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UN Once Again Acts Like...the UNState, mine officials sign Homestake pact
Plans are moving ahead for conversion of the Homestake mine in the SD Black Hills to an underground laboratory. The mine is one of two sites being considered by the National Science Foundation for setting up a deep underground research lab. For the Homestate, this would be at around 7400 feet below ground. The mine is 8000 feet deep.
While the NSF plans are still pending, SD Gov. Mike Rounds is pursuing plans for a state-financed lab to be started sooner at the 4800 foot level. In addition to being a research asset in its own right, this would also give Homestake a leg up in the NSF selection process.
The agreement with the mining company opens the way for the state to complete financing and to start to implement plans for the intermediate level lab.
A good move for the state.
Covering Up The StinkThe feckless usefulness of the UN once again is apparent as it failed agin to come to any agreement on condemning terrorism. The opposition came primarily from the 56 OIC (Organization of Isalmic Countries)members...surprise, surprise, surprise! Who woulda ever thunk it!
A proposed U.N. convention against terrorism has been stalled since 1997. The holdup? How to define terrorism. But this is nothing more than a semantic trick. The Islamic states insist that terrorism must be defined not by the nature of the act but by its purpose. Putting a bomb in a market or train or bus is not an act of terrorism, they say, if it is done for a righteous purpose; namely national liberation or resistance to occupation. To say there is a problem of definition is to focus on a word. The real question is whether it is ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants. For the Islamic states, the answer is yes.(Emphasis added)Not only did the OIC oppose any meaningful definition of terrorism, it proposed changing the resolution to approve attacks, but it sought a refaffirmation of language in a 1970 resolution: "reaffirm[ing] ? the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal."
The final phrase is euphemistic language included to implicitly approve terrorism. In the current action, the US claimed a partial victory by stopping such a reaffirmation.
If this is the best that can be hoped for from the UN, then we would be well served to bail out, and then to send them all packing off to Geneva or somewhere, anywhere away from the U.S.
The Vikings release the plans for a new stadium. I suggest the name The Vomitorium. At least that would be truth in advertising. Now the Vikings can stink in style....Photoshop the Islamic Way!
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) wound up with a photo on their front page the other day featuring a couple of women without the hijab. Was this a problem? Heck, no; they just Photoshopped each of the women to get...My View Triumphs
The Moderate Liberal Punditocracy has swung around to my view so fast that I am not sure they really had time to read my blogs in order to know what to say. But that's the nature of the blogosphere: thoughts...Black/White
Like I said in the post immediately before this one, Thursday nights are my time to relax. So I'm relaxing. And with this post, I'm relaxing a bit on the tight grip I've been trying to keep on the profanity...Daschle Mentioned
Todays Hotline:The FEC charged the Club for Growth for violating campaign-finance laws, specifically for raising and spending at least $4M more than the soft-money limits for 527s allow (Dinan, Washington Times, 9/10). From the suit: The Club itself has repeatedly...
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