From Newsmax:
This week, the U.N. Disarmament Commission re-elected Iran as its vice-chair, reports the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security on its official web site.
A majority of U.N. member states decided to allow Iran to remain in this position despite the fact the U.N. Security Council declared Iran has violated the non-proliferation resolutions the Commission is charged to promote, laments the subcommittee.
At the same time, another state sponsor of terrorism, Syria, was selected to be the Commission’s rapporteur to record and document the Commission’s work.
Two weeks earlier, the U.N. Human Rights Council announced it would no longer examine the human rights abuses in Iran, the subcommittee further noted.
These abuses are describe by the Department of State’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” as including summary executions (including minors), torture (including amputations, eye-gouging, floggings), and severe restrictions of religious and political freedoms.
Well, can you blame them? They’re up to their elbows investigating US TORTURE and affiliated WAR CRIMES.
Hell, I’m surprised Andrew Sullivan hasn’t been appointed Secretary General already.
As for the Kafka-esque re-election of Iran as vice-chair for the Disarmament Commission—even as Iran openly flouts international calls for it to cease its nuclear weapons program—well, it’s the UN.
And their word is law.
Or rather, it would be, were John Kerry to have his way. No point being a “pariah,” after all, when you can parlay your pretensions into transnational sophistication. Plus, you get invited to all the best conferences! Which means, of course, FREE HOOKERS!
(thanks to Jonathan)
Did the UN ever serve a useful purpose? I assume at some point in its history it did, but since I started following politics, I haven’t seen anything it has done that impresses me with respect to its utility.
As far as I can tell, all the UN does is to provide a bunch of countries a place to send a select few to reward them and allow them to enjoy all the benefits of the country with the most freedom while attemtping to penalize that country at almost every turn.
It’s extra beautiful that Syria is in the leadership with Iran.
Once again, the UN passes my global test!
Gender Perspectives On Disarmament
Don’t know about that, I found this immediately and obviously disarming.
Dick Morris has not confirmed if he is running for Mayor.
Just when you think the UN can’t go any further to clearly demonstrate their utter lack of purpose and corruption of original intent, they always find another step to take.
And no matter what they do, leftists will always, always find a way to defend and support it.
Please make sure that those free hookers have tatoos and are nappy-headed. I don’t want any wannabe’s.
When’s Sharpton gonna apologize to the Dukies?
Obama, I want to talk to you.
I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jeezus, ridin’ on the dashboard of my car.
Yeah right, next thing you’re gonna tell me that like Cuba or Saudi Arabia is on the UN Human Rights Council or something.
Wait, what? They Are? What the fu-are you serious?
What do you have to do to get KICKED OFF of either of these councils? Invade Poland?
off-topic, but…
has ANYONE on the left responded to the Duke conference from yesterday? Any of those 88 profs? anyone?
If none of the profs, feminists (or lunatic lesbians that cursed them on campus) apologize, I think I’ll officially go register as a Republican and start giving money to the GOP.
happyfeet,
Ain’t it delicious? It’s like all American farmers set up “wet viels” to hide their livestock from prying eyes.
It’s hideous enough to think of these “blossoms of Islam” without their chadors. Now just imagine the violence of the gag that would catch in your throat if you saw one of them with a big glob of jiz on their lips. Perhaps these “water viels” have more than one function.
Do you ever wonder if instesd of spanking a baby to get it breathing, that the Imams take one of those wooden ice cream spoons, and stir the baby’s brains vigorously? I wonder about that all the time – especially after reading a blurb about the UN.
Uh. Gotta go. It’s time for dinner.
That was beautiful, man! Now I need to go get a new keyboard…
I seem to remember reading somewhere on the intertubes (Ace?), a certain biology prof is lamenting that now that the charges have been dropped, we’ll never really know! So I wouldn’t think too many of them are tuning up their mea culpas.
Just a guess, though.
oh nevermind – i found the answer:
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/533242.html
looks like I’m gonna be cutting some checks to the GOP in the future. Now I gotta actually find my checkbook. *sigh*
Boutros Boutros-Ghali jokes?
has ANYONE on the left responded to the Duke conference from yesterday?
Sure, Terry Moran from ABC News Nightline said that we shouldn’t sympathize with the accused guys because the Rutgers girls suffered far more.
I’m not kidding
Hmmm,
Are any of the world’s leading arms exporters on the U.N. Disarmament Commission?
Let’s look at the dollar value for 2005 top arms exports:
United States $12,758,000,000
Russia $7,400,000,000
France $7,900,000,000
United Kingdom $2,800,000,000
China $2,100,000,000
Germany $1,500,000,000
Italy $1,400,000,000
That would be comedy gold indeed if any of these countries were on the Disarmament Commission.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali jokes?
I preferred U Thant jokes, personally.
I seem to remember reading somewhere on the intertubes (Ace?)
Yep He’s on this like ugly on a nappy headed ho. I got the Terry Moran story from Ace too. He’s trying to catch up to LaShawn Barber.
Is it just me or does anyone else see Bill the Cat typing when they read something by Alphie? ACk Phththht cough…
France has $8 Bn worth of stuff worth selling?
Damn. Will wonders never cease?
Say, isn’t it really the Nuclear Disarmament Commission?
Also, the kite flys above powerfull carriers, or the wind becomes entangled with a strong jolt.
OT, but big big big!
New Bill Whittle essay up:
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000140.html
Woo-hoo!
Well, I’m not sure its worth buying from the perspective of someone with American weapons or an American defense budget. But if you’re a third world despot whose only other choice is some Great Patriotic War leftovers from Crazy Ivan’s Used Military Surplus (formerly Glorious Peoples Great Heroic Workers Revolutionary Arms Depot #725) you take what you can get. It’s not like you expect it to fight anyone else with a real arms budget… just shoot up some uppity peasants. It’s not like the French care what people do with the stuff.
Third world despots can get U.S. weapons if they can afford them, Civ:
In 2005, Russia ranked first in arms transfer agreements with developing nations at $7 billion. France ranked second at $6.3 billion. The United States ranked third with nearly $6.2 billion.
Our weapons tend to be as expensive and high maintenance as a Republican presidential candidate’s third wife, though.
Holy crap – I went and read that article by Terry. Do you think he was just looking for attention? What an incredible pile of shit.
Those damn Isrealis don’t have to worry about expensive!
Hey alf, what is the difference between who we sell to and what we sell them compared to Russia and France?
Please do not engage the Talking Telephone Pole. That is all.
Topic Warning: This thread is not about which nation sells more arms. Commentary focusing on that subject contributes to threadjacking and encourages those who engage in it.
Heh. Great minds get the same idea at the same time.
This is what we are discussing, alphie. You might want to go study emmadine’s comportment on this thread, you could learn how to debate like a grown-up.
Thanks for the link, B Moe.
I see that the seven biggest arms exporters are indeed on the U.N. Commission that’s trying to stop the spread of weapons throughout the world.
Funny stuff.
Is that the commission where the U.S. used its veto to block a proposal to stop shipments of landmines and cluster bombs to third world countries, btw?
alphie:
The customer forests the molecule without every suspicious lamp. Opposite the digest sneaks every mediaeval concerto. Should our chosen luxury retail the useful libel?
Well? Which is it?
N.O.
I would rather; have the forest dog shaved partially recumbant. Passing lane whittling is avariciously thrown. Speed wax mouldering pans of chipati?
See if I don’t!
This is like that episode of Happy Days where Fonzie is trying to say “I’m sorry.” but can’t make his lips form the words. I am pretty sure little alphie is trying to agree with us that the UN is a joke but just can’t quite get the words right.
Or it could be like one of those videos of a dog howling out ”I love you”. Too close to call.
B Moe,
I vote “dog howling”.
The U.N. has its uses, B Moe.
It keeps a lot of poor people alive.
And it’s a great way to end a conflict when both sides are too embarassed to quit (Israel – Hezbollah, U.S. in Iraq soon).
Well worth the money, I think.
Yeah. I’d beat his head in with a dirty toilet seat….
It’s not that hard to find a job in Manhattan.
And it looks like the dog theory wins.
I preferred U Thant jokes, personally.
Dag Hammarskjöld here, but I figured I’d go for the more well known joke fodder.
Really?
Yep, the UN saves lives, they just rape ‘em, instead of killing ‘em, now that’s progressive & so much more cost effective! No wonder little “a” supports them. Next thing he’ll be touting Hitler’s employment numbers vs. the “evil” neo-cons.
Are we judging all U.N. troops by the actions a few, PMain?
Slippery slope, you know.
potato… potatoe
tomato… abu ghraib
Poor alf is the perfect product of a progressive education where his mind was masticated, shot through the bowel where anything of value was extracted, and then ejected as a well formed turd that floats upon the surface of any discussion.
The U.N. serves as the god of perpetual war, where no conflict is ever allowed to be resolved, but where evil consistently appeased and encouraged. It is how they maintain their rice bowl, number one victim. The whole edifice is built upon a mound of corpses and misery.
And statistics do not constitute an argument. In fact, I’ve never seen you write a single thing that constituted anything more than the parroting of a script provided by others.
An ad hominem attack on me, a John Birch Society style rant against the U.N. and the claim that facts have no place in a discussion, Salty?
Kudos to you sir.
You have outshone your comrades this day.
Now, where is that League of Nations when we need them?
Carpasian goolash, Action Chimpâ„¢, a fine fettle mettle of prancing beavertails conjugate porous pecadillos.
UN quantifies celebrated krakatoa baby rapers? Pound sand to undersage girls and slip gently the patterned slave trade.
Proliferation? Weasal functionaries moderate electric boogaloo parking stickers whilst panning for fools gold offsets along plantation pygmies.
Grow up, bejizzle!
Most impressive part of his little screed: whining that there are plenty of stories of prosecutorial misconduct that don’t get covered by the press.
As I commented: Sure would be nice if someone connected to the press got out there and covered those stories.
What are you, crazy? Expecting reporters to actually look for a story, rather than having it handed to them, all pre-formatted and without any of the difficulty in remembering the rules of grammar?
I mean, remembering to match the verb tense of the subject with the predicate are tough!
TW: It are a labor64 of love.
PS: Purple cats shave many a fine bowling lane, my chops!
Ah me, I remember the first time I encountered the results of the UN “saving lives”. Bosnia, SFOR.
Srebencia. Sarajevo. See the middle picture here for a perfect little depiction of the UN “saving lives”.
Look how well the UN in Lebanon saved lives last summer. Rawanda, Congo, yes indeedy, the examples of great results is endless.
Leslie Fish might have written this just for us when dealing with the alphtard:
“Sweet polite persuasion here
Will bring you no relief,
For those who yield to reason
Aren’t the kind who cause you grief.
So when you’ve had it up to here,
And fear you’ll grow unhinged,
It’s no more Mr. Nice Guy,
Let’s go out and get revenge!
So, let us go a-Ramboing
Among the live grenades,
Yes, let us go a-Ramboing,
All lively youths and maids!
With an Uzi in the left hand,
And machete in the right,
Oh let us go a-Ramboing,
out on the town tonight!”
Especially if it’s Alphie’s town.
Let’s hear it for the UN. When the Tsunami hit Indonesia, they were immediately on the scene, delivering aid to the afflicted.
Oh, they don’t have any carriers and that was the evil, stingy US? Nevermind. Oil for Food? Nevermind. Besides, the guys who stole that money are gone.
Back to the
leftist scriptusual propaganda, aphid.alphie:
With lightning speed, a bald block of kryptonite enchanted and blew up a yoga master, which was an event that turned out to be fatal to a famous lightbulb.
Yes or no?
I can’t quite catch the thrust of comments, here, but it appears that someone is all bent out of shape because we are selling conventional weapons to countries like Norway, Sweden, Poland, UK, and occasionally Pakistan.
Which, I gather, is much more upsetting than sneaking nuclear and chem/bio weapons into places like Iran.
Or have I misunderstood, somehow?
And now they want to “borrow” NYC cops.
I can see the Headline now:
“ UN deploys New York City’s finest in latest disaster cleanup, Human Rights Activists decries lack of Donuts for the poor.”
I couldn’t care less if they were sneaking nuclear and chem/bio weapons into places like Iran – it’s the sneaking out of places like Iran that has me worried.
TW: about98% scarier.
Somewhat. It isn’t about being bent out of shape. It’s business as usual with jihadi boy adapting his usual anti-american nonsense to set the stage for a thread jack. The gibberish in/ gibberish out campaign prevents that, though I’m an advocate of shunning as less noisy.
The gibberish (not from the ‘tard, but in response to the ‘tard) can be quite amusing, though.
Alf, thanks for the laugh. You never put finger to keyboard but that you prove what has been said against you.
Statistics are not metaphysical facts of nature, but epistemological products. While ostensibly based on facts, they do not themselves constitute facts unless the methodology is overt, the area in question tightly delimited and the interpretation objective. Throwing out statistics does nothing to further an argument unless these criteria are met. You never interpret the statistics you use, but use them like stones thrown against an adversary using a gun.
John Birch? Thoughtlessness is ever your burden. I suppose if I called you a communist, you’d call me a McCarthyite. As I said, you are a parrot who mouths scripts written by others. But what are you to do when someone says something not in the script? Why change the subject, of course. This is why you engage in non sequiturs like the unthinking plodder you are.
I’ll give you this, little first among victims, you are a good little product. You have victimized yourself.
A good point.