It's My Party and I'll (Lie) If I Want To

Ever heard of a the concept of having a paradigm shift? A paradigm shift involves completely changing the way you think, feel and/or view a part of the world around you. Relationships, jobs, religion, politics, you name it--you might feel better as a result of a paradigm shift, or you might just want to blow your brains out or at least get the hell out of Dodge as a result of your newly found revelations.

While the mainstream media (MSM) has been attempting to elect John Kerry and loosing their collective minds over Abu Ghraib prisoners being forced to wear panties on their heads, while they’ve been wondering if Colin Powell or John Ashcroft personally authorized the purported prisoner abuse as a matter of standard operating policy, there is a real international scandal out there involving an organization and their high ranking leaders that really deserves American’s attention, yet you barely hear it whispered about by Dan Rather or written about on the front page of the NY Times.

EVERYONE, QUICK, LISTEN UP, BECAUSE I’M GOING TO SHIFT YOUR PARADIGM WHEN IT COMES TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

The scandal is known as the UN Oil For Food Program (OFF) and the scope of the corruption is growing on a daily basis. You’ve heard about this multi-billion-dollar so-called humanitarian effort, haven’t you? You know the program, the one overseen by the UN that was set up to prevent the people of Iraq from starving to death as a result of international sanctions imposed as a result of the 1992 Gulf War? Oh sure you have. You know, the program that was supposed to let Saddam sell Iraq’s only marketable natural resource, crude oil, in return for dollars used to buy limited non-military products like rice and beans and milk and McDonalds Burgers? Oh come on, you know…the program overseen by Kofi Annan’s son, the program that granted “oil vouchers” to Kofi Jr. and various French and German and Russian leaders and diplomats and businessmen at ridiculously low prices to be sold on the open market for huge profits?

Yeah, you know, THAT program, that’s the one. Nothing illegal or underhanded, just good old-fashioned graft and corruption, USA mafia style you know? The program designed by dictators, for dictators.

Well, it seems that we have a problem, Houston. It seems that the program didn’t quite accomplish it’s goal of punishing Saddam, instead it made him rich(er.) It also didn’t seem to prevent Saddam from buying military materials, according to documents that US forces have captured in Iraq. Now that the cat is out of the proverbial bag, Kofi Jr. and Kofi Sr. seem to have a bad case of amnesia and are making it difficult for us to find out what was really going on with the Oil for Food program.

But never fear, there will be an investigation to get to the bottom of things. The problem is, the UN is investigating itself, with a team lead by Paul Volker, and woe be it to any outside organization (like the US Senate) that wants to speed things along on an independent basis.

Here is a letter to His Excellency, Kofi Annan, from Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Investigations. It seems that Kofi is so busy that it took him four months to respond with a big old “get lost” to the honorable Senators. He’s too busy stalling Mr. Volker’s investigation to answer ole’ Norm.

I presently can’t add much in the way of discussion to this issue other than to point out that any position that allows you to be referred to as “His Excellency” should also require you to constantly wear those little “Elf” shoes with the curled up tips and have some psycho pervert like Michael Jackson or John Hinkley as your chambermaid.

Does anybody know if Charles Manson has butler skills?