George Bush

Despite of strong objections from Chinese government the US president George W Bush has met the Dalai Lama, the 72-year-old Tibetian spritual leader in the white house. It was the third time in six years that the fourteenth Dalai Lama who was awarded the Nobel peace prize has met the US president Bush.

  On Wednesday, Mr Bush will attend a ceremony at the US Capitol where the Dalai Lama will receive a Congressional Gold Medal, the top US civilian award. A Chinese spokesman has urged the US “to correct the mistakes and to cancel the arrangements”… The BBC reports that China is jumping up and down shaking its fist about George Bush talking with the Dalai Lhama.

…The Dalai Lama insists he wants “real autonomy”, not independence for the region, which China claims has been its territory for centuries, and which it has ruled since communist forces invaded in 1951.  He also adds that he has professed his enormous friendship with U.S. President Bush.

It is annoying the Bush haters that how can the Dalai Lama who is a Nobel peace prize winner and also universally recognised man of peace, like that "war mongering" George Bush?

Motorola has agreed to acquire 50 percent of Sony Ericsson's ownership of UI Holdings, which owns UIQ. The companies will share joint ownership of UI Holdings, and will work together to develop the user interface platform further. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but UIQ will continue to be developed independently of chipset design and will continue to be licensed to other manufacturers.

There’s good news and bad news about Philip Shenon’s article about recess appointments and vacancies in the Bush Administration.

The bad news is that of course, the government can’t function the way it should without top appointees at the helm. The good news is that because these positions are not filled, fewer mechanisms of government are acting according to a radical right-wing agenda. One might also infer that there just aren’t enough right-wing people out there willing to drink the Kool-Aid of the Bush Administration, which is reassuring to me as an American.

The Bushies aren’t trying a sneak attack with recess appointments, rather, things really are That Bad for them.Brian Beutler gets at this and I agree with him.