Emily Conrad: What China Wants
“DISPATCHES FROM A BLOND IN BEIJING” || By EMILY CONRAD || Beijing is perhaps the safesYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
“DISPATCHES FROM A BLOND IN BEIJING” || By EMILY CONRAD || Beijing is perhaps the safesYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Let me muse on this: Wofford College + beautiful, sexy females + Fitsnews = Shifty Henry’s attention
I never got past the picture. Killer B’s!!!!!
Rocky, right at this moment I’m fantasizing about Mrs. Rocky’s nipples…..
Hey ——- you know – they ain’t German!!!
No wait, let me repost. RIght now I’m playin’ with ’em.
DAD GUM — behave yourself!
OK, gotta get back to work. The real kind. Stay classy, and if not, stay sassy!!!
“There’s an extraordinary difference between a beautiful nipple and a dull one.” —– (Norman Mailer)
“… he twisted my nipples as though tuning a radio. —– (Kinflicks)
What part of a woman is her “now”? I only ask because II hear that everybody’s “kissing her now.” —– (Anon)
What’s the deal with all these people posting about China and politics. Hot chick, enough said.
From what I’ve seen of her type,she’d probably rate the daily lunch special /pole dance/$1.00 bar brand at any GSP/Columbia/Charleston area “Gentlemen’s Club” (at best)…..
“There is no such thing as a dull nipple if it is erect”—(Sparklecity)
I’ve seen dormant ones which are like deflated, and ‘innies’, but only one breast had them; one girl with two nipples on one breast, with one being dormant (flat); and one girl with a small third breast in the middle, which she had removed at age 18……
Just from curiosity, Rocky, does she have names for them?
No. I just know them as left and right.
Mrs. Rocky just called me. She likes the idea of naming her lovely breasts. To start with, when she needs to scold you for some omission or transgression, they will be “Thelma” and “Louise.”
Cool.
Busts and bosoms have I known
of various shapes and sizes,
From grievous disappointments
to jubilant surprises!
Well put sir…..
I think see ought to stick with pictorials and leave the writing to the grown ups.
Honestly, haven’t seen her type (including Taylor Brown) here in Spartanburg for quite some time……
Seen a few Converse “lezzies” sucking face at Hickory Tavern on the eastside but that’s about it……..(not a bad visual at all…)
“we need to be absolutely certain that our form of democracy can compete and provide the world’s citizens with just as good, if not better, economic opportunities than the Chinese system.”
There’s only one thing that can provide “economic opportunities”:
The Free Market
It doesn’t matter what form of governance takes place if it restricts or represses free market activities that do not violate the non-aggression principle and do not violate or damage property.
“our form of democracy” as you put it, is a constitutional republic characterized by the domination of two political parties that vary little in their actual policy making.
The Chinese call their government the “People’s Republic of China”, and ironically instead of two parties that control their government, they have one: The Communist Party.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what governments label themselves, it only matters what degree of freedom exists in markets to deliver the advancement of humanity and quality of life.
Overall I do like your write up Ms Conrad, I hope your experience continues to push your world view into new thoughts/areas.
What constitutes a violation of the non-aggression principle? Are predatory businesses considered aggressors? Do companies that pollute the air so badly people move from complaining about environmental concerns to complaining about health concerns violate this principle? If an employer threatens you with unemployment for not exposing yourself to mortal danger, are you being coerced?
I just ask because just about every libertarian I’ve ever talked to defends all of those things, at least when they are not being perpetrated by a government.
“Are predatory businesses considered aggressors?”
You weren’t specific here, I’ll move on.
“Do companies that pollute the air so badly people move from complaining about environmental concerns to complaining about health concerns violate this principle?”
Yes they violate the NAP, that is a “property rights” issue. If a company pollutes the air to the degree that your neighbors suffer for it, then that should be actionable in court. But because the US gov’t is now fascist/crony capitalist, they get the EPA to help avoid litigation and instead fleece the taxpayers to clean up messes made by NAP violating businesses.
” If an employer threatens you with unemployment for not exposing yourself to mortal danger, are you being coerced?”
You are not being “coerced” because the company gave you a job voluntarily, & you took the job voluntarily. Now, if you signed a contract with them that said your job responsibilities were “x” and the company agreed, but then asked you to do something outside of that contract that would/should be legally actionable.
So in summary, if there is no agreement and the employee voluntarily accepted employment that was voluntarily offered by a company and lost his job because he decided what the company asked him/her to do wasn’t worth the risk, that ISN’T a NAP violation.
“I just ask because just about every libertarian I’ve ever talked to defends all of those things”
You need to read up on what a libertarian “is” before deciding who/what is libertarian rather than taking their word on anything. Two good places to start:
http://mises.org/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Dang, you need to copy right that.
“people take Prozac to make it normal”
I always thought that people took Prozac not to make it “normal”, but to cope with the weirdness.
I quit doing drugs so I could enjoy my brain damage.
funny..!!
Hey, Will posted his email address. He’s certainly more accessible than that Hillary Clinton chick was to the embassy staffs.
Off Subject: Can anybody tell me what this means in a text message — “sino”? For several days I’ve been getting(1st) calls from a “RESTRICTED” caller who can’t leave a message because my mailbox is full, and (2nd) now he is texting the same message four times — “Bro, call me really soon sino”. The number is from a town west of Atlanta. Thanks…..
The majority of my texts say “Where are you” – “Are you here yet” – “Can I stay at my friends until 11?” So I got no idea.
Thanks for replying — now I’ll have to ask my Grand-kids what is “sino” in a text message.
“It doesn’t matter if it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as the cat is good at catching mice.”
The corollary premise being that both black cats and white cats are pink on the inside, and with the right sauce they taste like chicken.
It does matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat to racists like me! LMAO!!!! LMAO!!!
“If the United States was to ever recognize
China’s system as legitimate, it would possibly alter the world order
by delegitimizing the democratic, capitalistic system that the United
States has been actively promoting.”
Don’t worry, the current Obama administration has done more to delegitimize our form of government and economic system than a billion Chinese invading the West Coast.
The two terms of Obama and then two terms of Hillary Clinton should have us well on the way to marching in political and economic lock-step with your far east socialistic Utopia.
“…If the United States was to ever recognize China’s system as legitimate…”
Question, do we have an embassy there? Why yes, yes we do – ipso facto, we recognize their “system” as legitimate – however, the question is not one of legitimacy, it is one of liberty.
Oh, oh, oh. Another spiffy comment. “The question is not one of legitimacy, it is one of liberty.” Copyright that one.
Makes you wonder if the author has ever visited “housed labor factories” ie enslaved labor camps or environmental areas that make our super fund sites look kind of petty? If she has, she is in full denial mode. That safe feeling from armed jackboots everywhere is disturbing.
The naivete – It’s rather stunning isn’t it?
Written by someone who knows The State will be reading it.
She’s already brainwashed, they don’t have dissent because they kill everyone who dissents.
We, the United States, borrow money from them, the Chinese. That pretty much sums it up.
Man, they must be scared to death of Trump. He defaults all the time.
Not to mention lying 100% of the time………..
…. voids where prohibited
No one is willing to lend to them. Loans to the US have the lowest interest rate. That is because we are the safest creditor. That pretty much sums it up.
When a man owes a bank a million $$, the bank owns him. When a man owes a bank 100 million $$, he owns the bank.
I’m not going to say democracy always works with every nation at every time. It has failed in Egypt. Iraq and Afghanistan are on life support provided by the US and others. The Konrad Adenauer succeeded where the Weimar republic failed in Germany.
Other Nations have had had fairly smooth transitions from oppressive governments to democracy like South Korea and Taiwan. China may do the same. It may be their economies and institutions had not matured enough earlier to support a democracy. Many Latin American countries are struggling with the transition. Mexico is one of the most democratic Latin American countries, yet it struggles with corruption and violence.
——— That Said. ———
Emily, you need to deepen your historical perspective. Read some of the glowing reports that came from Americans who visited the Soviet Union (before 1939) and Nazi Germany during the early 1930’s. They sound very reminiscent to your writing.
Your opinion of China might change if:
you didn’t have the right to leave,
you could not decide how many children you want,
your second child could not go to school or get a job,
you lived in a rural area and was not allowed to get legal housing in a city, and was forced to live in an illegal slum to get employment.
“I am surprised that I do not feel restricted or in an unsafe environment.”
Try wearing a sweat shirt that says “Jesus Saves” on it.
Try protesting against “re-education” camps.
Try putting a Cross on a church steeple.
Go to the library and get an accurate history of the Cultural Revolution.
Try meeting dissidents.
You may say that you don’t miss any of those things. You say “I can live without them.” But is it right that anyone should have to. China has expanded freedoms and the majority may be satisfied, but the more educated they become, the more freedoms they will demand.
There is crushing poverty in China, but you may not have access to those areas. The press is not free in China to report the problems. You feel safe because crime is not reported as often on the news. That’s all you see in the US press. China doesn’t allow many to move to or from China, but when given the opportunity they want to go Hong Kong, Britain or the US.
I’m not concerned about China out competing us. It will never happen unless America gives up its democratic/constitutional free-market system. China’s reforms will only get them so far.
She’s the future……….get over it…….
You’ve just wasted 10-15 minutes of your time……..
She is the future? Maybe. She is definitely the past. We forget, there were many more communists in early decades of the twentieth century than there are now.
As I’ve posted before, sadly you have your head up your ass on so many levels when it comes to contemporary matters/history (it gives me no pleasure in posting that, BTW…..)
Dream on if you wish but yours is a pipe dream (at best)………..
Your are one of those old pessimistic farts that think everything was better in the past. The world is going to “hell in a hand basket”. You enjoy complaining all the time.
“Coaches use to be loyal to their institutions, now they are hired guns.” Blah! Blah! Blah! The world is not a worse place. You’re just older.
I can’t imagine the vapidity (and/or self-absorption) that could lead someone to spend a carefree year in China as an international student on a government-funded scholarship and utter some nonsense about not feeling restricted or unsafe, when most of the Chinese foreign student program is *designed* to produce just the kind of silliness in this op-ed once the recipients ramble on back to their own nations (and their annoying democracies). The lack of self-awareness here is just stunning. Know that many of these students are very closely monitored, and the Chinese government carefully controls their experience. How coincidental that the so many espionage cases begin with visits like this one. Weird…
I will not be asking Sic to forward any questions about China to FITS’ new Asian expert; I’ll just ask them rhetorically here. I wonder if the blond wunderkind had written an op-ed while there which in any way appeared critical of Chinese policy if she would have felt more “restricted.” If she had fallen madly in love with one of her profs and somehow managed to stay to get married, would she have been upset to learn that she could only have one baby? Oh, wait…they’ve added waivers to that program through the years and she isn’t an ethnic Han, but you get the point.
I worry that the young ones in our society are so spoiled and self-impressed that they don’t possess an understanding of what liberty entails. Scary, really.
I’m wondering if she met Chuc Mai Chin, Will’s new Chinese proofreader….
No, but her editor (Sum Ting Wong) surely let her down…
Cue the righteous indignation from the humor challenged in 3, 2, 1…
(heh) (heh)….
Mike, has there been any further news about the Chinese plans to establish two new elite golf tournaments in Myrtle Beach —
“THE MASTERS PO” and “THE MASTERS KAN”
Sadly, Grasshoppa, no. You can, however, still get kickass bowl of beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook’s.
glad you caught on to it!
You kitten me? I loved that show as a wee tot. I want to be an itinerant problem solver when I really retire for good, but I’ll be a little too long in the tooth for all the Kung Fu madness. I’ll go more Edward Woodward’s Equalizer, I think…
“ol Ed knew how to even the score fer sure…………..
Sadly he met his “Waterloo” at “The Wickerman”………..
Ah, but his boys carried the day in “The Final Option.”
https://youtu.be/NUYfDmeAgw8
(Cheesy but highly entertaining early 80’s movie based upon the SAS’ excellent hit on the Iranian Embassy in London)
Paladin?
Folks who block the left lane will be the first group I target, and it’ll make mad max look like a golf cart race.
I’m glad you mentioned golf because I’ve got a new one —
A woman playing golf was stung by a bee. Afraid she’d have an allergic reaction, she ran back to the clubhouse to find the pro. Finding him, she says breathlessly, “I’ve been stung by a bee! What shall I do?”
“Where were you stung?” the pro asks.
“Between the first and second hole!”
“Lady, we gotta’ work on your stance.”
and another new one —–
A man playing on a new golf course got confused as to what hole he was on. He saw a lady playing ahead of him. He walked up to her and asked if she knew what hole he was playing. She replied, “I’m on the 7th hole, and you’re a hole behind me,
so you must be on the 6th hole.” He thanked her and went back to his golf.
On the back nine, the same thing happened, and he approached the lady again with the same request. She said, “I’m on the 14th, you are a hole behind me, so you must be on the 13th.” Once again he thanked her.
He finished his round and went into the club house and saw the lady sitting at the end of the bar. He went up to her and said, “Let me buy you a drink to show my appreciation for your help.” He started a conversation and asked her what kind of work she did. She said she was in sales, and he said he was in sales also. He asked what she sold.
She replied, “If I told you, you would only laugh.”
“No, I wouldn’t,” he said.
She said, “I sell tampons.”
With that he fell on the floor laughing so hard.
She said, “See, I knew you would laugh.”
“That’s not what I’m laughing at,” he replied. “I’m a toilet paper salesman, so I’m STILL one hole behind you!”
“Send Lawyers, Guns & Money….THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN!!”
Some of Zevon’s best lyrics…
Warren Zevon forever!
Well posted……
All’s I can say is let’s have the “big flash” instantly followed by “duck & cover” (for those who remember) and quickly to 1000 years of death and despair where the living will envy the dead and their offspring will curse the past generations for 50 generations or more……….
A few points:
China got rid of the “1 baby” policy about a month ago or so.
“Know that many of these students are very closely monitored”
As opposed to mass monitoring here? :)
” I wonder if the blond wunderkind had written an op-ed while there which
in any way appeared critical of Chinese policy if she would have felt
more “restricted.”
Three words: “Free speech zones”
“How coincidental that the so many espionage cases begin with visits like this one. ”
Dude, you might think I’m a China apologist, but I’m really not…but you might think that….
Not at all. You’ve changed my mind completely; the US is actually governed by a very restrictive and oppressive regime. I’m moving to China, where I can be truly free.
They have changed the one child policy in China. Maybe if you stayed current on the news, your ramblings would be more impressive.
Maybe if you read my little rant more carefully you would have noticed that I mentioned that.
Try and speak out against that government and see what happens, idiot.
My God are all young people stupid?
Do you really think it’s that different here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Yeah, I think it’s different here.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6a2YLWmYDQ
http://angrygrandpa.wikia.com/wiki/Trailwood
So is that Big T’s neighbor?
You realize that that 2nd link actually talks about emminent domain, right? (even if he’s borderline crazy)
Eminent domain? I’m not sure. I think the lots were rented and the owner chose to sell. The roads may have have been private or at least county owned. I don’t think Haley had anything to do with it other than and inducement deal to create jobs.
“Eminent domain? I’m not sure. I think the lots were rented and the owner chose to sell.”
Not according to crazy town.
Anyway, it’s funny that you argue that we have freedom of speech(ignoring my post on free speech zones) by linking to US government private property violations.
If crazy town actually tried to walk up and say the things he said on youtube he’d be pepper sprayed, cuffed, & sent off to jail with the possibility of a mental evaluation after a day or two.
Free Speech zones? Call them what you like, but what they really are are public protest areas. Not that I approve of the zones, but protesters are trying to violate conventioners rights by blocking access.
The political parties are taking advantage of court decisions protecting their rights by moving protests as far away as possible. I don’t approve.
Eminent domain? I believe what happened was people like Angry Grandpa put their own trailers on rental lots. The trailers deprecated in price so much that they weren’t worth moving when the owner decided to sell the property to Boeing. So, the land owner ought them for $500.
Just another rich girl traveling on daddy’s money and writing about her travels and thinking people give a shit.
A rich girl traveling on daddy’s money returned home. Her parents asked her what she thought about Red China. She replied, “It looks nice, especially on a blue tablecloth.”