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2008-10-09 International-UN-NGOs

World's poorest can bank on UN support, secretary-general says

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Do the bottom billion despise me, or is that a drafty Halloween costume you are wearing, UN?

Is that an invoice for the US Federal Government or are you just happy to see me? After all, that dominatrix Bolton has been promoted to galactic affairs. Are you still squabbling about that damn renovation?

Damn.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-10-09 01:35|| 2008-10-09 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 You punk ass hussies.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-10-09 01:38|| 2008-10-09 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Bank on us? Not if your major depositors withdraw all their funds.

Posted by AlanC 2008-10-09 10:06|| 2008-10-09 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Bank on the UN, huh? Are they printing their own UN currency now? Do they have their own UN banking system? No? So how ya gonna do it, Ban Man?

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-09 10:15|| 2008-10-09 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Why didn't they fly an airplane into THAT building?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 10:17|| 2008-10-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 They can bank on the UN...

Paid for by the USA.

Someone remind me again why we keep these leeches?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-09 10:19|| 2008-10-09 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Because the lawyers it would take to get rid of them would cost us even more.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-09 10:39|| 2008-10-09 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 The US Army would be cheaper.

And a lot more fun...

for me

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-09 10:43|| 2008-10-09 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 AIRBORNE! Vader.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-09 10:45|| 2008-10-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Why didn't they fly an airplane into THAT building?

Because that would have been good and they were up for no good.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-09 10:55|| 2008-10-09 10:55|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't give a flyin' shit what ole Ban Ki and his UN hustler pals do as long as we American Taxpayers are not any part of it. Let McPain say that one of his first acts when he becomes POTUS is to divest the United States from the UN. That would cause a lefty like Brokaw ( who tries to cover his path well) to choke on his cud. McPain would get a lot of votes also. But, the old fool won't do it. Someone said he resembled Yosemite Sam after the dynamite didn't go off yet again. I laughed till I hurt on that one. I hadn't thought of it, but that's exactly what he resembles. He better get some smoke in his ass pronto. It may be too late already.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-10-09 11:24|| 2008-10-09 11:24|| Front Page Top

#12 If by 'bank on', you mean 'behave in a completely predictable and self-serving way', then yeah, what he said. And hurry up with my shrimp cocktail!

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-09 12:37|| 2008-10-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 The UN should sell seats to the Security Council. A bidding war. If Japan, India, Brazil or whomever want a permanent seat the pony up and outbid one of the existing members.

Let a couple nations pool their resources and buy a seat together. Say Canada, New Zealand and Australia. That would get some fun back into the UN if they held an actual auction and you'd get a ton of money in the process. It's not as if the UN isn't bought and sold anyway.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-09 16:14|| 2008-10-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

#14 So you want a security council dominated by the Saudis and Iran?

Posted by lotp 2008-10-09 20:44|| 2008-10-09 20:44|| Front Page Top

#15 rjschwartz: maybe before adopting that proposal you should double-check which country just purchased Iceland.

Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-09 20:56|| 2008-10-09 20:56|| Front Page Top

#16 He has $16 billion for "the world's bottom billion." That's $16 per person the way I do the math.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-09 21:07|| 2008-10-09 21:07|| Front Page Top

#17 Well, for the aristocrats in the countries with the bottom billion, at least.

Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-09 21:32|| 2008-10-09 21:32|| Front Page Top

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