PRIORITIES:
Earlier, from Steve: While Los Angeles Burns, Mayor Bass Parties in Ghana, Fire Chief Fiddles with DEI. - Ed Driscoll
Thursday, January 09, 2025
Opinion: California in Flames, a Lesson for Us All - Illinois Review
California is burning. - John F. Di Leo 
Under Gavin Newsom and his recent predecessors, California has settled into a permanent economic tailspin, as employers and employees alike are fleeing the state for saner territories...
So who remains in California, as its tax base shrinks?
- Back when President Ronald Reagan was the governor – he served two terms, from 1967 to 1975 – California stood as the seventh ranking economic power in the world...
- 31 years ago, in January, 1994, the 6.7 Northridge Earthquake destroyed the 10 Freeway, a critical part of the metro Los Angeles traffic system. Governor Pete Wilson rebuilt it in record time, under budget and ahead of schedule...
Under Gavin Newsom and his recent predecessors, California has settled into a permanent economic tailspin, as employers and employees alike are fleeing the state for saner territories...
So who remains in California, as its tax base shrinks?
- California still attracts criminal gangs, illegal aliens, welfare recipients, homeless people.
- California restricts water rights so that its farming and ranching businesses shrink.
- California restricts energy production so that energy-intensive businesses have to move, because there’s no power for them to stay.
- California outlaws gasoline-powered vehicles, then shuts down its power plants so that people with electric vehicles cannot charge them...
Biden releases bin Laden bodyguards, other alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to Oman | Blaze Media
Biden releases bin Laden bodyguards, other alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to Oman | Blaze Media:
Administration wants to close Gitmo prison permanently.
As his days in office draw to a close, President Joe Biden has released nearly a dozen Yemenis from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba as part of a larger goal of closing the facility permanently.
The Lobbyist Behind Your $7 Eggs - Michigan Enjoyer
The egg farmers love the new restrictions, because they helped them crush out-of-state competition - Charlie LeDuff
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Wrong. It was the lobbyist.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Wrong. It was the lobbyist.
- The price of eggs has skyrocketed in Michigan, and it’ll probably never go down in an appreciable way. And it’s all due to a chummy deal cut between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, animal-rights activists, and corporate egg producers.
Then there is the lobbyist who put the whole thing together.
The background:
In 2009, the Humane Society of the United States convinced Gov. Jennifer Granholm to sign a law requiring Michigan egg producers to use bigger cages so that confined hens could spread their wings and live more “humanely.”...
The background:
In 2009, the Humane Society of the United States convinced Gov. Jennifer Granholm to sign a law requiring Michigan egg producers to use bigger cages so that confined hens could spread their wings and live more “humanely.”...
- Instead of larger cages, how about doing away with cages altogether by 2025?...
History for January 9
History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com 
Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913
- 1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
- 1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
- 1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.
- 2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
- 2007 - Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s CEO, announced the first generation iPhone.
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
'Never enough diversity': Watch as L.A. Fire Department spent years pushing super-woke policies * WorldNetDaily * by Nick Pope, Daily Caller News Foundation
'Never enough diversity': Watch as L.A. Fire Department spent years pushing super-woke policies * WorldNetDaily * by Nick Pope, Daily Caller News Foundation:
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) committed significant resources to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives before the outbreak of massive fires that devastated the Los Angeles area overnight.
The LAFD has implemented an internal "racial equity plan," subjected employees to diversity training and is currently led by Chief Kristin Crowley, "the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief in the LAFD" and a staunch supporter of the initiatives. As strong winds fed the wildfires on Tuesday evening, former Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso reported that some fire hydrants were running low on water as the department scrambled to mobilize firefighters.
How government and legacy media CONTROL what we think | Blaze Media
How government and legacy media CONTROL what we think | Blaze Media:
“Orwell wrote this long before George Floyd and the birth of modern corporate activism. He had no idea about organizations like the World Economic Forum or ESG. Orwell was talking ultimately about the dangers of consumerism, which goes back to the Wilson administration,” Glenn explains.
“Orwell’s nightmare, as far as control is concerned, is now our reality.
Instapundit - NUMBER OF GAZAN REFUGEES TAKEN IN BY IRELAND? APPROXIMATLEY NONE.
PRESSURE PUT ON EGYPT BY IRELAND TO ALLOW GAZANS TO ESCAPE THE WAR? NONE:
And yet: Ireland joins South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel.
And yet: Ireland joins South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel.
It’s that weird sort of genocide where no country that has identified genocide wants to help the civilians escape. - David Bernstein
The Sewer Stench of the National Security State
They are hiding the transformation, the real Golden Age. - elizabeth nickson 
So this past two weeks I have been buried in the collected works of Annie Jacobsen, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, now the patient chronicler of the National Security State.
Her book on nuclear war was released in time for 2024’s attempt by the Cheneys/military to start a nuclear conflict, and she was interviewed by all the right people by which I mean Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan.
The Paperclip “scientists”, DARPA, the military investigation of psychic phenomena, and Area 51 have fallen under her pen...
“Military intelligence is like Congressional Ethics, I question whether it exists”. - Congressman Tim Burchett (R)..
Justin Trudeau resigns before his own party could throw him out | Blaze Media
Justin Trudeau resigns before his own party could throw him out | Blaze Media:
Trudeau's nine years in office have been marked by multiple blackface incidents and other personal scandals; tax hikes; an unprecedented influx of immigrants; a spike in illegal immigration; rising crime; an enormous federal deficit; unanswered church burnings; a housing crisis; coercive medicine; and the rise of state-facilitated suicide as a leading cause of death nationally.
While the Liberal Party wants to ditch Trudeau before the imminent federal election, it owns all of his failures — including his unlawful decision to use martial law in 2022 to crush the peaceful trucker protests — and it appears that Canadians are well aware.
Trump Announces Additions to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s Team
After sweeping all seven battleground states this year and becoming the first Republican to win the national popular vote in 20 years, President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team to lead his next administration.
The Cabinet mainly consists of the vice president, the leaders of 15 executive departments, and several other top positions.
The Cabinet mainly consists of the vice president, the leaders of 15 executive departments, and several other top positions.
- Most, but not all, of these appointments require confirmation by the Senate.
Trump’s selections come from diverse backgrounds, with many hailing from the business world outside Washington politics.
Two of the nominees also come from across the political aisle.
- Here is a brief overview of what Trump’s nominees will bring to the table in his second administration...
Biden takes 'revenge' on American people with outrageous drilling rule * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Biden takes 'revenge' on American people with outrageous drilling rule * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Joe Biden moved on Monday to take "revenge" on the American population, impacting the economy, national security and energy with an abrupt ban on offshore drilling.
"This is a disgraceful decision designed to exact political revenge on the American people who gave President Trump a mandate to increase drilling and lower gas prices," explained Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary.
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