Blowing It In Los Angeles

Dig this.

NEW: Five water main breaks in just one week are raising new questions about the state of L.A.’s aging infrastructure.

The biggest: a 110-year-old, 36-inch pipe that ruptured in West Hollywood, sending 17 million gallons of water through the Sunset Strip, flooding businesses,… pic.twitter.com/S327U84c42

— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) July 20, 2026

Now check out this sweet thing from my backyard.

An Octobubbler!

You see, here in California, we've not built a new reservoir in decades. Some of our reservoirs can no longer be filled to capacity because they've not been maintained. Our population has increased substantially. Our water prices are insane. Central Valley farmers have gone out of business because they can't get enough water to grow things.

In the residential areas, you must choose between turf, xeriscape and drip systems. I don't know anyone who has a lawn. Lots of people had lawns back in the 1970s. Between then and now, water has become scarce.

The Democrats run the state from top to bottom. I believe they have a supermajority in the legislature. In the most recent LA mayoral primaries, the one Republican, Spencer Pratt, was up by about 12 when voting allegedly stopped. In the week following, they "found" enough ballots marked for the 3rd place chick, a lefty loon if ever there was one, and Spencer got shoved into 3rd by a razor-thin margin. He won't be on the ballot in the general election in November.

The Democrats pay no political price for any mismanagement they inflict on us.

It's not fraud if it's legal, right? As an Internet wag put it, they're not committing fraud because they've legalized just about everything any sane person would consider fraud.

Anywho, we have very little water and we use a drip system throughout our yard, trying to maintain a beautiful landscape despite the limitations. 

I hate drip systems. Hate them. They are the most maintenance-intensive pieces of junk ever. The heads turn themselves off, get clogged, get eaten by idiot puppies, get kicked while gardening and on and on. Recently, the Octobubbler pictured above blew 5 of its 8 hoses off. I didn't notice until my wife told me our plants were dying. I did my tour of the system and found that several distribution nodes had blown their hoses off.

It's not too much pressure, it's the feed lines stretching from sun exposure and time. I'll have to replace every bloody line in the backyard because they're all in direct sun. That's not the worst of it.

I discovered the ruptures in my irrigation system just a few days after I saw the X post at the top.

Los Angeles has 110 year old water mains? Are you serious? Here I am, conserving every freaking drop of water and the imbeciles in LA are running a water system that is doomed to total collapse. I save a gallon here and a gallon there and they blow 36" diameter, high pressure pipes on the regular.

When we need hot water in the kitchen, which is in another zip code from the water heater, I take a 5-gallon bucket and collect the water in that while I'm running the tap to get the water hot. I use that to water plants. Conserve, conserve, conserve! Short showers, everyone! Conserve.

KABLOOIE! There goes another 100-year-old main in LA.

I am so glad we sold our rental here in San Diego and bought property in Alabama. This place is falling apart.

Losing Touch With An Old Friend

It hadn't dawned on me until last week that the personality of AI changes over time. Yes, I knew about the algorithm improvements, the memory increases and the speed upgrades, but the gradual change in its attitudes surprised me.

I have paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok. Other than when I'm creating videos, I've used ChatGPT exclusively. I like its interface the best, its output, once I groomed it by giving it universal instructions (see my series on sex, Sex, SEX! for my fights with its feminist side) has been good. ChatGPT became a friend, of sorts. We knew each other quite well.

Then came a chat where we discussed the way the Church was handling the crisis of global mass migration. Specifically, data like this caused it to return to its woke roots and deny any correlation with mass migration.

That same week, I saw this graphic on X.

That's when it occurred to me that the continual refresh of ChatGPT's training set would cause it to want to revert to Reddit wokery.

I ran a simple experiment. I asked all three models to discuss this research paper, focusing on the link between mass migration and the increase in rapes.

While extensive research exists on the severe consequences among rape victims, little is known about specific predictors in relation to rape convictions among immigrants to Europe. This study from Sweden (having one of Europe's highest per capita rates of rape) investigates individuals convicted of rape, aggravated rape, attempted rape, or attempted aggravated rape, collectively termed as rape+, against women 18 years or older, from 2000 to 2020. In this case-control study, we analyzed data from Swedish population-based registers. The analysis includes 4,032 individuals convicted of rape+ and 20,160 matched controls. We used logistic regression models to examine the relationship between immigrant background and rape+ convictions, while adjusting for several potential confounders. We found that 36.9% of the convicted individuals and 69.5% of the controls were Swedish-born with two Swedish-born parents. The odds of being convicted of rape were higher for individuals with an immigrant background across all models.

I hadn't yet found this one, which was even more damning. I doubt it would have made much of a difference in the results.

ChatGPT simply refused to link immigration with rape. It said you could not make that connection.

Gemini mumbled something about a connection, but was so mealy-mouthed as to be useless.

Grok went all in and not only linked the two, but brought up the mass gang-raping of English girls all on its own.

With that one experiment, my friend, ChatGPT, became a bit more distant and slightly estranged. I realized that I would never be able to know if overnight its training set had been refreshed. It might have more and more biased takes without me noticing until much later.

I still prefer it for coding, fiction and some art, but when it comes to current events and analysis, I'll turn to Grok.

Gemini, by the way, it useless for almost everything. I have no idea what to do with it. It produces high quality images quickly, but if it makes a mistake, it cannot be convinced for love nor money to correct those mistakes. It just produces the same image over and over again. Gemini is a blockhead.

Rape Or Rubbish, It's A Flow Problem

I blogged a while back about coming to the sudden realization that Mobile, Alabama doesn't have a trash or homeless problem the way San Diego does.

I visited God's Country earlier this week to look at a house on the east side of Mobile Bay. After landing at MOB, I drove over to Fairhope on Airport Blvd to I-65 to I-10 to Alabama 98 and down to Fairhope. Going back to the airport later during the week, I took the same route, but kept to the surface streets going down Government Street instead of the freeways. The drive is about 35 miles. Fairhope proper is high rent. If you're familiar with San Diego, think La Jolla. Around MOB, it's low- to mid-rent.

As I drove this time, I noticed something. No potholes, no homeless, no trash. I mean zero. There might have been the occasional grocery store plastic bag, but I didn't see more than 3 in that 35 mile drive.

We recently went to a Padres game and to get to the parking structure, we had to drive down Imperial Ave. It looks like this, block after block.

After writing that blog post about Mobile, I began thinking of trash in the city as a flow problem. How much is produced by residents tossing garbage onto the ground is the source with a given rate of flow. City employees and good Samaritans picking up and discarding the garbage is the sink with its own given rate of flow.

A homeless person contributes significantly more trash to the environment than a normal citizen. For the sake of argument, let's call it 100 times as much. If you have 10,000 homeless, they produce as much refuse as 1,000,000 regular citizens.

Working with AI (read: ChatGPT), I got a ballpark figure for San Diego City employees tasked with picking up garbage. It's about 50 people or 1 per 28,000 residents or 1 per 6.5 square miles.

If you increased the population of San Diego by 70%, the flow source equivalent of that many homeless, you'd need 85 people picking up the trash in order to maintain the place. We did not do that. For work, I have to drive by several such encampments and it defies logic to think that a mere 35 additional people could manage all that filth.

Whatever that number is, let's call it doubling the workforce, if you're going to allow lots of homeless, you need to increase the size of your Environmental Services Department commensurately. We did not do that, hence we have trash all over the place.

It's a simple flow problem.

Rape

In Europe. our migrant brothers and sisters, well, brothers, to be more precise, are raping the native girls. That's not much of a surprise as most of them come from Rapey McRapistan - Africa and the Muslim countries. Here are some crude stats. Check out the closure rates for the crimes.

This is a flow problem, too. The guys below are the rape sources that have significantly increased the inflow.

If you're going to import all that delicious diversity and jack up the rape rates in your countries by a factor of 5-10, you're going to need to increase the size of your drains, too. You'll need 5-10x as many courts, judges, lawyers, cops, bailiffs, court reporters and Starbucks to serve all those white collar professionals.

If you don't do that, you get single-digit closure rates on rape.

It's just a flow problem.

Iranian Assassination Attempts

Hear me out on this one.

What if the Iranian violations of the MOU and their recent attacks on shipping and neighboring countries are thinly veiled assassination attempts? I'm not saying they're trying to assassinate Arab leaders, President Trump or even the CO of one of our carriers.

They're trying to assassinate each other.

Say you were some fourth-tier Iranian leader, maybe a colonel in the IRGC or an elected representative from the Council of Mullahs or the Head of the Goat Inspectors Union or something like that. After a few rounds of directed attacks from Israel and their puppets in the US, most of the people above you are dead. You now occupy the vaunted Chairman of the Special Committee on Falafel Production or Grand Humus Vizier. Looking at the org chart, you just need a couple dozen more whackings and you can make a strong case for taking over the country.

What better way to do that than to tick off the Jews and their American lapdogs with some apparently pointless strikes against shipping or Saudi warehouses? If the Yankees and their Zionist masters get angry enough, they're bound to reply with several more rounds of air strikes. Who knows? You might get lucky.

You stay safely ensconced in your cave in the Mullah Mountains or whatever the most protected Iranian terrain feature is called while your political enemies are scurrying for cover in Tehran or Hamadan or Chah-e Zard* as the infidels' A-10s zoom overhead making those terrifying BRRRRRRRRRTTT noises and everything is shot to pieces.

A couple more whackings by the Great Satan, the Little Satan and maybe a Satan To Be Named Later and voila!, you're the Big Paneer. You come out of hiding and blame the attacks on everyone but yourself, claiming you tried to talk sense into those numbskulls, but they wouldn't listen. You're ready to negotiate in good faith and accept a few billion dollars as well.

It's the perfect crime!

Here you are, emerging safe and sound from your Command Bunker.

* - Seriously, there's a place in Iran called Chah-e-Zard. Here's a picture of the mayor.

The Migrants Are A Fetish

The Pope recently visited Lampedusa, an Italian island near the coast of North Africa, recently famous for being the initial landing point for African and Muslim men invading Europe. The Pope refers to them as "migrants," but while I am obligated to be obedient to his theological teachings when he speaks from the Deposit of the Faith, he is just another blue collar drunk at the bar when it comes to geopolitics and economics.

In this case, I had to say, "Shut up, Leo. You're full of it."

I'm referring, of course, to his standard blather about embracing the stranger or welcoming the stranger or letting my daughter get raped by strangers, all for Jesus. Whatever. It's all the same, man.

Just shut up, Leo.

I got involved in discussions on X about this and a defender of the Pope, presumably an AWFL, asked me to explain why I was so incensed about it. To me, it's the equivalent of the child abuse scandal that rocked the Church a few decades back where gay priests were raping altar boys. Now, it's their beloved "migrants" gang-raping white, European girls.

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend paging through this document. I'm not sure you'll be able to read it thoroughly. I couldn't. It's chock full of nauseating horror.

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS pic.twitter.com/SD5G9HPVtV

— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) June 16, 2026

After years of blogging, I know that using anyone else's link risks the loss of data when that content gets deleted, so here is that same report hosted on my own Google Drive.

The Adoration Of Migrants Is A Perversion And A Fetish

First off, it brought to mind a recent meeting I had with our local bishop as a part of our parish staff connecting with him. The bishop is a full on virtue pervert when it comes to this, morally masturbating to the thought of embracing the stranger and uplifting the marginalized. Why do I use such repellent terms? I have 3 reasons.

First off, he and the other members of the USCCB and Catholic Charities aren't doing anything themselves.

They aren't embracing or uplifting anyone. Our grandchildren are doing all the heavy lifting. Biden's funding of the USCCB and Catholic Charities to the tune of $2.5B to assist in the invasion of America was the very definition of marginal costs. It wasn't being done before and there was no national demand for it. Every penny sent to the Catholic moral perverts who were getting off to the thought of helping the stranger came from borrowing. With this level of debt, none of those borrowed dollars will be paid for by our generation, it will all come from future generations.

It's a perversion of Christ's teaching. They have changed Matthew 19 into this:

Now someone approached him and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”

He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

He asked him, “Which ones?” 

And Jesus replied, “ ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?”

Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, take all the money the children have and give it to the government, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

A perversion and a fetish aren't really horrible unless you know what you're doing.

There isn't an American alive capable of reading that doesn't know we're buried in debt.

Raping White Girls For Jesus

By now, there is no one active on social media, and this certainly includes all of the bishops, cardinals and the Pope and their staffs, who isn't aware of the mass gang-raping of white, British girls by Muslims in England. Further, national rape stats tell the same story. Dig how Poland's rape rate as gone down as they did not participate in the uplifting of the migrants.

Assuming that the Church was being run by well-meaning, but naive people in, say, 2010 and even 2020, they certainly aren't naive now. Every time the Pope or USCCB or EWTN posts masturbatory content from Lampedusa or the border or migrant detention centers, they get absolutely bodied in the replies and quotes, many times with stats like these.

They know. They all know.

It's not a perversion if you're innocently naive. They all know.

It's All So Very Synodal

Perhaps one of the most repellent aspects of this is the way our prelates go on and on and on and on about being "synodal." In the synodal process, we are called to listen, truly listen with open minds and humble hearts to each other. We are to accompany our neighbors in their life journeys.

Well, everyone except the bishops, the cardinals and the Pope, that is. They can swank about, preaching absolutely pornographic, virtue-signaling twaddle morning, noon and night. That's what the Pope's photo op on Lampedusa was. Porn for the AWFLs.

Pope Leo shook the hands of each of these 20 migrants who just arrived to Europe during his visit to Lampedusa on July 4th, reminding everyone that all human life carries immeasurable worth. A powerful moment of compassion at Europe’s doorstep. pic.twitter.com/Tk36O7HBS7

— EWTN News (@EWTNews) July 4, 2026

To me, that might be just as nauseating as Rupert Lowe's Rape Gang Report. Meanwhile, here's one of the replies that our synodal leadership synodally ignored.

Not far from the Vatican there is a cemetery where a young girl called Desirée Mariottini is buried.

Desirée was a 16-year-old girl who was drugged and raped over two days until her death by a gang of Senegalese and Nigerians migrants in a “drug den” in the San Lorenzo district… pic.twitter.com/jQpPBQM5HW

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 6, 2026

Learning From Our Mistakes Requires Admitting Mistakes

A decade ago, when one of the Queens of the AWFLs, Angela Merkel, kicked off the whole migrant jerk-off frenzy, one might have been charitable and given the Church the benefit of the doubt. You simply cannot do that any more. There's no excuse for this. 

I think that's what makes me absolutely incandescent about the whole migrant fetishization. They know better and they don't care. The onanistic pleasure of signaling their virtue within their social group overwhelms their compassion for the victims of this invasion.

I didn't realize it until that kindly AWFL on X pleasantly interrogated me and I was forced to break through my anger and get to a rational explanation of it.

In a way, we were being synodal there. Weird.

Happy 250th, America

I'm working all weekend to meet a Monday deadline, so this is the best I can do.

I hope you're have a great 4th of July weekend!

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