First, the USOC warns American athletes not to act like Americans in Greece this summer. It might offend those who hate Americans.
Now the Spanish are removing a religious statue from a cathedral in fear of hurting Muslim feelings.
Have I entered a parallel universe?
I just got the same email here at work as Wallace received. He’s in the BIG OIL business, so knows of what he speaks.
I find it interesting that anytime somebody wants to demonize an industry they append the adjective “big” to the title. Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Government, Big Education…oops. Sorry. nobody ever says that about education! Just you greedy oil producers. Who the hell do you think you are trying to make a profit at our expense?! You should be losing money!
My view is that we should drain the Saudi oil fields as quickly as possible, then reap the profits here at home by drilling in ANWR.
I’ve been watching Discovery-Times Channel’s World Trade Center: Anatomy of the Collapse. Over and over they showed film of the second aircraft hitting the tower. The show then details the investigation into what the failure modes were which caused both towers to collapse.
I was in awe that day when the buildings remained upright. I understand the stresses involved in any vertical structure, even though I wasn’t aware of the particulars of these two buildings.
People are still looking for someone to blame for the deaths of 3000 people. Surely, as conventional litigious nature demands, someone should have known this could happen and design for it.
Engineering against such a thing is impossible within the confines of application. Neither can you engineer against stupidity, like the man who uses a lawnmower to trim a hedge, and loses his fingers while lifting it up.
After watching this show, I am even more impressed that a human being could envision and design and build such structures. Litigants be damned.
Two Senators (with 14 co-sponsors) have introduced legislation which requires cooperation from the UN in Congressional investigations of the Oil-for-Food Program.
S. 2389 states, right up front, that its purpose is
To require the withholding of United States contributions to the United Nations until the President certifies that the United Nations is cooperating in the investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.
HR4284 mirrors this bill in the House, and has 35 co-sponsors.
The US pays 25% of the UN budget each year. The only way any investigation will ever make progress is to threaten the organization in this way. Unfortunately, the individuals involved probably don’t care whether we pay our dues or not.
Come to think of it, when was the last time Kofi stuck his nose out into the open?
The guys at Friends of Saddam have all the updates.
I found this link over at Slatt’s blog.
I have seen something similar before, although I can’t remember where. But it sums up my personal views very well. The entire speech is in the extended post area below if you’re not interested in viewing comments over at Free Republic.
It is really about time for our President to say something similar, especially in regard to Mexico and the UN.
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I don’t think this man feels much for those being abused in prison.
For the first time in my life, I feel I’m somebody. I’m not a trash as Saddam and his gang tried to make me believe.
Another interesting aside on prisoner abuse by Tim Blair.
Since Nelson Mandela is making noises about Iraq, perhaps he could be persuaded to take his buddy Kofi with him on a fact-finding trip to remedy this situation.
Probably not. They believe Africans are lower forms of humanity.
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