Perhaps The Most Important Photo In The History Of The Decline Of The United States
The Dalai Lama leaves the White House via a service exit, and must avoid scattered trashbags as he walks away (PHOTO).
Our principles are now vanquished and replaced by obligations of government debt.
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Solidarity with Tibet and the Dalai Lama should never be subordinate. Today, instead of Mother Liberty, we suckled at the breast of RED Chinese Totalitarianism.
The exiled Tibetan leader was forced to leave the White House and his (private) meeting with President Obama this morning via a service exit, in order to placate our Chinese overlords.
Every President and Congressional member for the past 30 years should be ashamed today as they witness the direct result of their fiscal abandon. Washington deserves to be humbled and ridiculed tonight where ever across the globe that freedom still matters.
We have traded our national principles for successful bond auctions.
(Video and links inside)
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Video: Reuters covers the Dalai Lama's visit with Obama.
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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama walks out the doors of the Palm Room of the White House by trash bags waiting to be picked up due to delays from the snow storms of last week in Washington, DC, February 18, 2010 after meeting with US President Barack Obama.
The Dalai Lama appeared in private at the White House Thursday and said US President Barack Obama was 'supportive' in a meeting that drew angry protests from China. AFP PHOTO/Jim Watson (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Feb 19, 2010 at 5:03 PM
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I lived not far from Dalai Lama during my Childhood inn INDIA
The Reincarnation of the Living Buddhas
The reincarnation system for the Living Buddhas is the main point distinguishing tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism. What led to the introduction of the system?
http://www.tibet-tour.com/tibet/reincarnation.html
Scared of our Lender lord China?
Are we Beggsrs now?
AMEN
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Five Surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best
patients to operate on.
The first surgeon, from New York , says, 'I like to see accountants on
my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside
is numbered.'
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observed: 'You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate
on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and
the head and the ass are interchangeable.
Kenbot says...I lived not far from Dalai Lama during my Childhood inn INDIA
Is he retarded?
So Kenbot, where did you grow up you rucking fetard?
LOL
I know, I know ..."ask a stupid question...."
Here is my Proposition to Fellow Americans
((((((((((((((((((((( If Americans want their country back)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
We need to stop globalization in its tracks. Globalization benefits the elites at the expense of everyday global citizens.
Why people don't understand this is fascinating.
We need to dismantle the Federal Reserve and put an end to the banking cartel. We need to dismantle all NY banks with insolvent balance sheets that currently have permission to lie about their solvency.
We need to bring our global Army home. Out of Iraq, out of Afghanistan. We need to cut the military budget by 2/3.
We need to cut financial and military relations with Israel. Any American Jews that resent cutting off federal government support of Israel can leave immediately and forsake their US citizenship.
America is not the home of the worlds bohemian illegal immigrants and all their needs for social services.
If you're more than 50 pounds overweight, you don't qualify for health insurance. Period.
No commercial or government college loans. That whole system just props up universities to charge unrealistic costs. Just stop.
Term Limits for Congress. 1 Term. Period.
No global corporations. Period.
No corporations with more than 25 Vice Presidents.
No employee compensation in a publicly traded corporation exceeding 30 times the official federal poverty level for a family of four. Period. If you want more, work in a private corporation.
No medical malpractice lawsuits.
Federal Judiciary must run for public election once every 3 years. These people can't be rubber stamp appointees for a government.
The qualification for the Right to Vote as a US Citizen is raised by a factor of 10. Only the most competent 35% of the population is allowed to vote. Requalified every 5 years.
Global trade is only allowed with countries exchanging an equal value of goods.
Government regulators who unreasonably fail to uncover financial chicanery at large institutions go to prison.
If you have children you can't financially support, you're sterilized.
Half the wealth of America's top 2% will be confiscated and used to pay down the federal debt. This will encourage the highest performers as well as the financial hucksters to put pressure on Congress not to create deficit spending.
AND for the privilege of ETERNALLY bailing-out fraudulently incompetent, massively insolvent corporate wastes of Time & Energy belonging to a select group of the well-connected Chosen Few.
Membership DOES indeed have its privileges.
Just NOT for US..
(But then again, I enjoy being contrarian :)
But seriously, the President of the United States just approved a massive arms sale to Taiwan in spite of the fact that motherland China holds a huge percentage of our national debt.
Now the President has invited a man into the White House who thinks that he is the reincarnation of the Buddha. Not only is this man a heretic, from any honest Christian point of view (granted that there IS no such view) but he is a deeply irrational being who thinks he has BEEN the Buddha for about 2500 years.
This is a disgrace to reason and the memory of the European Enlightenment which was the godfather of the American constitution.
I suppose the joke is now traveling around China (which is the true home of Buddhism and not India) that Barack Obama is the reincarnation of George Bush who was the reincarnation of Bill Clinton who was the reincarnation of George Bush Sr. and so forth all the way back to George Washington.
At times like this, I wish I were Jewish so that I could say, Oy vey, with the depth of feeling it deserves.
(But then again, I enjoy being contrarian :)
But seriously, the President of the United States just approved a massive arms sale to Taiwan in spite of the fact that motherland China holds a huge percentage of our national debt.
Now the President has invited a man into the White House who thinks that he is the reincarnation of the Buddha. Not only is this man a heretic, from any honest Christian point of view (granted that there IS no such view) but he is a deeply irrational being who thinks he has BEEN the Buddha for about 2500 years.
This is a disgrace to reason and the memory of the European Enlightenment which was the godfather of the American constitution.
I suppose the joke is now traveling around China (which is the true home of Buddhism and not India) that Barack Obama is the reincarnation of George Bush who was the reincarnation of Bill Clinton who was the reincarnation of George Bush Sr. and so forth all the way back to George Washington.
At times like this, I wish I were Jewish so that I could say, Oy vey, with the depth of feeling it deserves.
Corporatocracy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Corporatocracy or corpocracy is a political system that is increasingly prevalent in the United States. It is a form of government where large business corporations, banks, conglomerates, and government-sponsored enterprises control the electoral process, the media, the courts and the government of a country. This is sometimes called plutocracy and it is considered a form of fascism.
Obama, like Clinton before him has the uncanny sense that it is okay for him to lie and cheat, since he is working on a level so much higher than the rest of humanity. It gets tiring listening to and watching the constant arrogance. "We support you, you have my personal assurance and support. Now, can you please sneak out the back alley please?"
It's like a cheating husband telling the idiot mistress he's "going to leave his wife soon, but in the meantime, please don't tell anyone anything about us ever." Only this wife is the Chinese purse.
Let's vote them all out. And start with the rotting head.
I had several encounters with desi on the craigslist discussion forums. He proved himself a gentleman in that incarnation. Cantankerous and raucous yes, but always a gentleman.
However, judging by his lack of opinion here, on this website, this is probably not the same desi.
My response to this incarnation of desi is: The Buddha should have entered through the same door he exited. Better yet, he never should have been invited.
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."
Opinion without a name is the mob.
Opinion without a name is graffiti.
Democracy cannot thrive on graffiti.
Democracy is not the mob.
James Street--What kind of Christian tolerance is that? Seriously--did you skip the parts of the Bible that you didn't like or what?
Hello!
Er have you looked a little closer to home lately?
Iraq?
Er it isn't exactly yours. I never was and never has been part of the US.
Er China? Tibet? Kinda close don't you think?
How about the UK? And the Falklands?
What about Israel?
OR are you just sore at what Bush (oh and you the voters) turned you country into.
Yeah thats right throw rocks at China.
Maybe you will feel better.
Sad nation that you have become.
you criticize buddhism and then exalt christianity...makes no sense...if we're playing the logic game then ALL religions should be exposed as Santa Claus...not just Buddhism...religion is the greatest evil in the history of the world measured in death, destruction and lies...
This is a disgrace to reason and the memory of the European Enlightenment which was the godfather of the American constitution.
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How is believing in re-incarnation any more irrational and than belief in heaven and hell...all religions have a punishment-reward system for behavior...how else does the state (religion) exert control on behavior if not for the fear of god's decision on your place for eternity...
Ronald Reagan
George Washington
George Washington
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gobias...don't try to convince me of anything about god...stay away from the topic...
WASHINGTON – Democratic governors said Sunday they worry about President Barack Obama's track record on fighting Republican political attacks and urged him to better connect with anxious voters. Some allies pleaded for a new election-year strategy focused on the economy.
WHAT? Democrats call focusing on the economy an election-year STRATEGY. God help us!!!!!
The Dalai Lama REFUSED, saying, "you'll just go spend it on Colt 45 Malt Liquor'" and was subsequently shown out the back door.
"What a bunch of DEADBEATS"! he was heard to mumble as he walked away shaking his holy head.
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you may believe anything you wish...that was not my point...i was reacting to your attempt to proselytize...don't push your beliefs on others just as i do not push my atheism on others
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams
So, logical people are not religious. Is that you proselytizing? If not, please explain or is it do as I say and not as I do?
objectively, most historians agree that religion has sparked more killing and war than any other factor...ie. plundering riches, etc...
surprised you didn't know that...
i will come over .He makes one that melts in your mouth.As far as the back door deal Maybe The Dahli is just learning
good old American politics were everything is out the back door.Was your family doing Christan work near Tibet when
you were a child?
DBIC...Really, okay, prove it, objectively of course.
DB, what turned you against religion? Is it your need to be logical?
I said "Not only is this man a heretic, from any honest Christian point of view (granted that there IS no such view) but he is a deeply irrational being who thinks he has BEEN the Buddha for about 2500 years."
It isn't easy to make tone of voice come through a purely written response but I think I made a pretty respectable try when I said that "there is no (honest Christian) point of view"
I was trying to say that a Christian nation should be horrified at allowing a heretic (from THEIR point of view not mine) into the White House through ANY door at all.
And the rest of us rational believers in the values of the Enlightenment and the United States Constitution should be even more horrified.
I agree with morton that it is completely absurd, hypocritical/stupid for a country like the United States to criticize China for wanting to annex Tibet and lift it from the dark, superstitious feudalism that the Buddha still presides over after 2500 miserable years.
Has anyone heard of the Spanish American "war," the Mexican American "war," the thousands of broken treaties with the Native American nations, our present intervention into the Middle East?
It's called power politics as usual. Let's not be naive, please.
If you want to be a utopianist why not go all the way and become a communist?
As for SNK, the words Christian and tolerance are mutually contradictory. Christians cannot tolerate a man who believes he was born 2500 years ago and will not turn into nothing (Buddhist nirvana) until everyone on earth turns into nothing (become enlightened.) Buddhists are either nihilists and believe that heaven is absolute nothingness or pantheists and believe heaven is everything.
The two schools of Buddhism are Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism. They are both considered heresies by the Pope. (And so is Islam, by the way.)
Religion - Tolerance? Get out your history books please.
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@Gobias...who wrote:
DB, what turned you against religion? Is it your need to be logical?
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It started in 2nd grade for me when i made friends at school with 2 kids who were Buddhists and another 1st grader from Japan who i guess was shinto...when you grow up in a college town you have kids from everywhere because their parents come from across the world for grad school...anyway, our teacher made a big deal about explaining their cultures and religions to all of us and that's when i started to have questions since i had now been exposed to 3 different religions that all assumed that each was absolutely correct...