Many things are now very clean here at NEF Headquarters, particularly the command van and outside decks. The Plan of the Day includes squeaky cleaning the truck transport section, along with a portion of the base maintenance/administration building prior to exterior painting.
This makes your Commandante feel good, but PsyOps cautions him that the novelty of the new power washer will, in due course, wear off.
Jul 30, 2010
Gung Hay Fat Choy
And that pretty much exhausts my fund of Chinese language skills. Oh, I know a few Cantonese words that are supposed to request a package of cigarettes, but they were taught to me by an impish Russian/Chinese girl in Hong Kong who was not above a little joke. For all I know she was having me tell the shopkeeper that I desired a bowl of bat feet garnished with navel lint.
These quirky memories were triggered by the morning news report that China has become the world's No.2 economy -- our chief competitor. For the sake of my grandsons' future, I hope we are keeping track of the dragon with an appetite for lebensraum. I hope we are carefully watching the the strange machinations of the Communist capitalists in the Forbidden City and the Capitalist communists down around Shanghai.
But I wonder. Do what ever you want with these fun facts:
China's GDP now exceeds every nation but our own. Spain and Latin American aren't even in the running. Spanish is, by millions of students, the most studied foreign language in the United States.
And then there's France, and when's the last time you heard of a French accomplishment except the annual public relations explosion celebrating their successful sale of another year's worth of pre-nubile Beaujolais to American naifs? French is the second most studied language here.
Students of Chinese don't make a blip on the charts.
Mon Dieu! I thought this was the kind of disconnect between the real world and the publik skul classroom we'd never have to worry about once we got a cabinet-level Department of Education.
These quirky memories were triggered by the morning news report that China has become the world's No.2 economy -- our chief competitor. For the sake of my grandsons' future, I hope we are keeping track of the dragon with an appetite for lebensraum. I hope we are carefully watching the the strange machinations of the Communist capitalists in the Forbidden City and the Capitalist communists down around Shanghai.
But I wonder. Do what ever you want with these fun facts:
China's GDP now exceeds every nation but our own. Spain and Latin American aren't even in the running. Spanish is, by millions of students, the most studied foreign language in the United States.
And then there's France, and when's the last time you heard of a French accomplishment except the annual public relations explosion celebrating their successful sale of another year's worth of pre-nubile Beaujolais to American naifs? French is the second most studied language here.
Students of Chinese don't make a blip on the charts.
Mon Dieu! I thought this was the kind of disconnect between the real world and the publik skul classroom we'd never have to worry about once we got a cabinet-level Department of Education.
Jul 29, 2010
You can show Gotham your rear cleavage if you want. A judge in New York has thrown out a case against a guy wearing baggie low slungs. Good. It's decision on the side of liberty.
Now, pull up your pants. You look like an idiot.
Now, pull up your pants. You look like an idiot.
Score
Tam nails one center mass when a copeaucrat says every gun in someone's hand is a potential homicide. She invites one and all to play the game. Okay:
Every net connection in someone's hand is a case of potential sedition.
I'll drink to that.
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Every net connection in someone's hand is a case of potential sedition.
I'll drink to that.
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