Beyond the L.A. fires: California lawmakers approve $50 million 'to resist' President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Beyond the L.A. fires: California lawmakers approve $50 million 'to resist' President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"At a time when California should be laser focused on responding to the devastating wildfires in LA, Democrat lawmakers' priority is creating a $50 million slush fund to hire government lawyers for hypothetical fights against the federal government and to defend criminal illegal immigrants from being returned to their home countries," said a social media comment from Rep. James Gallagher, a Republican in the state assembly. "The disconnect between what Californians need and what Democrats are focused on is astounding."

Governor said misinformation!!

 

The Panama Canal was built by America and also the former train system.

Dave Agema - The Panama Canal was built by America and also the... | Facebook

Many lives were lost building it from diseases...

In 1977 Carter gave the Panama Canal to Panama for $1 dollar, but Panama could not allow other foreign countries to control military bases or build there...

• Problem: 15,000 ships cross the Panama Canal and tariffs on US ships varying from $50,000 to $500,000 to cross it. Most of Panama’s profits come from US shipping and military vessels. Their crossing fees are exorbitant for American military and civilian ships. 
• Add to this the increasing influence of Chinese and the US has a problem. The CCP proxies involved in Panama have established a military presence in Panama via their proxi Chinese businesses. 

This is against the 1977 agreement that Carter made-a bad deal for America.

• Trump's goal is to get Panama to abide by the 1977 agreements which dictate no other foreign troops in Panama and drive the China’s influence out. 

They have reneged on their agreement. 

Trump will negotiate; however, if wars break out elsewhere in the world, the Panama Canal which was built by the USA will need undeterred access...

Essentially, anyone on Earth can come to California for free healthcare.

 

After a GOP Senator Dropped These Remarks, Just Confirm Pete Hegseth Now

After a GOP Senator Dropped These Remarks, Just Confirm Pete Hegseth Now - Matt Vespa
It was an attempt to 'Brett Kavanaugh' the guy Trump wanted to run the Pentagon...

He knew this was going to be a fight. Hegseth has some unsavory allegations hurled at him, but that’s all they are—rumors, most of which are spewed by anonymous sources, especially when it comes to reported affairs and drinking.

• First, let’s clear the air: that’s DC. Everyone is boozing and cheating on their significant others in this cesspool of sociopaths...

As the hearing entered its afternoon phase, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) couldn’t hold his tongue anymore and tore into his colleagues for their holier-than-thou attitude, which most Democrats exhibit...

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) went insane as usual...Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) scalped herself, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) just wanted to yell.

#1 This day 1983-----Men At Work - Down Under (Official HD Video)

VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It's something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb — the alarming symptoms of a society gone mad."

An incisive, two-minute breakdown of the political and ideological issues that led to this disaster: “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." - Western Lensman@WesternLensman 

"Gavin Newsom was fiddling, he's almost Nero Newsom. 

And this has been something that is just unimaginable." 

"The systems breakdown. 

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 19th century pastoral condition. 
• They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state...

Why haven't they already done same for the homeless??!!

 

34 people arrested amid California fires, including burglar disguised as firefighter; 3 arrested for illegal drone activity | Blaze Media

34 people arrested amid California fires, including burglar disguised as firefighter; 3 arrested for illegal drone activity | Blaze Media: 

On Friday, firefighting aircraft attempting to battle the Palisades fire were forced to leave the area because of unauthorized drones in the air.

Citing California officials, NewsNation reported that there have been at least 40 incidents in which unauthorized drones forced firefighting aircraft to pause operations.

On Thursday, a drone collided with a CL-415 “Super Scooper” — a firefighting aircraft capable of scooping 1,600 gallons of water to drop on fires.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department said in a statement that a civilian drone struck the Super Scooper Quebec 1 on loan from Canada. The collision reportedly left a hole in one of the wings, but the extent of the damage wasn't known until the plane landed.

Students want A's for trying hard, B's for (mostly) showing up

"Two-thirds of college students say that “trying hard” should be a factor in their grades, and a third think they should get at least a B just for showing up at (most) classes,"  - Joanne Jacobs 

• Students want to be rewarded for effort, even if it doesn't lead to achievement, writes psychologist Adam Grant in a New York Times op-ed. 

"Two-thirds of college students say that “trying hard” should be a factor in their grades, and a third think they should get at least a B just for showing up at (most) classes," he writes.

• Psychologist Carol Dweck persuaded teachers and parents to praise Gen Z children for effort, not their abilities, to create a "growth mindset," ...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 15

History for January 15 - On-This-Day.com 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - Pastor, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

• 1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• 1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
• 1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
• 1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10.
• 1986 - President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January.

Firefighters race to contain Los Angeles wildfires with menacing winds forecast to return - Washington Times

Firefighters race to contain Los Angeles wildfires with menacing winds forecast to return - Washington Times: 

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters raced Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward the world famous J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, while new evacuation warnings left more homeowners on edge.

A fierce battle against the flames was underway in Mandeville Canyon, home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrities not far from the Pacific coast, where swooping helicopters dumped water as the blaze charged downhill. Firefighters on the ground used hoses in an attempt to beat back leaping flames as thick smoke blanketed the chaparral-covered hillside.

The way we were-----The deadliest fire in American history, the Great Peshtigo Fire

Top 8 "Green" Construction Fails

Citizen Free Press on X: "What you may not know about the death of Rosanne Boyland.

The only two deaths on 6 Jan 21 where unarmed white women murdered by cowardly capital police. - TOMMYTATUMNEWS

• Mike Latzke@mike_latzke - The only two deaths on 6 Jan 21 where unarmed white women murdered by cowardly capital police. When you think of Babbitt or Boylan you should also remember that the cowards Mike Byrd and Lila Morris have escaped all accountability.

Michael Smith - The three quarters of a million dollar head of the... | Facebook

Michael Smith - The three quarters of a million dollar head of the... | Facebook 

The three quarters of a million dollar head of the LA Department of Water and Power, Janisse Quiñones, is a perfect example of how logic is overcome by emotional reasoning. 

To allow your mind to be taken over by the Woke Mind Rot, erases even the strongest basis of legitimate logic and reason and substitutes feelings for them.

• I assumed her career was marked by race and sex based promotions into positions she was totally unprepared for, but when I looked up her bio, that sure seems not to be the case - at least through the early stages of her career.
• According to her bio, she holds Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude), a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Advanced Studies in International Relations and is a licensed Professional Engineer in five states, so she isn't dumb - but she is an example of how easy it is to ignore years of practical instruction and learning when the woke mind virus strikes...

Woke is a world of the unfalsifiable where non sequitur passes for reason. 

It takes the competent and twists them into incompetence.

Rebuking the demonic demands that we reject leftist lies | Blaze Media

Rebuking the demonic demands that we reject leftist lies | Blaze Media: 

But if you look at the entire landscape of our country, the truth is that these people are rare and getting rarer — and of the ones who do exist, many of them are actually on the left. They’re the ones fighting fabricated racism with real racism, perceived misogyny with genuine misandry, pretend homophobia with slights against the nuclear family.

But radical leftists either can’t see this or they simply don’t care because their agenda is pre-eminent.

Small City Could Be Bankrupted by $22M Judgment

Instapundit - REMEMBER, FINANCIAL CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SLASH PROGRAMS

Why America Is in So Much Trouble. 

• “There aren’t too many problems in America that can’t be traced back to the growth of big and incompetent government. . . . This road to financial perdition cannot stand.

It risks blowing up the Trump presidency. 

• Upon entering office, Trump should on day one call for a package of up to $500 billion of rescissions — money the last Congress appropriated but has not been spent yet. 
• Canceling the green energy subsidies alone could save nearly $100 billion. 
• Why are we still spending money on COVID-19? 
• We could save tens of billions of dollars by ending corporate welfare programs — such as the wheelbarrows full of tax dollars thrown at companies like Intel in the CHIPS Act...

Trump’s record-high approval rating will sink overnight if the cost of everything starts rising again.”
And if it happens, the press, which covered for Biden, will do its best to amplify it. - Glenn Reynolds

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: California's Catastrophic Wildfires Are ‘A DEI, Green New Deal Disaster’

Noon-toon

 

Researcher: Locals Want to Know Where Taxes Went as Fires Destroy L.A.

Researcher: Locals Want to Know Where Taxes Went as Fires Destroy L.A.: 

Los Angeles residents angered by local officials’ response to the fires devastating their communities are now questioning how their tax dollars are being used, a researcher told Fox News.

Kristian Fors, a Los Angeles County resident and research fellow at the California-based Independent Institute, told the outlet on Sunday that Californians assume their leaders will fix problems that arise, Fox News reported.

"...if you just pay more in taxes..."