The U.N. would be an annual meeting of has-been politicians in the banquet room of a third world hotel if it wasn’t for the money squandered from U.S. taxpayers.
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (1982-) …
hasn’t been heard from since 1983, when he went to discuss the issue with Saddam Hussein.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — May 6, 2012 @ 10:20 am
rac·on·teur [rak-uhn-tur; Fr. ra-kawn-tœr] Show IPA
noun, plural rac·on·teurs [-turz; Fr. -tœr] Show IPA.
a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
Perhaps she’s off soliciting contributions of beads to buy back the property that the UN HQ sits on.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — May 6, 2012 @ 12:21 pm
Okay, that was all good fun, now, wasn’t it?
Main question: Where does that put us on the reparations chart?
I mean, let’s assume that we can actually inherit guilt and victimhood and that individual personhood is of no matter.
The way I see it, in the collectivists’ ethno-victim/guilt sense, everybody belongs to ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes that were once enslaved, invaded, persecuted, and outraged by one or all of the other ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes; and everybody belongs to ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes that once enslaved, invaded, persecuted, and outraged one or all of the other ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes.
[does some calculations]
Hmm … far as I can figure, we’re petty much even.
Perhaps it would be more useful to recognize individuals’ rights and protect the havens of individual rights from invasion and subversion by the various collectivist ethnic-identity scams that exist, today.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — May 6, 2012 @ 12:41 pm
Stilton: I am going to come over to your house and beat you with a semi-thawed beer brat.
DougM: And then I’m going to come over to your house and beat you with what’s left of the beer brat.
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion [that violence never settles anything] is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
– RAH
There’s that damn do nothing congress again stopping the Obama administration from their exemplary cooperation.
Comment by geezerette — May 6, 2012 @ 9:09 am
The U.N. would be an annual meeting of has-been politicians in the banquet room of a third world hotel if it wasn’t for the money squandered from U.S. taxpayers.
Screw ‘em. It’s time they went away.
Comment by Jess — May 6, 2012 @ 10:06 am
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (1982-) …
hasn’t been heard from since 1983, when he went to discuss the issue with Saddam Hussein.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — May 6, 2012 @ 10:20 am
rac·on·teur [rak-uhn-tur; Fr. ra-kawn-tœr] Show IPA
noun, plural rac·on·teurs [-turz; Fr. -tœr] Show IPA.
a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
Comment by Hog Whitman — May 6, 2012 @ 10:38 am
Elizabeth Warren could not be reached for comment.
~ Stilton ~
Perhaps she’s off soliciting contributions of beads to buy back the property that the UN HQ sits on.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — May 6, 2012 @ 12:21 pm
Okay, that was all good fun, now, wasn’t it?
Main question: Where does that put us on the reparations chart?
I mean, let’s assume that we can actually inherit guilt and victimhood and that individual personhood is of no matter.
The way I see it, in the collectivists’ ethno-victim/guilt sense, everybody belongs to ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes that were once enslaved, invaded, persecuted, and outraged by one or all of the other ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes; and everybody belongs to ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes that once enslaved, invaded, persecuted, and outraged one or all of the other ethnic groups, nationalities, and tribes.
[does some calculations]
Hmm … far as I can figure, we’re petty much even.
Perhaps it would be more useful to recognize individuals’ rights and protect the havens of individual rights from invasion and subversion by the various collectivist ethnic-identity scams that exist, today.
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — May 6, 2012 @ 12:41 pm
Stilton: I am going to come over to your house and beat you with a semi-thawed beer brat.
DougM: And then I’m going to come over to your house and beat you with what’s left of the beer brat.
Comment by Hog Whitman — May 6, 2012 @ 1:09 pm
I’m just waiting for the line up of D-9′s to push the un building into hte ocean.
Hey, how about giving it to kim ill UN for his birfday?
Comment by mech — May 6, 2012 @ 3:47 pm
If you hadn’t of spelt hte correctly, I might of loosed-ed-up all of my faif in you.
Comment by Hog Whitman — May 6, 2012 @ 6:35 pm
professional guilt-mongers. they probably get $300K a year and spend about an hour a day on the computer. nice work if you can get it.
Comment by snap-e-tom — May 6, 2012 @ 6:38 pm
This would be bad for me, I’m literally surrounded by injuns (Choctaw) and NO I don’t live in a covered wagon.
Comment by Spin — May 7, 2012 @ 2:19 am
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion [that violence never settles anything] is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
– RAH
Comment by mojo — May 7, 2012 @ 9:35 am