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2019-10-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

California Is Burning and It's Not Because of 'Climate Change'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-26 02:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Eat (Soylent) Green and live

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-26 07:43|| 2019-10-26 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, they get that they voted for. I just hope the rest of USA IS watching

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-26 09:09|| 2019-10-26 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 That transmission line isn't broken. It's delivering 120KV of power exactly the way it was designed to do. You just need to be a little careful around it.

Posted by Matt 2019-10-26 10:30|| 2019-10-26 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 "the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California's Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork." It's not climate change; it's ...
... The Shitshow, Part 152

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 11:22|| 2019-10-26 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Wealthier parts of the state have the power lines below ground. The tinderbox areas have them above ground.

During the 90s internet boom California had all the money they could ever dream of and didn't do the basic infrastructure upgrades. Somebody really should be tarred and feathered.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-26 11:24|| 2019-10-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 didn't do the basic infrastructure upgrades
didn't do the basic road maintenance
didn't do the basic law enforcement and deport illegals
didn't do the basic drought management and build more reservoirs to capture rainwater
didn't do the basic employment law enforcement
didn't do the basic energy policy and permit drilling in the Monterey Shale
didn't do the basic education policy and stop Common Core etc malpractice
didn't do the basic funding of the UC System, instead filling nearly half the seats with ChiCom millionaires' brats and other inferior out of state applicant's who pay 3x the tuition rate paid by Californians

= Shitshow of Shitshows.
That's California, Jake

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 11:32|| 2019-10-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 The so called California government sez:

The triangle of fire? Never heard of it. You say you need

fuel

ignition source

oxygen

Well, I say, get rid of the oxygen, then.....no problem.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-10-26 13:14|| 2019-10-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 California is America's exercise in socialism. As a state it had one of the top ten economies in the world. After Jerry brown and the current rash of socialist/democrat California's state run power company is shutting its power to almost a million paying customers because they don't have the money to trim the trees next to the power lines. Its not the fire, heat, or old equipment, its no funding for basic safety maintenance.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-10-26 13:58|| 2019-10-26 13:58|| Front Page Top

#9 It's basic graft, but most graft metastasises in socialist countries because there's no competition.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-10-26 14:23|| 2019-10-26 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Self-dealing via outrageous pension deals is the primary form of graft in Mexifornia. Deeply entrenched.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 14:25|| 2019-10-26 14:25|| Front Page Top

#11 As Mencken said, the electorate should get what it votes for. Good and hard.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-26 17:59|| 2019-10-26 17:59|| Front Page Top

#12 You know what I think ? I think you should build another wall from Oregon to Arizona.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-26 19:37|| 2019-10-26 19:37|| Front Page Top

#13 California worked when it fluxuated between GOP and Democrat Govenors. Schwarzenegger screwed up the balance because he wasn't really a conservative of the normal GOP type so he couldn't undo the damage.

Similar thing has happened to the US with W being not really Conservative and not undoing the economic/budget damage Democrats typically do while in office.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-26 21:59|| 2019-10-26 21:59|| Front Page Top

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