On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
With 15 minutes allotted to him, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations for more than an hour. During his address he tore up a copy of the U.N. founding charter, proposed resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating a single state called “Isratine,” and stressed that Arabs do not hate the Jews. “You are the ones who burned them,” he said to the Assembly, “not us.”
For some reason Harper's left out Qaddafi's most outrageous proposal: that the UN dissolve Switzerland and distribute its cantons among France, Germany, and Italy. But, as this subsequent item shows, he was, in that at least, quite justified:
Roman Polanski was arrested in Zurich for having sex with a thirteen-year-old American girl in 1977.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos
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