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11:01 PM
Who's even surprised anymore?

Two more U.N. officials are being accused of taking kickbacks:

The former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, was accused on Monday of receiving nearly $150,000 in kickbacks, and another U.N. official was arrested on charges of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.N. contractors.

How much lower can the U.N.'s credibility sink?

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1:36 PM
Nobody left to stop them

Iran's going nuclear... openly and brazenly, not even bothering to try to sound convincing in their line about "peaceful electricity generation".

The question is, who is left to stop the nuclear ambitions of one of the most dangerous theocratic thuggeries in the mideast? Not the UN, which has never had the ability to do anything. Not the EU, which will hold an emergency session to see if they broke an agreement that was impossible to enforce in the first place. Not the US or, which after Iran have no political capital left to do anything even if they wanted to. Even Israel, which everyone is secretly hoping will play bad guy and repeat Osarik and then get chewed out by the world, can't take that kind of risk to its security this time around.

North Korea's already nuclear; it's too late there. Iran is steadily marching toward that point of no return... and there's nobody left to stop them. I fear that future generations of humanity will be paying the price for our spineless world for a long time.

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1:32 PM
Not exactly the "Tradition" we had in mind...

Now why does this seem somehow wrong?

Rosie O'Donnell will join Harvey Fierstein in the Broadway revival of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" on Sept. 20, the show's producers said Monday. Fierstein plays Tevye the milkman, and O'Donnell will play his wife, Golde, according to a statement.

Oy vey.

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