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Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead

One year ago, just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a small brush fire broke out in Topanga State Park above the Pacific Palisades outside Los Angeles. Within hours, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) arrived on scene and began digging handlines to stop its spread. The eight-acre fire—ignited by a 29-year-old former Palisades resident, who has since been charged with arson—was quickly brought under control. By 4:46 a.m., the department declared it “fully contained,” with “no further updates anticipated.”

But the fire was never fully extinguished. A week later, on January 7, it reignited and burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed 6,800 structures, and killed 12 people in what became L.A.’s worst urban wildfire catastrophe.

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Green Party settles with commission over exclusion from federal leaders’ debate

The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission says it has settled with the Green Party after the party vowed to challenge its removal from the spring election debates.

In April, the commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, rescinded an invitation for Jonathan Pedneault, then co-leader of the Greens, to appear at a pair of leaders’ debates in Montreal.

What a waste of time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada, WTF?

ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing, ABC hasn’t touched the story outside of a single offhand mention on December 3.

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Clooney Says ‘Au Revoir’ to Hollywood, Goes French With Wife and Twins

Actor and hardcore liberal George Clooney has packed up his wife and their 8-year-old twins and headed off to France, where they have become French citizens. Why? To escape Hollywood culture. The irony is that the very same liberal ideology and policies Clooney has long championed helped create the culture he is now fleeing. And yet he appears to have learned absolutely nothing from the experience, clinging to those same beliefs.

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Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies

The Spanish parishioner who made headlines around the world for her botched restoration of a prized Jesus Christ fresco has died aged 94.

Cecilia Giménez, an elderly woman from Borja, northeast Spain, became famous 13 years ago after she attempted to restore the century-old painting titled Ecce Homo that was held in her local church.

Giménez’s restoration went viral and earned the nickname “Monkey Christ”, because of Christ’s head resembling a hairy monkey.

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‘If they didn’t need us in the first place, they should not have invited us,’ says applicant

Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario immigration changes

Following changes to immigration in Ontario, some with hopes of becoming Canadian permanent residents are navigating a system that’s in flux — and they’re concerned they’ll be left behind.

Seeing it first hand, Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad is anxiously awaiting word on whether he can obtain permanent residency.

“It’s like just waiting and waiting — frustration at its pinnacle,” he said.

Great work Ford. Just what we need more Muslims.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

The secretive mission to solve MH370’s disappearance

Nearly 12 years after the world’s most baffling aviation riddle began with the disappearance of an airliner and its passengers, seabed explorers are to resume their search for MH370.

State-of-the-art underwater robots will in the coming days begin mapping the abyss of the Indian Ocean, hunting a lost Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and all 239 on board.

The expedition by a private company called Ocean Infinity is the latest chapter in an on-off search that has already become the most expensive hunt in aviation history, but after more than a decade, has little to show for it.

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Ooooooogggg!

Nasty oral infection has returned, I first encountered it immediately after my bout with Bell’s Palsy.

It’s back and my face looks like bad collagen injections.

Anyway will see a Doctor today.

I am still blogging and will continue to do so. I am just napping strategically.

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Spielberg Uses Schindler’s List Money to Fund Anti-Israel Protests

“Let Gaza live,” a mob of anti-Israel protesters screamed, brandishing signs falsely accusing the Jewish State of “ethnic cleansing”, “starving Gaza” and genocide while illegally blocking traffic outside the Israeli consulate in Midtown Manhattan.

The only thing more disgusting than the ugly spectacle, which had been timed around a Hamas famine propaganda campaign over the summer, was that one of the hate groups behind the anti-Israel protest, which ended in arrests, was funded by proceeds from Schindler’s List.

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