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Dickhead Art, Clinton, and Blix

I noticed this question on billoreilly.com- Should Clinton and Davis have given a political speech at a church?

I was thinking the same exact thing when I first saw the video of these two idiots at that church. Churches should stay away from this sort of thing. Scary thing is- you think a christian church wouldn't be praising democrats and especially former President Clinton. Think about it. I don't think churches should be holding rallies like that. I got an e mail from the GOP regarding starting voting registration drives at churches, which I think is fine. But- there's a difference between getting people to vote and having rallies with idiots who are busy talking about how the recall is evil. It's inappropriate to me.

Hans Blix now has totally changed his mind (this guy is clueless), and he says that he believes Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction. He basically said they had them months ago, but now he says he thinks they don't. He says that Hussein tricked the U.S. into thinking he had weapons so the U.S. would not attack him- an idea that makes no sense at all. Who knows. Contrary to what many would have you believe, no one said WMD was the entire reason for invading Iraq and taking out Hussein.

I was listening to Bob and Tom this morning (radio show), and they were reading a news story about some art gallery that bought a piece of art that is a picture of a man's head, but made entirely of drawings of penises. The piece is called dickhead. Interesting. Remind me to skip that museum.

During Fox and Friends this morning, one of their reporters in Virgina (I think that's where he was)...was showing the sound man's goggles...then, he took the camera and turned it on the cameraman himself, who was also wearing scuba googles. I wonder if that's normal?

I love that Verizon commercial about their new push to talk feature on their phones...the one with the realtor lady who is walking in the front yard, wondering where the key is...she walks over and steps on a rake and it flies up and smacks her in the face, knocking her down. Funny stuff. Still nowhere near as funny as the furniture commercial from months ago where the couple are in bed and the furniture guy who is voicing the commercial is sneaking in their bedroom, talking about how old their furniture is. They wake up when he makes a sound, and he makes a cat sound- the lady is like, 'we don't have a cat!' So, the guy then makes a dog sound. You'd have to see it. It's hilarious.

I have a meeting at 9 AM. Funness.

Random thought here: Why does ANYONE with any brain cells support Hillary 'corrupt' Clinton? Read any of the books about her. She's a liar, a crook...name a negative adjective and it fits her.

Finally, James Rosen of Fox News, on the White House lawn...when the hurricane hits, he says he will be sent to a bunker 6 miles under the earth's crust, where he will be given one copy of the U.S. Constitution. So, if all else fails in D.C., he's our only hope. He'll be there wearing the "daddy pants." A thought that is frightening, yet oddly calming at the same time.

Here is Jacoby's newest article. I never knew this, but it's a sad situation to see that China (communist China that gives its people NO rights) has any say with this. I mentioned years ago here (when it was The Blue Page) that we should take a tough stance with China. We need to let China stop bullying other nations. That includes the U.S. and it includes Taiwan (clearly.) Why we didn't include China as part of the axis of evil, I have no idea. They HAVE said that they will attack the United States, and it's a question of WHEN not IF. Some of the top guys in the Chinese government said that, but we do nothing...we give them most favored nation status, and here- we let them bully smaller countries of the world. Sad...

TAIWAN DESERVES A UN SEAT
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

September 18, 2003

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/18/taiwan_deserves_a_un_seat/

As the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week, the gavel was wielded by its new president, Julian Hunte of Saint Lucia. When Hunte was elected to the post in June, the UN issued a statement hailing the fact that the presidency was being assumed "by a representative of the smallest country ever to hold that office." This, it commented, was proof of the UN's "faith in the equal right of nations large and small, as enunciated in the [UN] Charter."

Nations don't come much smaller or less influential than Saint Lucia. It is a minor Caribbean island known primarily for bananas and tourism. With a population of 158,000, it is less than half the size of Cincinnati. Its $700 million economy ranks in the lowest quintile of GDPs -- No. 193 on one standard list of countries around the world. (Haiiti's, by way of comparison, is $12 billion -- No. 123 on the same list.)

But however insignificant Saint Lucia might be on the world stage, in the General Assembly it is the equal of every other country. Universality is one of the UN's core principles; the Charter makes membership available to "all . . . peace-loving states." Within the General Assembly, all states -- continental superpower and Caribbean flyspeck alike -- have an equal vote.

To be sure, that principle has some severe drawbacks. The worst is that it makes no distinction between tyrannies and democracies -- a repressive dictatorship like Burma is as much a member in good standing as democratic Belgium or Brazil. On the other hand, it reflects the universality of many of the world's scourges. Terrorism, SARS, and drug abuse cross borders and ignore boundaries. As Hunte put it upon being elected, the UN system recognizes that no nation is an island unto itself.

Except one.

Of all the nations in the world, only one -- Taiwan -- is excluded from the United Nations. It has not even been allowed to participate in General Assembly sessions as a non-voting observer, a courtesy extended to entities ranging from the Holy See to the Order of Malta to the International Committee of the Red Cross. This week, for the 11th year in a row, Taiwan is asking to be admitted to the UN. This week, for the 11th year in a row, it will be turned down.

And why? Is Taiwan guilty of some odious international crime? Is it a dictatorship? Does it make war on its neighbors, or practice apartheid, or harbor terrorists?

No: Taiwan is blackballed from the UN because its neighbor is a bully. The Communist government in Beijing insists that Taiwan is merely a renegade Chinese province, not a country in its own right and therefore not entitled to a seat in the UN. That is a ludicrous stance to take in 2003, after more than half a century of Taiwanese self-rule. It is akin to maintaining that North Korea is merely a rebellious region of the Republic of Korea, or that Slovenia is nothing but a refractory district of Yugoslavia. However reasonable such arguments might once have been, today they would be specious.

But China devotes considerable economic and diplomatic muscle to enforcing its specious position. It throws tantrums and threatens reprisals whenever Taiwan is treated with the respect due an independent nation. Sadly, most of the world's governments find it easier to go along with Beijing's blackball than to defend Taiwan's right to a UN seat of its own.

Once upon a time, Beijing and Taipei each claimed to be the legitimate government of both mainland China and Taiwan, and each claimed it was entitled to the UN's China seat. That dispute was settled in 1971, when the General Assembly voted to recognize the Beijing as "the sole legitimate government representing China in the United Nations." That closed the question of who should represent China. But it left open a different question: Who represents the people of Taiwan? For 32 years, the answer has been: nobody.

Beijing's energetic spin to the contrary notwithstanding, Taiwan has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China. From the founding of the PRC to the present, Taiwan has had its own government, maintained its own diplomatic profile in the world, and seen to its own defense. There is no justification for treating it as anything less than what it is -- a nation unto itself.

In recent decades, Taiwan has transformed itself from an authoritarian one-party state into a vibrant parliamentary democracy. Unlike its thuggish neighbor across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan has become a land of liberty and human rights, a trustworthy US ally, and a responsible member of the community of nations. Its $400 billion economy is one of the world's most dynamic -- No. 23 on the same list that ranks Saint Lucia 193rd. Its population of 22.6 million is larger than three-fourths of the UN membership. If minuscule Saint Lucia is entitled to a voice in the General Assembly, surely Taiwan is too.

Fifteen nations signed the petition seeking Taiwan's admission to the UN, but the United States was not among them. This reluctance to stand up for a beleaguered democratic friend does us no honor. The barring of Taiwan is a clear wrong. Americans should be the first to say so.


(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)