The U.S. Wants To Be Friends With China, Despite China’s Very Questionable Other, North Korean Friendships
by Juli Weiner 8:39 am October 5, 2009
- Eight soldiers were killed on Saturday in a region of Afghanistan that the U.S. was kinda already supposed to have left. [Washington Post]
- Obama has said NO THANK YOU to hanging out with the Dalai Lama. He will do this to impress his new popular friends, the Chinese, who hate the Dalai Lama like so much. [Washington Post]
- …and China will attempt to become better friends with North Korea. You see, they have communism in common! [Reuters]
- The socialists have won Greece’s national elections! Technically, now, Barack Obama is the first black president of Greece. [WSJ]
- October 25th is the big day for some U.N. inspectors, who will go to Iran and get to visit the newly un-secret underground weapons cave thing! [Los Angeles Times]
- Pay-per-minute telephone psychic Alan Greenspan says the following: unemployment will reach 10% in the third quarter, but the economy overall will grow 3%. [CNN]
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Dear Alan Greenspan,
You are a big bag of irrelevant FAIL money. I hope you land on somebody’s Park Place with fifteen hotels on it. Fuck off and die, you toad.
[re=426451]TGY[/re]: It’s tough to top that, TGY.
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Sorry Juli…but you missed the smoothest of ‘em all…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8290275.stm
[re=426453]greywindz[/re]: Well that is probably worthy of a stand-alone commentary. It’s Cocktober!
I love it when spokespeople come up with new terminology to avoid saying “YOU LIE”. Counter-factual. Tasty.
What? Nothing about Ahmadinejad being Jewish? Don’t your read the papers? A source of snark if there ever was one.
[re=426453]greywindz[/re]:
“Mr Thomas resigned as a judge in 2007 following allegations that he spanked inmates in his private office at the county courthouse with a paddle.”
The Court is in session, and here come the judge, here come the judge..please dont step in it.
Michel Foucault would be pleased.
Would you believe, Why do Republicans hate America?
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[re=426453]greywindz[/re]: That cannot be true. While I am willing to accept that Southern elected officials are having inappropriate gay sex at all times, this person is neither white nor Republican.
You need to understand Obama is a black dude. Black dudes, they don’t need religion cause they already got too much. Money, now that’s what black dudes need. Hope that cleared up that Dolly Lama China thing.
Unemployment is up and the economy grows? Bend over people, here comes the economy!
“BEIJING (Reuters) – China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea on Monday, calling their relationship a boon to peace, while reports of swoops on North Korean ships underscored strains behind a recent easing of tension.”
I wish I could write like this and not be fired.
Yeah well, last time I looked it was the red Chinese, not the red-robed “spiritual leader” who was holding all of our debt.
Maybe Greenspan can meet with the Lama; they can bask in the glow of their mutual irrelevence.
I don’t like Mondays.
We Americans love us a jobless recovery. Let the redistribution of income continue ever upwards!
[re=426462]MMS[/re]: Good catch on swoops.
[re=426462]MMS[/re]: Reading that I almost fell off my rocking horse from the dizzies.
China clothes NK, China feeds NK, China tests weapons in NK (laser-flashing NATO pilots is cheap and easy — yay Mao!), China would swat NK like a bug if Kim Ding-Dong attempted to go to full alert status. Does anybody look at maps or read history anymore? Jesus. Asia is composed of China and not-China, always has been.
The U.S. should send a note saying “Thank you, China, for keeping that creepy little dork firmly clamped between your butt cheeks.” Possibly they have, although the ’08 Dems should be presumed venal and stupid until proven… heh, I made a funny. No, I can totally see sending China a harsh diplomatic note for “befriending” NK. Vividly. It’s so bipartisan.
[re=426462]MMS[/re]: Swoops I did it again.
barry’s got enough problems already, he doesn’t need to be chillin with some old guy named dolly.
Nothing can stop the inevitable rise of the People when they throw off the shackles of capitalism. First China, then N Korea, then US America with our Muslin Socialist Nazi president and nationalized means of production, and now: Greece. The workers’ paradise is at hand–souvlaki and kimchee for all!
[re=426462]MMS[/re]: Ha ha, you probably don’t know what “swoops” are. Come to think of it, me either. WTF?
Herr Greenspan: real unemployment is already 17%, but thank you for your stab at relevance. Now go lay down so Andrea can change your Depends.
Greenspan is an idiot. The unemployment rate can’t ‘rise’ to 10% because it’s already at 17%!!1!!
Jeesus in a monkey mask.
(Yes I know: somebody pointed this nugget out the other day. Also.)
[re=426478]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Wow. Synchronized posting.
New Olympic sport?
I think not.
[re=426483]Beanball[/re]: Whenever I read too much optimistic economic news, I return to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for a hard punch in the face.
[re=426472]V572625694[/re]: Here: http://www.uniquereviews.com/images/hersheys-swoops.jpg
[re=426489]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Today, we have all been punched in the face.
[re=426483]Beanball[/re]: If only Chicago had pitched synchronized posting, then this Olympic thing might have ended very differently.
Hu? Wen?
If we spurn the dalai lama, China will forgive $1 billion in US debt. That will reduce our debt to $38,874,785,000,000 USD. How much will the forgive us for spurning Vladimir Putin?
[re=426453]greywindz[/re]: It appears he didn’t wipe the santorum from his chin.
[re=426468]GreenHalo[/re]: The leaders in Beijing are somewhat concerned about millions of hungry North Koreans heading in the direction of food, ie, China.
[re=426622]bureaucrap[/re]:Obiwan may have realized that the DL is just another religious politician, as legit as the pope or Pat Robertson.
[re=426459]Godless Liberal[/re]: It’s the South, baby. Political affiliation doesn’t mean anything. A Southern Democrat may as well be a slightly-less-insane Northern Republican, black, white, or otherwise, as far as I’m concerned.
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