fire fire everywhere and not a drop to drink

Yesterday a few fires started over near Malibu. Today I can see ashes floating through the air and the sky has been so blocked out by smoke that what sunlight does manage to stream through tints everything that it touches orange and red. In a way the new tinge to the skies is interesting, but it's also a reminder of how much devastation is going on not only to the trees and plants in the area, but also to the homes of hundreds of people. It's horrible that people are losing their homes- but at the same time I can't help but wonder...why are these people still living there!? Fires have been flaring up in the same place for a few years now. Their homes must be in danger every fire season. Haven't they realized by now that, just maybe, that isn't the best location to be living? Maybe they should move! I remember last year when the skies had the same color they do now. I hope this doesn't last long. I'm sure that global warming has something to do with it, but maybe it could bring some weird unseasonal rain to end this strange fires.  

market retardation

i don't understand how we can have 2009 model cars when it's still 2008. Yes, we are towards the end of the year, but it's not 2009. It's still 2008- so no matter what the car people say, their cars were produced in 2008, so they are 2008 model cars. I understand that it's all just marketing, but these salespeople are underestimating the average intelligence of their people. Then again, maybe they're not and some people don't care that their car must have come to the future for their statement to be true. Maybe future cars would be OK- if they at least looked futuristic.