Càrlin Orwell

Why! Do old people, that retire from a life of working hard for low wages... Have to spend retirement on 1/2 as much as those who were more fortunate, had college opportunities, better jobs... Isn't social security supposed to be retirement money, to live in retirement! Why's it SO different for the dentist, and the waitress?

Animal Farm, Los Angeles Edition George Orwell’s Animal Farm is not about one country or one decade. It is about what happens when a revolutionary class seizes the instruments of power, rewrites the rules so the costs fall on everyone else, and ends up looking identical to the masters it replaced. The animals overthrow the farmer under slogans of equality and better conditions. The pigs take command, amend the commandments whenever convenient, live better while the others work harder, and finally stand on two legs. The creatures outside look from pig to man and cannot tell the difference. Los Angeles electricity under continuous one-party municipal control has followed the same script. For years base rates were held relatively low while maintenance was deferred. Then came the accelerated clean-energy mandate—LA100, the NREL study launched from City Council motions and locked in as a 100 percent carbon-free target by 2035, ahead of the state’s own SB 100 timeline. Coal was exited. Capital for renewables, transmission, storage, and reliability (the Power System Reliability Program) was authorized. The slogan was reliability plus a just transition at competitive cost. In practice the base energy charge has been essentially frozen since 2019. Almost all of the increase has been loaded into quarterly adjustment factors—energy cost, incremental reliability, variable energy, and the two renewable-portfolio factors—approved by the mayor-appointed Board and passed through to bills. Those factors now constitute the majority of the residential charge. Tier 1 moved from roughly 22 cents to about 27 cents per kilowatt-hour in roughly eighteen months by late 2026, exceeding inflation according to the city’s own independent ratepayer advocate. Summer Tier 3 reached approximately 41 cents. Extreme heat pushed households into higher tiers; the rate design and the automatic recovery mechanism did the rest. High total compensation for specialized roles (load dispatchers and electrical supervisors routinely clearing half a million dollars with overtime in the 2023 public data, general manager base set at $750,000) continued under the same structure. The original commandment—“rates will remain transparent and competitive”—was quietly amended to “adjustment factors recover Board-approved expenditures.” Public friction for a full rate ordinance was largely avoided. Analyses of the accelerated pathway itself showed substantial cumulative cost premiums relative to slower alternatives. The other animals kept paying. When bills doubled or tripled for some, the official explanation was mostly usage. Temporary relief was offered. The underlying recovery mechanism stayed. By the end of the story the ratepayers look at the governing apparatus that sets the targets, approves the factors, and collects the revenue, then look at the monopoly it replaced, and cannot tell which is which. The ideals of cleaner and more reliable power produced higher, less transparent bills and concentrated authority over the pass-throughs. That is the parallel. It is drawn from the rate ordinances, the adjustment-factor tables, the LA100 cost modeling, the compensation disclosures, and the political control of the city throughout the period. Anyone who has read the book already knows the ending.

Been days... NO REPLY...NO RECOURSE. I spent days, $$ working on @bot . GROK BOT a free app on @google playstore. I thought it was a @grok product. I thought for sure I was in the protective space created by @elonmusk and trusted wholeheartedly by me... I uploaded years of personal financial, and business data, to develop business tools for my small LEGAL business. And my person too. I was just finishing building an industry changing tool for a 160 billion a year industry, that I have mastered over 4 decades of full time professional highly skilled working... And I'm floored right now! IT'S ALL BEING "BLOCKED"! I have no access to my work or data! 1. I had no idea the Grok Bot app... Isn't GROK! 2. Cursor.com is the company, an @anysphere outfit apparently... Out of San Francisco, CA 3. YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. 4. They can and will block you from your own data, take all of your designs and work products. And hide behind the bot email address: [email protected] all while charging your card hundreds for their time to do so. 5. If you didn't curse before you get robbed by these "people", THE CURSOR CREW! you will afterwards much like I f****** am RIGHT NOW! WARNING IT'S A COUNTERFEIT SITE DESIGNED TO ROB YOU. IMHO

Dragon fruit flower... About 12" wide and even longer...

If you don't like the idea of a 5000.00 @realDonaldTrump dividend... Give it to the treasury... With instructions to pay down the debt... Or give it to a homeless person. Or an illegal immigrant... None of whom would ever give you anything, but charity is selfless. FYI - @GavinNewsom has handed out over 150k for each homeless person in California during his tenure. And who knows how much to illegals!

The US government needs a new hustle. It's taxed Americans to death, and they are still broke and in MASSIVE debt! The only answer is... External Revenue Sources. We have so many good employees, and they're just milking us 350 million Americans... instead of generating foreign sources of income; for Americans! We gotta get them working for us. Not farming us like cattle.

The @Womacksisters @HollywoodBowl . Iykyk...

Any amnesty to anyone- EVER... HAS to be earned! That pathway to legal status in OUR country...for ALL illegal immigrants, MUST BE MORE COSTLY AND DIFFICULT THAN LEGAL MIGRANTS FACE... it's the American way.

The United States government should be far smaller, soon... You know, cause AI, and robots and stuff like that... Taxes shouldn't go up for generations to come, unless they tax us for other reasons than providing efficient services.

Why am I only seeing Fauci lovers today? Every single person in my feed is talking bullshit. Calling that monster a hero. Happily vaccinated and ignorant, they don't want the truth to shatter their world view... Fauci got undisclosed royalties from the vaccines... Non taxable, non disclosed, and made in secret, all legally, enacted for him, by special congressional order!

Income taxes shouldn't go up, the more you make. That's stunting American growth. The percentage you pay should go down, the more that you make... Earning more to pay less percentage in taxes, is way smarter... *than not earning more, to pay less. I'm motivated NOT to double my business...

Let's be honest people... If these communist really wanted to help the poor, they would... They REALLY REALLY want to rob the rich... They're lying about why. Of course.

Are you surprised; that bad people come here from all over the world illegally, and commit terrible crimes upon we the people?

I'm against... Requiring American citizenship to run for office... Our people have problems! So far the American leaders I have taken a look at... SUCK! IMAGINE IF YOU WILL. a successful leader of Japanese government decided to come here and help fix our cities... So they look and function like ANY Japanese city. ID VOTE FOR THAT... Long before voting for some freak ass libtarded communist socialist piece of s*** born in America...

I'm sorry. If life was fair. Karmelo Anthony would also be dead. And the twin brother would be aquitted of man slaughter trying to save, and avenge the lethal assault on his TWIN BROTHER! FUCK YOU RACIST THAT THINK JAIL IS TOO HARSH OF A PUNISHMENT! **He'll have a non gentle husband teaching him about prison love if there's any justice in this weak ass sentence!