Every FAT jackboot in the US, ALL OF THEM, should be fired today.
No excuse for all the fat goin’ on.
Self explanatory, FATASSES can’t do the same work as NON fat asses.
Maybe they can do calisthenics while standing in that soup line.
I hit top speed but I’m still going much too slow. – Stanley/Ezrin
Anne
15 days ago
I wouldn’t know. You see MT went boldly RED again this year, and the locals who have been in control of government agencies for years are not happy. Amazing how things work out. The last several days have been our first real snow days this winter and guess what happened? All of our Montana State Highway Department highway cameras are not functioning!!! OH My what a coincidence. Do you think it has anything to do with the start of the new Republican legislature which begins this week? You see for years and years I have been able to go to the highway cameras online and check highway conditions. Not so right now when those cameras are needed the most–they are not working!
I should make clear that for years this state and all agencies were controlled by the Democrats that is why we have so many left over running our agencies–those are democrats with a big D!
P.S. Is there or will there be a way to edit what we just typed?
On the other hand, if they’re truly not working, your travels can’t be tracked (but those probably DO work) 🙂
But live cameras are better than written traffic reports.
Anne
15 days ago
OK, Ok, I stand corrected both Idaho and Montana seemed to have joined into a US camera site called 511 ??? I know nothing about this except the maps are not nearly as clear. Will see how this all works out in the future. Mea Culpa!
Cross-posted from AmericanDigest with embellishments:
One of Southern California’s four seasons (earthquake, fire, mudslide, drought) just showed up:
The chaparral is on fire just north of Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, and the Santa Ana winds are blowing hard NE to SW, peak wind still to come tonight. The fires have invaded the home areas. This could be very bad, Paradise CA bad. Some of you may know that PacPal is a very tony place in LA. Lots of rich people homes packed in cheek by jowl, surrounded by hillsides too steep to build on. Hillsides covered in chaparral brush.
Calfire has got every air tanker it can muster in the air. Zoom in on the interactive map. It’s scary and tragic and growing fast. Planes don’t fly at night though, so it’s up to the firemen on the ground to hold the lines tonight.
What happened? Actually, what didn’t happen. The LA basin has got diddly squat, zero, nada, nuttin for rain so far this winter, and none is predicted for days and days yet. It hasn’t rained since April. The chaparral is all primed, dried out and ready to go. That’s why all the home insurance companies are pulling out of California, too many losses.
This doesn’t have anything to do with global climate change. It’s just weather. Two years ago SoCal got 300% winter rainfall, last year 100%, this year so far zip. It doesn’t have anything to do with the feckless grifters in Sacraspendo. This is just the California Way: Living on the Fault Line. In SoCal, that means living on bluffs with fantastic sea views surrounded by brush. This is the way of chaparral. Chaparral can survive dry winters and comes right back after fires. People? Maybe not so much.
When the Santa Ana winds blow, all the firebugs in the LA basin get the itch to see the world burn. Raymond Chandler said it best in the famous opening to his novella “Red Wind”:
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks.”
Those people in PacPal? They’re like 100% progressives. This fire will be T’s fault. But still, nobody wants to see this happen to anyone: a night of terror and flames.
John A. Fleming
14 days ago
OMG. The Palisades fire has exploded east, west and south. It’s gone west to Malibu, and reached the northern boundary of Santa Monica, which is high-density neighborhoods. There are no natural barriers for miles, just block after block of apartments and homes, and the winds pushing the flames south. It’s going to blow hard until Wednesday mid-day.
Gear up folks, this may turn into a mega-disaster, a super-mega-ultra humanitarian nightmare. People are going to have to help each other, the State, County and City won’t.
I’m not the only one to speak of this, but the fire in the Los Angeles area is just horrible. From my rudimentary skills looking at Google Maps, the dark area east of the fire appears to be the Rancho Park Golf Course and I believe that the bright east-west line to the north is the 101 freeway. Who knows when this picture was taken (last night?), or what the fire looks like now, but by my very rough estimate, this looks like 78 square miles engulfed.
Which brings me to this: Do you have a plan to evacuate your home in the next 5 minutes? Do you have your important documents and transportable valuables in a place where you can grab them and go? Do you keep at least half a tank of gas in your vehicle?
Every emergency will be different and I don’t pretend to know the entire list of questions that you’d want to ask, much less what my answers would be. But this does make me think.
I can’t imagine what could happen that would make me leave this place in 5 mins.
If it was a life or death scenario it might take longer than that to get the (2) cat carriers out and loaded up.
My big idea is to live in such a way, with all things considered, so that we don’t have to leave in 5 mins.
I’m pretty secure in believing my wife and I and all the most important things to start a new life elsewhere can be assembled in our 2 vehicles and both of us on the road in half an hour or so.
I’ve been thinking about this very topic for a very long time and it is the reason for us spending a 1/3 of a million dollars 19 years ago to dramatically expand our comfort zone.
My only regret in this regard is that we didn’t locate ourselves in nearly an isolated place as I’d like. The biggest source of problems are other people.
It doesn’t have to be 5 minutes. I just offered a thinking exercise, and I think that thinking outside the box every now and then is useful.
But here’s a reason for 5 minutes….
This is a bit convoluted, but it involved my brother’s brother-in-law, who I’ll call “Mike”. Anyway, like me, Mike was an airline pilot (although at a different airline than mine, and I never met him) and he had always dreamed of building his own house. When most people have that dream, they hire someone like you to design their home, then hire a contractor, who then hires subcontractors, and then these subcontractors hire their labor. Mike wanted to do as much of his dream home as possible. So to do this, he learned as much as he could about building design, codes, etc., and then about six months prior to the start of their home, he started working out at a gym to become physically able to do all this work.
And then he built his home. By all accounts, it was beautiful.
One day however, he smelled a faint smell of smoke in the home. He couldn’t quite localize it, but none-the-less, he called the fire department out. They too couldn’t find anything, and so after sticking around for a respectable time they went back to their other duties. About 2 hours later, the smoke started up again, and Mike decided to investigate further by cutting into the floor between the main floor and the basement.
And that was all it took. Whoooosh. That extra air to the smoldering (probably electrical) fire took off, and in no time, the house was gone.
They got out with their lives and their pets, but not much else. The lesson that was passed to me via my brother was to take pictures….lots of pictures. At every opportunity, you should take pictures and send them to family and friends. [This was before social media and cloud storage, which today can be the repository of your pictures.] When your house burns down and every memory you’ve had is gone, you might be able to restore some of these memories back from others who have kept them.
You might be lucky to get your 5 minutes.
We’ve thought about the whole “Bug Out” idea for some time, and have decided that we’re going to Bug In instead. Age and a couple of infirmaties make me think that travelling isn’t our best choice in all but the most dire of circumstances.
But I am not so sure of myself to think that I will have accurately predicted just how The Apocolypse will present itself. Murphy will come with the Apocolypse and will stomp on whatever plans I might have made.
I’ve got one of those expandable accordian files in my gun safe which, if I have to and if I have the time, I intend to grab on my way out the door. It has most of what I think are the important documents on which I could rebuild a life. But Gerard’s escape from Paradise is a lesson too. You might not have the time to grab everything important, and may consider yourself lucky to have escaped with your life at all.
BTW, we’ve got both a dog and a cat and it’ll break my wife’s heart, but if we have to leave and the cat is hiding somewhere, we’re gonna have to leave.
Down N Durty
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Haul You Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uijrmGr_yA&list=RD9uijrmGr_yA&start_radio=1
They Killed Him
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See the video.
Every FAT jackboot in the US, ALL OF THEM, should be fired today.
No excuse for all the fat goin’ on.
Self explanatory, FATASSES can’t do the same work as NON fat asses.
Maybe they can do calisthenics while standing in that soup line.
https://ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/robert-brooks
I hit top speed but I’m still going much too slow. – Stanley/Ezrin
I wouldn’t know. You see MT went boldly RED again this year, and the locals who have been in control of government agencies for years are not happy. Amazing how things work out. The last several days have been our first real snow days this winter and guess what happened? All of our Montana State Highway Department highway cameras are not functioning!!! OH My what a coincidence. Do you think it has anything to do with the start of the new Republican legislature which begins this week? You see for years and years I have been able to go to the highway cameras online and check highway conditions. Not so right now when those cameras are needed the most–they are not working!
I should make clear that for years this state and all agencies were controlled by the Democrats that is why we have so many left over running our agencies–those are democrats with a big D!
P.S. Is there or will there be a way to edit what we just typed?
I thought you could. I’ll look into it.
On the other hand, if they’re truly not working, your travels can’t be tracked (but those probably DO work) 🙂
But live cameras are better than written traffic reports.
OK, Ok, I stand corrected both Idaho and Montana seemed to have joined into a US camera site called 511 ??? I know nothing about this except the maps are not nearly as clear. Will see how this all works out in the future. Mea Culpa!
Here’s the 511 site for Idaho
https://511.idaho.gov/#:Alerts
Cross-posted from AmericanDigest with embellishments:
One of Southern California’s four seasons (earthquake, fire, mudslide, drought) just showed up:
The chaparral is on fire just north of Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, and the Santa Ana winds are blowing hard NE to SW, peak wind still to come tonight. The fires have invaded the home areas. This could be very bad, Paradise CA bad. Some of you may know that PacPal is a very tony place in LA. Lots of rich people homes packed in cheek by jowl, surrounded by hillsides too steep to build on. Hillsides covered in chaparral brush.
Calfire has got every air tanker it can muster in the air. Zoom in on the interactive map. It’s scary and tragic and growing fast. Planes don’t fly at night though, so it’s up to the firemen on the ground to hold the lines tonight.
What happened? Actually, what didn’t happen. The LA basin has got diddly squat, zero, nada, nuttin for rain so far this winter, and none is predicted for days and days yet. It hasn’t rained since April. The chaparral is all primed, dried out and ready to go. That’s why all the home insurance companies are pulling out of California, too many losses.
This doesn’t have anything to do with global climate change. It’s just weather. Two years ago SoCal got 300% winter rainfall, last year 100%, this year so far zip. It doesn’t have anything to do with the feckless grifters in Sacraspendo. This is just the California Way: Living on the Fault Line. In SoCal, that means living on bluffs with fantastic sea views surrounded by brush. This is the way of chaparral. Chaparral can survive dry winters and comes right back after fires. People? Maybe not so much.
When the Santa Ana winds blow, all the firebugs in the LA basin get the itch to see the world burn. Raymond Chandler said it best in the famous opening to his novella “Red Wind”:
Those people in PacPal? They’re like 100% progressives. This fire will be T’s fault. But still, nobody wants to see this happen to anyone: a night of terror and flames.
OMG. The Palisades fire has exploded east, west and south. It’s gone west to Malibu, and reached the northern boundary of Santa Monica, which is high-density neighborhoods. There are no natural barriers for miles, just block after block of apartments and homes, and the winds pushing the flames south. It’s going to blow hard until Wednesday mid-day.
Gear up folks, this may turn into a mega-disaster, a super-mega-ultra humanitarian nightmare. People are going to have to help each other, the State, County and City won’t.
A picture I grabbed from X, with a hat tip (do we still say that?) to Citizens Free Press…..
https://x.com/DanHellie/status/1876863865612329127
I’m not the only one to speak of this, but the fire in the Los Angeles area is just horrible. From my rudimentary skills looking at Google Maps, the dark area east of the fire appears to be the Rancho Park Golf Course and I believe that the bright east-west line to the north is the 101 freeway. Who knows when this picture was taken (last night?), or what the fire looks like now, but by my very rough estimate, this looks like 78 square miles engulfed.
Which brings me to this: Do you have a plan to evacuate your home in the next 5 minutes? Do you have your important documents and transportable valuables in a place where you can grab them and go? Do you keep at least half a tank of gas in your vehicle?
Every emergency will be different and I don’t pretend to know the entire list of questions that you’d want to ask, much less what my answers would be. But this does make me think.
Why 5 minutes?
THAT should make you think.
I can’t imagine what could happen that would make me leave this place in 5 mins.
If it was a life or death scenario it might take longer than that to get the (2) cat carriers out and loaded up.
My big idea is to live in such a way, with all things considered, so that we don’t have to leave in 5 mins.
I’m pretty secure in believing my wife and I and all the most important things to start a new life elsewhere can be assembled in our 2 vehicles and both of us on the road in half an hour or so.
I’ve been thinking about this very topic for a very long time and it is the reason for us spending a 1/3 of a million dollars 19 years ago to dramatically expand our comfort zone.
My only regret in this regard is that we didn’t locate ourselves in nearly an isolated place as I’d like. The biggest source of problems are other people.
It doesn’t have to be 5 minutes. I just offered a thinking exercise, and I think that thinking outside the box every now and then is useful.
But here’s a reason for 5 minutes….
This is a bit convoluted, but it involved my brother’s brother-in-law, who I’ll call “Mike”. Anyway, like me, Mike was an airline pilot (although at a different airline than mine, and I never met him) and he had always dreamed of building his own house. When most people have that dream, they hire someone like you to design their home, then hire a contractor, who then hires subcontractors, and then these subcontractors hire their labor. Mike wanted to do as much of his dream home as possible. So to do this, he learned as much as he could about building design, codes, etc., and then about six months prior to the start of their home, he started working out at a gym to become physically able to do all this work.
And then he built his home. By all accounts, it was beautiful.
One day however, he smelled a faint smell of smoke in the home. He couldn’t quite localize it, but none-the-less, he called the fire department out. They too couldn’t find anything, and so after sticking around for a respectable time they went back to their other duties. About 2 hours later, the smoke started up again, and Mike decided to investigate further by cutting into the floor between the main floor and the basement.
And that was all it took. Whoooosh. That extra air to the smoldering (probably electrical) fire took off, and in no time, the house was gone.
They got out with their lives and their pets, but not much else. The lesson that was passed to me via my brother was to take pictures….lots of pictures. At every opportunity, you should take pictures and send them to family and friends. [This was before social media and cloud storage, which today can be the repository of your pictures.] When your house burns down and every memory you’ve had is gone, you might be able to restore some of these memories back from others who have kept them.
You might be lucky to get your 5 minutes.
We’ve thought about the whole “Bug Out” idea for some time, and have decided that we’re going to Bug In instead. Age and a couple of infirmaties make me think that travelling isn’t our best choice in all but the most dire of circumstances.
But I am not so sure of myself to think that I will have accurately predicted just how The Apocolypse will present itself. Murphy will come with the Apocolypse and will stomp on whatever plans I might have made.
I’ve got one of those expandable accordian files in my gun safe which, if I have to and if I have the time, I intend to grab on my way out the door. It has most of what I think are the important documents on which I could rebuild a life. But Gerard’s escape from Paradise is a lesson too. You might not have the time to grab everything important, and may consider yourself lucky to have escaped with your life at all.
BTW, we’ve got both a dog and a cat and it’ll break my wife’s heart, but if we have to leave and the cat is hiding somewhere, we’re gonna have to leave.