Alphecca

Tragedy in Indonesia

The thousands of deaths, the potential millions of homeless, a catastrophe such as the earthquake and resulting tsunamis is almost unimaginable as just happened.

Naturally I pray that things will rapidly improve, that foreign aid will rush in to help.

But I can't help thinking...

As usual, it is the big, bad, capitalistly (is that a word?) evil United States of America leading the charge in money, supplies, and relief. Europe will blather a while and send in token amounts.

Since many of the countries effected are Muslem, I was just wondering how much support the oil-rich middle-east Islamic countries are kicking in? How many do you think are rushing into Sri Lankra, et al, with food, clothing, medical staff? That's right, so far: NONE. The religion of peace...

I've also heard in news reports, and Matt Drudge talked about it last night on his radio show, how the self-righteous are exclaiming, "why didn't they have ocean sensors to detect tsunamis?" The fact that there hasn't been one in the Indian Ocean for over 125 years seems to escape them, and it is the same eco-disaster nonsense that the left blindly advocates.

I say this because I just finished Michael Crichton's State of Fear and it is excellent at rebutting the hysteria the left loves to try to scare all of us with regarding the environment and "global warming".

I enjoyed it much more than Prey (which read like a 1950's pulp magazine novela) and Crichton is on his game as (yes, the book itself is fiction but the facts he uses come from real sources) he demolishes the false claims and bogus science behind the whole theory that man has caused irreversable global warming.

Note that he isn't saying we should do nothing, just that man is not nearly all to blame for any perceived (and it is very slight) rise in temperatures IN SOME LOCATIONS. And most of that has nothing to do with CO2 increases, which are miniscule.

I bought the book as a gift but of course had to read it on the fly before mailing it out today... I recommend it highly. If I have one gripe, it's the cell-phones that attract lightning, but that is a small quibble in a sci-fi novel.