Picture of the collapsed school
Posted on 05/12/2008 8:47:42 AM PDT by charles m
That’s nothing. The Chinese earthquake in 1555 killed over 500,000 people. That’s the most deadliest natural disaster ever.
They get shot, and then their families are charged for the price of the bullet.
the pics kinda got me to thinking about how there are parts of the US that are little better than 3rd-world sh*tholes
In addition to that, isn't it nice to see nurses who take some pride in their appearance?
In fact, those nurses are so attractive that it makes me wonder whether the pictures were staged - they look like they just walked off the set of a 1950's movie or television show in America.
Anyway, the more I see of China, the more I wonder if our future doesn't lie more with them than with any other peoples.
The nurses in China really dress like that. Pride in presentation for EVERYONE. Even the street-sweepers dress cleanly.
Our future does have a strong inter-dependency with China; it’s best if we recognize that now and manage the relationship with our own interests firmly in place. China will be the predominant economic and political force in Asia; ignoring that fact will make the future harder for both countries.
China is rational, the Chinese are - if anything - pragmatic. Russia is completely irrational and the biggest threat we’re going to face over the next few decades. China - with a huge population, economy, and massive border with Russia - will be a natural ally to stabilize and control Russia as it starts to go through wild death throes back into either a complete dictatorship or fracture into hundreds of independent states.
In 1989 we had a pretty good one here in San Francisco. It knocked out power to the whole city and there was a certain amount of death and destruction and confusion.
There was no looting.
True. And then you have places like New Orleans after Katrina; or New York during a blackout; or Los Angeles following damned near anything....
My concern is that in fifty years China will be, as it is now, a somewhat functional dictatorship simultaneously capable of producing great wealth and keeping its people in subjugation, that China will militarily be much more powerful than it is now, and that the Chinese people and leaders will hate us with an intensity that we cannot even imagine.
I think the predominant reasons for those differences are fairly obvious. Do you agree?
The Chinese have their rational, pragmatic side. They also have their racist, nationalistic, chauvanistic, xenophobic, and resentful sides as well. They are perfectly capable of being the worst enemy we have ever known. Not yet, but in fifty years maybe.
As well as Arkansas. Just a few weeks ago with the dust barley settling from the tornado's they had a problem with looters. I could not believe my ears.
Oh, yes, I quite agree. From the perspective of a San Franciscan, looting would be just too haphazard a way to get just the right accessories to perfect one's interior design.... ;-)
five finger discount Ikea makes for bad Feng Shui.
Fortunately there are still many places here in the US where it's a bad idea to loot.
Heartbreaking....
Great photoshop! Too funny!
the total number estimited by me is at least 60 thousand.
i am a chinese.let me tell you all why this is the truth:
the death toll in BEICHUAN county(70 miles from the epicentre WENCHUAN county) is reaching 8500 now.and it is just one of the nine counties around the epicentre WENCHUAN county which i estimated at least 20 thousand. so ...
pity!
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