The White House didn’t release any details about what Bush said to the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, but Slate has taken a guess. Some highlights:
It’s awful, but I just can’t help it. Whenever I see the Buddha, I think of Rove. We used to call him “Buddha.” Karl’s lost weight. Still, if you ever pictured him in a diaper, you never forget it.
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Universal awareness. That’s exactly what we’re pushing for in the Department of Homeland Security. We call it “Total Information Awareness.” Basically, they’re the same thing.
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And if you were to send a few monks, purely as a symbolic gesture, we’d supply the body armor, the helmets, the boots …