10.10.06
Posted in Politics, The UN-able at 7:18 am by JB
Just check this bullsh*t out.
Mexico’s foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.
Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.
The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.
This is why the UN is worthless. It has convinced countries that every little beef they have should be decided by the “international community”.
Guess what, you Mexican asshole…. this is our friggin country. If we want to build a fence, we’re gonna build a damn fence. This is our country, our soil, and the UN has no business whatsoever commenting on it.
This isn’t Israel you jackass. You can’t push us around like this. We should expedite building the thing, and electrify the thing now. If your people want to come here, they need to do it legally like the rest of the world.
Permalink
08.28.06
Posted in Politics, The UN-able at 11:37 am by JB
Chuckie says the UN building is not safe. His solution ? What else, spend a ridiculous amount of money.
The United Nations is a disaster waiting to happen [ed. Some of us would argue that the disaster that is the UN has been happening for years] _ a potential towering inferno that could be as devastating for workers, staff and visitors as the terror attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers, a U.S. senator said Sunday.
Calling the 39-story, glass-walled Secretariat building on the East River a “firetrap” that violates many sections of New York City’s building code, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton should “make it a priority” to force through a $1.6 billion renovation program.
“The United Nations’ grave state of disrepair may be hidden, but it is putting the health and safety of thousands who work within the building and in the area in a real degree of danger,” Schumer told a news conference on the street in front of the landmark complex.
…
The plan to renovate the complex and bring it up to code has been in talking stages since 2000 but has been bogged down in political and bureaucratic delays, Schumer said, adding that “every day it is not done adds another $225,000 to the cost.”
…
Under the U.N.’s existing assessment formula, the United States would pay 22 percent of the cost of renovation. But the plan has stalled in part over the refusal of Congress to approve expenditures that are not “transparent,” and by the New York state legislature’s rejection of plans for alternative space to house the world body’s operations for three to four years.
So we pay 22% of $ 1.6 bil…. that’s $352 million. The Pentagon, widely known as the largest office building in the world, is 6.5 million square feet (SF). For $1.6 bil you could build a new Pentagon-sized building for just under $250/sf. That’s a ridiculously high $/sf. The UN building, however, is much smaller, so the $/sf higher still.
I was in NYC recently. There are millions of empty sf in buildings that are just sitting there unused. Why can’t the UN renovate some of those buildings and rent Madison Square Garden when they need to get together and pass useless resolutions that they don’t backup ?
I like this idea. (massive understatement alert)
Developer Donald Trump later offered to do the job for $600 million to $700 million _ half the U.N.’s cost estimate _ manage the project and waive his own fees.
“They don’t know what they want, they don’t know what they have, they don’t know what they’re doing,” Trump told a Senate hearing.
“Don’t know what they’re doing”…. no kidding, Don.
Permalink
08.22.06
Posted in Politics, The UN-able at 4:12 pm by JB
Kinda…. just glad I was able to offer the inspiration. (Yeah, right):
Permalink
08.19.06
Posted in Politics, The UN-able at 4:34 pm by JEG
So, Iran is a member of this prestigious body.
And here’s how Iran upholds the principles of that very entity.
I could launch into an argument for why the United States should withdraw from the UN and simply pursue American interests unilaterally, but the article above makes the point for me. The UN gets nothing done without American leadership. The UN barely gets anything done with American leadership. To think that we can accomplish anything meaningful on human rights with stone-throwing troglodytes like the Iranian regime is the biggest water-pipe dream any pothead ever had.
The UN doesn’t work, folks. Not for collective security, not for human rights enforcement, and not for much else. The League of Nations - the UN’s predecessor - was a joke, despite the Wilsonian idealism that created it. Collective arrangements can’t work unless the participants have common interests to pursue. NATO worked during the Cold War, because the parties to NATO had a clear mission (which no longer exists, by the way), and because NATO members pledged assistance to each other in the event of hostile military action by the Soviets. By contrast, the UN accepts friends and enemies alike.
And with friends like these, who needs enemies? I’m a big fan of hobbies, and these guys need one, REAL BAD. Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the picture.
Permalink
08.06.06
Posted in Politics, The UN-able at 1:39 pm by JB
This editorial, from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is priceless. A little slice:
“During his career in international public service, [John] Bolton helped design the U.S. action that pushed Iraq out of Kuwait and was part of the effort persuading Libya to drop its weapons program,” the New York Daily News editorialized this week. “New York’s Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton must not participate in such a senatorial hissy fit.”
The man is highly quallified, highly effective, and for once in 20 years (since Jeanne Kirkpatrick left) is actually standing up for the interests of the US and the freedom-loving world.
Anyone that opposes him doesn’t deserve to be a part of this government.
Permalink
08.03.06
Posted in The UN-able, Terrorists, War on Terrorism at 1:45 am by JB
This may be the most warped article I’ve ever read. Therefore, in old-school-blogging style, it needs a good Fisking:
Hezbollah fired its biggest and deepest volley of rockets into Israel on Wednesday as Israel pursued the guerrillas with 8,000 soldiers on the ground and heavy bombing. With fighting in its fourth week and diplomatic efforts stalled, the region braced for a bitter and long war.
Good. About time these folks had a good war. But which method gives the best assurance that innocents won’t be harmed ? A terrorist volley of rockets that can’t be aimed, or a determined ground infusion and tactical bombing ?
In eastern Lebanon, villagers wept as heavy machinery carried off the bodies of those killed in an overnight raid against a Hezbollah stronghold. Across northern Israel, forests and fields lay scorched from rocket fire that killed a Massachusetts native fleeing on his bicycle after a warning siren went off.
Well YEAH. That’s what happens when your goal is to kill innocent people and maybe a soldier or two. This is an attack on the Israeli people. Israel’s reponse is against the people attacking them.
Hopes for a cease-fire dimmed despite a plea from Pope Benedict XVI for a quick solution. U.N. diplomats debated a draft resolution that would lay down the conditions for an international force to go in; they claimed they were making progress but acknowledged no immediate deal was in sight.
The UN-able wants to get involved. Oh Joy !
The prospect of a longer war has raised tensions across the Mideast, where anti-Israeli and anti-American hostility is now sharp. Arab leaders have warned repeatedly in recent days that the fighting has hampered, or killed outright, any hope for a long-term Israeli peace deal.
Here’s how you get an “Israeli peace deal”. You let them beat the snot out of the people attacking them, you let the Israeli’s decimate the attacking forces, and those supporting them, and then sit back and watch the peace ensue.
Read the rest of this entry »
Permalink
07.30.06
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, The UN-able at 3:02 pm by JB
But as usual, someone beats me to it. (h/t to David Frum at NRO)
If a drunken Mel Gibson did indeed call out, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” then there can be only one possible place for a man who believes such things: as the next Secretary General of the United Nations.
Permalink
« Previous entries ·
