Bush burns up Mars

Reading the Kansas City Star this morning I noticed a story about surprises from Mars. Since this was AP, the story failed to complete the circle of information. The hint was there, so I did a quick Google and found this from the Speculist, confirming my suspicions. Sure enough, Mars is warning. Can that possibly be the fault of vain users of aerosol products or George Bush and his disdain for the Kyoto protocol? Could it be that something common to our solar system is at work here, such as the SUN?

A little more from Speculist:

Getting Warmer

Things are heating up on Mars...literally. The planet is experiencing its own version of global warming. The dry-ice polar caps are diminishing. Paul Hsieh speculates that this must be on account of our failure to sign Kyoto. Wow, when somebody close to me told me that I could vote for Bush if I wanted to, but I would have to accept the fact that everything that happens from now on is my fault...well, I just didn't grasp the cosmic implications.

On the other hand, I can't help but wonder — if two planets so close to each other are both experiencing a rise in surface temperature, isn't it just possible that it might have to do with that nearby star they both orbit? I'm just asking is all. I mean, what if...

What if.

And I'm just asking. But what if global warming is real, but it isn't our fault and there is nothing we can do about it? (With current technology.)

Just asking.

Taking responsiblity

It now appears that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina has swelled to over 400. That is almost exactly the number of deaths from a tragedy in the early 1990s, one that was entirely avoidable. During the 1992 election campaign, Clinton criticized the Bush administration's refusal to admit Haitian refugees who had fled their country by boat. As a result of that campaign strategy, when Clinton won, thousands of Haitians cobbled together rafts and makeshift boats and took to the water. Sadly, many drowned. Clinton never acknowledged his responsibility for their deaths.
This morning at the United Nations George Bush took personal blame for all of the problems associated with Hurricane Katrina.
The media largely ignored the boat people's plight, their fate, and the reasons behind the deaths.
Their feeding frenzy toward President Bush following this act of nature is instructive.

Veneer

Learning that a military rescue helicopter was fired on from the Superdome was a jolt into a sharpened state of perception. Just as water peels veneer from furniture, Katrina has stripped New Orleans of its affectation of easygoing cheer. Before the storm struck we learned that New Orleans was home to a significant number of dependent people. It is among those people that street gangs flourished and were tolerated. Now disaster has laid bare the weakness which has suddenly taken hold. In this way, New Orleans was nurturing its potentially fatal flaws just as Great Britain was doing the same with radical islamofascists. Turning a blind eye to a whole segment of citizens who refuse to become contributors to their chosen society is no different from leaving landmines across the terrain.
Of course there are those among any population who cannot care for themselves. It is not those people of whom I speak. It is those burly thugs who have nothing better to do than to loot, threaten, and rant about having been 'oppressed' whom I call out for their venality. And the city which prided itself on a laissez faire attitude about them has been exposed as a façade for subhumans.