"Calif. apartments evacuated as cliff crumbles"

Old news, I know, but I've been real fuckin busy the last four weeks. Anyway, I feel bad for these people, cause "apartments" doesn't tend to indicate extreme wealth, and I don't even know what wound up happening with this situation, but let me tell you, I cannot fucking WAIT for this shit to start happening to the rich, stupid fucks who have all their homes and vacation homes on the fucking beach.

It will happen.

They can build all the artificial dunes and walls they want, but there is a threshold above which people simply cannot stop nature.

I have lived by the ocean all my life, and see these shortsighted, arrogant people claim the plots of land closest to the open water for themselves, so that they may construct ostentatious, decadent homes for themselves and deny everyone else access to the water. They destroy so much habitat in this process, and it doesn't matter because they have money and the power that comes with it.

The best part is that they are profoundly stupid, in that they seem to honestly believe that they can keep the water where it is, as though that is where it has always been.

They think that just because they can buy a small parcel of land and that they want it means that they should buy it and they can do whatever they wish with it. It's as though most people don't understand the incredible risks that come with deliberately living so close to something as volatile as an ocean. Truly insane.

America to the world: "Fuck you"

Hey look, we can still do whatever we want!!

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey [whose nomination as attorney general last year was threatened by his refusal to say whether he considered waterboarding to be torture] said Wednesday that he saw no need for President Bush to issue blanket pardons of officials involved in some of the administration’s most controversial counterterrorism policies.

Mr. Mukasey told reporters that there was “absolutely no evidence” that anyone involved in developing the policies “did so for any reason other than to protect the security in the country and in the belief that he or she was doing something lawful.”

The comments appeared aimed at tamping down speculation that Mr. Bush, before leaving the White House next month, might issue pre-emptive pardons to protect counterterrorism officials from legal jeopardy in the face of possible criminal investigations by the new Democratic administration.

Yeah. The torture-loving Attorney General made sure to let everyone know that the people running this country hold all their atrocities to be perfectly legal. Waterboarding, nudity, dogs, extreme temperatures, sensory deprivation, whatever. It's all in the rules, they say. Someone's gonna blow something else up, and the people running this country and the ones who put them there will be responsible. They won't tell themselves that though. And lots of other people will be responsible for not removing them from power, for letting them rule and for following their orders.