Damn, what a lot of news!

So, to cover some local stuff, it seems there's a vigilante in Bellingham. According to this story, someone posing as an FBI agent stopped by the apartment of two level 3 sex offenders. When their third roommate came back several hours later, they were both dead and the "agent" was long gone. The Bellingham police chief has suggested in might be a vigilante. Gosh, ya think?

Now there's some talk whether the sex offender database puts them in danger. Well, it would seem that putting any person's home address on the internet puts them in danger, especially when they've done something that 99.99% of society thinks is the worst thing a human could do. These are extremely unpopular people, who normally peaceful people openly wish violence and death upon - sounds like they're in danger to me! It's a pickle. Seems like you could split the difference and list their general area - like "George Spittle, level 3, lives between 8th and 10th Street and Cedar and Pine Avenues". So neighborhood folks can know he's there, but random nuts can't just drive up to their house. Who knows what the answer is.

Let's see, what else...oh yeah, there was a hurricane. Not much to say that everyone else hasn't said 28 times. No matter what FEMA says, I think it's unclear at this point whether New Orleans will be rebuilt at all. And we haven't even got a tally of the little communities that just washed out into the ocean. It'll be months before we even have a final death toll. Very sad. My idea for N'awlins: Build a new city next door (it'll cost about the same anyway), clean up the water, and turn the old city into an underwater tourist attraction - complete with dive tours and glass-bottom boats.

And finally, more tragedy in Iraq: 648 lives lost in a human stampede. Thanks to the abortion of a war and the conditions it's created, someone was able to shout that there was a suicide bomber while a million Shia pilgrims were marching to a holy site. They panicked, and people got trampled or fell in the river and drowned. 648 people died, with no actual bomber - just the threat of one. This is what terrorism is intented to do; cause loss of life without use of resources. Thanks to George Bush, Iraq is fully controlled by these people now.