About the stinking Chinese commie dictatorship.
What are the chances of the world’s righteous, free, democratic, apple pie-munching nations boycotting the Beijing Olympics in protest against China’s crackdown in Tibet? Imagine the intensely gratifying and entertaining humiliation of the godless Communist tyranny, combined with the relief from the excruciating tedium of diving, formation cycling and medal ceremonies – a coincidence of near-orgasmic quality. A quick call to Heung Kwok-leung, master of the Mongkok sub-sub-prime loans market and bookmaker to the gentry, confirms my suspicions that it sounds too good to be true. He would offer odds of 30 to 1.
The difference between a dictatorship in Iraq and one in China? One gets invaded, the other gets traded with. Moral of the story? Buy American debt and keep the American public from seeing videos like this one:
… or the value of possessing a nuclear deterrent, something that has not been lost on Iran despite the latest NIE…
-SJS