Communism has been very good to the port City of Da Nang (峴港), Vietnam.
Excellent video, Helen Le.
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17 March 2012
Capitalist-Roaders of the Chinese Communist Party
THESE CAPITALIST-ROADERS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY DON'T EVEN KNOW THE WORDS TO THE PARTY'S ANTHEM! FREE BO XILAI! RESTORE MAOISM!
10 March 2012
09 March 2012
Now This is a Protest!
from koreabang.com
Following the recent arrest and sentencing of Jung Bong-ju, a prominent Korean podcaster and member of the Democratic United Party, dozens of girls have responded to requests to write political slogans on their breasts calling for his immediate release. Jung’s podcast, ‘나꼼수’ (Nanggomsu – I’m a Dirty Trickster) is the world’s most popular political podcast on iTunes with over 2 million downloads a week.
04 March 2012
CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE, 2012
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20120304/107376.shtml
SALUTING COMRADES AND PATRIOTS PARTICIPATING IN THE FIFTH (AND FINAL) SESSION OF THE 11TH NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND THE FIFTH (AND FINAL) SESSION OF THE 11TH CHINESE PEOPLE'S POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE. CURRENTLY UNDERWAY IN BEIJING, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
The Dean of American Social Sciences, James Q. Wilson, Dies
from the Wall St Journal:
James Q. Wilson
An empiricist with a moral sense—and he could write too.
One of our editors once made the mistake of referring to James Q. Wilson as a sociologist, and he was quickly rebuked with a note that, no, the professor was a political scientist. Jim Wilson liked to get things right, which as far as we can remember he always was.
Wilson was indeed a political scientist, and in the old-fashioned sense: He only concluded what the evidence allowed, and he applied this method to politics, broadly defined as the choices we make about how we govern ourselves. Over his career, as the modern university grew more and more obscurantist and irrelevant, Wilson's scholarship—on everything from poverty to crime to bureaucracy to morals—moved public policy and changed America for the better. He died yesterday, at 80, from leukemia.
Wilson made his name in the last century, when he was a young professor at Harvard and people still believed that government could create something it would call "the Great Society." Wilson belonged to the cohort of thinkers including Edward Banfield, Irving Kristol and Pat Moynihan who were skeptical of such central planning and abstractions. The joke about the French philosopher—"We know it works in fact, but will it work in theory?"—is less funny when the supposed technocrats don't care if something works in fact, only in theory.
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Columnist Holman Jenkins on James Q. Wilson's contributions to conservative thought.
Wilson was probably best known for his work as a criminologist and developed with George Kelling the "broken windows" approach to law-breaking. Their insight was that "public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken," as he put it in an interview in these pages last year. This philosophy and the new policing strategies that it inspired helped to rescue New York and other major cities in the late 1980s and 1990s from the social and criminal catastrophe that had developed and persisted over the previous two decades.
One reason Wilson's ideas were successful—welfare reform is among his other policy contributions—is that they were grounded in data, hard facts and the evidence of experience. But his empiricism was special because it always respected the complexity and contingency that prevails in the real world. Few phrases in the English language are responsible for as much bad thinking as "studies show" or "research suggests." If Wilson was guided by good evidence, not ideology, he also understood its limits.
He was a conservative because he believed that attempts to reorganize or transform the country were something the government does at its own peril, and everyone else's. Things as they are deserve a presumption of validity, and the risks of unintended consequences are likely to be high. He had confidence in humanity as moral creatures who acted accordingly most of the time—a theme that occupied him in his later years and informed his outstanding book, "The Moral Sense."
But he never lost his faith that when public policy went awry it could be improved through persuasion and reason. Wilson also had the gift of being able to write for a general audience, which is also why his ideas were so influential. We're proud to say he often graced these pages, as the nearby excerpts show. Our current political and social ills will be harder to solve without his rigor and brilliance.
A version of this article appeared Mar. 3, 2012, on page A14 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: James Q. Wilson.
Slutty Taiwanese in "Train Sex" Scandal
from: www.asiaone.com
TAIWAN - A 17-year-old girl who allegedly took part in a sex party on a train that took place on the afternoon of February 19 appeared in a Taiwanese court to tell her side of the story.
An Apple Daily report said the girl, known only as 'Xiao Yu', admitted to engaging in sexual activity on a train travelling from Taipei to Zhunan in Miaoli County with at least seven to eight people during the February 28 hearing.
However, she said she could only remember five men's faces as she was too tired midway through the incident.
Her parents were reportedly shocked when they heard of her role in the sex scandal. Her mother broke down while her father kept repeating the word "impossible".
'Xiao Yu' later realised her mistake and started to cry.
Taiwanese police later made public the case exhibits, which included the outfit that Xiao Yu wore, and condoms, mouth wash, hand sanitisers and tissue paper that were reportedly used during the train journey
The scandal was exposed after a legislator of Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party alleged that 18 men rented a train carriage and had a sex party with a single young woman.
The 17-year-old girl allegedly had sex with all the men.
The male participants were asked to pay NT$800 (S$34) to be admitted into the party inside the train carriage at around 3.20 pm local time.
Some 10 minutes later, two female assistants distributed condoms and mouthwash to them.
When a woman, 170 centimeters tall and weighing 50 kilograms, allegedly 'Xiao Yu', showed up in the train carriage, the men were at loss for what to do, before the organiser, known as Mr Cai, showed them how to flirt with her during the journey.
She allegedly engaged in sexual activity with all 18 men, who paid the admission fee, before the train reached Zhunan Station.
Cai was arrested earlier for violating public decency.
28 February 2012
breaking: Romney Wins Big in Michigan; Obama Shaken
Although the projected win for Mitt Romney in today's Michigan primary is 41% to Rick Santorum's 38%, the fact that 10% of the open primary's voters were Democratic Party's spoilers makes Romney's win a LANDSLIDE!!!
26 February 2012
24 February 2012
Guidelines from the Asian-American Journalists' Association (AAJA)
One would think this type of guidelines would be unnecessary in this putatively post-ethnic world. But alas, there are still so many dumbasses around that it now makes these AAJA guidelines required reading for EVERYBODY. Needless to say, the Fairbank Report/Ruyi Baogao endorses these AAJA guidelines. Those refusing to abide by these guidelines should be sent to re-education centers at their own expenses!
AAJA Guidelines for Covering Jeremy Lin (Lin Shuhao) as reported by Yahoo News on 2/24/2012:
1. Jeremy Lin is Asian American, not Asian (more specifically, Taiwanese American). It's an important distinction and one that should be considered before any references to former NBA players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, who were Chinese. Lin's experiences were fundamentally different than people who immigrated to play in the NBA. Lin progressed through the ranks of American basketball from high school to college to the NBA, and to characterize him as a foreigner is both inaccurate and insulting.
2. Lin's path to Madison Square Garden: More than 300 division schools passed on him. Harvard University has had only three other graduates go on to the NBA, the most recent one being in the 1950s. No NBA team wanted Lin in the draft after he graduated from Harvard.
3. Journalists don't assume that African American players identify with NBA players who emigrated from Africa. The same principle applies with Asian Americans. It's fair to ask Lin whether he looked up to or took pride in the accomplishments of Asian players. He may have. It's unfair and poor journalism to assume he did.
4. Lin is not the first Asian American to play in the National Basketball Association. Raymond Townsend, who's of Filipino descent, was a first-round choice of the Golden State Warriors in the 1970s. Rex Walters, who is of Japanese descent, was a first-round draft pick by the New Jersey Nets out of the University of Kansas in 1993 and played seven seasons in the NBA; Walters is now the coach at University of San Francisco. Wat Misaka is believed to have been the first Asian American to play professional basketball in the United States. Misaka, who's of Japanese descent, appeared in three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947-48 season when the Knicks were part of the Basketball Association of America, which merged with the NBA after the 1948-49 season.
DANGER ZONES
"CHINK": Pejorative; do not use in a context involving an Asian person on someone who is Asian American. Extreme care is needed if using the well-trod phrase "chink in the armor"; be mindful that the context does not involve Asia, Asians or Asian Americans. (The appearance of this phrase with regard to Lin led AAJA MediaWatch to issue statement to ESPN, which subsequently disciplined its employees.)
DRIVING: This is part of the sport of basketball, but resist the temptation to refer to an "Asian who knows how to drive."
EYE SHAPE: This is irrelevant. Do not make such references if discussing Lin's vision.
FOOD: Is there a compelling reason to draw a connection between Lin and fortune cookies, takeout boxes or similar imagery? In the majority of news coverage, the answer will be no.
MARTIAL ARTS: You're writing about a basketball player. Don't conflate his skills with judo, karate, tae kwon do, etc. Do not refer to Lin as "Grasshopper" or similar names associated with martial-arts stereotypes.
AAJA Guidelines for Covering Jeremy Lin (Lin Shuhao) as reported by Yahoo News on 2/24/2012:
1. Jeremy Lin is Asian American, not Asian (more specifically, Taiwanese American). It's an important distinction and one that should be considered before any references to former NBA players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, who were Chinese. Lin's experiences were fundamentally different than people who immigrated to play in the NBA. Lin progressed through the ranks of American basketball from high school to college to the NBA, and to characterize him as a foreigner is both inaccurate and insulting.
2. Lin's path to Madison Square Garden: More than 300 division schools passed on him. Harvard University has had only three other graduates go on to the NBA, the most recent one being in the 1950s. No NBA team wanted Lin in the draft after he graduated from Harvard.
3. Journalists don't assume that African American players identify with NBA players who emigrated from Africa. The same principle applies with Asian Americans. It's fair to ask Lin whether he looked up to or took pride in the accomplishments of Asian players. He may have. It's unfair and poor journalism to assume he did.
4. Lin is not the first Asian American to play in the National Basketball Association. Raymond Townsend, who's of Filipino descent, was a first-round choice of the Golden State Warriors in the 1970s. Rex Walters, who is of Japanese descent, was a first-round draft pick by the New Jersey Nets out of the University of Kansas in 1993 and played seven seasons in the NBA; Walters is now the coach at University of San Francisco. Wat Misaka is believed to have been the first Asian American to play professional basketball in the United States. Misaka, who's of Japanese descent, appeared in three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947-48 season when the Knicks were part of the Basketball Association of America, which merged with the NBA after the 1948-49 season.
DANGER ZONES
"CHINK": Pejorative; do not use in a context involving an Asian person on someone who is Asian American. Extreme care is needed if using the well-trod phrase "chink in the armor"; be mindful that the context does not involve Asia, Asians or Asian Americans. (The appearance of this phrase with regard to Lin led AAJA MediaWatch to issue statement to ESPN, which subsequently disciplined its employees.)
DRIVING: This is part of the sport of basketball, but resist the temptation to refer to an "Asian who knows how to drive."
EYE SHAPE: This is irrelevant. Do not make such references if discussing Lin's vision.
FOOD: Is there a compelling reason to draw a connection between Lin and fortune cookies, takeout boxes or similar imagery? In the majority of news coverage, the answer will be no.
MARTIAL ARTS: You're writing about a basketball player. Don't conflate his skills with judo, karate, tae kwon do, etc. Do not refer to Lin as "Grasshopper" or similar names associated with martial-arts stereotypes.
Who Says the Fairbank Report Ain't Classy?!
Poem by Song Dynasty-era Su Dongpo
十年生死兩茫茫，不思量， 自難忘。千里孤墳，無處話淒涼。縱使相逢應不識，塵滿面，鬢如霜。
夜來幽夢忽還鄉，小軒窗，正梳妝。相顧無言，惟有淚千行。料得年年腸斷處，明月夜，短松岡。
Ten years living and dead have drawn apart
I do nothing to remember
But I cannot forget
Your lonely grave a thousand miles away ...
Nowhere can I talk of my sorrow --
Even if we met, how would you know me
My face full of dust
My hair like snow?
In the dark of night, a dream: suddenly, I am home
You by the window
Doing your hair
I look at you and cannot speak
Your face is streaked by endless tears
Year after year must they break my heart
These moonlit nights?
That low pine grave?
20 February 2012
Roman 8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
16 February 2012
KFI HAS NO BALLS!
KFI is going to lose a lot of listeners if they rein in shock jocks, John and Ken. For God's sake, they're shock jocks doing their thing! Wusses!
from LA Times
Whitney Houston 'crack' comment led to John and Ken's suspension
A derogatory comment about Whitney Houston and crack use led KFI radio to suspend its popular talk show hosts John & Ken.
KFI announced the suspension Thursday, saying John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou would be back on the air Monday.
When talking about reports of Houston's odd behavior before her death Saturday, they said: “It's like, ‘Ah Jesus . . . here comes the crack ho again, what’s she gonna do."
The duo talked about Houston's past drug problems, at one point saying she was "cracked out for 20 years," according to a recording on the website Urban Informer.
"John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston," KFI said in a statement on its website. "Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind."
In the statement, Kobylt said, "We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision. We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston.”
Officials are still trying to determine how Houston died.
Authorities collected several bottles of prescription drugs from Houston's suite at the Beverly Hilton, where she was found dead Saturday. But officials have said the amount of drugs did not seem unusually large, leaving it unclear whether the medications had anything to do with the singer's death.
Officials are waiting for the results of toxicology tests on Houston's body.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office said Wednesday that investigators had asked "a number" of doctors to provide them with Houston's medical information.
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