The Humpty Dumpty Institute coming to Nashville

Oddly named humanitarian group plans to bring a delegation of United Nations officials to Music City

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Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) announced this morning that they are bringing a delegation of United Nations officials to Nashville as part of their "U.N. Across America" campaign.

Yes, you read that right. The Humpty Dumpty Institute, whose motto is "putting the pieces back together," is coming to Music City.

After a quick phone call to the number on the press release we received and a few tense moments of accusing them of being associated with Sacha Baron Cohen and a possible sequel to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, we were a little more at ease.

According to the Humpty Dumpty Institute, on December 9th, 2007, they will be bringing a delegation of United Nations officials to Nashville, Tennessee as part of its U.N. Across America program. The delegation will remain until Tuesday, December 11.

"The trip will showcase Nashville as a cultural and business center of the United States. The participants will have a chance to meet with Governor Bredesen, local business leaders, and faculty and students from Tennessee State University.

The delegates will represent six countries: Kazakhstan, Peru, Afghanistan, Burundi, Croatia, and the Philippines.

HDI is a Manhattan-based Institute that forges innovative public-private partnerships to find creative solutions to difficult humanitarian problems through a series of unique programs. Currently, HDI's mandate is to improve U.S.-U.N. relations, to remove landmines around the world, and to help alleviate domestic and international hunger. To learn more about HDI's international programs, please visit www.thehdi.org."

While NashvillePost.com applauds any organization that works to remove landmines and alleviate world hunger, our advice to Bredesen or any person coming in contact with the organization is as follows. If any of the diplomats resembles the person in the above picture....run.