Filed under “What the hell are they thinking?”

I saw this on Hot Air, STA and Sister Toldjah, and I still had to make sure these weren’t hoaxes.

First we have tassel t-shirts:

Would you buy a shirt for your baby that had nipple tassels on it? One company is hoping you will.

ParentDish interviewed the designer behind TwistedTwee, which is selling t-shirts for babies and preschoolers that include nipple tassels, among other items.

The designer, Suzi Warren, told ParentDish via email that “The Nipple Tassel t-shirt was designed as a response to my own distaste at seeing mini versions of sexy clothes on young children. Five-year-olds wearing slashed mini skirts and boob tubes, little thumb-sucking Britneys.” I guess that’s like wearing blackface to protest racism? Mostly Warren is doing it to make money. At least I hope that’s why. If she honestly believes that this is an effective form of protest, I’d hate to think what she’d do with an issue like health care reform.

Personally, I think nipple tassels are tacky for anyone. If it’s a stripper, I mean, whatever. She’s a stripper. But otherwise it seems like a poor fashion choice.

Few issues in America bring about the vitriol and emotional upheaval that gay rights do.

While I will not deeply delve into my detailed beliefs about gay rights in this forum, take it as a given that my position on the subject is nuanced and complex because I believe the issue itself is not a simple one. 

The issue has grown in attention over the years, and now has hit the International stage in the UN.

Now…let me say that in my opinion, the UN is the single most corrupt, useless and meaningless organization in our world’s history.  I have had little to say positive about the organization, and I think that the UN’s history of vile corruption, particularly when you look at the rampant corruption during the oil for food scandal, bears me out.

So now the UN has taken on the issue of gay rights, something else they can dither on and do nothing….which is what they do best:

U.N. divided over gay rights declaration

Let me pause and interject something:  The article does not list what the declarations said, nor does it list which countries support which.  This will be relevant shortly….

The reality is that the core of this story is little accurate.  More on that in a second.

Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN’s Ban

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.

“The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons.

“This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote.

Now take out all of the buzz words about climate change and man made global warming, and you find that the cause, according to the UN, is:  Drought.

I don’t doubt it.  For centuries all over the earth there have been droughts, and accompanying them is social upheaval.

Hugo Chavez, the Sheehan beloved leader of Venezuela has taken as his goal the task of warning the world about how evil President Bush is.

Like no one has taken that one on before him…(cough Michael Moore cough Alec Baldwin cough.

At any rate, his translated comments at the UN were a bit father over the top then a lot of people are comfortable with.

Chávez Calls Bush ‘the Devil’ in U.N. Speech

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela bitterly and sarcastically assailed President Bush before the United Nations General Assembly today, portraying Mr. Bush as “the devil” who thinks he is “the owner of the world.”

 “Yesterday, the devil came here,” Mr. Chávez said, alluding to Mr. Bush’s appearance before the General Assembly on Tuesday. “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.”

Then Mr. Chávez made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if in prayer and glanced toward the ceiling.

The moment may not become as famous as Nikita Khrushchev’s finger-wagging, shoe-thumping outbursts in the General Assembly in the cold-war era, but it still produced chuckles and some applause in the assembly hall.

OK, it is obvious I have no real love of the UN and the Security Council is a perfect example why.  A small number of members who have incredible power and influence, and an almost universal lack of object purpose and altruism.  They really are all in it to advance the needs of themselves, not to make the world more secure.

Including the US, lest I seem biased.

But even a broken clock is right twice a day.  In this case they jointly and unanimously voted to demand North Korea cease its missile program.

A worthy resolution.  That guy is one scary loose cannon.  Of course China who favors NK did manage to strip it of any abilty to enforce it, but it is a start.

U.N. passes resolution condemning N. Korea:  Council unanimously votes to demand nation suspends missile program

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Saturday condemning North Korea’s recent missile tests and demanding that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program.

The agreement was reached after a last-minute compromise between Japan, the United States and Britain, who wanted a tough statement, and Russia and China, who favored weaker language.

I have not dealt with the situation in Israel and all the bombing and such in my blog.  Honestly, I have not had near enough time to gather the links and resources necessary to do the story justice.

Others like Sister Toldjah and Michelle Malkin have more then made up for my distraction.

But this story at Opinion Journal was noteworthy to me, not just in how it deals with the participants, but with the UN, and the International Community as a whole in their reactions as well as their involvement.

The powder keg over there is very worrisome, and has been for decades, but in the latest events, Iran And Syria are not helping, nor is the UN. 

Ask yourself a question:  Here you have Iran and Syria clearly meddling in the events, Iran is actively seeking a nuclear program, and Iran has openly hated Israel for years.

Is this not a scary situation?

In the only positive news I could find in this, at least the people suffering from BDS will now have a new reason to blame Bush.

States of Terror:  Syria, Iran and their proxies wage war on Israel.

I’m a little too busy to write much today, so I will be reposting some interesting tidbits from elsewhere.

First up is this article from Jay at Stop the ACLU.  I may add some comments inline later, but for now here it is untouched.

I have illustrated before how the ACLU undermines America’s sovereignty and Constitution when it tries to trump our national security with international law. However, I think that must be their goal.

Today the American Civil Liberties Union delivered a petition with more than 51,000 signatures calling for the enforcement of the universal prohibition against torture to the U.S. State Department delegation at the meeting of the U.N. Committee Against Torture in Geneva. The ACLU has been monitoring the committee proceedings and providing information about U.S. sponsored policies and practices of torture and abuse at home and abroad. The U.S. delegation denied on Friday that incidents of detainee abuse are systemic.