Here's a headline that will be in the news for the next few days, but that no one will care about: THE ENTIRE FUCKING SOUTHWEST IS ON FIRE. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. 250,000 people have been evacuated from the San Diego area as wildfires are spreading like, well, wildfires.
Photo: Courtesy of CNN
The only thing that they mayor of San Diego had to say to America was "It looks as though a lot of people are going to lose their homes". What?!?
At this point I would expect her to say something like "For the love of christ, send us some freaking help!". But in fact, with over 1000 fire engines on their way, there is no one left to help, with other southwestern states dealing with their own wildfires, some of which have been raging for what seems like years.
At what point do we call this a crisis? At what point do we send in the national guard? The army? FEMA? Anyone?
How many people have to be displaced? 250,000 seems like enough. Do we need to see one million before anything can be done?
It's 2007, for fuck's sake, by now we should be able to keep our country from catching fire!
In the meantime, there's another headline: THE ENTIRE FUCKING SOUTHEAST HAS NO WATER. Droughts are pretty much destroying Georgia, and the government is locked in debate at to release strategic federal water reserves to the people who WILL SOON BE DYING if this unseasonably hot October weather continues.
Have we really come to a point at which beaurocracy keeps us from helping people who are in dire need? Do we need levees to burst before we jump to action?
Call your damn senators, and tell them to send fire trucks and bottled water. You hear me, Nestle Waters Inc?
Hmm... wildfires, droughts, hot Octobers... what does all of this mean? Oh well, if it were anything important, I'm sure that government scientists would tell us all about it. If, of course, they weren't so busy trying to dismiss global warming.
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