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KONSISTENT KOFI

A keyword search delivers this summary of Kofi Annan’s time as Secretary-General of the UN:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, DEEPLY CONCERNED BY NUCLEAR TEST, URGES RENEWED TALKS (9 October 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT ‘SERIOUS TENSION’ IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE, AS COUNTRY NEARS END OF TRANSITION IN OCTOBER (15 September 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BURUNDI, INCLUDING REPORTS OF POSSIBLE COUP PLOT (23 August 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT ISRAELI VIOLATION OF CEASEFIRE ON 19 AUGUST (21 August 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER KILLING OF STUDENTS IN GUINEA (13 June 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT REPORTS OF INCREASING VIOLENCE IN SOMALIA (12 May 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY INTENSIFIED FIGHTING ALONG CHAD-SUDAN BORDER (11 April 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT HEALTH OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHARON (5 January 2006)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY REPORTED ABUSE OF IRAQI DETAINEES (16 November 2005)

SECRETARY-GENERAL REMAINS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE (31 October 2005)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY ESCALATING MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE (28 October 2005)

DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE IN DARFUR, SUDAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘STRONGLY CONDEMNS’ KILLING OF AFRICAN UNION PERSONNEL (10 October 2005)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT MILITARY ACTIONS VIOLATING CEASEFIRE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE (4 November 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL, DEEPLY CONCERNED BY VIOLENT ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN, CALLS FOR NECESSARY SAFETY, SECURITY FOR ELECTORAL WORKERS (30 August 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY PERSISTENT INSTABILITY IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; CALLS ON ALL PARTIES TO UPHOLD TRANSITIONAL PROCESS (17 June 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY OUTBREAK OF FIGHTING IN BUKAVU (2 June 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY DISTURBING TURN OF EVENTS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE (20 May 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER REPORTS OF GROWING COMMUNAL CLASHES IN NIGERIA (10 May 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT INCREASING VIOLENCE IN HAITI (6 February 2004)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY BREAKDOWN OF CEASEFIRE IN NEPAL (29 August 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY SHARP ESCALATION OF MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE (21 August 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY INCREASED VIOLENCE IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR; URGES RESTRAINT BY THOSE CONCERNED (23 July 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT RENEWED FIGHTING IN LIBERIA, CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES (25 June 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ AT HOSTILITIES’ IMPACT ON CIVILIANS IN ACEH, INDONESIA (29 May 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY ISRAEL’S AIR ATTACK IN GAZA, RESULTING IN DEATHS OF SEVEN PALESTINIANS (9 April 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER FIGHTING IN LIBERIA; URGES ALL PARTIES TO ENSURE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS (28 March 2003)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY ARMED CONFRONTATION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CONDEMNS ANY ATTEMPT TO TAKE POWER BY FORCE OF ARMS (28 October 2002)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT REPORTS CONCERNING MADAGASCAR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (25 February 2002)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ AT RENEWAL OF VIOLENCE IN NEPAL (26 November 2001)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT RAPIDLY DETERIORATING FLOOD SITUATION IN MOZAMBIQUE (8 March 2001)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN (2 February 2001)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER SECURITY OF HUMANITARIAN PERSONNEL AND FACILITIES BELONGING TO OPERATION LIFELINE SUDAN (8 August 2000)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER HUMANITARIAN IMPACT OF TALIBAN EDICT PROHIBITING AFGHAN WOMEN FROM WORKING WITH FOREIGN AGENCIES (4 August 2000)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY ILLNESS OF JAPAN"S PRIME MINISTER (3 April 2000)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY MADAGASCAR FLOODING, TRUSTS DONORS WILL RESPOND GENEROUSLY TO DISASTER (9 March 2000)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTED CAR ROCKET ATTACKS AND EXPLOSIONS IN ISLAMABAD (12 November 99)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT ABDUCTION OF SIX EXPATRIATES AND THREE STAFF OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN LIBERIA (13 August 99)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT ESCALATION IN ISR"LI-LEBANON SECTOR (25 June 99)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED WITH REPORTS OF FIGHTING BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN AND SUDANESE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT/ARMY (17 May 99)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY FURTHER SETBACKS TO ANGOLAN PEACE PROCESS (17 December 98)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY YESTERDAY’S ATTACK OUTSIDE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR IN PHNOM PENH (21 August 98)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT FATE OF IRANIAN NATIONALS MISSING SINCE 8 AUGUST CAPTURE OF MAZAR-I-SHARIF BY TALIBAN (21 August 98)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT TALIBAN DECISION TO ABANDON FORUM FOR INTRA-AFGHAN DIALOGUE (19 May 98)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED BY SITUATION IN COMOROS (5 November 97)

(Via Rod F.)

UPDATE. ArtVandelay: “Meanwhile, a search for decisive action turns up only one result.”

Posted by Tim B. on 10/10/2006 at 08:47 PM
  1. I’m DEEPLY CONCERNED that he may need to take Prozac if this keeps up.  Where can we sign a petition to get him a raise in pay?  Shopping helps.  Maybe he should buy new shoes and a matching handbag.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 10 10 at 08:56 PM • permalink

  2. Hey, did I fall asleep? When did this guy, Deeply Concerned, get elected Secretary-General?

    I thought they had someone from South Korea lined up for the job.

    Posted by Forbes on 2006 10 10 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  3. If he was that deeply concerned, he’d of sunk through the core, and popped out the other side of the world by now.

    Posted by stickit on 2006 10 10 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  4. Here’s an ironic one:

    WORDS ALONE INADEQUATE AS RESPONSE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS OPENING OF FIFTY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY (12 September 2001)
    Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 10 at 08:59 PM • permalink

  5. I am DEEPLY CONCERNED that Kofi lost the thesaurus I bought him.

    Posted by SeanC on 2006 10 10 at 08:59 PM • permalink

  6. Adele Horin looks original by comparison.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 10 at 08:59 PM • permalink

  7. I’m DEEPLY CONCERNED that Kofi copped Tom Daschle’s old schtick!

    Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 10 10 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  8. I was DEEPLY CONCERNED about Kofi’s ability for a number of years and look where that got me.

    Hopefully the South Korean will be a little less concerned and a little more active. Don’t laugh it could happen… he does live next to North Korea rather than on the other side of the world.

    Still I suppose the unrepresentative swill will block any progress.

    Posted by mordred on 2006 10 10 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  9. His Deepness is quite diverse:

    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY REGRETS
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY TROUBLED
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY MOVED
    SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISMAYED
    Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 10 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  10. Type in just your everyday, run of the mill “concerned” and it becomes a veritable database.
    Kofi hasn’t just been deeply concerned!

    Kofi has been:

    Gravely concerned
    Greatly concerned
    More-than-ever Concerned
    Extremely Concerned
    Very Concerned
    Seriously Concerned
    and just Concerned

    What a useless idiot.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 10 at 09:07 PM • permalink

  11. Secretary-General deeply concerned at diminishing prospects of fitting all loot into one suitcase for return trip to Ghana.

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 10 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  12. What you need to understand is that these are the same as DEFCON levels.  Each type of “concerned” leads to an action:

    concerned=call my P.A.
    very concerned=why are you telling me this?
    seriously concerned=watch it, you’re putting me off my lunch
    greatly concerned= I had a call from Bush right in the middle of lunch. It better not happen again!
    Deeply concerned= I held a press conference.

    Of course all the other “deeplys” are just greeting cards.

    Posted by allan on 2006 10 10 at 09:14 PM • permalink

  13. You’re missing the nuance.  Is he deeply concerned with a world-weary sigh, deeply concerned while rubbing his tortured brow, deeply concerned while looking heavenward and beseeching the uncaring gods for guidance, etc.?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 10 at 09:16 PM • permalink

  14. I’d blame the verbal repetition on Kofi’s massive case of BDS, but I’m deeply concerned that his highly personal Tourette’s symptoms predate it.

    Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 10 10 at 09:18 PM • permalink

  15. I think we need the Kofi Countdown.

    He’ll be gone soon, and we can all deeply breathe a deep sigh of deep relief.

    And at the same time, remain deeply concerned that f*#k all has changed and the Unhinged Nations.

    Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 10 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  16. But not DEEPLY CONCERNED enough to actually do anything constructive about any of the problems listed.What a totally useless BLUDGER!

    Posted by Lew on 2006 10 10 at 09:23 PM • permalink

  17. Sorry, O/T, but Muslims have found yet another thing to make their tarbushes spout steam over.

    Via little green footballs

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 10 at 09:25 PM • permalink

  18. Kofi was Extremely Concerned by Reports of Uranium Enrichment Program in North Korea in Oct 2002 but only Deeply Concerned once they launched a nuke a couple of days ago.
    Contrast this with the defcon 5 of all “concerned’s” the More-than-Ever Concerned that came earlier this year when Kofi coveyed his level of concern for the “Deteriorating Situation in Nepal”

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 10 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  19. This cut and paste caper is a piece of cake!

    ATTACKS ON 11 SEPTEMBER WERE ‘AN ATTACK ON HUMANITY ITSELF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, URGING IMPLEMENTATION OF UN COUNTER-TERRORISMSTRATEGY (11 September 2006)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ADOPTION OF GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISMSTRATEGY SENDS CLEAR MESSAGE: ‘TERRORISM IS UNACCEPTABLE, NO MATTER WHO COMMITS IT, NO MATTER WHAT THE REASON’ (8 September 2006)
    IN REMARKS TO PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS MAJORITY OF PALESTINIANS DO NOT WANT TO PURSUE VIOLENCE, TERRORISM(10 February 2006)
    TERRORISMDIRECTLY ATTACKS VALUES FOR WHICH UNITED NATIONS STANDS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL SUMMIT (14 September 2005)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON ADOPTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM(13 April 2005)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION ADDS BUILDING BLOCK TO GLOBAL ANTI-TERRORISMSTRATEGY, IN REMARKS TO AD HOC COMMITTEE (1 April 2005)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ARAB STATES TO TAKE LEAD IN UNITING WORLD AGAINST TERRORISM, IN ADDRESS TO ALGIERS SUMMIT (23 March 2005)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR FIGHTING TERRORISM, IN ADDRESS TO MADRID SUMMIT (10 March 2005)
    TERRORISMTHREAT TO ALL CIVILIZED COUNTRIES, ANATHEMA TO ALL FAITHS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO RIYADH COUNTER-TERRORISMCONFERENCE (7 February 2005)
    UN ‘NEEDS CHANGE – PERHAPS RADICAL CHANGE’ TO MEET 21ST CENTURY THREATS OF AIDS, GENOCIDE, TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (8 December 2004)
    TERRORISMSTRIKES AT VERY HEART OF ALL UN STANDS FOR, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO TASHKENT CEREMONY (17 June 2004)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY DISTURBED’ BY REPORTS OF VIOLENCE IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN; CONDEMNS TERRORISMTARGETING INNOCENT CIVILIANS, PLACES OF WORSHIP (1 June 2004)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED AT ‘INDISCRIMINATE ACT OF TERRORISM’ IN MOSCOW SUBWAY (6 February 2004)
    CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTED, CAN BE POWERFUL INSTRUMENT AGAINST TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE OF STATES PARTIES (20 October 2003)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘HEINOUS ACTS OF TERRORISM’ IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SAUDI ARABIA (13 May 2003)
    ALL MUST WORK TOGETHER TO COUNTER TERRORISM, PREVENT SPREAD OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS (6 March 2003)
    MENACE OF TERRORISMREQUIRES GLOBAL RESPONSE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, STRESSING IMPORTANCE OF INCREASED UNITED NATIONS ROLE (20 January 2003)
    TERRORISMIS GLOBAL THREAT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, BUT MEASURES AGAINST IT MUST NOT BE USED TO JUSTIFY HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS (21 November 2002)
    PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY MUST ‘DE-LEGITIMIZE TERRORISM’; ISRAEL MUST STOP SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY IN PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL (17 July 2002)
    SPREAD OF TERRORISMTHREAT TO VERY FOUNDATIONS OF UNITED NATIONS SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO LISBON ANTI-TERRORISM MEETING (12 June 2002)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: HUMAN RIGHTS MUST NOT BE SACRIFICED TO COUNTER-TERRORISM(12 April 2002)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING COUNCIL MEETING ON COUNTER-TERRORISM, SAYS UNITED NATIONS ‘STANDS FOUR-SQUARE’ AGAINST SCOURGE (18 January 2002)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EMPHASIS ON TOLERANCE, RULE OF LAW, NEED TO FIGHT TERRORISMIN SPEECH BY PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN (14 January 2002)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED ACTION AGAINST TERRORISMHAS UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSION; VIOLATIONS ARE WARNING OF FUTURE CONFLICT (5 December 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS BOMBINGS IN JERUSALEM, HAIFA AS TERRORISM; CALLS ON PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO BRING THOSE RESPONSIBLE TO JUSTICE (3 December 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL REPEATS CALL FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE TO TERRORISM, URGING MORAL STRUGGLE AGAINST ‘AN EVIL THAT IS ANATHEMA TO ALL FAITHS’ (6 November 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS AFRICAN EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM, URGES RATIFICATION, IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING CONVENTIONS (22 October 2001)
    ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE HAS CENTRAL ROLE IN DEVISING EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TO COMBAT TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS (9 October 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING ASSEMBLY ON TERRORISM, CALLS FOR `IMMEDIATE, FAR-REACHING CHANGES’ IN UN RESPONSE TO TERROR (1 October 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY ASSASSINATION OF KEY AFGHAN LEADER, SAYS ACT OF TERRORISMFURTHER COMPLICATES EFFORTS TO END CONFLICT (17 September 2001)
    SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORISMAFTER MURDER OF SPANISH JUDGE (30 October 2000)
    GLOBAL EFFORT NEEDED AGAINST TERRORISM, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL BUT RESPONSES MUST BE SOPHISTICATED, PROPORTIONAL (18 November 99)

    Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 10 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  20. Another way of saying “deeply concerned” is “seriously disturbed”.

    And man, is that cat seriously disturbed.

    (Returns to playing bongos.)

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 10 10 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  21. Kofi is deeply concerned, Miranda is troubled.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 10 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  22. Thanks Miranda for #19.

    What I gleaned from your list is that His Deepness talks the talk without much walking the walk.  Committees, conventions, talkfests, media releases.  And lots of caveats around fighting terrorism.

    Still waiting for the UN to agree on a defintion for terrorism.  And some Chapter 7 resolutions against terrorist states or entities other than al Qaeda.

    To be fair, he is prisoner to the inaction sponsored by the two voting blocks: OIC and ‘Non-Aligned Nations’.

    That said, he could spend more of his idle time on matters other than getting his son, Kojo - freshly out of college with zero experience - to be paid large sums of money as a ‘consultant’.

    Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 10 at 09:56 PM • permalink

  23. "Endorses Action" 01/01/1997 - today

    Search Results

    No releases matching your search were found, please refine your criteria and try again!

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 10 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  24. SECRETARY-GENERAL, DEEPLY CONCERNED

    His deep concern and three bucks will buy you a latte at Starbucks.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 10 at 09:58 PM • permalink

  25. Kofi is deeply concerned that the price of the U.N. peace-keepers preteen sex slaves has gone from 1 oz chocolate per week all the way up to 2 chocolate bars and 10 kilos of wheat.

    Posted by Carl H on 2006 10 10 at 09:59 PM • permalink

  26. Meanwhile, a search for decisive action turns up only one result:

    SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS JERUSALEM SUICIDE BOMBING, URGES DECISIVE ACTION TO ARREST INSTIGATORS (19 August 2003)

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 10 at 09:59 PM • permalink

  27. Oh Miranda-of course the cut and paste part is a piece of cake. 

    The hard part is making the association and then having the original idea about how to get a laugh out of it. 

    Please let us know when you do that.

    Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 10 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  28. #25 In brighter news for Jordanian peace-keepers, the price of goat sex has remained stable relative to inflation.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 10 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  29. Miranda was more interesting before her brain completely melted. Now she’s just boring and pointless.

    Much like Fisk and Chomsky.

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 10 10 at 10:05 PM • permalink

  30. Hey, its been obvious for a long time that the UN just issues repetitive, meaningless statements. I wrote this post back in June.

    Its not just “deeply concerned”.. try and search for the expression “very very”

    Hans Blix said the following:
    And if the North Koreans move on, well the risks are very, very great. If the North Koreans were to test a weapon, yes, it would be very, very serious.

    or these comments by Kofi:
    North Korea to do away with this in my view has very very high priority and I think that the first line of action should be on the field of political and security policies.

    KOFI ANNAN: Yes. I think that—let me say that the Iranians, in my judgment, hyped up their achievement quite considerably, because what they have achieved is the very, very beginning.

    Posted by Jono on 2006 10 10 at 10:08 PM • permalink

  31. Miranda: Truly, Madly Deeply

    -- Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 10 10 at 10:09 PM • permalink

  32. C’mon guys, it’s in the job description for Secretary-General of the UN: Must possess ability to show “deep concern” over any slight world trauma, while retaining the ability to “waffle” with the best of them about any actual positive action to be taken.

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 10 10 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  33. Why is that nest of vipers still meeting on the shores of my country?  That building could be put to good commercial use.  Why haven’t Kofi and his partners in crime moved to Belgium?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 10 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  34. Kojo must also been deeply concerned that his dad is leaving the job.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2006 10 10 at 10:31 PM • permalink

  35. I just hope Kofi retires and stays retired. 

    Unlike those former presidents and cretins for life, Carter and Clinton, who would do the world a big favor by signing endorsement contracts for, say, these and these, respectively.

    Come to think of it, Kofi should endorse these.  Give this guy enough money, and he’ll sing, baby!

    O/T, while searching for a suitable Kofi link, I found this.  Ought to be entertaining......

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 10 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  36. Pouquoi ‘E is never ‘ow you say "concerned deeply"?

    (Is Frog still the official language of that waste of riverfront Manhattan real estate? It wouls sum the whole place up if it was).

    Posted by Habib on 2006 10 10 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  37. Bingo.

    Looks like you also have a choice of patronising, ineffectual, pandering blather and toadying capitulation in five others as well.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 10 10 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  38. How predictable.

    Posted by quillpen on 2006 10 10 at 10:48 PM • permalink

  39. I’m still waiting for some accountability and for the Kof to be buried over the oil-for-food thing.  If it happens, I hope that burial is deeply deep.

    Posted by Do not beat around the Dubya on 2006 10 10 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  40. The Kofster was DEEPLY CONCERNED when his son was found out to be shifty.
    The Kofster is DEEPLY CONCERNED the UN is only loved, respected, and fawned over by deposts, cranks and international criminals. Lefty western dhimmitude governments and MSM media, all eager to see their respective countries sign a plethora of agreements, that subjucate their nations independence, of thought and decision making.
    Time to ditch this, hypicritical “shelter for the weird and dangerous”.

    Posted by BJM on 2006 10 10 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  41. O/T Today’s Age headline: “Korea to US: talk or we fire”.

    The Age cant distinguish between Korea and North Korea.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2006 10 10 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  42. Fear not, for it is only a couple of months before His Deepness retires.

    Enter Action Man - Mr. Ban Ki-moon (think of the endless fun that lies ahead with that name)

    His nickname, according to this week’s Economist, is Ban-chusa, meaning “administrative clerk” (witty lot these UN folk)

    Many will say that the UN’s opaque selection policy has alighted upon the lowest common denominator - the choice does not set the pulse racing.

    A lot more deep emotions to come then.

    Posted by pommygranate on 2006 10 10 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  43. I don’t do very well with this cut and paste stuff myself.  Maybe Miranda could help me with UN and the Oil for Food Program.  How about UN and Affirmative Action Program for Dictators and Thugs.  Maybe UN and support for Pali Terrorist Camps might work.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 10 10 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  44. Can I just be shallowly concerned?

    Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 10 10 at 11:11 PM • permalink

  45. Say, how is that Hez disarmament program coming anyway?  Wasn’t that some sort of predicate for the “Peace Process” or something?

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 10 10 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  46. The problem with the UN is that it’s run by diplomats. Replace ‘em all with generals, I say - at the very least, it’ll give the media constant new stories to report.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 10 10 at 11:21 PM • permalink

  47. O/T - Babs has gone off her rocker… again!

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 10 at 11:22 PM • permalink

  48. I favor short list searches myself so why don’t we just search for “positive”.  That should narrow thing some.  You know, like the following;

    positive impact
    postive outcome
    positive change

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 10 10 at 11:28 PM • permalink

  49. #47: The classic left-wing celebrity nutbucket! It’s people like Babs who make original satire of the Left almost impossible.

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 10 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  50. Yep, I too am deeply concerned.

    I am deeply concerned that club for kleptomaniacs is still meeting in New York.

    I am deeply concerned that Kim Mentally Il is still sucking air.

    I am deeply concerned that I can expect nothing more than deep concern out of Mr. Kofi.

    I am deeply concerned that the entire mess will be blamed on the current administration...3...2...1...liftoff.

    And I am most deeply concerned that we haven’t learned a damned thing from dealing with these cretins and will continue to offer them rewards for bad behavior.

    Monkey boy had the balls to threaten the US today with a nuclear attack if we don’t lift sanctions on his money laundering and counterfeiting of our currency.  If TR was President, NoKo would already be nothing but crispy critters and alpha bits.

    Posted by trainer on 2006 10 10 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  51. Does anyone know whether anything has been done regarding any of these things Kofi has been ‘deeply concerned’ over? You know, like those actions against Zimbabwe, or Sudan?

    Posted by Stuart Lord on 2006 10 11 at 01:26 AM • permalink

  52. #44
    App.

    Can I just be shallowly concerned?

    I for one, was leaning more towards SHALLOWLY APATHETIC.

    Posted by Thomas on 2006 10 11 at 03:58 AM • permalink

  53. SSG Medic, unfortunately I got zero results found searching for keywords: Miranda original thought.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 10 11 at 03:58 AM • permalink

  54. I am overawed with ambivalence towards the UN.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 11 at 04:06 AM • permalink

  55. Was it coincidence that the Deeply Popular Republic of Korea let of an A-bomb the same day the new, Korean, UN secretaqry-general was nominated?

    Were they celebrating the arrival of a Korean or the deaptrure of Koffi?

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 11 at 05:11 AM • permalink

  56. Hey Miranda....
    Run that past me again....

    Er Kofi doesn’t leave till NEW YEAR’S EVE..
    I’m buying him a ticket on the SS Poseidon
    -no worries it’s a return ticket,I’m not stinting.
    Windowed deck cabin,360 views,A Deck…

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 11 at 05:52 AM • permalink

  57. -only Christians allowed use of the Christmas tree facilities…

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 11 at 05:58 AM • permalink

  58. -aw well in the Spirit of Christmas I’m prepared to let everyone climb but Kofi has to stand aside and say 34 times..
    “I am DEEPLY CONCERNED that I am not going to be able to scale that tree or be able to hold my nose for two minutes like Shelley.”
    Can’t say fairer than that.

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 11 at 06:08 AM • permalink

  59. The UN and the Urge to Diplomacy have been the cause of no major conflict being resolved satisfactorily since WW2.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 10 11 at 06:34 AM • permalink

  60. At least he STRONGLY CONDEMNS as much as he’s DEEPLY CONCERNED.

    Posted by danS on 2006 10 11 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  61. Hey! Miranda ... Meander .. whatever the hell your name is… you seem obsessed with this site. And Terrorism. Get over it. And us.
    Or admit you love it here!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 10 11 at 08:07 AM • permalink

  62. I think Miranda is strangely aroused by Tim.

    Posted by murph on 2006 10 11 at 08:38 AM • permalink

  63. #62 Methinks the lady protesteth too much..
    You could be on to something murph and if she keeps producing endless screeds like that (posts getting lengthier and longer) she will wear herself out or bore herself silly.
    That Timster and his SIREN SONG..

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 11 at 09:48 AM • permalink

  64. ..or you could be on something murph..

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 11 at 09:49 AM • permalink

  65. Hmmm.

    Consistent Kofi?  Kofi?  Coffee!!

    I forgot to get a cup of coffee this morning!

    My God!  What the heck am I thinking of!

    Thanks Tim.  :)

    Posted by memomachine on 2006 10 11 at 11:14 AM • permalink

  66. Not 10 minutes before tripping over this post, I was (re-)reading Lileks’ classic

    ... (We hear about that famous Brazilian Butterfly whose wings set off a cyclone on the other side of the world; no one ever wonders about the impact on the weather of the breeze stirred up by the gently-shaken wattles of a Deeply Troubled EU diplomat. They’re probably responsible for 70% of our summertime tornadoes.) ...

    What are the odds...?

    Posted by AMartin on 2006 10 11 at 06:42 PM • permalink

  67. “I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine,” the president said. “Yesterday when he was here in the Oval Office I saw the deep concern he had about a person who he wounded.”

    Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 11 at 06:54 PM • permalink

  68. Please keep to the topic, Miranda, since you apparently can’t be funny or interesting.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 11 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  69. How about if Kofi contents himself with being weakly concerned about a problem but gets off his ass just once during his term and fricking does something about it?  Nah, he’d have to cooperate with the USA to do something, cause nobody else is willing to stand up (save a couple of our allies like OZ).  That would be just too, too unacceptable.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 11 at 08:24 PM • permalink

  70. The Bush White House is often saddened. Of the death of Maureen Reagan? Saddened. Sportscaster Jack Buck? Deeply saddened. Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh? Shocked and Saddened. Former Senators Pat Moynihan and Paul Simon? Saddened and Saddened. Dale Earnhart? Saddened. Princess Margaret? Deeply Saddened. The miserable, Halifax-loving, Hitler-appeasing Queen Mother? Deeply Saddened. Iranian Earthquake Victims? Greatly saddened. Thai flood victims? Very saddened. Indian earthquake? Merely saddened.

    Of course, President Clinton was likewise deeply saddened at the death of King Hussein, of the folks at Waco, Leah Rabin, Former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, and of the victims of the Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

    (Sorry, no links, this from an old dead blog of mine)

    Posted by Andrew on 2006 10 12 at 12:10 AM • permalink

  71. there,there Andrew you can wake up now..
    it was just a dream.

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 12 at 10:10 AM • permalink

  72. He used to be “Frankly appalled”

    Posted by South on 2006 10 14 at 09:06 AM • permalink

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