I swear to god if one more person says "Well, we needed the rain...cuz there was a drought," I will slam them to the ground, bloody them, choke them unconcious, break all their limbs then skin them alive. What drought? Take me to this farm you have in Washington DC where the growth of your corn is stunted. Can your tribe not fish because the water hole has dried up? Suck my fucking dick you ecologically-aware self-oblivious smug dickfaced idiots. My basement is flooded in ankle-deep muck and you don't have a farm. You have a PT Cruiser. I hope your kids get struck my lightning. Drought... Suck me off. UPDATE: Fuck Birthright Israel. I hope the Palestinians or whoever bomb Israel it into sand dunes. I hope no one can ever go on Birthright Israel again because all it does is give stupid drunk kids the impression that they understand the breadth of human existence because they saw some really old buildings while they were sleep deprived and hungover. People travel across our small ass planet, and come home delerious with jetlag and delusionally self-important. Do you realize how old shit in Greece is? How much sad and pivotal history has occurred in China? No one ever comes back from those places with some holier-than thou enlightened attitude. They come back with rice-paper umbrellas and pens shaped like pillars. Fuck humanity and its pretentions. You know what a little Somalian would say if you took him to the Wailing Wall and told him it's significance and history? He'd say "It's like every ruined building in my village. And as we stand here all of the people I left there are starving. This wall isn't any more likely to feed them than any other wall." ...But you send some fucking Bethesda kid fresh out of highschool to Israel and they get glassy-eyed and can't even begin to describe the things they've seen or the people they've shared the experience with. Being condescending to people who don't feel something is important, no matter how FAR you had to go to see it, is proof of the polarizing effect of biased historical travel organizations (or however you'd describe them). If someone flew you to Cancun, got you drunk and kept you awake for a week, you wouldn't come home empathizing with the plight of the Mexicans. You wouldn't cry when you thought about the last surviving native people or their ruined ancient cities. You'd be like "THEY PAID FOR EVERYTHING WE GOT FUCKED UP". I hope the guy who first founded Birthright Israel's basement floods.