Multi Sport
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Let me guess... you know the guy who invented it.
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Nope, but I have had one and helped put out another, besides the unknown number I have seen at a distance.
One time, after the 2003 brushfire wiped out a large part of San Diego County, I was driving the kids up into the hills to look over the damage. We stopped behind an old pickup truck as a light on Scripps Poway Parkway, and when the light turned green, it didn't go. The driver jumped out and popped up the hood and started beating on a carburetor fire with his down vest. Bad idea - every time the nylon shell of the vest hit the fire, it just melted away, and all he was doing was producing a cloud of feathers about his head. By the time he ran back to ask for help, I already had loosened the bunjie cords holding a fire extinguisher on the door side of my driver seat, so I handed it to him. He used up the whole bottle, but he got the fire out. Then we pushed his car onto a side street.
Hüsker Dü
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Buddies dads Thunderbird on the 5 coming back from surfing up north. Heard a loud pop, hood popped up, black smoke started billowing out, pulled over and watched it burn. The smoke shut down the south bound for a bit . . . got the gear out, surfboards fine, wetsuits smelled like burnt rubber as they had gotten heated up a bit.
According to Brulle's research, the 91 think tanks and advocacy organizations and trade associations that make up the American climate denial industry pull down just shy of a billion dollars each year, money used to lobby or sway public opinion on climate change and other issues.
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Bruddah IZ
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Surfing Up North
Bruddah IZ
DA
3% sway. Waste of money in my opinion. Just get the 97% to stop using fossil fuels and all will be green. Isn’t that what happens on skid row?
My own engine fire occurred in a 10-year-old VW Beetle. As I returned to my car after a day of sailing and general debauchery, I noticed a small puddle of liquid under the engine. "Hmmm - I'll have to look into that tomorrow."
On the way home, I stopped to make a left turn at the last light before my house. After the light turned green, I noticed the car didn't have much power. Then I saw flames in the rear view mirror. The car had enough energy left so that I was able to coast to the curb, whereupon I started yanking out all the things in the car that I didn't want to burn up - my tool box, my sailing gear, all the papers and stuff in the glove compartment. Just at that moment a SD Sheriff cruiser pulled up. The Deputy put the fire out with his extinguisher and twisted shut the leaky gasoline line.
If he had been a few minutes later, the car would have been totaled and the insurance company would have bought the hulk from me. As it was, the repair costs were slightly above my deductible, and the car never ran quite the same again.
Not only that, the engine cover had a distinctive burn scar in the paint. I made it a hobby for a while to count up all the VW Bugs and Vans I saw with similar markings.
Leave it to poor little you to judge whether the billionaires are spending their money wisely. Funny.
Multi Sport
DA
Wow! Only $12!!
Bruddah IZ
DA
Don’t get me wrong. It’s damn entertaining to watch a little girl lead you adults around by the nose.
Multi Sport
DA
OUCH!!!!
QUOTE="espola, post: 292245, member: 3"
Nope, but I have had one and helped put out another,
besides the unknown number I have seen at a distance.
One time, after the 2003 brushfire wiped out a large part of San Diego County,
I was driving the kids up into the hills to look over the damage.
We stopped behind an old pickup truck as a light on Scripps Poway Parkway,
and when the light turned green, it didn't go.
The driver jumped out and popped up the hood and started beating on a
carburetor fire with his down vest.
Bad idea - every time the nylon shell of the vest hit the fire, it just melted
away, and all he was doing was producing a cloud of feathers about his head.
By the time he ran back to ask for help, I already had loosened the bunjie cords
holding a fire extinguisher on the door side of my driver seat, so I handed it to him.
He used up the whole bottle, but he got the fire out.
Then we pushed his car onto a side street.
/QUOTE
This is what I see you doing at a Fire.....
Nope, but I have had one and helped put out another,
besides the unknown number I have seen at a distance.
One time, after the 2003 brushfire wiped out a large part of San Diego County,
I was driving the kids up into the hills to look over the damage.
We stopped behind an old pickup truck as a light on Scripps Poway Parkway,
and when the light turned green, it didn't go.
The driver jumped out and popped up the hood and started beating on a
carburetor fire with his down vest.
Bad idea - every time the nylon shell of the vest hit the fire, it just melted
away, and all he was doing was producing a cloud of feathers about his head.
By the time he ran back to ask for help, I already had loosened the bunjie cords
holding a fire extinguisher on the door side of my driver seat, so I handed it to him.
He used up the whole bottle, but he got the fire out.
Then we pushed his car onto a side street.
/QUOTE
This is what I see you doing at a Fire.....
Multi Sport
DA
And in 30 years it will be back to this...
Sheriff Joe
DA
Boring as fuck, just like your dad.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Messy has been abused in here so often that it doesn’t even hurt any longer.
I think he likes it.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Climate Change Protester Chains Himself to a Car and Cries Because His Kids Are 'Very Frightened of Their Future'
Julio Rosas | Oct 07, 2019 4:20 PM
Source: @PoliticsJOE_UK/Twitter
A climate change protester who chained himself to a car was caught on camera crying because his two kids are worried about their future.
Protests took place in the United Kingdom and all around the world on Monday. The protest was organized by Extinction Rebellion, who want the United Kingdom's Parliament to take action on climate change.
One man, along with a few other protesters, was chained to a car and said he was taking action because his kids, four years and ten months, are "very frightened of their future." After he took out a picture of them, the man started to cry.
"I'm just a father of two children that's very frightened of their future."
Sheriff Joe
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October 10, 2019
The new green era dawns in California
By J.R. Dunn
A blueprint for the deindustrialization of the U.S. is being revealed even now in (you guessed it) California.
Beginning early yesterday morning, a series of total power shutoffs by Pacific Gas & Electric began in every county of the Bay Area, along with a number of others to the north (the number of counties involved total 34). The sole exception -- as you might have guessed -- is San Francisco.
The power cutoffs are complete, with no exceptions for hospitals, emergency services, phone networks, etc., the purpose being to eliminate all power flowing through overhead power lines in the affected areas in a clumsy, ill-considered effort to prevent wildfires. Vast areas of central California will be returned by fiat to the conditions of the 19th century. Something like 800,000 PG&E customers will be affected. The duration of the shutoff is effectively arbitrary, and may extend up to five days or more. (I would guess that it depends on particular conditions of humidity, dryness, and windiness, but it may not be even that logical. It seldom is with environmentalists.)
The reason that this is “necessary” is due to yet other environmental laws preventing California power companies from adequately trimming back brush and undergrowth near their power lines, for fear that this may annoy a rare species of mountain toad or something similar. As a result, brush grows adjacent and under active power lines, where it is believed that sparking from the lines can set it ablaze, though to my knowledge, this has never been definitely determined either.
There is nothing particularly novel about this. In 2007 the Fish and Wildlife Service effectively shut down farming in the Central Valley – one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world – by curtailing irrigation on the grounds that water pumps might inconvenience a fish the size of an average little finger called the delta smelt. No evidence existed that a single delta smelt had ever been killed or mangled by an irrigation pump, but that didn’t matter. The decision was affirmed by the 9th Circuit court in 2015, leaving the area in a permanent state of economic depression.
Little or no evidence of planning is evident regarding these shutoffs. They were announced only hours before being put into effect, with little advice apart from tips to stock up on candles and batteries. Not surprisingly, next to nothing was heard from local or state government on the matter – they doubtlessly prefer that the entire responsibility and blame fall upon PG&E. Further evidence of poor planning appeared on Wednesday afternoon when a state trade association, the California Fuels and Convenience Alliance, reported that gas stations in the blackout districts had been “overwhelmed” by desperate customers(either hoarding or seeking enough fuel to flee) and pleading for drivers to “continue a normal fueling routine, without any immediate overreaction.”
These are the first signs of a panic that may continue to build. Even if California avoids riots and other public disturbances, damage from these blackouts will be large-scale and permanent. Economic activity will dwindle to next to nothing. Schools, offices, and plants will shut down. People will be killed, including the elderly who depend on electrical-powered health aids and those in the high country who adapt desperate methods to heat their homes.
No matter what the result, the exercise will be hailed as a “success” by environmentalist, state bureaucrats, and their allies, and a “model” for efforts elsewhere. The truth is that the wildfire premise, which could be easily addressed by a few thousand people with brush cutters, is no more than a pretext. The end goal of the modern green movement, clearly expressed by Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and Dave Foreman among many others, is deindustrialization followed by depopulation. This has been something carefully omitted from the argument both by the greens and their opponents, who are much more comfortable with arguing direct financial costs of fractions of a cent. Most of the public continues to cling to the deltas smelt and spotted owl version of the green movement, unable and perhaps unwilling to grasp that the ultimate goal is to turn them, their families, and their communities into fertilizer.
It has commonly been projected that the first move would look a lot like this. Californians should value the short period of civilized living they have left. Someday soon, the power will go off, and it will never come back on again.
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October 10, 2019
The new green era dawns in California
By J.R. Dunn
A blueprint for the deindustrialization of the U.S. is being revealed even now in (you guessed it) California.
Beginning early yesterday morning, a series of total power shutoffs by Pacific Gas & Electric began in every county of the Bay Area, along with a number of others to the north (the number of counties involved total 34). The sole exception -- as you might have guessed -- is San Francisco.
The power cutoffs are complete, with no exceptions for hospitals, emergency services, phone networks, etc., the purpose being to eliminate all power flowing through overhead power lines in the affected areas in a clumsy, ill-considered effort to prevent wildfires. Vast areas of central California will be returned by fiat to the conditions of the 19th century. Something like 800,000 PG&E customers will be affected. The duration of the shutoff is effectively arbitrary, and may extend up to five days or more. (I would guess that it depends on particular conditions of humidity, dryness, and windiness, but it may not be even that logical. It seldom is with environmentalists.)
The reason that this is “necessary” is due to yet other environmental laws preventing California power companies from adequately trimming back brush and undergrowth near their power lines, for fear that this may annoy a rare species of mountain toad or something similar. As a result, brush grows adjacent and under active power lines, where it is believed that sparking from the lines can set it ablaze, though to my knowledge, this has never been definitely determined either.
Little or no evidence of planning is evident regarding these shutoffs. They were announced only hours before being put into effect, with little advice apart from tips to stock up on candles and batteries. Not surprisingly, next to nothing was heard from local or state government on the matter – they doubtlessly prefer that the entire responsibility and blame fall upon PG&E. Further evidence of poor planning appeared on Wednesday afternoon when a state trade association, the California Fuels and Convenience Alliance, reported that gas stations in the blackout districts had been “overwhelmed” by desperate customers(either hoarding or seeking enough fuel to flee) and pleading for drivers to “continue a normal fueling routine, without any immediate overreaction.”
These are the first signs of a panic that may continue to build. Even if California avoids riots and other public disturbances, damage from these blackouts will be large-scale and permanent. Economic activity will dwindle to next to nothing. Schools, offices, and plants will shut down. People will be killed, including the elderly who depend on electrical-powered health aids and those in the high country who adapt desperate methods to heat their homes.
No matter what the result, the exercise will be hailed as a “success” by environmentalist, state bureaucrats, and their allies, and a “model” for efforts elsewhere. The truth is that the wildfire premise, which could be easily addressed by a few thousand people with brush cutters, is no more than a pretext. The end goal of the modern green movement, clearly expressed by Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and Dave Foreman among many others, is deindustrialization followed by depopulation. This has been something carefully omitted from the argument both by the greens and their opponents, who are much more comfortable with arguing direct financial costs of fractions of a cent. Most of the public continues to cling to the deltas smelt and spotted owl version of the green movement, unable and perhaps unwilling to grasp that the ultimate goal is to turn them, their families, and their communities into fertilizer.
It has commonly been projected that the first move would look a lot like this. Californians should value the short period of civilized living they have left. Someday soon, the power will go off, and it will never come back on again.
Sheriff Joe
DA
October 10, 2019
Democrats turning California into a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
By Tom Trinko
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love for trees, at least 800,000 Californians will be without power for several days. Instead of properly managing California forests to reduce the chances of big fires, Democrats are saying Californians have to go without lights, refrigerators, and air-conditioning. Democrats could also avoid this by not making the power company financially liable for all forest fire damages, but since PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the Democrats couldn't care less about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame climate change and the infrastructure, the reality is that neither of those has caused any significant changes in the last ten years — but now, suddenly, due to Democrat policies, Californians have to start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run California also refuse to build more water storage capacity even though the state's population has dramatically increased, ensuring that water has to be rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning California into a third-world country economically. The income inequality between the über-rich Silicon Valley workers and the rest of Californians is huge, just like in third-world countries, while the elites live in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a great job manufacturing poverty and homelessness even as they fail to instill hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per capita and three times more poor per capita than the rest of America. Half the homeless in America are in California, even though California has only 12% of the U.S. population. Also, blacks are six times more prevalent in the San Francisco homeless population than they are in California in general.
The homeless explosion has brought the return of third-world diseases like typhus to California — not to mention streets littered with human feces.
Democrats are trying to keep people from having cars, just like the people of the Third World. After all, a car gives people the freedom to move, and freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it limits the power the government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor, transferred millions of dollars that the voters had been ensured would go to improve the state's failing road infrastructure to a fund designed to convince Californians to give up their cars.
Democrats are also working to make cars unaffordable for any but the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for gasoline than the rest of America. That's $21 more for a tank of gasoline. Facebook employees won't notice it, but the poor in California who can't afford to live near their jobs are paying through the teeth.
Like all third-world tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate democracy in California.
The jungle primary, where the top two candidates in the primaries go against each other, has resulted in many races where two Democrats are running against each other, giving voters who don't agree with the Democrats' failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't vote don't vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing everything possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens go pick up their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote unless they say they're not citizens.
California is also trying to end democracy by keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the ballot. Democrats passed an unconstitutional law to keep any candidate who didn't release his tax returns off the ballot solely to keep Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats are going after freedom of the press. An undercover journalist revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby parts. Instead of investigating that illegal practice, Democrat Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us California is the future if they get elected. That means that poverty, homelessness, the end of democracy, and a press that reports only what Democrats want heard are what Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely wealthy Google employee, California is Heaven. If you're not, it's becoming more and more like Hell.
Democrats turning California into a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
By Tom Trinko
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love for trees, at least 800,000 Californians will be without power for several days. Instead of properly managing California forests to reduce the chances of big fires, Democrats are saying Californians have to go without lights, refrigerators, and air-conditioning. Democrats could also avoid this by not making the power company financially liable for all forest fire damages, but since PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the Democrats couldn't care less about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame climate change and the infrastructure, the reality is that neither of those has caused any significant changes in the last ten years — but now, suddenly, due to Democrat policies, Californians have to start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run California also refuse to build more water storage capacity even though the state's population has dramatically increased, ensuring that water has to be rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning California into a third-world country economically. The income inequality between the über-rich Silicon Valley workers and the rest of Californians is huge, just like in third-world countries, while the elites live in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a great job manufacturing poverty and homelessness even as they fail to instill hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per capita and three times more poor per capita than the rest of America. Half the homeless in America are in California, even though California has only 12% of the U.S. population. Also, blacks are six times more prevalent in the San Francisco homeless population than they are in California in general.
The homeless explosion has brought the return of third-world diseases like typhus to California — not to mention streets littered with human feces.
Democrats are trying to keep people from having cars, just like the people of the Third World. After all, a car gives people the freedom to move, and freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it limits the power the government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor, transferred millions of dollars that the voters had been ensured would go to improve the state's failing road infrastructure to a fund designed to convince Californians to give up their cars.
Democrats are also working to make cars unaffordable for any but the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for gasoline than the rest of America. That's $21 more for a tank of gasoline. Facebook employees won't notice it, but the poor in California who can't afford to live near their jobs are paying through the teeth.
Like all third-world tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate democracy in California.
The jungle primary, where the top two candidates in the primaries go against each other, has resulted in many races where two Democrats are running against each other, giving voters who don't agree with the Democrats' failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't vote don't vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing everything possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens go pick up their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote unless they say they're not citizens.
California is also trying to end democracy by keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the ballot. Democrats passed an unconstitutional law to keep any candidate who didn't release his tax returns off the ballot solely to keep Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats are going after freedom of the press. An undercover journalist revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby parts. Instead of investigating that illegal practice, Democrat Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us California is the future if they get elected. That means that poverty, homelessness, the end of democracy, and a press that reports only what Democrats want heard are what Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely wealthy Google employee, California is Heaven. If you're not, it's becoming more and more like Hell.
Michael Wara, director of Stanford University’s climate and energy policy program, suggested that northern California follow the lead of San Diego, which invested more than $1 billion to improve its equipment ― including burying and insulating power lines ― after the devastating Witch Creek Fire in 2007.
The utility company “needs to do the things San Diego has done in the last 12 years since the Witch fire,” Wara told the Times.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pge-power-shutdown-californians-wildfire_n_5d9f1f7ce4b02c9da045340f
The utility company “needs to do the things San Diego has done in the last 12 years since the Witch fire,” Wara told the Times.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pge-power-shutdown-californians-wildfire_n_5d9f1f7ce4b02c9da045340f
Bruddah IZ
DA
Solar and Wind to the rescue?