L.A.'s Deputy Mayor For Public Safety On Leave For Alleged Bomb Threat

 

Apparently, there’s still more to be said about the Los Angeles area fires. Turns out, not only did Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass leave her town after she knew dangerous winds were imminent amidst fire-friendly conditions to attend a wedding party in Ghana, but Brian Williams, the deputy mayor of public safety in Los Angeles who was appointed by Bass, was unavailable during this crisis as well. Why? Because he’s been on administrative leave for nearly a month after being implicated in a bomb threat made against the Los Angeles City Hall. Got it?

FBI agents raided the deputy mayor’s home a few days before Christmas, on suspicion that he had called in a bomb threat to L.A.’s City Hall back in October. Los Angeles police officers opened an investigation into the threat, subsequently handing it off to federal agents because of the suspect's close connection with their department.

The LAPD released a statement reading: "Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety. Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency."

The City of Angels’ Deputy Mayor for Public Safety (apparently) called in a bomb threat to the City Hall of the very burg he was paid to protect?! While the mayor was partying in Africa? Good God!

This is more than “incompetence.” It is worse than inaction. You wouldn’t think a man charged with keeping a municipality safe would have to be told, “first, do no harm” or “please don’t bomb City Hall!”

I have often expressed the opinion here that the elites and authorities currently in power don’t much care for the people they are sworn to serve. Many don’t want to believe this, for it is a tragic and sobering notion. But, as this tragedy has so clearly illustrated, it is nonetheless true.

The rot, the sickness, the depravity must be removed, root and branch. City by city, state by state.

 

California Burning And The Intolerable Acts

 

The ongoing wildfires in Southern California are mindful of Hell and are a clear and unavoidable illustration of the rank incompetence of state and local leaders. The ever-expanding homeless camps, the rising crime rates, the faltering power grid, and now the inability to douse a fire that’s been raging for a week, make it all too obvious that the erstwhile Golden State-- the Land of Milk and Honey—is morphing into a third world entity. Sad. Heartbreaking, really.

At its core, government is supposed to physically protect us and defend our freedoms. That is why governments were instituted. Today, Democrat-run governments are stripping freedoms from those whom they supposedly serve, and simultaneously exposing them to ever-growing danger. Californians pay some of the highest taxes in the nation…and are receiving next to nothing for them. Government of, by, and for the people has been replaced with government of, by, and for the government. Like a giant, ever-growing parasite, it is intent only on growing itself and reproducing itself, to hell with anything and anybody else. As the founders declared, when a government becomes abusive, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” It is the duty of Californians to do so in this instance. Empty reservoirs, dry fire hydrants, dead brush allowed to stay where it has fallen, water diverted to the ocean, fire department budgets cut…all add up to what might rightly be termed ‘Intolerable Acts.’

For his part, Donald Trump, on more than one occasion, warned Californians and their government that the state was in grave danger of suffering catastrophic fires due to insane environmental policies. He made this clear again just three months ago on the Joe Rogan Podcast.

But California’s leaders didn’t fireproof the state. They appear more concerned with Trump-proofing it…which is essentially the opposite. This inexcusable negligence resulted in a staggering loss of life and property. Face it, Californians, your leaders disdain you. Will a majority of you now have the brains and ‘courage’ to start electing conservatives again? Doubtful. Ideological Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trump Derangement Syndrome are powerful maladies.

Looking at the bigger picture, California is, in a sense, the proverbial canary in the coal mine in terms of what happens to a polity that becomes hyper-secular. Sadly, that could also be said about much of America—and The West in general. For, as William Penn noted, “Those who will not be governed by God will be governed by tyrants.”

And some of those tyrants will begin to think they’re God. Even as they usher in the fires of Hades.

Democrats For Destruction

 

Historian and author Victor Davis Hanson-- or, as Mark Levin properly calls him, ‘America’s Wise Man’-- recently noted that California’s progressives are actually taking the state backwards. This matches what I have often written, that today’s progressives are anything but, and in truth could be better classified as ‘regressives.’

Here’s Hanson, himself a resident of California, per a video posted by the Western Lensman on Twitter/X: “It was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy, you put it all together and it’s something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb.”

Hanson added, “And to finish, what we’re seeing in California is a state with 40 million people. And yet the people who run it feel that it should return to a 19^th-century pastoral condition. They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state. But they’re not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century, when you had no protection from fire.”

Everything The Left comes in contact with it destroys, nearly all of it on purpose.

If “Make America Great Again” is the slogan of Trumpian Republicans, it is only fair that Democrats have their own slogan. (Equity!)

Perhaps “Make America 1932 Again.” Or, “Make America Impoverished Again.” Or, “Make America Almost Uninhabited Again.” I’m sure readers can come up with many more candidates.

Democrats for Destruction. Sounds like the makings of a bumper sticker.

 

Two For You

Two For You

*According to the O’Keefe Media Group, the Bureau of Prisons has proposed new policies that would downgrade inmate security classifications for inmates convicted of child pornography offenses and terroristic acts. Yes, the proposed new policy would change the classification of a Child Pornography offense from a “High Severity Offense to a Low Severity Offense.” The definition of serious crimes has undergone profound change in recent years, due to Democrat policies, judges, and District Attorneys. Arson and theft are no longer big deals. Nor are, apparently, child pornography offenses and terroristic acts. However, Jan. 6ers, Christians, Trump supporters, and parents who attend their children’s school board meetings to voice displeasure have all been effectively upgraded to “High Severity” threats. Fact check that last statement, PolitiFact! You too, Snopes. USA Today?

*Soap opera ‘star’ Eric Braeden, of ‘The Young and the Restless’ infamy, recently criticized Donald Trump for comments the president-elect made on social media pertaining to the never-ending fires consuming Southern California. Braeden took issue with Trump’s criticism of Gov. Gavin ‘Slick’ Newsome’s handling of the catastrophe, as well as other local officials. Understandable, since a local reservoir had no water in it at the time of the fires and many fire hydrants ran dry. And the L.A.F.D.’s budget was slashed by more than $17 million prior to the fire’s inception. And the City of Angels is short competent firefighters due to DEI hiring practices and the fact that many firemen were let go for refusing COVID-19 jabs. And…well, enough for now. Yet the actor/faux person Breden stated that the claims the “orange idiot” made were “all nonsense.” Progressives deem the truth to be Fascism because it inconveniences them or casts shade on them. They brook no limits whatsoever on their behavior. Though they are not to be judged, they are only too happy and quick to judge others. Truth is their Kryptonite.

 

 

L.A. Woman, Light My Fire

 

 I have not written about the L.A. fires until now because, unfortunately, I have a real job, too. One that takes up much of my time. But by now, almost all of us know the facts. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, just back from a presidential inauguration in Ghana (will she attend Trump’s?), refuses to answer a reporter’s questions…or say anything to the people of Los Angeles she is supposed to protect and serve. More than $17 million cut from the fire department budget. DEI trumping merit in who gets hired, especially for the top positions. Firemen let go for refusing to accept the COVID jab. ‘Excess’ equipment sent to Ukraine. Dead brush left where it lay, rather than being cleared away. Reservoirs and fire hydrants empty.

But it is not just the reservoirs and the fire hydrants that are empty. It is the minds, the hearts, and the souls of the people who made these tragic, indeed deadly, decisions. In the pursuit of a “celebrate me and those that look and act like me” culture, they have shown they are devoid of reason, wisdom, and character. And those deficiencies have aided and abetted these fires from hell.

One thing we can count on: the insanity won't stop before the fires do. At first blush-- and at second, third, and each and every subsequent blush-- it is clear that the tragic fires consuming vast tracts of the Los Angeles area were, unlike climate change, man-caused. The LGBTQ LAFD could not be led by less competent or more woke individuals. Moreover, on a statewide scale, Gavin Newsome apparently slashed $100 million from the Golden State’s firefighting budget. No doubt it was more desperately needed to provide free goods and services for non-citizens.

Many have fled the state in recent years, in a kind of reverse gold rush, seeking better opportunities in other places. You can bet that many more will flee after this most recent tragedy. In a just world, it would be the likes of Gov. Newsom and Mayor Bass that would flee the state, just ahead of those who would rightfully chase them out.

And now there are several reports that at least a couple of the fires may have been started by arson. Nothing can be more man-caused than that. Or less caused by ‘climate change.’

 

 

"Flying Vaccinators?"

 

According to reports, researchers at the Bill Gates Foundation-backed Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands are now part of an international effort to transform mosquitoes into flying syringes. According to a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine, a viable method exists for using mosquitoes to deliver protection against malaria in unsuspecting humans. Say what?! Shouldn’t these folks at least by suspecting? And what about other diseases the mosquitoes themselves may be carrying?

But wait, that’s not all! Researchers say that mosquitoes could be used to deliver other payloads, too. Like what? Vaccines maybe?! Already in the works. Scientists have been working on transforming mosquitoes into “Flying vaccinators.” Shigeto Yoshida, head researcher on a 2010 study that modified mosquitoes' saliva so that it would deliver leishmania vaccines to mice (when sucking their blood), blithely noted that vaccination by insect is "just like a conventional vaccination but with no pain and no cost." What could go wrong? Who makes these decisions? Who lets the dogs mosquitoes out? What else might they want to inject us with—unsuspectingly?

Free will? Human freedoms? Bah!

Count me out. Or will I have a choice?

A little Pink Floyd paraphrasing for you to end this post:

Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more... ahh
But you may feel a little sick

There is no pain, you are receding

You have become comfortably numb

Biden Administration Seeks To Punish Oil And Gas Companies

 

The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that the Biden administration’s stunningly unjust Department of Justice “quietly weighed in on litigation pending before the Supreme Court this week, siding with liberal cities and states that are seeking to force the nation's largest oil companies to pay billions of dollars in damages for global warming.”

Biden’s Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, is pushing the Supreme Court to give its imprimatur to the notion that states can make laws mandating that oil companies pay “the costs of global climate change." Prelogar is also urging SCOTUS to “allow Democratic states to pursue their individual lawsuits against the various companies.”

The outgoing Biden administration also just placed more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal and offshore waters off limits for further oil and natural gas exploration and development. What a kick in the teeth of the incoming Trump administration—and the American people.

The Beacon also noted that the lawsuits against the big oil companies “are being assisted by the California law firm Sher Edling, which was founded in 2016 to wage war on oil companies via novel legal methods,” and has “received nearly $14 million in donations wired through the so-called Collective Action Fund for Accountability, a shadowy pass-through group that isn't required to publicly disclose its donors.

Mandating that companies that provide the vast majority of the world’s energy pay for any possible harm that energy production has caused the planet is the worst idea in the history of the world. And that may be an understatement. First off, ‘global warming’ is unproven, impossible to separate from normal planetary processes. Second, we don’t even know if it is occurring. Third, we have no idea if it is ‘man-caused,’ let alone caused by fossil fuel companies. Fourth, there are numerous ‘experts’ who believe that, if it is occurring, it would be a net benefit to the planet. Which seems logical.

And all of those previous statements/reasons are utterly moot. Huh?

Any current government, whether state or national, that wishes to levy fines against companies in the extraction industry—or sue them into oblivion—is an existential threat to those it is (hopefully) sworn to protect and defend…and therefore invalid, illegitimate.

Let me explain. Any possible ‘damage’ these companies have done to the earth is more than counteracted by the literally incalculable good they have done. Global warming? Petroleum, coal, and natural gas-based energy has prevented countless millions from dying of extreme cold over the past century or more via various, relatively inexpensive, heating systems. Global cooling? Petroleum, coal, and natural gas-based energy has prevented countless millions from dying of excessive heat via the relatively recent miracle of air-conditioning.

What else? Let’s see. How many lives have been immeasurably improved because of the internal combustion engine? The freedom to get in one’s car and drive to work, or to travel across the country to see the sights, historical, environmental, or otherwise, is a blessing—though too often taken for granted now—beyond compare. The same goes for air travel. Not to mention that, prior to gasoline-powered vehicles, things were a tad more difficult. Who wants to ride a horse to work in heavy snow and 40-below windchills? Walk? Bicycle? What about the elderly, infirm, and handicapped? Would that be fair, inclusive, tolerant, and kind? And the ubiquitous horse poop—filling the streets and thoroughfares of that era was an ever-present health threat on several levels.

More? Before petroleum-based oils came into existence, many people lit their homes with lamps fueled by whale oil. Sperm—and other—whales were also benefactors of the switch to oil, coal, and natural gas.

Instead of seeking to punish those who have brought the world real ‘progress,’ dramatically improving lives and preventing countless deaths, we should be falling to our knees and thanking almighty God that they did so.

Fines and reparations? In a more just world, those would be levied against the governments that try to punish the very entities that have done us the most good.

[For edification—and enjoyment—I’ll end with a clip from the new Paramount+ show Landman. You’re welcome.]

 

 

British Government Horrified At Elon Musk's Language, Okay With Gang Rape Of Young Girls

 

The past few years have made cynics of a great many of us. Sometimes hearts have to harden a bit for some of us to make it through another day. After all that’s transpired, I often think to myself, “Nothing could shock me anymore.”

Sadly, that has proven not to be the case. Sometimes ignorance is blended with sheer, mind-bending depravity. The number of people actually celebrating the torture and slaughter of over a thousand innocent Jewish folks in Israel on October 7, 2023—and openly supporting Hamas— was depressing enough.

But the recent outcry in Britain among government types and the chattering classes over Elon Musk’s plea for an inquiry into the mostly Pakistani rape gangs that have for far too long tortured, abused, and even murdered countless young British lasses is beyond the pale.

Nicholas Watt, political editor at the BBC’s Newsnight, recently said to a clearly uncomfortable panel: "There is absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the “incendiary language” we have seen from Elon Musk." In fact, according to Newsnight, Britain's socialist government is considering ending its security partnership with the United States if Donald Trump endorses Elon Musk's views on the groom-and-rape gangs. (Certain members of the American media seem to agree with the British elites that calling attention to the rape gangs is a bigger scandal than the rape gangs themselves.)

It is unsurprising that insufficiently bland language would shock and offend many in the British government and media, since free speech in Britain is almost as dead as many of the young girls who were brutalized by migrant Middle Eastern men.

“Harumph! In polite society it is very bad form indeed to use words like ‘rape’ and ‘anal,’ let alone to cast aspersions on a marginalized group of immigrant men! Has Elon Musk no shame?!”

The term “absolute horror” should be reserved to describe what the countless young girls had to endure. I’m guessing they would have much preferred to have been the ‘victim’ of “incendiary language” rather than having been gang-raped and their anuses forcibly ‘branded’ with curling irons.

The British government might prefer to end its long-time security partnership with the U.S. rather than begin to look into the atrocities being committed against the nation’s young girls?! How can this be possible? Is it really so afraid of offending Muslims? Surely this wouldn’t offend a majority of Muslims, and if it did, who would care? Are those in the government really more afraid of revealing the truth of this matter than of distancing themselves from the United States? Would they really rather snub Trump and his incoming administration-- even at the expense of so many young lasses?

Do they detest Elon Musk more than they detest the gangland anal rape of youngsters?

No wonder elites are fading away like the nations they lead. This should bring down a government.

“Shocking” is inadequate to describe this scandal. Or it should be.

Evil rises. It must be stopped.

News Nuggets; Five, No Jive

 

News Nuggets; Five, No Jive

 *Public health officials (i.e. ‘experts’) are warning Americans of four different virulent illnesses spreading across the nation. The officials have urged people to take precautions against 1) the flu, 2) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), 3) norovirus, and 4) COVID, though it is unclear if the last illness is still named COVID-19 or if it has been updated to COVID-25. A quad-demic?! That’s better than any old pandemic! This could be the mother of all demics! Coincidentally, just in time for Trump! Amazing!

*Columbia Professor Joseph Massad may well be the most clinically insane professor in America, a distinction that is well-nigh impossible to achieve given the state of higher education in the United States. During a March 25 appearance on the podcast InFocus with Ejaz Haider, Massad stated,  “What is special here about Zionism is not only the invention of ancient Israel and the invention of Jews as descendants of the ancient Hebrews, it’s almost like a Hitlerian project to speak of Jews genetically in this fashion.” The day after the Oct. 7 massacre, he published an op-ed that praised the terrorist attack that saw many hundreds of Jews kidnapped, tortured, and slaughtered. He called it “awesome” and expressed joy at the thought of the terror and suffering felt by Jewish civilians, including women and children. Massad is a satanic monster who is ignorant of history. He is also one of the apparently inexhaustible number of dangerous clowns that have managed to make Hitler seem blasé, ubiquitous, and, incredibly, non-threatening…due to their labeling of everyone with whom they disagree as ‘Hitler,’ and every act of which they disapprove ‘Hitlerian.’

*Speaking of the insane, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who apparently had no problem with President Biden granting an “unconditional” blanket pardon to his felonious son Hunter, nor his commuting of the sentences of monstrous cop-killers and child-rapists/killers, took to ‘X’ to blast Donald Trump for considering pardoning those who were prompted by the feds to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Schumer stated, "It is utterly shameful that the president-elect is considering pardons for January 6 rioters." Schumer is not a cop. And his kids weren’t raped and killed, so he doesn’t care. The J6ers, however, did intrude on ‘his’ domain, strolling down the halls of the Capitol, and even relocating a dais.  He is a sick man.

*A George Mason University professor recently said that marriage is part-and-parcel of “white, hetero, patriarchal supremacy.” Even Black marriage? Gay marriage? Or are those marriages okay for some reason? If the nutty professor believed in God, he would certainly also brand Him a white, hetero, patriarchal supremacist. Who the hell would pay for their offspring to attend an ‘elite’ college or university?

*Reports indicate that various leftist and LGBTQ groups are rushing to purchase guns before Donald Trump is inaugurated. What?! Wait, guns are bad, right? Oh, I see, not when they have them, just when others do! Seems almost like a pattern.

 

A War On Warriors: Madness In The Military

 

As Pete Hegseth noted in his new book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” West Point issued a 5-year plan, spanning the years 2020 to 2025, “that focused on ‘inclusivity’ as equal in importance as marksmanship under fire.” That bodes well for our future. Merit is overrated! We don’t really care if our soldiers can function under pressure or hit the broad side of a barn when shooting, as long as they help to diversify the force. Gotta stay laser-focused on what matters, right?

“Well, applicant A is better under pressure, and applicant B is a much better shot, but applicant C is a pagan pansexual Pacific Islander! We need that! Applicant C it is!” Maybe someday the United States will return to being a serious country. But I doubt it. And it is rapidly running out of time. (Calling Donald Trump! And Pete Hegseth.)

Let’s apply the same radical agenda to, say, the NBA:

“Hey, coach, how come Goldstein made the team? I mean, he’s kinda slow and he can’t dunk.”

“Well, Johnson, to comply with our new DEI policy, we needed a non-binary Jewish dwarf to round out the squad. And Goldstein’s pronouns are ‘they/them.’ Don’t forget it!”

Think that little vignette sounds crazy? Similar policies are in place in many corporations, academic institutions…and, of course, the United States military. In the still fanciful NBA illustration, a basketball game could be lost. In the case of the military, lives will be lost.

We’ve apparently already lost our minds.