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US calls out UN diplomats for coming to budget meetings drunk
Fox ^ | 3-4-13 | AP

Posted on 03/04/2013 8:14:13 PM PST by TurboZamboni

UNITED NATIONS --The United States thinks the United Nations has a drinking problem.

Ambassador Joseph M. Torsella, who represents the U.S. on the U.N.'s budget committee, said Monday that the tense process of negotiating the world body's annual budget is made more complicated by the number of diplomats who turn up drunk.

The U.N. budget is finalized in December, when holiday parties apparently lead to some revelry spilling over into budget negotiations

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: debt; drunk; spending; un
I just assumed all budget negotiations were done while drunk.
1 posted on 03/04/2013 8:14:20 PM PST by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

They were probably just self medicating in case of being subjected to another televised appearance of Mooch.


2 posted on 03/04/2013 8:19:57 PM PST by stanne
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To: TurboZamboni

Well, that explains a lot.


3 posted on 03/04/2013 8:28:50 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Every day brings a world more decayed, more sick, more giddy with it embrace of evil.

If I had known had bad things would get, and how quickly, I would never had children. I hope they never have children.for to bring progeny into the clutches of the horror to come would be nothing other than cruel.

I don’t know if we are fortunate to have seen civilization’s peak before witnessing its collapse, or if we are cursed for it.

There is no future worth waiting around to see.


4 posted on 03/04/2013 8:30:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin
There is no future worth waiting around to see.

That sounds almost suicidal friend. Are you ok?

5 posted on 03/04/2013 8:35:57 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: BenLurkin

I refuse to participate in 0bama’s future.


6 posted on 03/04/2013 8:41:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TurboZamboni

Dipsomanic immunity?


7 posted on 03/04/2013 9:42:31 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

And these people want to decide what is good for me? Their wanting to run the world is like driving a car 200 miles an hour down main street. Can’t end if a good way!

Why do we even belong to that mess?


8 posted on 03/05/2013 4:55:50 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Progov

They want you going 20MPH on a choo choo with all your good comrades.


9 posted on 03/05/2013 9:04:52 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks TurboZamboni.
Ambassador Joseph M. Torsella, who represents the U.S. on the U.N.'s budget committee, said Monday that the tense process of negotiating the world body's annual budget is made more complicated by the number of diplomats who turn up drunk. The U.N. budget is finalized in December, when holiday parties apparently lead to some revelry spilling over into budget negotiations...
They could be dry as a preacher on Sunday...


10 posted on 03/05/2013 4:34:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Racist. How dare he impose his colonialist Victorian mores on Third Worlders.
And doesn’t he know that many small businesses in Kips Bay depend on the inebriation of UN officials, ambassadors and their staffs?


11 posted on 03/05/2013 5:57:51 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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