Screw the Red Cross–they long ago became politicised anyway:
‘Ever wonder if your donations to the Red Cross reach the intended people that need help? Wonder no more. The Red Cross is using donations for climate alarmism propaganda….’
And why we’re at it, defund the fascist cow who runs the Human Rights Commission
‘Immigrants create overcrowding and fuel tensions, report finds’
You don’t say!
This is a good one: http://www.charitywatch.org/index.html
Agreed – how well-named the *Red* Cross are, given that they are now little more than just another left-wing do-gooders group.
As for the Human Rights Commissions (in *all* countries as there are many of them) – what a waste of space. All that a Western country needs on that front is to have a constitution based on the US one (and maybe, just *maybe*, the UN declaration of human rights as well – about the only even-remotely-good work that the UN has done).
That’s all you need. No HRC bureaucrats to suck on the taxpayer’s teat and make themselves a damned nuisance.
When the UN puts Iran on the Human Rights Council, how can anyone with two brain cells to rub together believe they have any credibility?
And which bastard get to decide what is a ‘right’ anyway?
“And which bastard get to decide what is a ‘right’ anyway?”
That’s the crucial point, isn’t it? Leftards seem to invent “rights” out of thin air, always to suit them.
I couldn’t understand Leftards until I read some psychology, so now I realize the tribe is “a wolf pack in human guise” – psychopaths – that runs behind its leader in search of victims to destroy and feed upon
Elephant Dung coffee
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/9737226/Elephant-dung-coffee-Black-Ivory-beans-passed-through-the-animals-guts.html#?frame=2424296
I can’t really fathom the logic behind this.”Oh,wait,let’s not pick the coffee beans of this tree over here,let’s just pick these ones out of this pile of shit and use those”
I guess this coffee will show up at Starbucks next,they are well known for having shitty coffee.
I can’t really see the whole idea comming into being,unless…. “No Mok To,I say we don’t need to build an automotive industry,too much work,I have a plan to pick coffee beans out of Elephant shit and sell it to Yuppies””But Dunk Po,who would be stupid enough to buy it”?”Don’t worry Mok To,let me tell you about rich,white Liberals…….
Kopi Luwak
Okay,take everything above and replace Elephant with Rodent
Reminds me of Cat Poop Coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Some people will drink anything if it is popular.
Money raised by the Red Cross for Haiti and Japanese aid didn’t go to either places. It went to the Palestinians. Give to the Red Cross you are giving to Hamas.
After Katrina all they did was handout Coffee and donuts….hmm….wonder where the Coffee came from?
I believe the coffee came from Columbia. But all funds given for Katrina went for new office equipment for the Red Cross HQ.
It has been happening for decades. The Red Cross have not seen a penny from me in about 30 years, along with all the schemes that have snotty-nosed, but otherwise well fed, African children that become your personal wards on their posters.
It is my considered opinion that the friends who frequent this blog are more historically aware, more widely read, more wise and more learned than pretty much anyone else I encounter in my travels. Smarter than the average bear, as it were.
But, as I read this July 4th message from Dan Greenfield, I wonder how many of us have ever considered the great privilege bestowed upon us? The responsibility we carry to ensure concepts such as individual liberty, personal responsibility and the God-given right to pursue happiness – whatever that may mean for us as individuals – are passed to the next generation and not crushed under the jackboot of big-government socialism of the type which is so popular right now across the Western world? It was this paragraph that got me:
By way of context, I am reading Greenfield’s article immediately after reading another article which described how the democrat administration has decided (illegally) to delay implementing the Employer mandate portions of ObamaCare until 2015, cynically and purely to remove the ObamaCare train wreck from the 2014 election platter.
“I wonder how many of us have ever considered the great privilege bestowed upon us?”
Me too–which is why this blog carries the “For Liberty” masthead.
And I second the first para of your comment, Gantt.
I would bet this morning that the people of Eygpt now appreciate Liberty more than many do here in the US.
Well Darin, they came close to losing what little liberty they had, by voluntarily giving power to a tyrant. Shit, they didn’t even have the excuse that all Morsi’s records were sealed! His history and affiliations were there for the world to see. They voted for the Muslim Brotherhood, and they got what they voted for. What the people of Egypt have right now, is a severe case of buyer’s remorse. Let’s hope they learn the lesson that comes from combining their poisonous “religious” ideology with a political culture in which liberty is an unknown concept.
What I’m amazed about, is the pace at which it happened. Imagine a million people on The Mall all demanding the arrest and imprisonment of the Magic Negro and his henchmen? How quickly would the US military act? The various State National Guard units? The Citizen Militia? The people of Egypt have shown how it’s done now. I wonder if the sheeple of the West have the same craving for freedom as those of Egypt, if they are willing and able to throw off the comfortable security blanket of never having to make a decision between cradle-and-grave, grow the fuck up and take responsibility for themselves? (and yes of course that’s a rhetorical question, because of course the sheeple won’t do that – the doubled-down on the Magic Negro and his version of velvet-glove fascism).
Yup,Obama did say he was “troubled” by the removal of Morrsi by the military,as well he should be,it could happen to him too.
It would take well more than a million though,a million did nothing for the abortion debate and a million did nothing for the Teaparty.
We would need more like 10million(doable) and an honest media(fat chance)enough people to clog the streets solid,preferably also armed.
While “…Americans will celebrate their “independence” from tyranny by submitting to random bag searches…”, the jackbooted thugs from the DHS are conducting a nation-wide “full scale terrorism drill”. Not based on any actual threat, of course, but just to make the inhabitants of the Land of the (formerly) Free feel that, well, Big Brother is watching, keeping them safe.
I wonder why, when I read the para: “The sycophantic KTTV report even urged Americans to say “thank you” to uniformed agents who would be eyeballing them at at Union Station.” I instead had a vision of a “flashmob” appearing and performing Edelweiss?