A Do-Nothing Good-for-Nothing Council

March 27, 2007 9:31 PM

A Do-Nothing Good-for-Nothing Council
posted by yoel88 (24 comments total)

Boy, I loathe that you wouldn't provide any context for that clip. Take that, you bastard!
posted by phaedon at 9:43 PM on March 27, 2007

Yeah, how about some context?
posted by zardoz at 10:04 PM on March 27, 2007

Talk is cheap.
posted by furtive at 10:08 PM on March 27, 2007

Whowhatwherewhenwhyhow?
posted by conch soup at 10:29 PM on March 27, 2007

Okay. Here's some context for you. Some countries like pancakes. Other countries do not like pancakes. Some countries that like pancakes want the countries that do not like pancakes to share the same kitchen. So the Jews are bent out of shape because the Muslims keep peeing in their flour, while the Muslims are pissed because the Jews keep shitting in their syrup. Oh, did I forget to mention? Some countries prefer waffles...

*pulls out a bunch of pie charts and graphs*

Now if you look at diagram A shown here, and compare it to graphs B and C, you can tell that there's a correlation between flour with pee in it and syrup with shit in it. However, these comparisons can be explained by referring to chart D, shown here. See, when you --

*ZachsMind is shot by a sniper terrorist and falls out of frame*
posted by ZachsMind at 10:30 PM on March 27, 2007

Good thing, because he was using pie charts instead of pancake charts.
posted by conch soup at 10:37 PM on March 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

It was when the axes became self-sharpening that they went after all of us. Only the few that survived had done so by returning to dwelling in caves.

Some say the axes may be humanity's only true children. This may well be true.
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:39 PM on March 27, 2007

Pie charts in a presentation about pancakes and waffles? The sniper was right to shoot when he did.
posted by lekvar at 10:42 PM on March 27, 2007

Oh, come on. The guy attacked the council with, "The despots who run this council couldn't care less...about any human rights" and then is surprised his comments get stricken from the record and that no more statements like that will be tolerated?

I'm not defending the way the U.N. handles human rights conflicts, or the hypocrisy and demagoguery we routinely see from lots of member states on this issue, but it's a bit much to expect that the council president is supposed to sit still when someone tells him to his face he doesn't give a shit about human rights.

This one barely pegs the Outrageometer.
posted by mediareport at 10:42 PM on March 27, 2007

Is this about the Jedi?
posted by homunculus at 10:45 PM on March 27, 2007

I have to say that the Iranian scholar in phaedon's clip isn't very scholarly. I mean, he referred to the Jewish Walt Disney Company bringing Tom & Jerry to the world... and... uhhh... he wasn't... uhh... Tom & Jerry were actually... uhhh... oh, nevermind.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:46 PM on March 27, 2007

Is this going to become another pancake thread?
posted by miss lynnster at 10:46 PM on March 27, 2007

We don't know who struck first - us or them. But we know it was us who scorched the pancakes.
posted by phaedon at 10:52 PM on March 27, 2007

Actually the comments were not struck from the record this time: that was the threat if UN Watch tried the same stunt again.
posted by athenian at 11:36 PM on March 27, 2007

This is a stupid, stupid post. So offensively stupid that all I can think about is gingerbread pancakes.

They're like gingerbread men, except that you can smother them in butter and pour syrup on top.

Unlike this post, gingerbread pancakes don't make you question whether the person who made them is a wingnut or an anti-semitic troll trying to stir shit up. Gingerbread pancakes are just delicious.

And unlike this post, I will never flag the hell out of gingerbread pancakes.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 11:54 PM on March 27, 2007

Well, I guess as long as enough people have their pancakes and their gingerbread men, they don't care if only lip service is paid to human rights elsewhere. Hope you all choke and die on your pancakes.
posted by blue shadows at 12:06 AM on March 28, 2007

"These are not the human rights abuses you are looking for"
posted by srboisvert at 2:46 AM on March 28, 2007

BTW UNWatch is highly affiliated with the American Jewish Committee and has as it's primary objective the defense if Israel from what it considers biased UN focus on Israel and it's treatment of the Palestinians. So it is highly motivated to try and focus world attention on other human rights abuses and away from their own. Take what they say with a large grain of salt and appreciate that while they are pointing out legitimate problems all over the world they are doing so in order to distract attention from Israel's conduct.

Not that I think this thread will survive the morning deletion rounds of the sleepy North American admins..
posted by srboisvert at 3:04 AM on March 28, 2007

Why do these wingnuts even get to address the UN in the first place? Can I go there and force them to endure my wacky opinions if I want to? I doubt it.
posted by reklaw at 4:44 AM on March 28, 2007

I'm sorry, but I'm a lib who thinks he has a point. Not that Israel should get off the hook completely, but come on. The guy brings up all the unattended human rights abuses in the world and all you can say is "pancakes"?

it's a bit much to expect that the council president is supposed to sit still when someone tells him to his face he doesn't give a shit about human rights.

And yet... for some reason we think that when we criticize our own president or congress they shouldn't be able to just strike our comments from the record. But no, the UN is special. Don't ever criticize them, especially not to their face!
posted by fungible at 6:02 AM on March 28, 2007

Wait.. doesn't the US veto any motion concerning Israel? Doesn't that mean that, in fact, the Council has never actually spoken out against Israel?
posted by Harry at 6:55 AM on March 28, 2007

Wait.. doesn't the US veto any motion concerning Israel? Doesn't that mean that, in fact, the Council has never actually spoken out against Israel?

The US isn't on the Human Rights Council (neither is Israel). Amusingly, but sadly not surprisingly, both nations voted against its creation.
posted by srboisvert at 7:01 AM on March 28, 2007

Don't ever criticize them, especially not to their face!

Oh please. I never said no criticism allowed; I said what the angry young man was doing was designed to be personally insulting. There are ways to criticize without that, he didn't use them, he got a warning that future remarks like that would be stricken from the record. Come on, this isn't hard.
posted by mediareport at 3:09 PM on March 28, 2007

could use some context and maybe a rebuttal, but he seems to make a good point.
posted by es_de_bah at 8:00 PM on March 28, 2007