Musings, perspectives, rants

I read a small news excerpt yesterday describing deaths from the high temperatures in California.  'Serves them right' I thought unkindly.  If they stopped to think about it they'd realise that their large vehicles, laziness, ignorance, indifference, and greed are to blame for the state of the world's climate.  The US of A is responsible for much of the world's pollution and waste.

I was reading the book "We are all suspects now" today.  The stories are full of human rights abuses of immigrants in the US after Sep 11.  They were arrested without charge, no trial, and shipped from prison to prison with no rights, barely enough food, no hygiene or medical care and all simply because they're either muslim or from a country that is potentially (POTENTIALLY) a harbour of terrorism.  And they call it the land of the free and continually claim that everyone wants to live in America.  Sorry - you could give me a green card tomorrow and I'd refuse to live in that godforsaken place.  I'm sorry, but I'm sick of arrogant Americans who believe their country is the greatest and that the rest of the world is either third world, or full of dictators, terrorists and strange people who live in 'quaint' cottages.  Actually I doubt they even think that much.  The rest of the world doesn't exist.  Howard Rosenberg (who wrote 'Not so Prime TV') is appalled at the 'international' news coverage.  Basically the rest of the world doesn't exist unless an American is involved.