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by | March 1, 2011

Sacramento Fire Captain Gene Dibble Claims Staff Cuts Are To Blame For Back Injury

Meet Captain Gene Dibble of the Sacramento Fire Department. Captain Dibble and his men responded to a fire in a vacant house on February 26, 2011.

A ladder was set up and a team of fire fighters were going up on the roof to begin cutting holes which allow hot gases and smoke to escape. This is a practice known as “venting the roof” which allows dangerous smoke and any toxic gases to escape, thus making it safer for fire personnel to enter the structure and fight the fire or save lives.

Captain Dibble explains in several news stories that “he was at the top of a ladder when it kicked out. He fell about 12 feet and landing on the air pack he wears on his back.”

What Captain Dibble means when saying the ladder “kicked out” is that essentially he was at the top of the ladder when the bottom of the ladder slid outward away from the structure, thus throwing Captain Dibble off of the top of the ladder and to the ground.

Captain Dibble went on to say “Things happen. Fire ground is chaotic. We try to bring order into chaos and make things happen so we get a successful outcome…it doesn’t always work out, but that doesn’t mean you stop trying.”

The italicized sections of this article came from a news article that came out on February 27, 2011 and can be read here at Fox 40, Sacramento.

Amazingly enough, Captain Dibble seemed to have a different story one short day later, and the story was re-reported by CBS 13, Sacramento.

In the CBS News story that is nothing more than a hit piece, Captain Dibble now says that the reason he fell off of the ladder is because the Sacramento Fire Department is short of staff because of budget cuts.

Its pretty clear that Captain Dibble’s change of heart (and story) came after talking to his union and his fellow union lackey firemen.

But wait, there is more to this story.

Captain Dibble was interviewed on camera for the CBS story. The video can be seen here at CBS 13 Sacramento.

In the video, the first thing that I noticed was that during the video excerpts shot at the scene of the fire, virtually ALL of the ladders were set up improperly.

In fact in one shot you can see a fire fighter descending the ladder in the driveway and struggling to see the rungs of the ladder because the ladder is not steep enough.

Now I am no ladder expert, but I do know that the proper ratio for ladder set up is 1 to 4. This means that for every four feet of vertical wall, the ladder should be one foot away from the wall. So if the wall were twelve feet high, the base of the ladder would be three feet away from the wall.

In the video, the ladders are not even as steep as an average household staircase. This causes a teeter totter effect when the weight at the top of the ladder exceeds both the downward force on the ladder and the weight of the ladder itself.

The other thing I noticed about the video is that Captain Dibble is a rather large man. In fact, he appears to be teetering on the brink of being downright obese.

Now it doesn’t take Sir Isaac Newton to understand the physics involved here.

You have an incredibly fat man (Captain Dibble) wearing upwards of 100 pounds of fire fighting gear climbing a ladder that for all intents and purposes would be better suited as teeter totter.

Something has to give. Eventually gravity is going to win, and that’s exactly what happened to Captain Dibble.

Captain Dibble’s accident had absolutely nothing to do with lack of personnel. It had everything to do with complacency, stupidity and Captain Dibble being overweight. Nothing more.

OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration should be sent a copy of the video to be used as a “Don’t let this happen to you” lesson for proper ladder use in the workplace.

As for Captain Dibble, he should be ashamed of himself for allowing his union to use him as a pawn in a sick game of chess with they are playing with the state of California and the tax payers.

If I had any advice for Captain Dibble, it would be to go on a diet, stay on the ground and let the younger, leaner fire personnel handle the ladder climbing. By the way Nice rack Captain Dibble. Your tits are bigger than my girlfriends. JD

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by | February 18, 2011

Cops Bust Huge Cockfighting Operation in California

Welcome to Mexifornia, where lawlessness is the word of the day and people from every corner of the planet come to disregard the law and the American way of life. Where you can carry on day to day life as if your still living in the third word country from whence you came, and get the ACLU to defend your right to do so.

Two men are under arrest and nearly 250 birds euthanized in connection with a large cockfighting operation, according to El Dorado County officials.

The operation was discovered after a routine traffic stop on Sunday in Diamond Springs. El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over a pick up truck and noticed a suspicious box in the back of the truck.

When deputies opened the box, they found two roosters with injuries consistent with cockfighting. They also found several metal blades known as “slashers” that are typically strapped to the legs of fighting roosters.

Deputies arrested the driver, Saul Cuevas Ayala, and passenger, Rogelio Reyes-Higareda, on charges associated with cockfighting.
Later that day, deputies and Animal Service Officers served a search warrant at Ayala’s

Grass Valley home and uncovered what officials are calling a fairly large scale cockfighting operation. They found nearly 250 game birds and fighting implements.
Unfortunately, none of the birds connected with the raid over the weekend in El Dorado

County could be saved. “The birds were humanely euthanized because they were either in bad shape physically or their behavior was too aggressive for them to be rehabilitated,” said Henry Brzezinski, Chief of Animal Services. The investigation is ongoing.

According to Brzezinski, hidden cockfighting operations in El Dorado County communities and other rural areas of the Sacramento region are more common than most people realize.

States surrounding California consider cockfighting to be a felony offense, California considers it a misdemeanor. “This may be one of the reasons why we are seeing more cockfighting operations here,” said Brzezinski.

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by | March 3, 2010

Chelsea King Case Demonstrates the complete Breakdown of the California Legal System

Dear America, this is how it works here in California. You have a bunch of union lackys that are absolutely worthless. These people cannot survive in the private sector because they are a bunch of excuse making losers that have a reason and an excuse as to why they shouldn’t have to do their jobs.

In virtually every branch of California state government, unions are in complete control of every aspect of how the state is run. Imagine a much larger version of General Motors. This is exactly why the state is in financial ruin and the very same reason that General motors failed . . . BECAUSE OF THE UNIONS!

John Albert Gardner, this rotten piece of excrement that got a minimal sentence because of a liberal legal system, was on the police radar for other molestation charges and a suspicion in another young lady that disappeared.

That’s right. Why did this happen? Because the state of California is so bloated with worthless personnel that it can no longer manage itself from Sacramento. Its an absolute travesty.

You have police unions that tell their rank and file that its not their job to arrest and deport illegal aliens, fire departments that keep the overtime going by making sure that there is never enough firemen, prison guard unions that make sure there are plenty of criminals and not enough jails, teachers unions that make sure that they pass along enough criminals to keep all the above busy for life, and Sacramento, which is hell bent on running the state into the socialist abyss in order to keep their own jobs.

California is doomed. The state is full of welfare recipients disguised as firemen, police, teachers, prison guards and every other branch of government that is unionized and pre-programmed to pass the work onto the next guy.

Because of this broken system, California and its liberal legal system, which thinks that a pizza thief should get 50 years while a pedophile should only get six years is destine to fail.

Judges negate any initiatives passed by vote by the people. Attempts to make the system tougher on all of the miscreants that have invaded the decent people of California are routinely struck down by the socialist courts.

When will it end? When the state of California files for bankruptcy and busts out the very unions that have created a system that is completely broken and allows losers and fat stupid people to run these precious arteries of the California government that are supposed to safety for the people.

Let Chelsea King be a martyr. Let here memory be a legacy left on California law enforcement and the state as an example of what is not supposed to happen in the first place.

My heart goes out to the family of Chelsea King. This poor kid is gone. Her blood is not only on the hands of John Gardner, but on the state of California itself, and all the law agencies that completely dropped the ball because it was more important to them to NOT do what they were hired to do in the first place. Protect Chelsea King. JD

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by | February 28, 2010

California greater risk than Greece Says J.P. Morgan Chase

funny Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece’s current debt woes.

Everyone knows that California is a greater risk financially than Greece. The socialist machine in Sacramento will simply take any monies from any source and spend it on welfare and illegal immigrants. J.P. Morgan Chase understands this.

California is broken. Its one of the reasons I named this site BrokenCountry.Com. Its been broken for more than 25 years, since the hippies from the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco decided to run for office.

These socialist assholes have ruined California and turned the state into a mecca for degenerates and low lives from every corner of the planet. Now the state is bankrupt because these same socialist spend every penny sent to Sacramento on their unions, which run the state, and their social programs that they create to ensure that they are re-elected. JD

Mr Dimon told investors at the Wall Street bank’s annual meeting that “there could be contagion” if a state the size of California, the biggest of the United States, had problems making debt repayments. “Greece itself would not be an issue for this company, nor would any other country,” said Mr Dimon. “We don’t really foresee the European Union coming apart.” The senior banker said that JP Morgan Chase and other US rivals are largely immune from the European debt crisis, as the risks have largely been hedged.

California however poses more of a risk, given the state’s $20bn (£13.1bn) budget deficit, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is desperately trying to reduce.

Earlier this week, the state’s legislature passed bills that will cut the deficit by $2.8bn through budget cuts and other measures. However the former Hollywood film star turned politician is looking for $8.9bn of cuts over the next 16 months, and is also hoping for as much as $7bn of handouts from the federal government.

Earlier this week, John Chiang, the state’s controller, said that if a workable plan to reduce the deficit and increase cash levels is not reached soon, he will have to return to issuing IOU’s, forcing state workers to take additional unpaid leave and potentially freezing spending.

Last summer, California issued $3bn of IOU’s to creditors including residents owed tax refunds as a way of staving off a cash crisis.

“I can’t write checks without money; that’s against the law. My main goal is to keep the state afloat, but I won’t be able to do it without the help of new legislation,” said Mr Chiang.

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by | February 25, 2010

California Assembly passes resolution for ‘Cuss Free Week’

So this is one of the pressing, important issues that faces California today. Whether or not people are cussing. Geez Louise, the state is bankrupt, but the Mamalukes that run the state of California are worried about people cussing.

We have good reason to cuss Damn it. Mostly because you idiots in Sacramento have ruined the state of California with your socialist policy that has turned the state into a mecca for lazy ass people and illegal aliens to come glom off of the welfare system and all the other built in freebies you assholes have created.

Feeling a little salty? Better get it out of your system while you can.

Amid the ongoing — and occasionally tense — debate over how to clean up California’s budget mess, lawmakers have taken time out to tidy something else almost as unmanageable: our language. This morning, the Assembly approved a ceremonial resolution turning the first week of March into “Cuss Free Week.”

Once the Senate follows suit, say good-bye to four-letter words, a few choice compound words and probably certain gestures, too. Not that police officers will be waiting with soap. That’s isn’t the point.

According to sponsors of the measure — inspired by a Southern California teen whose creation of a “no cussing” school club sparked an international movement — it’s more about minding the delicate sensibilities of those around you. Like your grandmother.

“When we’re at our grandmother’s house,” said Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada/Flintridge, “we have respect and decorum.”

Are there more important things on government’s agenda right now? Sure, Portantino concedes. But maybe a little civility is just the prescription to help “break through that log jam.”

To keep folks honest, Portantino is handing out no-cuss jars to all 120 legislative offices in the Capitol — and to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Every time a naughty word slips out, a few coins get dropped in.

How’s that for a deficit-reduction strategy?

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