p*******e
发帖数: 986 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Jan2010_baby 俱乐部 】
发信人: powerwave (YY, My heart!), 信区: Jan2010_baby
标 题: Psychological Immunity (ZZ)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 7 16:23:21 2011, 美东)
This is a great article to read:
Consider a toddler who’s running in the park and trips on a rock, Bohn says
. Some parents swoop in immediately, pick up the toddler, and comfort her in
that moment of shock, before she even starts crying. But, Bohn explains,
this actually prevents her from feeling secure—not just on the playground,
but in l... 阅读全帖 |
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m*********7
发帖数: 5207 | 2 By the time a man realizes that his dad might be right, he usually has a son
who thinks he is wrong. That's the irony of fatherhood. |
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y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 3 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 4 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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L********r
发帖数: 758 | 5 下面的文章要读一读。
文章摘要如下：鸡头>凤尾原则是被广泛观察到的现象所支持的。同一入学新生，相比
于去与自己水平相当的大学，选择去比自己水平高很多的藤校是很不明智的。所以AA造
成对黑青年“毁人>诲人”。
如斯成立，则亚裔家长推自个的娃也须小心。如家长推了10年娃也没学会自推，那靠补
习班、凑活动经验上了藤校也是去给牛娃当分母做尾巴去了，也许不如去一州校帮助大
。学费省下来还可以投资给娃当个天使基金啥的。
发信人: yariguy (yari guy), 信区: Parenting
标 题: Re: Support Asian American students!!!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 21 10:52:51 2013, 美东)
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its... 阅读全帖 |
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z*****a
发帖数: 3809 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 Investment 讨论区 】
发信人: rtyu (ccaarr), 信区: Investment
标 题: Obama提案对529 plan征税
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jan 23 11:43:54 2015, 美东)
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By JOSH MITCHELL
Updated Jan. 22, 2015 4:04 p.m. ET
240 COMMENTS
President Barack Obama ’s push to sta... 阅读全帖 |
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d****g
发帖数: 7460 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: khabarovsk (伯力), 信区: Military
标 题: 100個單詞測出你的英文水平
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 6 13:11:42 2017, 美东)
http://news. .net/immigration/2017/04/06/big5/1808258.html
100個單詞測出你的英文水平 快來測一測
www.creaders.net | 2017-04-06 09:33:06
這里是美國 | 0條評論 | 查看/發表評論
美國Heritage精心編輯了100個單詞。
他們認為這100個詞 能評測出美國高中畢業生的語言水平。
"我們選擇的單詞，如果你知道如何正確哂茫屈N你將在語言方面沒有問題。"
——《Heritage》主編Steven Kleinedler
那麼，你也來測一測吧!看這100個單詞，你認識幾個 ?
檢驗美國高中生英文水平的100個單詞:
abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
beli... 阅读全帖 |
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o**y
发帖数: 3065 | 8
Thank you for your comments. It's always delighted to learn new things from
debates.
看了一篇题为 “Why some people still wanna stay in US so much?”的英文文章后
,于是决定利用这个长周末前的星期五写一篇中文的反驳文增加一点生活的乐趣. 请注
意本文的主旨不在于对是否应该海归发表意见,本文旨在反击美国衰落说.
美国衰落论者的一个最强的观点就是美国深陷巨额的债务中,将无法维持,而且许多人视
美国将步PIGS的后尘陷入债务危机中. 这是许多人错误地理解了现代货币原理导致的认
识误区.巴菲特简洁明了地说过: “只要我们发行的债券是以我们自己的货币(来计价的
),美国就不会有任何种类的债务危机.”伯南克也在国会表达了类似的观点.但是为什么
财经界和政界还是有许许多多的人在炒作这个话题呢.一个当然是为了引人注目,比如说
前段时间美女Meredith Whitney宣称市政债券危机一样;还有一个原因是一些政客为了
借此施压政府消减开支.前一种炒作已经一遍遍地被证明是... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: Facebook, In-Q-Tel and CIA
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 26 11:04:09 2011, 美东)
Facebook, the CIA, and You.
+ expand info // view thread // 5 responses // print article
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Date Created: July 06, 2007
Last Modified: June 30, 2008
Category: The Abyss
Article Highlights
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I Facebooked Your MomAfter over a decade of being immersed in the conspirac... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******1
发帖数: 188 | 10 Is this New York? Yeah.. then I don't wanna go there. All I see in this
video is ching-chongs.
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Anthony Mayberry
1小时前
Don't go to California either then, punk.
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Simon Cho
38分钟前
+okrazeedits One point I want to make, I won't trash talk you, just give me
10 seconds of your brain.
iPhone is made (designed) in the U.S and if you use them yourself -- you
came to the wrong place to trash talk
iPhone is mostly manufactured by the people who you refer to as, "ching-... 阅读全帖 |
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r*****l
发帖数: 2859 | 11 Not as simple as "看"。Google analyzes your email.
Google profiles you. I don't want Google know that
I frequently shop at Amazon; etc.
Those materials are very powerful when used by FBI,
etc.
The so called "don't be evil" company. Such an irony. |
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B*S
发帖数: 1328 | 12
do
Historically, things usually turn out to be against whatever people wished
in the first place... what an irony... |
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l******s
发帖数: 1276 | 13 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: db2 (postgres), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Fox Joins NBC, ABC, and CBS in Google TV Denial (ZZ)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Nov 11 11:30:32 2010, 美东)
http://www.dailytech.com/Fox+Joins+NBC+ABC+and+CBS+in+Google+TV+Denial/article20131.htm
Jason Mick (Blog) - November 11, 2010 8:44 AM
TV giants are apparently content to turn away business, fearful of lower ad
revenue
The big four of the broadcast television world -- ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox --
have now united in their oppositio... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s
发帖数: 2136 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: Military
标 题: ------ 疫苗产业与洛克菲乐集团 -------
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Nov 27 20:31:19 2010, 美东)
Jeffry John Aufderheide
vactruth.com
05/25/2010
http://vactruth.com/2010/05/25/vaccines-rockefeller-social-control/
PART I.
History books proclaim with absolute certainty that the pinnacle of public
health is defined by the polio vaccine program. Disease finally conquered by
science. The polio effort was a benchmark for the public to mentally accept... 阅读全帖 |
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c*********o
发帖数: 8367 | 15 美国人哀叹：为何中国比我们还更会搞资本主义？
Local Access打往中国电话卡1.3￠/分种
文章来源: 浪宽 于 2011-01-20 12:49:40 给 浪宽 发送悄悄话
敬请注意:新闻取自各大新闻媒体，新闻内容并不代表本网立场！
美国人哀叹：为何中国比我们还更会搞资本主义？
时代不同了。13年前，江总访美的时候，小克也像今天小奥这样热情接待过老江，可那
时候，美国人是居高临下，把中国当小学生看待，时不时会指点指点、训导训导。而眼
下胡总访美，却让很多美国人心里酸酸的，也说不出是高兴还是难受，反正不太自在吧
。按理说，胡总来一趟，就签了四五百亿的商业合同，美国人应当高兴才对。可当他们
把美国和中国的现况一比，比出差距了，比得不那么自信了，甚至不只是不自信，而是
有点不知所措，有些失落感了。这不，我下面要向大家介绍的这篇文章，作者干脆认输
了。连搞资本主义也干不过中国，那美国人还有什么值得骄傲的呢？
（声明，为了方便，这里采用意译加趣译）
Why China Does Capitalism Better than the U.S.
By... 阅读全帖 |
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c******e
发帖数: 1581 | 16 "我，和其他坚持上完课的学生，六四之后，曾被其他学生私下里围攻，辱骂。但是我们
都顺利拿到了学位。
我第二年有幸到了美国，赶上了六四绿卡。"
I cannot tell if this is an insult towards you or irony for others. |
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N********n
发帖数: 8363 | 17 Brought to you by former Havard president Larry Summers:
"The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too
much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it
can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and
more spending."
Translate: If you sit on an underwater mortgage that you cannot afford
and yet still wanna get a second mortgage on top of it then you are a
hero trying to save this eCONomy with more borrowing and spendin... 阅读全帖 |
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B****o
发帖数: 1393 | 18 I think the following should be enough...
While the leveraged ETF can fill a need in the day trader’s arsenal or be
utilized for a once in a blue moon trend trade, they are certainly not
suitable investments for an investor with a time horizon any longer than a
week. Due to the decay in share price value that occurs as a result of
daily volatility, both the long and short side of these daily rebalancing
acts decay over time, approaching zero regardless of what happens to the
underlying sector.
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e*o
发帖数: 2134 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: btphy (btphy), 信区: Military
标 题: 高院放水明显是共和党内部研判形势后采取的策略
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jun 28 12:50:34 2012, 美东)
看这一段报道：
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., an appointee of former President George W.
Bush who often has sided with the conservatives on the court in close cases,
sided with the more liberal wing this time and proved to be the decisive
vote.
There is some irony in the turn of events. As a US senator in 2005, Obama
voted against Roberts’s confirmation. Now Roberts has ... 阅读全帖 |
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H**********1
发帖数: 3056 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 Belief 讨论区 】
发信人: Hardworking1 (我忽悠，你参考！), 信区: Belief
标 题: Good article: God is nonsense
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 15 23:06:22 2013, 美东)
When my son was around 3 years old, he used to ask me a lot of questions
about heaven. Where is it? How do people walk without a body? How will I
find you? You know the questions that kids ask.
For over a year, I lied to him and made up stories that I didn’t
believe about heaven. Like most parents, I love my child so much that I didn
’t want him t... 阅读全帖 |
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a***n
发帖数: 287 | 22 (From TechCrunch.com) Nokia Earnings Preview: The Lumia Question
Nokia sold 8.8 million Lumia devices in the third quarter of 2013. Given
extant growth trends, we would expect Nokia to sell more phones in the
fourth quarter. Add the simple fact that the period includes the holiday
sales cycle, and we expect another bump. This means that Nokia should sell
— easily — more than 10 million Lumia handsets in the quarter.
The stakes here are high for Nokia, given that it’s hard to win in this
context,... 阅读全帖 |
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q*x
发帖数: 683 | 23 are you kidding me???
in my point of view, he is the TRUELY NO. 1 on this board, in term of BOTH
stock trading and irony writing! |
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q*x
发帖数: 683 | 24 You are writing irony? This made my day, LOL. |
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v******r
发帖数: 1630 | 25 It's a tragic irony of life that some of the funniest people on this planet
are also some of the saddest.. |
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c********r
发帖数: 562 | 26 From Keith Fitz-Gerald who recommended the stock:
How to Handle a Short Attack on a Stock You Own
Keith Fitz-Gerald Jun 03, 2015
An anonymous individual writing under the name “The Pump Stopper” launched
a vicious attack on Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (OTC:EKSO) yesterday that
immediately pressured the stock and caused it to drop 24.28% to close at $1.
36 a share on heavy volume. Understandably, that makes a lot of people
nervous.
Here’s the thing, though.
If you’ve been in this game long enough,... 阅读全帖 |
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p********t
发帖数: 9 | 27 The fundamental being of Economy is as crappy as it can get at this time
point in stupid human history
But the irony part is that you will see another all time high of equity in
2019. Mark this word. |
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c****e
发帖数: 2127 | 29 USCIS, the agency processing immigration, visa, and other applications, is
funded by users — i.e. immigrants — not US taxpayers. The agency
essentially can’t be defunded. Yes, DACA+/DAPA are temporarily on hold,
due to Judge Hanen’s ruling last week. But even if the programs were up
and running today, defunding DHS wouldn’t be a way to stop USCIS from
accepting and processing applications. It would be the height of irony if
the GOP, in an attempt to stop executive action, furloughs or withho... 阅读全帖 |
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c*********e
发帖数: 323 | 31 Good approach, building the qualification as you go, improving your
background as you learn. Only one did not gain much from the process was the
employer - unique observation, what an irony for the immigration policy. |
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w******n
发帖数: 13202 | 33 仔细看了下过程，我认为不需要担心，理由是，H1B是sponsor下的身份，你太太的公司
没有withdraw，而USCIS发了你太太H1B申请的RFE，那么这个H1B的申请就不存在作废的
事实。
所以，法律上而言，就是合理的pending状态。只要把所有细节写清楚，就完全没事了。
USCIS给H1B发RFE恰恰是落实了H1B的pending状态，成了你这个485下RFE的答复的最好
证据。
的确是比较irony。 |
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P*******1
发帖数: 704 | 34 The irony in this is that by getting into bed with Grassley, and supporting
his amendment to subject some H1B employers to mandatory audits, many people
who would otherwise get greencards are now going to find that their I-140s
will be revoked. We are already seeing instances of people who have had
their H1B petitions returned to the USCIS for revocation also seeing their I
-140s returned. If the DOL gets involved in more audits, particularly where
there is no judicial review to hold them accoun... 阅读全帖 |
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n***m
发帖数: 1627 | 35 Only for children who came to USA illegally, right? If a child came here
legally, he/she is left out in cold. What a f@#$ing irony! |
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a*****a
发帖数: 1385 | 36 亚裔细分对华裔完全没好处的吧...
你这个irony太明显，不够subtle |
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i0
发帖数: 792 | 37 全文:
Steps toward spontaneity: Singapore tries to mandate heart and soul
By Alex Tizon
Seattle Times staff writer
Rigid as a whipping cane, a place where the government micromanages
practically every aspect of society, prosperous Singapore is trying to
loosen up and generate interest in things besides material wealth. It
remains to be seen whether a nation where it is illegal to chew gum or
spit can slow down to smell the roses — or even learn to kiss well.
SINGAPORE — When last America took seri... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 反枪组织一成员,gay佬,因非法使用枪支入狱
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 14 15:06:50 2014, 美东)
Irony: Former Member of Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Sentenced to Jail for
Illegal Use of Firearm
by Jammie
He’s only a former member because they kicked him out when he was arrested
in 2013.
Despite impassioned pleas from family and friends of former Marcus Hook
Mayor James Schiliro, a Delaware County Court judge on Monday sent him to
jail.
Schiliro was sentenc... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 塑料袋: 亚利桑那和墨西哥加州共和国做的正相反
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 30 14:09:50 2015, 美东)
Arizona lawmakers tell cities they can't ban plastic bags
April 30, 2015 - 1:05 PM
By RYAN VAN VELZER, Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Vexed by the litter caught in cactus and shrubs, one Arizona
city banned plastic bags on Earth Day last year. Two others considered
similar bans as part of a growing trend around the country to outlaw the
single-use of plastic bags at... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****r
发帖数: 7130 | 40 Steinberg reminisced about the day Caroline Kennedy visited Fenway as a
guest of the ball club.
"When 'Sweet Caroline' came on, I asked her, 'is this song about you? She
looked at me bewildered and said 'no, I don't think so.'"
In 2007, Diamond revealed that the inspiration for the song had in fact come
from President John F. Kennedy's then nine-year-old daughter, Caroline,
after he saw a magazine photograph of her standing next to her pony.
"The irony was that Boston chose to sing along to a so... 阅读全帖 |
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G****e
发帖数: 11198 | 42 frakker DECEMBER 09, 2014 — 10:15 PM
The irony is that he teaches Negotiation. Lesson #1 of negotiation is that
you have to balance three things: first the thing you are negotiating ($4),
second the time it takes to negotiate (11 emails), and third the
relationship. He lost on all three points. |
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p*******s
发帖数: 157 | 43 January 09, 2016
To the man I sat next to on my way in to Boston:
When I boarded the commuter rail, you were already in the midst of a
spirited phone conversation and didn’t seem to care about how loud you were
talking. You were talking with someone about the Paris train attack and the
growing epidemic of gun violence in America.
You spoke about the “murderous NRA” and “bloodthirsty gun nuts” who were
causing our schools to “run red with blood.” You spoke profanely of the
Republicans who opposed... 阅读全帖 |
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b*x
发帖数: 5456 | 44 Illinois Pension Blowup
State judges tell taxpayers to pay for political-union failure.
Public servants join Illinois AFL-CIO members during a pension rally at the
State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., in 2011. ENLARGE
Public servants join Illinois AFL-CIO members during a pension rally at the
State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., in 2011. PHOTO: SETH PERLMAN/ASSOCIATED
PRESS
May 8, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET
588 COMMENTS
The Constitution is not a suicide pact—except maybe in Illinois. On Friday
the Illinois... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******h
发帖数: 7021 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: horsefly (马匪), 信区: USANews
标 题: Trump在WSJ写的文章不错
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Apr 15 07:34:16 2016, 美东)
坚定不移的反对现有的system。恰到好处的揭露Lyin` Ted的虚伪。把这次CO的选举作
弊狠狠敲打一下。
http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-me-ask-america-a-question-14606
On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates
were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado
were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.
A planned vote had been canceled... 阅读全帖 |
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p**********u
发帖数: 15479 | 46 Hello! Thank you, thank you all so much. It is great to be back in San
Francisco, a place that has a big big spot in my heart and to be able to
speak with all of you this afternoon.
Please be seated and you can jump up and down its been a wonderful but long
day I hear.
I want to thank Anne not just for her kind introduction but for exemplifying
the kind of creative entrepreneurial leadership that she has demonstrated
and that so many of you are also part of. I want to thank Alexandr Roddy for
he... 阅读全帖 |
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m****s
发帖数: 7397 | 47 The irony is
This place is park and ride
99.9 (Herman cane style) pct of people have cars there.
That's why cabs never go there.
Lucky to have buddies like you. 地头蛇 |
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m****s
发帖数: 8992 | 48 hahaha 1800cars4pigs
the IRONY is, I was on my way to the ZY Temple to meet AXiang..etc..
this temple definitely is not good for me. |
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s****z
发帖数: 1501 | 49 帮你贴
I was talking to somebody today about the Jimmy Kimmel incident. My friend
had not heard about it. That's part of the problem.
It isn't often that genocide is proposed in contemporary culture. That's
what has happened.
Jimmy Kimmel, late night television host, recently put on a little comedy
sketch in which a kid suggests that we would be better off economically if
we "Kill everyone in China."
Kimmel replies, "That's an interesting idea."
The network, ABC, has since apologized.
Another attac... 阅读全帖 |
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d******g
发帖数: 346 | 50 It is irony that US, the land of freedom, have a much higher prison
population ratio than China, a country that is constantly criticized as
having no freedom.
So, please tell me what freedom really is. |
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