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2005-06-08 Home Front: Politix

Democrats Offer Alternate U.N. Reform Bill

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-06-08 01:19|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lol, Sea! Excellent inline commentary. :-)

Posted by .com 2005-06-08 03:02|| 2005-06-08 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I have my own ideas about how to reform UN: make it a firing range for Armed Forces now that that facility in Porto Rico has been closed.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-08 06:47|| 2005-06-08 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 All the other currencies want to spend more time with their families.

ROFLMAO! World Class.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-08 07:47|| 2005-06-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Personally, I'm still trying to decide between two approaches suggested by readings of History.
Roman. Decimate the UN.
Mongol. Wipe it out.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-06-08 08:20|| 2005-06-08 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Third alternative - Numerous Nations. Diaspora. Send them packing outside of these grounds to other locations; Geneva, Paris, Rome, etc. where they already have office space.

Posted by Hupoluth Shineting4515 2005-06-08 09:13|| 2005-06-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's not be so Eurocentric HS. There are Harare, Mogadishu, Port au Prince, Grozny, and Pyongyang to consider. Spread the love.

Posted by ed 2005-06-08 09:27|| 2005-06-08 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm told Sana'a is breathtaking this time of year...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-08 11:03|| 2005-06-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 No need for a bill. Congress proposes, the Executive disposes. Nobody can make the State Dept. cut a check but the President.

Congress can squeal, and probably will, but they are irrelevant in this case.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-08 11:16|| 2005-06-08 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Why not Bali? Tourism is going to plummet after that last judicial farce . The Islamicists would love it - imagine a whole range of international targets, and not just Aussies.

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-08 11:18|| 2005-06-08 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 In an other UN related story, Pat Leahy was quoted as saying, "It is hard to think of a world without the U.N."

Actually,...no.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-08 11:48|| 2005-06-08 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Throw them all out NOW!

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-08 11:50|| 2005-06-08 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 BAR - re Leahy's latest vomit: It's hard to think of a world without gonorrhea either, but I'd sure like to try. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-08 12:03|| 2005-06-08 12:03|| Front Page Top

#13 We got a lot of empty buildings in Bonn, including a state of the art ex-Parliament

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-08 12:31|| 2005-06-08 12:31|| Front Page Top

#14 We got a lot of empty buildings in Bonn, including a state of the art ex-Parliament...

The question is: Do you all have enough Five Star restaurants?

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-06-08 12:44|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-08 12:44|| Front Page Top

#15 ...and hookers? Young ones?

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-08 12:49|| 2005-06-08 12:49|| Front Page Top

#16 We should make the UN headquarters on a rotating basis, so that means they should rotate over to europe and it wont be our turn for oh, say 1000 years or so.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-08 12:49|| 2005-06-08 12:49|| Front Page Top

#17 I hate the idea of hosting and pampering anti-American A-holes from all over the world. The UN has shown it's colors from Sudan to the Congo and
distinguished themselves as a powerless,self-serving, bunch of mooches. And to think we pay for 22% of all of this. Out of 200 countries we have to pay one fifth.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-08 12:54|| 2005-06-08 12:54|| Front Page Top

#18 Sex abuse at the UN???

In peacekeeping missions???

quell horreur, why has this not made the newspaper every single day? SCANDAL SCANDAL

oh... that spot is reserved for the hate-america left....

Posted by anon1 2005-06-08 13:02|| 2005-06-08 13:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Not quite, mojo. One of the post-Watergate "reforms" was to reduce the President's discretion on spending. If the Congress says that $X billion is to be spent (and doesn't explicitly give discretion), then it's a federal crime not to spend it. It's doubtful it would hold up in court, but no President has tried it.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-06-08 13:11|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-06-08 13:11|| Front Page Top

#20 I rather like Big Jim's idea, with a minor change. The UN HQ will rotate to the capital of the country currently heading the Human Rights Commission. That way the UN could get a nice long look at their wards. The current UNCHR chair is Indonesia. Perhaps Their Excellencies would like to have their sleeves rolled up by their staffs and help rebuild a village or two.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-08 13:22|| 2005-06-08 13:22|| Front Page Top

#21 That's the best idea anyone's come up with yet, Sea.

Let's propose it to the President and Congress. Get Rush and Hannity and O'Reilly on board.

Imagine the fun. (Imagine the fun if it actually came about! :-D)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-08 13:25|| 2005-06-08 13:25|| Front Page Top

#22 The more I think about it, the better I like it. As the UN travels about the globe, it turns into a giant circus, with gypsies and buskers, and tie dye EVERYwhere. Better than Dave Matthews, bigger than a Grateful Dead tour. Papier Mache puppets, pink cardboard tanks, the works. Like a black hole for LLL, the siren call of the UN on tour will empty the streets of Berkely and leave only echoes in the halls of Evergreen State....

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-08 13:32|| 2005-06-08 13:32|| Front Page Top

#23 Thats a fricken great idea! We should submit the idea to Fox, Hugh Hewitt, etc. Spread the word and spread the love.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-06-08 13:40|| 2005-06-08 13:40|| Front Page Top

#24 Let's not disparage the Dead in with that rabble.... *harumph*

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-08 13:54|| 2005-06-08 13:54|| Front Page Top

#25 tu3031
Just bring the UN... restaurants and hookers will follow

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-08 14:03|| 2005-06-08 14:03|| Front Page Top

#26 Nice of you to offer TGA but think it through. The un is just like a chapter 8 (welfare) housing case here in the States. Once they are in the house you have to let them stay as long as they live. While I think that the un is on the way out ala League of Nations, it may be decades until the world notices. If I were King for a day, U.S. funding for this organization would end today. I would also start making them pay rent, utitlities, and parking tickets. The only useful part of this sad excuse for a world body is that un Health organization, which could (and should) be brought under the International Red Cross. A nice thought but the un has turned out to be a collosal waste of money.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-08 14:07|| 2005-06-08 14:07|| Front Page Top

#27 Cyber Sarge, that would be no problem. If the tenants misbehave we can easily ship them off to nearby Belgium or France.

No refunds, though

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-08 14:17|| 2005-06-08 14:17|| Front Page Top

#28 With apologies to John Lennon (pbuh)

Imagine there's no UN
It's easy if you try.
No secure job for Kofi,
Bet you can hear him cry.
Imagine how damn happy
We'll be on that day!

Imagine there's no budget
To pay for five-star meals!
No cash for "peacekeepers"
Let 'em see how it feels!
Imagine all the kickbacks
That would go a-way...ooh hoo!

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I think Kofi can see it too
That's why he's on the run!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-06-08 14:41|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-06-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#29 * Bravo *

:: golf clap ::

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-08 14:53|| 2005-06-08 14:53|| Front Page Top

#30 Desert Blondie---Sign this contract! Ima gonna make you a star! All kidding aside, great lyrics.

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