I just can't stop today

Here's something amusing, under the heading How they see us:

Having interviewed 1001 North American inhabitants, they ascertained that three-quarters of those surveyed sometimes or often hear obscene expressions in public places. The “F-word” is used just as often in real life as in low-budget Hollywood movies. In the last 20 years moral barriers concerning bad language have become unstable, like a lop-sided fence on an abandoned ranch.

A demonstration of another big lie of capitalism! We have to give China special status, because opening up will result in....THIS?

"As long as the Dalai Lama makes clear that he has completely abandoned Tibetan 'independence', it is not impossible for us to consider his visit," State Administration for Religious Affairs director Ye Xiaowen told the China Daily. "We can discuss it."

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Big of them, huge concession, right? When will the US get back to caring about human rights? I mean, I know right now we're in the middle of an attempt to limit human rights in this country. The government is so hypocritical about freedon here and freedom on the march there, it really pains me.

Is New York a great place or what?

"It is clear that the President of the United States authorized a domestic surveillance program in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and intentionally mis led the American public about the existence of the program; now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Council of the City of New York supports Senator Russell Feingold's call for the censure of President George Bush for his domestic wiretapping program."

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