# Colonel Gadaffi to head United Nations Commission on Human Rights **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666 "2002-08-19T23:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/21 "2002-08-20T18:35:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Okay, I nominate the UK, Mongolia and North Korea for the Axis of Culinary Evil. Wait a sec–Mongolian hotpot is delicious, and Korean food is absolutely yummy. North Korea has some regional variations on standard Korean dishes, and at least one summer dish, _naengmyon_ (cold noodles in broth), is a North Korean specialty, with Pyongyang and Hamhung the two areas with the best versions of the dish. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/22 "2002-08-20T19:02:53Z")
Hey ! Why is no one disputing the UK’s position in this Axis ? BTW, isn’t Holland also part of the Axis of Below Sea Level Evil Doers ? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/23 "2002-08-20T19:13:08Z")
Sounded like a reference to puppy eating to me. Mongolian and regular Korean food doesn’t bug me. I’d add Eritrean/Ethiopian food to the evil list, just because you use your fingers and only the right hand, and eat everything with that bread stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/24 "2002-08-20T20:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*BTW, isn’t Holland also part of the Axis of Below Sea Level Evil Doers ? \*\* Yes. Bi-weekly meetings in the Mariana Trench. But you didn’t hear it from me. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/25 "2002-08-20T20:47:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\* BTW, isn’t Holland also part of the Axis of Below Sea Level Evil Doers ? \*\* Yes! Join Americans United to Beat the Dutch! (AUTBTD). Or else they will succeed in their nefarious plan to make us effeminete from sniffing tulips, dizzy from staring at windmills, and fat and lazy from drinking heinekins and eating Gouda. Then they’ll come in and dam up the great lakes and drain them, and we won’t be able to stop them!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/26 "2002-08-20T21:14:43Z")
Pshaw. Like Americans need _Heineken_ to get fat and lazy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/27 "2002-08-20T21:32:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > Yes. Bi-weekly meetings in the Mariana Trench. But you didn’t hear it from me. All together now: Ve’re going ‘bi’ in a yellow sccchubmarine… ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/28 "2002-08-20T22:20:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*That’s a coincidence, I just heard a North Korean is to Head UNESCO. And wait, Saddam’s in line for UNSCOM…strange days, huh ? > > So what’s the plan tonight, **december** - I’m guessing the car headlights will be angled on the garden while you’re digging the bunker ? \*\* You are becoming quite the anti-December knee-jerk reactionary. Even the [Human Rights Watch,](http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/libya080902.htm) a group that I suspect you fancy, is decrying Africa’s ignorant decision to pimp Kaddafi. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/29 "2002-08-20T22:28:25Z")
Pssst. **Brutus**. C’mere. Read the rest of the thread. We’re all pals in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Efrem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@Efrem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Efrem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/30 "2002-08-21T00:36:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*I’d add Eritrean/Ethiopian food to the evil list, just because you use your fingers and only the right hand, and eat everything with that bread stuff. \*\* Sure you have to wash your hands before and after, but Injera is good for you! A cup of Teff has more calcium then a cup of milk. My mom could make you a plate of Injera with zilzil which would put those restaurants to shame (The special ingredient to all recipes is Berbere). Although I’m not too bad in making Fulh either. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/31 "2002-08-21T02:27:22Z")
Well, now! There’s something we can agree on, **Efrem**. That’s some gooood eatin’. Next time you’re in DC, drop by Adams Morgan and tell me how our stuff compares to Mom’s cooking, eh? ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/32 "2002-08-21T02:53:18Z")
As several posters already pointed out, Libya’s chairmanship isn’t a done deal, despite the Sky News article. This article says the US State Department on Tuesday proposed a revision of the rotation system. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020820/ap\_on\_re\_af/us\_human\_rights\_libya\_3](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020820/ap_on_re_af/us_human_rights_libya_3) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/33 "2002-08-21T02:56:38Z")
Hehehe…good old Satirewire. I miss BushLog, though. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/34 "2002-08-21T11:18:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by december \* > As several posters already pointed out, Libya’s chairmanship isn’t a done deal, despite the Sky News article. **december** - Probably a bit late now and it might not happen but you could ask for a change in the thread title - it being untrue an’ all ? Hi **Brutus** , how’s the knee ? BTW, I haven’t fancied any groups since Bananarama tragically called it a day. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/35 "2003-01-20T16:09:18Z")
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I happened to remember the tone of this one when I read: [Libya takes UN human rights chair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=131526). No doubt apologies will be forthcoming all around… ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/36 "2003-01-20T16:20:39Z")
Shrug. My post looks ok. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/37 "2003-01-20T16:24:56Z")
Well, it happened. Oh the irony. They were interviewing the Libyan Ambassador to the UN this morning on the Beeb, and he singularly failed to answer the question “how do you square being head of an organization you don’t even let in your country?” Still, rehabilitation has to start somewhere, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/38 "2003-01-20T16:27:19Z")
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2672029.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2672029.stm) Is this what you were linking to Izzy? If for one thing, at least we have cites now of Libya saying they will clean up its act. wether they do or not is a different story. and no one has anything to apologise for. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/39 "2003-01-20T16:27:19Z")
😃 However, Izzy, your link just goes to this thread. Story. > **[CNN International - Breaking News, US News, World News and Video](https://edition.cnn.com/)** > > Find the latest breaking news and information on the top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides. > [@](#): > > Libya takes UN human rights chair > Monday, January 20, 2003 Posted: 9:48 PM HKT (1348 GMT) > > GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) – Libya, long accused by human rights activists of major abuses, has been elected to chair the United Nations’ top rights body. > > The decision on Monday comes despite objections from the United States and other Western nations about the country’s poor record on civil liberties and its alleged role in sponsoring terrorism. > > The Libyan candidate, long-time diplomat and former journalist Najat al-Hajjaji, won 33 votes in a secret ballot of the 53-nation United Nations Human Rights Commission, with 17 states abstaining and three voting against her as Washington had recommended. However, the thread title is still not, strictly speaking, correct–strictly speaking, Najat al-Hajjaji is to head the UN Human Rights Commission. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/40 "2003-01-20T16:33:37Z")
Apologies for the link. :o Thanks DDG & TOF [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666.md?page=3)