Tuesday, October 14, 2008

California fires...

Amazing photo once again from the BBC's In Pictures - (#5 of 8 photos)....


In Sylmar Vallery, the flames sent people fleeing by car from their hillside homes. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in two of California's counties.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

400 > 150,000,000?!?! WTF???...

Interesting, in an obscene kind of way, letter from Michael Moore about the US bail out:
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly $700 billion -- the same amount that they are now demanding we give to them for the "bailout." Why don't they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They'd still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!