California’s Burning and Other News
There are a couple of good things about the California wildfires. First, the media is forced to cover a large news story with actual relevance that has virtually no bipartisan angles. A million people in Southern California are evacuating their homes - isn’t that a bigger story than the “four miners” incident that saw almost similar amounts of news coverage?
Second, emergency response seems to be way better than the Katrina days. If it wasn’t, you’d definitely hear about it. Virtually everyone who’s evacuated to QualComm Stadium (home of the Chargers) and the only unpleasantries they have to fight are knowing when they get to go home - if at all - and boredom.
Also, it’s bringing to light just how real a threat wildfires are out there. It seems like just about every place on Earth has its individual weather pains. In the Midwest, we don’t get hurricanes or tsunamis, but we get lots of tornadoes. In Florida, they get warm weather year-round but have hurricanes and lots of rain. In Southern California, where there are barely hurricane effects and virtually no tornadoes, they have to deal with random fires.
They’re so common that people in Southern Cal even mentioned that they first saw it as brush fires, and didn’t think it was any big deal. That’s news to me - if I saw a brush fire in Wisconsin, my mind would have much boggle.
Still, the “other” news rolls on. Here are some things you might not have seen on TV lately with all the wildfire coverage:
- Condi Rice: Iran is Greatest Threat To U.S. If that doesn’t cinch future war with Iran, I don’t know what else does, short of President Bush announcing “we’ve gone to war with Iran.” For those of you that complained the media helped the administration on Iraq, how about now, with Iran? Isn’t the same thing happening?
- John McCain wants to shoot Osama bin Laden: Apparently the personal McCain-Bin Laden standoff that will happen at the gates of Hell will end with John McCain shooting down Osama Bin Laden. By the way, since McCain is military, it reminds me you have to check out the Army’s Medal of Honor citations. Good luck trying to find something more inspiring.
- China’s testing a weapon in outer space: Not only that, but they say that our missile defense system is a threat to global security. Wanna know why? Because the missile defense system is awesome and would give us a huge advantage in the nuclear world. Yes, it would create instability - in favor of us.
- President Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ: which would make him one of the worst Republicans of all time. Outspending everyone but LBJ is like out basketballing everyone but Michael Jordan - if you’re a football player, it shouldn’t be happening. How do you like sports metaphors?
- Nissan wants to launch a $2,500 car: and they say the free market doesn’t drive down prices.
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