Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage
The live stream-cast of Restoring Honor. Right now, the stage is rocking with some great gospel music. The Tweet feed on the right side of the page is mostly comprised of expressions of being thrilled at witnessing such an outpouring, but there is also a fair share of snark from lefties.
Faster than TCM and the other clueless supposed stewards of Western and, indeed, global security can reach for the snooze button.
This development might change the tenor of next week’s meeting of UN Security Council representatives and Iran’s chief nuke-program negotiator: Iran has an until-now-secret uranium facility, one that no one had been taking into account in calculations about how this situation was going to play out.
Ahmadinejad is set to attend Durban II.
We’re going to be involved in Durban II after all. Probably just “preparations” rather than attendance, doncha understand.
Yeah, right.
A special UN rapporteur is coming to the UN to investigate what role racism might play in the US presidential campaign. Bear in mind that this Senegalese guy is a bigwig in the Islamic world with a record of anti-Semitism. And then there’s the clown from our own government who says that our going along with this shows we’re “leading by example.”
That’s the second time I’ve heard the phrase “leading by example” today, the other being Barack Obama’s assertion to an Oregon crowd that we’re going to have to walk around chilly and hungry. (Well, maybe go around on bicycles.) (See post below.) “Lead by example” is starting to sound to me like it means “invite the world’s scumbags to trample on our freedom.”
Ban Ki-Moon shows he’s perfectly qualified to lead the United Nations:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080313/wl_mideast_afp/oicislamsummitmideast
Any time somebody starts telling Israel to keep its “response proportional,” you know you’re dealing with a representative of the problem, not the solution.
Reread the last few posts pertaining to Iran. Think hard and deeply about what they say. Then read this and this. Our world had truly gone mad. And the last few sane people seem to be coming down with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.
The various bodies of the UN like to haggle over semantics. Now it’s the Human Rights Council that wants to police worldwide discourse for any traces of association between Islam and terrorism.
