The New Owners
Posted by Bess Levin, Aug 21, 2008, 10:10am
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:28AM
When the communists take over and we start to hang the capitalists, the American rope industry will compete for our "business".
~The Ghost of Nikita Krushchev
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:39AM
maybe this is the chink in the armor carney was referring to?
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:43AM
anyone else find the chinese athletes at the olympics nearly impossible to like, even in the slightest? They are all so harsh and robotic.
product of your environment, i know.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:49AM
China, as a nation, has had one single focus for the past 10 years - the 2008 Olympics. They have built at breakneck speed, setting aside social problems, environmental problems and economic problems to achieve shared goal. Anyone watching the opening ceremonies had to detect an eerie similarity to the 1936 Berlin games where another totalitarian state, lead by a dictator, put on a fabulous spectacle in an effort to bring international legitimacy to a regime which had none. After the 1936 Olympics were over, the societal goals of Germany changed direction. The same will happen with China.
One look at the demographics of China would scare the hell out of most people. In some areas, there have 130 male babies born for each 100 women. Think about the implications of that. Without a shared goal to keep the nation's focus, individual regional interests will take greater importance. Environmental costs will begin to be a drain on their economy. Productivity of the average Chinese worker is around 5% of that of a typical American worker. Economic imbalances will have to be allowed to correct.
In short, allow China to have its day in the sun. The next 20 years will be much different for the Chinese people than the last 20 years. Soon, they will wish they had been dealt the same cards as Japan had been dealt in 1989.
1.2 billion people have essentially just had their high school prom. Now they have to deal with the realities of growing up.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:51AM
Hold your breath walking by the flag. It emits toxic gases.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:56AM
I once fed my cat a half a jar of mayo and it had diarhea for a week.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:08AM
That Chinese flag has been there for a while...
Anybody remember this? I took it on July 30.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:08AM
Does anybody actually know for sure why the red chink flag is flying outside the NYSE?? I sure as F don't. Someone, please enlighten me.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:19AM
23: Every person in China donated a penny to the government and they bought the U.S.
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Posted by diablo, Aug 21, 2008 11:27AM
Did they have the Greek flag there during the 2004 Olympics? I can't recall.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:34AM
Never underestimate the power and durability of a collectivist, totalitarian franchise whose members are devoted to advancing a cultish, xenophobic sense of superiority and uniqueness.
Witness Goldman Sachs.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:39AM
If every person in China was armed with a bamboo stick and sent over to the U.S., we would be defeated in 3 days.
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Posted by Finnegan, Aug 21, 2008 11:41AM
That flag should not be up there. However, their massive achievements over the past 20 years, rather exceed the "Olympic planning" of the past 10 years.
The 1.2 billion people over there are no just sitting around on their asses, and anyone paying close enough attention would see change happening on lots of fronts, including investment in various environmental technologies.
Let's not wonder who is still "at prom", when one nation has a huge national debt, and the other nation is sitting on trillions of reserves and financing our continued stupidity.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:47AM
china just blocked itunes.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4579783.ece
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:50AM
@ 32. I thought China blocked DB in Bejing. Where's your worm hole?
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 11:54AM
@14
I'm going long Chinese whores. You gotta figure with demographics like that, there will be ample demand.
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Posted by girl, Aug 21, 2008 11:58AM
Somedays it's just a little more glaringly obvious than on others what a bunch of fucking idiots you guys truly are.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:00PM
This is last week's story.
Don't copy other blogs, it devalues DB in reader's minds.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:04PM
@37-- it's a picture, that probably a billion people working downtown have snapped. not really sure how this is "copying other blogs."
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:13PM
I posted #23 as a "guest". Had I signed the entry, how would the rest of the thread now look? Would I have been accused of "Hijacking" the thread? Again?
Just wondering.
The Guy from Delaware
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:14PM
@TFGD-- further proving the fact that you're a douchebag piece of shit.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:19PM
@#42...
You didn't prove anything clown. You must be the same turd who always cries about my "hijacking" abilities.
The Guy from Delaware
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 12:20PM
Heard the delivery guy at Yips is now a specialist at LaBranche.
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Posted by diablo, Aug 21, 2008 12:23PM
@33
That's ironic. My macbook pro shipped directly from Shanghai...
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Posted by Finnegan, Aug 21, 2008 12:42PM
@34: wormhole is in Phoenix. Pull that paint by numbers set out of your brain, and sit on it.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 1:10PM
@ Girl
Eh..I don't know if this is representative of the DB community. Its a topic with no real substance, room for meaningful analysis, or humor value so it brings the dbags out of the woodwork to show off how clever they are when everyone else realizes there is nothing of value to add.
Except 30..that was money.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 1:33PM
the slants suck. they will be in the shitter again in no time, as always.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 2:01PM
Is you is, or is you ain't, my constitchency?
Hugs & kisses,
@30
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 4:37PM
Heard that the specialist at LaBranche is now working at Yips.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 5:27PM
Heard that the China communist government was ordering every person in China to jump up and down at the exact same time in order to throw the world off its rotational axis.
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 5:45PM
And He Kexin - their Gold medal gymnast is actually 14 years old.
Here is Proof --
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4578241.ece
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Posted by guest, Aug 21, 2008 10:14AM
Neither Ron Paul nor I find this assault on freedom humorous.
Don't forget to vote for Freedom this November