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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. It is the last day of July.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is Thursday, the thirty first, and the quick word
about tomorrow where we do ask Handle anything. We do
that every Friday, and it's personal questions that I answer
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We didn't do it for a week because you were
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Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, we're doing all right. I went through all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was gone yesterday, so I have to do a
second pass on them.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But I think people should call today.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, but we've got to, you know, sometime. If you
don't do it, then we just don't do it. Unfortunately,
this is callers driven, and that's why I don't take
phone calls on the show, because frankly, I don't want
your opinion.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I barely want mine. I certainly don't want Neils. Oh No,
there's not a whole lot of room for reason on
the program. I could do. That is absolutely correct.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I want to tell you about a bill that passed
in twenty twenty two, Senate Bill nine. Now you may
not know the number, but you certainly know what it does.
Senate Bill nine was the bill that was passed. So
anybody living in California that owns a single lot residence,
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single family home on a piece of land, can split
the lot, assuming that there's room, and actually build multiple
dwellings an apartment building if you were not only just
add an audack in the backyard, which by law you're
allowed to build now and local authorities can't stop you,
which heretofore before that was passed.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You couldn't do.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Now you can do multiple story or multiple unit dwellings.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It increases the number of people and increases the density,
and we just don't have enough houses, all right. So
with that being said, keep that in mind. We had
the Palisades and the Eton fires. Sixteen thousand structures, most
of which were houses, were destroyed. And now, just at
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the very start, as plans are coming in and permits
are being given, I'm talking about small numbers. Elected officials
are calling for stricter limits on how many new homes
can be added to neighborhoods that burned. Los Angeles Mayor
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Karen Bass says, you know what, as far as allowing
those extra units, when it comes to Pacific Palisades, you
know what, we shouldn't. We should have an exemption to
that law. Wait a minute, why an exemption to the law. Well,
here are a couple of reasons. First of all, it's
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a dangerous place in the sense that it's hard to
get in out of. If you look at Pacific Palisades,
there really was only one way out, and you had
people that burnt up. You saw those cars, the people
that die just couldn't get out, and one of the
reasons is there weren't multiple ways to get out.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So it's more dangerous and it's a fire risk, and
therefore building additional units makes it even more dangerous. And
that's what Karen ban Karen Bess said. By the way,
Gavin Newsom is right on top of that too. Gavin Newsom,
as a matter of fact, was a big proponent.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Of Senate Bill nine.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, he plans to issue an executive order allowing local
governments to limit the laws application in high severity burn areas.
But okay, but that's only Pacific Palisades. Now, let's talk
about other areas throughout California. High burn areas are now
almost all the areas in California. If you look at
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your insurance rates, and now where you start determining where
you're going to allow those multiple units being built and
lots being split, and where you're not.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The executive order says you local officials.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You make the decision, but you're allowed to exempt certain
areas from those multiple unit laws.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That where you can build. And here's what is going on.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
They are high burn areas, the streets are narrow and
Pacific Palisades. Therefore, Pacific Palisades should be exempt. By the way,
they don't mention that the Palisades, the people that own
property there are rich and they are white, and on
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its face, you go, hmm, isn't that interesting? And I
think underlying that is one of the big reasons. Bass
said in a written statement, California desperately needs more housing,
but the state neighbors could not have foreseen the impact
on the Palisades community as it works to rebuild. So
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we have to look at how dangerous the Palisades will
be if it is rebuilt with multiple units. Now and
now it gets easy because you're not just splitting it
and building a property next door.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You've got all the land.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
If you owned a piece of property there, if you
and a house that burned up, and the palisade probably did.
Now you have an empty piece of land, and why
not build multiple units effectively become an apartment owner. And
what the Karen Bass and what local local councils are
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saying is no, no, we don't want we don't want
that to happen in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, you know life is fair, isn't it. We're sure?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Okay, now we have we in the state of California,
we have a sanctuary policy or a sanctuary state. The
city of Los Angeles is a sanctuary city. The LAPD
is well, it is a sanctuary LAPD police force. It
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does not cooperate with federal law enforcement. It does not
give ICE information about who's being released. It used to
years ago, it would when someone was arrested and even
suspected of being an illegal migrant, ICE was called and
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was told, Okay, this guy is going to be released
at this time from this prison, and ICE would be
sitting there and waiting. Well because of political pressure, of course,
those days are gone, and it's a fight between California
and virtually any federal agency, particularly ICE, and of course
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the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So here is a story I want to share with you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The LAPD arrest did Jose waz By CEO in March.
He was accused of threatening his ex wife's new boyfriend,
and he spent twenty four hours in jail, less than
twenty four hours, and they decided not to press charges
because there wasn't enough evidence. That twenty four hour stay
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triggered his deportation three months later. Now, how is that possible?
Because there's no cooperation at all. Well, that stay in prison.
Put this thirty five year old undocumented Mexican on the
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radar with ICE, and ICE picked him up and deported him. Now,
while that happened, the LAPD is telling and this will
the last several months, We're going to reassure the public.
The department has very strict limits on cooper reading with
immigration officials. That is true, very strict limits. So how
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did they get on the radar?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Aha?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is where ICE has the upper hand and can
pick up people who are have been picked up by
the LAPD, and the LAPD does not cooperate. He gets
finger printed, right, Okay, The fingerprint immediately pings the Pacific
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Enforcement Response Center, an ICE facility in Orange County. You know,
these agencies talked to one another and this is automatic.
Anybody who has picked up it goes straight to the
Pacific Enforcement Response Center and that puts people.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
On the radar.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And what I did is say, Aha, we've got a
guy who was picked up, don't know if he's illegal
or not. And they run him through the system and
guess what, He's been deported three times, He's come over
the country, come back three times.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
This is all a felony. And even though when he was.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Released, well, first of all, the cops couldn't even ask
him if he was illegal.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
They can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And under a Special Order forty which is passed nineteen
seventy nine, the cops cannot stop someone just on the
basis of looking like their Latino and ask whether or
not they are illegal, look at their legal status in
the United States. You can't do that anymore. But you
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can't take their fingerprints when you're arrested. When they're arrested,
of course they take their fingerprints. Does that go to
a national database. It goes to the national database, including
the Pacific Enforcement Responsive Center Response Center, which is an
ICE facility in Orange County. And so the computer told
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him we've got a guy. It ran through the system
with his name, and guess what.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It pops up. He's been deported three.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Times and they were able to pick him up and
deport him now for the fourth time. And I don't
think he's coming back. If he does, it happens all
over again, although it's much much stricter now. So this
is the LAPED actually cooperating. Well, you've got some people
in the activist community that are screaming saying, oh, you
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can't do this. We have to redo our entire philosophy
and our entire policy. And I'm thinking, what do you do?
Do you not share with the Fed's fingerprints anymore? Does
the database simply disappear now because it turns out that
an illegal migrant is being his fingerprints? Go to this
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data center like all of ours do a national data base,
but illegal migrants they should be exempt because you can't
cooperate with Ice.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Come on, guys, it's insanity. All of it is insanity.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm going to quit everything. I'm going to get out
of this country. I can't stand it, at least for
this segment. However, the next segment, I'm staying because it
is a fun segment. This segment is just fun. Do
you have kids to go to Sleepway Camp? Did you
go to Sleepway Camp for the summer? And I did
a couple of times. And this is a thing. I
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didn't know that this existed. This is an article out
of the Wall Street Journal. And what is the thing?
Parents sneaking food and candy to their kids. But wait
a minute, they're not allowed to do that, right, Well,
this becomes smuggling. On the same level that the car
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tells smuggle drugs into the country. It is a tradition
that goes back Camper's rolling, having rolled pringle tubes into towels,
stuffing candy into tissue boxes, sliced open tennis balls, hiding
the goods and laundry back bags, lock boxes, pillowcases. But
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that's just the easy stuff. Oh man, it gets so
much better than that. First of all, why would the
administrators go so crazy and not allow any food or
any candy to be brought in. Well, there's a good
reason for it, and that is that the abundance of
food found in bunks. If there's too much of them,
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we're talking to an infestation of mice allergic reaction to nuts.
Some kids have, so they're pretty careful and each generation
devises something new.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, one of the fun ones.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Amazon and Etsy have these sunblock and hairspray cans and
tubes that are hallowed out and they're meant to keep
valuables in Like when you go to the beach and
you put your watch.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And your keys in it, and it just looks like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A tin, or it looks like a container of hairspray
or sunblock.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And those are being used to sneak in candy.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
There was a Harry Potter book hallowed out and fill
with M and ms.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Now that is fun. That is smuggling on a high level.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Also, it ruins the Harry Potter book, which is probably
a lot more money than the candy. But you've got
to have those kids get their candy and their snacks
even when they're not allowed. And so why would parents
risk getting on the wrong side of camp law. You
do this enough, they throw the kid out.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Thrown out of camp, not because of that, because I
was such a jerk and I mouthed off too much
and wouldn't pay attention to anybody. Would a shock right
as I got thrown out of camp. Also got tossed
out of the Boy Scouts too. I think I told
you that story. Yeah, there's I was not very cooperative.
What a shocker.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, here's why parents do it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And the Wall Street Journal did a whole thing on
and interviewed a lot of parents on this. One of
the reasons is to make the kids feel like they're
not away from home, but they are away from home.
That's the whole point of sleep away camps is to
get the kids, and the parents feel like, well, I've
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got to do something for my kids. So we're still connected.
The point is to be disconnected. No phone calls. You
can write a letter. Does anybody write letters anymore? No?
Do you bring your computer? Well, they don't want you to,
and no internet access. You're there to do the fun
stuff that kids do. You're there to swim, You're there
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to do archery and these communal tables and eat bad food,
and to bully.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The fat kids and the kids who have.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Pimples and make them feel so bad they become suicidal.
That's the whole point of sleep away camp. And what
these parents are doing is doing the connection. Then there's
some fun ones too. During these interview one camper last
year brought two burner phones into camp. One they got
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and then they figure they got the burner phone.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
He had another one.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That he was able to use during the entire camp season.
That is a really good, a good bright kid. And
then there are stuff that's in Teddy Bears, and then
there's stuff that is in what pillowcases, what else? Just
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it goes on and on. This article just keeps on
going and going. I think this is the most fun thing. Ever,
I send my kids to sleep away camp and the
thought of even talking to them for those couple of weeks,
why would I do that?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Why would I this? The whole point is to get
rid of.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Them, all right, that's the fun one. Now getting very
serious for a moment, and this one is a heartbreaker.
And I don't care where you sit politically on the
Hamas Israel war, doesn't matter which side you're on. Watching
the starvation that's going on in Gaza is just beyond comprehension,
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especially when you look at a Jewish state that was
created out of the Holocaust doing this to a people. Now,
it was the war legitimate. Absolutely, Hamas did attack Israel,
There's no question about it. It was a terrorist attack.
It was the worst loss of life in Israel among
the populations since the war, since World War Two. And
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Israel has every right to go against Hamas, and unfortunately
people are going to die because Ramas embeds itself in
the population. Interesting, there was a fascinating interview yesterday and
it was about the war. And again I think it
was ram Emmanuel who was interviewed, and he said, as
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he compared Hamas and Israel, he said, Israel uses its
weapons to protect its people. Hamas uses its people to
protect the weapons.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
And that was right on.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But let me give you an idea of what is
happening when we talk about the starvation.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You can buy food in gaza. There is food for sale.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Now this is black market stuff that comes off of
aid that somehow gets on the market.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But this happens all the time. Sugar, which used to
be eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Cents is American dollars eighty nine cents for akilo two
point two pounds, is now one hundred and six dollars
for the same two point two pounds. Onions, which used
to be fifty nine cents for akilo two point two pounds,
thirty four dollars baby formula that runs almost one hundred
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dollars per pound. Gasoline diesel, which there are some people
that have, for example generators that take diesel. Diesel used
to call it was still expensive a dollar eighty seven
per liter, so it's four point two figure about seven
eight bucks for a gallon.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Today it is.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Thirty six dollars per liter, just about one hundred and
twenty five dollars per gallon. No one can afford this,
no one. It just goes on and on and on,
and starvation has hit, there is no question about it.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Now this fluctuates like crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Why would food that was one hundred dollars the next
day be thirty dollars and then go back to eighty dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It all has to do with how much food is
allowed into gaza.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It all has to do with humanitarian that's allowed in,
the humanitarian aid that's allowed in. Israel controls that they
cut off the access to aid they allow it, they
cut it off, and Israel is going to become a
parie estate. Macron, just recognize Palestine as a state. You've
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got Canada just about to do it. And these are countries,
Allied countries, the Western World, countries that would not recognize Palestine,
Palestine as a state. They're doing it, and Israel is
shooting self in the foot, and unfortunately that's just a
foot injury. The other part of it is they're starving
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those children to death, and man, things have got to change,
all right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're done, guys.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
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