Props To Dubya For Meeting With HHDL
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Screw the Chinese Government

So props to W for meeting with the Dalai Lama (or "His Holiness" as some of my Buddhist friends would say--"HHDL" (His Holiness the Dalai Lama) for short).

Some of the quotes in this story are just beyond belief. The most awesomely unbelievable one:

"We are furious," the communist party secretary for Tibet, Zhang Qingli, told reporters. "If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world."

Let's review:
"there must be no justice or good people in the world" because the President of the United States met with a peaceful religious leader whose country was invaded and taken over and its culture virtually destroyed by a totalitarian state. And it is one of the lackies/toadies/lickspittles of said totalitarian state that is thus puling about the meeting. The invasion and cultural destruction itself, however...no problem!

It really is beyond belief, and it just goes to show that there is nothing in the world so wrong, so stupid, so patently contrary to fact, that some asshole somewhere won't say it.

So here's to Zhang Qingli: possibly the biggest dumbshit on planet Earth. Congrats, Z! You da man! Or da toad. Or whatever.

And don't miss this bonus brain-damaged quote!:

China's foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, called on Mr Bush to stay away from the ceremony. "We solemnly demand that the US cancel the extremely wrong arrangements," Mr Yang told reporters in Beijing. "It seriously violates the norm of international relations and seriously wounded the feelings of the Chinese people and interfered with China's internal affairs."

Awww... We hurt their feewings. Gosh, I feel just horrible about that.

Jesus, this is like jumping up and down and screaming "War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength!" at the top of your lungs.

Jackasses.