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Mon Jan-08-07 09:02 PM
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Million dollar homes in Malibu California now on fire. |
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It's racing through the community.
MSNBC!
No link as of yet.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:02 PM
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it has been so dry, windy and warm here. Fires in January.
This is crazy.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:03 PM
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3. Hopefully, they have enough money to pay for it... |
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but of course, even rich people have memories which are being destroyed in these houses right now.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:05 PM
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5. Some actually earned it and didn't inherit it from daddy, either |
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And there are some apts there; not everyone in malibu is a millionaire.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:08 PM
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:09 PM
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have to go home to see it. This is nuts!
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:10 PM
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Real bad.
When I got home I thought "damn this is fire weather" ... it's so damn warm today.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:03 PM
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It's been very warm here today. I wonder what started the fires?
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:05 PM
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6. It felt like it was in the 80s where I live in SoCal |
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Warm in January even for Southern California.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:04 PM
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4. Wow! Is it Santa Anna wind season? |
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:07 PM
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10. not really but it was eerily warm and very windy |
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:05 PM
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by the beach - so it will not go any further - phew!
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:13 PM
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19. It went lateral! PCH is at a standtill. |
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Sine Pacific Palisades is right there it is bad!
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:07 PM
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9. well, some of us like it just fine here |
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I know the Northeast. You can have it.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:15 PM
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i'll stay right where im at
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:15 PM
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I'd give a nut to live back in the Bay Area ... both for Pacific Grove. (sigh)
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:21 PM
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27. Every time I'm on the East Coast, some smartass thinks it's funny to make a comment about my hair. |
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Like, long hair? ...On a Man no less? How Weeeeeeird! :eyes:
No, I don't have any pot to sell you. You stupid, uptight, cookie cutter Idiot.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:26 PM
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31. i grew up in Mass but i live in Norcal now and every time i go back to |
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visit i always meet someone and i swear they all say the same thing--"Oh my brother in law has a friend who moved to California, do you know him?" "Um what part, whats his/her name" "Oh you know down south there and i think his name is Frank" or Judy. I don't think people understand how big ca is or how many people are here until they visit.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:17 PM
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49. Alaskans get that a lot, too. |
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"Do you know my cousin in Juneau?" It's true there are only about 600,000 people here, but they're all r-e-a-l-l-y spread out.
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:52 AM
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53. Yeah. I've got relatives in the midwest who always think they can "spend an afternoon in LA" if they |
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visit.
I'm like, er, you realize it's over 400 miles away, right?
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:27 PM
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51. Unless your in a big city , east coasters only know what they see on TV & MTV... |
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no self style of their own...
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Tue Jan-09-07 01:33 AM
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People think NJ all looks like fucking Newark/Elizabeth/Secaucus. In any case, it keeps the fucking morans away. Subaru is even running ads here making fun of that.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:07 PM
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11. Wrath of God country. |
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Of course, I though we had it good here in CO, but of course there are rare big blizzards.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:13 PM
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20. Funny how none of the people who wax enthusiastic about how much California sucks |
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Edited on Mon Jan-08-07 09:17 PM by impeachdubya
ever actually live here.
You couldn't pay me enough to live on the East Coast, or in Colorado, for that matter. Yeah, we have Earthquakes- and fires sometimes, too. But it's something you live with, a regional fact of life: same as hurricanes, tornadoes, shitty-ass blizzards or Tom DeLay.
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Mon Jan-08-07 10:20 PM
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39. Or bugs! That's one thing we have little of here in CO... |
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but Texas is crawling! :scared: Hate bugs, give me snow any day!
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:11 PM
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18. "God" didn't design humans for a minus thirty windchill, either |
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yet there are plenty of people who live in Chicago.
Amazing how many folks can't manage to make it through one of these threads without taking the obligatory potshots at California. Don't like it? Cool. We have more than enough people as it is.
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Mon Jan-08-07 10:27 PM
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40. Yep ~ we have way too much sunshine |
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here.
Please, we beg of you, stay where ever you are because you will HATE it in California. :)
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:14 PM
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California is a big place. Huge swaths of it never worry about fire, earthquakes, mudslides or whatever.
I'm in one of 'em. It's a flood plain, though I'm on a high spot and even in bad years have never had worse than a soggy lawn. :shrug: No place is perfect.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:15 PM
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23. No! It sucks! It sucks! You're ***crazy*** to live there! |
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And it has nothing to do with jealousy, either. :eyes:
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:24 PM
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28. It does crack me up when people from elsewhere come up with reasons why they'd never live in CA |
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Usually it's earthquakes. I don't live on a fault. I'm a lifelong Californian and I've never felt an earthquake. Some people in my neighborhood felt the Loma Prieta quake in '89, but I was in a car and it was already a bit rumbly so I didn't.
The other thing is the cost of living. Now things cost more here, but wages are decent, groceries and utilities are very cheap where I live, and I'm in one of California's less expensive cities, so that doesn't really apply.
This is my home and I love it. But it's crowded, so everybody else should stay wherever they happen to be from. The earthquakes here will kill you, you know. ;)
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:33 PM
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32. me too- Happy native Californian |
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and staying here! I don't have to shovel snow, the humidity is low in the summer, and where I live has really clean air. In what other place can one find both good Thai food and good Mexican food, even in a rural community? Oh, and I need to mention, the county is producing its own wines.
Laugh at our fires, storms and earthquakes if you must. Some of us call this "home" and are happy here.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:35 PM
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I'm proud to be a native Californian.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:43 PM
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36. Same here a native Angeleno and |
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so were my parents and grandparents going way back to the early 1900's. I love California.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:25 PM
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I remember after the 1994 quake there was this woman that was interviewed and said "I'm getting out of here ... I hate this damn state" .... my mom and I both said "Bye, bitch!".
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:33 PM
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33. There is no place on Earth |
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that Mother Nature can't have an effect on...hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons etc. I guess it could be said that people are crazy living anywhere but you have to be somewhere. Where I am in CA the only worry is earthquakes but I still prefer that to lot's of other things that Mother Nature could dish out. I try not to be so smug about the things that other people in other places deal with cause next time I might be the one with a problem. x(
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:31 PM
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52. It's only the people who have never been to Ca. that claim they would never go there. |
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Actually, New York is the only reason to go any further east of Colorado. No matter what your bag is, you can do it better in Calif.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:09 PM
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14. Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town, Lebowski. |
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Edited on Mon Jan-08-07 09:09 PM by tridim
You don't draw shit. We got a nice quiet beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off -- do I make myself clear?
The Dude: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.
-Police chief throws coffee mug, hitting The Dude in the head-
The Dude: OW! Fucking fascist!
-Police chief knocks The Dude's chair over-
STAY OUT OF MALIBU LEBOWSKI!
-Police chief kicks The Dude while he's on the ground-
STAY OUT OF MALIBU, DEADBEAT!
Keep your ugly, fucking, gold-bricking ass out of my beach community!
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Sorry, Lebowski quotes always take precedence over good taste. I hope nobody gets hurt in the fires.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:16 PM
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24. Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man. nt |
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:16 PM
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25. C'mon, man. I hate the fucking Eagles. nt |
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:25 PM
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50. Nothing like a bit of Duditude for levity. Thank you for that. |
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Watched it for the gagillionth time around x-mas. Still laugh like an idiot everytime. The fascist coffee mug doink in the head. :rofl:
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:09 PM
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15. Malibu, is God's paradise - the sunsets are too incredible to give up if you have the bread! |
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:32 PM
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56. however the incredible sunsets are caused by air pollution |
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not just Calif. incredible sunsets - all incredible sunsets worldwide
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:10 PM
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16. ten of them are burning to the ground now. |
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It was all the way to the shore! :cry:
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:19 PM
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26. as long as no one, four legged or two legged, |
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winged or finned was hurt - they will be fine..
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:34 PM
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34. The good thing is, once it burns all the way to the sea, that's |
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all she wrote. Nowhere else for the flames to go. Finis.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:24 PM
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29. Just showed the fires on Scarborough |
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Huge flames...I hope people and pets got out of harms way.
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Mon Jan-08-07 09:52 PM
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37. I live in a suburb near Malibu and our |
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community was threatened a year ago by huge fires in the adjacent hills. The flames came damn close, but the firefighters did a heroic job of keeping them from homes. Fires are a fact of life in Southern California which has much mountainous terrain. People here know and accept the risks.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:17 PM
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48. I've got a buddy just over the hill from Malibu.... |
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north of Malibu Creek State Park. Do you know which way it's headed?
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Mon Jan-08-07 10:17 PM
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38. Best of luck to all the residents. |
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We have horrendous wildfires here in summer, but the population is so small, rarely does a lot of damage occur. I'd send SoCal some of our weather if I could - but unfortunately, not even 38 below can stop a fire. We have bad housefires (usually woodstoves or toyo heaters) every winter and our firefighters have it tough at these temps.
Good wishes, Malibu.
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Mon Jan-08-07 10:39 PM
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41. Does Arnold have a place in Malibu? |
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:08 PM
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I'm sure some freepers hope that Barbra Striesand's house burned down.
Pat yourself on the back, sweetie.
You've bridged the gap between dumb fuck responces between DU and FR.
You must be so proud.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:11 PM
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43. Mel Gibson has a house there and a church. |
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I don't like they guy but am not wishing anything to happen to his places.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:15 PM
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47. Mel Gibson has done nothing to screw up this state. |
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:13 PM
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45. Oh I am. When he burned down the health care bill for |
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Edited on Mon Jan-08-07 11:20 PM by Cleita
all Californians and wants to replace it with something that will put our tax dollars into the pockets of the same health care crooks that have caused our health care crisis to begin with, he deserves some inconvenience, because that is all it would be to him. When homeless guys have to die in a field from cancer like a feral cat because the hospital kicked them out, I think Arnold should know what it's like to be homeless, even if it's only for twenty minutes.
Barbara Streisand has done nothing to screw this state. Arnold has. Therein lies the difference. BTW, he lives in Pacific Palisades. I was just venting.
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:18 PM
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55. Apparantly Barbara's house did burn down |
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AT least that's what I heard this morning. (Also Suzanne Somers and I missed who else)
It's sad...of course most if not all of those people have insurance and enough money to rebuild and buy "things."
But we all - rich, poor and in-between - have memories, pictures, mementos that cannot be replaced with any amount of money.
And I really hope no pets were lost.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:11 PM
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44. It sucks when this sort of thing happens to anyone. |
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And we should hope for the least amount of casualties. To blast people for being rich while their lives are in danger is kind of fucked up.
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Mon Jan-08-07 11:14 PM
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46. Brush fire season sucks |
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:42 PM
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57. This was probably arson. n/t |
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:48 PM
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59. That's what they were saying on the news today. |
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:45 PM
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58. I wonder how many of the homeowners blamed Katrina victims... |
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...for living in a flood plain.
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Tue Jan-09-07 08:35 PM
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63. By my estimation, the 2004 voter registration percentages for 2004 in Malibu break down as such: |
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http://www.laalmanac.com/election/el18.htm(approximately) 42% Democrat 34% Republican ...How's that stack up against your town, smart guy?
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Tue Jan-09-07 12:56 PM
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60. Suzanne Somers' home destroyed in fire. |
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Tue Jan-09-07 01:08 PM
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61. Sorry To Hear That. Hopefully Everyone Is Safe And The Fire Is Contained Quickly. |
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Tue Jan-09-07 01:29 PM
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62. Californians Are Some of the Best Americans |
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Everyone loves to crack on them, but I have lived in North and Southern Cal, and I can tell you straight out that Californians are amongst the best people in this nation. They are open-minded, reasonable, and they have a sunny outlook on life.
I hope and pray that everyone in Malibu comes out of this disaster okay.
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