Question: Hardball now...

[Kevin Spidel]

Sen. Norm Coleman is on talking about the Bolton appointment.

Question I have.. what is this "major conference" in November about UN reform that he is talking about. I did a google and search on UN... no luck.

It best not be a PNAC convention! My fear is that it is...

Do folks here know?

[Straight Shooter]

1. Don't know. But I'll respond to kick it to the top. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

2. I don't know. The only thing I found was this but I don't think it is

what they are talking about :shrug:

http://www.amun.org/

[Kevin Spidel]

7. hehehe...

no... but thanks... the funny thing is, when I was in college I use to attend this conference. This is a simulation of college students acting out the UN.

Thanks though!

[Fleshdancer]

3. It's a conference about his own bs bill to weaken the UN

I really can't say it enough...Coleman is an ass.

http://www.political-news.org/breaking/13278/two-us-senators-propose-un-reform-bill.html


Two U.S. Senators Propose U.N. Reform Bill (AP)
Wed Jul 13th 2005 at 11:46 pm ET

By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations reacted warily Wednesday to a bill proposed by two U.S. Senators that gives the United States the right — but not the requirement — to withhold dues if the United Nations doesn't enact wide-ranging reforms.

The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, got a better reception than a House measure, which requires the dues withholding if there are no reforms.

Yet even the latest threat was enough to make the United Nations wary. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric called it a "tough piece of legislation."

"Any such withholding would only hamper attempt to make the organization more effective," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday.

U.N. officials fear the threat of withholding would plunge the United Nations back into financial crisis like the one it faced in the mid-1990s when the United States refused to pay millions of dollars in back dues. The United States is the largest U.N. contributor, paying about 22 percent of its annual US$2 billion budget.

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I think the conference refers to a meeting of DC Republican blowhards getting together to bitch about the UN, not an actual UN conference. I could be wrong though...I'll go check.

[annabanana]

5. massive load of BS

When did we paid our back due UN dues?

[Pirate Smile]

4. Well, if it is honestly associated with the UN it would be listed here.

http://www.un.org/events/index.html

This is the UN's website and this is the Conferences and Events page.

edit to add - one conference is listed as in November


The World Summit on the Information Society - Second phase (Tunis, Tunisia, 16-18 November 2005)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/

[Mr_King]

6. Matthews is really....

pissing me off, he berates the Dems for not having a position on the war in Iraq yet he has "flip flopped" on the issue more then anyone in the media.

He is all but implying that the Dems are JUST against the war because the Republicans are for it (of course they are they started it). Talking over Steve McMahon and praising the Ginsburg for what he did in Florida in 2000.

He's the Benedict Arnold of the Democratic Party.