Ok, I’m confused. I know that China virtually owns this country by holding billions of our debt. However, I fail to understand the criticism of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for calling Chinese President Hu Jintao a “dictator.” Hu is the head of a government that arrests dissidents, censures news, restricts the exercise of religion, blocks access to information, and does not allow opposing political parties or viewpoints. What was Reid supposed to call him, a voice of freedom?
Reid attracted criticism when he said on a local radio show that “I am going to go back to Washington tomorrow and meet with the president of China. He is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have.”
He later said “[m]aybe I shouldn’t have said dictator, but they have a different type of government than we have and that’s an understatement.”
Just for the record, he had it right the first time. Merriam-Webster defines dictator as “(1) . . . one holding complete autocratic control . . . one ruling absolutely and often oppressively . . . (2) one that dictates.”
Sounds like Hu to me. Civil libertarians should applaud Reid for speaking plainly about the truth of the Chinese government and its treatment of dissidents.
Jonathan Turley
Paid per click advertising is only half the Google story.
The other half is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
With the entire web (and world for that matter) going SOCIAL the best way to get your business
on the map is to get social and there is no better way to go social than with a Custom Facebook Fan page!
See our gallery of pages and learn more at http://unbouncepages.com/fanspin
Don’t take my word for it Google any local business and your likely to see their Facebook page directly at the top of the search
HOW DO YOU TURN YOUR FACEBOOK into an indestructible lead generating machine?
The answer is a Custom Facebook Page that welcomes consumers and engages them turning likes into actual customers!
See our gallery of pages and learn more at http://unbouncepages.com/fanspin
Thanks all for the tutorials on the smiley faces but I’ll settle for the one I get on my face from you”blawgers”.
Just in case reid forgot which country hes from
When I read anything today about China I think back 40 years or so when I knew many Maoists. They were almost to a man(women) total uptight asses. I wonder how those around today think about the Chinese Revolution, the still extant Communist party there and the total exploitation of its workers?
Thanks for the update/link, Swarthmore mom.
“Mohamed says the FBI tried to question him without his lawyer present. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said lawyers are not routinely granted access to clients, and described Mohamed as uncooperative.” (from the link)
In this particular case, one has to wonder why he wouldn’t be permitted to have his lawyer present during questioning. After what he apparently endured, it’s no wonder that he wasn’t eager to “cooperate.”
http://www.ksro.com/news/article.aspx?id=2911934 Kuwait torture victim is back in US and united with his family. He was the subject of many Glenn Greenwald articles.
eniobob
the daily show link at 1:52 on the video the middle school principal tells Aasif Mandvi “hu got to me”.
Blouise,
Thanks for the wordpress seminar. I need all the help that I can get! š
eniobob,
WordPress doesn’t recognize all smilies as you can see above just the ones listed on the link I gave you … I think it was AY that told me about it a long time ago.
Buckeye … thanks for the link
:'(
eniobob,
as Buckeye said, gotta put an empty space between last typed word/punctuation mark etc. and the smiley
I like you:)with no space on either side won’t work but I like you (space) š will. Buckeye gave you one link … I’ll give you another
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies