Okay, that's funny.
The Dutch military has a union.
No, let me rephrase that, the Dutch military has multiple unions.

The AFMP is one of the largest military trade unions and is a member of the Dutch Federation of Trade Unions, FNV.
 
It's decided it doesn't want to fight in Afghanistan and it's saying so publicly.
The Dutch military has unions and they're trying to dictate policy.
I can't even think of anything funny (or attempted funny) to say about that. I know there's something funny in there, but I'm too stunned.

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The UN can always be counted on to do the exactly wrong thing.

In today's exciting episode, they've decided to honor Evo Morales, budding commie dictator of Bolivia, Castro, "almost dead" commie dictator of Cuba and Nyerere, dead socialist president of Tanzania. (He actually looks pretty benign for an African President for 24 years)

 Morales is officially "the maximum exponent and paradigm of love for Mother Earth." Castro is "World Hero of Solidarity." The late Nyerere is "World Hero of Social Justice."

General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann said, "What we want to do is present these three people to the world and say that they embody virtues and values worth emulation by all of us."

The only good thing I can say about those two paragraphs is that they spelled all the words correctly.
I am surprised that they were that honest in the last sentence, Castro and his wannabes embody the "virtues" most UN assembly members want to emulate.
They're big fans of socialism/communism, repression, muzzling the press, rigged elections and jailing dissidents.


This is a good place to advertise FrnakJ's "Top Ten UN Slogans" T-shirt.
"Bringing peace to our world (actual results may vary"
I get a bunch of dirty looks and "tch"s when I wear one of mine, but I also get  a bunch of people who ask me where I got it.
It's almost as good as my "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" t-shirt for getting responses.

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It's like they have a template.
They talk about the world cooling, "quote" some unnamted "experts"who tell us that recent data means nothing, the world is going to start warming any day now and let us know WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!1!!1!!!.

And they don't mention the Sun or anything to do with its anomalous activity lately.
It's been surprisingly inactive, both in sunspots and even in the solar wind. That's at the lowest it's been in the 50 years they've been studying it and it's around 20% lower than it was in 1995.
We can't really measure it all the time for some reason (I'm not a solar scientist, I know not to stare at it and that's about it, I'm the fool who gets sunburn every time I go to Florida) but we had  good measurements in 1995 because of a probe and got it again recently because of its orbit.

So, the Earth has been cooling now, for some unknown reason, if you only read the first article, but it's gonna warm really soon and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!! unless we give Al Gore money or something.
I've decided they're counting on sunspots to restart "any day now", just like real scientists have been saying for a year.
How funny would it be if global warmmongers cripple our ability to produce and use energy just as the next ice age is starting?

Funniest End of Civilization Funny.
That's how funny.
And that scares me.
In a funny way.
(My first foray into drunkblogging, and you were there).

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