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[GURPS]

 

[GURPS]

Adam Carolla REJECTED From LAFD For Being White, INSANE DEI Fire Training Video ROASTED​

 

[WingsOfGold]

Looks like it will NOT be Vance Vs Newsome, his own is starting to eat him.

 

[stgislander]

I'm not holding my breath. They are so deluded, they'll believe that Trump and Reps in Cali are responsible.

 

[SamSpade]

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I heard yesterday - that the INDIANS did controlled burns - yeah, the native Americans who had far more ingrained respect for the environment did know that uncontrolled fires were FAR MORE DAMAGING to the environment.

 

[GURPS]

I heard yesterday - that the INDIANS did controlled burns - yeah, the native Americans who had far more ingrained respect for the environment did know that uncontrolled fires were FAR MORE DAMAGING to the environment.

yeah and the lives told about Indians living peacefully with Nature .. in reality most were murderous blood thirsty groups murdering and enslaving each other .. and the tribes wandered because the would OVER Hunt any area and had to follow the game

 

[SamSpade]

I think what pisses me off the most is the stupidity that says "this is all caused by climate change - so if we spent money on that, it wouldn't happen".

EXCEPT - yes it would. It ALWAYS happens. It happened before white people even came to California. It happened long before the industrial revolution.

Climate change MIGHT MAKE IT WORSE, if you're correct -----

BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE if you don't do enough to be prepared for something that IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
Are y'all prepared for earthquakes? Not climate change - are you ready for it?
Are you ready for tsunamis that will follow? Not climate change.

So why aren't you ready for fires? Mudslides? Drought?

OTHER NATIONS manage this - why didn't you?

"well you see, our hydrants can't handle using so much water at once". Really? A few more damns and reservoirs might have eliminated that problem.

You were NOT prepared. And instead of mea culpas and promises to fix it - you are either telling us you're "doing all you can" or finding someone ELSE TO BLAME - because you don't fix things, you don't address problems, you get into office, plop on your shades, go to fancy parties and think that it all solves itself. You think being mayor and governor is all about glamor and status and not the REAL PROBLEM of solving people's problems.

As someone said yesterday - sometimes people are so incompetent - they are unable to see it.

 

[SamSpade]

yeah and the lives told about Indians living peacefully with Nature .. in reality most were murderous blood thirsty groups murdering and enslaving each other .. and the tribes wandered because the would OVER Hunt any area and had to follow the game

Not all of them. The Algonquins in the East formed governments and inter-tribal councils- the Cherokee built homes like the settlers and cultivated the land.

Oddly enough, the most savage nations had very grisly ends - like the Mayans and Aztecs.

But they did generally tend to respect nature, because their livelihood depended on it. It's how we knew if we wiped out the buffalo they would suffer.

 

[Clem72]

I heard yesterday - that the INDIANS did controlled burns - yeah, the native Americans who had far more ingrained respect for the environment did know that uncontrolled fires were FAR MORE DAMAGING to the environment.

Which indians? Did they provide historical evidence or written records of this practice, or is it something handed down through oral tradition (like Senator Warren's ancestry) and basically as reliable as you would expect a 300 year old game of telephone to be?

"We used to trap our enemies in their homes and set fire to them, burning down the forest around them".
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300 years later
"We performed controlled burns to preserve our forests".

 

[GURPS]

I think what pisses me off the most is the stupidity that says "this is all caused by climate change - so if we spent money on that, it wouldn't happen".

 

[GURPS]

 

[stgislander]

We are currently in a solar maximum cycle are we not?

 

[GURPS]

 

[GURPS]

We are currently in a solar maximum cycle are we not?

Are We ?

that was the reason for 11 yrs of rising CO2 in the 90's and Al Gore's Climate LIES

 

[GURPS]

 

[stgislander]

Are We ?

that was the reason for 11 yrs of rising CO2 in the 90's and Al Gore's Climate LIES

I don't know. I believe solar cycles play a greater part in 'climate change' than reported. If we are currently in a multiyear solar minimum, and Earth's average temp is still 1-2°C higher, then maybe there is some component of man-made climate change to consider.

 

[stgislander]

Jessica read Chief Crowley's resume on The Five yesterday. It sounded impressive, but we all know there are instances of promotions by not only ticking off boxes, but failing up.

 

[Kyle]

 

[GURPS]

Latest LA Fires Update Will Likely Infuriate Voters​

The entire political leadership in California deserves to be in jail. Okay, maybe that’s too much, but everyone must be fired. As the media focuses on the raging wildfires engulfing Los Angeles County, the lack of water and firefighters, and Mayor Karen Bass being in Africa when the blaze erupted, we have new developments on how this top-down failure in disaster response came about.

Bass was already torched for cutting almost $20 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department a few months ago. The city opted to use that money to support transgender cafes, weirdo lefty-wing art, and gay choirs (via Daily Caller):

The City of Los Angeles cut funding for its fire department and allocated thousands of dollars to various progressive programs, including a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe” and a Gay Men’s Chorus.
Fires swept through Southern California on Wednesday, destroying hundreds of homes in Los Angeles County, and high winds only fueled the destruction. The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was slammed for slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) budget by $17.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to 2025, Fox 11 reported, citing LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia.
Bass claimed in a press conference that none of the reductions made “would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.” She added that the city is “in tough budgetary times.”

 

[GURPS]

Black Lesbian LAFD Asst Chief Sums Up Everything Wrong With DEI in One Snark​

Larson was one of a group of women in 2021 agitating for former LA mayor Eric Garcetti to fire the previous Fire Chief, Ralph Terrazas, for reportedly ignoring a litany of complaints from female firefighters about the rampant culture of sexism, racism, and abuse thriving in the LA Fire Department. At the time, Larson was the president of the Los Angeles Women in the Fire Service (LAWFS), could well be painted as an activist, and was an outspoken critic of the fire chief.

A coalition of female firefighters and advocates released a demand letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti, denouncing Los Angeles Fire Department’s culture of “rampant sexism, racism and abuse in the ranks that women and minorities routinely face.”
...The Equity on Fire (EOF) coalition — consisting of Los Angeles Women in the Fire Service (LAWFS), a women’s LAFD employee association; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California; Women’s March Action and the California National Organization of Women — gathered on a virtual meeting on Oct. 18 to publicly address the unsafe work environment women and minority firefighters experience within the department, according to a statement.
EOF is asking for the fire chief to be removed and replaced along with a demonstration of accountability from Terrazas, who “has ignored, downplayed, denied or actively obstructed any investigation into the cultural problems within LAFD,” the demand letter reads.
...Kristine Larson, president of Los Angeles Women in the Fire Service and a 31-year LAFD veteran and officer, said numbers of equal employment opportunity (EEO) violations are growing within the department and that Terrazas is aware of the upward trend of LAFD’s discrimination and harassment.
Larson explained that Terrazas receives regular briefings, notifying him of complaints within the department, from LAFD’s professional standards division (PSD), which handles complaint and disciplinary action “in compliance with federal, state and local news and departmental policy,” according to the Professional Standards Division complaint form.
“He knows about these incidents.”
She said he discounts that EEO violations have increased from seven in 2017 to 63 in 2019.

All the politically correct buzzwords are used throughout every paragraph of this story and Larson's responses in the interview. I'm not going to opine on the veracity of accusations and conditions I have no personal knowledge of other than to say, as a veteran of being one of only 4000 women in the biggest 275,000 member men's club on earth, I look at all the umbrage - and EEO violations - with a bit of a jaundiced eye.

By January of 2022, the pressure was enormous, and Terrazas was out, replaced by current LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley.

This week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated Kristin Crowley to become the Los Angeles Fire Department’s first female fire chief, pending confirmation by the Los Angeles City Council.
Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas’ retirement was confirmed at the same time. In October, firefighters and activists demanded that Chief Terrazas step down, saying he had failed to address the discrimination against women in the department and “ignored, downplayed, denied, or actively obstructed any investigation.” An LAFD survey assessing workplace culture conducted in November also concluded that 56% of women within the department had experienced bullying and harassment on the job.
Speaking to Crowley’s appointment, Garcetti said, “There is no one better equipped to lead the LAFD at this moment than Kristin. She’s ready to make history.”
This is not the first time Crowley is making history. A 22-year veteran, she was the department’s first female fire marshal and the second woman to earn the rank of chief deputy. She also served as program director for the LAFD’s youth development program.
...Not only is Crowley inheriting a department with deep-rooted misogyny issues, but she will also have to tackle firefighters’ mass refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Fire commissioner Rebecca Ninburg says, “She is going to follow the mandate. She’s going to continue to educate, she’s going to implement the city policies and hold people to account if they don’t comply.”

Crowley suspended more than 100 firefighters without pay, many of whom were later terminated.

Larson cheered the new chief's selection as a sign the bullying culture would change.

...She attributes the adversity women face to a lack of representation within the fire service and welcomes the new fire chief’s appointment. “Crowley is well-respected in the department by the rank and file members and she has done the work necessary to achieve this promotion,” Larson said.
...Women have been fighting for their place in the Los Angeles Fire Department for decades. In her current role as chief deputy, Crowley helped to develop a five-year strategic plan to identify areas of growth within the Department and as the new fire chief, she could be the push the department needs for systemic cultural change.
At Tuesday’s event, Crowley said she was up to the task. “I will be fully committed to leading and inspiring our tremendous department into an exciting future that is filled with new opportunities to grow, to innovate and to empower.”

I guess it's swung progressively, judging by this delightful video starring the now Assistant Chief herself.

What a delightful woman.

I don't ever want her near me in an emergency.

"You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency - whether it's a medical call or a fire call - that looks like you"

No, I don't. I don't give a rat's ass what they look like if it's an emergency. I only know I want them there and that they know what they're doing.


"Or 'You couldn't carry my husband out of a fire.' Which my response is, 'He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.'"

I definitely do not want her or any other angry, smart-ass diversity hire anywhere near our house if they think carrying a man out of a burning building is too Gott-danged much trouble.

No, sir.

I want that pizza delivery kid who selflessly goes in three times, and then dives in for a fourth when told he missed someone.

That's the DEI 'tude in one, revolting snark. She's doing him a favor for being in the wrong place by carrying him out.

CARRY YOUR OWNSELF

Blows my mind.

But besides the budget cuts, it explains a lot about what's happening in Los Angeles.

So does one other thing I came across while researching this. In a weird, creepy coincidence, probably the last straw for former Fire Chief Terrazas's career was an accusation that he had protected a chief deputy whom a female firefighter had reported as drunk on duty during a big May 2021 brush fire.

You'll never guess where the brush fire was.

...The 30-year resident was monitoring two radios and a stream of Twitter feeds, 18 browser tabs open as he toggled back and forth between weather reports and emergency alerts.
The fire was just over the eastern ridge, and he didn’t think it would reach his home in Fernwood, on the canyon’s western side. But his car was packed just in case.
“This is not normal, to have a big fire like this in May,” said Ferguson, who also serves as board chair of the Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness. “This is the type of thing we’d usually be doing in November.”
The Palisades fire, which had swelled to more than 1,300 acres by Sunday afternoon and forced the evacuation of about 1,000 people, came as a reminder of an unsettling truth: The fire season is starting earlier each year, and it is now underway.

Damn.

Personally, from my point of view, I think the smug preening and virtue-signaling of these women - from the LAFD to the mayor to the water czar and every posturing DEI chica in-between - with the subsequent proof of the emptiness of it all evinced in the smoking devastation? They've set women who would want to earn their place in any 'manly' profession back decades.

This horrific, unfathomable loss will always be colored by the question of how much competent leadership and professionals have been able to save.

What a travesty.