Gitmo

The gift that keeps on giving.

1. We round up prisoners of war and get them out of the battle: Check
2. We fatten them up and treat their Koran with respect: Check
3. We get accused of abusing them: Check
4. People want the place closed down: Check
5. People want assurances that when the POW’s are sent back home they are not abused: Check
6. When abuse happens back home and the POW’s ask to come back to Gitmo it’s our fault: Check

The US is continuing to repatriate prisoners, sending home 16 Saudis on Thursday. But in their haste to reduce the numbers at Guantanamo it seems they are being less than thorough in ensuring that the former prisoners are not mistreated.

Awwww. So now we should I suppose
a) work slower at reducing prisoners at Guantanamo and
b) force (militarily? or with resolutions? or maybe Zell’s spitballs?) countries to abide by their promises NOT to abuse ex prisoners of war from Guantanamo.

What a world.

Chuck Schumer

Sucks. (you’ll have to arrow down at the link/video – I can’t get the trackback to work)

Hugh: Here’s the nub of what Schumer said in his 10 minute address to his anti-war fringe and, for that matter, the remnants of al Qaeda that have been getting wiped out in Iraq over the last four months.

Chuck: And let me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here. And that is because there was no one else there protecting.

What we (the west) won’t do

to save our resources.

Um – save our resources.
We will however be happy to save yours! Three sources has the link to the London Times who’s title says it all:

To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?

David Cameron bought carbon offsets through Climate Care so he could fly guilt free to India.
One of the offsets sold through climate care is human powered mechanisms for pumping water vs using diesel.

Read the story – it truly is a great example of liberalism in it’s glory. Similar to the lady I met one time in Leadville Colorado who claimed to be a native American and was very upset with Walmart because Hopi’s were buying Walmart yarn to make their rugs. (and thus saving tons of time and selling more rugs and bettering themselves) I can’t stand these people.

It’s great that poor folks in India have figured out a treadle design for pumping water so they no longer have to rely on big businesses to water their crops. Good for them. And frankly – if it’s them who figured out they could get carbon offset buyers to pay for the enterprise – double good for them. But for Mr. Cameron to think for one second he’s made up his use in carbon………arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Uranium

You have to love the Australians. No, wait. You have to love John Howard.

Australia’s John Howard warned Russia that uranium sales could end if Russia does not take steps to guarantee that their product doesn’t wind up in Iran or Syria.