Following President Obama’s visionary speech to the United Nations Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council today passed a resolution altering human nature to comport with “Obama’s hope-saturated view of our global future.”
The measure comes a day after the council adopted a resolution aimed at “ridding the world of nuclear armaments, and replacing such weapons of mass destruction with fuzzy bunnies, warm chocolate and purple petunias.”
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ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Examiner.
36 responses so far ↓
1 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 12:18 pm
A man is nothing without hope. To say a problem is insurmountable is to concede defeat. Even if defeat is nearly assured it's probably best to be able to say to yourself (and likely to God)…at least I tried.
Mocking the "trying" is just too easy…
2 ChileSerrano // Sep 25, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Q. : What's the difference between Obama and God?
A. : God doesn't think he's Barack Obama …
3 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 12:34 pm
The only thing more amusing is us telling others that they can't strive to have something we've already got. Granted, they shouldn't have them but…neither should we.
Heaven forbid that any country would get into a conflict and at some point feel that using a nuke was their only option…wouldn't want that now would we?
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm
It's funny [not really] how so many are acting like BHO is the first president to "try" to reduce/eliminate the proliferation of nuclear weaponry. It hasn't happened yet and won't happen any time soon precisely because of the reasons articulated in Scott's fine article.
5 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 1:42 pm
So no use in trying?
6 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Would you rather die by a nuclear detonation or an axe to the head? An arrow perhaps? knife? Sun going super nova? Swine flu? Brain anuerism? Drowning? Hit by a bus? Old age?
Personally I can't pick one that I like better than the rest…old age appears best but then…how old is "old"? I'm pretty old now so…
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Scott Ott the topic of a Moe Lane (RedState) article! How cool is THAT!?!
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Scott Ott is the topic of a Moe Lane (RedState) article! How cool is THAT!?!
9 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Very cool indeed, thanks for the link!
10 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:34 pm
JL3, I'm issuing a public challenge that I hope will interest you. What say you reserve the "thumbs down" for comments with which you truly take umbrage.
You just "thumbed down" my comment saying (to you) "very cool, thanks for the link"
Is that truly because you didn't agree with me praising you or was it just an knee jerk kinda thing, done w/o reading?
11 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 3:34 pm
JL3, I'm issuing a public challenge that I hope will interest you. What say you reserve the "thumbs down" for comments with which you truly take umbrage?
You just "thumbed down" my comment saying (to you) "very cool, thanks for the link"
Is that truly because you didn't agree with me praising you or was it just an knee jerk kinda thing, done w/o reading?
12 LoneScrappler // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm
“‘An eye for an eye’ only ends in making the whole world blind.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
13 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Can't wait til Obey-me changes the national anthem to that little ditty the kiddies were taught to sing in NJ! All that was missing was the Heil at the close!
14 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:36 pm
It's as stupid an idea as trying to pass gun control laws….what you refuse to accept is criminals do not abide by laws.
15 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You're right of course…we'd all be far safer with many mukes aimed at each other. I can't imagine why I thought otherwise.
Just a momentary lapse, I've truly seen the light and…I feel safer already. Thanks!
16 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You're right of course…we'd all be far safer with many nukes aimed at each other. I can't imagine why I thought otherwise.
Just a momentary lapse, I've truly seen the light and…I feel safer already. Thanks!
17 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 4:57 pm
You're right of course…we'd all be far safer with many nukes aimed at each other. I can't imagine why I thought otherwise.
Just a momentary lapse, I've truly seen the light and…I feel safer already. Thanks!
And the "stupid" comment was lovely touch if I may say so. Thanks for that as well
18 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Not particularly, just think we might as well try to ensure that we don't blow up the planet (well, make it uninhabitable for humans) and don't see where making fun of anyone for trying is a reasonable thing.
Better to build a doomsday machine with those we already have. if a nuke goes off inside our borders, we set off ALL of ours simultaniously. Then of course you have to make this extrememly public knowledge and the rest is easy. Everyone else can build one too and then…we can all forget about the whole deal because, if someone does set one off anywhere, we'd all be doomed. It takes the guesswork out of the equation…either we all live or we all die. That would, of course, include the one that thought using it was a good idea…and self preservation is a powerful motivator, perhaps the most powerful of all.
19 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Oh, and while I did not invent the concept I do wholeheartedly agree with it and it's thus that Obama has proved himself to be MY president yet again.
20 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Oh, now I understand….Obey-me's already sent you your unicorn… up here, (in reality-ville) we're still waiting for ours!
21 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 6:18 pm
You like nukes? To each his/her own.
Same challenge to you, note that your comments still have + points, not "thumbed down" out of habit…how about it?
22 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 6:54 pm
We are firm believers in Peace through superior fire power which is to say "Walk softly but carry a big stick" which is to say, Peace through strength, which is to say nukes are a great deterrent in responsible hands. When all the nuts (Iran, NoKo, Venezuela, Cuba, etc) are dead or replaced by democratic gov'ts, then talk to me about disarmament. Til then, it's dangerous, and naïve, IOW it's not based in reality.
23 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I'm guessing that the "other guy" feels the same. Who needs education or healthcare when the mighty military/industrial complex is so much more fun to support?
Besides, war is good for business…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is close to a new peak in government-to-government arms sales, poised to top last year's record $36.4 billion, Pentagon figures showed.
U.S. arms sales have boomed in the past two years, in part because of regional tensions surrounding nuclear and ballistic missile programs in Iran and North Korea.
As recently as fiscal 2007, the value of government-to-government U.S. foreign military sales totaled $23.3 billion.
A mere 23 billion? it is to laugh…chump change
24 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm
So, we ought to be thanking the nutjobs, encouraging them in fact. A no brainer really
25 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 7:24 pm
In 2008, the United States accounted for a lopsided 70.1 percent of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations, or $29.6 billion, according to a September 4 report by the nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Way back in second place was Russia with $3.3 billion or 7.8 percent of such agreements. France was third with $2.5 billion or 5.9 percent, the report said.
Slackers! How can they hope to achieve world peace with those paltry investments? Never gonna happen
26 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:24 pm
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells
27 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:25 pm
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley
28 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864
29 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:36 pm
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. ~Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II
Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? ~Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
30 boberinyetagain // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:39 pm
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"
Amen
31 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Any blood left in your heart? Now I know where bleeding heart liberal comes from.
When you get your magic wand working and get rid of the murderous thugs running their little third world countries, we'll talk. Until then, lets all just sing along with the great peace maker John Lennon….."All we are saying……is give peace a chance…."
Lucky for you my husband stood up with his brothers and fought to give you the right to be a silly, hippy, peace-nik.
32 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Feeling a bit sorry for yourself?! Last time I checked nuclear disarmament wasn't your idea Bob. Nuclear disarmament is a stupid idea, Bob. Only law abiding countries will abide by the law…..
Man up and quit playing the poor little victim….it doesn't play well.
33 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 26, 2009 at 1:25 am
Please note that, now that they are losing [pretty much lost] the "Health Care" debate, the Leftists are freaking out. The Democrat party, having chosen to align itself with the depraved psychopaths of the world, has come apart at the seams and every aspect of our beloved nation is on its way down the crapper. Why? Because the USA elected a pretty face which they did not vet. Yes, the election was facile and we reap what we sow. The USA is now an international laughing-stock and satan laughs the loudest.
Earth is now at the mercy of madmen. I pray that Jesus comes before the conflagration. I also pray for Israel, who may very well be our last earthly hope for the survival of at least a minimal civilization and who is very likely going to suffer mightily or even perish for doing the Right Thing.
God Bless America
34 SGT_USMC_1ea // Sep 26, 2009 at 4:18 am
JL3,
I read ahead in the Book- the only Book- and Israel does not perish. Their nation state may vanish from the map for a few hundred or thousand years here and there but Israel itself seems to be pretty enduring! Looks like I am headed there for my job early next year.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
35 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 26, 2009 at 11:23 am
Yes, of course. Israel will always exist even if there are no Jews or Christians (or any humans for that matter) alive. I didn't mean to imply that I was speaking Biblically.
I was referring to the geo-political section of the planet known as Israel and the very real possibility that it could become a glow-in-the-dark mass grave.
36 camojack // Sep 28, 2009 at 5:19 am
Undoubtedly, any such U.N. resolution will be ignored…just like so many other U.N. resolutions.
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