They offered the chance to have more than one child and help with starting a business. When I was in Kunming, in southern China, where I spent some time before I went to Tibet, there were signs that advertised moving to Tibet. Tibetans are required to keep to the one-child policy (or at least this is what was true.) but the Han Chinese, if they moved to Tibet, were allowed to have as many children as they wanted. They were opening businesses everywhere and the Tibetans were in the way. The Han Chinese were openly disdainful of them. The Tibetans were, and probably still are a nomadic people mostly and they were cloistered together in Tibetan ghettos in the city or wandering around, wide eyed and looking lost. Contrast this with the Han Chinese, who not only came from a culture that had business ownership in their history in a major way, were given financial incentives to move to Tibet to open a business. There was some wiggle room, but it was much more difficult for them to own a business. When I was there, Tibetans were generally not allowed to own a business at all. The Han Chinese are distinctly different looking than the Tibetans, so it made the difference between their economic status starker and sadder. (I still believe this but understand the issue is more complex, now.) When I got to Lhasa, I was surprised at how bad things were for the Tibetans. I vaguely supported the Tibetans and wanted them to have their religious freedom. I spent some time in Tibet about nine years ago. But I think it’s mostly about family and money. Every story I’ve heard frames the issues mostly on religious freedom, and that is partly true, I think. I keep listening to stories about the problems in Tibet. Obama is looking better and better compared with her and he’s not even doing anything, all he has to do is stand there and he looks great. God, how could she not have looked into that memory before parading it around like that - in a speech from notes? About something so easily checked into? Normally I agree, the press pounces on the smallest inconsistency. sub-human? Odd, it doesn't really make sense to me. But actually, I think she was trying to make the opposite point, that reporters are picking apart picayune references in her speech and they think she's. THEN, the second part – “It proves I’m human, which, y’know, for some people, is a revelation.” That part of the response is even worse! What is that supposed to mean? That some people think she is super-human? That seems snotty and arrogant. I have lost confidence in my own memories!” Or, "I was trying to show how internationally seasoned I am diplomatically and how brave, but that was a terrible example of it." Simply saying she was mistaken is not enough. She should have said, “I’m horribly embarrassed. She was speaking from prepared notes when she made those comments about Bosnia. She was trying to portray herself as a hardened and seasoned international-relations person and even if she did blow the event up in her memory, it’s more than just being mistaken. Even though, “I was mistaken” is normally something I like to hear someone say – it’s true, it’s to the point, and yes we are all mistaken about things, this was not a small thing. And I hate her response to it, I hate the first part of her response and I hate the last part of her response. That whole thing with Hillary Clinton and being under fire in Bosnia is so embarrassing. But I will comment and post as well on the forum. I’ll still be posting here – I was (when the old forum was up) posting blog entries in both places, but I will probably only do my blog entries on here. Well, I just wanted to make a post to say… let’s take this party into a bigger room, shall we? Please go sign into the forum. Oh! The big news for me was looking at a rough cut of the trailer for “Letting Go of God” and it looks really nice. We are doing two shows next weekend here in L.A. A Jill and Julia website is in development. I feel I make some jokes I wish I hadn’t and I say “right” way too much during interviews with people, but overall I am deeply proud of it. It sounds okay! Jill of course, is fabulous. I just left Jill Sobule’s house where we listened to the Earth Day special I did that’s going to play on some NPR stations on April 22. And I would support her if she got the nomination. All these great conversations should be happening there.Īnd for the record, even after I was so angry at Hillary over this whole running-from-sniper-fire comment and weird retraction, I STILL actually like her. Click on the link listed just to the right.
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