Category: San Andreas

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Democrats San Andreas 28 Comments

I believe you call this Californicated.

Politico;

Eric Swalwell suspended his bid for California governor amid sexual assault and misconduct allegations that threw his campaign into a tailspin, upending the race to lead the nation’s most populous state.

“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell wrote on X on Sunday. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.” […]

The Democratic congressman’s exit completed a stunningly swift collapse for a candidate who had shown signs in recent weeks of pulling ahead of a crowded Democratic field, with prominent interest groups and elected officials beginning to coalesce behind him.

But an ex-staffer’s allegation that Swalwell had sexually assaulted her, detailed in a San Francisco Chronicle report and followed by more misconduct allegations in a CNN report, led those allies to abandon Swalwell en masse as high-level staffers departed his campaign.

So Noted: Ouch.

Margin Of Fraud

Margin Of Fraud San Andreas 6 Comments

Hot Air;

The Sheriff of Riverside County, California, has gotten a warrant to count over half a million ballots from [the 2025 Special Election in California on redistricting] because there is a massive disparity between the number of votes recorded as cast and the number of ballots that were counted.

Not a few. But 45,800.

Margin Of Fraud

Democrats Margin Of Fraud San Andreas 5 Comments

In his new 23-minute video in San Diego and Orange Counties Shirley casts a bright light on how “Californians” are registered to vote at illegal addresses such as office spaces, storage units, and PO Boxes throughout the state.

Nites Ov De Rod

Roadkill San Andreas 4 Comments

Under California law,

…private trucking programs charging $2,500 or less in tuition are exempt from licensing and regulation by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE). This has created a gray area where nearly 200 such schools issue non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) with little accountability.

Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), told the DCNF that this lack of enforcement is part of a broader federal failure in trucking oversight. He argued that even the basic federal Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) requirements are poorly enforced, allowing inadequate programs to persist and produce underprepared drivers — foreign or domestic — who pose risks on the highways.[…]

Pugh described the federal Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) program, launched in 2022 as the first real requirement for new truckers, as fundamentally ineffective. Applicants simply complete an online registration, find a registered trainer (who needs only minimal qualifications), and have the trainer check off topics taught — often with no meaningful behind-the-wheel instruction required.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

San Andreas 11 Comments

Hear my prayer.

An hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out if they were sending in bulldozers.

“Heck no that area is full of endangered plants,” Capt. Richard Diede replied at 9:52 a.m, five hours after LAFD declared the fire contained.

“I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area,” he wrote. “I’m so trained.”

The exchange between the state and LAFD employees is part of a batch of newly-released text messages and depositions from California State Parks staffers that offers new details of the state’s actions and interactions with firefighters in the critical days after the Lachman fire ignited and rekindled Jan. 7 into the deadly Palisades blaze.

More: The Environmentalists Making Forest Fires Worse

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

San Andreas 12 Comments

In case you don’t know, California Highway 1 near Big Sur was closed by a landslide in 2023. Due to safetyism, environmental groups, and government incompetence/corruption the road remains closed and the possible opening dates keep shifting. There’s really no plan to fix/open the road and the tourist oriented economy along the coast is dying.

The road was built in the early 1920s. Over the years there have been MANY landslides. The road was always fixed and reopened.

But somehow, 100 years later in Gavin Newsom’s California, this is impossible. It’s as if we’ve lost the ability to repair roads.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Great Reset San Andreas 8 Comments

Because the promised “big one” was taking too long.

The road to recovery after the Palisades Fire has been anything but smooth for a group of historical business owners on the eastern edge of Malibu.

For years, the Reel Inn was a staple along Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The famous seafood shack fed surfers and tourists for nearly 40 years.

Its sign is now in a pile of rubble, and because of a yearslong dispute over land use, the Reel Inn may never reopen.

Other businesses are facing the same roadblocks when it comes to rebuilding — The Topanga Ranch Motel, Wiley’s Bait and Tackle, Cholada Thai and Rosenthal Wine Bar.

[…]

Today, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is using the land, which is owned by California State Parks. They recently informed the destroyed businesses that their leases are cancelled and they can’t rebuild.

“Due to the catastrophic property loss associated with the Palisades Fire, DPR has regretfully determined that it will not continue to lease this site,” the letter the Reel Inn received read.

“We wanted to rebuild, remodel, expand from day one for thirty years. We thought that somebody from state parks, at some point, would go, ‘Look, we’re remodeling the whole place down there anyway. These guys have got good press. Why don’t we lean in with them and do something cool? And let’s do it rather sooner than later because it will make it look like we’re getting things going down here.’ And the phone, not only didn’t ring, but we got that letter two weeks ago,” said Andy Leonard, the owner of the Reel Inn.

h/t Joe

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

San Andreas 18 Comments

Hear my prayer.

To support those residents in Pacific Palisades and Eaton who had lost homes – and in some cases – all their earthly possessions in the January 7, 8 and 9 Fires, a Fire Aid Benefit Concert was held on January 30, 2025. FireAid raised an estimated $100 million […]

The Annenberg Foundation was tasked with administering the funds. This editor emailed that organization after the reader’s inquiry and asked, “How much of the funds were spent specifically for the Palisades and which nonprofits in that community are receiving money?”

There was no reply.

Spoiler alert! The money went to lefty NGOs.

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