When the New York Times editorial board and US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton agree on something you know the world is becoming one crazeeeeee place!

I agree with the issue at hand. There should be no “imperfect” UN Human Rights Commission that continues to allow disgusting countries like Zimbabwe, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and China to sit in judgement of other nation’s human rights records.

The compromise that is being circulated at the UN is not just imperfect, it’s a ridiculous farce. Once again you have candidate nations being submitted for membership in the UNHRC by regional blocks, thusly ensuring that prolific human rights abusers like Syria and Libya can continue to sit on the UNHRC as members of the “Arab” bloc.

A better idea than eliminating “bloc” nominations might be to eliminate any Arab or Muslim nation, other than Turkey, from sitting on the UNHRC at all. But since that idea, while backed by fact, is much too un-PC to receive hearing we’ll have to go with the United State’s original proposal: require all nations sitting on the UNHRC to be submitted and approved by a 2/3 vote of the General Assembly, not a bare majority.

So what if Amnesty International and Jimmy “Dhimmi” Carter support this compromise? I’d rather see the UNHRC abolished than accept this lame half-step towards reform. This isn’t a first or third world issue but rather an issue of human rights where people’s lives are at stake. If you doubt me on that you should journey to Darfur and ask those people how they feel about Sudan’s repeated blocking of any discussion at the UNHRC on its genocidal campaign in Darfur, I’m sure they might have a different perspective to share with you.

I always feel a little better about my life when I see just how badly President Bush is faring amongst the American people.

(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

I got my federal and state tax returns back from the accountant today and I owe $800 to the federal government and $100 to California. Amazing, I made almost no money last year, paid $3,000 in student loan interest and $11,000 in taxes and I still owe money!

Solution - Swiss Bank Account.

This is what happens to gay men in Iran and many other Muslim countries as well.

This picture shows the rank hypocricy of Muslims when they claim Islam is a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of intolerance, Islam is a religion of anti-semitism, of war, of death and of destruction.

Many thanks to Jason for following this story and for his powerful and heartfelt words on this subject.

Some black bitch slapped my friend in the face last night and I had her black ass thrown out of the club. She’s lucky I didn’t punch her in the face, because I don’t care if you have a pussy or a dick, you don’t slap my friends, EVER!

On another note - do you ever have names and/or text messages on your phone that are unrecognizable? I always come back home after a night out and there are all these names and numbers of people that I seem to have met but cannot remember their faces. It’s all so mysterious.

I’m fairly neutral when it comes to discussions of Guantanomo Bay and whether the prison there should be closed. I understand the reasons it’s open and I also understand the reasons why it should be shut down and the inmates transferred to other US facilities worldwide.

What I’m not neutral about is the fact that the recent UN report that recommended the closing of Guantanamo was put together by the UN Human Rights Commission, a disgusting and loathsome group of countries that includes such stalwart human rights defenders as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Cuba, China and Zimbabwe.

For years the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has been passing resolution after resolution condemning Israel for its treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, while refusing to condemn Saudi Arabia’s absolute lack of religious or political freedom, Zimbabwe’s racist expulsion of its white population, Iran’s repeated hangings and beheadings of gay men, Syria’s abject dictatorship or Cuba’s arrest and detention of pro-democracy advocates.

All of these, and many more severe human rights abuses, are routinely ignored by the UNHRC in favor of repeated condemnations of both Israel and the United States. The fact that the UNHRC is recommending the closure of Guantanamo is enough to encourage even the most hard-core opponent of the Bush administration to look again at the wisdom of having such a disgusting and immoral group of countries appoint themselves as guardians of human rights in the first place.

I hate The College of Santa Fe.

I graduated from CSF in 1995 and despise myself for spending $40,000 to attend that dump of a school and them for providing me with a crappy undergraduate education. It amazes me what kind of shit they pulled when I was in school there and what they’re still trying to pull now that I graduated.

Case in point - Last week I sent off a request for two copies of my official transcript. I had previously requested copies of my transcript in 2001 and 2002, with no problem. Today I get a call that I have a balance on my student account. I call the college and am told that they don’t know what this balance is for but I’m going to have to pay it. I explained that I didn’t have a balance four years ago and hadn’t attended school there for 11 years, but they told me I’d have to talk to a “supervisor” and get this straightened out.

Turns out the college is still trying to get me to pay for damage caused to a common area of the dorm I lived in my last year at school, despite the fact I had vacated my dorm room before the damage occurred. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. They took this charge off in 1996 after I complained, put it back on in 1997, I again refused to pay, they sent it to a collections agency, I again contacted the school and they removed it in 1998, and now, for some reason, they’ve decided to put it back on my account in 2003.

I hate this school. They suck diseased, cancerous donkey dick and if they don’t remove this charge I am hiring an attorney to sue them for emotional distress and defamation. This ain’t my first time at the rodeo and I mean business!

It’s amazing how quickly the word “Islamophobia” has come into vogue over the past two months. Dare to criticize Islam’s abject and horrifying treatment of women? You’re Islamophobic! Refuse to be the good little dhimmi and bow down to radical Islamist threats? You must be Islamophobic!

What a load of bullshit. The only Islamophobia most of us experience is when we see radical Muslims burning down embassies, assaulting people with red or blond hair on the streets of flea-bitten Muslim capitals or hearing more and more frequent stories of Jews being attacked and murdered by Islamic gangs.

The use of the word Islamophobia is part of a concerted effort to convince Westerners that when they feel discomfort at Islam’s refusal to accommodate itself to Western democratic norms then they’re obviously racist or perhaps Islamophobic. Because most Westerners grow up with a guilt complex as a result of the West’s affluence in the world, many of them are too quick to believe they’re in the wrong when they cringe at Islamic statements that gays and lesbians should receive the death penalty, or that women should be killed for committing adultery.

We’re not Islamophobic nor are we ignorant about Islam. I myself lived in Morocco, three different times for three months at a time. I probably know more about Islamic and Arab culture than most self-proclaimed “experts” on Islam. What I am is someone who knows first-hand from my studies on the Eastern Church’s experience with Islam that non-Muslims fare very badly under Islamic rule, and I’m unwilling to sit back and allow the prattle from the “give them what they want and maybe they won’t hurt us” gang to go unchallenged.

It’s not the West that needs to become more accepting, it’s Islam that needs to change. Islam’s values are in direct contradiction to liberal Western society. They know it, I know it and now you know it as well.

I ate Chinese food last night for dinner and for some reason every time I do so I wake up in a foul mood, and today was no different.

I’m trying to consolidate my student loans and have succeeded in doing so, with the exception of one small Perkins loan from my junior year in undergraduate. So far I’ve received like twelve different pieces of mail from the Department of Education asking me if I really want to consolidate this loan and if I do am I aware that I can’t get the Perkins loan cancelled if I ever decide to “practice medicine in an underserved area” and blah, blah blah. I just want to C-O-N-S-O-L-I-D-A-T-E the mutherfucker!

I then went to the gym to run but for some strange reason my shins started to ache really badly. I blame it on those damned Gucci boots I wore Sunday night, because although they look good they kill my feet and ankles. So instead of running for 45 minutes I left after 30.

Today sucks ass. I hope tomorrow is better.

Friday night the Good Doc and I went downtown to have a drink with some friends of mine, a couple of nice guys from the North of Ireland named Shane and Michael.

Now it does make it a bit difficult when you’re out in a group of people and another guy has the same name as you, particularly when Shane isn’t that common of a name. Couple this with the fact that the Irish like their liquor and Friday night was one crazy evening that only ended Saturday afternoon after my nice boyfriend hauled the two boys back to their apartment downtown.

I like that tomorrow is a holiday because it means that tonight is going to be a fun one. I love Pink and think we’ll head there for a night of generally-drunken debauchery.