Yeah. Catholic School was a bit of a mess for me but I remember protesting something or other and having a teacher scream at us, “THIS IS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL. YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS HERE.” So. Good luck,* kids.

Quotas must be met!

I think he may be more referring to the tone of converstaion changing. There’s nothing wrong with taking a different diplomatic approach in international politics. China’s diplomatic corps has a reputation for being deliberately obtuse and hyperbolic(similar to your immediate jump to nuclear war) in order to shut down…

I think you may be discounting the future administrations long term US strategy towards China. Reince Preibus met with the Taiwanese President last year, and I think you may find that the US will be a little more “hardline” with China in other capacities.

Not only that, but the real risk, I think, isn’t that we’re…

Uh, Crash was better than Brokeback Mountain. Not that anyone should give a shit about the Oscars (you shouldn’t), but...yeah

Every time I here about that movie I wonder if it’s this one or the James Spader car accident porn one. It’s never the James Spader.

Paul Haggis is a former Scientologist and Michael Pena is a current Scientologist...and yet....

Once I really pissed off this Québécois. We were in Japan at a share house and he was going around asking people if they had ever had “real maple syrup” and giving them tastes of stuff from Quebec. He asked me, and I replied “yeah! Like from Maine!” because I grew up in New England and that is where we get the good…

Great stuff!

Oh for fuck’s sake.

You are all hypocrites. All of you. Fuck off.

Taiwan is a liberal democratic country (COUNTRY, fuckers) with a democratically elected president (not leader - president, and that’s Doctor President to you). She is a PhD holder who is the first female president of Taiwan and the first democratically…

Like you said though, China gets upset every time U.S. displays any sort of government/military “affection” towards Taiwan.

FA died when Rogoway left

As an American born to Taiwanese parents, I find this article to be off base on a number of points.

I also miss Tyler Rogoway.

No he wasn’t. St Nicholas came from what is modern-day Turkey. Moors came from North Africa. Not the same thing at all.

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I really LOVE the not-politically correct Donald! ...Taiwan is a good ally of the western nations, and a sizable economic power. Pretending it doesn’t exist, is just idiotic and the great People’s Republic of China will have to deal with it, just supposed they still want to go on manufacturing our iPhones and such!

“We are literally arming China’s enemy”

Current reports are dad is a registered sex offender so you may be more right than you and Harry Chapin realize.

You are, of course quite possibly right. Possibly. It’s also possible that the Chinese would not be threatening most of South East Asia right now if every spineless politician on the planet didn’t act like the wrath of God himself (which neither they nor the Chinese believe in) would follow an offense to the regime.…