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In his address, Mr Ahmadinejad launched a scathing attack on Israel, accusing it of adopting “inhuman policies” in the Palestinian territories.
He claimed greater global freedom and the “awakening of nations” would force Israel to abandon its “hypocrisy and vicious attitudes”.
“It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the US, to attain its racist ambitions,” he said.
British delegates joined American and French representatives in leaving the room at the UN headquarters at this point.
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Month: September 2009
Maine’s Struggle with Gay Activism
Milton Freidman – Socialism vs. Capitalism
Just about the best summary of the highest level I’ve heard spoken.
YouTube – Margaret Thatcher on Socialism
U.N. climate meeting was propaganda: Czech president | U.S. | Reuters
“It was sad and it was frustrating,” said [Czech President Vaclav] Klaus, one of the world’s most vocal skeptics on the topic of global warming.
“It’s a propagandistic exercise where 13-year-old girls from some far-away country perform a pre-rehearsed poem,” he said. “It’s simply not dignified.”
At the opening of the summit attended by nearly 100 world leaders, 13-year-old Yugratna Srivastava of India told the audience that governments were not doing enough to combat the threat of climate change.
Klaus said there were increasing doubts in the scientific community about whether humans are causing changes in the climate or whether the changes are simply naturally occurring phenomena.
But politicians, he said, seem to be moving closer to a consensus on climate change.
“The train can’t be stopped and I consider that a huge mistake,” Klaus said.
via U.N. climate meeting was propaganda: Czech president | U.S. | Reuters.
March of the penguin love triangle | Opinion L.A. | Los Angeles Times
They aren’t the infamous Tango’s dads (we’ll get to that later) but the forces opposing same-sex marriage see vindication in nature–or at least in the San Francisco Zoo, where a couple of male penguins who formed a long partnership have split.
Harry and Pepper shared a burrow together for six years, even hatching a surrogate chick, until Linda the widow came along, newly bereaved by her (male) partner Fig’s death and Harry decided to, uh, chase some tail.
via March of the penguin love triangle | Opinion L.A. | Los Angeles Times.
Gibbs insists Obama not backing off public option
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists the Obama administration has not shifted its goals on health care reform or distanced itself from a government-run public insurance option.
The Ant and The Grasshopper, Old and New
OLD VERSION (from AESOP’S FABLES):
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. But the grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible/accountable for yourself!
MODERN VERSION (from Barry Obama and Nancy Pelosi):
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’ ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has now disappeared in the snow.
Later, the grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
Ain’t Socialism grand?
» Stephanopoulos points out Merriam-Webster definition of taxes to president in interview Row 2, Seat 4 « FOXNews.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: … during the campaign. Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don’t. How is that not a tax?
OBAMA: Well, hold on a second, George. Here — here’s what’s happening. You and I are both paying $900 bucks on average — our families — in higher premiums because of uncompensated care. Now, what I’ve said is that, if you can’t afford health insurance, you certainly shouldn’t be punished for that. That’s just piling on.
Obama personally manipulating …
Obama personally manipulating Massachusetts senator seat — http://bit.ly/bwE6D