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Bush 'Plans Iran Air Strike by August'
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:03:25 -0400, "Jeffrey Hamilton"
wrote: "PaPaPeng" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:29:51 -0400, "Jeffrey Hamilton" wrote: Say what you like sport, I'm repeating what was broadcast on CNN. cheers....Jeff snippage of rant about news coverage Listen fool, spout what you like, pictures tell a thousand words. They were holding up a piece of concrete, supposedly reinforced. What the builder had used for reinforcement was a joke. Instead of rebar, it looked like he had used that very light steel-mesh material (approx. 6"x6" square) that we use to support a concrete slab in a garage floor that is laid over 6" of compacted gravel. Instead of using rebar, which you or I wouldn't be able to bend with our bare hands, he used material a four year old could twist out of shape. Don't tell me what I saw fool, I'll tell you. cheers....Jeff Look you twerp. When a US army squad in Iraq murders a family there is all this outrage and moves to put them on trial and establish the rules of combat, better training, better supervision and all those highfalutin declarations of how things will be better in future. When the Army found out that murdering innocent Iraqi families is pretty common (more than a million killings in 7 1/2 years and still going strong) everyone shut up pretty fast and imposed laughbly insignificant sentences on less than a handful of perpetrators stupid enough to get caught. Ergo when a single building disintegrates in a humongous earthquake you can point fingers and sacrifice a few goats to satisfy public outrage. When more than 300 schools disintegrated the same way you are going to prosecute anyone and everyone who had a hand in building those schools? You are certainly very naive in the ways things work. I'll tell you one remarkable example how the Chinese system works. When DXP came back to power the Cultural Revolution was still alive until they arrested the Gang of Four. With the devastation that the CR and the GLF (Great Leap Forward) and other Mao inspired disasters there was a tremendous amount of damage to be made good. So DXP decreed that there were far too many injustices and far too many interconnected crimes ever to sort out. Getting China back on track was of paramount importance. So there was to be no recriminationsw, no boards of inquiries, no investigations into what had gone on before. He (DXP) himself was treated very badly. His eldest son (a physics undergrad then)was thrown from or had leapt from an upper storey and crippled. The son was denied medical attention and is now a quadripelgic. If DXP did not seek revenge no one else could and the bad blood that would have flowed and poisoned everything never did. So it will be with this earthquake. The first order of things is to get back the countryside in order and the people housed and gainfully employed. Before the end of the year is out the debris will have been cleared and reconstruction begun. Premier Wen has declared that within three years all the roads, bridges and infrastructures will be repaired. They will be finished ahead of schedule. In that three years will arise new cities, towns and residential areas as if they seemed to have sprouted from the ground overnight. You would have never known that there was an earthquake just three years before. In that time or after, if key people have been found to be willfully negilgent or corrupt, the guilt can then be established. There are no on-a-technicality escape routes in the Chinese courts system. But meantime screw your CNN attempts to paint a fumbling and dysfuntional picture of Chinese people. |
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