Rats & rotting garbage in LA
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/inves...ifEFih1QPOLFk6VJFkxoOzI-5uFkLpiCIRdDxDSuKiw2o
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/inves...ifEFih1QPOLFk6VJFkxoOzI-5uFkLpiCIRdDxDSuKiw2o
I will say LA wasn't so bad 5 years ago but the situation is getting worst The homeless situation is way out of control it is dirty and way harder to get around anymore because of traffic.
I've lived here for 25 years and am preparing to leave and pretty happy about it.
I bought a house 8 years ago and the price has doubled so leaving at his point for me is a big win.
Not a good situation but I've also been to to plenty of midwest cities that are shitholes as well this county in general is fading despite an improved climate for corporations.
I've lived here for 25 years and am preparing to leave and pretty happy about it.
I bought a house 8 years ago and the price has doubled so leaving at his point for me is a big win.
Not a good situation but I've also been to to plenty of midwest cities that are shitholes as well this county in general is fading despite an improved climate for corporations.
Just clueless
[h=1]Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’[/h]
In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County’s multimillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.
[h=1]Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’[/h]
In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County’s multimillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.
Just turning into a 3rd world city
[h=2]Shocking new pictures from downtown LA capture the huge problem it faces with trash and rats amid fear of typhoid fever outbreak among LAPD[/h]
[h=2]Shocking new pictures from downtown LA capture the huge problem it faces with trash and rats amid fear of typhoid fever outbreak among LAPD[/h]
[h=1]California to become the first state to extend health benefits to some who live in US illegally[/h]
Great article
California: [h=1]America’s First Third-World State[/h]
If someone predicted half a century ago that a Los Angeles police station or indeed L.A. City Hall would be in danger of periodic, flea-borne infectious typhus outbreaks, he would have been considered unhinged. After all, the city that gave us the modern freeway system is not supposed to resemble Justinian’s sixth-century Constantinople. Yet typhus, along with outbreaks of infectious hepatitis A, are in the news on California streets. The sidewalks of the state’s major cities are homes to piles of used needles, feces, and refuse. Hygienists warn that permissive municipal governments are setting the stage — through spiking populations of history’s banes of fleas, lice, and rats — for possible dark-age outbreaks of plague or worse.
High tech does its part not to clean the streets but to create defecation apps that electronically warn tourists and hoi polloi how to avoid walking blindly into piles of sidewalk excrement. In Californian logic, public defecation butts up against progressive tolerance, so it is exempt from the law. Yet for a suburbanite to build a patio without a permit, for example, costs one dearly in fines. Indeed, a new patio without a permit can be deemed more dangerous to the public health than piles of excrement in the public workplace.
California: [h=1]America’s First Third-World State[/h]
If someone predicted half a century ago that a Los Angeles police station or indeed L.A. City Hall would be in danger of periodic, flea-borne infectious typhus outbreaks, he would have been considered unhinged. After all, the city that gave us the modern freeway system is not supposed to resemble Justinian’s sixth-century Constantinople. Yet typhus, along with outbreaks of infectious hepatitis A, are in the news on California streets. The sidewalks of the state’s major cities are homes to piles of used needles, feces, and refuse. Hygienists warn that permissive municipal governments are setting the stage — through spiking populations of history’s banes of fleas, lice, and rats — for possible dark-age outbreaks of plague or worse.
Commiefornia Democrats are now fighting to allow felons to serve on juries. That's right, soon murderers, rapists, gang bangers and drug dealers will serve on juries while wearing ankle bracelets. Yes, they are that batshit insane!
Shithole Commieformia is the Democrat blueprint for America.
Shithole Commieformia is the Democrat blueprint for America.
Complete nutters out there...
Rat Bar at the San Francisco Dungeon lets people pet, snuggle and play with rescued rats, then sip a rat-themed cocktail garnished with a beet-derived rat tail, dubbed the 'Ama-rat-o Sour.'The rats are provided by a local nonprofit called Ratical Rodent Rescue. They are domesticated and safe to handle, marketing manger Jennifer Edwards assures guests.
"The rats are 100 percent clean. It's just like like a dog, but very tiny and friendly," she said.
After being welcomed with a cocktail, guests, who pay $50 a head, tour the dungeon and then spend some quality time with the scurrying rodents, kissing them and letting them snuggle into their hair and walk on their arms. Afterwards, they can retire to the bar for more cocktails.
Jackie Valdez, a 38-year-accountant said she would love to have rats at home, but her other pets make it impossible.
"I love rats, so I had to come and experience them. I live with four cats, so it's kind of hard to have rats and cats together," she said
California bar offers cocktails, snuggles with rats
Rat Bar at the San Francisco Dungeon lets people pet, snuggle and play with rescued rats, then sip a rat-themed cocktail garnished with a beet-derived rat tail, dubbed the 'Ama-rat-o Sour.'The rats are provided by a local nonprofit called Ratical Rodent Rescue. They are domesticated and safe to handle, marketing manger Jennifer Edwards assures guests.
"The rats are 100 percent clean. It's just like like a dog, but very tiny and friendly," she said.
After being welcomed with a cocktail, guests, who pay $50 a head, tour the dungeon and then spend some quality time with the scurrying rodents, kissing them and letting them snuggle into their hair and walk on their arms. Afterwards, they can retire to the bar for more cocktails.
Jackie Valdez, a 38-year-accountant said she would love to have rats at home, but her other pets make it impossible.
"I love rats, so I had to come and experience them. I live with four cats, so it's kind of hard to have rats and cats together," she said
Calexit? no, not talking about the mass exodus of their population but discussion on secession
[h=1]Marcus Ruiz Evans: Reasons for California to take an exit[/h]
[h=1]Marcus Ruiz Evans: Reasons for California to take an exit[/h]
- 8 min ago
"Events in America make the notion of California seceding from the union less preposterous.”
We completely agree with this statement in a recent Our View editorial. However, as founder of the Calexit movement in 2012, I have to disagree with some facts:
“ … the U.S. Constitution denies states the right to secede."
The constitution is silent on secession. What it does say is that for all legal disputes, the Supreme Court is to decide what is legal. The court said in a case after the Civil War, Texas v. White, that states could secede "with consent of the states …” Also, 35 states in America are red, hate California and would be fine if we left.
“ … doubtful a secession movement would win approval of a majority of California voters.”
Not true. Stanford University’s Hoover Institute … and Reuters/Ipsos both ran polls on Calexit in January 2017, and they showed 32-percent support, plus 15.5 percent who don’t know, 27 percent support and 19 percent “not sure,” which means the amount of Californians willing to seriously think about Calexit is 46-47.5 percent or “just under half,” and GQ magazine reported on this fact in April 2017.
"About a third of everyone in California lives at or below the federal poverty level.”
True, but why? California is a donor state, and pays more in to subsidize 25 states than it gets out in federal services. California lost $13.7 billion in 2019. The cost to house all of the homeless in the Bay Area is estimated at $12.7 billion, meaning we could permanently fix homelessness in the Bay Area in one year if we were independent. The next year we would have an additional $13.7 billion to fix L.A. homelessness, and in four years we could afford every homeless person a new home.
“ … do terminal harm to the nation’s political balance, perhaps giving the more conservative factions a stranglehold on top elected offices."
Not True: California has not affected a presidential election since 1870, and that includes Obama and Trump. Californians know that America picks the president before their votes are counted. Also, we don’t have control of the Senate, and because of these two facts we don’t control the Supreme Court, which is now radical. So California doesn’t have any effect on three of the four major branches of government, which means we can’t actually get laws passed. Hence why Sen. McConnell said to think of himself as the “Angle of Death” because it doesn’t matter if liberals own the House, you can’t make anything happen without the other branches approving.
"We can’t see how California pulling out of the union would help anyone …”
As long as California is part of America, it is under federal law. Currently the Supreme Court directly disagreed with the California government’s many lawsuits and said the state doesn’t get to stop the federal government from selling off public lands, rewriting tax codes so people in your state are hurt, building a racist border wall, loosening air and water laws, permitting offshore drilling, holding immigrants at the border indefinitely, banning people immigrating from Muslim countries, letting businesses discriminate against LGTBQ, removing protections for women and minorities that allow them to sue their employers for discrimination, and making it so police are immune from investigation in accidental shootings of civilians.
Also, what about the homeless who could have homes? What about the roads that could be fixed without having to raise the gas tax? What about lowering taxes on businesses without hurting our budget?
