The United Nations is obviously crumbling in terms of its actual importance; John Bolton, a man who knows himself, knows the history of the UN and is unafraid to call nations on the issues, will no longer be our UN Ambassador. And the UN manages to crumble further and become less important.

That Bolton is leaving — is only to the detriment of the United States.

But Bolton, because of his outspoken self and the fact that he was not remotely hesitant to call various nations, issues and representatives on their stupidity, has “resigned.” Or perhaps, more accurately, Bolton is serving out his term before stepping down.

Why? you might ask. Because, under the Democrats, Bolton has little chance of being confirmed for a full appointment by the Senate. Politics demand that the appearance is that Bolton is a successful ambassador derailed by Congress. And that is so true. From CBS News:

The White House quickly took issue with that characterization. “It is not a resignation,” Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino told CBS News. She noted that Bolton would be leaving his post when his recess appointment expired at the end of the 109th Congress. After an email with Perino’s comment was passed around CBS News, the headline on the Bolton story was changed to “U.N. Ambassador John Bolton To Step Down.”

Why might Bolton not be confirmed? Because he is contentious? Because he is not a carpet? Because he has opinions and calls a spade a spade? Because he is not an apologist for the White Race and not a card-carrying member of the “United States Is Evil” club? Because he believes the UN is broken and needs to be repaired?

“Iran‘s Foreign Ministry has called Bolton ‘rude’ and ‘undiplomatic.’ “

Bolton has been a strong critic of the United Nations for much of his career. In a 1994 Global Structures Convocation hosted by the World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions), he stated, “There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.”

Oddly enough, according to the biased Wikipedia:

The New York Times in an editorial The Shame of the United Nations has praised Bolton’s stance on “reforming the disgraceful United Nations Human Rights Commission” [47], saying “John Bolton, is right; Secretary General Kofi Annan is wrong.” The Times also said that the current commission is composed of “some of the world’s most abusive regimes” who use their membership as cover to continue their abusiveness.

Yes; all of those things and more.

President Bush said this:

I am deeply disappointed that a handful of United States Senators prevented Ambassador Bolton from receiving the up or down vote he deserved in the Senate. They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time. This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country, and discourages men and women of talent from serving their Nation.”

I am no apologist or bootlicker for President Bush as anyone who has historically read my blog knows. I am a Conservative before I am a GOP supporter. But Bush has pegged this issue precisely.

Kofi Annan today criticized the Iraq war and said the Iraqis are worse off than before the fall of Saddam Hussein. The average Iraqi believes “yes, we’ll get through the chaos.” But not Kofi; he thinks every Iraqi would rather bleat: “Yes, I long for the good old days of Hussein and the disappearances of my neighbors.” Oil for Food corruption? George Galloway still on the take? Kofi’s son in receipt of more expensive Mercedes-Benzes?

Insanity in the UN.

Untolerated by Bolton; soon to be tolerated by whatever limp-wristed servile sychophant the Democrats choose to appoint.

Because migosh, though the US funds the UN to the tune of $5 billion dollars per year, we certainly shouldn’t make sure we get any return for the money American taxpayers invest, should we?

I mean, shoot, how expectational and judgmental would that be??

BZ

In the comment section of my last post, Sues indicated that if she won the lottery she’d quit her job and leave Fornicalia, which she called Mexifornia. That got me to thinking:

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Let’s say, perhaps, $20 million dollars?

With that figure in mind, I have a few questions:

• Would you stay at your job for a period of time?
• What would you immediately do with your money?
• What would you do with the rest?
• Would you stay in your current home or town?

BZ’s ANSWERS:

Yes, for a period of time I would continue working my job; I would also do my level-headed best to ensure that my winning the lottery was not made public, nor would I mention it to family or friends until I was in a fiscal and mental position to handle the flak, hysteria and complications that would inevitably result.

What would I expect?

First, some amount of media coverage. My inclination, because I was the media years ago, would be to put them on Ignore Mode. However, they would publish and/or portray whatever they wished anyway and one must expect contacts from not only family but the outside world as well.

I would envision family members who’d never given me the proverbial “time of day” to come out of the woodwork, leaving tearful pleas on my home and cell phone. I’d have friends I’d not spoken to in years clogging my voicemail as well. Throw in total strangers with offers of “making more millions” and I’d have a thoroughly confusing conglomerate.

My reaction? I’d ignore everyone except those who are actually meaningful to me. And I’d take care of me and my immediate family first. First long-term move: begin to investigate the appointment of a professional and competent personal financial counselor/attorney, as I am not an Economics or Accounting major. I would do this sub rosa; making my own inquisitions and sending out my own feelers.

Second: I’d put a roof on my fiance’s home, buy her a new vehicle, and make sure her mother was overseen and taken care of. I’d pay off a portion of my own home — but not completely.

I would also spend a few dollars on my own one immediate whimsy purchase: I’d buy a brand new 2007 GMC Yukon Denali SUV with every feature and appointment imagineable. Why, you might ask? Because GMC is domestic, it would be one clearly conspicuous purchase, and I’ve always wanted to be amongst the few who could sit high, display their conspicuous consumption, and afford something of that order with leather, luxury, a huge engine and no worries about size or fuel. My vehicles have historically always, always been small, thrifty, inexpensive, and much less than luxurious. Screw that now. I’d splurge for this one purchase.

And that’s where my immediate purchases would stop until I stood back and got a Global view and prognostication of where my funds would be in three years, five years, ten years, and so on. $20 million dollar sounds unlimited; in today’s world I suspect it is quite not.

In a longer view, I would consider moving to the Pacific Northwest where the area combines three of my favorite venues: lower temperatures, pines and the ocean. I would leave my home town of Sacratomato behind and consider the Jenner, Mendocino, Ft. Bragg, Bandon or Astoria areas.

What would you do?

Answer these questions:

• Would you stay at your job for a period of time?
• What would you immediately do with your money?
• What would you do with the rest?
• Would you stay in your current home or town?

I’m going to leave this post up for a few days because I really want to hear what readers of this blog have to say about sudden and overwhelming fortunes. How would you handle it, and what would be your reaction to this newfound wealth?

BZ

What is more important to you: the week or the weekend?

I can remember from years ago, someone telling me this:

“When I’d finally reached St. Peters’ gate, I wouldn’t say:

Gosh, I wish I’d worked harder at my job.

_____________

Do you live for the Week?

Or do you live for the Weekend?

Quite frankly, I live for my weekend now, and I’ll explain why.

I live in Fornicalia, the most oppressive of states on many levels. It is a beautiful state which became despoiled by immigrants naturalized and otherwise. It is a state rampant with insufficient roads, insufficient funds, insufficient power production, insufficient water production, insufficient sewer projects, insufficient fire and police protection, and an overabundance of suckers from the Public Nipple — legal and illegal.

And into its coffers my bi-weekly paycheck gets circumscised.

And what about you?

Do you live for the Week?

Do you live for the Weekend?

I live for the weekend.

My job rounds me but it does not “complete me.” I am not it and it is not me. My job requires my living down in the valley. On Thursday night I escape the flatlanders and rush into the hinterlands beyond. Sometimes I feel completely oppressed and compressed and nothing but leaving the valley will satisfy my shiverings.

What do you live for?

And why?

BZ

Amongst other things, this is what we would desire for the United States, would it not? — to wit:

A nice little brawl between politicians and citizens for a Presidential swearing-in, where the ceremonial subject has to be “sneaked” into the venue.

From The Associated Press:

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Felipe Calderon took the oath of office as Mexico’s president Friday amid jeers and whistles, a lightning-fast ceremony before lawmakers who exchanged punches and insults over the conservative leader’s narrow victory.

Calderon entered through a back door and appeared suddenly on the speaker’s platform, the site of three days of fistfights and sit-ins by lawmakers seeking to control the stage. Physically protected by sympathetic lawmakers and flanked by outgoing President Vicente Fox, Calderon ignored the chaos around him and calmly raised his arm as he swore to uphold the constitution in comments almost inaudible over the noise.

Once the ceremony concluded the band struck and drowned out everyone and everything else.

Clearly, this is the professional, chaste and dignified fashion we wish to emulate in the United States.

By allowing my country to be swarmed by illegal immigrants who do not wish to embrace my country, who refuse to learn my language, English, who wish to suck whatever benefits they can acquire by fiat, who do not respect my borders, who do not wish to assimilate into my culture —

— then a future such as this is certainly guaranteed for the future.

Make no mistake. I have no kids but evidently not for the lack of my distant ex-wife’s attempts — only after the divorce did I learn, via my brother’s wife, that my wife had apparently miscarried twice. Though of course I never heard of this until quite some time after the “fact.” For various reasons I doubt this a tad, since in my previous careers I was exposed to not only massive doses of RF but radiation as well. In a few words I suspect I have been just a hair sterile over the years which may account for the bits of cancer I’ve encountered here and there.

So what I’m saying is this: I’m nobody’s father nor did I ever want to be, then and now. Despite my apparent lack of investment in my future I’m saying I do have an investment in the future of my country. I want to see it continue on its path of supremacy and empire. For my brother Jim’s children, Colin, Cristan and Caitlin.

I want them to have an investment and a feeling of future in the country that aborned them.

If we continue on our current path their future is nothing more than that of diminishment and an ascription to second class citizenship or worse.

You want to see the future of America under an assault from illegal Mexican immigrants?

You have but to look at the nation of Mexico right now.

BZ