Monday, August 07, 2006

Disunited Nations


Max had his stitches out this morning and it all went smoothly. We tell everyone that he is tres gentil but I'm always nervous that someone might inadvertently hurt him and how he would react. When he plays with Min he quite often has her head in his mouth and I'd hate him to do it with a human.

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I've been thinking for some time about how useless the United Nations is. Other than a diplomatic talking shop, where countries play at diplomacy, where a consensus is quite often just an interpretation of a few words, what do they ever seem to achieve? They pass resolutions that everyone ignores. They have 'peace keeping' forces that everyone ignores, to the extent that Hezbollah was firing rockets from within the midst of a peace keeping force in southern Lebanon and they have no aggressive mandate. What good are they? Did you realise that there are 9 Messengers of Peace? The whole organisation, as far as I can see, is a total waste of time. A resolution already exists to disarm Hezbollah, a resolution already exists for Israel to withdraw from certain areas so what's the point of another resolution? It's all about countries scoring points over one another without ever seeming to really achieve much. Scrap it I say! Nuke the lot of them (maybe that's going just a bit too far - Ed.)

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Jan popped into Nimes with Gill for a little light shopping (whatever that means). Anyway, Gill's car develops a nasty sounding fault and I suggest getting it to the garage sooner rather than later because being August everything will take longer to fix. Parts take longer to arrive and they have fewer mechanics on hand, all because of the holidays. The VW garage in Nimes is pretty good and they diagnosed the problem quite quickly. Subsequently, Gill came home for a lie down because the part, on its own, will cost 800 euros! Ouch!

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