"After these fires wind down, we gotta sue the ---- outta Santa Ana."

-LA residents

L.A. has two seasons, Fire and Flood. Every year it burns somewhere. It was Palisades turn, that's all. California does a lazy job containing and rationing water. When they rebuild, maybe they'll learn something about homebuilding and firefighting. I doubt it. How would lawyers make money if there were no lawsuits? That's the next firestorm that is on the horizon.

DOGE will eliminate the department. Can't spend taxpayer dollars on rabble rousers.

Surprized our media reported this story. They didn't report Trump/SCOTUS malfeasance much before. Alito must've leaked it.

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We'll eventually get a winter place somewhere down south. I'm never moving to the arid west again.

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Doesn't take a genius to see that the Los Angeles basin is a natural tinderbox. Just go hiking. When the beetles start eating the dry trees it means they're just like matchsticks. The brush is worse.

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I moved to Pennsylvania just to experience living with 4 seasons. California has 2 seasons, Fire and Flood. Phoenix has Warm and Hot. The monotony is revolting, I tells ya. I does something to perspective.

It's what happens when you have such a large population in such a big place.

A place that isn't meant for a large population. Los Angeles is a desert. They had to build an aqueduct from Owens Lake in NoCal to supply the water necessary for growth. The natives knew the place burned frequently. It's like building a community in a flood plain. Nature beats hubris every time.

Also that for most practial purposes the state with the very best weather (until recently) was also 'already taken', even back then.

My old grandpappy used his WWI soldiers payout to move the family from Chicago to L.A. back in '36. He did it because "At least out there you can't freeze to death."

Property taxes pay for city fire department resources. Howard Jarvis and the Voter Revolt called Prop. 13 in '78 created this mess. I was in 8th grade then, and our school district was gutted. Prop. 13 has kept property taxes low and caused the homes in SoCal at inflated value. Fire has revealed the flaws, as it naturally does.

"It's all building up to something. Something that can only be redeemed with fire".

That could be said about modern politics also. We never seem to learn.

I'd like to hear Biden try to pronounce Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Palin would've been just as cluless

Harris didn't know what the hell she was doing.

Next up, flood season!

Don't forget Boof Bonser!

Or my cousin Lee Boofy Boofwald

You know after shots of tequila you're up for anything.

John Wilkes Boof

Okay, that's funny.

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sigh

---- Corky! C'mon.

Kavanaugh, who appeared to have some difficulty reconstructing the time line of the evening, said that he arrived at the bar "around seven" and that it was "ten, maybe ten-thirty when they asked me to leave."

The jurist was evasive when asked to describe the contents of his briefcase, saying only that it was "work papers and junk" that he would "really like to have back."

Speaking to reporters, Kavanaugh said that, after work last Friday, he dropped into a bar near the Supreme Court "to have a few pops," and inadvertently forgot to take his briefcase when he left.

WASHINGTON "In a public appeal for help, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has asked if "anyone has seen" a briefcase he accidentally left at a bar late last week.

What did Boof have to say?