tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post611715530465019120..comments2024-03-18T02:14:50.959-07:00Comments on ADORED BY HORDES: MarcLordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-17416195729825770772008-08-15T11:58:00.000-07:002008-08-15T11:58:00.000-07:00Chinese will be meddling in our 'business', Sure! ...Chinese will be meddling in our 'business', Sure! Giving us a taste of our own medicine: uhm ... free market economy!Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-25573805039455023492008-08-13T23:20:00.000-07:002008-08-13T23:20:00.000-07:00Naj,the Chinese don't want us to meddle in their b...Naj,<BR/><BR/>the Chinese don't want us to meddle in their business, and that's fine, but they'll increasingly be meddling in ours. We're going to learn, first-hand on our ground, how big the gap is between our belief systems.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for alerting to the new chess moves in the Gulf. We're going to be really lucky if Georgia doesn't turn into WWII, IV, or whatever they want to call it. The Bush Admin are about to put US sailors, pilots, and soldiers in harm's way there. The Cuban Missile Crisis has nothing on this.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-56941962323974414632008-08-13T23:14:00.000-07:002008-08-13T23:14:00.000-07:00Iz,the Chinese see themselves as an empire, and th...Iz,<BR/><BR/>the Chinese see themselves as an empire, and this was revivalist. Not very subtle, I agree. Their system of government is hard to classify--elements of market capitalism blended with feudalism and command socialism. Traveling there is like seeing an anthill after it's kicked over. Only sure thing is they can't keep it up indefinitely, they'll have to back off pretty soon before they burn themselves up.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-44731417246609318792008-08-13T20:35:00.000-07:002008-08-13T20:35:00.000-07:00What china has, and a place like US does NOT have ...What china has, and a place like US does NOT have is "collective" will!<BR/><BR/>The slum children, the beggars rounded up from the streets and etc are the dirty clothes of China. Orientals do not do their laundry in front of guests. Learn to be gracious ; and thank the host for offering you a taste of (REAL) culture. China's not asked your help/opinion to clean up its slums, nor to build its empire. If we are so intent, we may want to fix our own lovely western countries first, before meddling in other's business!<BR/><BR/>===================<BR/>Mark:<BR/>The aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Ronald Reagan, along with the USS Iwo Jima, an Amphibious Assault Ship are sailing toward the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US strike forces in the region, along with a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine. 8/13/08Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-62718248504241702332008-08-13T16:28:00.000-07:002008-08-13T16:28:00.000-07:00Good old China, the new free marketeerians. I thou...Good old China, the new free marketeerians. I thought it was a rveolting spectacle. Really. And when you find out about the dirty background, such as diverting power from provinces to power the Olympics, rounding up all the beggars and street people, etc., it is even more disgusting. <BR/>and all for what? Why the fuck is a huge ass sporting event meaningful on this planet? If I saw China doing more to help conserve this world, like the USA should be doing, I'd be impressed by that sort of action. But not this flashy stupid bullshit.<BR/>Next thing you know, China will start buying up professional sports teams and moving them into giant domes and arenas. Nothing screams "success" like that crap.isabelitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175928587455507236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-33420682980979543482008-08-12T22:49:00.000-07:002008-08-12T22:49:00.000-07:00Not exactly. The Chinese spent $200 mill on the pa...Not exactly. The Chinese spent $200 mill on the party, and although I did watch it on a bar's TV, if that's the 3rd Mai-Tai at the Luau, we'll see you there, and we'll sing that tune.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-118188681426028932008-08-12T19:38:00.000-07:002008-08-12T19:38:00.000-07:00"it was pangyric, neophilic, rococo, it was guerdo..."it was pangyric, neophilic, rococo, it was guerdoning and lotus-eating, it was pukka, melitorious and corybantic, it was relentless, it was Stakhanovitic, it was nothing less than an artisanal hougmagandy, an empire's vesuvian palingenesis, a knowingly numinous exercise"<BR/><BR/>This sounds like me after my 3rd MaiTai at the Luau. But I'm not engaging in polysyllabic wonderment, I'm trying to sing "Twinkle, twinkle little star".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com