Misanthropic Love
Analeptic for the nescient masses

while i am upset at the situation in the gulf I also realize that its all pretty much lip service. No one has stopped driving their cars, leaving lights and appliances on, using and wasting plastics, or any of the multitude of things people could do to show oil companies that we wont take it anymore or lower our dependence on that oil. We just watch it on the tv and wave our fists at the screen and consider that involvement and activism.
The govt will form committees, people and companies will be condemned, rules based on hysteria will be implemented, and then it will be business as usual.
We will all move on and because we complained about it to our friends and felt indignant we will feel that we were part of the solution.

Why?

Cause we are lazy, selfish, and phony. Unless the oil is lapping at our doorsteps we dont truly care. Its why there is such a cry for Obama to get angry and do something. “Hey you! Obama! get off your duff and take of stuff for us. The news breaks are interfering with American Idol!”

Bitching is considered activism these days.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2009%5C10%5C30%5Cstory_30-10-2009_pg1_1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/24/is-this-the-stupidest-per_n_244440.html

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-education-of-a-libertarian/

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-markdavis_0426edi.State.Edition1.1e4b2c5.html

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/238488/

Cato blog

War on drugs? No, just waste of my money.

In the days before Hurricane Ike hit that sinkhole of humanity, Texas, the National Weather Service issued a bulleting to residents of Galveston.  ”Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death,” the National Weather Service said in a local bulletin. “Many residences of average construction directly on the coast will be destroyed.” 

Residents were also told,  ”I cannot overemphasize the danger that is facing us,” Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said at a news conference in Austin.

The head of Fema held a press conference in Houston saying, ”This is not a storm to gamble with,” Mr. Chertoff said. “It’s large. It’s powerful.”

Now, however, you and I are watching our hard earned dollars being wasted by our government because, as CNN reports, “Galveston had ordered an evacuation before Ike crashed into the area early Saturday as a Category 2 hurricane, but many residents stayed on the island.”

Cnn reports that nearly 2000 people have had to be rescued by air and sea. One pair of breeders that should have been left for dead, “Among the coastal Texas residents who found themselves in trouble after Ike hit were Paul and Kathi Norton. They had overslept as Ike closed in on their home.”

Now we are forced to subsidize the rescue of mouth breathers such as these.

People too stupid, (and Texas is rife with them), to heed repeated warnings to evacuate should be left to fend for themselves. 

This will not happen as Texas, unlike New Orleans, is full of white republican voters.

Not that I have any sympathy for New Orleans. That we subsidize federal insurance for people who have chosen to live in a bowl, below sea level, surrounded by levees, in a known major hurricane zone is beyond stupifying. 

The only proper solution to the story in Texas is for all of those who smartly got out of the way of the nasty hurricane to line up on the shore of the receding flood waters and wave goodbye and good riddance to their learning disabled neighbors as they float away on the k-mart flotsam that defined their useless lives.

another link found on Marginal Revolution:

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/annals_of_idiocy.php

forwarding this link from Marginal Revolution:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/09/the_future_of_u.html