Saturday, July 05, 2025

Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards

They may not be rich enough to hassle the Hoff yet, but they’re getting there. OpenTheBooks
OpenTheBooks.com reported on outrageous overtime spending on the LA police, fire and particularly overpaid employees in the city’s Department Water & Power amid out-of-control wildfires in January, and the anti-immigration riots in June.
Lifeguards, too, enjoy big overtime payouts and generous benefits. 
  • The top-paid lifeguard in LA county was compensated more than $500,000 in 2024; and over the past 5 years, a single lifeguard was able to pull down $702,000 – in overtime alone!
BY THE NUMBERS
We reported that in 2021, the top-paid lifeguards earned up to $510,283 — back then, we found 98 lifeguards earned at least $200,000 including benefits.
Now, out of over 1,500 lifeguards, 
  • 134 of them earned at least $200,000 including benefits. 
  • Thirty-four of them had $300,000 or more in their compensation package...


No matter what, I am so proud and lucky to be an American and this country is still the greatest.

But less than it was.  - Debbie Schlussel
This week I was in court and watched a woman in her early 30s knitting in a jury box. 
The judge asked her why she was knitting. 
  • She said she has to, in order to focus and it calms her, so the judge allowed it and she is knitting during a trial. 
  • You've heard of support animals? 
  • Now we have support hobbies. 
We've become so soft, so weak, so ridiculous, so infantilized where anything goes and is tolerated...

Supreme Court agrees to take up exploding fight over boys in girls sports * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Supreme Court agrees to take up exploding fight over boys in girls sports * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Now the Supreme Court is stepping in. It has agreed to hear arguments in two cases in which extremists are seeking to overturn state laws that protect girls and women in their sports.

1st Amendment Protects Comments You Make on Gov’t Facebook Page

To whomever wrote this-Well said!

When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing! - Thin Blue Line Strong
  • When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
  • When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan,you said nothing!
  • When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
  • When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
  • When they passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
  • When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine,you said nothing!
  • When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
  • When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
  • When chemicals polluted the water in EastPalestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
  • When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
  • When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
  • When billionaire and anti American GeorgeSoros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
  • When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps,you said nothing!
  • When they spent our tax dollars on inmates transition surgeries, you said nothing!
  • When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
  • When they gave free money, food and 5 star hotel lodging to illegals,you said nothing!
  • When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
  • When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
  • When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
  • When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
  • When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
  • When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
  • When they covered up Biden's rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
  • When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
  • When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
  • When they accosted the jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
  • When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
  • When they spent $45 million dollars on "Diversity and Inclusion" scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
  • When they let men play women's sports, you said nothing!
  • When they chanted "Death to America" and burned our flag, you said nothing!
  • When they shutdown our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
  • When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
  • While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
  • When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
  • When JoeBiden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
  • When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
  • When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
  • When they let aChinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
  • When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
  • WhenAmerican citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
  • WhenFacebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
  • When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
  • WhenFauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
  • When they sealed the January 6th commission files or "lost them", you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti-American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears and all your fake hysteria now. 
For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!
Now, it’s our turn!

Lunch video-----Admiral McRaven Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever!

Noon-toon

 


Union members threaten and harass residents who dare drop off garbage during Philadelphia strike: 'This is disgraceful' | Blaze Media

Union members threaten and harass residents who dare drop off garbage during Philadelphia strike: 'This is disgraceful' | Blaze Media

The city obtained a court order preventing union members from getting in the way of city vehicles and harassing workers, but the city solicitor says some members have ignored that order. On Wednesday, the second day of the strike, WPVI reported that police had to intervene when striking city workers blocked sanitation trucks from entering a sanitation center.

Makes one think!

 


MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle says there will be “no more farm workers” or “people to clear your plate” without illegal migrants

The Democrats have a habit of saying things like this. - Mik Olson

Going to a restaurant, even… I mean, you may not have people being able to clear your plate — move so quickly — the food being served.

It's not science, it's all SCARE!

 


The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts

The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. - Victor Davis Hanson
Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral...
So, the result of Trump's foolhardy tariff talk would be an impending recession
America would soon suffer rising joblessness, inflation--or rather a return to stagflation--and likely little, if any, increase in tariff revenue as trade volume declined.Rebecca Downs
  • Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue. 
  • Personal real income and savings were up. 
  • Job creation exceeded prognoses'. 
  • There was no surge in inflation
  • The supposedly "crashed" stock market reached historic highs...
Common-sense Americans might not have been surprised...
  • Economists and bureaucrats were equally wrong on the border...
  • Many of our national security experts warned that taking out Iran's nuclear sites was a fool's errand...
  • Why were our "scientific" pollsters so wrong in the last three presidential elections, and so at odds with the clearly discernible electoral shifts in the general electorate?...

#1 This day 1955-----Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock (1955) HD

Chinese agroterrorism could severely disrupt US food supply, expert warns | Fox News

A former DHS official warns that Chinese agricultural terrorism threats need more attention, especially after COVID wreaked havoc on the world. - Peter D'Abrosca Fox News
In light of the arrests of two Chinese nationals who are accused of smuggling a crop-killing fungus across the border, one expert warns that agroterrorism from foreign adversaries could cause a "severe disruption" to the United States.
  • "Agroterrorism is any attempt to bring items into the United States intentionally that would impact our food supply," Kristofor Healey told Fox News Digital. 
  • "So this would be biological organisms like we saw in this case in Michigan. A specific lab-grown organism that is intended to attack items that are key to our agricultural survival as a nation."...

We know why the crooks are squealing like pigs!

 


Ron Paul EXPOSES how the Federal Reserve keeps up its scam | Blaze Media

Ron Paul EXPOSES how the Federal Reserve keeps up its scam | Blaze Media

The Federal Reserve uses protecting the free market as one of the biggest reasons for its existence, but former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) knows better.

“That’s the argument they use,” he tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck. “You know, bank runs and all this, and the Fed was established to stop all that.”

Your tax dollars brainwashing college students??-----Get ready for MAGA to ‘weaponize’ July 4 on America’s 250th anniversary, professor says Micaiah Bilger

Professor says Trump and MAGA followers will use ‘patriotism’ to ‘whitewash’ problematic parts of U.S. history
On July 4, 2026, Americans should be prepared for President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans to “weaponize” the country’s 250th anniversary, an Indiana University at Bloomington professor said.
Jeffrey Isaac, a political science professor (at Indiana University, Bloomington), reflected on Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence in a column Thursday published by Inside Higher Ed...
In the coming months, Isaac expressed concerns that Trump and his MAGA followers will “whitewash the ways that patriotism and even the preamble of the Declaration itself have been mobilized” to allow injustices like slavery...

AM Fruitcake

 


History for July 5

History for July 5 - On-This-Day.com 
Cecil John Rhodes 1853 - British business man, politician in South Africa
  • 1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
  • 1814 - U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeated a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
  • 1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.
  • 1865 - The U.S. Secret Service Division was created to combat currency counterfeiting, forging and the altering of currency and securities..
  • 1946 - The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.
  • 1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the junction transistor.

Friday, July 04, 2025

California cities cancel 4th of July events to shield illegal aliens amid anti-ICE madness | Blaze Media

California cities cancel 4th of July events to shield illegal aliens amid anti-ICE madness | Blaze Media

Several California cities canceled their Fourth of July celebrations, reportedly citing Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities as the reason for the last-minute decision. With President Donald Trump's vow to execute the biggest deportation effort in the nation's history, ICE has increased its efforts to find and detain illegal aliens.

The way we were-----The State That Never Was: How Franklin Almost Became America's 51st State

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson | Restoring the Idea of Liberty in America

I suspect they're not too fond of us Proud Americans either!

 


Ronald Regan Patriotic Speech

ICE says it 'isn't going anywhere' after Mayor Bass demands agents leave LA | Fox News

ICE says it 'isn't going anywhere' after Mayor Bass demands agents leave LA | Fox News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement clapped back at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she suggested that federal immigration authorities "go home."

Understanding the Declaration of Independence - 9 Key Concepts Everyone Should Know!

M.A. Rothman - When you actually sit down and read the Big... | Facebook

M.A. Rothman - When you actually sit down and read the Big... | Facebook - M.A. Rothman
When you actually sit down and read the Big Beautiful Bill—the one they’re calling “cuts to Medicaid”—you’ll realize every Democrat and every mainstream media hack is lying straight through their teeth.
No normal American would be against any of this. 
Let’s break it down:
  • 𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏: Saves $35 billion over 10 years by limiting federal health program eligibility based on citizenship status. Translation? If you’re here illegally, you don’t get Medicaid. Simple...
  • 𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐: Saves $42 billion by cutting “Medicare coverage of bad debt.” Not sure what that is? Let me explain...

Lunch video-----Declaration of Independence - Paul Harvey - Freedom Has Never Been Free

Happy birthday America!

 


ICE says it 'isn't going anywhere' after Mayor Bass demands agents leave LA | Fox News

ICE says it 'isn't going anywhere' after Mayor Bass demands agents leave LA | Fox News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement clapped back at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she suggested that federal immigration authorities "go home."