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10/05/09
While in a language course in Germany, one of my classmates was Chinese. Very interesting, because we also a had 2 Taiwanese women in our class, one who believed Taiwan should return to China. Anyway, we were doing some language practices, and part of the questionnaire was "Who do you hate most in the world?"
When the Chinese kid was asked, he thought for a second, than said with a straight face, "The Dali Lama." I was amazed at how casually he said it. This funny, very nice guy just casually mentioning how he hates a Nobel Peace prize winning pacifist more than any other person in the world.
The Chinese must be pushing this on their children in schools like we push the pledge of allegiance.
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@SinisterBill of Star Command: I suppose given the choice between that and holding sucking face, I'd choose bowing as well.
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"Don't he look cute in my hat? Can I keep him Laura?"
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@JohnnyJboss: OMG, look at the similarities in this photo. I seriously thought "why is a pic of the Lama coming up in my HST image search? "the flowing robes, the grace"
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And Obama isn't refusing to see the DL ever, just that he wants to push it back to anytime-after-a-month-from-now, after his China summit.
Meanwhile in that same edition of the Times, China states that it wants to curb North Korea's nuclear threat with honey rather than vinegar. Related?
[www.nytimes.com]
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The Dalai Lama was given the hat on his visit here in Calgary last week. All celebrities/people of note go through a white-hat ceremony upon arrival at the airport.
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meeting with the dalai lama is like flipping china the bird. obama is going to china in november to court chinese support for security council action against iran. no matter what you think about the occupation of tibet fifty years ago, don't you think we need to minimize our antagonistic behavior towards the second most important country in the world, especially if we don't get anything in return for it?
I defy anyone to name one potentially productive result of a meeting with the dalai lama.
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Who wouldn't meet the Dalai Lama
They would ask everyday
"No," Rahm would say
"He's not getting in wearing pajamas."
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And it's perfectly reasonable for the President to do a quick flight to Europe to help his country land the games, whether the decision--no doubt made weeks ago--went in the US's favor or not.
That said, one has to wonder how conservatives will be able to convince voters they're actually for America--economically, and in matters like this--after rooting against it for the next four to eight years.
With cretins like Cheney rooting for a terrorist attack and asshats like these gloating on America losing out at the IOC, there's little doubt, as usual, that their highest allegiance is to party.