American Political Orphan

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Hamas - Getting What It Deserves

How long is Israel supposed to put up with Hamas’ rocket attacks? What would Russia do if they were attacked time and time again by terrorists outside of its border? How would the United States react if San Antonio was attacked by rocket fire from terrorists in Mexico? You know what would happen!

They would react exactly as Israel has.

According to the Jerusalem Post, A year’s intel gathering yields ‘alpha hits’, IAF attacked 50 targets which included Hamas bases, training camps, headquarters and offices. “The goal: to strike at Hamas’s ability to fire rockets into Israel.”

By placing their rockets in densely populated areas Hamas in essence, hides behind women’s skirts and little children. This way when they are attacked the civilian casualties can be used for Hamas propaganda. Then the world sides with the aggressor, Hamas and in “lockstep” immediately condemns Israel for its actions. Why can every other country on the face of the globe defend themselves except, Israel?

In my mind Israel was justified and swift action against Hamas was long overdue.

2008 Ends Global Warming Hype

Reality Sets In

Common Sense Returns

From Christopher Booker at the Telegraph, 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved.

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a “scientific consensus” in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world’s most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that “consensus” which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month’s Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and “environmentalists” gathered to plan next year’s “son of Kyoto” treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for “combating climate change” with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

Suddenly it has become rather less appealing that we should divert trillions of dollars, pounds and euros into the fantasy that we could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 per cent. All those grandiose projects for “emissions trading”, “carbon capture”, building tens of thousands more useless wind turbines, switching vast areas of farmland from producing food to “biofuels”, are being exposed as no more than enormously damaging and futile gestures, costing astronomic sums we no longer possess.