage in the 60 years she lived there. My guess the unlimited fire liability scared Edison, since it bankrupted pg&e.
I can’t remember a controlled burn above Monrovia since the 70’s. A controlled burn gets out of control, such as New Mexico, and it gets huge attention. The Biden Administration shut down controlled burns on Federal Land for a while because of that in 2021.
A very insightful article about controlled burns in California from 2020. Nothing has changed since then. Basically 20 million acres in California would need to be controlled burns, and we are doing around 20,000 a year. And the person in charge of a burn may be personally liable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen
Approval for a controlled burn in California takes between 3.6 - 7.2 years:
https://www.newsweek.com/controlled-burns-california-forest-management-los-angeles-fires-2012492
And Karma, the la mayor asked for $49 m in cuts a week before the fires. And supposedly basic maintenance was not being done due to excessive overtime due to lack of personnel / understaffing. So fire hydrants were not tested. My guess the Dei jihad caused retirements. Plus Covid jab firings. Academy was at 50%. But they are at 8% women! And all 3 fire department leaders are Lesbians.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/01/10/new-bass-demanded-49m-in-lafd-cuts-one-week-before-wildfires-n3798671
How is it possible that a government employee has a $750k salary? That's absurd.