Written by: Beck

Not a whole lot of time to pontificate today, so instead, allow me to simply bring your attention to various tidbits I found interesting. And, hey, what do you know, they all have to do with the United Nations in one way or another.

On the humor front, The Diplomad presents the Top Ten Wrong Ideas that People Around the World Still Believe. My favorite:

5) The United Nations is the hope for the future of mankind,and its corollary, if we didn't have the UN we'd have to invent it. If this is true, mankind has a bleak future. Anybody with an IQ larger than his shoe size (American shoe size) knows that trusting the UN with our hopes for the future is wrong; we have seen this day after day. But this idea is still out there, and accepted as politically correct and believable by large swathes of countries. It's the official line of the whole European Union, which is frightening, since some of those countries individually are good allies and have intelligent people who should know better.

Next up, Powerline points out a scandal at the UN which has been almost entirely unreported. To give you an idea of just how unreported this is, I hadn't even heard about it, and I've dedicated myself to criticizing the damned institution. It would seem the UNRWA has been giving direct cash donations to a number of Palestinian terrorist organizations. Gee, is that not good?

(Via Instapundit) Next up, the first conviction has been handed down in the developing Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal. This seems like a classic case of finding a guy of middling importance, cutting a deal, and then getting him to rat on everyone else. I can only hope.

Finally, Michelle Malkin has a blog post on the idea that Steve Forbes could be the next Ambassador to the UN. Question: How awesome would that be? Answer: Totally awesome.