Comments on: Kickin’ it Old Skool http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/08/kickin-it-old-skool.html The irreverent, activist, often-inappropriate Arab-American (and others) blog. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Firouz http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/08/kickin-it-old-skool.html/comment-page-1#comment-6078 Firouz Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:18:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=1079#comment-6078 Since Nimr couldn't match this most obscure post, I've taken it upon myself to issue the First Edition of <b>The Nimr Report</b> (TNR).<br /><br />TNR will be issued whenever Nimr posts on an obscure, irrelevant topic, with the aim of educating him, and the rest of Kabob, on how to spot stories relevant to at least 0.0001% of humanity.<br /><br />Today's TNR is all about Racism. That's right, boys and girls, a favorite topic for the KabobCrew and its staunch Kabob Comments Resistance Committees (including myself, Firouz, PC, Mitch, Sara, Roy and... the incorrigible Anonymous).<br /><br />Specifically, the subject at hand is the UN Conference on Racism, aka Durban II. We have a report from <a href="http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/483691.html" rel="nofollow">Joel Brinkley</a>, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times and now a professor of journalism at Stanford University:<br /><br /><i>I confess I had forgotten about the U.N. World Conference against Racism, in Durban, South Africa, on Sept. 8, 2001. It turned so quickly into a racist, anti-Semitic hate-fest that Secretary of State Colin Powell stood up and walked out.<br /><br />The indignant commentary was just getting started when the Sept. 11 attacks swept the coverage away. The event was largely forgotten.<br /><br />I bring it up now because they’re at it again. The United Nations has scheduled a sequel, dubbed Durban II, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, next spring. (This time, Durban’s city fathers refused to host it.) And if the 2001 event proved to be an embarrassment for the United Nations and the world, the next one promises to be a shameful travesty that will light up cable news, late-night TV talk shows and multi-media blogs for weeks.<br /><br />Worse, the event is certain to cleave an even deeper divide between the Arab states and the rest of the world. It’s pre-ordained.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/483691.html" rel="nofollow">...continue reading</a>.<br /><br />This concludes the First Edition of The Nimr Report. Since Nimr couldn’t match this most obscure post, I’ve taken it upon myself to issue the First Edition of The Nimr Report (TNR).

TNR will be issued whenever Nimr posts on an obscure, irrelevant topic, with the aim of educating him, and the rest of Kabob, on how to spot stories relevant to at least 0.0001% of humanity.

Today’s TNR is all about Racism. That’s right, boys and girls, a favorite topic for the KabobCrew and its staunch Kabob Comments Resistance Committees (including myself, Firouz, PC, Mitch, Sara, Roy and… the incorrigible Anonymous).

Specifically, the subject at hand is the UN Conference on Racism, aka Durban II. We have a report from Joel Brinkley, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times and now a professor of journalism at Stanford University:

I confess I had forgotten about the U.N. World Conference against Racism, in Durban, South Africa, on Sept. 8, 2001. It turned so quickly into a racist, anti-Semitic hate-fest that Secretary of State Colin Powell stood up and walked out.

The indignant commentary was just getting started when the Sept. 11 attacks swept the coverage away. The event was largely forgotten.

I bring it up now because they’re at it again. The United Nations has scheduled a sequel, dubbed Durban II, to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, next spring. (This time, Durban’s city fathers refused to host it.) And if the 2001 event proved to be an embarrassment for the United Nations and the world, the next one promises to be a shameful travesty that will light up cable news, late-night TV talk shows and multi-media blogs for weeks.

Worse, the event is certain to cleave an even deeper divide between the Arab states and the rest of the world. It’s pre-ordained.

…continue reading.

This concludes the First Edition of The Nimr Report.

]]> By: Mohammad http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/08/kickin-it-old-skool.html/comment-page-1#comment-6079 Mohammad Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:38:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=1079#comment-6079 Seriously dude, can you limit your topics to geographic locales Mitch has actually heard of? Seriously dude, can you limit your topics to geographic locales Mitch has actually heard of?

]]> By: Mitch http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/08/kickin-it-old-skool.html/comment-page-1#comment-6080 Mitch Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:11:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=1079#comment-6080 <i>Let's hope this ends well and with no bloodshed.</i><br /><br />*Eyeroll<br /><br />Is there an even less significant story you could post about? I'll give you a day to find it. Alright, two days. Let’s hope this ends well and with no bloodshed.

*Eyeroll

Is there an even less significant story you could post about? I’ll give you a day to find it. Alright, two days.

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