Why is our government, our PRESIDENT, remaining silent on this? A free peoples' freedom is about to be stolen from them, and not a single word from our President. Our local Fox TV affiliate is already toeing the communist party line, repeatedly referring to the "violent protesters!" news stories about Hong Kong. Oh yes, those uppity HKers will get what's coming to them, right Fox News?
Guy in the yellow hardhat at the end of the Alex Hofford tweet tossing the empty canister back has played some baseball. He pegged that thing as though he were an outfielder nailing a runner trying to score the game-winning run from second base on a single.
Protesters In Hong Kong Are Sorry For The Inconvenience
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Holy Rincewind on a pogo stick.In his novel "Interesting Times", Pratchett wrote a few pages worth of jokes about how the very polite people from the Discworld-fantasy-counterpart of Chinese/Japanese would behave during protests - by precisely being over-polite, to the point of blunting their action.Well, the jokes are not that funny anymore.There is a display of social awareness and care...The Hong-Kong bystanders covering the foreign guy? I totally believe it.
I will even say that we strike-prone French could learn one thing or two about protesting from Hong-Kong people.I also think that Pratchett would have been very proud of these young protesters.
Someone should have bought cat food stocks low. Errrrybody *I* know will be eating a lot of that after they retire!
I love listening to he and Ben Rhodes talk
So I die impoverished - that was probably the plan all along.
He is fascinating. He runs / ran a non profit that worked with refugees.
Good lord, the rioting has turned them Canadian!
Yeah. That was this June.
Hey, HIS expenses haven't gone up, and that's what matters!
Reminds me of this editorial cartoon by my old newspaper buddy John Ambrosavage. I had it on my fridge for years. I still say pardon my protest.
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I saw that too. I suspect the answer is a first responder posting it from his smartphone.
Me neither. I would get run over or trampled, but Worthy Cause is just that: worthy of sacrifice (if done right).
Why is our government, our PRESIDENT, remaining silent on this? A free peoples' freedom is about to be stolen from them, and not a single word from our President. Our local Fox TV affiliate is already toeing the communist party line, repeatedly referring to the "violent protesters!" news stories about Hong Kong. Oh yes, those uppity HKers will get what's coming to them, right Fox News?
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Guy in the yellow hardhat at the end of the Alex Hofford tweet tossing the empty canister back has played some baseball. He pegged that thing as though he were an outfielder nailing a runner trying to score the game-winning run from second base on a single.
Protesters In Hong Kong Are Sorry For The Inconvenience
**read article**
Holy Rincewind on a pogo stick.In his novel "Interesting Times", Pratchett wrote a few pages worth of jokes about how the very polite people from the Discworld-fantasy-counterpart of Chinese/Japanese would behave during protests - by precisely being over-polite, to the point of blunting their action.Well, the jokes are not that funny anymore.There is a display of social awareness and care...The Hong-Kong bystanders covering the foreign guy? I totally believe it.
I will even say that we strike-prone French could learn one thing or two about protesting from Hong-Kong people.I also think that Pratchett would have been very proud of these young protesters.
Market down 650 points, a rout. If you don't own stocks, today is a day to feel very superior.