Friday, October 01, 2004

Does Any Country Really Care When the UN Issues a Resolution?

“Syria has not withdrawn its troops from Lebanon, as required by a resolution of the U.N. Security Council adopted earlier this month, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday.”

Give them another 10 years, or so, like you did Saddam, Kofi.

The UN, Excellencies of Ineptness.

Annan: Syria Has Not Pulled Troops Out of Lebanon

Via Google News.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/01 at 11:46 AM
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Cranking it Back Up

After a brief lull in the obesity epidemic sing along, the organ grinders, and their monkeys, are back out on the street spreading doom and gloom, while candy bars are shrinking, and Jack Daniels is being watered down, right at the distillery no less.

A new study, is promoting the idea that parents and the government need to attack the obesity “epidemic” as if it is some contaigious disease which individuals can pick up by looking too longingly at a fast food restaurant or pausing too long at the candy counter at the local Stop n’ Rob.

Not content with simply encouraging personal responsibility among individuals for shoving too much food into their mouths, the State sees, with their all encompassing insight, the battle against obesity to be a legislative matter.

“Childhood obesity has reached such epidemic proportions that it can be reversed only by a coordinated effort touching everything from new zoning laws that promote parks and sidewalks to tougher regulation of ads aimed at kids to more physical education in schools, the Institute of Medicine said yesterday.”

Well, if the supposed obesity problem is so epidemic, the State should grab the bull by the horns and proclaim, via the law, that from now on Americans must embrace the Luddite philosophy, ban all labor saving devices, foods with sugar, and mandate a 3 hour exercise period each day.

Here’s your gruel, citizen, now, jumping jacks, begin.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/01 at 05:38 AM
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Speaking from Experience, or Just Conjecture?

“Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: “I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.”

Orgies are the way to ease social tensions, claims US judge

Via Drudge.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/01 at 05:33 AM
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