Oct 17 2007
Thank God For The United Nations!!!
Yes, the United Nations has been a bit lax about a few things. Rwanda and a genocide comes to mind. Oil for food and blatant corruption is another thing. Some UN peacekeepers raping and sexually enslaving women is yet another. Darfur is a concern. As is Burma. But now it can be revealed that the UN has its collective ducks in a row. They know exactly what is really important in the world! The real driver of all that is holy and good on this planet we live on. In fact, they have dedicated an entire year to it! Behold - in appropriate awe - the mighty focus of the United Nations on the really important things in the world! Ladies and gentlemen, the UN brings you:
The International YEAR of the POTATO!
NEW YORK (AFP) - The United Nations on Thursday officially launches "International Year of the Potato 2008," an initiative mocked in private by some diplomats but enabling governments to raise much-needed funds for agricultural research.
The move to "increase awareness of the importance of the potato as a food in developing nations" was proposed by the UN's Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and adopted by the General Assembly in 2005.
Throughout 2008, the International Year of the Potato (IYP) will seek to underline the humble spud's role in improving food security and poverty alleviation.
"For us diplomats these 'international years of …' are of minor importance compared to resolutions concerning conflicts, or world diplomacy. But we cannot turn down proposals from specialist agencies," said a UN official who asked not to be identified.
"Strict rules limiting a country's possibility of requesting an 'international year of …' were introduced recently," he added.
"There was the international year of rice (2004), an international year of mountains (2002), now the Italians are trying to promote an international year of astronomy. We jump from one thing to another," he said.
This is the magnificent body that many in the world want to entrust with their very prosperity by obeying the UN's IPCC doomsaying. This is the body that the oppressed believe may help them. This is the body that ignores reality and puts a member from Zimbabwe on the sustainable development committee.
They don't have potatoes on the brain. They have potatoes for brains.
7 Responses to “Thank God For The United Nations!!!”
What are you laughing at? What else could the potato heads who run the UN have come up with, anyway? Peace? Human rights? Fighting genocide? Sissy stuff!
Because agriculture is so important to the UN, you can expect the following next year: The International Year of Natural Fertilizer! You will not dare to mock the UN then.
As a mick, I welcome this largely symbolic effort. Next year should be the year of butter, salt and snipped chives. Cheese and bacon for the year after. Can’t hurt to toss in broccoli or sour cream or sauteed onions.
I went ahead and dug in my potatoes for next spring. Even fenced them off, as the alkaloid rich berries are attractive to the young-uns. Somehow I feel that I should get a subsidy for raising awareness. I’ll be the guy with hand outstretched, expectant.
Thanks, UN, for making me feel relevant.
I don’t see how the UN could honor potatoes without also acknowledging the historic role of garlic and caramelized onions. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you! A Zionist-Crusader-Potatoist plot!!
What about the SOUR CREAM!!!???????
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