Good morning one and all to another to another glorious day!
Trump reportedly plans to unleash around 100 executive orders after taking office
‘We Are Ready To Talk’: Greenland Reportedly Communicating With Trump Team About Cooperating With US
DOJ Confirms Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Resigned
24 Dead as Firefighters Race to Contain Los Angeles Wildfires; High Winds Expected to Return
Report: L.A. Water Chief Knew Fire Hydrants Not Working, Reservoir Offline
Animal Rescuers Care for LA Fire Evacuees; Dogs, Donkeys, Horses
Concealed carry reciprocity, backed by Trump, included in U.S. House proposal
Climate Scientist Who Wanted To ‘Ruin’ National Review Ordered To Make Out A Check To Outlet
Kohl’s to Close 27 ‘Underperforming’ Stores by April, CEO Stepping Down
Judge halts attempt to retrieve Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly $750 million from landfill
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I want Blue Origin to succeed because competition is good.
Seems our ‘news’ wants them to succeed so they can poke Elon in the eye
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/science/new-glenn-blue-origin-rocket-launch-attempt/index.html
It was scrubbed. Hopefully next window they light that candle.
Second scrub since they were supposed to be launched Sunday?
Friday was the original target, but the scrub was due to rough seas for the first stage recovery.
Kohl’s to Close 27 ‘Underperforming’ Stores by April, CEO Stepping Down – Trump’s America …
I am glad I have not had to see the annoying commercials about Kohls cash for a while. Hope they don’t come back.
I stopped going there after the BLM merch kerfuffle.
I stopped going there after my divorce when I was not guilted to go there by someone that liked to just spend money on crap.
Ever since Staples started accepting Amazon returns, there is no reason to go to Kohl’s.
No reason to go to Staples either, but at least in my town it’s easier to get to.
Staples is usually “damnit, I am out of [paper, ink, home business need of the day] and need it now.”
Plus, they have a decent parking lot, even in Brooklyn.
There’s nothing to buy at Staples but gift cards.
I can’t f*cking stand Kohl’s. I have hated them since 2001. Let it be known. The reason my hate goes back to 2001 is that was when the heir was born and I was given a lot of gift cards to spend there for baby stuff. 1 no one knows their actual prices for things 2. they are incredibly hard on prosecuting shoplifters! (I had a court appointed contract in the suburbs for a long time. Every new month, new small stack of cases, which almost always included a retail fraud from Kohl’s among the DV and the OUI). I don’t support shoplifting – don’t get me wrong. I just hate defending retail fraud.
Judge halts attempt to retrieve Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly $750 million from landfill – but would the memory have survived all those years in a landfil?
That was a great scene in Silicon Valley. “No a thumb drive! Not a thumb!”
If it was midget vs. donkey pr0n they would have already found it.
Climate Scientist Who Wanted To ‘Ruin’ National Review Ordered To Make Out A Check To Outlet – he should now argue that National Review is responsible for the L.A. fires…. worth a shot.
I would not be surprised we find out the Biden team gave him the money to pay the fine. After all, that is their most lucrative racket these days…
Mann is a 100% piece of shit. For me he personifies the AGW scam.
I opened the article hoping it was him who had to stroke the check. I was not disappointed.
For some reason, I thought the song would be this:
https://youtu.be/Z6qvbycZXKI?si=7cdA_P0-e4__-QFv
But, maybe that had already been played
Both are good tunes.
“Report: L.A. Water Chief Knew Fire Hydrants Not Working, Reservoir Offline”
Incompetence or malicious?
Let’s ask Spud.
The whole Greenland thing.
It reminds me of the time in high school when I asked out this girl I liked, fully expecting her to say, “No”, and was so speechless when she agreed that she had time to rethink and declined, after all.
The article is basically saying Greenland is not for sale but they will consider letting the US defend it. So sounds like the same thing, you can take this girl out and buy her a nice dinner but she isn’t going to sleep with you or see you again after the one date.
I would have thought they wouldn’t want to be a protectorate of the fascist regime about to be sworn into office. Guess that’s been a bit overhyped.
“Trump reportedly plans to unleash around 100 executive orders after taking office”
How many of those are just to countermand executive orders passed by the Obama people that have been running the country into the ground, to cause the country and the deplorable Americans they hate, more harm on their way out?
Seems like you could just do one order for that. We have any number of orders that are either dead letters due to the passage of time or badly outdated (like declarations of emergency from decades ago) that should be revoked as well.
Yep. EO #102103201 “I hereby revoke EOs 1-102103200”.
This.
My pitiful understanding of the constitution is that the president is the CIC of the military and signs bills into law. That is the extent of the office’s power.
I think we have gone a bit off of the rails.
Judge: I hereby block repealing these EOs because FYTW.
Oh, I expect a lot of that Rat. They should tell those judges they hold no fucking sway anymore for their abuse of the legal system as a foil against political enemies of the left.
one of them should be give Pie a billion cash.
Unfortunately, it will be Kohl’s cash.
*golf clap*
I think I heard someone on the teevee say that the Pallisades reservoir has been empty for two years for repairs. They all knew it apparently.
We know how to mitigate fire risk. We know how to control fires after they start. California refuses to do that. Instead they spend money on marxist bullshit.
Fuck ’em.
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
(We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn)
(Burn, motherfucker, burn)
They are also telling lies about how drought is responsible for the fires, when they have had record snow and/or rain in recent years. In fact, there was a warning last year that all the rain has increased the fuel load.
All of their excuses sound like an 8 year old trying to lie their way out of some obvious ‘crime’ they have committed. None of them hold water….so to speak.
Every time I hear an ad for Fast Growing Trees I shake my head and wonder how many know these are also fast Dying trees and probably not native to their area. Not being a resident of the western US I never even considered the fire risk.
Apparently non-native eucalyptus is popular with LA homes. How that contributes to fire fuel I don’t know.
Fast growing trees also take a lot of water, so there is that as well.
How that contributes to fire fuel I don’t know.
They tend to be drought resistant, but they are filled with eucalyptus oil (worse than pine tar).
Yup… eucalyptus are fire bombs as I understand things. Part of why brush fires in the South Bay area can get out of hand — they seem to love them there for some reason.
JI: Correct. See: wildfire danger in the land down under.
To hell with eucalyptus, palms, and pines.
SDF: A stupid early 20C belief that the lumber would make good railroad ties, IIRC. (Spoiler: did not.)
It has been exceptionally dry this season in LA, something like 4% of average precipitation for this time of year. That does tend to dry out the brush, which as you mentioned is pretty abundant due to the rain in recent years.
–“Apparently non-native eucalyptus is popular with LA homes.”–
My understanding re: eucalyptus is that they were originally brought in in large numbers to plant as windbreaks.
Everyone in the CA bureaucratic and political machine is scrambling to blame anyone but themselves and their complete control by a cabal of environmental and marxist scumbags. Here you have that ginger lying cunte that eventually felt she had been abused for long enough a period of time “circling back” to defend the Obama 3.0 admins criminality saying it was Musk and Trump’s fault somehow. And after Corrolla pointed out the people that are affected now look at a a decade or more of permitting hellscape to even have a chance to rebuild, that douchebag Newsom admits that whole government racket exists because they want to stomp their boots on people’s faces…
Fuck these evil dirtbags.
It is a government racket. an industry of its own. I wonder how much their cities, counties and states take in in fees every year. It is about looting the public.
My town is now trying to delude its tax payers that they are going to install some horribly expensive traffic cameras on just this one street to stop the speeding there and provide more safety. It’s a massive freaking racket sold by democrats that just on the election in suspicious circumstances, intended to give them extra income to cover the massive deficit the town was left with after a democrat leader managed to delude a bunch of people into supporting a ludicrous plan to add sewer systems (he needed it to be able to make his expensive lake side property legal to sell again because of septic leakage) that left us $50 million in the red. Of course, said democrat, as soon as his place had the sewage, sold the home, and then bailed the state, leaving the rest of us without sewage services and a massive debt. They are running a huge propaganda campaign to incentivize idiots into going along with this new racket. It’s all about the money, and it has absolutely got nothing to do with safety (and especially traffic safety).
You can bet your ass this will not be the only cameras they will install, and it is all about them stealing more money.
Fuck traffic cameras. They’re absolutely using that one as the camel’s nose under the tent. Then they’ll declare that one such a roaring success that they’ll roll them out big time. Thankfully, TX outlawed them several years ago.
DrOtto, during this groping mayor’s tenure the RLCs were withdrawn. I’d take a grope for the city. Rear-ending was a big problem before.
oops, link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Filner
“FOX11’s Gigi Graciette says that she’s been told by firefighters how often they’re not allowed to admit on camera that a fire was caused by homeless camps because it’s a controversial topic the city government doesn’t want discussed”
https://x.com/sunnyright/status/1877908559486222617
I believe it. Southern CA is a giant homeless campsite where they do whatever they want without consequences.
Those armies of homeless people help California keep those 54 seats they have apportioned in the house, brah…
I believe we still don’t know here in the tri-state area on what caused the fire at a playground late at night where homeless hangout that burned and damaged one of the bridges over the Ohio River.
Just drag it out and the news becomes incurious over time and thus the people become incurious.
Homeless people are residents. Just sayin’.
OBE, re: the Ohio River bridge fire, this info may be dated, but there have been arrests.
Good to know. I couldn’t find any information! Thanks! From the looks of it, just scum of the earth normal criminals/meth heads (probably)
If you didn’t get a chance to read Spuds piece on Saturday, it’s worth your time.
An extra bit of info given Spud was pretty negative on the idea. Looks like SF after the 1906 quake/fires did what I thought LA would have done — have a separate water loop just for fires / can run seawater (so you don’t mess up the drinking water or get low pressure due to burned homes leaking pipes). Also interesting on the “fire boat pumping to relay trucks” which is what I would have expected down near the PCH (since that’s beachfront at least).
No argument with Spud that with the mega winds, once it got going it was going to be really, really hard to stop (especially with everything grounded) due to scrub brush and houses piled on each other in canyons that funnel the wind, but closer to the beach — one would think this would have been done as a plan and all. But it is only LA taxpayer money — there were more important things over the last 50 years like free drug needles and whatnot.
Reparations. That is what is important.
The climate, topography and vegetation in the LA area is well known to be a perfect setup for frequent and massive wildfires. For decades, California government at every level had done virtually nothing to limit damage from such fires.
How do I know that? Read the news from Los Angeles. Incompetence is the problem.
A New Kind of Astronaut
https://lawliberty.org/a-new-kind-of-astronaut/?mc_cid=0264d66d16&mc_eid=a4629723f8
“But is this a good way for billionaires to be using their wealth? Is it preferable to investing their wealth here on Earth in so-called “noble causes”? The critique of private space companies by many on the left is frequently that those billions could be better spent helping the poor or other philanthropic goals. Of course, the Hayekian answer to that question is we don’t know. Predictions about outcomes based on investments are speculative, but there are two points in favor of the space billionaires overusing public money in the pursuit of opening up space. First, the billionaires have track records building successful institutions and seeing market opportunities. That doesn’t mean private sector investment is always right—take the Segway as a good example of that. But they have done it before.”
Maybe I am an unfeeling bastard, but I do not thing the priorities of the world should revolve around helping the poor. You should help the poor if they are deserving, maybe if they are not, but this should not be the number one focus of society.
But is this a good way for billionaires to be using their wealth?
Translation: the writer is a greedy and jealous little shit who wants to use the state to bully people into using their money in the way he sees fit.
that is not the opinion of the writer he just presents the lefty view on it
My take is that anyone that starts questioning how anybody uses their own money (that means anyone that worked and earned said money, but not any government or government entity, for the dumbasses) is a fucking jealous and idiotic asshat in need of a serious ass kicking.
If someone decides to fill a pool of coins from his own money to then go swim in it, or uses big bills to light their cigars, it is no fucking body’s business.
Complain about how inept and criminal assholes in government piss away the money they steal from us all you want. That’s legit.
My take is that anyone that starts questioning how anybody uses their own money – meh I think one can have an opinion on it as long as you dont bring the government in. I personally think it is better for private space companies than the same money being donated to some shitty charities on earth. But I am not telling Musk and Bezos how to spend, just my opinion.
The only advice I have for Bezos and Musk is to tap ass much ass as a toilet seat. They can afford it.
I am not sure I would advise that Alex. It is more expensive than one thinks both in money and tears.
I came to that realization years ago when I heard people complaining about how much other people spend on their pets. I realized most people can be criticized for spending “too much” on anything from their house, to cars, to vacations. But that’s their own business, and if it makes them happy, so be it.
Everyone should spend their wealth on what I want.
I thought the Hayekian answer was it’s none of their fucking business.
I’m also not sure how we got from “using their wealth” to “overusing public money”.
‘We’ are all in this together RC.
Entertaining re: billionaire astronauts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94n14eTfUQ
“Other people should spend their money the way I tell them to.”
How often do people saying that actually think about what they are saying?
I’ll give him some small credit for that, “…so-called,” in front of ‘noble causes’…
Has anyone pointed out these billionaires are hiring thousands of people with good paying jobs in these endeavors? Maybe keeping people from becoming poor in the first place has some nobility to it.
Huh? You mean they don’t keep their exploitative profits in huge cash vaults where they swim in it like Scrooge McDuck?
How the hell am I supposed to hate them if their money is invested in job-creating businesses??
They could give all their wealth away and those poor would have $10 more in their pocket and there would be no more billionaires.
…those poor would have
$10more lint in their pocketI’ve always wanted to retire to Greenland. I mean an island with green in the name it’s got to be pretty nice, right? I bet it’s a paradise.
50k out of 8 billion people seems to think so.
‘Green’ always means good. Just look at the ‘Green’ New Deal.
Ryanair wants a limit of two alcoholic drinks at airports, as the airline released further details of legal action to recover €15,000 (£12,615) in costs related to a diversion it said was caused by an allegedly disruptive passenger.
The airline has called on European authorities to bring in new curbs on alcohol to stop passengers getting drunk before boarding a plane.
Airlines reserve the right to deny boarding to anyone they deem to be excessively intoxicated. However, Ryanair now wants airports to require boarding passes be shown when passengers purchase alcohol at airport bars and pubs as they are in duty free shops.
“We fail to understand why passengers at airports are not limited to two alcoholic drinks (using their boarding pass in exactly the same way they limit duty free sales), as this would result in safer and better passenger behaviour on board aircraft, and a safer travel experience for passengers and crews all over Europe,”the airline said on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/ryanair-calls-for-limit-of-two-alcoholic-drinks-at-airports-in-europe
that will totes improve the airport experience.
Why do airlines hate ornery people that get drunk at airport because of annoying TSA shit, and then act up, huh?
It’s a human right to be an asshole on a plane!!!
I can have a few drinks and not be an asshole myself. Then again I was never drunk on a plane.
We should tell people that get drunk and then fly to just concentrate on pleasuring themselves and leave the other passengers alone.
“Sorry, mate. Your ID says you are an angry drunk. No more for you.”
I can have a few drinks and not be an asshole myself.
Assumes facts not in evidence….
annoying TSA shit
Europe, not US.
High five, Ted.
I hope Pie realizes I would have made the same joke about the rest of you fine lot here.
Most of us wouldn’t have felt the need to say so, whether accurate or not.
Isn’t Ryanair the Spirit Airlines of Europe? Maybe, and I’m just spitballing here, it’s the clientele as much as the hooch?
Other way around, but yes. Cheapest possible flights and the clientele to go with it.
RyanAir is also an Irish airline, so, this kinda comes with the territory.
Yes, but only for a wedding.
Yeah. Is anyone asking why airline passengers are drinking in the first place.
I flew this weekend and I feel like I needed a drink. On the way out of town I got the TSA trainee, and he kept forgetting to do things. The trainer kept saying “what do you do next?” for 10 minutes.
Emerging problem once two-drink limit takes effect: Passengers gulping down booze in the airport parking lot before entering the airport.
Maybe if officials were honest in their fuckups there wouldn’t be so many ‘wild’ conspiracies.
Behold this masterpiece of conspiracy theorist masking as journalism
I thought you would link this idiotic take by your usual cabal of apologists and deniers defending lefty scumbags here, and thus added it since it is relevant.
The left is really fucking angry they have lost and keep losing more ground on the monopoly on the narrative.
The desperation to keep Newsom from becoming permanently disqualified from the country’s top job is palpable, but it should not only fail, but make this asshole a pariah.
Ha! They cannot put that fire out any more than they can the one in California.
Gov. Josh Shapiro is probably licking his chops seeing Newsome in difficulty. One less rival in 2028.
Of course, Shapiro sucks too, having failed to assail Biden for not approving the Nippon/U.S. Steel deal that will now cost thousands of Pennsylvania steel workers their jobs.
Nice takedown.
I am astounded to see that in the wild.
That guy needs a promotion…
That would be wildly illegal in High School wrestling. But quite impressive.
In contrast to the European Union, based on technocracy and central control, let’s build an Anglosphere Union based on liberty, open markets, secure property, free contract and the rule of law.
https://x.com/DanielJHannan/status/1878567500851347594
where are these fabulos anglo countries with open markets, secure property, free contract and the rule of law to build an Union with?
They are in 1900.
That would go about as well as having a constitutional convention in the US in 2024.
You cant shoot your way out of socialism any more than you can argue your way out of it. Just when you think you have done so a new generation of morons come of age with unicorns and rainbows in their soft heads and here we go again.
So, is it mean to chuckle about the fact BLM marxist leader Patrice Cullors had 2 of the 3 mansions she used the BLM racket money to buy for herself burn down in LA?
I’m just hoping they were uninsured.
I’m unclear on how your $5 million house won’t be $10 mil after the new regulations are put in place. Who cares if you have insurance?
I really can’t wait for the first Hollywood big wig to start whining about how they can’t rebuild their house until a 3-year environmental impact study is done.
Is it wrong to feel that way? Probably.
There were a lot of middle class neighborhoods, even trailer parks, that are gone. Those are the people I feel sorry for.
True. They will never be allowed (or afford) to rebuild.
I feel sorry for anyone who loses their home in a fire – being wealthy doesn’t make it suck less.
RJ: It is wrong NOT to feel that way.
Newsom already announced they are waiving a lot of environmental and other permitting requirements.
Which are totally necessary, unless they aren’t.
Here’s my tiny violin, and Hearts and Flowers.
🎻 🖤🖤🥀🥀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXOr8GvKcQ
I thought she had bought a house in Topanga Canyon. That place was not burned down.
Give it time?
Yes, that is mean because she’s going to have to drum up some more riots to get that gravy train back on the tracks.
I bet the donations via ActBlue will cover her.
Trump should order all government offices to reopen to in person interactions with the public.
Well, any offices that pass my “Explain to me clearly the precise ways that your agency improves the security of or free flow of commerce in the United States, with supporting evidence for your assertions” interview process.
Why do people live here? Its colder than penguin snot on an iceberg. -14 degF.
Why do you live there?
He collects Penguin snot?
For the job. I have a standing offer in Wichita, but its in Wichita.
I did get my tractor started yesterday and plowed the snow. It turns out, like me, she likes a snort of the strong stuff. One shot of ether and she started the second try.
Still talking about the tractor, pistoffnick?
-20 this morning, PONick, but it’s a dry cold
Hope you all had a Glibtastic weekend. I played some hockey in Denver, and actually won a few games for a change. I got to see our own Tundra a few times and it was great to see him as always. He hit it off with my team (no surprise if you know Tundra) and I think they like him more than they like me now. I also see why he moved to Denver. The ladies there look much better in spandex than they do in the Midwest.
Haha! It was great to see you and watch some terrific hockey. The guys are great.
One thing I really dig about the hockey community is the culture. No matter where you go, the people are hilarious and fun.
That last game was crazy. The first goalie was our newer kid. He made some amazing saves but he has an ongoing shoulder issue that acted up. Then our coach put on the glove and blocker and only let in one. (That was technically against the rules, the goalie is not supposed to be able bodied). Meanwhile our backup is almost 70 and can’t raise his glove above his shoulder, and it took forever for him to get suited up. He’s in way over his head at this level.
The goalie at the other end played one of his best games.
I’ve never played a game where we went through three goalies.
Damn. I miss all the fun stuff.
You need to send me your contact info. Raven Nation will be back in town shortly.
minnetundra at geemail
🙂
I cut my ear while shaving this morning. Half an hour later, while driving to work, I finally noticed the blood dripping down my face onto my shirt collar.
I also forgot my egg biscuits in the microwave. I was really looking forward to eating those.
Happy Monday!
Dramatic swipe with a straight razor?
Yup.
You aren’t going to convince people you are a crazy anarchist without a crazy beard to go with it.
Apply peroxide as soon as possible; wash in cold.
Is Heloise of Hints fame still around?
Yes, at least in Mom’s cookbooks.
Probably too late for this shirt though. I guess I needed some new shirts anyhow.
If anybody asks about the blood at work, just tell them some asshole cut you off in traffic, but it’s been taken care of.
Just look them in the eyes and say “I didn’t think the old man would bleed so much.”
Change your name to EvilVanGogh.
Interesting times.
Now they just need to lard it up!
LA Times headline bemoaning “erasure of heritage” in the fires. I thought they wanted to erase history and blot out the memory of the white man’s rape of paradise.
I can’t keep up.
I feel sorry for anyone who loses their home in a fire – being wealthy doesn’t make it suck less.
Absolutely true, but having the option of relocating to your backup house in Sun Valley or Telluride helps to soften the blow.
Most, not all, of those people are responsible for the state being what it is.
Won’t someone please think of the celebrities!?!
Complaint about modern life incoming: Why is it so goddamn hard to find individual single-serving tubs of full-fat, whole milk unflavored yogurt? My local Safeway has literally thirty feet of shelf space dedicated entirely to yogurt, and all of it is fat-free, fruit-flavored, Greek/Bulgarian/Icelandic, and full of sugar.
I ended up finding some fancy probiotic whole-milk stuff from some north Texas hippie commune, which of course costs a grip and only comes in 16oz. containers, so I’m gonna end up throwing away half of it. This makes me sad.
Bitchfest over.
I second that. Really, what the hell? Because of this my wife makes our yogurt.
*Did you catch my rant on French onion dip a few days back? I am certain it was a mislabel of a container of cake icing. Who puts sugar in French onion dip?
That is truly disgusting.
Do you have a Sprouts there? They always have a bunch of full fat dairy options.
Closest Sprouts to me is about eight miles away, which might be too far for weekly shopping. I’ll definitely check it out if I’m in the area.
I do the Chobani zero sugar stuff, but they don’t have an unflavored option.
*shrug*
Yeah, I’m using this to make dressing for tuna and chicken salads. I don’t think that strawberry-bananna would be a welcome addition to the flavor profile. Maybe mandarin orange, for my world-famous curried chicken summer salad?
I’m just proud that it was TEXAS hippies!
North Texas – probably exiles from Oklahoma.
North Texas has plenty of native hippies. Oklahoma has very few, that has been and continues to be the most conservative/republican state in the nation.
Fage!
That’s not nice. 😀
I believe the proper term is homosexual.
Pronounced Fah-ye, so the wrappers tell me.
🤷🏻♀️
I got used to pronouncing pho like “feu”, so…
When in Phuket, do as the…
We have a similar situation here in northern DE at our local Shop-Rite. Finding the fat-free unflavored yogurt my wife prefers is very hit or mis. But plenty of fruit-flavored or fruity yogurt.
Some news on the giant Romanian election protest:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/huge-protests-romanians-rail-against-do-over-election-targeting-populist-nato-skeptic
I am genuinely surprised the Dems here aren’t doing a do-over. I strongly suspect that the second amendment is the only. reason they are not.
This isn’t all that new, when the Dutch and Irish ran EU plebiscites that failed, they just were told to vote again – the right way this time.
Re-call Brexit! Surely they didn’t mean it…
Thank dog or Maggie that they didn’t surrender the pound.
Stunning insight
Gavin Newsom is scheduled to ease building restrictions for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires – part of a reconstruction effort that he said on Sunday would need a California version of the Marshall Plan, the US-led effort to rebuild western Europe after the second world war.
The California governor ordered the state’s tough environmental laws and permitting requirements to be suspended to help wildfire victims rebuild their homes and businesses, with costs so far placed at $135bn to $150bn over 10 years, according to AccuWeather.
“I find that strict compliance with various statutes and regulations specified in this Order would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of these fires and windstorm conditions,” Newsom wrote in the executive order.
“California leads the nation in environmental stewardship. I’m not going to give that up,” he later told NBC’s Meet the Press. “But one thing I won’t give into is delay. Delay is denial for people: lives, traditions, places torn apart, torn asunder.”
The building code suspensions apply only to properties and facilities in “substantially the same location” as before the fires, and whose height and footprint do not exceed 110% of their original size, the order says.
No shit. Shirley?
He’s really tearing up the rule book. Don’t worry. Earthjustice will fight tooth and nail in the courts to prevent this reckless disregard for the environmental consequences of convenience.
It’s gonna be like communism – “This is fun! Let’s do it again!”
He’s not tearing it up, just “easing” it. Probably for selected contractors.
Also, why would anyone cite Accuweather as a source for property values? I see a citation like that and I assume nothing in the publication is valid.
And for the elites that want to rebuild on their property. Everyone elsewhere or when the news camera lights get turned off, can go pound sand.
And later the elites will pull out their pocketbooks for Newsome for President because he had their backs and did right by them.
When do the property tax bills go out? I assume an owner can claim the property is no longer “improved.”
I’m a little unclear on why environmental protections are absolutely necessary for small-scale building and improvement projects, but not necessary at all for large-scale ones.
You aren’t asking for logic in environmental laws or regulations are you?
Newsom also called for a California version of the Marshall Plan. “We already have a team looking at reimagining LA 2.0,” he said, “and we are making sure everyone’s included, not just the folks on the coast, people here that were ravaged by this disaster.”
We’ll rebuild it from the top down, and fix all the screwups of wild west free market sprawl. No one will escape our control.
LA 2.0 will be only for elites. No room for proles.
They finally get to stroke their 15 minute city boner.
Which is weird because its not log LA proper burnt to the ground.
Pods. It’s going to be pods, isn’t it? Krushchevkas?
Uh-oh. You can’t have LA 2.0 without telling a bunch of people they won’t be allowed to replace what they lost.
Wait- yogurt which tastes like candy isn’t health food?
I guess it depends on how you make it taste like candy…
Sheldon: My nearest grocery store is 27 miles away. I dont really mind as I only go once per week. Unfortunately this morning I ran out of coffee cream. Dammit.
Food desert!
Plenty of food around him – just not the kind you can buy.
That isn’t food, JI. Those are ingredients.
Lights the Neph signal.
America’s Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now the Hangover Is Here
https://www.wsj.com/business/americas-bourbon-boom-is-over-now-the-hangover-is-here-3e9961d7?st=WQ6b6g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When Rob Masters listed 400 barrels of two-year-old bourbon for sale online at $900 apiece, he expected them to be gone within days.
Eight months later the barrels are still there. “We aren’t even getting a sniff,” said Masters, head distiller at The Family Jones distillery in Denver.
Just two years ago Masters could rake in $2,000 for similar barrels. “Back then two phone calls and I could have them gone,” he said.
Let me know when the Coy Hill and Pappy just sits on the shelf.
There’s been a similar slacking in the scotch world. So far it hasn’t translated to lower prices, which have risen from a combination of inflation and distillers wanting to capture more of the price gouging from distributors and retailers.
And two year old bourbon is disgusting. Expecting it to sell out forever is idiocy.
How large are these barrels?
‘Cause if those are the barrels in the pics, I think I’d be OK with paying $900 for that much hooch, even if I had to let it sit a few more years to make it palatable.
Typical bourbon barrel is 53 gallons capacity.
Concealed carry reciprocity, backed by Trump, included in U.S. House proposal
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Oh c’mon, the Democrats preaching states rights is going to be a laugh a minute. Hey, weren’t you all in favor of fully federalized gun control pretty recently?
What’s stupid about it?
Not as good as nationwide Constitutional carry, true, but at some point we have to learn to take incremental improvements. No team won a World Series by swinging for the fences on every pitch.
It’s federalizing concealed carry. Eventually the Democrats will return to power and will use it to force minimum requirements or prohibited places. See speed limits, seat belt requirements, minimum drinking ages, Real ID.
What if it was written along the lines of “full faith and credit applies to guns too?”
Maybe. Full faith and credit applies to all licensure, including occupational?
It would be fine if it says, any license required by the state shall be accepted by similar from the other state.. but this one specifies “concealed” carry only.. if the state (PA) allows open carry then you don’t qualify etc.. That is why this one isn’t good, too specific.
Oh, I’m sure that it’s drafted like crap. I was just thinking there might be a way of putting down something in writing about constitutional principles that would have the added benefit of hamstringing NY/CA/HI judges looking for an excuse.
Bingo. I can’t tell you how many times an internal candidate was already selected, but a required public posting had to be made.
Fake Job Postings Are Becoming a Real Problem
One in five jobs advertised is fake or not filled, according to a new analysis; ‘more soul-crushing than ever’
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-jobs-2c0dcd4e?st=t4WJgh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Every H1B posting.
During my Wall St days for sure.
You basically tailored the job description to the CV of the H1B candidate. So it was almost impossible to find a candidate that would fit the role except for the individual you wanted to get the H1B for.
The position description for my last contract gig with DoD I would’ve sworn was actually written for me.
One of the positions I had in Las Vegas was written to my exact qualifications, even down to some pretty specific arenas that it would have been impossible for anyone other than myself to be even considered.
I had one position where I was told to write my own job req. It was posted for one week and then closed. I officially took the job about 1 week later.
I didn’t write the posting, but I did have to apply for the official posting where I was already acting and my boss had to interview all of the finalist candidates. And then choose me.
As a colleague of mine used to say, “We did a national search for [internal candidate], and we found him!”
Here’s a crazy idea: how about we skip the kabuki dance, get rid of those federal laws and just let the company hire who they wish?
Re my trauma dump in last night’s dedthred:
Thank you all so much. I was so upset and then I went to sleep and woke up to you all knocking some sense back into my head. YOU understand. My husband does too and he’s all in with me, but he’s as much having to keep his mouth shut as I am.
Yes, I do have to keep my mouth shut, and my brothers don’t. I guess for at least the next month, that’s just the way it’s gotta be. Bro1 (with 75% trans rate on his kids) lives in Orlando. Bro2 lives in Seattle. I expect they’ll cut me off when this is all over with, which, I’m not sure how I feel about losing my whole family at the same time.
But just because I keep my mouth shut doesn’t mean I’m going to change my opinions. I REALLY needed the boost you all gave me, so thank you.
I have a little switch in my brain when women around me I consider friends/family are berated and caused undue emotional harm that makes me want to pull out the brother/uncle/dad brain and put people on the ground.
Your ordeal triggered that. I am glad you have this place to help you!
Keeping your mouth shut about politics and religion was basic politeness under traditional rules. That has changed to be a one way street. Nasty X-phobic conservatives are expected to silently listen to the virtuous preenings of the left, because that is not political or religious in their world view. When you respond you are making things political, no matter how minor your disagreements. I just got dumped over a fight that I started by criticizing New York for banning single use soap and shampoo containers. She thought the refillable ones were wonderful and clever and the reduction in plastic (presumed to be true and important because the all knowing State had passed the ban) a noble accomplishment and I disagreed. In fairness I was less diplomatic than I should be, but it annoyed me because she could not see how what she said was political, only my response was political. This turned into a lecture about the hundreds of women a day that my evil Trump supporting side was forcing to bear the children of their rapists.
I fucking hate the gym locker room soap dispensers. Hotels have embraced all of it as easy cost cutting. Just like plastic bag bans and fees (to the pockets of retailers).
Man, sorry to hear that.
Things have gotten so hyper-political in the last decade or two that I couldn’t imagine what dating around here is like if you’re not a super prog.
My wife and I just agree not to discuss some things and, even when they crop up time to time, “do you think that I’m a bad person?” usually keeps things from escalating too much – she knows I’m not. If it were a new relationship around here, I’m not sure I’d get the benefit of the doubt.
That was the problem. We had known each other for years but only started dating this year. Trump winning created a lot of tension, she knew and seemed unbothered by my views right up to the point where Trump won.
My wife is a liberal and we have had discussions about politics it never got mean spirited. We’ve gotten into huge debates about other shit, but we’ve learned to calm down and be like, ‘I get you’re point, and still think you’re wrong, but I love you.”
I could never date in this atmosphere where the political is the personal and also having to be lectured constantly about how terrible you are.
TDS is wild. My family has it pretty bad and it’s impressively retarded.
NPR poisoning, I suspect.
When I saw those my first thought was, “I wonder how many dudes have jizzed in this and then screwed the container back on.”
I always bring my own soap and shampoo.
That’s sort of an issue I’m having with a close friend of 20 years who I considered a brother. I had a discussion with him about the election and how while Trump wasn’t my desired candidate, he wasn’t as bad as everyone made him out to be. Dude is of Mexican descent, so I sort of get the anger but still. He exploded at me, and I apologized to make the situation better. He said he was fine but I tried calling and texting him during the holidays as we always did, and he didn’t answer any of my calls or texts. He finally did a week ago but was super cold and rushed to get off the phone.
That shit hurts but at the same time, if you’re expecting me to agree with you on everything and willing to cut me off for simply for expressing a different view, then it might be best if we part ways. It hurts tho.
I miss the days when I didn’t have a fucking clue what my friends’ politics were.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/biden-trump-and-the-meaning-of-stupidity-history-politics-cd063e45?st=erF7Bx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, Obama was right about one thing.
Beach front property is always a winner?
All of which will be forgotten when he is eulogized at his funeral for his “outstanding service to his country.” Barf.
You can’t have LA 2.0 without telling a bunch of people they won’t be allowed to replace what they lost.
Welcome to our glorious
CityOmelette of the Future.From Sensei’s link:
The defining trait of the stupid person is that he gains nothing while obliging the other to take a loss.
Nice.