Unlike other HK bloggers, I cannot get upset over the fact that some people in HK and China have called Martin Lee a traitor for suggesting that other countries use the Olympics as an excuse to pressure China on human rights. What else did anyone expect? For them to suddenly go, “wow, yeah, he’s right!” If Lee had any expectation of any outcome other than this, then he’s an even bigger idiot than his enemies think.

And aside from the fact that the Olympics doesn’t mean shit to a tree to me, I thought the general concensus amongst those who like to believe that they are politically correct in their thinking is that one should not politicize the Olympics. That doesn’t suddenly change because you happen to agree with the issue involved. You don’t make exceptions. Some things in life need to be absolutes. Like freedom of speech. Or human rights. You don’t pull no punches but you don’t push the river.

And it’s not unexpected when HK officials blame six months of the worst pollution in HK history on the weather. Why get upset over it? There is a script to be followed and The Donald has his job because he does an excellent job of following it. Why does anyone expect him to change? Is he suddenly wearing turtlenecks instead of bow ties?

United States Resident George Bush actually thinks that someone aside from the 20% of double digit IQ Americans who still support him would care what he has to say. He doesn’t seem to understand that when you launch an unprovoked war on a sovereign country, displace millions of people, cause a million casualties, throw away the Geneva Convention and torture people, hold people in prison for years without legal council or trial, illegally wiretap your own citizens, (well the list goes on – national debt, New Orleans, Blackwater) you no longer have the moral high ground to lecture someone else like, oh, Cuba, on how they should govern themselves. And he hasn’t got the brains to figure out that the world isn’t going to jump to support you when you threaten war against Iran simply because their unpopular nutjob of a president has done a better job of being a nutjob than you have. Right now Kim Jong-Il is shaking with laughter thinking about how he can do and say whatever he wants since he doesn’t have any oil in his country for Bush to try and steal.

And don’t forget about the fires in California, which not only wonderfully illustrate the perils of ignoring global warming and climate change but have also given Arnold ample opportunity to show how someone who was honestly elected and re-elected and has behaved in a mostly responsible fashion should respond to a crisis. But of course, since Bush already appointed anyone with any experience running dog and pony shows to national security positions, all Arnold had left to hire were people who might have a chance of knowing what they were doing.

From the funniest thing I have read today (the spelling isn’t a typo, it refers back to an earlier joke in the essay):

In a brief Q&A, the president said that the Dali Lama had asked him who he would want to be reincarnated as, and Mr. Bush replied “An Iraqi woman, because that means I’d be living in a free, open, democratic society. Plus, I’d look great in a burkah.”

When the Dali Lama reminded him that he’d be having sex with Iraqi men, Bush said that would be an improvement over Dick Cheney.