精华 改为“无题”比较好

最初由 netwt2 发布


不全民皆兵, 早就亡党亡国了.

I felt closer to god Sunday.

I went to grocery store on Sunday monring and bought a case of beer.

The salesgirl said "sorry, cannot sell the beer to you?"

I asked "how come? i am not underage."

The girl said "you are not. but i still cannot sell it to you. It is the state law, no beer sale on Sunday before noon. you have to wait 45 min."
 
最初由 roaring mouse 发布


I felt closer to god Sunday.

I went to grocery store on Sunday monring and bought a case of beer.

The salesgirl said "sorry, cannot sell the beer to you?"

I asked "how come? i am not underage."

The girl said "you are not. but i still cannot sell it to you. It is the state law, no beer sale on Sunday before noon. you have to wait 45 min."

this reminds another even closer encouter with god

that is in another bible belt town in n. Texas.

No alcohol sale is allowed in the city and one has to get out of the city proper to get beer.

So one weekend I drove out of the city and got 3 cases of beer to save future trouble of getting beer. As soon as I got into the city boundary, I was stopped by a police car.

The police man gave me a ticket and said "i followed you from the store. only one case is allowed in a car in the city."

oh well. i cannot complain. i have to follow the laws where i live. i started having beer in Harbin when i was 5. i do not know if there is a law in China now that bans underage drinking or not. if there is one, the democracy advocates like contractor or yokel will start complaining about lack of democracy in china again.

i do not think i enjoyed beer when i was young.
 
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最初由 netwt2 发布


不全民皆兵, 早就亡党亡国了.

那些女兵好像不是卫生队,通讯兵之类的辅助兵种,而是一线步兵步兵战斗部队。
 
As it is mine free. from Asia Times

A foreign policy disaster over China
In this context, the recent diplomatic insult from Bush to visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao is doubly disastrous for the US foreign position. Bush acted on a script written by the anti-China neo-conservatives, deliberately to insult and humiliate Hu at the White House.

First was the incident of allowing a Taiwanese "journalist", a Falungong member, into the carefully screened White House press conference, to rant in a tirade against Chinese human rights for more than three minutes, with no attempt at removal, at a filmed White House press conference.

Then came the playing of the Chinese national anthem for Hu, which was introduced as the anthem for the Republic of China - Taiwan. It was no slip-up by the professional White House protocol people. It was a deliberate effort to humiliate the Chinese leader.

The problem is that the US economy has become dependent on Chinese trade imports and on Chinese holdings of US Treasury securities. China today is the largest holder of dollar reserves in the form of US Treasury paper worth an estimated US$825 billion. Were Beijing to decide to exit the US bond market, even in part, it would cause a dollar free-fall and collapse of the $7 trillion US real-estate market, a wave of US bank failures, and huge unemployment. It's a real option, even if unlikely at the moment.

Hu, though, didn't waste time or tears over the Bush affront. He immediately went to Saudi Arabia for a three-day state visit where he signed trade, defense and security agreements. This is no small slap in the face to Washington by the traditionally "loyal" Saudi royal house.

Hu signed a deal for Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) of Saudi Arabia to build a $5.2 billion oil refinery and petrochemical project in northeastern China. At the beginning of this year, Saudi King Abdullah was in Beijing for a full state visit.

Since the Franklin D Roosevelt-King Ibn Saud deal giving US Aramco and not the British exclusive concession to develop Saudi oil in 1943, Saudi Arabia has been regarded in Washington as a core strategic sphere of interest.

Hu then went on to Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya, all regarded as US spheres of interest. And only two months ago Rumsfeld was in Morocco to offer US arms. Hu is offering to finance energy exploration there.

The SCO and Iran events
The latest developments surrounding the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Iran further underscore the dramatic change in the geopolitical position of the United States.

The SCO was created in Shanghai on June 15, 2001, by Russia and China along with four former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Prior to September 11, 2001, and the US declaration of an "axis of evil" in January 2002, the SCO was merely background geopolitical chatter as far as Washington was concerned.

Today the SCO, which has to date been blacked out almost entirely in US mainstream media, is defining a new political counterweight to US hegemony and its "unipolar" world. At the next SCO meeting on June 15, Iran will be invited to become a full SCO member.

And last month in Tehran, Chinese Ambassador Lio G Tan announced that a pending oil and gas deal between China and Iran was ready to be signed.

The deal is said to be worth at least $100 billion, and includes development of the huge Yadavaran onshore oilfield. China's Sinopec would agree to buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 25 years. No wonder China is not jumping to back Washington against Iran in the United Nations Security Council. The US had been trying to put massive pressure on Beijing to halt the deal, for obvious geopolitical reasons, to no avail. Another major defeat for Washington.

Iran is also moving on plans to deliver natural gas via a pipeline to Pakistan and India. Energy ministers from the three countries met in Doha recently and plan to meet again this month in Pakistan.

The pipeline progress is a direct rebuff to Washington's efforts to steer investors clear of Iran. Ironically, US opposition is driving these countries into one another's arms, Washington's "geopolitical nightmare".

At the same SCO meeting next month, India, which Bush is personally trying to woo as a geopolitical Asian "counterweight" to China, will also be invited to join the organization, as well as Mongolia and Pakistan. The SCO is gaining in geopolitical throw-weight quite substantially.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi told ITAR-Tass in Moscow last month that Iranian membership in the SCO could "make the world more fair". He also spoke of building an Iran-Russia "gas-and-oil arc" in which the two giant energy producers would coordinate activities.

US out in cold in Central Asia
The admission of Iran into the SCO opens many new options for Iran and the region. By virtue of SCO membership, Iran will now be able to take part in SCO projects, which in turn means access to badly needed technology, investment, trade and infrastructure development. It will have major implications for global energy security.

The SCO has reportedly set up a working group of experts ahead of the June summit to develop a common SCO Asian energy strategy, and discuss joint pipeline projects, oil exploration and related activities. Iran sits on the world's second-largest natural-gas reserves, and Russia has the largest. Russia is the world's second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. These are no small moves.

India is desperate to come to terms with Iran for energy but is being pressured by Washington not to.

The Bush administration last year tried to get "observer status" at the SCO but was turned down. The rebuff - along with the SCO's demands for a reduced US military presence in Central Asia, deeper Russia-China cooperation, and the setbacks to US diplomacy in Central Asia - have prompted a policy review in Washington.

After her October 2005 Central Asian tour, Rice announced reorganization of the State Department's South Asia Bureau to include the Central Asian states, and a new US "Greater Central Asia" scheme.

Washington is trying to wean Central Asian states away from Russia and China. President Hamid Karzai's government in Kabul has not responded to SCO's overtures. Given his ties historically to Washington, he likely has little choice.

Gennady Yefstafiyev, a former general in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, said, "The US's long-term goals in Iran are obvious: to engineer the downfall of the current regime; to establish control over Iran's oil and gas; and to use its territory as the shortest route for the transportation of hydrocarbons under US control from the regions of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea, bypassing Russia and China. This is not to mention Iran's intrinsic military and strategic significance."

Washington had based its strategy on Kazakhstan being its key partner in Central Asia. The US wants to expand its physical control over Kazakhstan's oil reserves and formalize Kazakh oil transportation via the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, as well as creating the dominant US role in Caspian Sea security. But Kazakhstan isn't playing ball. President Nursultan Nazarbayev went to Moscow on April 3 to reaffirm his continued dependence on Russian oil pipelines. And China is making major energy and pipeline deals with Kazakhstan as well.

To make Washington's geopolitical problems worse, despite securing a major US military basing deal with Uzbekistan after September 2001, Washington's relations with Uzbekistan are disastrous. The US effort to isolate President Islam Karimov, along the lines of the Ukrainian "orange" revolution tactics, is not working. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Tashkent late last month.

As well, Tajikistan relies heavily on Russia's support. In Kyrgyzstan, despite covert US attempts to create dissensions within the regime, President Kurmanbek Bakiev's alliance with Moscow-backed Prime Minister Felix Kulov is holding.

In the space of 12 months, Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical chess board of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage, to the opposite, where the US is increasingly isolated. It's potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post-World War II period. This is also the strategic background to the re-emergence of the so-called realist faction in US policy.

F William Engdahl is the author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto Press Ltd.
 
also from asia times

A second concern of Washington's "energy dialogue" with Moscow involves Russia's growing cooperation with China. The March report of the Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the influential US think-tank, on the directions of US-Russian relations had an intriguing passage: "The future policy and development of Russia and China will determine whether the group of the leading world powers is divided into two blocs based on differences in political regime ... or even into two military blocs. So far it is still a long way to such a development of events, but there are certain aspects of Russian-Chinese relations that in the event of a rapid expansion of cooperation would bolster these tendencies."

The CFR report was so paranoid about Russia-China cooperation that it urged Washington to "point out to the Russian leadership the advantages of membership in a 'single club' of great powers, as well as the threats that would arise if it were divided".

The heart of the matter is that so long as China remains critically dependent on energy supplies from the Persian Gulf region, it will remain vulnerable to US pressures. Washington calculates that the long supply routes through the Strait of Malacca can be easily throttled, thus bringing China's economy to its heels if it chooses to do so at any given point.

In the overall US geostrategy, therefore, China must be prevented from obtaining oil bypassing the Malacca transit zone. China can break out of this extreme vulnerability to US blackmail only if it succeeds in lining up alternative sources of energy transiting through territories that are beyond the United States' reach.

Three such potential sources exist - Russia, Central Asian countries, and Iran. Washington had assumed that for a variety of reasons, there were insurmountable obstacles to any meaningful advancement of Sino-Russian cooperation. In retrospect, Washington grossly miscalculated by subscribing to its own propaganda about the inherent contradictions in a Sino-Russian rapprochement.

But there is a realization now, bordering on disquiet, in Washington that Russia and China have reached a level of mutual understanding on regional and international issues that may have already begun to work against US global domination.

This is particularly evident in the field of energy. Russia is keen to secure a toehold in the lucrative Chinese market, so much so that that its oil-pipeline company Transneft is considering forthwith supplying 1.3 million tons oil from West Siberia through Kazakhstan (the Atasu-Alanshankou pipeline) to China pending the construction of Russia's own Pacific oil pipeline. (The thesis of US strategic "experts" was all along that Russia and China would compete over energy.) Russia's No 1 oil company Rosneft is getting ready to enter the Chinese retail market.

China is rapidly expanding its energy cooperation in the Central Asian region - another energy source that lies far beyond the long arm of US geopolitical manipulation. Meanwhile, the Financial Times recently reported that Iran is also entering as a protagonist in the game. The FT report warned: "Analysts are concerned that an overall hardening of US policy towards Moscow could drive Russia and Iran, which together hold nearly half the world's gas reserves, into an energy-based alliance. A senior financier told the FT that Iran, which is competing with Gazprom to provide gas to the Caucasus, was considering a switch in policy by selling its gas to Russia through Central Asia because the US was blocking its access to Europe and India."

Now, that's just a step away from Iran linking up with the Chinese market via Central Asia. With the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline in the doldrums because of US pressure, Iran is at liberty to focus on China as its principal Asian market for natural gas.

If the US had not been foolish enough to torpedo the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) efforts aimed at striking an agreement on the Iran nuclear issue, that would have led to an improved energy dialogue between Europe and Iran - making Iran a rival to Russia on the European gas market. Today, on the other hand, Russia (and China) is likely to seize the initiative - though Iran's own preference would have been Western Europe. As Iran would see it, an agreement with Western Europe would have obtained for it a broad political and economic rehabilitation in the international community.

There was a time not too long ago when Gazprom wanted to enter Iran's gas fields, but Tehran balked, and began insisting that any Russian-Iranian cooperation should also include transit projects. Iran is an ambitious country. But the situation is radically different today because of shortsighted US policies toward Iran.

The specter that is now haunting the US is the likely admission of Iran as a full member in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Will that happen at the forthcoming SCO meeting on June 15? Possibly. The only counter that US would have is to go ahead and militarily occupy Iran.
 
最初由 roaring mouse 发布
thank u. 农民工. from now on, i quit this one. u r not a true defender. god bless u.

God never asked anyone to be his defender. He only asks us to be his follower.

God bless you too.
 
Were Ordinay German People As Evil As Adolf Hitler?

最初由 roaring mouse 发布
hi, yokel, this time u r intelligent enough to figure out the meaning of `win over'. but accidently, u showed your foolishness or whatever u called it.

a word in a dictionary has many entries for explanation.

u can win somebody over to your side
but you can also win over an enemy.
u can win a battle
but lose a war
and u can also win a heart.

another example `die'
can mean:
cease to be alive
or
reach sexual climax

do not question someone's english even if he or she uses a wrong word or grammar. that is called decency. english is my 3rd language and so far i am ok with it. mandarin is my 2nd language. i live with my mistakes and others' mistakes in use of language.

thanks anyway. i have learned to be humbled and will continue to learn to be humbled.

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yokel, do not throw so many things at me at one time. u overwhelmed me. not everyone has your level of intelligence. let us go slow (u can also say go slowly if u want to be grammatically correct)

"doing the right thing at the right time". how did u know it is the right time and the right thing? what if the two things never cross each other's path? a mouse also waits for the right time to do the right thing; but unfortunately, as soon as it gets out of its hole, a cat is waiting for it. u can also call folks waiting for the right moment to strike opportunistic.

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yokel, no excuse for your failures. u and i do not have the courage of the young man who blocked the colummn of tanks in Beijing in 1989 and u and i do not have the courage of standing up and fighting. instead, u and i babble in a foreign country or two foreign countries. u and i do not even the courage of the communists under KMT rule. they faced death, starvation, siege, imprinsonment, torture and what else they did not suffer from.how can cowards win even a battle? if you choose not to fight against tyranny, you will be tyrannized, or like me running away.

disclaimer: the chinese goverment is neither a tyranny nor a dictatorship.

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have u heard of `straw foot, hay foot'? i guess not.
u said the right time at the right time; u were never in a war before? ok, fighting and winning a war takes preparation. esp. around that time, no airplane, ships tediously slow, it is unreasonable to fight a blitz. then u know the rest of the story.

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no more bathroom things; u started first; it is vulgar. hope your soul is cleansed clean there.

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whatever each side fought for, if there was your so-called democracy, would there be a need for a war?

u forgot to mention the other bloodiest civil war, the american civil war

u cannot rectify history; what happened happened. and who are `the more and more people'?

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wrong again; i no longer believe in democracy; i said it is an illusion. to achieve your so-called democracy, u can choose between ballot/bullet. heard of civil disobedience or the young man in front of the tanks? or u can choose to fight. g.w. risked so many lives to spread the so-called democracy.

keep u L(aughing) O(ut) L(oud). take care not to LYOF (laugh your ass off).

when u laugh, make sure it is not midnight.

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stop throwing so many things at me at one time

englisch is my 3rd language; show some decency and consideration please

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yokel, this time i questioned your intelligence again. u can choose to fight tyranny either by ballots or bullets. if u do neither, do not complain about being tyrannized.

chinese government is as democratic as any in the world. i have no problem with it. it is not a tyranny nor a dictatorship. it is U who complain about it. i am ok with my government.

yes, when i looked in the face of death in 1989, i ran away. i did not have the courage of the young man standing in front of the column of tanks. how about u? if u were not born, how about your parents or grandparents? what did they do? what did others do? what did china do? did they stand up and say no to what happened.

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is it what u mean by doing the right thing at the right time? i am afraid u do not have the courage.

the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!

by ws

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yokel, this time your intelligence and diligence are both questioned. do i need a brain to explain this to u?

hitler was chosen to be die fuhrer. who else did u want to blame?

how about the current japanese prime minister? does he represent himelf when he visits the war shrine? he represents the will of the people who chose him.

how about the cultural revolution? did u only Mao and his leadership? how about its people?
"stop throwing so many things at me at one time ... show some decency and consideration please"

There you go again. You seem to have a habit of blaming others while totally forgot what you did or said. Let me remind you of the length of your post about Taiwan on page 25 on the subject "Christianity and Evolutionism". Its length is at least 4 or 5 times longer than the longest of my previous posts. Nobody had said a single word about the length of your post, and now you are complaining the length of other people's post that's much shorter than yours. Grow up and stop being such a whining baby...

"have u heard of `straw foot, hay foot'? i guess not."

Wow... It's difficult to imagine knowing what "hay foot, straw foot" means could be something worth bragging about. Hard to believe this was something done by someone approaching 40. At this age even girls don't brag about things like that. What a pathetic personality. It definitely shows how much you've got and what kind of person you are.

"hi, yokel, this time u r intelligent enough to figure out the meaning of `win over'. but accidently, u showed your foolishness or whatever u called it.

a word in a dictionary has many entries for explanation.

u can win somebody over to your side
but you can also win over an enemy.
u can win a battle
but lose a war
and u can also win a heart.

another example `die'
can mean:
cease to be alive
or
reach sexual climax

do not question someone's english even if he or she uses a wrong word or grammar. that is called decency. english is my 3rd language and so far i am ok with it. mandarin is my 2nd language. i live with my mistakes and others' mistakes in use of language.

thanks anyway. i have learned to be humbled and will continue to learn to be humbled."


- First of all, I am not interested in questioning your English (in general or not), because my pigs have way higher priority than doing that.

- Second, I was simply asking about a little phrase "win over" because the meaning of the phrase seemed opposite from the meaning of your sentence and the context you seemed to be stating/expressing. Without asking I really could not proceed because it was not just a typo or just inaccurate use of words such as 2 different words close in meaning but one is appropriate the other not. In such cases most people can guess with relative certainty. In your case "win over" and "defeat" have quite opposite meanings. Several days ago you spelled something like "ectastic" I assumed and still assume you meant "ecstatic", did you see me ever mention it? What a whining baby...

- Third, asking about such a little word trigged your such a big talk calling me not decent, foolish, dare to question your English, your explaining in details what "win over" and "die" mean I'm not sure if anybody is interested, how many languages you are good at, how humble you are, bla bla bla.... What an artificial show.

- Fourth, there are many people in this site who have way better English than yours yet none of them brags about their English like you, and most people know not only what "win over" means, but also the clear difference between "win over" and "defeat" and how to correctly use it. They are smart enough to see through how artificial this crap is.

- Fifth, obviously you had no idea what "win over" means. Why not simply admit your mistake that is not a big mistake anyway like a man to save your time and people's time to write and read your crap so artificial and so insulting to people's intelligence. No wonder you were a coward in 89, you don't even have the "COURAGE" you have been talking so much about to admit such a trivial mistake.

"what if the two things never cross each other's path?"

Obviously you don't understand the concept and that's why you keep repeating your arguments that had been answered. Please listen carefully this time, since I don't want to explain things to you again and again as happened before.

There'll never be a fixed "right thing" and a fixed "right time" out there waiting for you to put them together. The world does not operate that way. For different situations or times, there'll always be right thing to do according to each individual situation/time. I hope you understand this time.

"no excuse for your failures. u and i do not have the courage of the young man who blocked the colummn of tanks in Beijing in 1989"

"u and I..."?

Anyone with limited maturity and limited intelligence understands something called "speak for yourself" and "mind your own business". If you feel it's your "failures" or you "do not have the courage", or you like to follow your maxim "if u do neither, do not complain about being tyrannized." or whatever, that's your business, period. Why do you keep telling other people what they are supposed to or not to feel? What they are supposed to or not to think? What they are supposed to or not to judge? What they are supposed to or not to say? What they are supposed to or not to do? Why have to drag millions of people who did not participate the June 4th into your category? I know I won't be too thrilled to be seen with you in your category, and if people know what kind of person you are, they probably won't either...:) Are you too ashamed of yourself to be alone there when you look back on yourself?:) It also shows how desperate you are now.

It looks like you either don't understand what I said in my last post or too desperate to understand. Let me quote what I said last time (between the dotted lines).

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There ARE many ways to improve the democracy in China. Protesting in Tian An Meng Square in 89 may not be the most efficient way to do that. It is definitely not the only way to do it.
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Let me explain it again (another explain again). If that was my evaluation of the June 4th event, what "courage" do I need? What "failures" do I have? Please read my words a couple of more times before opening your mouth. Sometimes I do suspect if you understand English. Do you use English to communicate with people at all? Ask someone who's mother tongue is English if a person said my line quoted above to you and you replied with your line quoted above, and see what his/her reaction would be. You do seem to lack basic sense of English.

"hitler was chosen to be die fuhrer. who else did u want to blame?"

You are obviously dodging my question that is "Are you saying that there was no difference between ordinary German people and Hitler?" or "Were ordinary German people as evil as Hitler?" after you made the statement "If you do not stand up against evil, you become evil."

It obviously shows the kind of condition and problem of your reasoning and mental state to even think of using this kind of examples ("hitler was chosen to be die fuhrer. who else did u want to blame?" and "how about the cultural revolution? did u only Mao and his leadership? how about its people?") to suport your already laughable statement "If you do not stand up against evil, you become evil."

Yes, it's true Hitler was elected by the people and I do think German people were not perfect in that regard but it stops there as far as ordinary people's responsibility goes. Have you heard that a bad party leader may deceive and manipulate voters before and after the election? abuse the power after being elected? or use variety of ways (including force) to implement a evil plan? and so on... Are you saying that ordinary voters are responsible for WHATEVER a evil leader will do after they cast their vote? If that's what you believe, then tell us how "evils" you think the ordinary German people were? Were they as "evil" as Hitler? You probably did not know or too desperate to remember that Albert Einstein did not choose to "stand up and fight" against Hitler. He did not start a "war" against Nazi. Please tell us how "evil" he was or is (speaking of his contribution to mankind and legacy)? Please note I'm not interested in asking you whether or not he is "evil" because you already gave your verdict that he is. I'm only interested in asking you how "evil" he is? And how "evil" were ordinary German people?

"how about the cultural revolution? did u only Mao and his leadership? how about its people?"

Let me remind you that a big difference between Hitler and Mao is that Mao was not elected by Chinese people.

Let's take a close look at the Culture Revolution. The government was so brutal to crush physically, mentally, economically and spiritually anyone who dared to have a different voice/view even privately. The government under Mao had killed and persecuted millions of people across all walks of life, young and old, low and high in ranking inside and outside of the party and the armies. The President Liu Shao Qi and Marshal He Long and many ordinary people like Yu Luo Ke and Lin Shao were just some examples who were killed or persecuted to death. People like President Liu and Marshal He Long with the position as high as one can get could not even protect their own lives. How can you expect ordinary Chinese to "stand up and fight"? Because they were not able to "stand up and fight" the way you want, you called them "evil"?! Let me ask you this. During the Culture Revolution, did your parents and your grandparents "stand up and fight"? If they did not, how "evil" they were?

"u can choose to fight tyranny either by ballots or bullets. if u do neither, do not complain about being tyrannized."

Me complaining? You made me laugh again...LOL

It seems to be another English words confusion. You seem to have confused the word "complain" with something called presenting facts that's all I did such as the death of president Liu, marshal He, Yu Luo Ke and Lin Shao. I don't even give conclusions such as whether or not I think the Culture Revolution is good or bad. People can reach whatever conclusion they want. You have known me long enough. Have you seen me ever complaining about anything including anything personal even I am poor and dumb especially compared to you?:) I think it's not a far stretch to say I bring more fun and more civilized discussions than anything else...:)

Chinese people have the right to choose whatever methods they see appropriate, either by bullets or by other means. Speaking out is one of the methods that's also consistent with the "civil disobedience" you have talked about. Now it's time for you to explain your logic: if Chinese people do not choose the method of "bullet", why it's okay to use the method of "civil disobedience" at one part of comment but at the other part of your comment Chinese people should shut up or "do not complain about being tyrannized."? Also please tell us, who gives you a coward the right to tell Chinese people to shut up? or what they should do or should not do? For someone who can not even get his own logic right, what makes you think you have enough intelligence to tell Chinese people to shut up? Or to tell Chinese to do anything?

"disclaimer: the chinese goverment is neither a tyranny nor a dictatorship."

If the government were not tyranny or a dictatorship, why are you babbling so much about the "courage"? Who needs the "courage"? What's the "courage" used for? Is it for killing a mosquito? By the way, the "dictatorship" was not my invention, I borrowed it from Mike Wallace (CBS 60 Minutes anchor) who used the word to Jiang Ze Min's face in the interview with him.

"u forgot to mention the other bloodiest civil war, the american civil war"

What about the American Civil War? What's the relationship between the subject or your argument and the American Civil War? What's your point?

There have been probably thousands bloody civil or non-civil wars throughout mankind history. They were started or fought for various reasons such as religion, politics, economy, land, resource, wealth, women, and even leaders' personal reasons etc... Are they all related to the subject (improving democracy in China)? Even the Chinese civil war was irrelevant to democracy. Another example of irrelevant statement/argument.

"how about the current japanese prime minister? does he represent himelf when he visits the war shrine?"

What about him?

Visiting the war shrine is just one of his many domestic and foreign policies and yes he is elected by the people. I was asking you "Are you saying that there was no difference between ordinary German people and Hitler?" because you previously stated "If you do not stand up against evil, you become evil." How many Japanese people that have been full-heartedly supported that particular one policy are still debatable. Let's ASSUME even if every Japanese citizens had supported that particular one policy which I highly doubt, what does that have anything to do with your argument in question "If you do not stand up against evil, you become evil."? Let me ask this. Did the PM kill hundreds of thousands of Jews? Did he start the World War II that destroyed half of the world and killed millions of people. Are you comparing Japanese PM to Hitler saying a democratically elected Japanese PM is as evil as Hitler just because you don't like ONE of his many policies? And Japanese people are evil too because they elected him? Comparing Japanese PM to Hitler is totally laughable and absurd. Today’s Japan is one of the democratic countries in the world and it has achieved tremendous progress both politically and economically in just 60 years, especially comparing to China. Internationally it also plays a more constructive and responsible role than many other nations. Do I like every of its policies? No. There are probably no two nations in the world completely agreeing with each other on every policies. But how often we hear countries comparing each other to Hitler? If you don't mean to compare Japanese PM to Hitler, you are throwing out another irrelevant statement/argument.

"the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!

by ws"


LOL...

Why hide behind other people's words? Why cut and paste other people's poems? Why not use your own words? If you really have a solid argument you should be able to express it in one or two simple and straightforward sentences, like the ones "If you do not stand up against evil, you become evil" or "Chinese government is as democratic as any in the world", instead of relying on or hiding behind such a long sentimental poem of others. Actually you were not doing that bad, why suddenly change the strategy? I'm not sure if you know that in this day and age, cutting and pasting other people's words/poems is not very difficult, and still nor something common in this type of discussions. If you want to turn the discussion into a competition of cutting and pasting other people's words/poems or play other tricks in order to hide the laughable, stupidity and absurdity of your arguments and your logic, please let me know. I can declare you are the champion now..:) In case this is the best you can come up with to impress people, you are insulting people's intelligence again. You need to go back to your drawing board, and try much harder.

"how can cowards win even a battle? if you choose not to fight against tyranny, you will be tyrannized"

You still don't seem to get it or understand at all.

There are so many factors on whether or not it's necessary to wage a war or to win a war, definitely not just courage, especially not your kind of "courage". It's stupid, misleading and manipulative to talk about ONLY your kind of "courage" as if all other factors not existed especially many other factors are far more important than courage.

It's really difficult to discuss with you on subjects like these, because you really need to read more about modern Chinese history and need some work on your way of thinking. Speaking of your kind of "courage" and your kind of "stand up and fight", let me just tell you this. If you have time please read about and compare how many generals and soldiers died during the war against Japanese between the KMT and the Communist Party. There were about 200 generals died from the KMT's army. How many generals died from the CP? Only 3. Comparing the huge difference between the scale and the effort that the CP had put into the both wars (anti-Japanese, and the civil war), also the scale and the effort that KMT had put into the anti-Japanese war, you can ask your grandfather or the CP "did you stand up and fight the Japanese?" and "how many battles did you fight against Japanese?" You may also ask your grandfather if he was "opportunistic" during the anti-Japanese war comparing to KMT's army.

Please note the anti-Japanese war should be a much more appropriate example for you to talk about regarding to your so called "stand up and fight", not the civil war that Chinese killing Chinese in millions that only you seem to be very proud of and frequently throw out as examples to support your stupid argument. I guess it's either the huge difference between KMT and CP in the determination/performance/sacrifice during the war, or your ignorance about the war had made you so reluctant to even mention that war.

"u cannot rectify history; what happened happened."

Nobody is interested in rectify or change history. But we should learn as much as possible from history in order to avoid the mistakes or crimes made by mankind. We should also face the facts not hide the facts such as the ones that the KMT's army had contributed much much more than what the Communist army did during the war against Japanese for 12 years (not just 8 years on textbooks).

"who are `the more and more people'?"

Are you asking me if I personally know who these people are?...:)

If you know more about the modern Chinese history especially with more and more previously classified files/facts available, and more and more articles/memoirs people spoke out about many events that they have personally experienced, and more and more research results about the history of that period by researchers/historians you will agree with my argument. But if you don't, no problem.

"chinese government is as democratic as any in the world."

You should have said following one that's even better "the Chinese government is the most democratic one on earth!"...:) And you should put it as your signature for every of your posts...:) Just a quick question. If the "chinese government is as democratic as any in the world." as you put it, then what were you there for at Tian An Meng Square in 89? Who did you "stand up and fight" against? Against the non-democracy of aliens?

"is it what u mean by doing the right thing at the right time?"

Don't be so serious, you are flattering yourself. I'm just trying to have some fun. For a dumb yokel like me I don't have to follow that rule. The rule is for smart guys like you.

"no more bathroom things; u started first; it is vulgar."

Vulgar? This is one of the most amusing things I have ever heard. Let me ask you, do you yourself find it's amusing that you are the person who talks about other people being "vulgar"?

It reminds me of someone's history that covers whole spectrum of vulgarity, obscenity, profanity, and the disgusting things this person did, has been doing to people... Ring a bell?...:)

"hope your soul is cleansed clean there."

You still remember your signature recycling whenever you lost your argument after so many years. I guess old habit really die hard. Amazing isn't it...LOL

"fighting and winning a war takes preparation. esp. around that time, no airplane, ships tediously slow, it is unreasonable to fight a blitz."

You are talking about waging a war again. Who told you Chinese people ARE waging and preparing a blitz war? If you are talking about the Chinese civil war half century ago, you should have said "It WAS unreasonable to fight a blitz." You see, without asking, how can people tell what do you really mean? It is the fact that Chinese civil war had nothing to do with democracy. What's your point to even go into the DETAILS of preparing that civil war? Another example of desperately throwing out irrelevant argument.

If you do mean to wage a blitz NOW. Who is the war that you have been talking so much and so vehemently against? Most times wars that people talk about are the ones against "tyranny or dictatorship", or evaders. There seem no one evading China now. Also, no need to shed a single blood let alone to wage a war against a democratic country because its people can change the government/party/administration every 4 years. So who is the country your war that may take "airplanes, ships and blitz" and so much "preparation" for is against? Is it a "a tyranny or a dictatorship" country?

One piece of advice, try to use your brain before throwing out irrelevant statements/arguments, which seems to have been the pattern of your behavior and your way of thinking. Please be aware not every straw can save you. If you are not careful with what you thought were straws, they can make you look even worse than you already are. Just look at some of the examples or arguments you have thrown out:

- China should compare more with countries of the category such as Sudan, Rwanda, North Korea

- Claim religion is like sex

- Claim government faults are from its people

- Compare the Chinese civil war to democracy in China

- Compare American Black Movement to democracy in China.

- Compare American Civil War to democracy in China

- Compare Nepal to China

- Claim British army was far more powerful than the American farmer army.

- The logic between "ok to be civil disobedient" and "shut up if not chose "bullet""

- Claim Chinese government is as democratic as any in the world

- Claim if you do not stand up against evil, you become evil

- Both Mao and Chinese people were evil and responsible for what happened during the Cultural Revolution

- Compre Japanese PM to Hitler

- Babbling about details of fighting a blitz war

These are just some of what you threw out in the discussion between you and me. I haven't gotten time to check the comments between you and many other people but I already noticed some laughable statements/arguments there. I am sure there are more out there. It's strange that I seem to have this feeling that the more you opened your big mouth, the more stupid and laughable you look and the more artificial and pretentious you sound.

I'm tired of spending time showing you the historical facts, your ignorance, the flaws in your way of thinking and the possible problems in your mental state. I can only hope you will understand these things when you grow older. It's really sad... You helped me more convinced of my understanding on one of the ancient concepts in Taoism and Buddhism. Thanks for that.

"wrong again; i no longer believe in democracy;"

Me wrong again? Hmmm... Let's see. This is what I said:

"Anyone who has BASIC understanding of democracy will not even think of risking the loss of that many Chinese lives."

Let me explain again (one more explaining). Someone who does not believe in democracy can be a person who has a very good understanding of democracy, or a person who knows nothing about democracy while at the same time keeps babbling what people should do. Am I still "wrong again"? I won't be surprised to hear you say yes, what else can you expect from a coward's mouth...:)

While at your disbelief in democracy, let me take the opportunity to ask why are you so vehemently inciting or advocating Chinese people should take "violent actions" or wage a modern "war" that may involve "battleships, airplanes and blitz etc." against a mysterious non-democratic government? I wonder who that might be?

"keep u L(aughing) O(ut) L(oud). take care not to LYOF (laugh your ass off)."

Looks like you have heard my 286's laughs a lot. Does her laughs sound nice? Sometimes she may get a bit wild...LOL

"when u laugh, make sure it is not midnight."

When someone laughs his ass off who cares if it's midnight or midday plus there are not many people here, and my pigs snore much louder than my laugh. But my 286 always loves you regardless midnight or midday as always has been...LMAO

What another amazing discovery you've found that I can laugh at midnight. You should submit your application for nominee to the Nobel Prize Committee...:) Do you want to tell people the other amazing discoveries about my 286? By the way, it seems a bit rude for you not to greet back to my 286 considering how many years you as a secrete admirer have been trying so hard to pay court to her...LMAO

"do i need a brain to explain this to u?"

Since you are the one who brought up this question (not me), I think people can answer this question quite easily just look at some of the arguments you said listed above. If you have to ask me, well... based on what you have said, the content of your character, what kind of person you were and are, the number of years and the degree of success you have been courting my 286, let me guess. It may not be such a wild guess you need more than one brain...:)

By the way I think many people are looking forward to hearing your answer to the question "Was Einstein as evil as Hitler?" and "Were ordinary German people as evil as Hitler?" I don't want to include your parents and your grandparents in this question because the arguments you have thrown out have already made you look too pathetic...:)
 
Re: Were Ordinay German People As Evil As Adolf Hitler?

最初由 yokel 发布

By the way I think many people are looking forward to hearing your answer to the question "Was Einstein as evil as Hitler?" and "Were ordinary German people as evil as Hitler?" I don't want to include your parents and your grandparents in this question because the arguments you have thrown out have already made you look too pathetic...:)

Yokel, I am sorry I have misread your level of intelligence.

The quote I gave was from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Basically it means either you suffer silently your own fate or you rise up, fight and change your fate.

As often is the case, life or fate is a choice.

"Straw foot, hay foot" was the marching orders given to the then farmer army. These farmers did not know how to follow professional army marching orders. As they worked on the farm, so they came with the idea of straw foot, hay foot. If you look at the statistics of military strength in colonial America and UK, you can draw your own conclusion.

Have you read Thomas Paine's famous line when the farmers army came to near defeat?

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.................
 
改为“无题”比较好

“无题”
No Topics?
Random Talks?
Babbles?
Random thoughts?
Tirades?
The bored bores the boring?
The boring bores the bored?

i will choose random talks
 
from AT:

At the instant the first atom bomb detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, scores of thousands of families were incinerated. At the instant the second atom bomb detonated over Nagasaki three days later, thousands and thousands more families were incinerated. To put a finer point on it: the first bomb killed 66,000-78,000 people, injured 80,000, and exposed 300,000 more to the effects of radiation. The second bomb killed 74,800 people, and so on.

Visiting Tokyo in 1960, Oppenheimer, asked how he felt, said, "I do not regret that I had something to do with the technical success of the atomic bomb. It isn't that I don't feel bad; it is that I do not feel worse tonight than I did last night."
 
continued:

Before meeting Kitty, Oppenheimer had been entangled in a horrid relationship with Jean Talock, a brilliant medical student at Oppenheimer's California university. Three times, Oppenheimer asked her to marry him but she refused. While married to Kitty, Oppenheimer had last seen Jean Talock in California in June 1943 during one of his trips from Los Alamos to California on bomb business.

On the 12th of that month of June 1943, Oppenheimer and Jean spent the night together in her California apartment. Outside her apartment, all that night, a government agent monitored them. In January 1944, Jean Talock committed suicide.
 
continued

Toni, Oppenheimer's "very sweet" daughter, is described as having "acquired a near-perfect command of West Indian Calypso, the Creole English common in the islands. She loved the island's steel-band music. As a young adolescent, she was a dead-serious child, with beautiful smooth features, tragic dark eyes, long lustrous dark hair, and the condescending politeness of a princess. Extremely shy, she hated to have her photograph taken." In 1977 on the island of St John in the US Virgin Islands, Toni hanged herself. She was 33 years old.

A graduate of Oberlin College, proficient in German, French, Italian and Spanish, Toni had wanted to become a translator at the United Nations but could not because the US government denied her a security clearance. This may be the closest Toni ever got to her father: he, too, had been denied a security clearance in 1954.
 
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