The Dalai Lama and the call girl; Samaritans and stupid DJs - plus: Global orgasm day
German Chancellor Angela Merkel only wanted to meet him in private. The Pope refused to see him at all - and now the Canadian prime minister has compared him, all be it favourably, with a call girl.
Kermit the Frog once sang, ‘It’s not easy being green’. Well, maybe so, but being the Dalai Lama ain’t no picnic either:
OTTAWA (Reuters) - When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to explain in a year-end interview why he’d met the Dalai Lama in his Ottawa office, it was clear he wanted to show respect for the exiled Tibetan leader.
Unfortunately, it didn’t quite come out that way.
“I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don’t know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he’s not a call girl,” Harper told OMNI television.
Still, in terms of gaffs this wasn’t all that bad. An English DJ’s ‘let’s play it for laughs’ choice of records during an item about the Samaritans and the standard seasonal rise in suicides didn’t make him many new friends among the surviving relatives and friends of suicides:
A RADIO station has defended a breakfast DJ who played the Van Halen song ‘Jump’ while discussing efforts by the Samaritans to stop people throwing themselves off the Tyne Bridge.
Tony Horne of the Newcastle-based Metro Radio played the opening notes of the Eighties tune as he talked about the charity putting up signs to reduce suicide.
The region has England’s highest suicide figures and the temporary signs were put up to encourage people at risk to seek help.
Enough of politician and imbecilic DJs though. Like the poor, the socially and morally retarded will always be with us and there is nothing much we can do about that.
So, on to a more uplifting story. TIBU’s Bbstucco recently wrote a piece called ‘Too many charities (What’s a bleeding heart liberal to do?)’, in which he complained that there are, indeed too many good causes to support.
Well, as it says in Romans 10,
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Yes, indeedy do, for glad tidings I do bring to all the benighted bbstuccos of the world. Behold & hark & hear ye well: you can stop worrying & fretting so. For there is no need for any of these charities anymore.
‘All you need is love’ the Beatles sang - and they were right. All you do indeed need is love. That and a synchronised watch, to join up with the Global Orgasm crowd:
WHO? All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.
WHERE? Everywhere in the world, but especially in countries with weapons of mass destruction and places where violence is used in place of mediation.
WHEN? Solstice Day - December 22, at 06:08 Universal Time (GMT)
WHY? To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible instantaneous surge of human biological, mental and spiritual energy.
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