If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!

...says my favorite bumper sticker.

Today I was in line at my local coffee shop to grab a scone to take to work for breakfast when a headline in the Sacramento Bee caught my eye.

"Water Savers Soaked"

Huh?

I then pulled up the article here at work, and I am outraged! The City of Sacramento sent a warning to a homeowner who let their front lawn die after our Governor declared a drought on 6/5/08, when they planning to do something different than just maintain a high-water-use lawn!

Our region is so eff'd up when it comes to water use, I can't even see straight.

RANT:
And this is PRECISELY the reason Chris and I have not let our front lawn simply die - we are too afriad of becoming a target for angry and stupid neighbors, I'd rather help along our half-alive lawn until this fall when we sheet mulch it. In our society we have been so conditioned by our law enforcement agencies and government officials to tell on one another, turning citizen against citizen...there is no sense of community anymore. You simply know me as that neighbor with the barking dogs, or that neighbor with the unmowed lawn, not as Bill, Cindy, Burma, Jackson...(insert your name here). We spend more time going after people talking on their cell phones while driving (now against the law effective 7/1/08 here in California...and the fine is a whopping $10) rather than spend time working cold cases or really going after the small number of people that truly are bad/evil.

Can you see what has happened? YOU ARE SHEEPLE!!! Following blindly a leader with skewed priorities.

I almost want to let my lawn die in solidarity with these folks.

//angry//