Dufar

One suggestion that came up in Skypeland the other day was to move the United Nations to "Dufar", and build a dirt track in Africa for NASCAR and a place for American football. When someone from Switzerland talked about how some Iranians had hassled him, someone else told him, "What you should do is grab one of those lil' skinny necked guys and squeeze their heads until it pops. Pop it like a pimple. That is what they have in there. They have festering shit in their heads like pus and you just pop it".

An American claimed that Ahmadinejad has "short man syndrome since he is only 5 feet tall, just like Chavez. They have little man syndrome just like Castro. They all worship Castro....he was using Grecian Formula 99 on his beard like Bin Laden. Pretty soon that little prick from North Korea will be in there since he has real short man syndrome; he is only 4 foot 6."

The American asked when "Ock-jinner-mer-ahd" is coming to visit the US. He then suggested we should let him speak at the UN, and then cut his microphone so no one could hear him, and then shoot his plane down as he flies away...This was accompanied by a lot of snorting and sniffing and drawling...We heard a lot about the "Isla-tollahs" as well.

A German/Austrian man came in to say that he was shocked that all American people were so one-sided and all had the same point of view. I asked for an example. He said the Iranian nuclear program was about economics. I asked him to explain He talked at great length in broken English about the fact that Iran had no refining capacity. He gave a long drawn-out explanation, and frankly, these sorts of things get very boring. He had a lot of facts and figures about it, but it was tedious. The Iranian host interrupted to mention the price of oil 22 years ago when the secret Iranian nuclear program started, and suggested that the present price of oil had nothing to do with the Iranian nuclear program.

The lecture by the Austrian dragged on and on, and I became impatient for him to say something meaningful. Finally, I noted that he was forgetting the main point; that is, Iran signed a treaty and is not living up to the conditions of the treaty. I said that if they do not live up to the terms of their treaty, then there will be consequences. He did say he agreed with this. (Wow...after all that nonsense...)

Then he made a mistake by saying something about Israel. Several people jumped on him, asking what Israel had to do with this? Finally he got off the hook by saying that Iran had threatened Israel if an embargo was not lifted on Iran. At first I thought he was going to complain that Israel was not allowing inspectors either, but of course they did not sign the treaty...

He tried to claim that the US was not submitting to IAEA sanctions. He was quickly cut off before he could get into it very far. However, I checked and sure enough, the US has submitted to IAEA sanctions for many many years on a regular basis:
http://dtirp.dtra.mil/TIC/synopses/iaea-p.cfm
http://www.oakridge.doe.gov/nnsa/News_Releases/2003/04-07-03.pdf

The Austrian claimed that Iran had let in the IAEA inspectors a few times and the inspectors had not found anything. The Iranian host pointed out that the program is hidden and that there are several sites which the Iranians have never allowed the inspectors to visit. I tried to get the Austrian to finish his long diatribe, and he complained that he was offended when a German lady and someone else had asked him where he was from and if he was Iranian or Turkish. Then this turned into an argument about how good Budweiser beer is (??). Oh brother...

Finally I confronted the Austrian with his previous statement about how all Americans had the same view. He claimed he had never said that, but only that one American had a view he did not like. I asked who it was, me or my friend the redneck, since that made two. This drew a few laughs...