It's nothing personal, but we're getting a little worried about the economic competition you've been delivering lately, so we need to even the playing field a little. A couple of Christian evangelical real estate billionaires have created a Noah's Ark tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Pretty soon you'll be as stupid as we are.
Oh, wait! "Tourist attraction"? It's supposed to poison the minds of the locals, not traveling Westerners! Dang. Maybe we can ship a few container ships full of Bibles and Chick tracts over there instead.
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