Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

The Hughes Fire looks like it is right on Castaic California.  I'm not sure where Rod Kaufman lives compared to town, but it seems likely that he and his family are threatened and maybe being evacuated.  Let's keep Rod in our thoughts and prayers.

Jim,
Thanks for your comments and kind thoughts. We did have to evacuate on Wednesday but we were able to return on Thursday afternoon. 

The fire consumed approximately 10,000 acres but most of that was in hilly and brush covered terrain with the large lake in castaic serving as a natural fire break so, as far as has been reported, no structures were lost. Humidity in the area has been 6% or less and that level of dryness turns the brush into kindling, ripe for a fire.

The Cal Fire department was on top of it with heavy duty tankers and helicopters with a short trip to the lake for refills and that enabled a quick response to the fire line.

We finally have rain predicted for the weekend so we may get relief from the abnormally hot and dry conditions through SoCal.

All:
Thanks for your thoughts and comments. Hopefully we'll get some much needed rain in SoCal over the weekend. From the predictions, it doesn't appear the storm will be a gully washer so mudslides in the burn areas may not materialize but I'm sure that's area-specific. Let's hope for the best over the weekend...

Originally Posted by Chris Pagan

Rod,

I am glad to hear you made it out ok.

Chris

Thanks, and although about 10,500 acres burned in the Hughes fire, no structural losses occurred and that's because of the presence of the large lake in Castaic which acts as both a natural firebreak and a quick refill site for water dropping helicopters. In general, if fires occur in Castaic, any structural losses, if they do occur, are usually confined to abandoned sheds or outhouses but not to the homes and businesses in the township. 

Contrast that to the fires in the greater Los Angeles area, with a lessor fire risk classification, wherein more than 12000 structural losses were incurred and those, as we know, are quite significant.   

I've sent the above info to my insurance carrier for consideration by its risk assessment team since homeowners insurance is expensive and harder to obtain these days...

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Glad to hear you are safe Rod.

Thanks, & glad to read about mag7+ skies, too!

Under Biden: "US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term in office."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Not to mention, all the current reports are from favorable sources, so who knows what's taking place? It's so funny that Rich acts like Democrats want criminal illegal aliens in the country. None of them like that, and ICE and the DOJ have always worked to find, arrest, and deport these people. So, all the outrage and fake indignation is laughable. Besides, even if the reporting is 100% true, I doubt it is, then only 998,500 more to go to a million! Even if they could accomplish 150 every three days, and they can't, that amounts to 178,000 in a year—a far cry from 1 million. The leftists and 1 RINO are so far relatively safe in their predictions.

Even Tulsi Gabbard claims she was on a terrorist watch list: " Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as the next director of national intelligence on Wednesday, claims that she is on a "secret terror watchlist" run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)."

"Gabbard, a former Democrat who announced at a Trump rally last month that she was joining the Republican Party, claimed in a video shared in early September to X, formerly Twitter, that she and her husband had been flagged as "a domestic terror threat" ..."


https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-tsa-terrorist-watchlist-1985527

Hmm, with her, ya gotta wonder who's the bigger threat: Her or somebody who happens to come from a country that has terrorists, too...

Oh and:

"Video of Tuskegee Airmen included in Air Force basic training curriculum removed amid DEI review"

"The Air Force removed basic military training curriculum that included video of the famed Tuskegee Airmen amid a review of the course for any diversity-related content, an Air Force official said Saturday."

"The Air Force took “immediate steps” to remove curriculum at basic military training, which is now being reviewed “to ensure compliance with Executive Orders issued by the President,” the official said."

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

It appears our resident communist is clutching his pearls once again and getting light headed, ready to faint over an executive order. 

Here's something that any sane person would worry about, which is that Joe Biden gave over tens of Billions of dollars to the Terrorist nation of Iran, which they put right into their nuclear weapons program.

Due to Joe Biden's despicable support of our enemy, the Islamic state of Iran, it is rumored that the terrorist nation of Iran may be just weeks away from achieving their goal of a Nuke.  

However, you're about to soil your panties over Trump's exec. order.  

Surprising?  No of course not, but I'll send some smelling salts so you can be revived after fainting from your emotional hysterics.

As usual, out Trump "JD" Putin-commie supporter starts out his day lying about it:, not to mention deflecting from the OP:

"A recent deal involving a prisoner swap and the extension of a Trump-era waiver have freed $16 billion in previously frozen Iranian funds. Social media posts distort the sources of the money to falsely claim “Joe Biden gave 16 billion to Iran.” The Iranian money has been unfrozen with restrictions that it be used for humanitarian purposes."

"Here’s the deal with each of the two agreements.:"

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/05/posts-misrepresent-unfreezing-of-16-billion-in-iranian-funds/

" The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration..."

"The dismissals began Friday night and were effective immediately, according to two people familiar with the actions."

"...the 30 day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress,” said Grassley, R-Iowa."

The Lol! from a sick Trump sycophant: "Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., acknowledged that the firings violated statutes but shrugged it off: “Just tell them you need to follow the law next time,” he said"

“Inspectors General are the cops on the beat preventing bad things from happening,” Max Stier, president and CEO of the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, said in a statement. “Their work saves the taxpayer tens of billions of dollars every year.”

“Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse, and preventing misconduct,” Warren posted on X. “President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-inspectors-general-fired-congress-unlawful-4e8bc57e132c3f9a7f1c2a3754359993

"Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip"


"President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than a million to further displacement."

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, later describing his vision for the area as a new “Riviera.”

“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,” he said.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/netanyahu-trump-white-house-meeting/index.html