UncleSunny
Well-Known Member
The Dalai Lama was at the White House this afternoon. Tomorrow, he will receive the Congressional Gold Medal. The Chinese are fucking pissed.
Cut and pasted directly from Yahoo news "We are furious," Tibet's Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli, told reporters. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world."
That got me thinking. I mean what if Pakistan wanted to officially award Osama Bin Laden with their highest award a non citizen can be given. I know Bin Laden has a sinking approval rate (10% compared to G.W.'s 29%) but let's just say. To take Garden Knowm's question "what would you do if Hitler came to your door and started raping your wife..." well if you were a voyeuristic Nazi sympathizer, you'd be in heaven. It is relative. See, I like the Dalai Lama, and I call myself a weekend Buddhist, so to me, the Chinese are just being poo-poo heads.
Maybe there ARE no good people in the world. Maybe virtue can only exist in a static environment. Maybe there cannot be a right and wrong. I mean, if it wasn't for white people killing their way across the country, I couldn't enjoy the mild L.A. winters. Would Mexico or the Native Americans arranged all that slave labor to build this city, or would Los Angeles still be a random collection of under watered orange trees? Would it really be a bad thing if L.A. wasn't ever built?
I like LA, and I'm glad things worked out the way they did. I don't agree how it was done, but that's all history. I never whipped a slave or subjugated the poor, but I do enjoy conveniences because other's have in the past, done these horrible things that me and my Moral High Ground can look down our noses at. I mean, the Dalai Lama had servants and slaves and the pre-Chinese Tibetan government was a real live dictatorship. The Dalai Lama waged a coup against the Chinese and they are still mad at him. I applaud Mr. Bush for not caving in and meeting with him, but still, no photographs of the two are to be taken together. Pissing off China is a ballsy thing to do, especially right now. I guess I'm just impressed to see George Bush not folding to yet another special interest group, but still he manages to do it in a non-committal way. Some cowboy.
Cut and pasted directly from Yahoo news "We are furious," Tibet's Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli, told reporters. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world."
That got me thinking. I mean what if Pakistan wanted to officially award Osama Bin Laden with their highest award a non citizen can be given. I know Bin Laden has a sinking approval rate (10% compared to G.W.'s 29%) but let's just say. To take Garden Knowm's question "what would you do if Hitler came to your door and started raping your wife..." well if you were a voyeuristic Nazi sympathizer, you'd be in heaven. It is relative. See, I like the Dalai Lama, and I call myself a weekend Buddhist, so to me, the Chinese are just being poo-poo heads.
Maybe there ARE no good people in the world. Maybe virtue can only exist in a static environment. Maybe there cannot be a right and wrong. I mean, if it wasn't for white people killing their way across the country, I couldn't enjoy the mild L.A. winters. Would Mexico or the Native Americans arranged all that slave labor to build this city, or would Los Angeles still be a random collection of under watered orange trees? Would it really be a bad thing if L.A. wasn't ever built?
I like LA, and I'm glad things worked out the way they did. I don't agree how it was done, but that's all history. I never whipped a slave or subjugated the poor, but I do enjoy conveniences because other's have in the past, done these horrible things that me and my Moral High Ground can look down our noses at. I mean, the Dalai Lama had servants and slaves and the pre-Chinese Tibetan government was a real live dictatorship. The Dalai Lama waged a coup against the Chinese and they are still mad at him. I applaud Mr. Bush for not caving in and meeting with him, but still, no photographs of the two are to be taken together. Pissing off China is a ballsy thing to do, especially right now. I guess I'm just impressed to see George Bush not folding to yet another special interest group, but still he manages to do it in a non-committal way. Some cowboy.
