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From my new column in Taki’s Magazine, “Is Los Angeles Doomed?”
But that tactic depends upon having men and, especially, aircraft close by. Unfortunately, nobody knows where the fire will break out next. Los Angeles County is home to almost 10 million people over 4,000 square miles—roughly a square 64 miles across.
And low-level water bombers can’t fly with sustained winds over 40 mph.
A military analogy is the millennia-long debate over the utility of fortifications versus mobility. Since May 10, 1940, when the German tanks blitzkrieged around the end of the Maginot line, fixed lines have been unfashionable.
But technology changes. For example, in the current war, the Russians have been investing much more in hardening their defensive barriers than the Ukrainians. We shall see which strategy proves most prudent.
The next revolution in firefighting might involve increased mobility, such as …
Read the whole thing there.
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For those who don’t want to click on two links, Groening adds the following:
The movie character was played by Donald Sutherland, who had a memorable guest spot as a museum curator in a 1996 episode, completing the circle.
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Within the next four years Los Angeles will be hosting a Super Bowl, 8 World Cup games*, and the Olympics. It would be for the best if they could hold it together until then.
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As a place where middle class and working class whites could live and have great lives, Los Angeles was doomed a long time ago. That is dead and will never return.
As a future San Paolo area with tons of brown people, crazy bums and dangerous gangs, along with a smattering of wealthy enclaves, it’s future is bright.
Boomers were too weak a generation to leave a country for their decedents. Increasingly, you will see Americans care as much about L.A. as they do San Paulo.
Is LA doomed? Reasonable chance, I fear. It was only starting in the 1950s that SoCal could support a big population and that required peak America: richest country in history with a highly unified, intelligent and conscientious population. Can a place like LA continue with its current demographic and political profile?
Anyway Steve, you should take comfort in the fact that grew up in the best place in America when America itself was the best country in the world. That has to have been the peak experience of Homo sapiens’ 300 K years of existence.
The more prudent strategy is to have the USA in your pocket. Its financial reserves are practically infinite, so long as there are still some citizens paying their taxes. And the USA loves war! At least, the wars its ruling class desires.
(By financial reserves, of course, we mean the ability to borrow in their own currency. From their grandchildren who, I believe, are not legitimate parties to the contract. Sucks to be them, right?)
Certainly one of the peaks, and I wish I could have enjoyed it. But there’s also Periclean Athens, Second-century Rome, the Italian Renaissance, Edwardian England. Heck, maybe even America in the early 19th century.
The only thing that will doom L.A. , like my home town of Sydney, is demographics.
Sydney and LA share alot of key topographical maps and weather patterns but unlike Sydney LA has had introduced a species of tree that was born out of Gondwanaland, a time where the Indian sub-race we call Aborigines today invaded Australia from the north in the last Ice Age and set fire to everything, destroying the megafauna and at the same time setting in train an evolutionary path for high school students to lay blame at Captain Cook’s foot for having brought an end the fire stick farming of this continent.
Only now is L.A. experiencing this life threatening red-ant equivalent invasion of a species of human similarity not predated upon in our climes.
We survived the fires of 2013 and we’ll survive the fires of many more, the one thing we won’t survive is demographic replacement.
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Greatest cover, ever.
It would be nice to see the USA reach a quarter final, exciting mode of play and real enthusiasm 🙂
The greatest Rolling Stones album for mine is Let it Bleed.
It’s up there with Magical Mystery Tour, A New World Record and 42 Wheels as far as I’m concerned.
The magical trio of songs for me that makes an album great, Let it Bleed is simply stupendous song after song, but Side 2 Midnight Rambler, You Got the Silver ending in Monkey Man blows my mind every time.
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Alot of great rock critics downplay The Stone Roses eponymous album as a pathetic cheat on The Byrds, namely Robert Christgau and Andy Edwards. I reckon they can both fuck right off.
Unlike both of them, Stone Roses defined an era and not only superceded Byrds or whatever which way they spelled it in their CIA army air force cheat conspiracy town, these 4 non-descript blokes from out of nowhere produced a top ten greatest album of all time.
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Aside from Locusts and Groening’s dad, there was a movie in the late seventies or early eighties which featured a loser character called Homer Simpson too but obviously I forgot which and I don’t wanna do a long internet search but I though someone might value my memory for useless, unverified facts.
A natural disaster is unlikely to totally destroy a city unless you live next to something like Mount Vesuvius. Los Angeles may not maintain its past prosperity, though. Prosperity requires a certain amount of economic freedom and the right racial demographics. If you have the right racial demographics you can always adopt the right economic policies. The Marxist Chinese leaders were able to look at prosperous places which were majority Chinese and had more economic freedom, Hong Kong and Singapore, and copy their economic policies.
Los Angeles will not undergo an almost total collapse like Detroit did because it does not have a huge black population. With its increasing Hispanic population, it is likely to slide towards mediocrity and become more like a city in Mexico. The entertainment industry elites may stay since LA will still be part of the United States.
I don’t recall it, but it was probably written by another fan of “Day of the Locust.”
Is AI good for this kind of search that old fashioned search engines aren’t? With Google or Bing, it’s hard to search for the Homer Simpson character who is not Bart’s dad and not the character in “Day of the Locust.”
It seems to me that the most useful thing city and state governments could do for both rebuilding and to enhance preparedness for future disasters would be to remove environmental or review processes that slow down permitting for demo and new construction. All of the people whose homes were destroyed are looking at years before they could rebuild (assuming they can afford to, many cannot) under current procedures. Same would apply to any fire suppression systems that could be installed in locations that are likely to burn.
A probably irrelevant reaction: a fortune created by the grandfather of a living person “is about as old money as Los Angeles gets.” Somehow, that observation’s gotta be the starting off point for at least another blog item, if not a book. Here on the East Coast, that’s nouveau riche.
A definitely irrelevant sur-reaction: I consider it a seriously fun fact that John Tyler, of Tippecanoe and Tyler too, fame, has a living grandson.
Who is actually commanding the coordinated ground and air campaign to stop the Hollywood-a-caust? Surely not Kristen Crowley.
It’s going to take a lot of construction workers to rebuild but where are they going to live? The rents are too damn high.
And you know who most those workers are going to be
In a couple months 99% of the country will have completely forgotten about the fires. There will be a gargantuan amount of money thrown at the rebuilding from insurance, state, and federal funds. The only time it will be remembered is during large sports events when they remind the viewers of the devastating fires and show various players assisting in photo-op rebuilding efforts. All the politicians will be re-elected as they now have crisis management “experience”, and will have months of favorable TV ads touting all the improvements and changes they’ve made before the election, when in reality nothing will have changed at all.
Eventually the dollar will collapse, the fires will sweep through the area again, and this time the ability to generate free & easy money will be gone, leaving a post-apocalyptic landscape to be reclaimed by nature until prosperity returns a century later and the cycle begins anew.
-Rooster
The Hispanic population is actually an inducement for Entertainment elites to live in LA. There‘s a large pool of cheap reliable domestic labor available. To the extent Hispanics assimilate and Trump succeeds in cutting off inflows of new illegals, LA may perversely become less attractive to the Elites.
What does “doomed” really mean? Things can get worse and worse but on a long enough timeline it’s just the new normal and people don’t have the perspective to notice.
My guess is that all of the communities affected become even more exclusive. Few people who were long term residents for decades and who bought homes when someone in the middle class could afford them will have the wherewithal to rebuild without homeowners’ insurance. Even those with homeowners’ insurance will experience inordinate delays and denials of their claims over years. Assuming Alternative Living Expense coverage, even upstanding insurance companies are going to cut off those payments long before the famed California building permitting delays run their course. How many people can afford to both rent a place and pay a substantial mortgage for years on end? People without a lot of accumulated wealth will likely cash out by selling the property as a demolished lot and move somewhere else.
What condition were the fire breaks in? When I lived there 25 years ago they were wide and well maintained. I’m assuming their upkeep was another casualty in the quest for more fat lesbians?
Someone, it might’ve been Steve, once observed in a post aboutThe Beach Boys, that Hawthorne, California circa 1955 to 1965 might’ve been the greatest place to grow up in the history of the world. I know from my perch in the semi-polar regions of the upper Midwest it seemed like paradise, even though I’d never been there.
On another topic, I heard a song the other day that’s 30 years old: never heard it before; Santa Monica by Everclear. Great song and strangely apropos today.
It would be best for the people of Los Angeles if they didn’t have to host them at all, especially true for the Olympics. These elite events only serve the interests of the elites. Regular people get nothing out of them but hassle and headache.
Last year I took the opportunity to poke around LA for several days while my wife was attending a meeting in Century City. I had never spent much time in the area, and I like to wander round and get a feel for a place, so I drove up Laurel Canyon Rd and spent a morning hiking in the hills around Franklin Canyon. There is a Starbucks up there where I had some coffee. The locals were surprised that a guy from Chicago found his way to their enclave. They literally said “what are you doing up here and how did you find this place.” In the afternoon, I took a slow rush hour drive from Hollywood through the palisades to Malibu on Sunset Blvd. I didn’t mind sitting in the horrible traffic because I wanted to see the place.
I observed a few things of note: 1) the population, and thus the buildings are dense 2) these buildings are frequently made of wood with exposed wood siding, many with asphalt shingles for roofing, 3) there were trees and vegetation everywhere and finally 4) any place that was not irrigated was dusty and dry. How can anyone be surprised that fires repeatedly occur? How is it possible LA allows asphalt roofing given the history of wildfires?
I used to work in a refinery. We were always concerned about the risk of fire. It was an engineering problem. Keep the flammable stuff inside metal pipes and tanks; keep flammables far enough apart to prevent spreading in the event of a fire; Keep hydrocarbons away from ignition sources in the presence of oxygen.
Assuming the LA climate remains the same, vegetation will grow everywhere it is not cut down and there will continue to be wildfires. The only way to stop catastrophic losses when these natural brush fire events occur is to require buildings that are engineered to resist ignition. This means developing and enforcing building codes in LA and LA county that improve the fire hardiness of the built environment.
Whether or not there is a political will to do this, I cannot say. The refusal of commercial insurance companies to cover buildings not designed to resist known hazards in areas subjected to hurricane storm surges, flooding, wildfires etc is another mechanism that can help. Unfortunately, governments often respond to these perceived “market failures” by interfering in insurance markets.
A good start would be to require all replacement roofing to be made of metal, tile or other non flammable materials. The building codes for new construction need to require more fire resistant structures.
LA isn’t doomed or going anywhere, but there is a chance the buildings might burn less often over time if they are better engineered.
Why, that Los Angeles could even stand up to Giant Ants!
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They say there’s a lot of ruin in a nation, but it was almost exactly 100 years between Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, the fleet review of which inspired Kipling’s Recessional:
and the election of Tony Blair in May 1997.
Now, this gentleman is the head of BBC Sport:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kay-Jelski
Even his name sounds like a water-based lubricant.
OT, but there is a good global poll report in the Guardian today
Summary
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/european-jitters-about-trump-20-not-shared-by-much-of-world-poll-finds
A third “Homer Simpson” is not showing up in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_(name)#Fictional_characters
One reason that people in other parts of the country want to see LA destroyed is that they are sick of hearing about the place. That applies to New York as well. If a pin drops in NY or LA, the news of it goes on nonstop. The Midwest was hit with a derecho in 2020, which is like a land based hurricane, and it was not even reported on the national news. No mention anywhere that day on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2020_Midwest_derecho
Steve, you really should relocate. I recommend somewhere in northern Missouri like Maryville or Kirksville. The cost of living is a fraction of Los Angeles. Crime rates are low. Just a couple hours from international airports. The only natural disasters to worry about are tornadoes. You work from home, why subject yourself and your family to the crap show of Los Angeles? The equity in your LA home would cover a really nice place in northern Missouri with plenty left over for a tractor, side by side, F250, Basstracker, lake cabin etc.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/19248-White-Oak-Trl_Kirksville_MO_63501_M85200-49153?from=srp-list-card
I would recommend southern Missouri and the scenic Ozark mountains, but the Scott/Irish hillbillies would be too much of a culture shock for you. Northern Missouri rural residents are much more easy going. Look how long they put up with Ken McElroy.
Lots of people in Los Angeles have big heads, by nature, and on this point I include our host.
I get the point about filming doom and destruction movies there because the film makers live there, but: Get off your high horses. Most Americans enjoy thinking of the annihilation of New York City. Washington FS would be a close 2nd.
Get someone to take a poll sometime. If you threw out responses from Los Angelenos and New York City residents (maybe north Jersey too), I’d bet good money that it’d be 75% to 80% in favor of the annihilation of NYC rather than LA… assuming we had a real chance of getting er’ done.
Unfortunately, NYC is on solid bedrock and not in the Ring of Fire, earthquake wise.
I visited Santa Monica for a week in 2013. I remember the year because it was when the Edward Snowden case was breaking. It was so beautiful and the weather perfect. As a native and resident of the Northeast, I couldn’t help but wonder why anyone with money would not move to Santa Monica?
Ten years later, in 2023 I spent a week in Santa Monica. Holy shit! What the hell happened?? Homeless and decay and disordered all around. So sad.
OT – File this under “Ha Ha!”
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Ring of Fire…
Which reminds me… with all this destruction and doomsaying, does anyone remember what the real threat to Los Angeles is? Even 40 years ago, they’d always mention “… until the Big One.” That was the earthquake, not fires. That threat never just went away, unless in Los Angelenos’ memories, and I guess never thought of by the 20 million “newcomers”.
As commenters have written, wooden structures are worse in fires but better in earthquakes. In China, the residences would all be poured concrete, and in a quake, those slabs slide off other slabs and people get crushed.
Last thought here: When the BIG ONE comes to LA, will they blame its arrival on the Climate Calamity™?
OK, Steve, please, please, PLEASE!!, don’t say “heat rises” anymore.
Heat is not a thing. It can’t rise, it can’t fall, it can’t make Juliene Fries. Heat is a process, the transfer of energy due to a temperature difference, from a warmer body/surface/region to a colder one.
What happens is that a fluid that’s warmer than its surrounding fluid rises due its lower density and buoyancy. How about “hot air rises”?
Carry on. No, wait…
I think the novel ideas* for better fire suppression should include better detection. Whether it’s aerial or via satellite, there is amazing remote sensing tech out there. If anything out of normal (flame at the refinery) is spotted anywhere in the area, a drone could be launched from a dozen or 2 facilities to suppress it within minutes, before it’s already too big.
No, hear me out. I KNOW water is heavy – 8 lb/G (not sure if retardant is lighter for the same suppression capability). These military drones that carry missiles, how much can they carry? Hit the fires when they are still very small…
… then, if you have extra lift, bring along a small rocket to take out the illegal aliens who set the damn thing.
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* … and I agree with you completely re your section about the old can-do America and that very quick switch in California 45 years ago.
I am not sure quite what you are referring to, but, yes, Los Angeles has introduced eucalyptus trees from Australia.
There are a few of them in the park down the road from where I live in Ecuador. I believe they were introduced to stabilize soil on a steep slope, which we have a lot of here in the Andes, although they are not particularly good for that purpose/
However, they are potentially a fire hazard, although safe enough when planted along river banks.
The reason that eucalyptus trees are highly flammable is that they contain oil-rich leaves and bark that can easily ignite and spread wildfires. The volatile oils in their leaves produce flammable vapors, which can cause the trees to burst into flames under extreme heat or when ignited by embers. Additionally, their shedding bark and leaf litter create fuel on the ground, further contributing to fire spread. And, as they suck up a lot of water, they dry out the soil.
Olive trees are much less flammable, which makes them a better choice for wildfire prone areas.
However the southwest of the USA has a massive problem with water shortage, because there simply is not enough fresh water runoff from the Rockies to feed the demands of a huge population and a water-hungry agriculture business, plus many parks and golf courses and suburbs where homes have lawns with sprinklers.
Possibly they need to build a freshwater pipeline/tunnel from the Great Lakes to California.
Climate change may or may not be due to human behavior, carbon emissions, etc, but what cannot really be disputed is that we have seen unexpected extreme variations in recent years.
Various species seem to have died out in the past due to climate change, and one hopes that our own species is not going to be the area of study at universities for cockroaches some time in the future.
Even in temperate climate England rivers have frequently been bursting out over their floodplains and sewer systems that have provided excellent service for decades are overflowing far too often and polluting said rivers.
Here in Ecuador, we have just had a long drought which caused power cuts and everyone running the fiber-optic internet off batteries and other horrors, followed by record rainfall in December, and plenty of the wet stuff in January, while Los Angeles has become a desiccated region where even a small bottle of drinking water might cost a couple of dollars.
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
“Relax, ” said the night man, “We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”
I did an experiment to test your hypothesis.
I lit a gas burner on my kitchen stove and put my right hand on top and my left hand underneath.
Erom yna epyt t’nac I.
They should build a ring of thousands of fire-watch towers all around LA, and then staff them with caged illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. Failure to promptly report fires would lead to incineration. (They have these towers in Florida.)
Add to this a moat around Los Angeles with connecting cross canals, filled with seawater, that could double up as a firebreak, waterpark, and marina, and solar-powered fire hydrants.
Change the building codes to include mandatory swimming pools, removal of hedges, and concreting over of all yards. And get rid of all the eucalyptus trees.
Bingo, job done!
Yes, right now, it is doomed, but so is the entire State of California, and the entire U.S. for that matter, and arguably, the entire Western world as well.
Prosperity can be a society’s worst enemy. It breeds complacency, and worse, it lends people the comfort to worry about a bunch of stupid, abstract nonsense, instead of real, tangible stuff. After decades of “trying to fix” (or improve, mitigate, ameliorate) so many abstract illusions like “Climate Change”, or racial disparities, or homelessness, or green energy… something as tangible as preventing forest fires gets neglected.
Let me us an example- A few years ago, we were inundated with PSA’s telling us “don’t text and drive”. Pretty normal idea. Now? It appears that they just surrendered, and every other person on the roads is texting, watching TikTok (no, I’m not fucking kidding) or talking on their phones, and the entire campaign just disappeared like a fart in the wind. (increased road fatalities anyone?)
Remember Smokey the Bear? Well, where is he now? Nowhere! Why? Because homeless drug addicts aren’t watching PBS, or failing to fully extinguish their camping fires. They start fires because they are pieces of shit, and since they’ve dropped out of society, PSA are worthless.
Looting? Well, after allowing smash and grabs en masse, how the Hell do you think you are going to stop looters?
In pretty much every way you can imagine, we abandoned sanity for lunacy, and after decades of that, you can’t just throw a switch, and turn sanity back on, because you’ve got 2-3 generations of retards, that think throwing paint at art is activism, and lying in the street blocking traffic helps the environment.
Everything needs to collapse, then you need 2-3 generations of mankind, digging his way out of his hole, to actually “fix” the insanity.
So, step 1, Doom!
The bigger problems are not the winds or fires but the enhanced insurance rates for everybody after the current coverage sources are burned up and the rebuilding costs. The cost of getting your garage door replaced is going sky high as well as the cost of new building. The massive number of new construction workers from elsewhere are going to be paid at high rates and many will be of dubious quality. Every third rate roofing outfit is headed your way. You will need a horde of new building inspectors and bribing them will cost a lot. Etcetera
Well, ya’ see, I was getting into high school or Freshman college level physics. You should probably learn the theory before you do the pre-K level experimentation. Also, Erom yna is one word. ;-}
The BBC seems to be giving a lot of affirmative action to the hard of hearing. I have noticed that many of their presenters wear hearing aids. Possibly one of the reasons for hiring a lot of women is that they often have longer hair styles that cover their ears. Match of the Day (professional men’s soccer) is now to be presented by two ladies, one of whom is the daughter of a footballer.
Very well-said, Mark G. That is the long-term prognosis. Sticklers for competence and conscientiousness will be discouraged and shunned, and so will eventually surrender, through the process that shrinks call “mirroring.”
As for the short-term prognosis regarding rebuilding and implementing safety measures, the demographics-driven ethos of “good enough” is already so pervasive in its influence as to take its toll.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to hate insurance companies but their playing games with coverage, like inordinate delays, isn’t one of them. Courts look very unfavorably on insurance companies that jerk insureds around, and there’s no shortage of lawyers eager to take cases on contingency. Insurers buy Excess Policy Limits and Extracontractual Obligations reinsurance because they are justly afraid of courts.
If your house is burned to the ground, your HO insurer will cut you a check for your full coverage A and B, the structure and outbuildings, within a few weeks, if any case at all can be made they were worth it. They will payout on coverage D, alternative living arrangements, in days, and they will keep paying until the stated coverage limit is reached or you move into your new house. They will ask for an inventory of contents — the insured gets the benefit of the doubt — and pay actual cash value or replacement value, depending on the policy, up to the stated limit.
But on its face, homeowners insurance is a bad deal. At most, they expect to payout fifty cents on the dollar. And in cat exposed areas, a lot of that “expected loss” is scenarios that wildly exceed the capital of the insurer, but they are still allowed to charge for it.
It’s not an accident that in the past ten years, 80 plus percent of Florida-only homeowners insurers have gone under: Charge for protection you can’t provide, close up shop to reopen under another name when you’re called on it, and leave the unfunded liability to some state backstop that other insurers or policy holders are taxed to fund. That’s the number one cheat, one the likes of State Farm can’t get away with.
They also cheat by paying subsidiaries inflated fees for things like claims handling, treating those as unavoidable expenses justifying rate increases. They ALL do this.
From the insurers’ side, Jewish lightening — to mention a single type of fraud among many — is real, and insurers are charging the generality of insureds for it. If that’s not you, you’re getting screwed.
When Hurricane Irma hit Florida, Miami-Dade was the only area not subject to tropical winds. But somehow they had the highest average claim severity!
Have as little to do with insurance companies as you possibly can, not mainly because they are bad but because the whole arrangement doesn’t work anymore in our low-contentiousness society.
What is doomed is your virtue signaling ideology–all whites must adhere to your strict racial litmus test, lest they be deemed “anti-white” (which has yet to be clearly defined with related examples).
The fact of the matter is that middle class and working class whites today do have great lives where they live. YOU do not get to unilaterally define how they conduct their lives, as desperate as you are to do so.
Even in temperate climate England rivers have frequently been bursting out over their floodplains and sewer systems that have provided excellent service for decades are overflowing far too often and polluting said rivers.
Yep, and an intelligent statistical analysis shows that these phenomena are nothing to do with (bogus) climate change. The annual trends in rainfall, and in variance of rainfall, are just random walks. In other words, in terms of rain, there is no climate change in England.
Naturally matters are different in Scotland where there’s some sign of a sixty-year cycle. But even then the change is pretty minor and nothing to get excited about. It’s remarkable how much more truth you can get from people who are retired statisticians than from people still in employment. What can the explanation be?
“During this vibe shift, though, can we just change 90 degrees rather than 0 or 180?”
When I look back, the one constant in my adult life is the fact that most people who excel at theoretical analysis have little to no tolerance for the Middle Way. Once they discover or buy into a theory of economics, sociology, ecology, history or law, it’s all or nothing. Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage means the US can never have enough free trade! Nature or Nurture–choose one! The Theory of Global Warming means we must reverse the industrial revolution, immediately! History reveals that USA was never perfect, and in fact it is the ultimate Evil Empire! If the Constitution does not permit abortion up to and including birth, women are mere chattel! Even in hard science, one can see this intolerance for the random or stochastic in Einstein’s refusal to accept quantum physics.
Sadly, this tendency toward the extreme in our educated caste is more consequential for public policy than ever, with the rise of the Progressive administrative state.
Our future in microcosm. Or is it our present?
LA does NOT burn in DAY OF THE LOCUST as you said in the Taki’s article. There’s a riot at a movie premiere in the last chapter, and during it, Tod Hackett IMAGINES changes he plans to make to his painting “The Burning of Los Angeles.” Read the last chapter of West’s novel for yourself. JH Kunstler made the same mistake in his Monday column, can we somehow prevent this from becoming one of those “Joe McCarthy–y’know, the guy from HUAC” fact errors you see all over the place??!
Lol! What you’re seeing is earpieces of headsets, for monitoring audio/communicating with the crew.
You seem to know a lot about San Paulo and Les Angeles, but what about Neu York?
Dude, they’re literally decamping to other States.
While we’re at it, let’s also mention the movie “Panic at Year Zero” where a family from suburban Los Angeles on a camping trip while Los Angeles was hit by a hydrogen bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_in_Year_Zero!
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Sounds like fun.
“Los Angeles will not undergo an almost total collapse like Detroit did because it does not have a huge black population. With its increasing Hispanic population, it is likely to slide towards mediocrity and become more like a city in Mexico. ”
This is valid, but it’s not the only consideration. Los Angeles as a city is completely different than Detroit. With its current leadership and population, if it were to sustain another earthquake similar to the one 1994 except under the LA basin, you’re probably looking at an Escape from LA type scenario.
The worst known earthquake in the US was sometime around 1805 (I haven’t looked this up) which happened along the Mississippi River in the area of modern Missouri.
Few Whites/Euros lived there at the time so few if any known victims.
Several waterways were somewhat re-routed. Other damage not much recorded.
So, this Safe Haven might be sitting on a huge fault line. Just like California coastal areas.
But until then…
Yes, my reaction was that the Los Angeles of Ray Bradbury was doomed, encountered its doom, and this third world nightmare is the aftermath.
Idaho. Idaho literally has a population of survivalists who figured out that it was the safest state in terms of numerous different disasters, including nuclear strikes on major cities.
No, LA isn’t doomed.
Well, aside from earthquakes, which are far more likely further up north. Quake damage can be largely mitigated with proper engineering.
It seems unlikely that those coastal hillsides would slide into the Pacific.
What is the real solution to fires?
How about safe, smaller thorium or similar nuclear reactors powering desalinization plants along the coast? Not free but no “fossil fuel” and remarkably safe and efficient.
These (or one or two) could power pumps up nearby hillsides into reservoirs which (unless kept empty by DEI grads) would be full of clean water. As many as are needed to fill up (additional) hydrants in the fire prone brushy areas up hillsides. Maybe even “re-engineer” the biomass in the hills to lower growing grasses which could be periodically watered and suppress native brushy plants.
This is largely a regulatory question. More power is always needed and plenty of ocean to provide fresh water. Only a fraction of that new, clean power would be needed.
No water from northern or inland California needed.
Considering the cost of fire damages, this could eventually break even and pay for itself.
So once again the problem is Woke/Leftist politics. Some are slowly realizing that modern low waste and no long term hot waste is the solution. Not windmills or solar.
Pump up as much clean water as needed.
This makes too much sense to be mention in Our Current Political Era in the “golden state.”
Once again, something that Americans only talk about, but which 19 people from other countries tried to do something about.
The earthquakes (3 in three months) were in the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. The damage to Missouri of any new earthquakes will be limited to the bootheel region and along the Mississippi riverbed. The busted up bedrock of the Ozarks will absorb the energy and shield the rest of the state of catastrophic damage.
Much to like in Steve’s Taki, LA (it’s an interesting place), the Mike Davis reference and notation of his great book on LA, ECOLOGY OF FEAR. Steve’s fire infrastructure rumination. But no ideas as to where I can obtain short term housing after such a catastrophe, competing against all the Palisadians with their insurance money in pocket. Before the fires most of them wouldn’t be caught unawares in Steve’s Valley unless on a soundstage or overly warm producer’s office. Now look at them, completely clueless about the still covert future of their beloved neighborhood: Smart City aka QR Code City. Enjoy your lives in the electronic ant farm, Mr. and Mrs. Finkelstein.
“Lots of people in Los Angeles have big heads, by nature …”
Big heads, small bodies. Easily defeated in hand-to-hand combat. That’s why so many of them hire bodyguards, to protect their heads.
Don’t worry. Whichever federal law enforcement agency hired “Loyalty” to lurk here will be letting him go next week!
The only racial litmus test I want to see implemented in LA is the RTK requirement: Roof Top Koreans. The Southern California chapter of the Men of Unz can no longer be trusted to man the battlements be it fire or colour. White is weak; we need the yellows.
LA is a hostile foreign nation. it’s an openly declared enemy of the US. does it matter much what happens? is anything good, helpful, or productive going to happen as a result of this fire event? of course not. look at this Gavin Newsom guy talking about real estate deals and shifting his shoulders back and forth like a kid who just pulled one over on his teachers. not even corrupt politicians in Chicago were that greasy.
as the saying goes, never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
yeah it sucks for the 12 good people left. get Mel and James Woods and Adam Corolla and Steve out of there and call it a day. LA is a total loss. is it doomed? it was functionally a total loss long before this round of fires. LA in 2024 before this round of fires was already like gangrene on the leg of the American nation. cut it off. how many Americans are even left there, let alone Democrat voting ones.
we’re talking about people who hate us so much, that if there was a button which said “Push this to make all Republican voters in America disappear forever” they would push it in 1 second without thinking. the last thing in the world the incoming Republican administration should do is spend much time, effort, political capital, or government money going out of their way to help people who literally want them dead. that’s what the outgoing Democrat admin did to the states hit by the most recent hurricane. not only flat out blanked them but literally and deliberately ignored any identified Republican voters and even tried to have the authorities prevent by force any outside aid. right before an election, hoping to make it harder for them to vote.
raise your hand if you want Trump to take your tax dollars and give it to rich Democrats who literally want you dead, so that they can build a brand new mansion in LA.
LA’s four seasons,
Floods,
Fires,
Earthquakes,
Riots
I heard the wind was blowing burning embers up soffit vents into attics, so a fire-resistant roof isn’t enough. Tom Hanks’ house survived partly due to its attic-less flat roof. Another house survived thanks to a 4 foot concrete wall blocking the neighbor’s burning car. Building code changes will be another long delay, but they’re necessary.
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His Daniel Penny tribute hairdo didn’t quite come off.
When the title of a post ends with a question mark, the answer is always…no.
La is t doomed great cities became great because of location. Since America manufacturers nothing but woke faggot progressive destructive activism everything comes from China and Asia. To mostly just two California ports Oakland and Los Angeles San Pedro Long Beach.
San Diego and Seattle are minor.ports.
The most important thing about LA San Pedro Long Bewch harbors is that there’s a narrow corridor of. somewhat flat land going east. The old Santa Fe trail. And that’s where the railroads and freeways are that carry all that Chinese cargo to the rest of America.
So the harbor will preserve Los Angeles as an important city. Look at Oakland. Were it not for the harbor railroad and I-80 highway the Oakland blacks would have turned it into Detroit or Newark.
Plus Los Angeles is one of the three most important Jew and progressive fortresses that control America. NYC Chicago and LA. The other thing is that the construction and rebuilding after the four seasons in California ; fire flood earthquake and riots will provide full employment for years.
Right New Madrid Illinois earthquake.
LA is so bad that it turned Arnold into a quivering Democrat pussy.
if LA can turn the Governator into a cowering Biden voter, of what use is it.
They can take sea water, run it through hoses, from one fire engine to another, using the fire engines as pumping stations, in order to get the sea water where they need it. That is, if they had their shit together.
Btw, a Hollywood producer friend of mine just emailed in response to my inquiry and said he lost his house and he’s in a bandb south of the flames.
I’m still bugging over the Lakers retiring Michael Cooper’s jersey and everyone from the Showtime era is there to honor him, including Pat Riley. Only one absence, Kareem. Whose house burned down in LA 42 years ago this month. Was he at home suffering from PTSD?
Eucalyptus trees so you do know what you’re writing about.
Sorry, grass and wild wheat are very flammable and cause major fires all the time.
It only rains in California 2 or 3 months a year if that. Then nothing for months. Unless grass is on private property or golf courses and parks where it’s regularly mowed and watered it’s a horrendous fire hazard. Grass fires every year in California including the wet far northern part of the state.
The solution isn’t more rain. Two years after a rainy winter there are fires. Because the more rain the more bushes grass etc grows. Then a couple dry years and all that dry brush explodes.
Concrete just heats up in the sun. Result would be heat waves of 110 instead of 95.
There’s no solution weather is weather. Last two weeks of December there were mini hurricanes and tsunamis Santa Cruz central California to Crescent city N California. I saw the massive surf rolling in beige because the waves were so big the bottom sand was stirred up. Water completely covered the beach the parking lot and flooded the highway. The surf reached the road bed if the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw the huge waves separating far out. One wave went north into the golden gate channel and hit the bridge. The other went south and. covered our beach all the way to pacific coast highest. No damage just a mini tsunami
3 winters ago there was a December hurricane really bad near San Francisco We had to take the French doors off. Because the wind just tore through the locks and hinges. For 2 days The wind seems to get stronger when it comes sideways down the mountain And slams into our French doors.
What we’re seeing, here and in Rhodesia and South Africa, is the difference white men make. With white men, inhospitable territory can be a paradise.
Great call, Steve, devoting multiple essays to the fires, separating the perspective into three different aspects. The result has been a slew of especially insightful and interesting and fun comments. Now, I’m not saying do the same thing when the topic is golf-course architecture – – sorry – – but it sure worked here.
Maui and it’s dead kids agree.
São Paulo. You’re thinking of São Paulo, mein bruder.
The National Guard has been called in to help stem the wave of Negroes mourn-looting victims of the wildfire. You’d think that they would have been called when the Negroes were converging upon Rodeo Drive back in the day, ripping watches off of restaurant patrons wrists.
I guess a change in attitude regarding George Floyd’s mourn-looters in general, and BLM in particular, becomes inevitable once Negroes are crawling up your ass, and mourn-stealing you Emmy.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/sick-moment-crooks-loot-multi-million-dollar-homes-abandoned-during-la-wildfires-with-an-emmy-stolen-in-one-raid/
Well, I can’t argue with most of this. I like that everyone can have his own concrete pond, hopefully with a State-mandated movie star.
As much as they do light up (from that oil, I guess), I really like Eucalyptus trees. They smell great!
(Maybe you’re starting to get it, Mr. Mason.)
It is unless they realize that not all dykes are good for water management.
Whatever happened to Antifa?
Right now seems like the perfect time for them to launch a takeover of Pacific Palisades! They’re just letting the opportunity of their pointless lifetime pass!!
Reminds me of Henry Kissinger observing that feminism can never win because there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Anarchists will never prevail because too many of them just can’t set long-term goals or reliably complete tasks. I mean, they’re anarchists, for Pete’s sake! 🤤
Flammable eucalyptus trees at last an UNZ commenter writing about something he actually knows about.
No. Many people still want to live there. It will become even more expensive. There’s less housing now and it’s going to take years before what’s been lost to be replaced.
My biggest question mark is: can the people of LA withstand all the vultures who will be there soon and all the gov malfeasance that will accompany them?
Insurance lawsuits will be epic.
New York City has draconian fire codes that are enforced. It also has what is probably the best fire department in the world.
The demise of LA will come when the supply of water is insufficient to service its immense number of inhabitants. A prolonged drought in the Western USA should do the trick.
I feel like you talk too much about climate change here. What, did it molest you as a child or something?
In Beverly Hills it’s called a ce-ment pond, you darn rascal!
Doubtful. Most of the water in California goes for agriculture.
Eucalyptus trees are from Satan. And like most forms of evil, they’re impossible to exterminate.
Nah, they’re bad news. They steal from people in their worst moments of despair and abuse their parking privileges. Now they want exemptions from the congestion pricing toll–for their private cars–so they can drive around with impunity on personal trips. They’re making the usual threats–“if we have to pay these tolls we may not show up for your fire!” Or “if we don’t get an exemption expect us to file for wayyy more overtime!” They’re revolting bullies. If it weren’t for careless idiots in Sec. 8 housing they wouldn’t even be needed.
New York City has draconian fire codes that are enforced. It also has what is probably the best fire department in the world.
In 1991 the Philadelphia Fire Department’s on-scene commanders ordered all firefighters out of the burning One Meridian Plaza tower because they feared the 38-story building would collapse (it didn’t). A decade later it did not occur to anyone at the FDNY that two towers which were not only burning wildly out of control but had suffered catastrophic impact damage would collapse. I’m not saying that means it wasn’t/isn’t an excellent fire department, but it certainly was a monumental and deadly lapse in judgment.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I’d have to say no, because in those other eras, many of us would die early from something that was eminently curable/treatable in peak modern SoCal / USA.
You nailed it Muse, and win the comment thread.
I hadn’t realized that the building situation in LA was as bad as you indicated. I’ve driven down Sunset once in my life and that was 41 years ago. (For instance, didn’t know they still allowed asphalt shingle roofs.)
But I was going to tell Steve that this:
is no solution at all. The scrub in the hills dries out and burns easily. Even if you could make this work–unlikely–it would just mean the hills would burn next month. Or worse next year, with even more growth. Continual fire suppression just builds up fuel loads and creates larger fires that can actually attack the city. You actually want the hills to burn, but to burn regularly in prescribed burns at low fuel volume and intensity.
What you do not want is for the city to burn. I.e. what you do not want is burning in the hills–which is darrn near inevitable–to be a threat to the city proper, nor to rack up huge insurance losses in the hills. There is no reason, the fire should be able to jump house to house to house in ordinary grid neighborhoods, like we saw in the Palisades or Altadena.
But to stop the means both good firebreaks–like my Ring of Golf–and a serious fire code. That means non-flammable roofs and siding. Some screening codes for soffits and other attic venting. And perhaps–you’d want to do studies–in the hills and transition zone, the building/roof framing should probably be metal studs instead of wood and the roof and house sheathing be some sort of cement fiberboard rather than plywood or OSB. Basically, provide nothing that burns readily. And likewise with landscaping code that bans plants and plant densities that allow the fire to spread through dense residential neighborhoods.
But finally, push come to shove, remember that the whatever you do, the primary objective must be handling earthquakes. These fires are spectacular and have racked up great damage, but note that the death toll is fairly small. (20 something people. For perspective, LA probably wracks up around five traffic fatalities in a typical week.) People can see the fire and get the hell out. You can’t see an earthquake coming and even a modest earthquake could kill a lot of people if buildings are not resistant. And a serious megaquake high 7 to 8ish quake be a potential disaster. So the code must prioritize buildings that are robust to shaking … and then do not burn.
Oops. Sorry!
“Climate Change” hasn’t molested ANYBODY at any age. What I don’t like is seeing pretty intelligent people, as we have here, falling for that scheme of Totalitarian control of huge portions of the economy based on “Climate Change”. Surely you’re not one of them?
Also, I’m not all broken up about your feelings.
All of Los Angeles can be supplied with desalinated water for less than a few of billion dollars a year. With the surplus of solar power, running costs are close to nil.
https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/can-desalination-save-a-drying-world/?cf-view
This was being built when I lived in San Diego 20 years back:
https://www.sdcwa.org/your-water/local-water-supplies/seawater-desalination/
supposedly Gov Newsom is waiving environmental and other regulations to allow rebuilding to start ASAP. see link below that wonders if the waiver will withstand legal challenges
If so –given the shortage of fire-resistant materials , skilled labor and serious thought — then the resulting buildings may be even more ignition prone than what existed pre 2025.
https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/382854-legal-experts-question-newsom-s-fire-rebuilding-fast-track
I don’t think that’s the word you’re looking for. Perhaps you mean conscientiousness?
That was a series of quakes around New Madrid in 1811 and 1812. It created the Kentucky Bend.
I visited the town museum not long before the 1989 World Series. Damn, I could have cleaned up on that one!
https://www.newmadridmuseum.com/exhibitsDetail.php?The-Great-Quakes-1
Every cloud of smoke has its silver lining.
Hunter Biden artworks worth ‘millions of dollars’ destroyed in LA fires: source
Does the pardon cover this?
I can’t just hit the agree button, but seriously, if I could wear a t-shirt saying “fuck your feelings, reason it through” I would.
Two words: Palos Verdes.
Does striking back at the last moment somehow make firefighting more effective, or is it more of a symptom of a system operating at its maximum efficiency?
For Wellington, it was part of a deception tactic, but deception has no effect on insentient fire. Still, it’s a fun analogy.
What’s Chinese for “Luigi”?
Dagnabbit! I’ve been using Google and Bing search since 1951 or ’52 or thereabouts (I remember it well ’cause Doris Day was on the radio singing “Que Sera Sera” in a duet with Ike when I did my first Google search (it was called Geegle way back then) on the ole’ Univac to answer my query; “are the commies unstoppable?” and it came back with “Da, komradski!”) so Google and Bing always been good to me and never let me down yet!
I don’t need no fancy pants, hifaluting, whipper-snappin’ AI to tell what can I remember or not!
Well, OK I tried it once since Mr. Golf Course Architecture Critic recommended it, and guess what that hi tech wonder of an AI said; “Aside from Day of the Locusts and the Simpsons there was no character called Homer Simpson in any film made from 1978 to 1983”
See!!!…you use AI once and that goddamm thing screws up! Pretty useless wouldn’t you say!?
I mean it’s not like I imagined it!-to which your highly-recommended AI suggested “perhaps an unwarranted delusional belief or incipient dementia?” Not only doesn’t it know the movies but it acts like a total bastard which deserves a well-aimed boot up its silicon hindmost posterior!
Look it’s obvious there was a third character called Homer Simpson in the moving pictures shows anywhere from 1978 to 1985, we just have to use what made this country great; good old-fashioned elbow grease and find it and not rely on some fly-by-night tech scam which will be gone and forgotten by tomorrow!
Oh, Ok if someone wants to create an image of the third Homer using AI go ahead just make sure to use the following description:
Homer Simpson, not a character in the “Day of the Locusts”, not a character in “The Simpson”, had hair, wore a suit and tie, normal number of arms and legs and fingers, 1978-1985, normal looking and not a cartoon, not Jack Nicholson
We’ll get this solved lickety-split!
Oh I remembered one more thing; the movie that the third Homer was in was a talkie! (hope that helps).
Lol, one was literally named “Travon”.
Thanks for this comment, which I was nodding along with until “see this intolerance for the random or stochastic in Einstein’s refusal to accept quantum physics.” Do you mind explaining this bit to a non-specialist?
Thanks for this explanation of Western ports.
I can see the case for NYC and LA, but Chicago?
I mean, there’s David Axelrod I guess, but he’s originally from NYC.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/los-angeles-high-end-housing-market-fires-8b595df7
The WSJ publishes an article detailing the misery of jewish billionaires losing one of their several homes in the fires. The article is so sickening that I won’t even excerpt it here.
Oh, they did include a wealthy pajeet for the sake of diversity.
The problem with MO or ID, and as native Californian I can sympathize, is the weather. Can’t beat Los Angeles on that front.
I don’t mind hot and humid and mosquitos, but I would be content to never see snow again. If one is materially comfortable and doesn’t have to worry about the financial security of one’s heirs, then the trade-off between a lower cost of living versus having to shovel the f%&#! driveway and scrape the g&^!%# ice off of your windshield in the morning just to run to the supermarket, while worrying that you’re going to slip on icy pavement and break a hip, is a major consideration. Some aging Californians I know kinda want to move out but must face this.
This Ultimately was The Bonfire of the Vanities for the shit-Libs, thew 1497 in Florence one that Wolfe stole the title from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_vanities
The introduction of women commentators is appalling. Analysis is now replaced by “Never mind about the football, how did you feel when they scored”.
Of course not. It will be blamed on Donald Trump. 🙂
I can recommend Australian nonflammable roofs. Corrugated iron is the stuff, and far too light to be a worry in an earthquake. It’s a puzzle to me why it’s not standard roofing in S California.
Some people feel the way you do about cold climates, but many others find snowy winters exhilarating.
If you’re “worrying that you’re going to slip on icy pavement,” all you have to do is throw some sand down before you step there.
Shoveling snow is called exercise. If your driveway is too long for you to do that, then you keep a snowblower or a Jeep with a plow, or you just pay a guy $40 to drive by and plow it for you in 5 minutes. I’ve done all of those things.
Since this is an HBD blog, it might be worthwhile to remind ourselves that the smartest, most capable breeds of humanity have tended to come from northern latitudes where they have had to prepare for winters and work their way through them.
You want to avoid the riffraff? Move to someplace where people enjoy real winters. 🙂
Oh, BTW, one of our neighbors died last year at the age of 103. It must have been the cold winters that got her.
How can you forget Rahm and JB?? It’s our very own Fat Man and Little Boy!
“Climate change may or may not be due to human behavior, carbon emissions, etc, but what cannot really be disputed is that we have seen unexpected extreme variations in recent years.”
Agreed. As to the cause I have no doubt that human behavior contributes to the phenomenon but I roll my eyes when I people say with utmost sincerity that once we eliminate carbon emissions all will be well. Would that nature be that simple.
Climate change probably has myriad causes of which human affairs, while significant, are only one.
Ok, that story about the negro looting the Emmy just makes me laugh. At this point, blacks are essentially the real life version of Gremlins; creating chaos wherever they go. I can just imagine him coming home to his momma “Looks ma I finally did it, I gots a Grammy!” “Oh Shitaveous I knew you’d makes somethin of yourself!”
In the article it also says he crashed his vehicle into another car in his attempt to get away from police. If they weren’t so dangerous, black people would be purest form of entertainment known to man!
-Rooster
A “decedent” is a person who has died. The term is usually found in legal documents, such as a will. I think you mean “descendants”.
This, plus your inability to spell “São Paulo”, plus your whiny anti-Boomer tantrum, establishes you as a soft crybaby blithering f–ktard, like so many of you entitled dumbasses these days.
Reading crap like this makes me hope that the cuckwhite Milleni-bitches and Grade / Gen Z clowns get a perpetual arse-whooping from their yellow and brown overlords of the future. I’ll be long gone–I hate non-Whites, but I hate race traitor weasels even more.
But then they’d all be Beverly Hill-Billies
You have never seen the move Skokie with Danny Kaye? or heard of Saul Alinsky? Yes, Chicago has Jews! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Chicago
One thing with huge disasters hitting cities, at least in the United States, is that they come back stronger. It happened with Chicago and San Francisco.
It’s the high-pitched squeaking commentary that gets me. Annoys me when a male does it, too.
I assume you’re talking about the big Chicago fire and the San Fran earthquake of well more than a century ago each. There’s a big difference between that old world totally under the White man’s control and the world of today under D.I.E. It’s all the difference in the world.
Jonathan Mason quote that I hadn’t caught before (my bolding):
Bullcrap! Unexpected extreme variations? Who says?
There are bad periods for hurricanes, and there are good periods. Extremely cold winters happen some years, and big heat waves occur in others. You have exactly squat all to back this up with, but you’re extremely susceptible to media hype, Jonathan.
1) As has been discussed, the population has been increasing rapidly (solely due to immigration this century), and people want to live in nice areas. Some, like LA, are really not safe from nature without a lot of work. Others, say, living on the beach, well, we know what can happen. More people are in the vulnerable areas, and property values go up continuously there and everywhere else due to population increase and inflation. Any record of damage in dollars must have all this taken into account.
2) The hype and brainwashing by the Lyin’ Press has been going on for 4 decades now. When did they start naming winter storms, for example? When did every weather phenomenon other than “Mid-60s, partly cloudy skies, chance of rain” become EXTREME?
3) Some of the hype is due to the www and artificial stupidity. I like the maps on the Nat’l Hurricane Center site as much as the next guy. One can get obsessed however. Down in Galveston, Texas over a century ago, nobody had any idea the hurricane was even coming. IIRC multiple thousands of people died. I’m sure it was in the newspapers for some days, but after that, that’s it. It’s certainly great to have the info now so this doesn’t happen, but this makes everyone frantic, even if he lives in freaking Nebraska.
Finally, what’s this “unexpected” part. I thought we had climate models to tell us what to expect.
Heh! That guy’s so lucky that we’re almost guaranteed to see no BIG ONE in LA for at least 4 years and 4 days.
Contractors in the area must be licking their chops; Adam Carolla may want to go back to his old job. Steve, it being California, do they have anti-price gouging laws in place?
Given the disposable income of some of the victims, you could see bidding wars to get things going as soon as possible. You’ll also see the unscrupulous coming out of the woodwork to cash in, especially if a lot of government money is involved.
The area is in for some interesting times. But I remember all the craziness the city has been through (if you’re old enough, both the Watts and Rodney King race riots) and it seems that LA always recovers. I wouldn’t bet against it here.
Looking at subatomic particle behavior, like photons or electrons, physics discovered that the simple Newtonian model of gravity, whereby accurate measurement of mass and motion could predict with 100% accuracy location of a body in a given timeframe (implying a cause-effect relationship), did not work.
For example, light could be understood and investigated as either discrete quanta of energy (photons) or as a wave phenomenon. Electron shells were probabilities, but individual electrons might vary from likely location in a particular timeframe. Randomness, grouped around mathematical probability, rather than 100% predictable causation, was and is the essence of quantum mechanics. Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger accepted this, but Einstein famously did not: hence his much quoted “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the world.” He devoted the last 35 years of his career to a (fruitless) search for an underlying Theory of Everything that could restore causation and 100% predictability to subatomic physics. Thus even he was drawn to that theoretical certainty that I assume explains the tendency to extremes in the modern intellectual.
In your related article on Jerry Pournelle, the link to Robert Heinlein’s critique is broken. Try
https://www.heinleinarchive.org/product-page/opus-174-analysis-the-mote-in-god-s-eye
It will cost you $5.00, and includes letters back and forth. I’m thinking about it.
In Hollywood, a big head is key!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9cV6qr4l7yk
This just highlights the tragedy.
Steve shouldn’t have to or really have any inducement to move–at least beyond the natural issues of earthquake and fire. Southern California has the best climate in the United States–one of the best in the world–and spectacular scenery.
But is it full of heritage Americans? Full of the descendants of the people who fought for American independence?, fought the Mexicans to liberate California? settled the prairies? got in wagons and crossed and settled the West? Uh no. The best real estate in the United States is now full of people with shallow roots in America and many with no roots at all and many with no loyalty to the American nation.
Lots of serviceman from elsewhere in America–especially Navy guys like my dad, my uncles–were introduced to California during their stint. And a fair number found a way to settle there after the War as California boomed. (My dad had a good friend who did this.) And helped produced a Golden Age. Now many of them or their children have fled, either because they want to live in America or do not want to be incessantly looted by a parasitic state.
As a kid growing up in Ohio, I thought I might be able to out to and enjoy California some day. I wanted to be a physicist and maybe could get a job at Livermore or get a job in one of California’s great universities. I could live there now. But the heck if I want to have the parasites put a ring in my nose and milk me like a cow.
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I had a back ‘n’ forth with Bromance over the fire cause issue.
Our hurricanes in Florida are arguably getting worse/more frequent from higher sea surface temps. But these fires have little to nothing to do with “global warming”. The Santa Anas are katabatic winds, driven by cold dense inland–which is why they are fall and winter winds, not summer winds. (They are hot, because they heat, speed up and dry out as they are driven down slope.)
Warming probably is driving somewhat bigger/more frequent fires in the West. But the biggest reason we are seeing more dramatic fire losses is simply there are more people out in–or up against–the woods in the West. (Imagine the losses if the Big Burn of 1910 was happening now?) And simple “more people” from immigration has certainly jacked up the losses in these LA fires. People have lived in the Hollywood hills for over a century–the views are gorgeous. But there definitely are more people in LA and crammed hard against the mountain/scrubland boundary because California’s population has tripled during my life.
But an additional factor with immigration has been the political transformation. California as a western state was “progressive”–in the old sense–but tended to vote pretty much as white America voted. Post-War it even had a slight Republican lean, voting–very slightly–for Nixon over Kennedy and Ford over Carter and generally Republican governors with your two Browns mixed in with a stream of Republicans like Warren, Reagan, Deukmejian, Davis.
But the immigration tsunami just buried all that. California doesn’t vote anything like America anymore. And, of course, it’s not that the immigrants themselves are wedded to the idea of lesbian fire chiefs. It’s that under the big umbrella of the minoritarian grievance and patronage, they vote for the Parasite Party run by people who love lesbian fire chiefs, “pride” parades, DEI hectoring, lockdowns and vaccine mandates and is dramatically less interested in tedious governing issues like adequate water, fire breaks, fire protective building codes and staffing competent firemen,
California is now run as a Parasite Party protection racket. You want the great climate and scenery–you pay. John Gotti and his ilk were small timers compared to what’s happened in California.
“Dude, they’re literally decamping to other States.”
Who? Where? In what numbers? Be specific, Hoss.
“raise your hand if you want Trump to take your tax dollars and give it to rich Democrats who literally want you dead, so that they can build a brand new mansion in LA.”
President Trump would never do that! No, Our President is gonna take your paycheck and your savings and build brand-new multimillion dollar mansions with inflation. Print baby print 💸💸💸💸
To protect your sanity, definitely do not watch Our President’s inauguration on our nation’s most holy day next Monday when he promises to rebuild LA viz a trillion dollar fresh print
JB was born in California, but I grant that his family has operated the Pritzker crime syndicate out of Chicago for a long time.
Rahm actually was born in Chicago, but I think he lives in Tokyo now?
Oh, come on, man! Et tu, A/D? You can even go to wiki for your (adoptive?) State of Florida. Go to the Florida table. See the rash of 4’s and 5’s in the late 1940s. Do you see the total lack of hurricanes hitting Florida in the whole decade of 2005 to ’15? What happened, did y’all park your SUVs for that period?
Go back to prior to century ago and further and it looks all nice and calm, just a few 1’s and 2’s mostly, with a sprinkling of 3’s That’s because there was nobody there to notice and record them. No NOAA, no satellites, no Hurricane Hunter C-130s. The last 5 years, plus Michael and Irma just before have been bad, but that’s not a long-term trend.
Here are NOAA collected tracks – look at the blue and purple tracks, most from previous decades.
As for the rest of your post, sure agreed – see They Called it Paradise (I was there!) – but just turn off the TV! They’ve got you suckered into believing this scam too?
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[EDIT:] I see you wrote “arguably”. Yes, you could say that! ;-}
They need to adopt Japanese construction methods:
Brick, concrete, stone = fireproof.
Anchors driven deep into the earth = earthquakeproof.
It takes longer but it means you don’t have to lose all your possessions amd rebuild from scratch every other decade.
OT — Peace deal — Apparently Israel is accepting a completely raw deal it hates (many of the conditions are things Israel specifically rejected in the past, such as releasing captured terrorists) because its inept joke army, which has been seeing desertions and suicides in unprecedented numbers, has in the past few weeks weathered a spike in these events and in non-suicide soldiers’ deaths, while Hamas holds everything it held from day one, and has more than replenished its numbers. One soldier described a Vietnam-like nightmare of being sent out to recapture the same area over and over, maximum effort with zero accomplishment and surreal repetition. I am trying to locate the response of a certain Juris Doctor, which I suspect of salt and spice, and to have primed the nozzle for top zozzle, but he appears to have been on break of late.
OT: Occam’s Razor (alas not Butter-Knife) was name-checked on the Clay Travis/Buck Sexton show today and also on YouTube:
Note that YouTube video is about an event that Massachusetts based blogger/journalist Aidan Kearney (AKA Turtleboy) was (de facto) jailed for reporting on. Interestingly, one of his charges is for conspiracy for (de facto) reporting on a conspiracy that we are told does not exist because conspiracies do not exist.
Didn’t say it was. There’s this thing called weather. (My area hadn’t had a cane since ’04, and we’ve had five do some–minor–damage since we moved in 8 years ago.)
But basic physics–warmer sea temperatures will give you more/stronger hurricanes. And the atmospheric CO2 level has gone up about 30%–100 ppm during my life:
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
and the temperature is about–or getting near to–1 degree warmer.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
Of course, this has upsides.
— It’s warmer! The biggest chunk of warming has been Arctic nights–they needed it
— The extra CO2 has been absolutely terrific for agriculture. A lot of yield improvement has been driven by tech, including genetics, but the increased CO2 has made life easier for plants.
— Speculative, but I think we’ve seen off a return of the ice age. The Holocene is getting kind of long in tooth and dropping back into an ice age would be disaster. Biological life has been removing CO2 from the atmosphere–leaving it trapped in sediment–for the past few billion years. And with the speedup since the Cambrian explosion we’ve ended up with the Cenozoic being cold, to the point where we’ve fallen into this pattern of repeated severe glaciation the last 3 million years or so. Nasty stuff.
Of course, these cycles–long and short–are mostly driven by orbital and solar effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
But this long down trend in CO2 to paltry levels certainly had an effect. And we fixed it! Or at least mitigated it.
Rubbing noses with your eskimo girl may sound kinda fun, but you really don’t want to live in one of these ice ages. Brrr!
So build a bonfire, fire up the barbie and celebrate! I’m prediction warming weather over the next six months.
“Rahm actually was born in Chicago, but I think he lives in Tokyo now?”
A-bomb joke: Validated!
Agree. Paying worthless DEI bureaucrats $700,000 a year. Taking 3 weeks to count votes after an election. The graft is out of control.
I’ve visited California, Florida and Hawaii. Beautiful weather and scenery. Great places to vacation, but after a few days I start getting fidgety.
Guess it’s a matter of preference, but I prefer seasons. The shock of thick air hitting me in the face when stepping out the door in July and the temp and humidity are both 95. Spend a few hours working outside and then sit down under a shade tree. Iced down beer never tasted better.
Listening to frogs sing the first warm evening in spring. Taking kids fishing after they’ve been cooped up all winter in school. Digging worms for bait in the garden spot, paddling the john boat to the perfect spot under a cypress tree with a wood duck nest box hanging over the leaf stained water.
Nothing more distracting from life’s problems than sitting on a deer stand in November and watching whitetails rustling through the freshly fallen leaves feeding on acorns. Hoping the does don’t get downwind and spook, ending the chance of a buck checking them out.
I like snow and cold in the winter, relaxing by the fireplace while the wind whistles outside.
I could never live in Southern California or Florida even if Ron was the governor and Steve was the mayor, the boring weather would kill me.
OT — DAVID LYNCH HAS DIED.
[breaks pencil]
Good point about Alinksy, but he’s been dead for half a century.
Alden’s references to “fortresses” has me trying to think of someone currently active.
The main reason the entertainment industry is based in southern California is the weather, which permits year-round filming, something not possible in most of the rest of the country.
The advent of CGI/AI renders this consideration irrelevant. Live action films will soon be as quaint as black and white films.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/california-uhaul-growth-state-index/
You want their names and addresses too? Maybe a notarized affidavit that the ocean is wet?
Carbon dioxide is only 3.6% of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and man-made carbon dioxide is less than 0.1% of it.
So even if CO2 has gone up 30%, which even if true is not necessarily manmade, that just means that overall greenhouse gasses have gone up by a measly 0.8%, basically a rounding error, or by 0.008% of the total atmosphere, even less than a rounding error.
Water vapor is 95% of greenhouse gas. If we really do want to return to the Ice Age, the way to do it is a War on Water Vapor (95% of the Greenhouse), not a War on Carbon (3.6% of the Greenhouse)!
Or, if it’s an ersatz religious argument that we must remove all the manmade carbon because manmade carbon is an affront to Mother Gaia, then we can spend a few $trillion and probably cause a few famines (“Human sacrifice is back on the menu, boys & girls!”) to reduce carbon from 0.036% to 0.035% of the atmosphere. Big whoop. Expectations of changing the weather from that are … overblown.
— Warming periods have tended to coincide with rising civilization and cooling periods with civilizational collapses.
You have to be yellow to get away with that though.
Any group of white men who did that would soon be facing something much more dangerous than rioters or looters (see: Waco 1993)
David Lynch is dead. Both the NYTimes and the LATimes glaringly omit his vaccine status.
Follow the Science!
Maybe, before everyone starts making building plans, we should ask ourselves if building in many areas of Pacific Palisades, and especially Malibu is a terrible idea in the first place.
What’s wrong with a federal imminent domain mandate that pays off Malibu property owners the going market price, tax free, especially on the shoreline, and leaving it as an open park reserve from now on?
All geologists have confirmed long ago that the soil grade in all of Malibu is piss poor for building. When that soil reaches a certain, and reliable amount of rain exposure, those hills turn effectively into a slip-n-slide, making long-term housing impossible. So, whether it’s fire of mudslides in Malibu, it’s not a question of “if,” but “when.”
Why should insurance companies be forced to support this luxury, at the expense of insurance clients who choose NOT to build or live in a fucking delusion?
Why am *I* forced to support Rob Reiner’s psychopathy?!
Isn’t about time the greater population of Southern California tell these weird queebs to fuck right off?
Besides, if one breaks down the carbon footprint not only for these places to exist on Malibu shores, the footprint exists in the building, burning, flooding, tearing down, and REBUILDING over the decades! When one factors all that inevitable waste just to continue to exist, Malibu and PP may have largest carbon footprint in the state!
This insanity MUST be the operating premise of EVERY conversation dealing with the fate of Pacific Palisades and ESPECIALLY the Crazy Fucks of Malibu!
Pacific Palisades isn’t fit for building in many areas!!!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-16/home-that-survived-palisades-fire-split-in-half-by-landslide
Thanks. I knew that the War Street Journal is reflexively sympathetic and cheerleaderish toward various interests that do not merit the same. But I had not been aware that obnoxious billionaires have apparently been added to the “House Rules” list of the favored. This is significant.
Exactly. Increased CO2 is mostly beneficial to mankind and life on our planet. Increased CO2 levels helps plants and crops grow helping our forests grow etc… Life thrived on Earth when CO2 levels were 20 times higher.
A warmer planet also brings more benefits than a cooling planet. Humans thrived during the Roman Climate optimum , so named because it was warmer than today and thus better for humans.
He probably meant Einstein’s refusal to accept the standard interpretation of quantum theory because it is founded on probabilities of wave function as the fundamental principle of nature’s workings at microscopic level.
Einstein didn’t claim that quantum theory was wrong, but that it was incomplete & he hoped that some other, superior theory would replace it, re-affirming “normal”, causal & non-probabilistic way how the micro-world operates.
Unfortunately for him, he contributed to quantum entanglement discovery, which proved that the quantum point of view is correct & that at the deepest level Heisenberg & comp were right, so that actually “God does play dice”.
Do they still sell calipers in Ireland? To children?
Without the Prussians saving the day, Wellington would have been toast.
Maybe she used a tape measure?
The text says “width” but in the audio she says “circumference”.
Maybe his emphysema from 60 years of chain-smoking played a role?
Agreed.
Negroes are tragic, yet often comically so. You can’t take what good happens to them, or what bad happens to them, very seriously. They’re just too silly. Even they seem understand it, subconsciously.
https://www.youtube.com/live/YWaxSKsWVzg?si=GqGQU2MMeyRfH_em
So did Bob Uecker.
Oh no! He didn’t make it to 79!
I kneel, I genuflect, I lie prone, in all gratitude.
https://deadline.com/2025/01/david-lynch-dead-twin-peaks-blue-velvet-elephant-man-1236258625/
“Shoveling snow is called exercise. …”
Not a healthy form though. Moderate exercise on a regular basis is good for you. On the other hand unaccustomed heavy exertion can kill you.
“Plus Los Angeles is one of the three most important Jew and progressive fortresses that control America. NYC Chicago and LA.”
Which were for a long time the three most populous and important cities in the United States. Almost like American Jews tended to live where other Americans lived.
The billionaire Jew Marxist extremist progressive Pritzker family. Weather underground veterans like Bernadette Dohrn and Bill Ayer who sponsored Obama. Obama’s great uncle on the Dunham side of the family a communist. Headquarters of the communist party USA for decades. Stalin selected the Chicago location. The Jewish riots at the 196os Chicago democrat convention That leftist Jewish law firm Michelle worked for where Obama worked 3 law school summers I forget the name of the firm. And met Michelle. Probably arranged marriage brokered by the Jew lawyers in that firm.
Chicago like New York Minnesota and Wisconsin have a long history of 19th century European & Jewish immigrant anarchist radical socialist radical blacks like the black Muslims Chicago is their headquarters Black Panthers and Jewish communists pretending to be socialists.
Chief Financial Officer of once mighty Sears Roebuck was a Jew who embezzled tens of millions from Sears to finance black colleges the NAACP and other radical communist movements. Julius Rosenwald sponsor of Booker T Washington great friend of the negrões
Chicago has a more than 120 year old history of Jew communism using blacks. And Chicago Jews are tied to. black activism
It sounds like you hate any criticism of Boomers even even more!
Being critical of a generation is not race-treason. If you were pro-White, you would welcome a discussion of what went wrong with the “Greatest Generation” and the Boomers who collective betrayed White America.
Welp… he never retired.
He was fired by William Morris.
And yet, we hear a band.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/snoopy-really-was-a-beagle/#comment-6112488 (#4)
Nice to see a reference to Mike Davis’s wacky book. A week after reading his crazy claim that Los Angeles was really the tornado capital of the United States (a fact concealed by a conspiracy led by the chamber of commerce), my sister’s neighborhood was ripped apart by a tornado. Hmmm ….
Weak reply. Shoulda replied “There is no vaccine for AIDS.”
😂
Or even “But there’s no vaccine for gay.”
😂
Or even “Vaccines hadn’t been invented yet.”
😆
I have never seen any evidence, like polling results, that indicates Whites who came after Boomer Whites are less likely to vote for anti-White Democrat politicians than Boomer Whites are. Our decline can’t really be attributed to either old Whites or young Whites in particular.
What has happened is the rise of special interest groups who influence government officials to put into effect subsidies, tax breaks or regulations that benefit that particular special interest group rather than focusing on the good of the country as a whole. This has been discussed by a number of writers like Mancur Olson.
Since “climate change” is a communist hoax, none of them was caused by it.
So the fact that every White country on earth is being turned non-White is just a weird thing that happened? Nothing more to see? Not worth investigating? Just focus on economics, eh.
Odd that similar forces didn’t turn Japan non-Japanese.
If it’s okay, Whites are going to keep talking about the betrayal of Whites.
There’s no doubt from a European perspective that summers are getting warmer and winters less cold. Skiing in Scotland over 20 years I’ve seen the change.
Similarly in Iceland I’ve seen glaciers retreating in almost real time – a five year break between visits and the thing’s gone back several hundred yards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3lheimaj%C3%B6kull
“Odd that similar forces didn’t turn Japan non-Japanese.”
Japan has been committing slow racial suicide by not having children. According to the Harvard International Review, its government is dealing with Japan’s aging population and worker shortages by recently increasing immigration. So, yes, Japan is moving in the direction of turning non-Japanese.
I did not say us turning non-White is just a weird thing happening. I said it is not just the fault of Boomers and their parents.
Big Business benefits when it can import cheap labor and the cost of government benefits for immigrant families is borne by taxpayers. Privatize the profits and socialize the costs is what Big Business wants. Liberals want more clients for the welfare state who will vote to put them in office in exchange for more free stuff. This is not just White Boomer liberals but younger White liberals too like Gavin Newsom or Justin Trudeau up in Canada. The current woke version of liberalism also contains anti-White elements in its belief system. Once again, not just a Boomer thing here.
“Not a healthy form though. Moderate exercise on a regular basis is good for you. On the other hand unaccustomed heavy exertion can kill you. ”
Please link to the epidemic of deaths by unaccustomed heavy exertion.
Israel hasn’t accepted anything because what’s left of the Hamas politburo keeps changing the terms.
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Their inept joke army has liquidated the paramilitary force you fancy.
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The truly inept joke army is Russia’s.
You live in much of the country, it’s not unaccustomed. Get a push shovel.
Suicide would be different than genocide. But that’s not happening either.
Japan is not turning non-Japanese. And almost certainly the robotics revolution will take care of Japan in the long run.
Japan has 2.7% immigrant population! But even more, it is legal in Japan to discriminate against them. There is no policy of forced integration that “melts” the Japanese into some non-Japanese blob.
Per Harvard:
It ain’t the same thing as what’s being done to White countries.
OK, so after seeing “Nosferatu,” I finally had to go and also see the other vampire movie that’s showing, the Bob Dylan pic.
My review (assuming you care) is split into two parts: the standard movie-nerd review, and then a more metaphysical look, if you can stand it, and if not then just skip.
HERE-GOES-NUTHIN, REGULAR GUY REVIEW:
HEADLINE: Yeah, it’s watchable and competent and period-accurate and not embarrassing, but not great: they could have done something great here but they didn’t, and the reasons why it’s just OK instead of great are all too workaday plain.
1. It’s a bio-pic, so it has some inherent drawbacks: you already know what’s gonna happen (young wide-eyed rube Bobby Dylan hits the scene, gains hard-won Experience, then leaves all his old friends behind, cauterizes his emotional wounds from his various betrayals, and becomes the older and wiser “Bob” Dylan, a superstar!). And plus there’s a lot of just-so story kind of dreck (Hi there! My name is Pete Seeger/Albert Grossman/Joan Baez/Al Kooper, and I’ll now be playing my dutiful Lego-like part in your saga! Buckle in!)
2. I know this whole thing was at least in part conceived as a star vehicle for Timothee Chalamet, simply because he’s the same age/body fit/career turning point; but man, that kid simply does not have the moral weight or spiritual gravity to play somebody as heavy and as hard as Dylan. Timmy’s got technical skills and chops, as he showed in “Wonka”, and he also has severe limitations as he showed in “Dune.” It turns out to be an embarrassment for him, he simply can’t pull it off, it’s like asking Charles Nelson Reilly to play Beethoven.
3. James Mangold is a totally competent work-for-a-living, DGA dues-paying, paycheck-cashing film maker. I know everybody in Hollywood thinks they are a visionary, but memo to James: You. Are. Not. A. Visionary. Just point the camera in the right direction, keep it on schedule and under budget, cash the check, and then go home and do some blow and fuck a stripper at your getaway place in Ojai. You don’t have any insights about Life, and even if you did, we rilly don’t want to hear them.
4. The movie is sort of doomed from the start as an art project, because it is the Servant of Four Masters (or more). It wants to be a low-budget indie flick, but it also wants to be a showcase for Timothee, and it also wants to be the dream-fuck of a bunch of executives who have been creaming themselves for years about a low-budget movie about all the high-minded pre-hippy wankers down on Bleecker in 1962 before JFK got shot.
5. Who should we cast in the critical role of the pivotal-but-betrayed Pete Seeger: the avuncular, pleasant, now-elder-statesman Edward Norton? Or the grating, obnoxious, more accurate Steve Buscemi? Ah, feckit, let’s go with the easy choice, Mangold will figure it out, I hear he’s a visionary.
OK now too long, personal metaphysical grouch TK.
Thanks, Germ. I will wait for the DVD.
“It aint the same thing as what’s being done to White countries.”
Because, since Asians are not Whites, they do not act exactly the same as Whites. I am trying to convince you here that all Boomers are not enemies of young White people, that some of us did what we could to reverse the decline and that we have sympathy for young White people who will inherit the huge national debt and have to live in an America that is minority White.
Our problem is the corrupt parasitic elites at the top and a large welfare dependent underclass that helps to put these elites in power by voting for them in exchange for free stuff. This underclass is mostly non-White and is expanding due to our lax immigration policy that is supported by the elites. These elites include Boomers but also include people younger than Boomers. Am I getting through to you here that we need to focus on fighting these corrupt parasitic elites rather than having a inter-generational quarrel? The parasitic elites benefit from shifting the focus off them.
Different nations just have different ideas about what is safe or dangerous, right and wrong, and how much the legal system should intervene.
In the UK it has been illegal to use a cell phone or text for many years, and there seems to be no strong movement to reverse the law. Even some quite famous people like entertainers and politicians have been criminally convicted for this. Even for looking at a text when stopped at traffic lights. However, you can still use a phone to pay a toll on a bridge, tunnel, or road and you can make an emergency 999 call.
Taxi drivers can only use taxi apps hands free, and if they are caught handling their phone while the engine is running, could lose their taxi license.
Now the Supreme Court has upheld a law to ban TikTok, not for road safety, but supposedly because China is using it, or could potentially use it for espionage. Meanwhile, no other country has current legislation in process to ban TikTok for this reason, though I suppose the EU might be looking at banning Facebook for posting propaganda and Amazon for tax evasion.
This is the beauty of democracy. Populations can make whatever laws they like, regardless of whether other nations think they are potty.
Agree with most of your points. The jury is still out on whether humans are responsible for climate change. In the past volcanic eruptions have also had their roles to play, especially in the winters of 536 and 1814, and the dinosaurs certainly didn’t go extinct for no reason.
However, there is no doubt that global warming is happening, which is causing a huge amount of disruption to human life, for example people who depend on hydro electricity are experiencing droughts, people who live in hurricane zones can’t get home insurance, etc.
The Romans certainly had a good run of good weather. In a few years from now people may be celebrating the vineyards of Britain again.
However a lot of antipollution measures have done no harm. London no longer has the deadly smogs of the 1950s and the buildings of northern England are no longer as black as miners’ lungs.
Removing lead from gasoline seems to have done no harm, and a gradual switch over to generating electricity by sun, wind, water, and tides seems like progress. Replacing ICE automobiles and diesel buses with clean public transportation and electric vehicles also seems like a worthy project, regardless of climate change.
Yes, some people get a bit silly about carbon footprints, but it is a sad fact that the average IQ of human beings is no better than average.
Being 78 was probably a not-insignificant factor as well.
Full disclosure, I am relatively anti-vax.
LOL, yeah, it’s quite a coincidence, let’s throw in Philly, Miami, and San Francisco on that list of “Jewish Strongholds” as well!
Liquidation was what we all thought they were doing.
Agree, but who are the Prussians in Steve’s analogy?
Hint: Rain.
10,000 years ago, much of northern Pennsylvania was under 10,000 feet of ice. It’s been getting warmer ever since. It’s called an interglacial.
True.
But if Ney hadn’t bungled at Quatre Bras, Napoleon would have breakfasted in Brussels on the 17th.
I have.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/minnesota-engages-in-more-isteve-content-generation/#comment-6620220
That’s true, but did how those particular special interest groups rise rather than other special interest groups or no special interest groups at all?
Part of the answer may be the natural effect of an outsize generation in a democratic market economy state, as averred in the latter part of my linked comment, but I also think that the Boomers cultivated a self-conscious sense of generational identity to the detriment of everyone else.
I’m not saying I blame anyone here individually, but as a generation, the Boomers really were a glitch in the matrix. Whether that itself spawned the ensuing collapse or it simply presented an opportunity for other malign actors to wreak havoc is beyond my ken though.
I seem to be too dense to take a hint.
From your negative comments here I’m surprised that you appear to live in the Cali hellhole full of danger.
Not in the Central Valley either…
Not every low water plant is highly flammable and as I said, bioengineering could eliminate or replace existing flammable brush. You might have to water some of the replacements and/or hire crews to remove bigger fire risks. Yes, expensive but not rocket science.
There seem to be plenty of homeless bums in LA who could chop down brush and maintain hydrants and pipes for water. Of course, they would need to be “incentivized” to actually work.
Fire breaks also need labor to maintain.
None of the solutions are free. Even if no houses were up in these hills, under present conditions the hills would be on fire periodically during the high winds and dry climate.
The cost of the “reclaimed” high view RE will have to be high enough to cover fire risk prevention measures. Plus, better fire codes for houses. And actual reservoirs full of water.
From what I now read, the Cali insurance industry is planning to increase homeowner insurance for everyone in the state, not just the LA hills. Another reason to leave.
Iowa seems pretty safe, yet celebrities not yet flocking there. Yes, tornados and blizzards happen also. And the corn, so much corn…
Alden, keep us posted on your relocation plans…
Thanks.
Yes, unsold “art” worth “millions” up in smoke now.
Where was Hunter during the initial fire outbreaks? How much insurance did he buy to cover these precious artworks?
Thank God his pardon didn’t cover future acts of grift and scam…
Regarding “There Will Be Blood”, I couldn’t handle how the younger preacher guy was named “William Sunday” and I was like “oh, so this is partly about the early days of Billy Sunday, the athletic revivalist who became a radio star in the 1920s preaching “Muscular Christianity”. Then later DDL or somebody calls him “Billy” and I’m all like “yep, right again”, and then near the end he says he’s started preaching on the radio, which clinches it. And then it turns out he’s NOT Billy Sunday. Because nobody under 100 knows who he was any more. And they know nobody else does either. Because they don’t know anything, because all they do is thumb on their pimped-out cellphones, because they’re simpletons. Why’d you get me started?
But they won’t sing the same song if a snow storm of the same kind who hit Montreal in 1971 called “Storm of the century” happens.
Yes, but all the legal strings are pulled for the gaggle of cops involved, even if they’re all dirty to some degree. Even then, he only went in after “assaulting” an ex while on bail.
But is it full of heritage Americans? Full of the descendants of the people who fought for American independence?
I visited The Alamo once. The memorial of the chaps who died there showed that an awful lot of them were not heritage Americans or the descendants of the people who fought for American independence.
Not only that, but what did they think they were going to accomplish, besides clogging the stairwells?
Paul Thomas Anderson really needs somebody to collaborate with him on writing his screenplays. For example, the true story behind “There Will Be Blood” of the Doheny family is much more dramatic than the fictionalized story in the movie.
Yes, and my understanding is that we should be heading back that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Present_and_future_conditions
One trouble with the climate wars is that it’s getting harder to find information that’s not been “got at”.
But one indicator that our elites may be less worried about climate change (than they would like us to be) is that beach property prices aren’t collapsing, and that a recent US President spent a lot of cash on a seafront spread at Martha’s Vineyard.
If you have personally observed Iceland glaciers retreating and becoming smaller due to warmer weather melting the glacier; why do you post a Wikipedia article?
Hunter (and Kamala) was in the room for FJB’s farewell speech.
OK so now here is part two of my review of the Bob Dylan bio-pic. The first part was just a plain obligatory overview of the ups and downs of the thing. This part is more personal, so, just go ahead and skip it if you hate my personality, as some people around here do.
I think that in a perfect world, the movie would also come in two parts: Part One would just be a re-tread of the facts for those, like today’s kids, who just don’t know: Bobby Dylan showed up in the Village circa 1961, he was kind of an unwashed naive (but not illiterate) UMC-slash-country-boy seeking to re-invent himself in the Big City; he was lucky enough to meet a bunch of very influential people like Suze Rotolo, Joan Baez, John Hammond, Tom Wilson and Albert Grossman, and their various influences helped to shape him into who and what he later became. That much is not so very controversial.
A good Part Two would be sort of a deeper dive, a more character-driven investigation into what this all meant, or might have meant, and to whom, meaning that there were different players on the scene, and differing points of view. That is the part (and I think the more interesting part) that unfortunately didn’t get made, and the part we don’t have, oh well.
You can be true, you can be false.
You’ll be given the same reward.
Socrates, and Milhouse Nixon
Both went the same way, through the kitchen.
— The Clash (or at least you would think, wouldn’t ya?), “The Magnificent Seven”
One of the funny things about Bleecker Street in NYC is how many stories it has, and also how many stories it sort of doesn’t have, the ones we never heard. Walk down MacDougal and look at all those walk-up apartments: all of them filled, decade after decade, with hopefuls… they were all gonna be famous poets, folk stars, rock stars, hip-hop stars, playwrights, novelists, crusading journalists… yet who do we know about? Bob Dylan, Lanford Wilson, Adrienne Kennedy, Patti Smith, Frank O’Hara, Mark Alan Stamaty, it’s actually a pretty short list, compared to the long list of all the anonymous would-be contenders.
Before Bobby Dylan walked down that street, went Allen Ginsberg and Frank O’Hara and Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns; and before them, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline; and before them, e.e. cummings and W.C. Williams and before them, guys circa 1905 we’ve never even heard of.
And flashing forward into the 70s it’s Lou Reed and Bob Wilson and Laurie Anderson and Ron Vawter and Spaulding Gray and Elizabeth LeComte and Bruce and that fucker O’Donoghue and Kathy Acker, in the 80s it’s a certain formerly homeless teen runaway girl who shall remain nameless who wrote a lot of hit songs via pillow talk and didn’t get the credit. Oh, and also me. I had the great romance circa 1985 of dating the smartest prettiest girl in the world whose parents had an apartment on Bleecker but who conveniently buggered off to their summer home in the summer, making it our love nest. But at that point Bleecker was already a tourist museum, the real scene had decamped to Avenue B and Williamsburg and these days even –gasp!– bloody Bushwick. And besides, no one cared: our Dylanesque Folk City Scene of any kind of lore was actually the avant-garde theatre, the world of The Civil Wars and the Wooster Group and “LSD” and Charles Ludlam and it all got wiped out by AIDS, there was never any money in it to begin with and nobody but us cared. But trust me it was far more brilliant than all that other $hit.
The point is, one would have liked to have seen a movie about the real heartache of it all: I would love to see a scene of Dylan dejectedly cashing a royalty check for the Turtles cover of “It Ain’t Me Babe” and thinking, Those cocksuckers never knew what I went through with Suze and Joan, the fucking Byrds with their shitty Listerine version of Mister Tambourine Man, they don’t know where that came from, they have no idea.
That would of made me laugh.
But “they,” whoever you mean, would be prepared for it.
That is my whole point.
Those who are not prepared will have a lesser chance of passing on their genes. It is simple.
Think.
The watershed event for this was the Union victory in the 1861-65 war paid for by financial interests and fought for the purpose of raising federal $$ from tariffs to be repurposed for the benefit of railroads and other special interests. Consider the war a down payment on 160 years of spoils. Visit Newport, RI and you’ll see the spoils transformed into homes.
“Not only that, but what did they think they were going to accomplish, besides clogging the stairwells?”
I expect they thought they were going to put out the fires. And maybe rescue some people. What firemen do.
“Please link to the epidemic of deaths by unaccustomed heavy exertion.”
See here.
“But with really big snow storms – and even everyday, run-of-the-mill snowfalls – comes a risk of death by shoveling. Nationwide, snow shoveling is responsible for thousands of injuries and as many as 100 deaths each year.”
“So, why so many deaths? Shoveling snow is just another household chore, right?”
“Not really, says the American Heart Association. While most people won’t have a problem, shoveling snow can put some people at risk of heart attack. Sudden exertion, like moving hundreds of pounds of snow after being sedentary for several months, can put a big strain on the heart. Pushing a heavy snow blower also can cause injury.”
“And, there’s the cold factor. Cold weather can increase heart rate and blood pressure. It can make blood clot more easily and constrict arteries, which decreases blood supply. This is true even in healthy people. Individuals over the age of 40 or who are relatively inactive should be particularly careful.”
Operation Getback?
“Hint: Rain. ”
Greenhouse gasses: Rain is a liquid. Water vapor is a gas.
Hope.
Was waiting for the CTA bus during a snowstorm and a hispanic restraurant employee came out with something similar to this to clear the sidewalk.
It’s amazing how fast he was able to clear the walk.
I’m pretty good with maps and I can easily see one thing. Not to mention that I know it from experience too. There are only limited land gates in an out of the Los Angeles basin and the California Southland in general. If it ever gets serious – really serious to the extent of millions displaced by fire – there will be no way for the people who live there to evacuate. Moving in supplies and the forces necessary to provision people and set up a system of martial law will take days to even get started and weeks to complete.
Meanwhile, there are forces there that will seek to take advantage of the situation whether out of plain criminal motives or out of ideological motives.
One of my little dictums is, vote for the party of war in order to make a cultural statement, and war may be what you get. The situation of Los Angeles may be a variation on that. Vote for the party of dysfunctional governance in order to make a cultural statement, and dysfunction make be what you will get. The present fires in Los Angeles are just a foretaste of what could happen.
Some would say, though, both institutional parties in America are parties of dysfunctional governance. They may be right.
I think people have the wrong idea about Detroit. Detroit always had a large black population. As time changed and decentralization proceeded, everybody else left. The blacks, being moribund, stayed behind.
Apparently Detroit still has a thriving downtown full of office towers. There must be a lot commuters working there. But someone who is closer to the situation might be better able to explain it.
Meanwhile, all of the communities around Detroit are going strong economically. But, again, I’m far away from Michigan.
Human being have this uncanny way of always and perpetually creating their own imagined apocalypse.
It’s true that too much can be made of the generational thing. One way to end the inter-generational quarrel is for Boomers (and older) to talk about what led them to go along with the destruction of their own people. And if they didn’t like it, why were they so weak in the face of it? Why were they unable to stop it? Why so impotent?
If every White country in the West is quickly destroyed in a systematic way during a certain time, it is worth knowing what the attitudes of people were at the time.
There are always “parasitic elites”, always have been. Pointing to that doesn’t answer a key question: what was going on with the “Greatest Generation” and Boomers that allowed them, as a group, to let this happen. I don’t care much about the national debt. Economic cycles and bankruptcy cure themselves. I care about the destruction of a people, which is a different category than mere budgetary concerns.
I’ve also notice that obsessing over the machinations of this or that elite often avoids racial thinking. Like the Alex Jones approach that says “we need to quit worrying about race and focus on the Satanic elite” or whatever.
Middle aged somewhat overweight guys dropping dead while shoveling snow off their driveways has been a stereotype my whole life.
Trust stereotypes!
Run toward the flames.
Europeans vacation a lot in Switzerland. They have a lot of family snapshots in their photo albums of Alpine glaciers extending far lower in elevation than they do today. The Alps are in the dead center of the most well-documented place on earth.
Obama’s house appears to be well inland from his beach. Is it uphill? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
David Geffen sold his five lot spread on the beach at Malibu a few years ago to retreat to a Manhattan penthouse. I started to take global warming quite seriously at that point.
I really hope that was a joke.
Don’t know, America, even California, was a more serious place in the 1980s, and that’s when you used to hear that the Big One was coming, just a matter of time. The coast of California (up from there too) is in an earthquake zone that goes around by Alaska, down to Japan, etc.
You can’t spend your life worrying about this, BUT (and because (1)):
1) Perhaps science work will allow more warning in the future, but generally you don’t get much of one.
2) They affect big areas in one fell swoop, a matter of seconds. They can’t be “fought”, per se, with good strategy and tactics, like the fires. Deaths may be few, but property destruction could be massive.
Going back, when it comes to well-populated areas, that Northridge quake in ’94 was of Richter scale magnitude 6.7, the ’89 Loma Prieta (on the hills above Santa Cruz*) was a 6.9. and that Whittier quake of ’87 was 5.9. This Richter is a log (base 10) scale based on wave amplitude, which comes to mean a 32 x increase in energy released per point.
By “Big One”, I guess they were talking about an 8 or higher somewhere in a big population center. The famous 1906 San Francisco one was said to be a 7.9. (Fire from broken gas lines cause much of the damage – things like that can be learned from and hopefully have.)
I guess you could ask a seismologist whether an earthquake apocalypse is just in his imagination. No, I don’t lose sleep over it, and Californians shouldn’t either. It’ll be sure to wake you up! ;-}
I just wondered why you don’t hear that talk anymore, is all.
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* Got the Doobies in my head now, not a bad thing!
It’s up a hill, but not a big one. More of a slope.
The island does have some cliffs though.
“If you have personally observed Iceland glaciers retreating and becoming smaller due to warmer weather melting the glacier; why do you post a Wikipedia article?”
Some people might find a Wikipedia article more credible than the personal recollection of some random anon on the internet.
Simply because that was the glacier I was posting about. When I first went there, we had a 4×4 but I was still surprised at the rough lava road, and then by the fact that the car park and cafe were so far away from the glacier. My assumption is that when they were built, the glacier ended there.
When I next visited, five or six years later, they’d extended the road and bulldozed a new parking area (with cafe) closer to the glacier tongue, which was maybe 500 yards from where I’d last seen it.
Similarly I first climbed Ben Nevis, Scotland’s highest mountain, in August 1974 – and the top 2,000 feet were snow covered. It was very cold at the summit – in August.
In the 1970s a Greek restauranteur and hotelier, Reo Stakis, developed Aviemore in the Cairngorms as a winter resort – but many of the facilities, like the ice rink where my kids learned to skate and to curl, are now demolished.
From around 1998 to 2010, we skied in Scotland every year in February. Once, even in the 1980s when I first skied there, you could guarantee snow. By 2010 it was possible that no slopes would have enough snow on a given day – we’d end up driving to the chilly seaside or skating in Elgin, 36 miles away.
UK winters like those of 1947 or 1963 are a thing of the past. It was about the early 1980s when I last remember opening the front door to face a wall of snow.
1955 in Northern England
Why would LA have to be doomed? The fires could be the perfect excuse for the wealthy to return to running the state the same way that they run their personal lives. Surely they see how stupid the politics has been, and only went along because everything had gotten out of hand with the base. That’s my guess.
A change in politics and increased cost of living should drive lots of people away to cheaper pastures. For people who can afford to live there, I’d think LA could rebuild into something better. Three non-military Californian families showed up in my neighborhood about a year ago, and I’d guess most latinons came from that direction, so, unfortunately, we’ll probably get more of the destructive cast-offs, while California returns to normalcy.
I don’t think weakness was the issue for most. The U.S. is a large country, and the damage was done before people in many areas of the nation were even aware that there was a problem. The area where I live didn’t experience the immigration issue until places like California and New York were already toast, and nobody was entering the country illegally through the borders of my state.
I’ve known people in Maine and the upper Midwest who spoke of non-white immigration as a necessity, while they lived in the whitest areas of the nation. I’m sure it’s easier to indoctrinate people who don’t live with the issue, but I do believe there is something wrong with many whites in New England, Minnesota, and Wisconsin where I visited. The nation should have been allowed peacefully split apart 160 years ago.
Thanks for the link, but I’m skeptical. The NSC is like the country’s biggest safety dept. One of the things safety depts have to do to justify their existence is invent and or inflate the risks of certain activities.
The article says 100 people die per year from shoveling snow, but doesn’t break down the cause. (their link to the WP article is paywalled) I would expect a significant % of them slip on ice and crack their heads open, as opposed to dropping dead from a grabber. The remaining ones that do die from a heart attack are likely in extremely poor health or extremely old to begin with.
Regardless, factoring in the estimated number of individuals/man hours put towards shoveling snow each year 100 deaths is a rounding error and doesn’t prove anything really.
The human body is fairly robust and adaptable, and sudden heavy exertion 99.99% of the time doesn’t lead to anything more than burning lungs and sore muscles.
Detail you might have missed: Detroit, unlike, say, Chicago, is easy to leave. Lots of freeways out. There is a lot of commuting (even from Canada). Oakland County to the north is one of the country’s wealthiest. Also Dan Gilbert does his own security. The problem blegs are in the “neighborhoods” (the first suburbs, within city limits but pure residential) so the high rise areas and the “museum district” are paradoxically safe.
We cannot conceive how we would manage the aftermath so we don’t discuss —/ would raise questions about competency , DEI etc
You are right that no one plans for infrastructural upgrades wtc
Imagine we had an earthquake and a Santa Ana fire the same month ?
Yes, not every plant is flammable. But when the flammable plants are mixed with the allegedly non flammable plants the allegedly non flammable plants burn too.
Everything can burn. Including modern high rises medieval churches built entirely of stone from cellar to roof anything.
Why should I relocate? My buildings and tenants are safe because they are not single family homes in the dry flammable hills.
I only live in Los Angeles about 4 months if the year
All these Unz internet experts pontificating about things of which they know nothing. Learning the word biomass doesn’t make you an expert. Covering the ground with concrete doesn’t work either because plants will grow through the concrete unless someone pulls cuts or poisons the plants. Very doable on city sidewalks and parking lots but not doable if mountains are covered with concrete.
Another interesting side effect is the huge number of people going on sightseeing trip to Antarctica to see the icebergs calving in summer. I had thought going to Antarctica was strictly for scientific minded. Recently, I got an ‘invite’ that a bunch of my fellow schoolmates are going to Antarctica for ‘adventure tourism’. Part of the attraction (besides seeing penguins in their native habitat), was to see the giant icebergs calving. These are dumping trillions of tons of water from above sea level ice into the oceans.
https://www.asoc.org/learn/antarctic-ice-and-rising-sea-levels/
So if yet another anon and many Europeans have observed the glaciers melting and shrinking why was it necessary for him to find a Wikipedia article to prove his point????
Wow. It’s only January and you’ve already gotten the lead here for Optimist of the Year.
So, you’re going heavy on California and LA bonds? Buy ’em when they’re cheap!
When in the past 60 years has California been “normal’?
Yeah, I’m a big Daniel Day-Lewis fan, but There Will Be Blood was a mess of a movie.
And Detroit (as well as a bunch of others cities) have once a much bigger proposed freeway network with some of them cancelled.
https://americascanceledhighways.com/2019/01/26/motor-city-landmark-detroits-davison-freeway/
It’s just a guess. I couldn’t care less about California, and I don’t want the transplants and immigrants that have already been sent our way, so it goes wothout saying that I hope that I am wrong.
The pre-fire situation appareny wasn’t sustainable, and that was many decades in the making. Something has to change, and my guess is that the people with money will win, if they choose to stay in California.
I am looking at this from the outside, but I don’t see why doom would be automatic for the people who can afford to live there, and I’m sure that they can figure out how to make the city and state function well and be a pleasant place to live. My guess is that they know what to do and will gin up the will to do it, or maybe they are stupid and won’t. We’ll see.
We still have not had a good explanation about how BHO’s chef drowned.
“The article says 100 people die per year from shoveling snow, but doesn’t break down the cause. (their link to the WP article is paywalled) I would expect a significant % of them slip on ice and crack their heads open, as opposed to dropping dead from a grabber. The remaining ones that do die from a heart attack are likely in extremely poor health or extremely old to begin with.”
Another link :
“According to the seventeen-year study, appearing in the January 2011 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, the most common injury diagnoses were soft tissue injuries (55 percent), lacerations (16 percent) and fractures (7 percent). The lower back was the most frequently injured region of the body (34 percent), followed by injuries to the arms and hands (16 percent), and head (15 percent). Acute musculoskeletal exertion (54 percent), slips or falls (20 percent) and being struck by a snow shovel (15 percent) were the most frequent mechanisms of snow shovel-related injuries.”
“While cardiac-related injuries accounted for only 7 percent of the total number of cases, they were the most serious, accounting for more than half of the hospitalizations and 100 percent of the 1,647 fatalities associated with shoveling snow. Patients 55 years of age and older were 4.25 times more likely than younger patients to experience cardiac-related symptoms while shoveling snow. Among patients 55 years of age or older, men were twice as likely as women to exhibit cardiac-related symptoms. ”
Speaking about taking things seriously, commenter Haul makes this admission.
—The cynicism of Trump’s presidential runs is this: Donald Trump took advantage of tens of millions of Whites only to promote a kind of silly charismatic political movement that empowers (besides himself) a predictable series of non-Western con-men and varying degrees of slick demagogues who come out of nowhere, like Vivek Ramaswamy, and Dr “Mehmet” Oz, and a long list of others. In addition to all the nepotism. Trumpism viewed in the cold, cruel light of day, tacitly champions a group (Whites) for whom it does nothing directly to help and won’t even speak directly about”
Plenty of iSteve content in this statement.. Perhaps you will show some courage and offer up some meaty NOTICINGS on the eve of Trump’s second inauguration.
Your premise is flawed, they didn’t go along with it. All Blacks were portrayed as Bill Cosby before people knew about his sex problems.
The first novel by an important novelist to even mention the immigration explosion was Tom Wolfe’s ‘Man in Full’ in 1998. Pushback to the claim that there were no differences between the races was limited to those with first hand experience which was southerners and those few urban whites who couldn’t flee urban areas. And southerners lost most all cultural influence by the ‘70s. Even southern cultural icons like Lynyrd Skynyrd let the subject lay except perhaps indirectly.
Recognition of the Jewish role in shaping the culture was taboo because Hitler. Look at what a relatively small number of Jews were able to do to Nixon.
The most important Californian, allegedly, hasn’t left…Steve Sailer.
Now, must whites adhere to a strict racial litmus test, lest they be deemed “anti-white” (which has yet to be clearly defined with related examples)?
What say you?
“Recognition of the Jewish role in shaping the culture”
JFC, American culture has been shaped due to a host of factors, and not squarely or primarily due to Jews.
“Look at what a relatively small number of Jews were able to do to Nixon.”
No, Nixon was squarely responsible for HIS conduct.
Earth is always warming or cooling. We don’t even know all the natural cycles.
And it is odd to see people in cold Northern countries being worried by a little bit of warming. One should have thought they would appreciate 1-2 C warming.
It is, but not because of natural disasters, but because it is the western hub of the US, arguably the economic center of the US now with the decline of NYC. However, while it has a surprisingly diversified economy with plenty of manufacturing, shipping, and finance underlying the much more well-known Hollywood, regional hubs like the LA and SF metros are primarily driven by the age-old need to get a bunch of office workers in one building so they could all collaborate easily with fast face-to-face communication.
Well, the internet has killed the need for that. I regularly collaborate on writing software with people all over the world. People posting online videos from anywhere are slowly killing off Hollywood, with inflation-adjusted box office now down almost 50% from the 2002 peak in that first linked table, as people would rather stare at shorter online videos on their mobile screens at home or on the go than movie screens. Financial products are becoming decentralized, as the next big tech boom is expected to be “fintech,” with challengers rising up from Des Moines, Iowa or anywhere else (didn’t work out as hoped for that Iowa startup, which bit off more than it can chew, but new fintech startups are going to keep trying to replace the old, slow systems that currently dominate).
California was the model for regional hubs that most every other city in the world tried to copy, with the Bay area known globally for Silicon Valley tech, LA for Hollywood, and San Diego tried to focus on biotech, which didn’t work out as the long-predicted biotech boom was stillborn. However, the coming internet economy- it isn’t here yet, despite all contrary claims- decentralizes the economy and kills such regional or global hubs, as you no longer need to all be in the same city for fast communication. As such, California, the current exemplar of regional/global hubs, is doomed in the coming decades, not just Los Angeles.
It’s just sad that millions of Whites refused to hear the first hand testimony of their own racial brothers. The nature of blacks was known 300 years ago (or 3,000 years ago by the Egyptians), but they chose to get their info from a sitcom.
When the revolt happened in Haiti and French Whites were being killed, some of the radical “universal rights” crowd in France cheered. So, this isn’t new.
Rosenwald was both one of the largest shareholders in Sears as well as President of Sears and Chairman of the Board. He didn’t embezzle any funds from Sears, The Rosenwald Foundation was funded from his personal fortune.
If you can make a fortune anywhere, like, say, one of the Japanese baseball superstars who keep signing with the L.A. Dodgers, why not live in California? Shohei Ohtani, for example, lives in La Canada, about 8 miles north of Dodger Stadium. La Canada is really nice. It would be unfortunate if it someday burned down, but in the meantime …
Aidan Kearney (AKA Turtleboy) was charged with felony witness intimidation for reporting in his usual manner. Granted personal recognizance for that charge, the same cast of characters that leveled the felony witness intimidation charge conspired with a former sex partner of Aidan to get him alone so she could make a he-said-she-said accusation of assault and battery. The charge for AB rescinded Aidan’s bail putting him in Norfolk County jail.
Maybe the most important lesson of the case—don’t be a Tpr. Paul:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Wn8jxyiuquk?si=6cKoCUgei9ta9EBE&t=4032
Ohtani can’t move, as he’s a performance artist who puts on 81+ shows per year at the largest and top-attended ballpark in the world in Chavez Ravine. Most LA denizens don’t get paid like him to put up with the high cost of real estate and horrendous traffic.
The major metros like LA, SF, and NYC are definitely going to die off in the coming years, and the smaller towns and mid-sized cities will do well, so it’s certainly possible that all the Californians who love California simply shift out to all their favorite towns like Big Bear and Petaluma and the California economy stays stable. However, that is extremely unlikely because the hubs have historically sucked in a ton of talent from the rest of the country and globally that would now love to go back, or at least to someplace different, as the investor Kevin O’Leary famously laid out for Bill Maher in this viral clip after the Corona lockdowns were ending:
Don’t be like snide Maher at the end of that video. 😉
Yeah, but why live in the big metro area at all, per the point of Bumkin’s comment? Why not up the coast north of the Bay Area, inland some if the coast is too pricey for you? There are so many beautiful places in the State, many still not crowded.
OK, for you, that’s no good cause, Dodger’s games.
I’d be curious to know how much time he actually spends at that place. I’d guess less than 1 month out of the entire year.
It’s a side effect alright, a side effect of some people (Boomers, I’d have to add) having a lot of money for “cruising” each year somewhere. I met people from 2 different groups at the EZE airport in Buenos Aires who were coming back from such cruises.
It’s not necessary for you to lie by implication that this is due to more ice calving than “normal”. (What’s normal is a whole ‘nother question.) In fact the sea ice in the Antarctic (does not count the icecap over the continent) has been steady over the decades with a high in ’14, a low in ’23, and ’25 slightly low, but it’s the middle of summer still – we’ll see.
The thing is, the mass of ice on the Antarctic continent itself, and same with “Green”land, has to be much more than that in the sea. I don’t know if satellites (perhaps with very accurate radar altimeters or some such devices) can measure their height over a grid, hence, the thickness of those big caps, which are on the order of 5 – 7,000 ft thick. Then, too, how much are they subsiding at the bottom, or the opposite?
NASA has used satellites to measure ice loss:
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/?intent=121
Antarctic ice loss average is 137 billion tons per year since 2002, monotonically.
Greenland ice loss is 269 billion tons per year since 2002, monotonically.
NASA’s Arctic ice loss measurements:
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/?intent=121
12.2% per decade monotonically since 1980s.
“So if yet another anon and many Europeans have observed the glaciers melting and shrinking why was it necessary for him to find a Wikipedia article to prove his point????”
Because Wikipedia has more credibility than some random anon.
Is Los Angeles doomed? Yes. It’s baked in the cake.
Well, here is a noticing for you!
Donald Trump has apparently promised to allow TikTok to continue operations, at least temporarily, by promising to sign an executive order tomorrow.
This is a major black eye for Congress and the Supreme Court, considering that Congress enacted a law to prevent TIkTok from continuing unless it is sold to an American company (or possibly floated as a new company under US jurisdiction).
This law was enacted with a huge bipartisan majority on the grounds of national security based on evidence submitted to Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court unanimously just days ago.
Presumably if the Supreme Court rules against Trump in future, he may just issue an executive order to abolish the court altogether and replace it with himself. And get unanimous support from Congress. And then he will abolish Congress too and Congress will support its own abolition after appointing Trump Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
(Personally I think the TikTok law is an extremely silly one, seeing that several US companies collect data on consumers all over the world. Surely there are other companies that are much more of a threat to the security of the US. This sets a terrible precedent, but I personally would defer to a unanimous Supreme Silly Court, but then I do not have global immunity from breaking the law, and I don’t use TikTok anyway.)
Instead of tariffs,the government of the US and other nations ought to crack down on use of tax evasion loopholes and tax havens by companies like Apple, Facebook, Tesla, Google, and Amazon. This would bring in trillions of dollars and help to reduce the deficit.
They could start by invading the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Ireland, and Delaware.
How about it, Mr. Trump? I know you are reading this.
I have a relative who lives in La Canada, works at JPL, jogs up the Arroyo Seco on his lunch hour, golfs at Eaton Canyon and Brookside. His “backyard” is the San Gabriels where he and his family hike, mountain bike and, in winter, throw snowballs at each other.
If that ain’t a swell life it is a remarkable facsimile thereof.
Maybe the whole place will burn someday. If it does, they’ll just rebuild. Same as if in the Midwest they got hit by a tornado, or on the east coast by a hurricane.
This kind of thinking isn’t just confined to California. Yes, why not leave the Big City and go “countrified” and live in the bucolic countryside, mountain valley, remote coast, etc.?
Some already do live there. Ask them how it is like?
This is often the suburban dream. But when you talk to folks who live in smaller, remote places, some very scenic, you get the downsides which dreamers seldom consider:
A good friend of mine moved to a nice country place with pond and forest. But while only in his 50s, had two heart attacks. The first he survived after getting to a small hospital 25 miles away. The second. no. So easy health care is a problem. Other than a few ski resorts, most docs can’t afford to live in remote rural areas. Specialists need large communities.
Shopping, very expensive and limited choices. Food is especially a problem. Amazon isn’t the ideal solution since remote places take time to get to, have few roads.
Remote jobs are getting scarcer for online work. Plus, the inevitable meetings take days to get to if you are not living in a major hub or company HQ town.
I have relatives who live in both a scenic locale and another place in a nearby small community (under 50K population). They can get most necessities in the larger place but with limited choices. Walmart and X. Serious medical problems require a day’s travel at least.
Also, needed services like plumbers, electrical, carpentry, water/septic, roads/sidewalks, etc. all take specialists who are both scarce and often too busy for you. Local help is iffy and/or costly. You quickly find you have to “know” people to get things done.
If you have ever driven up the Cali coast north of SF, you will see very few towns and none of any size. Scenic but little economic activity or resources. A long day’s drive to anywhere.
So, young, healthy, no kids, remote job, flexible schedule and handy with tools, you can live almost anywhere (bring money though). Otherwise, learn to love your mobile home and daily chores, do-it-yourself.
Some people like that, many will prefer Bigger Cities with all of the downsides.
Or just ask someone who lives in “paradise” for a year or two.
Noticing 2.
i) For some weird reason, US does not have a finance minister, so a lot falls on the shoulders of the President, who may not be an economics graduate.
Putative Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant is in favor of tariffs, but mainly as a form of revenue raising, so a kind of alternative to a federal VAT to lower the budget deficit. He believes that tariffs could be offset by a rise in the value of the dollar and reductions in prices by Chinese exporters.
He had better be right. As he has a background as a hedge fund manager, could he not turn the US federal budget into a massive hedge fund, like the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and use his skills to make it profitable.
ii) I am glad that Donald Trump wants to help the working man whose job has been exported to China or Vietnam, but why does he turn to so many billionaires to advise him?
“… in remote rural areas …”
There are a lot of choices besides big cities and truly remote rural areas.
When was there ever any white solidarity that it was possible to “betray”? I would say never.
From a generational perspective, the issue was settled definitively in the U.S. by the Civil War.
Whites don’t need to look far in order to find “reasons” to kill each other and throw each other under the bus. They never have.
White unity is not something that needs to be restored. It’s something that needs to be invented.
The Jews provide the needed template. They know whites could follow their model, and that’s why they do everything they can to nip white solidarity in the bud and make sure that it never happens.
But it’s not just the Jews. It’s anything that demands the loyalty of whites above and beyond their racial interests (and in contradiction to those interests): e.g., capitalism, globalism, liberalism, the Roman Catholic Church, etc.
Purely biological solidarity has never existed, in any time or place or people; common genetic heritage is necessary but not sufficient for “solidarity,” which has to be based on other things as well, like shared language, history, and traditions. The Jews’ much-discussed solidarity is based on a combination of these factors, not just on their genetics, and as those additional factors are weakened, that solidarity has dissolved. The Hasidic Trump-voting Jews in New York are alien to the Reform Jews like Schumer in the same state, and Israelis like Netanyhu are at loggerheads with older European Jews like Soros. There is no secret sauce that will cause white people to band together based purely on race; the closest we’ve ever come to that was in medieval Christendom, under the auspices of that Catholic Church you so despise, and even then you had countries like England and France periodically fighting each other. Pure race-based irreligious pan-Europeanism is as big a pipe dream as pan-Arabism was in the 1960s.
“And it is odd to see people in cold Northern countries being worried by a little bit of warming.”
Not really. The Dutch can’t skate on their canals, Europeans find skiing is less reliable. I must say I love a snowy day, always have, and I miss them. Motorcycling on a lightweight bike in snow was slow, but fighting to stay vertical kept you warm.
It’s better for the elderly, I admit. I feel bad about all the slides we kids created on the pavements in cold winters – great for us, not so good for them.
Young, strong healthy 6 feet tall men drown in 4 feet of water all the time doncha know? 😆
Sorry, Wikipedia is correct on some things such as dates but it’s very very woke progressive.
Read the entries on MLK black panthers school desegregation affirmative action George Floyd BLM Rodney King and those riots. Science geography weather, every word in Wikipedia is tainted by woke progressivism and the latest propaganda from Soros WEF kill all Whites central committee .
Plus the new communists hiding under environmentalism civil rights and affirmative action for all but hetero White men.
Like the New York Times The Atlantic New Republic Economist The Nation I don’t believe much of what’s in Wikipedia..
I saw something on the internet a few days ago.” Los Angeles Fire Department honors its first paraplegic fire fighter”. I assumed it was a real article from the disgusting ultra woke LATimes. Then I saw it was from the Babylon Bee.
The October 2017 horrible fire near Santa Rosa Ca. It was the propane tanks blowing up that did even more damage than the eucalyptus trees. A relative and wife were the only survivors on their road. Because they were the last house up the mountain. What alerted them was the sound of their neighbors propane tanks blowing up one by one.
They got out the back way down the county fire road.
Septic tanks are a nightmare to maintain. Unless you live in a suburban area with expert reliable septic tank companies Add propane tanks even in damp foggy areas with year round rain like eastern Washington state.
Malibu Ca is a septic tank town. But it’s in LA county with lots of expert septic tank companies right there.
i) For some weird reason, US does not have a finance minister,
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Don’t need one. The difficulty here is the division of labor between departments is a consequence of incremental decisions and inertia. An apposite division of labor might be between the treasury (budget, payments, debt issues), revenue collection, currency (central bank and mint), banking and bourses (regulation), and control.
Any city on flat terrain is an easy out. I grew up up in Chicago, and I can guarantee you, there are any number of roads and boulevards going on out of the city. If some apocalyptic event made it necessary to evacuate Midwestern cities, it would be a relatively easy business compared to other parts of the United States.
The point is, Los Angeles is in a uniquely bad situation, for one thing, because it is possible that some event could occur (fire, earthquake, failure of the water system due to natural disaster, even act of war) that could make mass evacuation necessary and, for another, because there really are insufficient land gates in and out of the Los Angeles Basin. Compare that to a Midwestern city where land access to surrounding are would be unimpeded, landing strips for large airplanes could be readily set up and the people who live there could simply walk out to tent cities set up in the nearby countryside.
To provision Los Angeles and the California Southland in general would require a Berlin airlift times twenty or even more. Then there is that other little factor. The people of West Berlin in 1948 were a homogeneous people used to social discipline. In Southern California, you might have a lot of people who had difficulty understanding that martial law really does mean martial law.
Again, the idea of some event taking place making the evacuation of some large Midwestern city necessary is kind if far-fetched. In the case of Los Angeles, it is, in fact, possible.
After the Louisiana purchase in 1803, Chris Hitchens says that Thomas Paine lobbies President Jefferson to free Blacks and aettlw them in ghw ample new lands that the USA had purchased.
Remembering therecent Haiti massacres of Whites / French Whites , Jefferson rejected Paine’s idea on emancipation and settlement
Was Paine’s deficit in race realism caused by anything other than his own delusions ?
A small town just outside a big city may be best. You do not have to regularly deal with misbehaving ghetto Blacks because there is a good distance between you and them. Here in Indiana, the lowest crime towns are several miles outside Indianapolis.
I spent my adolescence in one of them after a Black crime wave swept through Indianapolis in the late sixties and my parents, along with me and my sister, moved there. We could still drive to Indianapolis to go shopping but the basics were there in the small town: a grocery store, a movie theater, an old Carnegie library and schools I went to and my parents taught in.
It was not perfect but I liked it. John Cougar Mellencamp, who was a few years older than me, liked his Indiana small town too and later wrote a song about it. Indiana towns back then were basketball crazy. My high school went to the state finals but unfortunately lost in the next to last game, since our opponent had a future NBA player, Junior Bridgeman. I watched the game in Hinkle Fieldhouse, a memorable day in my life.
What you say is even more true today. Anything you want, you can order and it will be at your door (barring porch pirates) in a couple of days. The only problem is income.
Lynch didn’t die until after he quit smoking 2 years ago.
But do I believe him? He said the same thing eight years ago.
It was 8 feet and the reports say he struggled to stay above water but couldn’t. He appears to be African from his pictures. There’s a reason Africans avoid the water. Alleged lack of buoyancy.
I am not sure quite what you are referring to
Clearly the reference was a double entendre: white people vs invading species.
I’m staggered you didn’t have the mental capacity to grasp the easy slide between the two co-located ajointed contrasting positions.
One two, Dr. Seuss.
White people as native vs the efforts of sub-Whites as inferiors.
White people indigenous adapted vs introduced exogenous pest.
Only in a land maladapted can a sub-species such as yours learn to not only preempt an onslaught but thrive bereft of one.
No nation can survive treason.
Imagine these guys in the Battle of Kursk.
I wish I had a time machine to turn Patton onto our side in Kursk.
I’m really glad you got me looking into this, ePebble. I will have to write at least 3 comments in reply, as this is a perfect example of how one can get suckered into alarmism by purposefully poorly framed numerical information.
Here’s the graph from (electronic?) Pebble’s first link – it’s NASA!, after all – only smart competent White men involved…. This is indeed the point I was speculating on, the mass of ice that covers the whole continent of Antarctica:
OMG! This is terrible! I’m melting, melting…! – the VOA (Voice Of Antarctica)
Note the numbers on the horizontal axis, negative from 0 (time of 1st satellite “measurement” – I’ll get to why the quotes later.). The units are Gt – Giga Metric Tonnes, i.e. 1 x 10^9 tonnes, with each tonne = ~2,200 lb. I will use English units till near the end, because, fuck you, that’s why.
OK, well, someone who was not quite so gullible to alarmism might well ask, hey, -2,700 Gt, out of, well, I wonder how big the whole ice sheet is.
It should be easy enough to look up “mass of Antarctica ice sheet”. No, not really. I don’t chalk this up to conspiracy, but it’s just that the alarmist “ice loss” blurbs kept on going till I gave up. No worries, wiki up top give the volume as 6,400,000 cubic miles.
There are 5,280 ft/mile, so 5,280^3 ft^3/mi^3 = ~ 1.5 x 10^11 ft^3/mi^3. I will assume zero compressibility of ice* and the usual 58 lb/ft^3 density (remember, it floats due it being slightly less dense than water). That’s 8 x 10^12 lb/mi^3. We’ve (they’ve? “We’ve”, if Trump claims the place) got 6.4^10^6 mi^3 of ice, so that’s 5.5 x 10^19 lb = 2.5 x 10^16 metric tonnes / 1 x 10^9 tonnes/Gt to match the units, so ~ 25 million Gt. Note, that is already in GigaTonnes, so we can compare to that ghastly -2,700 Gt decrease, before they changed the methodology in ’18 (point for another comment).
That lowest loss means 2,700/25,000,000 = a .011% decrease in ice mass. That’s 1 in 10,000! Now, I realize that if the entire ice sheet on Antarctica were to melt, well THAT would be a crisis! It’s an easy calculation I’ll do later to see how much that would raise sea levels (spoiler alert from simple judgement – it’s be a REAL calamity).
However, let’s take away 2 things here:
1) That graph shows a change that is so small that one couldn’t even see it on a page, were the Total Ice Mass (Gt) the vertical axis. It’s very easy to alarm people like Mr. ePebble in this manner.
2) I looked through the non-registration-required** info. The methodology looked extremely complex, yet they purport to see not only this 1/10,000 change, but smaller than that, when you look at the purported resolution on the graph, 1/20th of THAT or less. Really, they are seeing 1/200,000 changes? As an engineer, I call bullshit.
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* I’d be in the favor of my point, their being more a higher density a mile down, but either way, I’m 1/2 order-of-magnitude would be fine for my point here. Interestingly, while checking “compressibility of ice” the 2nd blurb, from Cambridge, no less, supports a major point here for a further comment.
** I tried, too. I spent 5 minutes putting in a bunch of info, but when it wanted a real email, I quit – I don’t even give one to Ron Unz here, who is in this sense a truly trustworthy, stand-up guy.
Ah, thank you Art! I wanted to fix 3 typos, because now it bugs me, and I couldn’t because bad internet for while here. That’s “It’d be” not “It’s be” – HATE when I do that – and “6.4x10^6 mi^3 of ice”. Get rid of “I’m” in “I’m 1/2 order-of-magnitude…”.
I’ll get to the problems I have with complicated methods being used to allegedly calculate ice volume within 0.0005% (see graph above) and then another great paper I just read the intro. to but later.
Let me show you what a graph of “Total Antarctica Ice Mass (PetaTonnes*)” would look like. Picture that label on the y-axis, with the values shown.:
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1980 —– 1990 —– 2000 —– 2010 —– 2020 – 2025
Wait, whaaa? No, I didn’t need Lotus 123. It’d have been pointless. If this graph shows up as, say, 4″ high, on your screen, then the decrease of the line would be .0004″ = one hundredth of a millimeter. Let’s say, cause you’re a gamer or porn addict – not you, ePebble, but the general “you”, you’ve got a 100 pixels/in screen. The decrease in my line above is 1/25th of a pixel. Sorry, man, I can’t do it, and you can’t see it.
Still worried? I got more.
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* “Peta” is the suffix for 1 x 10^15 = 1 million “Giga”‘s.
I wouldn’t worry until the Emperor of Malibu, Larry Ellison, starts to sell his Malibu properties.
From Brave AI:
Larry Ellison has been acquiring properties in Malibu for decades, particularly on Carbon Beach, also known as Billionaire’s Beach. He owns at least nine houses on this stretch, which is home to only about 70 private residences. Additionally, he has made numerous other real estate investments in the area, establishing a significant presence that has influenced the local market. Ellison’s property portfolio in Malibu is valued at an estimated $200 to $250 million, reflecting his substantial investments in the area.
It’s gotten so surreal in this country that, increasingly, I have a hard time discerning “reality” from satire.
Cancer does not just spring up suddenly in most cases (although the new “turbo” cancers may be a different story.) Chronic exposure to carcinogens can lead to cancer years later. A textbook example is the class of cancers caused by exposure to asbestos dust. But smoking can have a similar effect.
My father was a chain smoker for 30 or 40 years. He quit, but then he developed cancer about 5 years later and died.
Another thing to realize is that cancer can be latent and undetected for a few years before a person becomes sick enough to seek medical help.
I’ve lived in LA or the Chicago area most of my life. I agree with you about LA for sure, but I think it would be harder to get out of Chicago than you do. With the lake to the east, that lives one with only three directions to flee. Then we’re stuck with the expressways that will jam up almost immediately, and if there’s a panic, I would expect an increasing number of disabled vehicles due to that panic to shut down the expressways completely.
That leaves the city streets, and in all directions one will be required to navigate through ghettos or barrios at some point. Combine that with its old narrow streets (don’t forget to mind the bike lanes, LOL) and people losing their minds, it just seems like a very difficult proposition.
Ha, regarding that Babylon Bee video, UR and PS commenter Adam Smith gave me that link. It was obviously in fun, but I surely can see some hesitation in knowing that for sure these days! I was also surprised that the BB would go that far.
BTW, I sent you a few hundred commas a couple of years ago, but it doesn’t look like you’ve gotten around to using them. I figure you must have lost that comment, so here:
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Again, no charge, because I’m a nice guy, but I’m not gonna keep doing this.
Like most geological processes, this is a gradual one. But the monotonicity definitely proves what is happening. Besides, this is a nonlinear process as the ice melts and stops reflecting solar flux back to space, the warming will accelerate. But it is true that there is no likelihood of coastal cities going underwater in our time or even in our children’s time. Any loss of coastal cities due to flooding will probably have to wait till 22nd century.
Not a People magazine guy here, but I read the whole wiki article on this David Geffen due to iSteve’s comment. I had heard of him, most likely from old Eagles album covers. My questions were not answered in a way that would give any point to Mr. Sailer’s worry, if real.
1) The guy split ownership of said Larry Ellison’s 6th biggest yacht in the world. When these things fill up with diesel, they talk tons, not gallons! So, he obviously was not personally a climate and carbon-footprint worrier.
2) However, I get the whole “Do as I say, not as I do” thing. Maybe David Geffen wanted to set an example, or even “saw the light”, as blindingly stupid as such light is, but if he’d moved (back, note!) to NYC based on worries about the Malibu shoreline, I sure couldn’t find a bit about it on the web.
3) The guy moved back to NYC because he got tired of LA (read the Hollywood-style stuff on that while trying to get to “Climate Change” worries.) Perhaps it’s for the mundane reason that he knows he won’t be able to drive soon, and NYC has that car-less convenience. It’s his roots too, though.
Oh, and he sold his share in that big yacht and got a much smaller one, with a length of only 299′. Then he got a bigger one than that, which he was seen on, telling people to hunker down during the Kung Flu as he hunkered down on the deck to enjoy the Caribbean sunshine. Yes, this is the guy to be a real role model in the fight against … somethin’!
Question for Mr. Sailer: Is Jim Rockford’s trailer still above water? He should have listened to Rocky when he told him to be a truck driver instead of doing that flighty detective work. He should have married Beth Davenport.
“Sorry, Wikipedia is correct on some things such as dates but it’s very very woke progressive.”
But still more reliable than a random anonymous commenter on the internet.
No, septic tanks are NOT a nightmare, unless you run over them with a truck. They need cleaning out every 5 or 10 years, depending on the household population.
Propane tanks blowing up? By the time that were to happen, you should long have been outta there. Even so, I don’t know if an explosion of gas like that would spread a fire like a whole grove of Eucalyptus trees, one after another.
Year round rain occurs in WESTERN, not EASTERN Washington. I chalk that up to a typo, but you write all the time like you know man things, but you’re a woman and don’t really know these things. Your general common sense knowledge of the immigration disaster and of California is very good. I always appreciate that.
Also, almost all the stuff Muggles wrote was “no shit, Sherlock” material.
Meh, commas are too much effort.
I suppose we are talking about propane tanks blowing up in wildfires, which may be the case, however in general they are incredibly safe, because they have pressure relief valves which release gas if they get too hot, thus preventing explosions. Also they are pretty strongly made. Even a tank that holds 18kg of propane is pretty darn heavy when empty.
I live in a city of half a million people that has at least 1 million propane tanks and I never hear about any tank explosions. No doubt they must happen, but it does not seem to be a big concern.
Ground equipment can deliver water a lot more accurately than fixed wing airplanes, and in greater quantities than helicopters. Once a fire hits the urban fringe, air attack shouldn’t be the primary tool. I have wildland fire experience with the Forest Service, but not so much structure protection experience. But making sure the ground equipment has enough water is definitely the highest priority. There is a coastal city that required all houses immediately adjacent to the chaparral have water storage. I don’t think any of the residents complained about having to put in a hot tub or a pool.
LA is burning indeed.
“Isee your hair is burnin’
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin’ down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars”
LA is burning indeed.
“Isee your hair is burnin’
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin’ down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars”
It was one if the worst wild fires in California history. A two mile country road every house barn fence burnt to the ground. 10 to 40 acre lots full of trees and brush.
They decided to stay awake when the fire jumped the freeway. Watching the TV news about the fire. Around 2/30AM heard a boom a few minutes later another boom. At first they thought it was thunder. Rain thank you God.
Then he looked out the window. Blazing houses and trees and the propane tanks exploding one by one up the mountain.
Every structure fence whatever was burnt to the ground.
That’s what happened Don’t believe me? That’s your problem.
The guy [David Geffen] moved back to NYC because he got tired of LA (read the Hollywood-style stuff on that while trying to get to “Climate Change” worries.) Perhaps it’s for the mundane reason that he knows he won’t be able to drive soon, and NYC has that car-less convenience. It’s his roots too, though.
It’s not like David Geffen will be hopping on the subway in New York. Far more likely that he’ll be getting around by Uber or with a chauffeur, both of which he could do just as well in Malibu.
Problem with the Malibu septic tanks is that they were built in the 1930s to 1960. Many of the pre 1960 houses were small weekend houses. One bathroom one kitchen sink no dishwasher or washing machine Because the washing machine was in the house they lived in most of the time.
Then the houses became much larger 4 bathrooms in a 3 room house. But that really was no problem.
But then contractors bought those 1/4 acre lots or 2 or 3 adjacent 1/4 lots and built 8 , or 16, or 20 unit condos and apartment houses. 2 or 3 bathrooms dishwasher washing machine per unit. Many of those units have 3 or 4 roommates using the water.
The contractors left the 30 year old small septic tanks built for single family homes. And built apartments and condos. An 8 unit on 1/4 acre 16 bathrooms 8 dishwashers most condos have their own washing machines. With the sane 30 year old septic tank.
Good news is that Malibu is surrounded by a big city with lots of septic tank companies. How competent those companies are is a huge concern. As so many crooked corrupt immigrants pay someone to take the exam and get the license. And don’t know what they’re doing.. so many immigrant contractors are just frauds.
Not Hispanics but the rest of the immigrants
No, the best place to make a fortune is in the West Wing of the White House. Just ask Elon Musk, the tech billionaire. He directly paid for access. No big deal, right?
It would be unfortunate if it someday burned down, but in the meantime…
Of course, but in LA he couldn’t walk right outside his building and get a newspaper (anyone still get those?), a hot pretzel from one of those carts, Chinese food, fancy French cuisine, batteries, etc., etc.
Nobody walks in LA. (Got the song in my head, is all.)
Haha Thanks for using one of mine that time at least Alden Youre welcome Apostrophe keys are a pain in the
assyour fingers? too I get where youre comin from Punctuation and lunch are for losersYou really don’t get numbers, resolution, and measurements.
The graph of Antarctica ice mass shows that there’s been a “measured” (quotes because I doubt they can measure 1 in 200,000) decrease from 2003 to 2020. That’s because that’s when they started using the first GRACE satellite. (Did you even read any of this or just pick out some headlines?) This is the deal that was explained pretty well to laymen like you in that Climate: The Movie documentary that I pasted in a few days back. They pick and choose domains for their independent variables and ranges for their dependent ones that make it “work” for them. You have shown that it works pretty well on you.
Also, since ’20, it’s been steady by the graph that was right in front of your face! (Punctuation is A-OK after all.).
There are LOTS of processes with LOTS of non-linearities and linearities, and putting them all together into a working model has NEVER been done! These people don’t even take into account cloud cover changes in their models. They are amateur pikers compared to engineers. What you’re getting at is that there’s a lot to it. Yeah, no kidding.
Yeah, like you, or anyone else, has any freaking idea.
Agree. I remember 40+ years ago on vacation I was at a Cubs (day) game and planned to drive to Milwaukee that evening to see the Brewers play the White Sox. It rained (enough to cause a rain delay in the Cubs game in the 8th inning), and I discovered what Chicago rush hour traffic was like trying to crawl up I-94 to Milwaukee. Didn’t get to the second game until the 2nd inning (and as you probably know, it was right off the highway). With all the added population today (immigrants!) I have no doubt it would be far worse.
It sounds like a massive failure of the zoning/land use authorities. Wonder how they could get their building permits.
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That was the October 2017 Tubbs wildfire in and around Santa Rosa City Sonoma County Ca. 22 people in Sonoma County were burnt to death mostly my relative’s neighbors. 2 others were killed in another county. The fire burnt in 3 counties. And jumped the freeway.
I’m just lazy. Even worse than septic tanks are sump pumps. Roto rooter the pipe once a year. At least they don’t explode in fires and kill the entire family.
Skiing and skating– put against sheer pleasure of 2c warming when you are freezing, not to mention longer growing season and lower heating bills.
You have done a lot of calculations. Thank you. At the root your argument, you are supposing that the glacier retreat is analogous to water leaking out of a hole in a drum. But, stability of slopes (in geotechnology), liquefaction of soils (‘quicksand’ phenomenon), avalanches etc., show the highly nonlinear behavior due to non-Newtonian properties of the solid-liquid matrix. Once the base of an icepack starts liquifying, there is very little resistance for an ice mountain to slide down into warm water. And while sliding down, it gets fractured into smaller pieces that quicken ice melt. As an observational fact, arctic ocean is staying in liquid state for increasing number of days. You have probably heard of the impact on polar bears due to the retreating ice.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/climate-science/sea-ice/polar-bears-across-the-arctic-face-shorter-sea-ice-season/
Pictures of emaciated and (even dead due to starvation) polar bears is fairly common.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/world/canada/starving-polar-bear.html
There are some revealing biographies out there on Geffen that are worth reading if only to see a grade A manipulator/user in action. The guy buffaloed himself up the success ladder with little more than chutzpah and a willingness to screw over friends.
Do you know about the in every American state the different levels if building codes?
The most basic minimal code is the state code for rural areas. Usually called the uniform building code. Wells, septic tanks even outhouses heat and stoves by firewood no gas lines, often used for farms big sheds with a gas tank for snowplows garbage trucks
Very minimal.
As the suburbs expanded and expanded into rural areas towns like Malibu and counties like Marin, Sonoma and others kept that lowest level minimal uniform building code well into the 1980s. Marin county north of San Francisco was uniform building code until the 1990s. Although some of the towns had higher building codes.
Many of homes built before 1990 were built and approved under the old minimal uniform building code.
And it’s one of the most expensive counties in the United States.
And there’s always the problem of either incompetent or corrupt or drunk building inspectors.
For instance, Fairfax a small town in Marin County had 2 K-8 schools. The town was growing need a third grade school. School was built inspected everything was fine. Since the state of California provided most of the money to build the school, a state of California inspector had to inspect the school. Usually a routine matter.
Well he was appalled. He’d never seen such a mess. He refused to issue the occupancy permit. The state education dept quickly ruled out no re construction because it was such a mess it couldn’t be fixed.
The site was eventually sold to a developer for a shopping center.
Problem? The building inspector was a notorious drunk didn’t ask for money just a case of liquor. And every contractor in the county just loved, loved loved building in his jurisdiction.
You can’t possibly believe that climate change or anything is starving it killing polar bears. Did you see that Nicole Kidman movie with her flying to the Arctic in a fantasy flying ship to save the polar bears?
Oh, I see you cited the New York Times.
Purveyor of every radical progressive falsehood since Lenin arrived in Moscow in 1917. The sainthood of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X Rodney King and George Floyd. Lied about the Twaney Brawley gang rape and torture for years. Was the first publicity agent for Al Sharpton promoted communist Bill Deblasio and even worse mayors of New York such as Dinkins and the present clown.
Vilified Rudy Guilliani from the time he was a prosecutor. Joyfully helped railroad Derek Chauvin for arresting a worthless POS career criminal who died if a self induced fentanyl overdose . Hates police hates victims of crime hates normal law abiding people.. loves black criminals insane environmentalism and promotes the very worst incompetent and corrupt politicians as long as they are not hetero goy White men. .
You believe the New York Times how can you be so gullible and naive. The New York Times hates you as much as it hates Derek Chauvin and Rudy Guillani. That is; if you are a hetero goy White man.
My point was simply that there are many roads going out of Chicago apart from the freeway system. These go northwest, west, southwest and south of the city. It’s all kind of a thought experiment, but the issue would be maintaining order. I don’t see what could happen this side of the Yellowstone caldera blowing up, an asteroid strike or nuclear war that could make evacuation necessary in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and others. Some event which affected world climate otherwise, such as a huge volcanic eruption or an asteroid strike in some other part of the world, would at least give the authorities some lead time to figure out how to keep people fed and how to keep them from turning into popsicles.
Not so with Los Angeles. Something actually could happen there which could, with no forenotice, create an emergency threatening millions of people. In the Los Angeles basin, there is no multiplicity of roads leading out of town and into a countryside where emergency shelter could be set up. Everything needed would have be brought in and distributed. No possibility of having even some of the people be moved out of town.
I took 90 West through Chicago last summer on the way to Sturgis. It was complete mayhem at 2 am on a Sunday morning. I came east through Indianapolis to avoid Chicago on the way home.
Never again.
There are a colossal number of ways to get from one side of Southern California to another side.
On the other hand, there are chokepoints in mountain passes and/or the ocean at most extreme edges of SoCal. For example, at the west edge, the main freeway, the 101, chokes down between Ventura and Santa Barbara to a narrow corridor between the mountains and the sea. At the east edge, in Whitewater (east of Banning), there’s a wider pass around the 10 freeway, with numerous smaller roads paralleling it, leading to Palm Springs and the open desert. But still, most traffic would be on the 10.
But Ventura and Whitewater, the west and east chokepoints, are 163 miles apart.
Is it likely that the L.A. Apocalypse would afflict all of this colossal expanse simultaneously?
Commas and Stoli don’t mix.
Or he may ride his usual mode of transportation: teen aged boys.
The ironic thing is Chicago’s (documented) population has been declining since the 60’s just like most other northern cities with large negro populations, yet the traffic just keeps getting worse.
Well, heck. Imagine what it’s like living here on Long Island. Eight million people including Brooklyn and Queens, no way off by car except for eight bridges and two tunnels that are usually traffic-choked, and with four of the bridges and both tunnels going only to Manhattan.
“There is no secret sauce that will cause white people to band together based solely on race.”
I don’t see why not. It has worked for the Jews. You claim there are conflicts between Jews. That’s true. There always have been. But Schopenhauer was right when he wrote, “The rest of the Jews are the fatherland of the Jew; he fights for them as he would pro ara et focis, and no community on earth sticks so firmly together as does this. It follows from this that it is absurd to want to concede to them a share in the government or administration of any country.”
Jews born in different countries, speaking different languages, and scattered throughout the world, have for centuries been a single united people (an international nation, as it were) loyal to each other and to no one else with few exceptions. They hardly bother to conceal it: Pollard: Jews ‘will always have dual loyalty’ & should consider spying for Israel — Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2021.
Being a Jew does not mean subscribing to the religion of Judaism. You can be an atheist and still be a Jew. Being a Jew means having Jewish DNA, which is passed through the mother. If Jews intermarry and have children with non-Jews, and their descendants do the same, then their Jewishness will disappear over the generations. This is happening, but very slowly. Jewish identity is still strong, and I have no reason to believe it won’t remain strong for another thousand years at least.
Jewish solidarity is the very biological, DNA-based solidarity that you claim has never existed.
There is no reason why white skin, which is biologically inherited, cannot likewise be a basis for solidarity.
” … the closest [white people ever came to having solidarity] was in medieval Christendom under the auspices of the Catholic Church [that] you so despise, and even then, you had countries like England and France periodically fighting each other.”
If Catholic countries were fighting each other during the Middle Ages, then what is your basis for saying there was “more” white solidarity in medieval Christendom? Why would “white solidarity” even be a “thing” when practically the only other people encountered by white Europeans were other white European people?
” … the [Roman] Catholic Church that you so despise …”
I wouldn’t use the word “despise”. It’s just that I have no use for Feeneyism (commonly subscribed to by Roman Catholics even though the Church itself declared it a heresy in 1949), the claim that Mary was immaculately conceived, the claim that Protestants were the first Judaizers (no, Catholics were), the claim that the Roman Catholic Church is the original church founded by Christ, the claim (in Nostra Aetate) that Christians are grafted into the Jewish vine rather than the other way around (and then, only for Jews who become Christians), etc.
I can also give you my criticisms of Protestant churches if you like.
Better be prepared to leave by boat!
There’s fires south of Los Angeles now in San Diego county as well as north in Ventura County.
Speaking of taking things seriously, as we expected, you chickened out by not offering your own NOTICINGS about Trump’s executive order. Can’t afford literally to go on a limb, eh?
You claim to be a rule of law and law and order type of guy. Yet, no commentary on this patent affront to these two concepts. My vague impression is you look forward to four fun years of chaos.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-jan-6-pardons-j6-proud-boys-oath-keepers
“There is no secret sauce that will cause white people to band together based purely on race”
Of course there is. It’s the same secret sauce that taught whites to hate themselves and put the interests and priorities of other racial/ethnic groups before their own: education and propaganda.
That late 1970s song titled “Leaving LA” by a rock band named Deliverance, would fit the current state of how Los Angeles is currently.
The idea has the status of a thought experiment right now. Conceivably, something could happen that severely disrupted the entire L.A. basin. In that case, there would be no way to get even some of the people out of there.
That’s why I made the comparison to the situation of Chicago, where there is a multiplicity of roadways where those who were physically unimpaired could simply walk out of the city into rural areas where emergency camps could be set up for them. That’s unless it was the depth of winter, in which case, a lot of people might turn into popsicles. In Chicago and other Midwestern cities, ordinary streets and boulevards lead straight out into the countryside. In the L.A. area, the freeways are the only way in an out, which would force all traffic, both vehicular and foot, onto the freeway routes.
Then there’s the question of where to go. Emergency provision could be made along the coast north of the city, but how do you get a large number of people there? A large number of people could be accommodated on an emergency basis in the Central Valley, where there is decent weather and a water supply, but you have to get some huge number of people there. It can’t be done. All of the other routes out lead into deserts.
I don’t consider this kind of disaster-apocalypse imminent. I’m more interested in refuting what I consider to be ignorant arguments about what would happen in these kind of postulated scenarios. I see a lot of people saying things that make no sense. All you need to do is look at a simple roadmap to see that. I grew up in Chicago. I’ve lived in Los Angeles. I’ve lived in the Central Valley of California for 22 of the last 37 years.
Anyone who thinks that Lake Michigan would represent a barrier to the evacuation of Chicago not only has never been there. They can’t even read a map. Anyone who considers the freeway routes a way out of Los Angeles for any mass number of people isn’t thinking either. Maybe a lone person or a small group of self-reliant people could make their way out L.A. on foot in the event of some postulated massive disaster. Otherwise, all traffic would end up stuck and so would almost all of the people who were on foot.
What I said in the first place is that martial law would have to be declared and the entire region would have to be provisioned through a huge airlift. The disaster response would be impeded by the presence of a large number of people who did not understand that martial law really does mean martial law and by the activities of the lawless, whether they were operating out of ideological or purely criminal motives.
Right now, it’s all just a movie. A movie in your head. But you never know.
Several of the more powerful empires and nations in history were arguably unrelated peoples who realized they had interests in common an “artificially” recognized themselves as a people. This is a totally standard procedure, the norm and not the exception. The Greeks and the ancient Indians saw themselves each as one civilization, one culture, sharing one language and syatem of customs across their geographical spheres, yet neither coalesced into a single nation (in the ancient world), and conversely were frequently conquered.
Hey, Mike, what happened to the commenter Lagertha? She was a trip. Only the good stuff, Grey Goose.
What percent of the population then and now owned a car?
Weird that another person walking the same earth as you would fail to hold exactly your opinions and in precisely the same degree to such an extent that he would fail to make your observations for you. Boggles the mind!
How many more miles of additional lanes have been constructed since the 1960’s?
I’m not sure but I didn’t realize she was a broad. I’ve been waiting for Rosie to return as well.
According to this site the Stone Roses never had a number one album in Britain much less the US and they had four albums that made it into in the British top ten, but is that such a remarkable achievement? Billboard only references two of their albums making the US charts with the highest of the two reaching # 46. The Byrds had seven albums that ranked higher than the highest of the two Stone Roses albums charting in the Billboard charts. Two of the Byrds albums reached #1. The Byrds only had one album that charted in the UK charts peaking at #47.
https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/25315/stone-roses/
https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-stone-roses/
https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-byrds/
https://www.officialcharts.com/search/The%20Byrds/
Don’t get me wrong, I like The Stone Roses.
While the population of the core city may be declining, the population of the Chicago MSA has been increasing steadily, at least until 2020. Just gleaned these stats from a quick search (bear in mind, the definition of the counties contained in the MSA has changed somewhat over time, e.g., an outer edge county such as Grundy was not counted in the MSA but is now–but that effect is relatively small).
1980 Census: 7,869,542
1990 Census: 8,065,633
2000 Census: 9,098,316
2010 Census: 9,461,105
2020 Census: 9,618,502
With any luck, the United States won’t be drawn to play against Mexico or they’ll find themselves playing at home with the majority of “new Americans”, in the stadium, rooting for the away team.
Same goes for any other South American side.
HA is a broad as well. The hysterics are a give-away.
Just looked it up and Rosie’s last post was August of 2022. That must be when she changed to Frau Katze.
Or maybe Frau is really Mrs. Jack D, masquerading as a low-information Canadian (though I guess low-information Canadian is repetitive).
One of the better commenters at TUR who doesn’t comment in isteve is Tiptoethroughtulips (I think that’s how she spells it) and she is a woman. She knows her stuff and never gets hysterical.
Since Mexico is co-hosting the tournament, their three group-stage games will be in Mexico, and the United States games will be in Los Angeles (2) and Seattle (1). Both would have to make it very far in the tournament to play each other. Of course, either or both could be matched up against a South American country by the luck of the draw
More guessing at history. It was quite well documented in reality.
1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes
It’s not really co-hosted by Mexico. The majority of matches will take place in the United States, while Canada and Mexico will host selected matches (3 venues in 3 cities in Mexico; 9 venues in 7 cities in Canada; 38 venues in 34 cities in the United States). But yes, the peasants will be cheering on the countries that they FLED.
Leave it to you to concoct a strawman and proceed to neglect to specifically address my point.
Yes, Trump is winning over the tech lords over the expense of flyover country.
If you remember that quote from Kentucky Fried Movie “Take Him to Detroit” with the way things go in Los Angeles, it’s better time to update that quote with “Take him to LA”.
One is not obligated to confront a fool every time he opens himself to ridicule. Laughing at him suffices in most instances.
And his personal fortune was embezzled from Sears. His salary benefits and stocks weren’t enough to fund so many black colleges and activists groups.
Very few jobs on the north coast is the problem.
You didn’t address a single point I made in response to Manfred Arcane’s claim that there is “no secret sauce” that can unite white people. I don’t know why you’re replying to me.
“Several of the more powerful empires and nations in history were arguably unrelated peoples who realized they had interests in common and ‘artificially’ recognized themselves as a people.”
Unrelated peoples recognizing they have interests in common is not how empires are created. Empires are created through conquest. Tensions between the different peoples inhabiting them are the main reason why they don’t last. This also applies to countries that contain different peoples who have little in common.
So far, the United States has managed to be an exception, but I wouldn’t count on that lasting. An economic crisis, war or natural disaster could easily lead to a breakup of the country, as happened in Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
If you recall, the discussion was about people who can work from home.
200, 300 miles away from the office and clutches of the HR witches and their DEI training sessions?
Yes, you are a fool for supporting sweeping pardons for those who assaulted officers. Again, the point here is that Mr. Sailer claims to defend law and order, but clearly Trump’s move violates that sensibility.
But, then again, you do support those white southerners on the eve of the Civil War keeping black slaves at the expense of liberty and at the expense of the Union, morality be damned. I imagine if Trump pardoned those southrons you would be on board, too.
When I try to think of female commenters here I can only think of the same ones you did. There aren’t many.
I was at a magazine stand in a bookstore browsing through the magazines when I saw an article on the political beliefs of young adults. Young males are now very conservative while young females are very liberal. There is something like a thirty percent gap between the two groups.
I always agreed with Steve’s “Sailer Strategy” of Republicans appealing to Whites and increasing their percentage of the White vote in order to win elections. I don’t know how, though, the Republicans can pry all those young liberal White women away from the Democrats. They may have to try and maximize their male vote instead.
If this gap between White men and White women persists for much longer, it will inevitably have a very deleterious effect on White family formation. It probably already has.
(((Precisely as planned.)))
CUE: So much frantic hand-rubbing that certain, um, populations literally transform in space and time.
You can do your D.I.E. session online, you know. It was all automated “learning modules” and that. I got screenshots – they’re a hoot!
I think any company having people like me go to D.I.E. sessions in person is asking for trouble. All it takes is one guy asking some questions or having fun, and …
Speaking of that, before all the modern stuff, we’d have the training with the obligatory anti-harassment business. The stories that were told … “no, no, he wasn’t fired because he grabbed her on the ass… he never said ‘I love you’ was the problem …”
It was kind of like The Office: (go to 04:30):
I know Greg. Ughmph.
Over in Merry olde England they tend to canalify the rivers and then build on the new land.
Christchurch Dorset, there was a dairy farm down on the flood plain opposite the hospital, some greedy brainiacs decided to build a housing estate there, the water table is two feet below the surface.
The American Office is quite a bit different then the British version.
The feminists have been engineering a collapse in the male female relations and thus the birth rate for six decades.
All by design.
That’s what co-hosting means, genius
Since you mentioned that, let me tell you that I got 4 seasons of the show for 2 bucks, ripped and burned on the sidewalk in SE China. Keep in mind, one White funny guy, or not funny guy, is as good as another to a Chinese low-end saleslady, so it turned out that the 1st season was the British one, but the next 3 were the American show. (I had never heard of the show before this.)
I think Ricky Gervais is very funny (I liked him in the movie Ghost Town) but to an American, there’s no contest – the American show is so much funnier. What do you think, FedUp?
It’s Communist Kickball. Nobody cares!
Your comment reminded me of a Samuel Francis column from 1994 (before the deceitful Neocon Dinesh D’Sousa engineered the firing of Francis from The Washington Times). At the time, the US was hosting the World Cup, which was a Big Deal to the kinds of trendy Goodwhites who occupy the National Capital Region. I do not remember the title of the column, but the theme of it was that soccer is an alien game, literally un-American, and that no true American should give a sh-t about the World Cup. I wish I still had it. Who knows, maybe it is in the archives Mr. Unz keeps on this site.
I going to like the term “Firepocalypse” when I read that article. But still I don’t like the plans then Newsom have to replace house by some future “Pruitt-Igoe” wannabes.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/is_the_la_firepocalypse_part_of_the_great_reset_gameplan.html
And speaking of Pruitt-Igoe, I saw this old article then Steve Sailer posted back in 2012.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/maybe-it-wasnt-all-le-corbus-fault/
Hello, D.A. Unfortunately, I never read any of Sam Francis’ writing while he was alive. I’ve read some columns of his posthumously on VDare. (I’d find that very column easily were VDare not suspended right now.)
Anyway, Ann Coulter has written similar columns about soccer, as I have here on the Peak Stupidity blog. (I borrowed the term from a commenter.)
I have my own additional reasons, such as the simple point that when a ball is coming at me, my being a biped with 2 arms and 2 hands, I should be able to catch and throw the damn thing!
No kidding.
You seriously think that is the reason women don’t comment or even read this blog for very long? Nothing to do with the relentless hostility to “hysterical” “broads”?
Sure, sure.
” Nothing to do with the relentless hostility to “hysterical” “broads”?”
Or maybe they see enough thirsty white knighting in the real world and don’t want to see it here.
Alden sputters about the men of unz and Greta sputters about the diffident right’s male tree fort or whatever and then you and they cry about sexism. Rosie was another disowned 2nd gen feminist who made excuses for poor female behavior. The irony is amusing.
That said, there are more female commenters here than you realize, it’s just that they don’t make the discussion about their sex, so you don’t know it. It’s almost as if when you don’t cry for special pleading, you don’t get treated like a cry baby.
And don’t forget: E – L – G – S – E – S. Well, it’s not the name of a city but you get my drift!
“You seriously think that is the reason women don’t comment or even read this blog for very long? Nothing to do with the relentless hostility to “hysterical” “broads”?”
Doesn’t seem to keep Jews from reading and commenting.
Women generally are disinterested in logic, history or deconstructing claims of authority. Jewish men love it if for no other reason than to appear to dominate the form which means first mastering the form.
How about taking these sort of things seriously?
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lgt2ng5xms2o
Maybe Geffen didn’t like the place so well after losing his exclusive use of a public beach?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/malibu-public-beach-access/3203933/
Multiple state Medicaid programs reported late Tuesday they have been able to resume accessing their payment systems after the nationwide lockout.
Did your freak-out result in wet spots on your panties?
>“You seriously think that is the reason women don’t comment or even read this blog for very long? Nothing to do with the relentless hostility to “hysterical” “broads”?”
>>Doesn’t seem to keep Jews from reading and commenting.
TIL that all Jews are men.
“Multiple state Medicaid programs reported late Tuesday they have been able to resume accessing their payment systems after the nationwide lockout.”
JFC, offer up the entire story. The Trump administration moved to freeze spending across the federal government. After legal challenges were filed against the funding freeze, a federal judge issued a stay temporarily halting it until arguments could be heard in the case.
Really, how are those wet spots on your panties doing?
A closer perusal of the eponymous title track of this brilliant album reveals prescient insight. It’s odd to think that even back in 1980 L.A. already had established itself as an epicenter of what Yockey rightfully derided as “the spiritual syphilis that is Hollywood”.
On a more banal note: the first three X albums are almost unbelievably good and they are one of the tightest bands I’ve ever seen live; their live recordings are easily as precise as their studio albums.
Yeah, the sheer felt sorrow and pain of X was unbelievably intense, and not ever matched, even by the intellectual sorrow of the Minutemen (an even more remarkable sorrow if that can be imagined) or by the surrealistic sorrow of Captain Beefheart on “Odd Jobs” and “Veterans Day Poppy.”
If alone I am
able to love it,
the serious voices,
the panic of jobs,
it is sweet to me.
Far from burgeoning
verdure, the hard way
is this street.
Frank O’Hara, 1951.
Everywhere is doomed. If the heatwaves don’t kill you, perhaps the crop failures will. Or, maybe, one metre of rain in a day or two, and the subsequent floods. Or the cyclones and tornadoes, or perhaps it’ll be millions of starving environmental refugees, spilling over your borders. Or the spread of old and new zoonotic diseases. Or the sea-level rise, or mega-tsunamis caused by submarine landslides or something new that we had NO IDEA was coming. Who, for instance, would have thought that nano-plastic particles would begin interfering with cloud formation?
Every good Talmudic Judaic prays every day, thanking Yahweh for not making him a woman.
Both are manifestations of social and individual deracination. What the fuck do ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ mean in a society as brainwashed, partisan and unreflective as the USA? Politics in the USA is a team sport-I’m Democrazy so I follow ALL the Rachel Madcow dogmas and mantras, and Heaven help me if I show any individual thought processes. Trump is perfect for such a society-a Ubu just going his own way, fucking things up, with no regrets, no apologies and no introspection.
So what does that make Musk, the hereditary technocrat? He’s not behind the scenes, so no Moriarty. Hiding in plain sight, perhaps he’s Pyotr Verkhovensky and Trump the Stavrogin of our final hours. In any case, anyone with any nous knows that ‘drill, baby, drill’ and fucking over the pathetic pretense of Net Zero is simply suicidal, so is Musk really dumb, or really Evil? And what is the world doing still taking notice of the deranged Yankee Polyphemus, thrashing around in his total blindness?
Your info is totally out of date. Here in NE Ohio snow and ice are rarities now. We did have a cold snap and snow for a few days a couple weeks back but it quickly disappeared.
It used to be that driving a car in the winter up here would rust it out — I have a pristine 66 mustang I saved by keeping it off the road in the winter. Now? No more rusted out cars.