Written by: Beck

Move America Forward, a non-profit group dedicated to getting the US out of the UN has collected 50,000 signatures on a petition to boot the UN from American shores.

The 50,000 signatures have been collected in just two weeks time and the rate of new signatures is growing exponentially.

"This explosive response is even better than we saw for the Recall Gray Davis effort," said Howard Kaloogian, one of the activists behind both campaigns. "The Oil-for-Arms money-laundering scandal has made the United Nations program the largest source financing terror in the world. Americans overwhelmingly agree, the U.S. must not knowingly harbor a terrorist-financing organization, neither should we contribute financially."

The group also plans on launching a series of TV ads. Can you even imagine anyone buying a 60 second spot on national TV for this cause a decade ago?

During the Reagan years, and later during the early Clinton years, the US had sharp confrontations with the UN, withholding or threatening to withhold America's annual contribution unless there was serious reform. Even then, however, there wasn't a significant mainstream movement to get the United States to pull out. It's only now that the magnitude of the United Nations' combined impotence and corruption has finally come into the glaring light of day.

In a rather different vein, The Onion has a few things to say about the United Nations it would appear.

ABUJA, NIGERIA—At a celebratory press conference Monday, President Olusegun Obasanjo announced that Nigeria's troubled but oil-rich city of Warri has been chosen to host the 2008 Genocides.

[...] Annan said he first noticed the full genocidal potential of soon-to-be embattled Nigeria in September, when the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force threatened to shut down oil production.

"With so many poor and powerless people involved in messy, years-old conflicts, the situation is likely to be ignored long enough for things to get really ugly," Annan said. "And, of course, the slow-to-move, ineffectual UN will do everything it can to help shepherd Nigeria into a combined religious, political, and economic disaster of horrific proportions."

Get your tickets now while they're still cheap!

Update: Protein Wisdom puts the icing on the cake dressing on the... salad. Yeah. That's the ticket. Remember Tariq Aziz? He's gonna sing like a canary baby. (Try not to choke on the article author's bias).

U.S. officials say Aziz already has implicated the French and others, claiming payoffs were made with the understanding that recipients would support Iraq on key matters before the U.N.

"He pointed to specific individuals in Russia and France, in the United States — that received favorable treatment," says David Kay.

Now, sources tell NBC News that Aziz has indicated he's finally ready to talk about alleged bribes to U.N. officials. U.N. investigators refuse to comment.

You know, I had a hunch Aziz would be the one to break. Now it's just time to see how high up it goes.