The Notre Dame Fire, comment on

I have had a long career in construction, renovation, and modernization of old buildings.  That career carried me through the Corps of Engineers, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the VA.  None of my projects were as historic as Notre Dame, none so old, none so revered.  But all of them incorporated extensive measures of fire prevention.  Continuous daily inspections, constant attention to trash accumulations, and any possibility of fire starting in a structure with it's integral fire protection systems down, were a HUGE worry for me.  Not a joke or bureaucratic BS.  It was my custom to walk the job after hours to be certain the site was safe and secure.  My responsibility, one I took very seriously.

'Hot Work' required special permits, planning and scheduling.  Fire Watches were established, equipment and personnel deployed, sensors and alarms jury rigged.  Smoke detectors and temperature rise devices put in place.  Combustibles removed as a regular part of housekeeping on the work site.
Sometimes the seven 'P's hindered the work, but by and large, we succeeded.

So, forgive me if I doubt the official story . . . that this was an 'accidental' fire.  Notre Dame was no neighborhood Kwik-Lube convenience store.Given the historic, cultural, architectural, age and moral importance of  the Cathedral . . . nobody took care to be sure of its safety and security? There was no 'Me'?  An utterly irreplaceable icon and they allowed workers to run amok?  Trash and combustibles to accumulate?  No Paris Fire Department liaison?  As Lame Duck as I am, as lazy, incompetent civil servant as you'd find, we never lost a building or a ship.  So 'scuse me!

Further, I DO NOT ACCEPT this crap about this being God's Judgement.  Time to remember GOD HAS ENEMIES!

-4Branch

"......to have a fire on the roof of Notre-Dame, someone had to bring something there, and lit it up."

Via Kirk 

Here is the latest update from Maxime Lépante, our French correspondent in France (emphasis is mine):

This is an update about what we know today about the fire that destroyed the roof and parts of the vaults of Notre-Dame:

1) Restoration work hadn’t started on the roof. The scaffolding were still being put in place. The architect in chief of the “Monuments Historiques” (“Historical Monuments”, the administration that maintains and repairs monuments in France), Philippe Villeneuve, who was responsible for the refurbishing of the spire of Notre-Dame, has stated that : “Work had not started yet, scaffoldings were still being built” 

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Pennsylvania Governor Calls for Total Ban on all Semi-Automatic Weapons

Via Hard Right

Just one day after a gun-rights rally in Pittsburgh that attracted hundreds of gun owners protesting the city’s proposed “assault weapons” ban, Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf voiced his support for a complete ban on all semi-automatic weapons.

When asked by KDKR Newsradio host Larry Richert whether the state of Pennsylvania should restrict or eliminate semi-automatic weapons, Gov. Wolf responded, “I think they should. I support that. Those are the weapons that killed those innocent people in Squirrel Hill and have done so much damage in schools and in places all around the country. We shouldn’t have those [guns].”

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Rolling Stone Magazine Argues Rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral Shouldn't Reflect France's White/Catholic History, But Its Multicultural (Muslim) Future

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The horrible fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral, the magnificent 800-year-old structure serving as a beautiful symbol of western civilization, is still smoldering. Yet there exists those who argue it shouldn’t be rebuilt to its original form, because of the large Muslim population now residing in France.

And, of course, anyone who notices this large Muslim population is immediately an Islamophobe or a member of the far-right… [How Should France Rebuild Notre Dame?: Much of the structure survived the blaze — but as rebuilding efforts move forward, the country will be left with a big question: What does the cathedral mean to 21st-century France?, Rolling Stone, April 16, 2019]:

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KALASH BASH TX 2019

Brandon went to the Sam Davis Youth Camp for many years with Dixie.

"My friend Dr. Clyde Wilson suggests that our public colleges (and probably many of our public schools) should be napalmed."

 

"......the conjunction of CRT with Cultural Marxist theory .......is a multifaceted Revolution against both God and Man, against the Divine Positive Law and against the very laws of God-given Nature."

 Back last year an OpEd piece showed up in The [Raleigh NC] News & Observer by one Professor John Biewen, who is Audio Program Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In his essay Biewen explained: “White supremacy today is not mainly about the guys with Tiki torches. It’s about power, and systemic patterns of racial advantage that were baked into our institutions – institutions that we’ve never fundamentally reformed…. Whiteness, like blackness and the other ‘races,’ is a fiction, invented to justify and explain exploitation. That fiction and its outgrowth, white supremacy, were central organizing principles in the building of the United States.”

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The Treasonous Left and the Coming Civil War?

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Civil War Two is rapidly emerging as an inevitable reality, given that deranged Leftists have now convincingly demonstrated they cannot coexist with anyone else in a civil society. Left-wing operatives (lawmakers, fake news journo-terrorists and deep state actors) are lawless liars, frauds, hoaxers and destroyers of civilization. They steal elections, push fake news narratives, brainwash the public with deliberate lies and indoctrinate children with hatred for their own country. They are pedophiles, child traffickers, charlatans and tyrants. The Left, as I’ve said before, is a “suicide cult,” and they will not stop until they have criminalized, marginalized or mass murdered everyone who opposes their authoritarian rule. (Face it: Two years ago you wouldn’t have believed this, but now you know it’s true.)

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Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Passes NC Legislature!

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Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly this week, and now heads to Governor Roy Cooper, who has not indicated what action he will take on the bill. The Governor can sign the bill into law, allow it to go into effect without his signature, or veto the bill and send it back to the General Assembly for a possible override vote.

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Comment on: NOTRE DAME: Some thoughts

Just as 9/11 was not the first attack on the Twin Towers, this was not the first attempted to destroy Europe's most magnificent cathedral. The Muslims have been attacking and desecrating churches and Christian shrines for years and in the past two years it has only accelerated. Anyone who thinks Western Europe can survive this assault as a secular "tolerant" society is an ignorant fool.

Islam has no interest whatsoever in tolerance or secularism only conquest, destruction and subjugation. Its presence and purpose in Europe is no different now than it was in the 700s at the Battle of Tours or the 1600's at The Gates of Vienna.

Islam is not just a foreign incompatible ideology. It is an infectious disease, a malignancy that will have to be excised by force, political correctness and tolerance be damned.

Just as when American settlers moved west there was no peace until they brought the vermin under control, both the four legged and two legged kind. There will be no peace in Europe until the Europeans first realize that they are facing a war of extinction and then undertake the measures necessary to remove the vermin.

Sadly at this point the French appear to have lost all the courage of Charles Martel. Only the central Europeans are showing the courage to reject the invaders. Perhaps the spirit of Jan III Sobieski still lives and it's going to take the Polish cavalry to save Europe from its own folly once again.

--JWMJR

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