By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 03:51:59 | Updated at 2025-01-16 07:46:44
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Paradise Lost. The burning of L.A. is not just a natural disaster. It’s a man-made catastrophe.
FreePress ^ | Jan 9, 2024
Posted on 01/11/2025 7:14:19 PM PST by Words Matter
The first job of the government is to keep people safe. Failing that, its job is to show that someone is in charge when crisis erupts. On 9/11, there was nothing then–Mayor Rudy Giuliani could do to keep the World Trade Center from falling. Yet he became, in that long-ago era, the most popular person in America by staying on the scene and leading at his city’s moment of greatest danger.
That brings us to the fires in Los Angeles—the most devastating in the history of the city, with a reported 27,000 acres burned and the fires mostly uncontained. There, authorities have failed not only at protecting its residents but at inspiring confidence that they had the situation in hand.
We start with Mayor Karen Bass. As the Palisades fire began to consume wide swaths of America’s second-largest city, she was in Ghana to watch the inauguration of that country’s new president...
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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: disaster; fire; karenbass; losangeles; mayor
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1 posted on 01/11/2025 7:14:19 PM PST by Words Matter
To: Words Matter
On the bright side, BlackRock can now buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.
2 posted on 01/11/2025 7:16:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Words Matter
If you can’t count on a 200 lb lesbian to protect you, who can you count on...?
3 posted on 01/11/2025 7:16:49 PM PST by fhayek
To: Words Matter
It's a natural catastrophe.
But the people that are directly responsible will never admit it.
4 posted on 01/11/2025 7:19:36 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
To: Bullish
5 posted on 01/11/2025 7:19:56 PM PST by Words Matter
To: Words Matter
6 posted on 01/11/2025 7:20:34 PM PST by Dick Bachert (=)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
7 posted on 01/11/2025 7:20:41 PM PST by Words Matter
To: Words Matter
To: All
It’s a complete and utter failure of liberalism, on public display for the entire world to see. 10,000 homes in ashes because of the DEMOCRAT PARTY.
9 posted on 01/11/2025 7:23:03 PM PST by CaliGangsta
To: Words Matter
Y’all get what you vote for.
And what you’ll tolerate.
10 posted on 01/11/2025 7:34:17 PM PST by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
To: Words Matter
Lisbian bigwigs say they have under control now.
.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
And turn it into a 15 minute city.
12 posted on 01/11/2025 7:43:25 PM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
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