[JustTheNews] Homeless encampments were behind three wildfires that rocked San Diego earlier this month, sparking concerns that homelessness is a significant factor in Southern California’s recent blazes. The Los Angeles Fire Department has reported that 54% of fires citywide that it responded to were caused by homeless individuals.
The San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team told NBC 7 that the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, the Center Fire in Rancho Bernardo, and the Gilman Fire in La Jolla all started in homeless encampments, damaging buildings, injuring firefighters and residents, and requiring evacuations.
These fires reflect fire trends throughout Southern California that link a significant portion of fires to homeless individuals.
In 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared that a major underpass fire that shut down the Interstate 10 freeway — one of the nation’s most important and well-traveled roadways, which stretches from California to Arizona — for days was determined to be the result of “malice.” While the cause of the fire was never released, the underpass in question is associated with homeless encampments.
City Journal has reported on how the Los Angeles Fire Department spent approximately $427 million of its $854 million total on homeless-related fires.
Congressman Kevin Kiley, whose district includes wildfire-prone sections of the Sierra Nevadas and unsuccessfully called for an audit of the state’s homelessness spending, wondered why cities are not using newly granted powers to remove and ban homeless encampments from high-risk areas.
“This is absolutely unacceptable. Our victory at the Supreme Court last year enabled cities to clear homeless encampments,” Kiley said Kiley X. “Those that refuse to do so are willfully putting their residents at risk.”
Last year, federal courts overturned an earlier ban on anti-camping ordinances, allowing cities to clear out homeless encampments. Enforcement action in San Francisco which, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom, supported overturning the ban, has resulted in a 60% decline in homeless tents since their peak in July 2023.
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President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20. Chopra's tenure saw the removal of medical debt from credit reports and limits on overdrafts penalties, all based on the premise that the financial system could be fairer and more competitive in ways that helped consumers. But many in the financial industry viewed his actions as regulatory overreach.
Under the law, Chopra was to serve a five-year term, which meant he could have stayed on as the CFPB director. But he had publicly stated that he would leave his post if the new president asked.
The bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance. It has long been opposed by Republicans and their financial backers.
Last year, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge that could have undermined the bureau, ruling that the way it is funded does not violate the Constitution. Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau does not rely on the annual budget process in Congress, but is funded directly by the Federal Reserve.
In addition to being a pet project of Senator Fauxcahontis, venture capitalist and Trump convert Marc Andreessen blamed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the debanking issue many in tech and cryptocurrencies were damaged or destroyed by in recent years.
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Pete Hegseth ended ghay Highander haggis farting month in DoD, and all the rest of the rediculous entitlement months and days as well. Hat tip to him for that brave move.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the Liz Warren concoction that exists like an unaccountable NGO.
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A business should ignore a regulation and fight the fine to the Supreme Court. Didn’t the Chevron decision eliminate the bureaucracy from such antics?
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Couldn't watch the whole thing. A little bit of that goes a long, long way.
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It is a tough watch indeed; like if your spouse got really drunk and decided they wanted a retarded dog, gets it anyways, and you have to watch it shit on the carpet and eat the shit. The payoff being, you don't have to clean up the shit.
Wakanda chic is absolutely insufferable.
To make a contributing point, notice the escalation of the frog marching: it started with uniformed security doing the process, sure, but did you notice that as it escalated, the old white dude came out front with an obvious camera. What does that mean? Well, besides the obvious peer pressure intimidation to quiet the voices, those images are used to dox and intimidate, expunge, those whose pictures are taken. You can see him target, focus, and isolate individuals.
The hilarious part, at least to me, is that the crowd is intimately knowledgeable about that tactic, and continued anyways. I wonder how many experience a scheduled demise of some sort.
Like so much else, the 80/20 Rule is likely in effect. Eternal vigilance will be required to prevent resurrection. But the hardest part was starting — because really Ronald Reagan began the work when he was elected president.
[FREEBEACON] Liberalism's radical turn began in Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's second term. The MeToo movement and anti-Trump Resistance®, COVID-19, and the death of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... in 2020 catalyzed the intemperate demands of BLM, Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... 's climate hysteria, the 1619 Project, Defund the Police, Abolish ICE, and the transgender rights movement into the worldview of most Democratic elites.
Former president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... embedded these revolutionary ideas within the federal bureaucracy. Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden's welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change.
In Biden's vision, America would adopt a Net Zero economy. Mass immigration would produce economic and demographic growth. DEI and gender ideology would make America a more diverse and equitable place. And if people didn't like it, well, they would face censorship, cancellation, and prosecution.
By 2024, this agenda had become so unpopular that Biden retired, and Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor pretended she'd worked at McDonald's while packing heat. Trump won every swing state and the popular vote not just because of the open border, inflation, and chaos abroad and in the streets. He won because of an anti-woke cultural appeal made most famously in the "Kamala is for they/them" television ad.
Now comes the hard part. You exorcise wokeness from government by tackling spending, for sure. But you also wrestle back control of the bureaucracy through hiring freezes, a return to the office, Schedule F, offers of early retirement, moving federal agencies outside the Beltway, and attrition.
Just don't expect it to be easy. The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn't a matter of snapping one's fingers. The federal workforce backs Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... both politically and financially. Powerful interests are invested in the status quo. The response to the spending freeze revealed the extent of government dependence. Only careful planning, precise language, consistent messaging, and effective legislation will rein in the federal Leviathan. And wipe the smile off Schumer's face.
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But it first must be said, and sober people realize that just that was tough, and only the beginning, like escaping out of the set down position in wrestling.
[TOWNHALL] The Democratic Party has found its new leader, and it's clear that the battle lines for the next election cycle have already been drawn. With the party's fresh leadership, they're vowing to take on President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's agenda head-on, promising to ramp up opposition from economic policies to immigration. While this new face may offer a sense of hope for the left, conservatives are preparing for another wave of radical leftist policies that aim to dismantle the progress America will make under Trump's leadership.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... ) has chosen Minnesota party leader Ken Martin
Who?
as its next national chair. Martin's party aims to move forward and recover from a disappointing 2024.
''We have one team, one team, the Democratic Party," Martin said. "The fight is for our values. The fight is for working people. The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.''
Martin won a commanding victory on the first ballot, securing more than 100 votes over the second-place finisher, Ben Wikler,
…apparently both are white men, which says all you need to know about the post-Kamala Harris Democratic Party…
the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, out of the 428 DNC members who voted.
Martin has been a vocal advocate for progressive policies and strongly opposes Trump. He has frequently criticized the president's approach to governance, depicting him as a threat to democratic values. Martin has also rallied the Democratic Party to combat Trump's influence in Minnesota and beyond. He has claimed that Trump's policies are divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... and harmful to the values of American democracy.
He directed his post-victory speech at Trump and the Republican Party, cautioning them that they would not sit back and ''not take you on when you fail the American people.''
''It's also to make sure we're defining them and we're out there making sure the American people know what the stakes of not only these coming elections are, but what's happening in this country,'' he continued.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
