Yeah. Who didn’t see this coming. Or this.
As the UN goes, here’s my position: Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Gosh, and I thought today was shaping up to be a slow news day.
I’m kind of wishing it was at this point.
Discovery should be interesting.
As should the penalty.
Interesting will be who gets picked to enforce it.
US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
Making “ecocide” the equivalent of a war crime (or a crime against peace) would apply exclusively to the actions of developed countries
Well, of course. Some animals are more equal than others and tolerance is a one-way street.
PUT DOWN THAT INCANDESCENT BULB U GAIA H8TR!
Come and get me, coppers!
…the establishment of an International Tribunal for Climate Justice…
Climate Justice? Really? One might suppose that these clowns are determined to wipe out any meaning “justice” might have had. Quelle surprise.
Much as I support the new initiative to do away with omnibus spending bills in favor of bills for specific departments and programs, so must I support the idea of doing away with omnibus global organizations. Split the UN into specialized agencies, and then we’ll pick and choose which we care to support (or host). I’m guessing we’d probably reduce our contributions to the “Hamstring America” and “Eradicate Israel” agencies, though I can’t be certain.
The current administration would increase contributions in those areas.
See, I’m torn — would they bankroll those groups because they’re too lazy to complete the missions themselves, or would they withhold funding because they don’t want the competition?
I really do hope that more things like this keep coming out of the UN – I want this front and center on as many American televisions, computer screens and newspapers (ha!) as possible.
Then come and ask us to submit to this.
I’ll have my combat lifesaver bag on hand to help clean up.
I think they would bankroll these groups because the groups provide cover for the administration. A lot of people think that the “international community” actually exists and is something we should pay attention to.
2. dicentra posted on 12/3 @ 9:50 am
Discovery should be interesting.
As should the penalty.
Mere appetizers to the main course of popcorn that would go with watching enforcement.
Wasn’t that bit of schadenfreude what doomed the League of Nations, or am I getting ahead of myself?
Making “ecocide” the equivalent of a war crime (or a crime against peace) would apply exclusively to the actions of developed countriesWhich, of course, exempts China, by far the worst polluter in the world (and I’m not even talking about CO2, which is not a pollutant.)
Damned HTML fail…
“As the UN goes, here’s my position: Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
But you’d take out most of New York City!!!!
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Wait.
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Let me think about this.
Maybe nukes are too heavy-handed. How ’bout if we just drop a tungsten telephone pole on it from orbit? At 3,000 meters per second, every ton of projectile is pretty much equivalent to a ton of TNT. (If I’m doing my math right, and on a Friday afternoon, that’s not a given.)
HUDSON
I am ready, man. Ready to get
it on. Check-it-out. I am the
ultimate badass…state of the
badass art. You do not want to
fuck with me. Hey, Ripley, don’t
worry. Me and my squad of
ultimate badasses will protect you.
Check-it-out…
He slaps the SERVO-CANNON controls in the GUN BAY
above them.
HUDSON
Independently targetting
particle-beam phalanx. VWAP!
Fry half a city with this puppy.
We got tactical smart-missles,
phased-plasma pulse-rifles,
RPG’s. We got sonic eeelectronic
ballbreakers, we got nukes, we
got knives…sharp sticks —
Hicks grabs Hudson by his battle harness and pulls him
into a seat. His voice is low, but it carries.
HICKS
Save it.
HUDSON
Sure, Hicks.
Heh!
I want to know how John Bolton was able to stomach the clowns that inhabit the UN.
Bolton has a lot more restraint than I do.
To summarize: a Very Silly proposal–one that has no chance of being acted upon–from Bolivia is made and somehow the UN is to blame.
Did AJB just summarize a sentence-long passage with a sentence-long comment? And miss the point entirely? If everyone was like AJB, there’d be no worries about “ecocide” because people would be too stupid to figure out how a wheel works.
Is this where they pair the really very bad horrible idea of tribunals with the other really bad horrible idea of wealth redistribution so that the average reader will think well at least they aren’t going to do the tribunals thing?
Yelverton is posting as ajb at other sites. He is even more of a cocknozzle than normal.
. A lot of people think that the “international community” actually exists and is something we should pay attention to.
I’m one of those people.
But only because our President is one of those people.
#20
I blame all that,”self esteem”, bullshit the public schools fill the little kids with in their early years. It gives vacuudomes like our little AJ here the courage to speak up and just show the world, goldarnit, just how much of a muttonhead he is.
I had a plate of haggis once that was twice as smart as Yelverton.
Wow, our second troll since comment registration started. How wonderful.
There may be another cranky-d, though then again, it may just be a manifestation of a repeater under another name. I’d vote the RD one for now, awaiting further identification.
To summarize: a Very Silly proposal–one that has no chance of being acted upon–from Bolivia is made and somehow the UN is to blame.
The UN grants idiots like Salon a forum to spout their nonsense, and tries to bestow legitimacy to their claims and ideas. Was he booed from the stage? Did anyone besides you give a press conference to denounce it as a Very Silly Proposal?
I don’t see why the Cancun Orgy, or the UN as a whole, should be above blame for promoting this sort of behavior, any more than I think a university should escape criticism for providing a forum for professors who preach Trooferism or Holocaust denial.
Never mind that the UN has long since been perverted into a forum for extorting money from the West, in the name of {Whatever} Justice.
It’s a twofer! What’s not to like? The only way it could be better is if they had another headquarters in San Francisco….
guitar duds are cool cucumbers. the cocktail party luvs them.
But you wouldn’t want to do that to New York City, they have Bloomberg and the Clintons and… Schumer… and…
Darnit, talked myself into a corner again.