A conundrum. NoAgenda Dame. Conservative in a city that has a statue of Lenin. RT does not always = endorsement. Bigots, trolls & brainwashed will be blocked.
The 100 year old pipe that just sinkholed Sunset Boulevard was already on LA's replacement list. Construction was scheduled for 2031.
LADWP budgeted $280 million to replace 6.4 miles of this exact 36-inch trunk line. The project is still in the design phase. Work starts in 2031 and finishes in 2035. The pipe burst 5 years before the first crew would have touched it.
The replacement math explains why this keeps happening. Last fiscal year, LADWP's goal was to replace 1.1 miles of trunk pipe. They replaced less than one. LA has roughly 550 miles of trunk line. Even at the department's new target of 3.5 miles a year, each mile gets replaced once every 157 years.
Riveted steel pipe lasts about 100.
And Sunset Boulevard has run this exact experiment before. In 2014, a trunk line from 1921 ruptured under Sunset near UCLA and sent roughly 20 million gallons through campus, submerging Pauley Pavilion. That break is what made LA's aging pipes national news and launched the current replacement program.
Twelve years later: same street, same vintage of pipe, same aerial footage.
Cities schedule pipe replacement on political time. Pipes fail on material time. LA is replacing 100 year pipes on a 157 year cycle, and this morning is what the gap between those two numbers looks like.
As we drive home from the coast past dying small towns, I am reminded WA state has a long history of wrecking its top industries.
Logging…
Timber…
Aerospace…
Agriculture…
And now the tech industry.
Democrat policy is designed to destroy jobs and communities.
Notice how Nithya Raman just completely disappeared after they blocked us out of the general election?
She's not campaigning at all. Like a pickpocket disappearing into the crowd. Just a ghost. I told you her campaign was a scam. Colluding with Bass from the start.
This is a very familiar way to raise money and launder money in politics. Doubtful Biden is even cognitively capable enough to write a book, but there is desperation to get money for a presidential library which serves as the main laundry after the office.
This guy couldn't even sign his own name. He's not writing books. LMAO
Politicians write books to launder money. Nobody wants to read this, but the corrupt NGOs he provided for as President will buy up 100K copies and burn 'em to hold up their end of the bribes.
These people are ridiculous.
They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else.
None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country.
She is an infant.
She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known.
Myself, I have a limit to tolerance.
I have a limit to patience.
I know there is a limit to free speech.
If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech.
@FBI@FBIDirectorKash
A late night trying to get this 18-year-old girl — arrested for fentanyl possession — into a safe stay, medical detox, and recovery path.
The plan was ready… until LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) had to get involved.
She took off.
This is why we keep losing kids to these streets. We need treatment FIRST not more programs that let them walk away. Watch how the system breaks down. 😰 @SeaCityAttorney@MayorofSeattle There has to be teeth to these diversion programs.