Posted on 01/01/2025 12:57:31 PM PST by ransomnote
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Around here smart people have metal roofs. We have 2 water tanks holding a total of 5000 gallons. And two pumps. If fire comes here, hub will fight it.
The stats are here.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I do apologize for any confusion I might have caused a FLERF. Wouldn’t do any good to require globe reading in Schule, I guess?
Our Nimitz class super carriers can squeeze thru the locks also, but not quickly. They have to take down the light poles to clear the outside elevators. But I recall an incident some years back when the boss got the order to get into the Atlantic soonest. He didn’t wait for the poles to come down——just mowed them. The trip cost a few bucks extra but I guess they work that into the budget?
MarQ
Sorry to have caused you such worry
No carrier has tried to pass the new locks since they were opened in 2016.
It was probably one of the Wasp-class LHDs.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
MarQ
You did find her, Big Redd! Thanks!
Noah’s Nightly Newsletter – 1/8/25
https://truthlion.com/noahs-nightly-newsletter-1-8-25/
* Bill O’Reilly Explains Exactly Why President Trump Wants Greenland
* Los Angeles Mayor In Africa As Fires Ravage City
* DEVELOPING: Massive Fire Near Los Angeles Forces Thousands To Evacuate, Newsom Declares State Of Emergency
* Joe Biden to Announce ANOTHER $500 Million For Ukraine While California Burns
* RFK, Jr.: “We Are Going To Stop The Crime of Chemtrails!”
* Is This Blasphemy By Kenneth Copeland?
* MEMO TO THE CATHOLICS: Please Stop Praying To Mary and Angels
* ‘I Have A Compelling Vision’: Matt Gaetz Confirms He’s Considering Major Political Move
* Elizabeth Warren Accuses Pete Hegseth of “Right-Wing Extremism” Over Tattoo
* Greg Gutfeld Is Back!
* Former Top-5 MLB Draft Pick Passes Away At 37
* Panama Responds to President Trump’s Refusal to Rule Out Using Force to Take Back the Canal
It is startlingly gorgeous scenery. Maybe not Big Sur beautiful, but very lovely in its own way. I was very sad reading the destruction through there. The Reel Inn was kind of a typical Malibu dump, but a friend's band used to play there all the time. Duke's, Moonshadows... all longstanding Malibu and Palisades establishments. And I believe that is why these areas are being destroyed. Can't build a Smart City unless you completely annihilate what is currently there, as the "smart" infrastructure cannot be plugged in to existing infrastructure. Just easier to destroy everything and start from scratch.
I'm waiting to see how legendary locations such as Neptune's Net at Ventura County Line fared... historic local grind and immortalized in The Beach Boys' Surfin' USA as well as Point Break. (It's where Tyler, Lori Petty's character, was working when Keanu Reeves' Johnny Utah met her.) I don't think the fire has gone past Zuma yet, so hopefully all is okay up there.
Adam Carolla Applied To Be a Fireman In LA and Was Told To Wait 7 years To Test Because He Is White
Sooner or later we will have to deal with Canada and expel all their leftists and imports along with our own.
They are to us what Ukraine was to Russia, a soft underbelly to be exploited against us in the next war.
If Canada doesn’t fix itself we will have to fix it.
The time is not right though, people are not ready for us to roll up there and expel all of their leftists and foreigners.
But we can’t afford to have a leftard nation importing millions of barbarians and cooperating with the CCP on our huge indefensible Northern border.
I’m hoping Trump is just positioning to say he gave them a chance before he tariffs them and kills NAFTA 2.0.
We don’t need a bunch of new blue states with Senators, Reps, and EC votes.
“Why do “minority” female homosexuals run everything?”
Because the people installing them hate you and want you dead.
Texas Court Orders Bitcoin Investor to Surrender Keys to $124 Million Stash
Federal prosecutors detailed a years-long scheme of tax fraud, ordering an early Bitcoin investor to surrender their keys.
https://decrypt.co/299978/texas-court-orders-bitcoin-investor-to-surrender-keys-to-124-million-stash
Excerpt:
A federal judge has ordered an early Bitcoin investor to surrender encryption keys that could unlock approximately $124 million in crypto, marking an unprecedented move in the U.S. government’s efforts to seize digital assets in tax evasion cases.
According to the order issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Monday, Ahlgren must disclose all private keys and identify any devices that he used to store crypto, such as hardware wallets.
The order extends beyond just wallet access—Ahlgren and any associates are prohibited from transferring or hiding any digital assets without court approval, though they can use funds for “normal monthly living expenses.”
The order aims to help recover about $1 million in restitution following Ahlgren’s December conviction. Initial coverage of the order first appeared on Bloomberg.
In February last year, federal prosecutors released a seven-count indictment against Richard Ahlgren III, also known as “Paco,” marking the first U.S. criminal tax evasion case centered solely on crypto trading.
The Austin, Texas resident faced three counts of filing false tax returns and four counts of illegal structuring of cash deposits. By December last year, Ahlgren was sentenced to two years in prison for falsely reporting capital gains he earned from selling $3.7 million worth of Bitcoin.
“[...] instead of paying the taxes he knew were due, he lied to his accountant about the extent of a large portion of his gains,” stated Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division in a DOJ press release at the time.
Ahlgren “sought to conceal another chunk of his profits” by using “sophisticated techniques designed to obscure his transactions on the bitcoin blockchain,” Goldberg stated.
The indictment meticulously outlines how Bitcoin transactions work, explaining that while the blockchain is public, Ahlgren allegedly attempted to obscure his activities through multiple techniques.
What makes Ahlgren’s case groundbreaking is its focus on the deliberate manipulation of crypto cost basis calculations and sophisticated attempts to obscure blockchain transactions, effectively creating a playbook for future crypto tax enforcement.
Our enemies wants to destroy. They love destruction.
Snail darter revisited: Famous fish that halted a dam’s construction is not endangered after all
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-snail-darter-revisited-famous-fish.html
Excerpt:
.....In 1967, construction began on the Tellico Dam—the aim was to create a reservoir on the Little Tennessee River, approximately 20 miles southwest of Knoxville. The dam construction was led by officials with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Shortly after construction began, a zoologist with the University of Tennessee discovered a previously unknown fish living at the bottom of the river.
A quick study of the fish suggested it was unique and at risk of extinction if the dam was built. That fish, the snail darter, soon became a symbol for the use of an endangered species as a way to prevent the development of projects across the country in the ensuing years.
After the Environmental Protection Agency got into the dispute, the courts became involved. Things were settled when President Jimmy Carter signed a bill exempting the Tellico Dam from protection by the Endangered Species Act—the dam was built and all those involved moved on to other business.
In this new study, the research team took a closer look at the fish involved in the controversy. After conducting standard species identification and classification testing, they discovered that the snail darter was not a unique or endangered fish after all. Instead, it was a member of the stargazing darter species, which is present and plentiful in many places in the U.S.
The researchers conclude their paper by declaring the snail darter was a phantom all along—there never was such a fish species. They suggest the research team who initially studied the fish were more interested in stopping the construction of the dam than in saving a fish species. They describe it as an early example of the “conservation species concept”—where people or groups declare a species at risk to help achieve a larger conservation goal.
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Trump needs to have congress eliminate the Endangered Species Act it is used by nefarious environmental groups to stop land use of any kind and infringes upon property owners’ rights.
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