January 9, 2025
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The catastrophic wildfires are continuing to cause historic destruction in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. So far, more than 27,000 acres and over a thousand homes and businesses have burned, and at least five people are known dead. Please pray for the residents and firefighters, and for a break in the high Santa Ana winds that are swiftly spreading the uncontained fire.
This is such a fast-moving story that we can’t possibly give you an up-to-the-minute report here. But it’s being covered 24/7 by all the electronic media outlets, and you can find the latest live updates at these links from Fox and Breitbart News:
We can, however, fill you in one some of the stories so far. One aspect of the fire is that many very expensive homes, including those of celebrities such as James Woods and Billy Crystal, have been destroyed. It was heartbreaking to hear Woods talk about losing his home and his beloved neighborhood.
Yesterday, we urged readers not to feel any satisfaction over harm coming to liberal Hollywood celebrities because some things transcend politics and are just basic human decency. We were actually reluctant to say that because we assume that our readers are good people with solid moral values who already know such things.
But sadly, we were reminded that there are people who would actually wish for a person to lose his home just because they don’t like his tweets. Such a person must have a moral code that was fished out of a sewer, and one of them was once in charge of molding young minds at the University of Missouri. Thank God, she’s not anymore.
It’s been observed that the billions of dollars in devastation to Los Angeles is like something that an America-hating terrorist would be proud to have caused. Yet many people are finally waking up to the fact that it’s the inevitable culmination of years of misguided and incompetent “progressive” Democrat “leadership.” Indeed, of all the ingredients it took to result in this catastrophe, the only one that wasn’t caused by them was the wind, not that they haven't generated plenty of that, too. For instance...
How do such fires start? We don’t know for sure about these, but it can’t help that they let weeds grow high in fields where they let homeless drug addicts live and start campfires.
Why is there so much kindling to spread the fires? Because they put unqualified eco-radicals in charge of overseeing state resources, and they refuse to allow the clearing of brush and fallen limbs, or the building of roads in the woods to allow firetrucks in.
Why is there no water to fight the fires (one Republican said the perfect illustration of California’s incompetent government was when brave firefighters aimed their hoses at burning homes and no water came out of the hydrants)? Just eight months ago, there were heavy rains and unusually high snowpack that melted off. Where did all that water go? It flowed into the ocean because geniuses like Gov. Gavin Newsom were placating the green radicals by destroying dams and reservoirs to save some fish.
Here's a video of Newsom patting himself on the back for launching the biggest dam removal project ever with the cooperation of the tribal nations, allowing his kids and grandkids to see something “that’s been here since time immemorial.”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1877042693311738309
Do you know what California had since time immemorial, until the eeeevil white man came in and started building dams? It had overgrown wilderness where a lightning strike could start a fire that might burn across the entire state before it finally ran out of fuel or a rainstorm stopped it. The greens want to return the state to the pristine days before it was befouled by humans and their infernal meddling with Mother Nature by putting out those fires. And so they have.
(President Trump also weighed in on Newsom’s prioritizing of fish over people):
Why are the fire departments complaining that they don’t have enough staff and equipment? Maybe because Mayor Karen Bass cut the LAFD budget by $17 million as California cities donated millions of dollars’ worth of firefighting equipment to Ukraine. She also boasted of hiring a lesbian fire chief who announced that her focus would be “diversity, equity and inclusion” and recruiting more women, gays and minorities, not on superfluous things like making sure they have enough firefighters, equipment and water.
There’s more: People were asked to leave their homes unlocked so that firefighters could get inside. What happened? Predictably, they were looted, because local authorities tolerate crime. There was also heavy gridlock of traffic when people tried to evacuate, and not enough cops to direct the traffic (remember “defund the police?” Another brilliant leftist idea.) And what about Newsom and his ilk mandating that everyone drive electric cars? At least that hasn't happened yet. Imagine that huge traffic jam with people fleeing a fast-moving fire and all their highly flammable lithium batteries going dead.
The stupidity gets worse. Many of the people who’ve lost their homes don’t even have fire insurance. Why not? Because so many insurance companies stopped doing business in California. Insurance was already unaffordable because of the inflated property values due to all the regulations making it nearly impossible to build more affordable housing. And when insurers tried to raise rates after previous fires to stay in business, the state government blocked it (price controls are SUCH a good idea.) Oddly enough, when you mandate that businesses lose money, they tend to go away.
Two years ago, Los Angeles voters had the chance to elect as mayor wealthy businessman Rick Caruso, who promised to actually clean up the many problems that had plagued the city with crime, violence and filth. Instead, they elected Karen Bass, a career far-left politician, who when her city was burning down with inadequate fire protection and no water, was in Africa attending the inauguration of the President of Ghana.
Upon her return, a reporter for Australia’s Sky News asked Bass, “Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget?” She had no answer and just stood there in silence for 45 seconds before fleeing.
Incidentally, you might recall that Bass was high on Joe Biden’s short list of black, female potential running mates in 2020. Yes, she was actually deemed less competent than Kamala Harris.
We list all these things not because we seek to point fingers of blame during a crisis, or “pounce,” as the media always call it when Republicans point out the Democrat incompetence and criminality that they refuse to cover. In fact, we’ve been writing about these issues for YEARS, and sounding the alarm that they were creating a disaster that was waiting to happen. Now it’s happening.
Is it possible that this might finally convince even Hollywood’s leftist liberal celebrities to vote these incompetent morons out of office? Some are actually saying things that suggest the blinders have at last been burned off of their eyes.
As for California’s leftist politicians, they’re reacting as expected: by denying responsibility and blaming Trump and climate change and other bogeymen. Newsom shifted the blame to “the local folks.”
We suspect that their biggest concern will be rebuilding the polls by November of next year so they can all get reelected. Let's hope their dream burns down, too.
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