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The Roboback of Notre Dame

20 Saturday Apr 2019

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Colossus, fire, Notre Dame, Paris, Perrin hates robots, robots

I refuse to call this thing a robot because: 1) it’s pretty cool, and 2) I still hate robots.

Colossus is a firefighting tool, and it helped save the day at Notre Dame.

But Jean-Claude Gallet, the commander, had a backup plan: Colossus, a 1,100-pound tank-like robot with the ability to venture into danger zones where conditions would quickly kill a person.

Using a motorised water cannon capable of firing more than 660 gallons per minute, Colossus took aim at the stone walls of the ancient cathedral and began spraying.

In an interview with The Times, Mr Gallet credited the fire-fighting robot with lowering temperatures inside the glass-filled nave and saving the lives of its human counterparts as an even greater disaster loomed.

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It’s more of a mechanical fire dog than a mechanical hound.

‘Showing No Fear’

16 Tuesday Apr 2019

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Christianity, fire, hero, Jean-Marc Fournier, The West

We need, the Church, needs, the West needs more Fr. Fourniers.

The hero who saved the Crown of Thorns: Fire brigade chaplain entered flaming Notre Dame to recover holy relic – three years after he bravely helped Bataclan terror victims

  • Jean-Marc Fournier saved the Crown of Thorns from the blazing Notre Dame 
  • Paris Fire Brigade chaplain also rescued the Blessed Sacrament from cathedral 
  • Father Fournier described as a ‘hero’ for ‘showing no fear’ and saving the relics
  • In 2015 he also rushed inside the Bataclan where Islamic State militants killed 89

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Merci Pere Fournier.

PS: keeping a somewhat suspicious eye on this story. Who, exactly, was this idiot?

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Notre Dame Central Cathedral is Lost…. — The Last Refuge

15 Monday Apr 2019

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Catholic Church, fire, France, Notre Dame, Paris

A horrific historic and cultural loss. The 850 year old architectural masterpiece is a central monument to the Catholic faith. A spokesman said the entire wooden frame of the cathedral has come down, and the vault of the edifice could be threatened too. ‘Everything is burning, nothing will remain from the frame,’ Notre Dame spokesman […]

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As Goes Notre Dame

15 Monday Apr 2019

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So goes France. So goes Western Europe.

The Cathedral is likely a total loss.

‘The inferno cannot be stopped’: Fire chiefs say blaze ravaging Notre Dame cathedral is out of control after spire COLLAPSES and the entire roof of the stunning 850-year-old building burns to ashes

Officials in Paris said a large operation had been launched in an attempt to bring the raging fire under control

Pictures from around the city posted on social media showed flames licking up Notre Dame’s famous spire

The fire was first reported at 5.50pm (GMT) on Monday and the building was evacuated soon afterwards

Authorities say there were no deaths from the fire although declined to comment on the number of injuries

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My guess is that renovation-related welding (or something) sparked the fire in an attic. My guess is that this is also a symbol of what the likes of Macron, Merkel, and other globo trash have done to France and the West. The structure should not be rebuilt in any way until the French nation is fully restored.

Dieu sauver France!

Prometheus’s Revenge

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

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It’s time to dispense with the hateful rhetoric of the National Fire Association (NFA) and to finally have a national discussion about fire violence. Heck, it’s time to ban fire. Ban it before something else like this happens.

Ten people including a baby have died in a fire at an eight-storey building in south-western Paris, officials say.

More than 30 people – including six firefighters – were injured. One person is in a serious condition.

Fifty people were evacuated by ladders from the blaze in the upmarket 16th arrondissement.

Investigators believe the fire – one of the most deadly in the French capital in years – was possibly started deliberately.

A woman detained earlier by police is no longer being questioned and, after undergoing medical and behavioural tests, has been admitted to the psychiatric infirmary of the Paris police, media reports quote the Paris prosecutor as saying.

The line about the crazy woman is bull. The fire did this. Fire control works. That’s why they haven’t had a fire in Atlantis for over 4,000 years.

CA Daycare Loses Bot, Babes Cry

17 Monday Dec 2018

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Some stuff you just can’t make up. A local droid makes the final delivery:

Describing the robot as a “hero” and a “legend,” UC Berkeley students expressed their grief on Facebook as news of a fallen KiwiBot reached the campus community.

About 2 p.m. Friday, a KiwiBot — one of the more than 100 robots that deliver food throughout the campus and city — caught fire outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.

According to Sasha Iatsenia, head of product at Kiwi, the company is still working with UCPD to investigate the cause of the fire. Nothing like this has ever happened before, Iatsenia said.

Commenters at SF Gate speculate that the bot (being at least semi self-aware) couldn’t handle the notion of continuing to live and work with the local SJW population. This would be understandable if we could find sympathy for the electronic devil. We can’t.

Good luck to the UCPD with that investigation. My guess is that some fully-aware human used a 95 GHz beam, directed IR, or other heat-generating weapon (Raytheon, you ain’t alone) to fry the Kiwi’s sensitive wuttle battery pack – starting the glorious fire. Whatever it was, we thank God for it.

The bad news, as always at UCB, is from the children. Some of the really sad cases held a candlelight vigil for the “deceased” plastic monster.

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The Twit Bird.

Again, there can be no sympathy for that which the devils sympathize with. They would suborn their own destruction and ours.

Note: This episode confirms my previous thought that fire is an active robotic solution. Remember that.

Fire On The Mountain: Gatlinburg Burns

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

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They knew it was bad over the weekend and through most of Monday. Residents of Gatlinburg, Sevier County, and surrounding areas had watched wildfires burn all around them. Across several Southern states fires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres this fall.

Then, around 6 P.M. Monday things went from bad to worse as high winds blew embers into town. They rapidly went from worse to nightmare.

A friend of mine in Gatlinburg was at home Monday night. She had watched and photographed the situation all day. Around 8 P.M. firefighters knocked on her door and told her she had to leave immediately. The fire was all around her. She is currently safe in North Carolina, one of more than 14,000 forced to flee at the last minute.

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Weather.com.

I don’t recall a fire hitting a town like this in my lifetime. Links to a couple of news sites with pictures:

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Weather.com

Aerial tour

Hundreds of home are gone. Hotels, resorts, schools, churches, cultural centers, tourist attractions, shops, and more are burned to the foundations. Several people are dead, dozens injured. The scenic landscape is changed for a generation.

Rain is falling now in the valleys and firemen and Guardsmen work to contain what remains of the conflagration. Yet the damage done is horrific.

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Weather.com.

If you’re looking for a charity to donate to this Christmas, consider the people of Gatlinburg. They need help right now and will be grateful for it. And pray for more rain in the South.

Mr. Ross Goes To Washington

13 Sunday Nov 2016

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America, England, fire, government, history, Robert Ross, War of 1812, Washington

The 2016 election is over and January will see a new host of politicians headed to Washington. Some suggest real and needed change is coming. I will believe that when I see it. However I would like to share some happy memories about a more honest approach to D.C.

Most do not remember the name of Robert Ross. He was not a terribly popular figure in his time, especially in America. And his time has long since faded into the history books.  Maj. Gen. Ross was for a short time the commander of the British army during the War of 1812. That fratricidal nonsense gave us two things: a catchy tune by Johnny Horton* and a lesson on handling the American Capital. The latter was courtesy of Ross.

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Ross. U.S. Capitol Historical Society.

Ross was born in Ireland ten years before the American Revolution. He led a distinguished military career which culminated in his command of British forces on the east coast of America. He was killed just prior to the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814. This was just after his greatest success: The Burning of Washington, D.C.

 

On August 24, 1814 Ross and his men entered into Washington with the most noble of intentions, to level the place. The British torched the White House, the Capitol and numerous other government buildings. Interestingly, and greatly reflecting on Ross’s high character, he largely left private property alone. He was also persuaded to preserve benign public structures (most notably the Patent Office).

Negotiations also saved nearby non-government towns. They went something like this: Americans: “Please don’t burn our town.” British: “Okay”.

The very next day a hurricane came in from the Atlantic. The “storm that saved Washington” really didn’t. While it extinguished the flames, it caused equally substantial damage. For example, it took out the Patent building spared the day before by Ross. Admiral Sir George Cockburn regarded the storm as God’s assistance in cleansing the filth on the Potomac. Perhaps he foresaw what would eventually take shape there over the next two centuries.

And the growth came, just as nature springs back to life following a forest fire with greater vigor. From the ashes and water leapt one of the most insane conclaves of democratic tyranny ever known on Earth. From the ruins came a rebuilt government with laws, legions, and regulations enough to paper the globe.

Still, for his part in history, we may thank General Ross. For America’s official position, there are no hard feelings against the man. His portrait hangs in the Capitol building with honor. What happens in D.C. rarely ever makes sense. Yet for us, the freedom-minded, the lesson is simple: as a matter of last resort fire is the ultimate anti-septic.

*Horton’s famed The Battle of New Orleans is part of Americana. He made a lesser known version of the same name for the British, the lyrics essentially reversed. Ray Stevens updated the song following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Airspace and Airheads

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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America, education, fire, free-speech, freedom, idiocy, immigration, ISIS, Massachusetts, Paul Revere, PC, politicians, Russia, Turkey, Twitter, War, Woodchucks

ISIS is supposedly our enemy – when we’re not funding and training them. They shoot theater patrons and bomb stadiums when they’re not fighting our enemy (or friend) in Syria … or something.  Very complicated.  Very stupid.  Every other Wednesday we are at war with them.  We bomb hospitals like they bomb soccer games thus demonstrating our moral superiority.

Russia recently began bombing the daylights out of ISIS’s military operations in Syria.  To be sure, Putin has ulterior political motives but his are probably not as murky nor schizophrenic as ours.

Turkey shot down a Russian plane it said had violated Turkish airspace.  Russia disputes the claim.  Washington, never wanting to miss a good time, has sent Air Force F-15s to Turkey to help fight the threat of Russia, which fights the threat of ISIS, which is crossing some stretch of the Texas border into the U.S. right now.

Geo. Washington, in his Farewell Address, 1796, referred to this as the “insidious wiles of foreign influence.” Of course, he would neither recognize nor understand what his homeland as descended into these days.  He might ask that his name be removed from the national capital (“Moronia” might be more appropriate).

Odds are there is more intelligence (far more) in Moscow and in Ankara than in D.C.; things should cool down sufficiently to prevent a sprouting of the giant mushrooms.

If intelligence is lacking in D.C., then it is utterly lost around metro Boston. At least as far as local government schooling is concerned.

In Revere, a North shore suburb, the high school cheerleading captain, Caley Godino, was kicked off the squad after some pitiful nitwits found one of her Tweets “offensive.”  It seems Caley Tweeted, “When only 10 percent of Revere votes for mayor cause the other 90 percent isn’t legal,” as part of a political discussion about illegal immigration. [Revere’s population is about 30% foreign-born].

Local school superintendent and head Nazi in charge, Dianne Kelly, said of Caley’s horrible, racist, offensive (free) speech, “If you’re going to stand up and say something that other people will find offensive- than you need to be prepared to deal with the ramifications of that.”

I see nothing racist in her tweet. Hyperbole I sense. A hint of truth perhaps. Nothing to offend any reasonable person. Then again, the reasonable seem few and far between.

People find everything offensive today.  I’m sure some in Revere find the town’s namesake, Paul Revere, offensive – he was opposed to the illegal invasions of his day (one Tweet if by land, two if …). Many are offended by the existence of white people.  Caley is likely offended she’s not a captain anymore.  Kelly is probably offended Caley is young, attractive and popular (and not PC). I find Kelly a bit offensive; she appears to be a self-righteous Marxist crossbred with a woodchuck.

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See what I mean?  Maybe it’s the lighting.  Picture (first one) courtesy of the Revere Ministry of Indoctrination.

By the way, Herr Woodchuck can be reached at 781-286-8226 should you have any comments for her.  Just don’t offend her tiny sensibilities.  I won’t call because I would say something like, “Go to hell, you communist bitch.”  Very insensitive. They might make me an honorary cheerleader just so they could kick me off the squad.

I hope young Caley has learned her lesson: American government schools, where immigration law breaking is tolerated but free speech is not, are a joke and not worth attending.  I would tell her to get a GED and be done with the foolishness.  She might want to consider suing – The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education could help.

Dropping out of the failed system would do her better than any court action. Should she attend college she will find the same hypersensitivity and PC BS – writ large. Maybe she could get an education provided all the silly snowflakes are locked up in their safe places.

I hope this article is not offensive to woodchucks, not all of whom are communists. I’m sure not all educrats are stupid. I’m sure everyone in Washington is. Polys, please don’t get up nuked. Caley, do not give in.

Burning Down the House

03 Wednesday Jun 2015

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1983’s Burning Down the House by Talking Heads was a bizarre, new-wavy love song of sorts; the pseudo cultural ramblings of an odd man for some 80’s woman.  Maybe a woman like Caitlyn Jenner – hey, it’s America.

Early yesterday morning the newly built luxury home of a hundred or more elderly people in suburban (Augusta) Georgia burned down. Ninety-one year old Dorothy Carpenter died in the fire.

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The damage is as bad as one would expect from the Chronicle’s photograph.

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The Fire Department did a fantastic job and saves dozens of lives.  An 82-year-old woman was pulled alive and in relatively good shape from the rubble seven hours later. Miracles do happen today, praise God.

County, State and BATFE officials have just began their investigation.  At a preliminary news conference the Fire Chief stated the fire started big and spread fast.  Thus, the massive damage to the structure.  I have no idea what started the conflagration but two theories stand out – arson or a mechanical/electrical failure.

County officials were quick to point out the building was designed to code and that a certificate of occupancy was issued prior to the recent opening.  The resort has only been in business a few months.

I suspect the structure was not up to code or either the code is grossly inadequate.  I will leave further discussion until after the investigation.  I will say this: my gym is next door and I watched the place go up.  Like so many modern buildings, it was built seemingly overnight.  It was like the Two Lazy Pigs Construction Company threw it up of twigs and straw – both flammable.

I understand places like this charge an arm and a leg in way of rent for the convenience, etc. offered by the home.  This incident may cause some to think twice about placing a loved one in such abode rather than allowing them to live with their family.

The loss of life and memories is regrettable.  The fact this wasn’t much worse is amazing.

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