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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IFdpbGwgTGF0ZSBOaWdodCBSb2FzdCBOZXdzb20gQW5kIEJhc3MgRm9yIEZpcmVzPyBEb27igJl0SG9sZCBZb3VyIEJyZWF0aC4=?= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:05:24 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:05:25 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f0209617bcd21cdff9201bc4b6b6144d"; logging-data="1966626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ET38hg0/2Zr4pgpK/jLNg" User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Cancel-Lock: sha1:/vPU1WpmIzh1eaetOHWNtCQa+ww= Bytes: 4464 On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" wrote: > We know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million from the city's fire > department budget. The progressive mayor wasn't even in L.A. when the fires > broke out. She was in Ghana on a political junket. She might have been forgiven for being out of town if it had been just a bad coincidence, but the National Weather Service had been issuing warnings of "extreme fire danger" to city officials for several days *prior* to her departure and she decided to leave anyway. Absolute dereliction of duty. If there's a legal mechanism in California for the governor to remove a mayor, Newsom should absolutely do so, but he won't because he has too much himself to answer for in this mess. > The optics couldn't get much worse. Remember how SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and > late-night comedians mocked Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas when he was out of state > in Cancun during a deadly cold weather front in 2021? It's hard to forget > given the nonstop jokes on the subject. But notice neither the media nor the late-night jokesters had anything to say when, in the middle of a winter weather emergency in California, with thousands of citizens trapped in their homes under 10+ feet of snow (that he and his bald-headed lunatic of a predecessor assured us would never be seen again due to 'climate change'), Newsom suddenly vanished. He could not be located anywhere. But never fear. It turns out he was just in Baja California, Mexico. Newsom was frolicking on the beach in Cabo San Lucas while hundreds of people were snowed in with no food or power in the mountains during a winter snow emergency. Other than the choice of Mexican resort destination, it's exactly the same thing that Cruz did. But with Newsom it was actually worse. As a matter of executive function, it happens to be worse to abandon your constituents in the middle of a weather crisis when you are the governor as opposed to a senator who-- unlike a governor-- has no authority or ability to direct personnel and manage resources. So Cruz couldn't have actually done anything to help had he stayed but Newsom very much could have. Yet Cruz is the one who is vilified by the media while Newsom's failure was all but ignored. > Another possible source of comedy? HBO's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER. The > long-running host has shown a knack for truth-telling regardless of party > affiliation. He's been a thorn in the Left's side for several years, mocking > progressives for their extreme culture war positions and woke overreach. > > He's based in L.A. and might skewer pols who have made the problem > exponentially worse. He's also a Climate Change alarmist and might focus on > that angle, even if there's no evidence climate change played a role in the > catastrophe. Of course it didn't. There's only so many ways these fires get started. Either nature starts them-- almost always via lightning strikes-- or humans start them. Sometimes it's because humans don't maintain the power lines and they fall over during high winds and spark fires, or they're caused by human negligence (a tossed cigarette butt) or arson. There was no lightning when these fires started and they've ruled out downed power lines. That leaves only one option left: someone started the fires, either accidentally or on purpose. It was not fucking 'climate change'.