Viva California

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Everybody is agog at the LA fires.  It’s hard to believe that that level of incompetence and plain irresponsibility can exist in a metropolis the size of Los Angeles.  But that’s what we have to realize.  There is no back-up plan for this ongoing catastrophe.  The two largest fires are still only 10 to 15% contained and have already burned 13,000 buildings.    That means that there are already property losses in the tens of billions of dollars, and considering the high cost of houses in these areas, possibly much more.

But when the mayor or the governor are asked what is being done to save the properties surrounding the burned-out areas, they make it sound like this is an act of God that they have no responsibility for or power to fight.  In all those videos of large forest fires we see planes filled with water dropping it on the fire.  Well, what’s stopping California from requesting Washington to send aircraft of this kind?  If the answer is that California doesn’t have any large bodies of water nearby then I’d remind them of that big blue thing called the Pacific Ocean somewhere West of LA.  Sure, salt water is bad for the plants and everything else but I’m guessing that 2,000 °C fire is more than slightly worse.

But that is the reality.  Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom are just going to try and hand wave their way through this and somehow try to blame Donald Trump and tell the victims that he has to foot the bill and make it all right.  Well, I feel very badly for the victims of these fires.  But they voted for these people because they agreed with the things the Democrats said they want to do.  What happened is the end result of all those policies.  What happened is the result of electing people who are incompetent.  None of this is a surprise for the normally intelligent people who have been warning California about the direction they have been going for decades.

Well, there are thousands and thousands of angry, scared victims.  And some of those people are Hollywood icons.  And they are about to be dragged through the horror of trying to get a bureaucracy to treat them like suffering human beings.  They are in for a world of pain.  And all the people whose houses are spared this latest fire season aren’t going to forget how close they were to losing everything.  Who knows?  Maybe they’ll recall Bass and Newsom.  That at least would be a start.  Would it solve the problem.  Nope.  To do anything permanent the whole voting population of California would have to recall all of their state representatives and elect Republicans.  And there are too many school teachers and prison guards who owe allegiance to the Democrat party for their lucrative positions.

So, nothing much will happen.  But one of these days, the big one is going to hit Los Angeles.  Something like a 7.5 on the Richter Scale.  And the Angelenos are going to discover what having fake police, fire and emergency departments mean when there are thousands of people dead and injured.  And something tells me that will be the one that wakes up even the most woke of the woke.  When your family is buried under tons of debris and Assistant Fire Chief Kristine Larson tells you that they are out of luck because her lesbian POC firefighters can’t move heavy stones, well, that’s probably going to be the point when violence becomes the solution.  But then again maybe I’m wrong.  It’s been said many times that you can fix stupid.  Viva California.

Guest Contributor – TomD – 11JAN2025 – California Wildfires

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I live on the Florida panhandle, the population isn’t nearly as dense as central and south Florida. There are extensive farmlands and 10’s of thousands of acres covered in trees, mostly pines.

Except hot and dry spells, you will commonly see large smoke plumes here and there on the horizon. That is called “controlled burning”. That is to burn off the underbrush and dead branches, dry pine straw, etc., but not kill the trees. That reduces the kindling and fast fuel that a major fire needs to get started. It works. This method is common across the US in forested areas.

It is illegal in California.

In the meantime, the LA fire dept has spent the last 4 years hiring mostly lesbians as firefighters with no qualifications other than being lesbians.

In the meantime, California has created no new reservoirs since 1979 despite a near doubling of population since.

In the meantime, California passed a $7.5 billion bill to ensure adequate water supply but not a cent has been spent to that purpose. Some of it was used to destroy 4 then existing dams and reservoirs.

A number of years ago, someone ventured that California was rich enough to be stupid. I’m not sure that is the case any more.

Another interesting point: LA, and California in general, has long been famous for the difficulty and time required to get a building permit. We’re talking years for a house. How do you think the 10’s of thousands of people affected by the burning show up to get permits to rebuild their homes and businesses only to be told that they first need an environmental study and permission from 17 different agencies? Do you think there will be hangings? Hopefully.

Cut and Paste Anglo-America

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So, everybody’s been talking about Trump’s let’s-make-a-deal ideas about Greenland and Canada.  I’ll leave the Panama Canal out of this because that’s more of a strategic situation.  But Canada and Greenland are a very interesting opportunity.  All of that northern real estate really makes a lot of sense if the world really is warming, for whatever reason.  Northern Canada and even Greenland might be the new North American breadbasket.  And the mineral wealth of the north is currently incalculably large.

Now some Canadians have been outraged at Trump’s talk about a 51st state.  One Canadian legislator took a shot back and said that California, Oregon and Washington would be better off leaving the US and becoming a part of Canada.  Well, that has its advantages for both sides.  And it inspired me to think about the US and Canada getting together and doing some real horse-trading that would better align the red and blue parts of Anglo-America into two more homogeneous groupings.  Basically, I imagined Canada adding the American Northeast, part of the Great Lakes States and the West Coast while America gets the Rocky Mountain, Plains and Arctic provinces and territories from Canada.  Oh, and we paint Greenland red too.

Think of it.  No more wrangling every four years during the elections.  All of the blue states and the blue provinces together feeling smug and virtuous.  While the red states and provinces will be rid of them and free to enjoy life on our own terms without their constant complaining, lunacy and hypocrisy.

Basically, we would lose about a third of our population but double the size of the country.   They would more than triple their population while losing about a third of the area that was Canada.  But there would be so much more temperate climate than in old Canada that I can’t imagine they’d complain much about it.  One slight problem, their territory would no longer be one contiguous area.  There would be East Coast Wokistan and West Coast Wokistan but what’s a few plane flights between friends?  Plus, they’re bound to start a feud between themselves and that will just give them an excuse to break into two pieces anyway.

So, there it is.  A big beautiful deal just waiting to be brokered by the world’s biggest wheeler-dealer.  Come on make it happen.

 

Region Population Area (square miles)
Current United States of America 335,073,176 3,796,676
Current Canada 41,288,599 3,855,103
Current Greenland 56,583 836,330
New and Improved USA 233,003,747 6,290,802
Whatever is Left Over 143,414,611 2,197,307

Below is an ersatz map of what the two new countries would look like.

 

Below this is the details of the area and populations of the component states and provinces that I used for the calculations above.

Current Regions
Region Population Area (square miles)
 Alabama 5,157,699 52,420
 Alaska 740,133 665,384
 Arizona 7,582,384 113,990
 Arkansas 3,088,354 53,179
 Colorado 5,957,493 104,094
 Delaware 1,051,917 2,489
 District of Columbia 702,250 68
 Florida 23,372,215 65,758
 Georgia 11,180,878 59,425
 Hawaii 1,446,146 10,932
 Idaho 2,001,619 83,569
 Indiana 6,924,275 36,420
 Iowa 3,241,488 56,273
 Kansas 2,970,606 82,278
 Kentucky 4,588,372 40,408
 Louisiana 4,597,740 52,378
 Maryland 6,263,220 12,406
 Michigan 10,140,459 96,714
 Mississippi 2,943,045 48,432
 Missouri 6,245,466 69,707
 Montana 1,137,233 147,040
 Nebraska 2,005,465 77,348
 Nevada 3,267,467 110,572
 New Mexico 2,130,256 121,590
 North Carolina 11,046,024 53,819
 North Dakota 796,568 70,698
 Ohio 11,883,304 44,826
 Oklahoma 4,095,393 69,899
 Pennsylvania 13,078,751 46,054
 South Carolina 5,478,831 32,020
 South Dakota 924,669 77,116
 Tennessee 7,227,750 42,144
 Texas 31,290,831 268,596
 Utah 3,503,613 84,897
 Virginia 8,811,195 42,775
 West Virginia 1,769,979 24,230
 Wisconsin 5,960,975 65,496
 Wyoming 587,618 97,813
Manitoba 1,494,301 250,116
Saskatchewan 1,239,865 251,366
Alberta 4,888,723 255,541
Northwest Territories 44,731 519,734
Yukon 46,704 186,272
Nunavut 41,159 808,185
Greenland 56,583 836,330
New and Improved USA 233,003,747 6,290,802
 California 39,431,263 163,695
 Connecticut 3,675,069 5,543
 Illinois 12,710,158 57,914
 Maine 1,405,012 35,380
 Massachusetts 7,136,171 10,554
 Minnesota 5,793,151 86,936
 New Hampshire 1,409,032 9,349
 New Jersey 9,500,851 8,723
 New York 19,867,248 54,555
 Oregon 4,272,371 98,379
 Rhode Island 1,112,308 1,545
 Vermont 648,493 9,616
 Washington 7,958,180 71,298
Ontario 16,124,116 415,598
Quebec 9,056,044 595,391
Nova Scotia 1,076,374 21,345
New Brunswick 854,355 28,150
British Columbia 5,698,430 364,764
Prince Edward Island 178,550 2,185
Newfoundland and Labrador 545,247 156,453
Whatever is Left Over 143,414,611 2,197,307

 

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 10JAN2025 – California, Then and Now

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I lived in Calfornia in the early to mid sixties. Nice climate. Cheap gas, but it was still horribly expensive real estate compared to other states at the time. There were enough reservoirs so that we never had a “do not water lawns” restrictions. No brownouts, no blackouts. There were fires but the shrubbery that causes major fires was controlled and sensible and sustainable forestry practices were the norm. I was young and paid zero attention to politics.

We lived not terribly far from Watts during the race rIots. I had no trouble as I knew the kids from school and their parents thought I was polite. Being biracial was also a boon. I had a foot in both camps and my parents had raised me to not separate people by exterior appearances. I also got along with the Hispanic kids as many of them had at least partial Native American ancestry, although most of it was South and Central American tribes such as Aztec. And since I never shunned Black or Hispanic or the growing (back then) Asian population, I was accepted in pretty much all camps. But since then the left has gone to extremes to create racial hatred. It began in universities then trickled down to elementary schools to the idiocy you see today. Any school administration thatallowed drag reviews in primary education back then would have been ran out of town on a rail.

The left follows the Marxist/Leninist doctrine of first infiltrating schools. California is their glowing success. Massive school systems, immense school budgets. Ripe for conquest. Then fund and incite civil unrest.

In the early sixties California was doing almost everything right. Now they are doing almost everything wrong.

 

 

 

 

Good Luck Then!

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Rolling blackouts, whole towns burned off the face of the Earth, multimillion-dollar shacks, endemic rampant crime, homeless encampments everywhere, endless drug addicts, legislated anti-white hate, LGBTQ lunacy, hopeless energy policies and an unaffordable cost of living.  I could go on but why bother?  California has become emblematic of absurd progressive policies and the disastrous effects they’ve caused.

And now when the wealthier parts of Los Angeles are literally going up in smoke some people are wondering if this is the moment when the Californians will turn away from the Democrats and bring in the Republicans to fix the mess.  Well, they might.  But if the Republicans are smart, they won’t sign up for the job.  Specifically, no Republican in his right mind should run for or even accept if appointed to the governorship of California.  Well, let me qualify that.  If the citizens of California also elected a majority of Republicans to the legislature too, then it might have some value.  If all of the insane laws that have been passed in the last thirty years could be cancelled and the state could be put back onto a rational basis then it might work.  But short of that it’s a death trap.  Look what happened to poor hapless Arnold Schwarzeneggar.  The voters elected him to clean up the mess from their previous feckless Democrat governor but basically all he could do was preside over the freak show that the Democrat super-majorities in the legislature ordained.  Of course, he really didn’t put up any fight at all.  So, nobody remembers him fondly.  And the state continued its slide into ruin right on schedule during his term.

Just as when we talk about New York trying to save a sinking ship, the reality of who the voters are in California has to be faced.  The state has an enormous illegal alien population and an equally enormous population of people living off the government in one way or another.  None of these people will ever vote for a Republican or anyone else who promises to balance the books.  No, the system will have to crash so hard that the welfare checks stop getting delivered before the bread and circus crowd will pay attention to how bad things are going.

So where does that leave things?  Well, it looks like any frame houses in Los Angeles are just waiting for the wind and the arsonists to find them.  If I lived in LA, I think I’d get together with my neighbors and cut down all the trees and shrubs in the neighborhood and haul them away.  Then I’d invest in fire-proofing materials to protect my house.  But most importantly, I’d sell my house at whatever price I can get and move out of the Golden State as fast as I possibly could.  Because every time some new atrocity appears on the ground everyone declares that it can’t possibly get any worse and in fact this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and things will get better.  Well, I don’t think that is even remotely the case.  I think it will get phenomenally worse as more people leave.  The tipping point is already here and we’re just waiting for something like this fire season to find out things like there’s no water in the fire hydrants and the firefighters are now overweight lesbians who won’t be able to carry anyone out of burning buildings and the city has cut the budget for the fire department to pay for DEI training.

And that’s just for something minor like wildfires.  What happens when there’s a major earthquake?  Good luck then.