LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)

12/26/05 | C.L. Gartman

[the_red_anedote]

China will never go down, and don't think you can banish communism. Because the people won't let it. They know they are the last standing, they are the only ones left. America is in a decline while China's climaxing, America will go down. We are just done with our prime, if anything, we were going into a depression since 1992 (and don't say you don't know that year). Communism is the American's medias' worst nightmare, because of censorship. I hope we all have to read one newspaper and wipe my butt with one brand of tiolet paper. I hope we all die for our next generations to wear the red armband. We deserved 9/11, and they enjoyed it. You probably hate me now, I know, you just still think like its 1945, well too bad its 2005. We only stand to fall.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, it was about the farmer who shot the "tinker" on his property, wasn't it? You have to admit that "mayo farmer" was a bit provocative :-).

[NicknamedBob]

Did your kids read "Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm?"

I think they made a TV movie about it.

[Tax-chick]

No, it doesn't sound familiar. I'll check the library.

[NicknamedBob]

I'm heading off to work. We'll chat later.

Much later.

[Dead Corpse]

700 posts over night?

Did I miss anything?

[Tax-chick]

Probably, but so did I.

[Dead Corpse]

Yeesh... I hate it when they do that.

How are you doing today?

[Tax-chick]

I'm okay. It's a little harder to get through each day! Baby is due in about 3 weeks, and I'm trying to get the children through as much schoolwork as possible.

How are you?

[HKMk23]

Not in here.

"Out there" you may or may not have missed "the miracle that wasn't" at that mine in WV. Boy, what a terrible fiasco. UNOFFICIAL info got leaked to the waiting families and, before you know it, some of them are tumbling out the church doors to tell a starving press the great news that wasn't. Except that the press didn't verify where the families got the info. There were NO official communications from the company Command Center to corroborate the "12 alive" story, but it was so miraculous they went with it anyway.

For THREE HOURS.

THEN? TRUTH. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory came the awful truth. The miracle was, it turns out, for just one man. For him, at least, it's still a miracle. For eleven other families, however...

Well, how do you capture in words the magnitude of a letdown like that? It's got to be something like a 12 on the emotional Richter scale.

I was riveted. I followed the story all night long. I was, by turns, elated, joyous, relieved, surprised, shocked, dismayed, horrified and grieved. Now, I am tired, I have a whole day's work to do, and God's ear has a prolonged appointment with my mouth (I promise I won't get out of line, just some "Is it soup, yet?!" kind of stuff).

With that, I leave the balance of today's episode to you and our other regulars.

[tuliptree76]

I wasn't able to stay awake very long last night.

[tuliptree76]

700 posts over night?

I missed over 500 of those.

[Dead Corpse]

Doing good. I was kinda nice over the Christmas/New Years break at the gym. I pretty much had the run of the place. Now, it's chock full of "New Years Resolution" types and some of the "regulars" who sloughed off over the holidays and are now feeling the guilt.

[Dead Corpse]

200 better than me... ;-)

[Tax-chick]

I sympathize!

[Army Air Corps]

No problem.

How are you feeling?

I am getting ready to putter around town and will return later.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Man, this thread is flying fast!

[Dead Corpse]

Yah think? ;-)

[concretebob]

The best trick the devil ever pulled, was making people believe he didn't exist.
That is Kaiser Souze'

[Dead Corpse]

[Dead Corpse]