Record-Breaking Heat This Week in California. I Predict a Long Hot Summer with Extreme Wildfire Danger...

We Need to Buy 500 More Firefighting Helicopters... Simply Dip a Bucket in a Lake or River,  Dump Water on the Fire.  Tell Your Elected Officials That We Want Them to Take Action! 

California, Washington State, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Florida Have Massive Wildfire Problems... Let's Buy Helicopters! Employ Pilots and Mechanics!

https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

Email Governor of California Gavin Newsom

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Email Trump!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives 

Find their Email Form 

and Tell 'em what you think!

LINK: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

Excellent map of what's burning where... 

The Entire West is Burning... Every Year there will be MORE MORE MORE fires... If we Owned Helicopters We Could Get Water from Lakes and PUT OUT the Fires. 

Last Year, Two of California's Massive Fires - Were Near Lakes... One Near Lake Tahoe and One Near Lake Almanor... and Both Lakes Had Water in them... We Could Have Put those Fires Out Early... If We Only Had Helicopters. 

Tell Your Representatives to Buy Some Helicopters!

https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ Enter your California address and click the locate button to find your State Senate and Assembly representatives.

FC Said: Then you also need, at minimum, 1,000 trained pilots, and several hundred mechanics.

and I Replied: WONDERFUL! We have a LOT of Soldiers that are NO LONGER fighting the War in Afghanistan... Many of those people are Idle... and Would LOVE to Help their Friends and Neighbors... Put Them to Work! Thanks for Reminding me of the Benefit to our Soldiers!

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Here's a Helicopter Dipping a Bucket into a River to Drop Water on a Wildfire. We need to Buy 1,000 of these to put out Fires THIS SUMMER! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_bucket

A helicopter bucket is a specialised bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. Each bucket has a release valve on the bottom which is controlled by the helicopter crew. When the helicopter is in position, the crew releases the water to extinguish or suppress the fire below.

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Thank You, Joe Biden, for Ending the Pointless War in Afghanistan. Our Soldiers were Wasting their Time fighting a war that cannot be won for people that do not want us there. I feel certain that the Soldiers would rather be home fighting fires that threaten their families and friends... Bring 'em Home and Bring Home the Helicopters too... 

 

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Trump Was Impeached Twice. Smithsonian removed Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum... In an attempt to rewrite history to cover up the fact that he was actually impeached twice!

 #MAGA MORONS HATE REALITY!

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian/

and then, a couple of days later...

Smithsonian says Trump impeachment exhibits will be restored... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/smithsonian-trump-impeachment-exhibit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump

Donald Trump had been impeached for the second time by the House of Representatives on January 13, 2021. The House adopted one article of impeachment against Trump: incitement of insurrection. He is the only U.S. president and only federal official to be impeached twice...

and then Grok/X said:


Q: Has Donald Trump been impeached twice?

Yes, Donald Trump has been impeached twice. The first impeachment occurred on December 18, 2019, when the House of Representatives charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his interactions with Ukraine. The Senate acquitted him on February 5, 2020. The second impeachment took place on January 13, 2021, when the House charged him with incitement of insurrection following the January 6 Capitol riot. The Senate acquitted him again on February 13, 2021.

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and then earlier I said...

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Let's Stop Watering Golf Courses. There is a Drought in The Entire Western USA and Golf is a Total Waste of Water. Even Rich People Ought to Do What is Right!

Arrest Trump Golf Ball for Sale on Zazzle Gregvan

https://wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve-water/

https://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/water-conservation-epa 

Water Conservation at EPA

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The U.S. population has doubled over the past 50 years, while our thirst for water has tripled. With at least 40 states anticipating water shortages by 2024, the need to conserve water is critical. 

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Oppenheimer Movie: Excellent! a Great Way to Teach Accurate American History to Millions of Americans... He Was the Leader of the Project to Invent the Atom Bomb dropped on Japan during WW2.

In General, Dropping the Atom Bomb Was a Great Idea... It FIXED the Bad Attitude of the Japanese Emperor and Military... At The Beginning of World War Two they wanted to conquer the World, steal all the wealth and Crown Themselves The Ultimate King & His Samurai... after a Couple of Atom Bombs they change their minds and decided to Make Great Cars, Motorcycles and Electronic Equipment  Instead... AHH SO! MUCH GOODIE FOR YANKS! Freaking Fixed their Bad Attitude!

another Part of World War Two History that is Often Misinterpreted... NONE of the Japanese Americans that were relocated to Internment Camps ACTUALLY COMMITTED SABOTAGE... The Camps Worked! We Defended the USA from Attack! Would they have done Damage if left free to roam? We will never Know BUT... Locking 'em Up WORKED GREAT!

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/japanese-american-internment

Physics has given us the #1 Stupidest Idea in the History of the Universe... and #2 and #3 as Well... Read More: 

#1: The Atom Bomb... a Machine That Could End all life on Earth... Pretty Damn Idiotic... Maybe the 17 Year Cicadas would Survive... If the Earth has Nuclear Winter for a Hundred Thousand Years, and then Springtime... The Cicadas Could Come out... and It's Likely that they will Survive... a Pretty Bleak Future... Did you know that the USA Blew up over A HUNDRED ATOM BOMBS IN NEVADA and Two in Japan... and We Were NOT at War with Nevada... Crazy! and the Fallout Nuked the Entire Eastern Half of the USA... 

#2: Atomic Power Plants... They Create Nuclear Waste that has to be Stored Safely for Thousands of Years AND Has to Be Guarded all that time to prevent Terrorists from Creating a Dirty Bomb. However, Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power plants because the Engineers at Power Companies all say NO NUKES! Then Shut 'em Down and Refuse to Build New Ones... PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD Have All Gone Solar... And the Very Last Nuclear Power Plant in California is Scheduled to Be Closed... Diablo Canyon Goes BYE BYE!

#3: The Hydrogen Bomb... All the Insanity of the Atom Bomb but EVEN WORSE!

"Everybody" Says that Einstein was a Genius... However, His Great ideas all ended in Disaster! OOPS! 

However, Physics also gave us Electricity... and That's Great! Tesla's Alternating Current is installed in Every Home Worldwide... except in the "Third World" - and We Are Glad... 

I'm using AC Right Now!

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and Here is a Blog Post on a the same subject that I Wrote Years Ago... 

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Top 10 Stupidest Ideas Ever... 

and the 10 Greatest Ideas... 

 Top 10 Stupidest Ideas Ever...
#1 Atomic Power, Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs
#2 War in Vietnam
#3 Prohibition of Marijuana
#4 War in Iraq
#5 War in Afghanistan
#6 Electoral College
#7 Slavery
#8 Trickle Down Economics
#9 Corporate Welfare Subsidies
#10 Making gasoline out of OIL instead of Hemp

#11 NSA Spying on Americans
#12 The Patriot Act
#13 Hotels not having a thirteenth floor because it would be un-lucky...
#14 Gas powered Leaf Blowers

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Top 10 Greatest Ideas EVER...
#1 Fire
#2 The Wheel
#3 The Internet
#4 Sex
#5 Solar Power
#6 Majority Rule
#7 The Check
#8 Anti-War Protest Marches
#9 The number zero
#10 Electricity

#11 Filming the Police and putting it on Youtube...
#12 Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net, Arcsoft Photostudio... and all those other photo programs...
#13 WINPLOT, Google Sketchup...
#14 The Telephone
#15 The answering machine... for call screening... Caller ID.
#16 Bubble-UP Economics

What IS "Bubble-UP Economics" and how does it work? Simply put, increase minimum wage and all those workers will have more money to spend at American Businesses. The increased sales will cause a need to hire more workers. The increased profits will cause more money to be paid in taxes and increased earnings by stockholders. Everyone WINS.

We have tried "Trickle Down Economics" for decades and it has clearly failed. Why not try something different? I have found that when I try something and it fails, and then I try the same thing and it fails again and the it continues to fail for the third, fourth and fifth time... It's time to notice the trend and try something different. DUH.

How to dispose of Atomic Waste:

Step 1: DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE...

Step 2: Encase in Lead and Glass

Step 3: Dump in the Ocean Far away from the shore.

Radioactive waste has to be stored Safely SOMEWHERE on Earth for 3 Billion Years.

It has to be far away from People, Animals, Fish and itself...

Why NOT place it on the bottom of the ocean?

Currently we are storing it in WIPP in New Mexico

and that has already leaked...

Not real Safe for people downwind...

and that's the majority of the people in the USA.

TRUMP LOST IN 2020 and That's Why He Lives at Mar-A-Loser, Florida... and Joe Biden Lives in The White House... DUH... and Repeating a Lie One Million Times FAILS to Change That!

If Elected in 2024, Trump Will Cause Global Economic Collapse. He Plans to Declare Bankruptcy for the Entire USA So We Won't Have to Pay the Interest on the National Debt. BUT... Then The Entire World will Go Bankrupt and MASS STARVATION will happen... The Only People that will survive are Hunter/Gatherers and Subsistence Farmers... 

"The Debt Ceiling is just one more thing Trump doesn't know very much about." - Said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/investing/jamie-dimon-trump-banks-debt-ceiling/index.html?utm_source=business_ribbon

Former President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to let the United States default on its debt if Democrats don't agree to spending cuts. MAY 10 2023

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/trump-endorses-debt-ceiling-default.html

Trump plays down consequences of a US default: 'Could be maybe nothing'

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plays-down-consequences-us-default-could-be-maybe-nothing-2023-05-11/

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POP QUIZ! 

What Do These People Have in Common???

Peter Navarro=Guilty, 4 Proud Boys=Guilty, 23 Oath Keepers=Guilty, Stewie (shot himself in the eye with his own gun) Rhodes=Guilty, Allen Weisselberg=Guilty, Jesse Benton=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guiltyand Over 1,000 QAnon Freaks that Have Been Arrested for Storming the US Capitol on January 6th and FAILING to Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump King...
ANSWER:

They are All TrumpNik® Swamp Creatures... Trumpanzees!

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Trumps Top 10 Failures: Like and Share these Facts Worldwide! We Must Beat Trump in 2024... and Exterminate the Republicriminal Party Forever!

#1 Over a Million Americans Died of COVID-19. It was NOT a 

"Democratic Hoax" Like Trump Said.

#2 Trump Lost The 2020 Election to Joe Biden. That's Why 

Trump Lives in Mar-A-Loser and Biden Lives in the White House.

#3 Trump Failed to Overthrow the US Government and Crown 

Himself King on January 6th. Over a Thousand Trumpanzees 

Have been Arrested... Including Trump Himself!

#4 Trump's Trade War With China. That Harmed American Farmers, 

Manufacturing Businesses and Consumers. Russia Benefited by 

Selling Soybeans to China.

#5 Trump Failed to Build the Wall and Have Mexico Pay for it... I

t's Incomplete and People Simply Walk Around the End...

#6 Trump Failed to Repeal and Replace Obamacare... He Had No 

Plan "Trumpcare" - He Just wanted to Harm Americans...

#7 Trump Failed to Change the Course of a Hurricane Using a 

Sharpie Felt Pen... Causing "Sharpiegate" and Many Joke 

Memes!

#8 Largest Loss of Money on the Stock Market in History.

#9 Massive Unemployment

#10 Huge Lines of Americans Waiting for FREE FOOD because 

they Could Not Buy Their Own Groceries...

Campaign Song! MUSIC VIDEO: "Vote 4 Joe. He's Not Insane. Vote 4 Joe. He's Not Insane. #RUNAWAY from Trump. He's Got Dementia Brain!"

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Vote 4 Joe. He's Not Insane. 

#RUNAWAY from Trump. He's Got Dementia Brain!" 

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What can One Person Do... 

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Do Whatever You Can!

It's the End Times, People!

Remember to Share Anti Trump Memes 

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That Campaigning Online Works!

His Puppet Won the Electoral College!

The GOP is Selling Hate and Uneducated White 

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#Runaway from the Republican Party. They Hate Women. They Hate Blacks. They Hate Hispanics. They Hate Gays. They Hate Veterans. They Hate Young People. They Hate College Graduates. WHO IS LEFT??? Uneducated Old White Men... and They are Dying Every Day.

Remember: ANTI-VAX LIES On The Internet Have Killed Off More Republicans Than Democrats. THANK YOU FOR DYING! We Certainly Don't Need People Like That in the Future... 

More than 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19. It Seems that It Wasn't a "Democratic Hoax" After All... Trump Lied, People Died... 

Studies have also found that more Republicans than Democrats have died from COVID-19. According to a study, excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among registered Republicans than Democrats from March 2020 to December 2021.

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2023-03-10/three-years-into-the-pandemic-who-is-dying-from-covid-19-now

Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows. Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-death-rates-higher-republicans-democrats-why-rcna50883

Here are Many Anti-Republican Memes... Please Copy and Paste them on Every Social Media Websites... For Example: Gab, Mastodon, MeWe, Post, Deviant Art, Instagram, Linkdin, Minds, Tribel, Tumblr, Gettr and Occupy... and Don't Forget Twitter, Threads, 4Chan, Reddit, Mediun and Truth Social... A Great Place to Harvest Memes is FaceBorg... People Love Sharing them There...

In 2016 Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works! His Puppet Won the Electoral College... 

More Memes: 

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My Gen X friends probably remember the Cold War. In the 80's, there were several movies having to do with nuclear war, and the fallout from a nuclear explosion. There was a TV movie from 1983 called The Day After. It was about what life would be like the day after a nuclear explosion. Fortunately, the Cold War ended and we never did have to deal with nuclear war, but it was a genuine fear at the time.

Anyway, my point is, the sky outside today reminds me of that movie, The Day After. Here is a picture from the movie, plus a picture I took just now of the view outside my window. In the Day After, there was nuclear fallout falling from the sky. In today's reality, there is ash falling from the sky.

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacles. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!"

Kurt Vonnegut

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ED SAID:

We came from Florida to California in 1961. My father was an aerospace engineer and was working in Woodland Hills and we stayed in a motel until we could find a house to buy. We ended up in Newbury Park, in the housing trac called Casa Conejo. It was right off Borchard Road. My parents bought a four bedroom two bath home with a double car garage for $19,000. We had to wait for it to be constructed and the day we moved in, I remember other houses and moving vans in front of other houses and everybody was moving in the same weekend. Everybody had a brand new house. I have no idea what that house is valued at now.
We left in 1969. The first elementary school that I went to was Walnut. Then they built Manzanita and we all were transferred over to that elementary school. And then they built Redwood junior high school and we were transferred there. And then Newbury Park high school was built and everybody went there. It was amazing to see such growth in a little community. One of these old RV type vehicle was used, to come to the supermarket on Thursdays. It was the bookmobile. We didn’t have a library in our little area so the bookmobile used to come in and we used to pile up books in our bicycles and take them home and read them. I remember when Mountain Dew was introduced. I was living in that neighborhood and there was a big hoopla at the supermarket with loud music and they were giving away samples of Mountain Dew. Cans of soda were five cents each. Boy, those were the days.

GS REPLIED:

Such nice Newbury Park nostalgia. We had a similar experience in Santa Clara Valley in the 1950s, including all the new school construction to accommodate the rapidly growing suburbs.

I moved to the Conejo Valley about the time you left. It was still the boonies and nobody knew where T.O or Newbury Park were. Some knew about the old Stagecoach Inn in your area, and about Jungleland in ours. But that was about it!

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Reaganomics Destroyed the American Dream

"The Republican project is a matter of getting turkeys to vote for Christmas by doing a lot of culture war bullshit, cruelly abusing disfavored sexual and racial minorities. This wins support from low-information voters who’ll vote against their class interests and support more monopolies, more tax cuts for the rich, and more cuts to the services they rely on."--Cory Doctorow

“Moms for Liberty” is an ironic choice of a name for a hate group that wants to take away liberty and freedom from everyone else and micromanage every aspect of everyone else’s private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion or contraception, medical or recreational marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).
Better names for these Females for Fascism:
Crackpots with crockpots
Ku Klux Karens
Klanned Karenhood
Minivan Taliban
Book ban Barbies
A “Moms for Liberty” book club would operate more like a campfire.
Additional suggestions for better names for these Femme Fascists?
You can’t spell HATRED without RED HAT.
The want to fight the “WOKE” … but being WOKE (alert, awake) is so much better than its opposite: being COMATOSE.

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and then I read on FaceBorg: SE SAID: 

Here's a frustrating thing: a friend posts on Facebook, and I post a comment in which I ask a question, and my friend 'likes' my comment, but doesn't answer my question. Usually the question isn't that important, but it's still a question, so I'm hoping for an answer. When someone 'likes' a comment, that acknowledges that they've read the comment, so they must realize it's a question. If someone doesn't want to answer a question, that's their choice...but why 'like' the comment, then? It's like saying, "I acknowledge the fact that you're asking me a question, but I'm not going to answer it." I know it's a minor issue in the grand scheme of things, but it's still kind of insulting knowing that someone read your comment, but has chosen not to answer your question.

In regards to the question thing, for example: someone posts a picture of some food that they made, and it looks really good to me, so I might say, “Would you mind sharing the recipe?” That’s a question! The person “likes” my question, but does not share the recipe and does not comment further. So I’m left wondering why they acknowledged my question but didn’t answer it.

Another example: someone posts a photo of something they bought, and I think I may have seen the same item at Macy’s (as an example). So I comment, “I think I saw that at Macy’s! Is that where you got it?” They “like” my question, but never answer it. It’s a simple yes or no question.

Another example: someone posts a photo of their newly-landscaped yard, and I ask, “Is that a lemon tree?” They “like” my question, but don’t answer it.

None of these questions seem like a huge deal, but I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t genuinely want to know the answer. So getting nothing but a “like” in response to my question is extremely frustrating, and even seems a little rude. If anyone ever asks ME a question, I will give them an answer, even if the answer is “I’m not sure.” I feel that If someone asks me a question, it would be rude of me not to answer it. And it would be even more rude to “like” the question without offering an answer.

and CW Answered: 

Alas, I fear you're making the same mistake I often make, in applying the expectations of educated, civil conversation to the screeching echo-chamber that is The Interweb..

but SK Cleared it all up: 

Sometimes I want to get back to my keyboard to answer because typing it out on my phone is a pain in the ass. I’ve found if I don’t at least “like” to acknowledge I’ve read the question many will either DM it or ask again.