The headline was simple enough:
Catholic Group Urges Boycott of Miller Brewing Co. Over San Francisco Fair Sponsorship
A church group is mad at a beer company. Big whoop. May as well have run a Britney Spears headline. However, reading the story opens all kinds of doors. First of all, what they were initially mad at was this:
That was just the beginning. What they got madder about was down in the left hand bottom of the page you’ll see a particular sponsor, Miller Brewing Company. Now, what the Folsom Street Fair is, is a parade in San Francisco featuring the freakiest of freaks. These aren’t your average run of the mill gays and lesbians. If you have the guts, just follow this link. Now, gotta warn ya, there’s lots of boobies. However, there’s even more guys’ peckers hanging out. These people are into public humiliation whether they know it or not. Now, here’s where the rub comes in. I’m not Catholic. I’m not terribly religious at all. A bunch of freaks portraying the Last Supper purely has a chuckle value to it and that’s about it for me. However, going the other way, I’m not into public displays of humilation either. I don’t like whips and chains and leather. It just does nothing for me. And, I’m not the least bit gay either. So, if I don’t drink MGD or Miller Lite, everyone will accuse me of cowering to Catholic censorship and repression. If I do drink MGD or Miller Lite, people will look at me funny in bars and guys who like to be whipped, flogged, and have large leather objects shoved up their patootie will smile at me. This is a no-win situation for a guy who doesn’t like Miller beer in the first place.
- Michelle Malkin has some fun things to add to this. Be sure to follow Zombie’s link!
In the form of a resolution, Congress took a hard slap at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Basically, it goes like this. The United Nations formed a council to look into human rights violations and do what it can to assure human rights are respected all over the globe. With the continuing genocide in Africa, the extremist Muslims butchering people in the name of Allah, the extremist Muslims terrorizing the world by attacking innocent people, and basically a whole slew of egregious acts against humanity all over the planet, this is what the United Nations Human Rights Council came up with:
Israel is the only PERMANENT member on their list of violators.
Can you believe that?
I mean, can you seriously believe that?
I really can’t.
I mean, I just really can not fathom what these members of the United Nations Human Rights Council were thinking.
Israel.
Sheez.
Yesterday Iran’s president announced to a live American audience that killing homosexuals isn’t really an issue because there are no homosexuals in Iran.
Yeah, right.
Israel.
Last week the United States caught Iraqi terrorists with Iranian ammunition. Again.
Israel. Right.
Darfur continues to be a human rights travesty as millions are dislocated and starving to death because of Muslem extremists.
Israel. Right.
With such an incredible display of arrogance, bias, and ignorace, the Human Rights Council ceased to be anything of value to mankind. As usual, good idea shot to hell by politics within the United Nations.
The United Nations as a world police force is useless. It just needs to be dissolved and use that money for actual human rights efforts.
What’s even more amazing to me is that when Congress voted on this amazing display of arrogance and bias by the United Nations, two members actually voted against it. They’re both running for President. They are Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. Needless to say, I don’t think either of these guys have what it takes to be president. Even if they don’t like Israel, what the United Nations did is wrong, wrong, wrong and in no way humanly possible can it be right. Defending that council at this point is stupid. Here’s the context of the resolution:
H. Res. 557 In the House of Representatives, U. S., September 25, 2007. Whereas Article II of Chapter I of the United Nations Charter states that `[t]he Organization is based on the principles of sovereign equality of all its members’;
Whereas the former United Nations Human Rights Commission was widely discredited for its incessant attacks against Israel and for granting membership to Cuba, Zimbabwe, China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries that were notorious human rights violators;
Whereas the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution establishing the United Nations Human Rights Council, stating that `members elected to the Council shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights’;
Whereas the resolution also stated that `the Council shall be responsible for promoting universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind and in a fair and equal manner’;
Whereas China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia are members of the United Nations Human Rights Council;
Whereas in the past year that the United Nations Human Rights Council has been in existence, the Council has held four special sessions to address pressing human rights situations;
Whereas of the four special sessions, three sessions were held for purposes of condemning Israel for alleged human right abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and in Lebanon, and the fourth session was a non-condemnatory expression of `concern’ regarding the situation in Darfur, Sudan;
Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Council has failed to condemn serial abusers of human rights throughout the world, including Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, China, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and others;
Whereas, on June 19, 2007, a Department of State spokesperson specifically identified Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Belarus as countries that merit consideration by the United Nations Human Rights Council due to their `serious human rights violations’;
Whereas during its fifth special session, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to make Israel the only country permanently included on its agenda; and
Whereas United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stated he was `disappointed at the Council’s decision to single out only one specific regional item, given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world’: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives–
(1) strongly condemns the United Nations Human Rights Council for ignoring severe human rights abuses in other countries, while choosing to unfairly target the State of Israel;
(2) strongly urges the United Nations Human Rights Council to remove Israel from its permanent agenda;
(3) strongly urges the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold special sessions to address other countries in which human rights abuses are being committed, adopt real reform as was intended for the Council when it replaced the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and reaffirm the principle of human dignity consistent with the original intent envisioned at the Council’s establishment;
(4) strongly urges the United States to make every effort in the United Nations General Assembly to ensure that the United Nations Human Rights Council lives up to its mission to protect human rights around the world, in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/251 establishing the Council; and
(5) strongly urges the United States to work with the United Nations General Assembly to ensure that only countries that have a well-established commitment to protecting human rights are chosen to serve on the Council.
I agree with this resolution 100%. It doesn’t support Israel, it simply states that there are abuses all over the planet and those countries that have at least attempted to respect human rights be allowed to judge those that don’t.
I would REALLY like to know what Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were thinking. I know they both basically like to oppose everything just for the sake of opposing everything, but this is just stupid.
I started a poll a while back, I think it’s still relevant:
25
Sep
Well, here it is:
I really can’t see what’s so offensive about this one to the tune it can’t get on tv in Houston.
I myself was hoping to see a little more.
I’d actually like to see a lot more like this and a lot less of those commercials promoting super-caffeinated drinks aimed at children. Now, to me, that’s offensive.
Until we get our priorities straight our kids will continue to be messed up and confused.
Now, I found it kind of odd at the time that Syria didn’t go absolutely bonkers over the rumored Israeli raid into Syria when it occurred.
Now we know why.
Now we got North Korea selling nuclear stuff to Syria, and helping them making it work. We got Iran smuggling missiles and stuff into Iraq. How many people scoffed at Bush’s axis of evil statement five years ago?
24
Sep
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is disappointed the US is not allowing him to roam free in the US speaking. His logic for allowing to do so is something like this:
At exactly the same time that quote was released, this story is breaking as well:
So, what is the correct information? If Ahmadinejad’s claim that insteability in Iraq is detrimental to Iran’s goals, why are Iranian weapons being found in Iraq?
This guy is bad at manipulation.
Now, what disappoints me without it even happening yet is I know the kids at Columbia won’t hammer Ahmadinejad over real life issues causing death and destruction in Iraq. They’ll buy his rhetoric and probably ask a hand full of watered down social issues that has nothing to do with world peace.
Go ahead Columbia, make my day, prove me wrong.
Scrappleface, that’s Scott Ott in disguise, ran another one of their better satires on American politics. I’m going to violate Scott in the most horrid manner possible by just posting the whole thing here. I have to, because it leads to even more horrid things later. Here goes:
While reading this, I got this perverse vision in my mind that wouldn’t go away of Hillary dressed in her slave costume lying in the lap of a gargantuan fat husband Bill.
It wouldn’t go away.
Then, I read something scary in the comments:
Jeepers, and who would want to see her in Princess Leia’s slave costume?
I realized at that point I wasn’t alone in this affliction. So, I put my two semesters of abnormal psychiatry in college to work and transposed that image to something else:
Scott Ott, this all YOUR fault. I hope you can live with it as we now have to:
As I pointed out a long time ago, Rather’s final months were just the icing on the cake. As far as the Texas Air Guard story went, he had plenty of notice real quick that the story was flawed, but chose to run it anyway, then blamed the blogosphere for attacking it. As he noted at the time, HE was in charge of the news content that came out of CBS. HE was in charge. That is well documented all over the place. To then come back and claim he was not supported and protected by the people HE claims he was in charge of is just as loony as his run-in with the frequency guy.
My bet is this goes nowhere. Dan just needs to retire or sit in on The View.
Every time I think The View has sunk to the lowest it can possibly get, a new character drags it even lower. We had the Rosie blaming Bush for 9/11 crap, citing metal doesn’t melt due to fire. Then we had Whoopi. Now we’ve got Joy Behar comparing the Republican Presidential candidates to members of the Ku Klux Klan. She doesn’t offer any shred of logic as to why she blurted that out.
Is shock value truly the only content The View now has to offer?
Most of the normal blogdom has already suggested Robert Byrd drop in and give advice to Behar on what a Klansman truly represents. So, I won’t have to do go that route.
Just a quickie update. Mrs. Moon, who is a Democrat, reminds me that Joy is a comedian. She, nor I, got the joke. I have noticed for a long time when comedians try to be funny regarding politics, it often falls flat, or worse.
Jesse Jackson blasted Barack Obama because Obama hasn’t brought attention to a racial incident in Jena, Louisiana. Jesse’s claim is that Barack is “acting white” by not making it the centerpiece of his campaign right now. This is so typical Jesse Jackson it’s sickening to me. Racial tensions reached a loggerhead in the 60′s, when Jackson was a young activist adult. They kind of simmered through the 70′s, but mellowed substantially. With the advent of the 80′s we got inter-racial dating and marriages becoming almost a common occurance. By the 90′s, that wasn’t even shocking any more. Now in the 21st century, I think I can speak for most whites anyway, it’s a non-issue. Your either fer me or agin me, the color of your skin is meaningless. Race issues, to most the whites I know, is non-existant. So, every so often, you get some racist like Jesse Jackson who stirs up something just to antagonize the issue just like it was 1964 all over again. Or, at least they try. Jackson’s a single issue guy and that issue is racism. If people don’t cower down to his myopic racist views, they’re not black enough. Enter Obama. Obama gets pounded every day on issues. He’s running for national office. When doing so, you get hit with every conceivable issue imagined. Every day. Every waking moment. As such, I bet you right now Obama could rattle off the top ten most frequently asked questions he gets every single day, every waking moment. And, I bet, as a skilled politician, he gauges those questions and uses them to form his political strategy.
This leads me to the conclusion I have, which should terrify Jesse Jackson. My conclusion is most everyone else in this country realizes Jena for what it is. It’s a fairly isolated incident perpetrated by a very few narow-minded idiots. It’s not the national problem it was forty years ago. As such, it’s not something people worry about much. As such, it’s not something people are asking Obama about. As such, it’s not something Obama feels compelled to address. As such, it is absolutely no indication whatsoever on the blackness or whiteness of Obama. And, the sooner racists like Jackson quit gauging someone on how black or white they are, the sooner racism will go away.
19
Sep
The University of Florida Police Department is taking some heat for the less than subtle means they used to shut up Andrew Meyer during a John Kerry presentation. Wearing the over-abused cliche drooping khaki pants and a t-shirt, this guy was obviously no threat to anyone. The cops didn’t get his prank or thought it was funny, so they tasered him. More than once actually. Being obnoxious doesn’t merit tasering. Sometimes I wish it did, but it doesn’t. A strong punch to the jaw I think would have shut him up more effectively and would have probably led to a lot less publicity. Media folks just don’t run around publishing stories with a headline that reads something to the effect of “Student punched in jaw!”. Proper plan, bad execution. The upside of all this is it gives me a good reason to watch Monty Python
Now, Arthur had it down perfect. When someone protests too much, just walk away and ignore them.
