November wrap up and then sum..

A case that best represents the imperial centristic conceit of the US would be the take on hurricanes this year. We have arrived at the official end of the season and our own press suggests the following:

Hurricane Season A Breeze... This Time The Ledger - Nov 30, 2006
Hurricane season bows out quietly CNN International
The calm instead of the storm NATURE.com

The irony of this cannot be lost however, since in the same round up of the season we find the following stories:

Official: Typhoon casualties in Philippines could attain 200 MANILA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Over 200 people are feared dead as typhoon Durian battered Albay province, central Philippines, with heavy downpour that caused mudslides from Mount Mayon volcano, a top government official said Friday.
Death toll rises to nearly 200 in Philippine typhoon, 260 missing Canada.com
Death Toll In Philippine Typhoon Rises To 147 Playfuls.com

Opps, did someone forget to tell the billions of people living in Asia that their experience of eight super-typhoons (and twelve other ones), killing thousands, destroying billions of dollars of property and infrastructure was just a quiet calm breeze of a season???? But that also fails to mention our nearest neighbor as well, Mexico. I guess they don't count either, what with the four Cat 3+ storms that wasted the Pacific Coast and thrashed Cabo San Lucas three of those times. No, of course the only substantive measure of a bad hurricane season is the Gulf Coast. Hell these idiots didn't even bother to reference the massive rains and flooding that the Mexican hurricanes created in the Southwest. The mindnumbing provincialism of this should help people realize that the rest of the world sees us for what we truly are: selfish arrogant conceited mindless bigots.

I have a problem with the supposed hit TV show: HOUSE. This season they introduced the most unrealistic and bizarre character portrayl ever, of an overzealous, self-righteous police detective. The role has this minder of virtue acting like one of Stalin's or Beria's private thugs, pursuing House with vicious unconstitutional illegal due process behaviors; behaviors that even an inept and incompetent attorney would have stopped a while ago. To continue down this idiotic and stupid script plot only destroys all that is best about the show. This guy must die, and soon too. No police detective would ever be free to act as this guy; that is why we have district attorneys, special investigators, layers of evidenciary and rights protections, and courts with skilled and knowledgeable judges. If the idea is to suggest to the American people that this is how we want our government to behave, then we are indeed headed for a fascist hell that is beyond measure. Kill the guy off and save America.