Remember when Trump visited the town of “Pleasure” (our town’s name is Paradise, which also starts with the letter P and means something intrinsically nice) after the Camp Fire in 2018? He did a background check on us first.
On July 24, 2024, at Upper Park in Chico, California, a man set his car on fire and pushed it off a 60-foot embankment. The dry vegetation around it was quickly engulfed in flames and the fire spread rapidly, climbing the ridge into the forest and eventually growing over 400,000 acres, reaching all the way
The morning after the Dec. 6 storm
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They’re still pushing plastic up in Paradise, though. The don’t even offer me a choice, I have to ask explicitly, and if they’ve already started bagging they get slightly annoyed.
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This morning a guy bombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin. Then another guy took out his gun and went postal on all his friends at Oikos “University” in Oakland, a Dominionist institution that claims to provide “a Christian education that is based on solid Christian doctrine and ideology. Our main goal is to foster
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I’m never riding the bus again, nor recommending it to anybody. I was standing at the stop in front of city hall and the guy didn’t stop for me. He said I was outside the circle of intent even though I was 5′ away from the pole and there was no one else on the
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So, gas is expensive because Gaddafi won’t leave. I think the liberty of the Libyan people is worth it, however, and I generally get annoyed when the bulk of the media coverage is about money paid for fuel rather than lives paid for liberty. But I was listening to NPR yesterday and they were talking about
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Action news reported tonight that the coroner’s report was released today. The medical examiner confirmed Lydia Schatz died from rhabdomyolysis resulting from the torture and abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents, who whipped their children with 1/4″ plumbing supply line because it was endorsed by fundamentalist preacher Michael Pearl as the biblical
I’ve seen many episodes of Law & Order in which persons in authority or otherwise powerful positions such as authors, preachers, TV & radio personalities, etc., were considered just as responsible as the actual perpetrators who did what they told them to. My wife found a blog in which a woman was commenting on the
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The most in-depth coverage I found so far was posted on the Paradise Post overnight. I have included it below for preservation because the Post seems to have a short news cycle, archiving their articles rather quickly to a section that requires user registration. The good news is that the other child is expected to
Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows… Read More »