Posted on 08/28/2006 6:36:22 PM PDT by JBGUSA
The deteriorating condition of the United Nations headquarters should be a source of concern for firefighters and Turtle Bay residents who might be exposed to asbestos in the event of an emergency at the U.N.,Senator Schumer said.
At a news conference yesterday, Mr. Schumer pledged to ask Secretary-General Annan and Americas U.N.ambassador, John Bolton, to focus their attention on guiding to completion a plan to renovate the U.N.s landmark building. The plan will cost an estimated $1.9 billion.
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U.N. efforts to go forward with the renovations suffered a serious setback in May when the project head, Louis Frederic Reuter, quit his post. In June, the investigative office of Congress, the Government Accountability Office, released a report that cast doubts on whether the U.N.s internal watchdogs were capable of ensuring that the renovations were accomplished without waste.
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Outer Mongolia is actually developing nicely as a democracy. How about Riyadh, Saudi Arabia or Tuktuyutok, NWT Canada or Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada?
Yes, but make sure John Bolton is elsewhere. We need him!
Get the UN the heck out of the US, already. Move it to France where it belongs.
Yes. He can be the guest of honor in the demolition crane when it starts swinging the large ball.
How about Gander, Newfoundland? I hear they're trying to increase air traffic to their airport.
Don't worry. If there is a fire, or other disaster, at the UN building, the answer is: The NYFD should not respond.
GOOD. CONDEMN THE BUILDING AND LET IT DISINTEGRATE
MOVE THE UN TO SUDAN
Yup, it's the residents. Let's move 'em to Gitmo and tear the building down.
We can avoid that problem by making sure the demolition team wears hazmat gear when they take the building down. The implosion might cause airborne particles, but this is a problem 99.999% of Americans would get behind and solve.
$1.9 Billion!?!? For some chicken wire and some two by fours? Gimme a break. Move the chicken coop to Geneva or Fallujah. The U.N. has outlived whatever it was created to do.
All that is needed is for the U.N. to draft a strongly-worded resolution imploring the building to cease disintegration immediately.
That will take care of it all. How nice we can feel then.
-PJ
For once, Chuckie may just be right. Now would be a great time to ship all of the Usless Nations to France. Let them build them a new building and care for it as well.
The UN doesn't need a neutral country, they need an entire neutral continent. The US should offer to pay for their first year's cost for penguin repellant.
Perfect location. It's multicultural and every thing. It's got Shiites, Sunnis, Druze and the odd Christian or three. The UN should fit right in.
Those places are uncomfortably too near the old neighborhood.
"Schumer Says U.N. Building Is a Danger'
I rarely agree with the fascist gungrabber, but he's right that the UN is dangerous.
And unlike Bolton's idea of chopping off the top 10 floors of the UN Marxist compound, I'd go for the first 10 floors and see what happens to the rest of the building.
Tank you.
Schumer was talking about the building, not the organization, being a danger. The UN needs to die, now!!!
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