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Quote from: 136 or 142 on April 04, 2015, 01:05:35 AM
6.Other than the Uyghurs in the North and the Buddhists in Tibet I'm not familiar with any major religious/ethnic problems in China, and neither of those are in major economic areas.  Wouldn't be the first time I was just uninformed though.

7.I'm not familiar with any problems with travel in China as rural areas have been depopulating for a long time.  They are likely trying to industrialize new areas because the populations in the major areas are already so large.

8.Sexual disparity gets back to the problem of keeping the one child policy too long.

Paper*Boy's point on the lack of resources gets to why China is so active in Africa.

China is a fascinating country with the longest history in the world.  They probably had about 7 opportunities to take control of practically the entire planet.  I took a couple courses on modern and then ancient Chinese History with the same instructor, who was a China Scholar and a former Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.  His most frequently used phrase was "China did it first."

Famous scholar Joseph Needham started to write a short book on Chinese inventions and he ended up taking years writing a multi volume encyclopedia.

China should probably be around eight different countries.  Unlike in California, there are no legal attempts to split up the country. I wonder if Lucien Bouchard is behind what's going on in California.

Writing this at midnight and Rush is playing on the bumper music.  As a Canadian, I apologize profusely for Rush.

Thanks.  Notice that he mentioned that they had no social safety net?  That could be as disaster waiting to happen. 

If this guy does become a regular on Coast, they could do a lot worse, don't get me wrong.  At least he's not one of those with the bitter, defensive, near-paranoid attitude.

Remember the dust-up during the Olympics when the Chinese had a cute little girl lip-synch and a homelier one singing backtsage? To me, it kind of symbolizes their utilitarian approach to things--the individual just isn't as important. I don't want this country to become like that.

Quote from: Georgie For President 2216 on April 04, 2015, 01:42:48 AM
I never heard anything special about Rush until maybe three or four years ago (of course I knew their music, but it never stood out for me).  Now all of a sudden it's supposed to be what every Canadian plays all the time.  Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention all those decades.

That's too bad.  Nothing wrong with Rush, but you guys have such a rich vein of popular music. Any news on Joni Mitchell, BTW?

Quote from: Zetaspeak on April 04, 2015, 07:35:52 AM
I just had this real strange conversation with my brother. Who is a smart guy but thought the three-headed person interview was real. I was completely stunned that a normally smart guy would think it was genuine and demanded him to explain himself.

He did give a good explanation, that Jorch guests are normally so full of BS that the lines of real guest and joke guest has become blurred.

I was afraid that might happen.

Carnival sideshows used to have some "freaks" who were faked.  I remember reading about one guy from India who supposedly was a conjoined twin with a sister.  In real life, conjoined twins are always identicals and identicals are always the same sex(obviously).  They come from one egg. This is one reason the Dionne quints were so fascinating.  They came from one egg that kept splitting.  The odds are overwhelmingly against this.

In the animal world, two-headed babies are sometimes born, but don't live long.  Remember the hubbub about the two-headed kitten a few years ago? The mother cat's name was Butt-butt.  That's what happens when you name your cat something like that. When I was a girl a roadside girl in Western Montana used to have a stuffed two-headed hereford calf(just the heads).  That place(thankfully) went out of business.  Somehow the heads ended up on display in a souvenir shop on the Seattle waterfront.

Quote from: albrecht on April 03, 2015, 08:11:53 PM
Ugh. I know been known for many a time even smearing lard or fat will help in extreme cold. I recall some old Norskie type telling me you shouldnt shower esp not use soap, esp on face n hands in winter. What I wonder is...how the heck did people survive past one generation with those practices? Haha. Now days everybody gotta be groomed,heck even waxes etc to pro-create. Then again, verrry long winter nights.
-GNS

Yes, don't you remember people greasing themselves up to swim the English channel and stuff?

Also its why geese and ducks have so much fat when you cook them, I think.

Thanks.

Actually what got to Chris McCandless, the kid in Into the Wild, was not enough food.  He took a big bag of rice and planned to hunt. His meat preservation techniques didn't work out, and the meat went bad. And then he was getting weaker and weaker. Also the passage into the place he went had a creek or river to cross and he was able to do this when he went in.  But snow melt caused it to swell and he couldn't get back out, especially in his weakened condition. This was a good book and I have to admit that Sean Penn did a good job bringing it to the screen.

OK, Marjorie Wildcraft is good-looking, she's probably close to may age, but she's good-looking.  Probably why George got so imbecilic during the interview.

She isn't on wikipedia, evidently. She is endorsed by Alex Jones and NaturalNews.com.  I would not brag about that, but that's her business, I guess.

So, George will be on Sunday this weekend, because it's the first Sunday. Unfortunately I will be having Easter company and one of them despises radio, but maybe I can sneak in a little Coast after they're gone. I don't dislike the emerging artists as much as most people here do, but Joel Wallach?  Wasn't this character on less than two months ago?

Yes, indeed.  I just checked and Wallach was on recently.  This was the night he was talking  fast and not enunciating clearly and I wondered if he was on something and then began wondering the same thing about George. I think these are clearly attempts to promote Critical Health news.  BTW, did anybody hear a week or so ago when George mentioned being in a pre-dental track in college at one point?  Or did I imagine it?  Anybody read McTeague or see Marathon Man?

Quote from: goldendeal on April 03, 2015, 01:13:32 AM
Guest Marjory Wildcraft, looks as if she could possibly be a nudist.

Is she the type you would want to see practicing her nudism?

So I had some issues with last night's guests, although I liked the first one better than the second one.  I haven't read the other comments yet.

So George has asked this first guest to be his resident China expert.  I suppose he could do worse.  I did, however, detect some glossing -over on the part of the guest.  I realize that I am an old woman stuck in the era when Mao was still alive and that China has changed a lot.  Still, notice how he dealt with the one child policy, for example.  I've heard other apologists do this too--"yeah, it was controversial, but by gum, they had an over-population problem and they dealt with it."  Ends justify the means, in other words. Somebody mentioned a problem with "pollution" without going into specifics. They are really excited about the idea that China can do things and build things "so fast".  Imagine that.  Probably because they don't worry too much about pesky things like building codes, environmental impacts, rights-of-way,etc.  I could be wrong, I suppose. Here in Snohomish county, they've been fussing for a decade about a motocross near Granite Falls.  In China I suppose they'd just do it, and anybody who didn't like it could whistle.  Same with the debate over making Paine Field a real commercial airport.  In China, they'd probably just do it, and people who didn't like the noise, the environmental impact or whatever, tough shit. George chimed in with his his old saw, "We don't MAKE anything any more." Bwah, if that were true. It isn't. The guest was excited about the Chinese building light rail all over the place, but most people I know despise light rail, so they can have it. I noticed that religious freedom was not mentioned.  Are the Chinese still persecuting those Falun Gong people or have they eased up on them?

But you know what really got my attention during this segment?  The guest suggested that Tiannamen Square was an "American military op." Whoa, this is the first time I've ever  heard this about Tiannamen Square, but maybe I've lived a sheltered life.  I suppose it could be true.  The CIA did instigate stuff like that in Latin America, I guess, but that was in an earlier era.  He seems to think that because nobody he met in China wanted to talk about it and Americans are the only ones who talk about it that maybe it was really wasn't real. I could think of some other reasons.

Now, onto the second guest.  I really had some issues with her.  She kept claiming that NONE of the food in the supermarket has any nutritional value and even at one point said it was "toxic".  This bothers me for the same reason that Dr. Jerry Mixon and his senile dementia crusade bothers me. They get people all worried and upset in order to market a good or service, except a lot of them aren't in a position to buy the good or service, so they've just been made to feel bad about something they can't do anything about. She gave me the impression that she thinks that organically grown food has more nutritional value, but I don't think that's true.  There are health and environmental benefits to eating stuff without pesticides and herbicides, the flavor and freshness is greater, it's more likely to be "fair trade" and local if that's a concern and it's a good way to avoid GMO.  BUT, none of those things spell more actual nutritional value.  So I wonder how knowledgable this woman really is. I haven't gone to her websites yet.  I wonder if that's her real name.  Did you hear the caller who said that rabbit meat has no nutritional value?  I wouldn't believe that, either.

Now I'll read the other posts.

Quote from: Nick el Ass on April 03, 2015, 01:23:13 AM
I want to know what the meeting was like when they went over the show, and why whoever that is in charge thought it was a good idea and/or entertaining. That person should then be fired.

I agree.  Deathly unfunny.

Quote from: Bleefy on April 01, 2015, 12:37:54 AM
Should Jorch really be the spokesman for anything related to shaving?

I've said it before--all these shaving ads put me in mind of the Butter shave episode of Seinfeld.

Quote from: Humilia Lepus Foramen on March 31, 2015, 11:54:12 PM
Guest said Sinclair Lewis wrote The Jungle, think he meant Upton Sinclair

Nice catch.  Of course he meant Upton Sinclair.

Heh-heh

Now it turns out that Jaylen's dad was not supposed to have firearms because of a domestic violence rap in 2002. He appeared in Federal Court in Seattle this week.

The Tulalip tribes authorities have no doubt screwed up, and this isn't the first time that they have done so and it ended up costing young lives,.  You have probably heard me talking about a case a few years ago of horrific child neglect. Two baby girls were left strapped in car seats in a car and the reservation for days and one died of starvation, dehydration and exposure.  The mother's phone indicated she had been trying to score heroin during this time. CPS had turned her case over to the Tulalip tribe.

Now Jaylen Fryberg may well have obtained his weapon another way if he wanted to do the crime badly enough. But to me, it helps explain the lavish public funeral service for him which I considered in bad taste.  The dad felt guilty. If Fryberg senior was an unrepentent domestic abuser, it also may explain some things in the family

heraldnet.com/article/20150331/NEWS01/150339807/MP-shooters-father-arrested-on-firearms-charge

Quote from: paladin1991 on March 31, 2015, 11:05:53 PM
  Yeah.  I'll bet Indiana is shit scared over that.

Yes, today, a letter writer in the (Everett) Herald suggested that people in government curtail all trips, and just stay home, do their work and save money. How many of these trips are really essential, especially in these days of videoconferencing and other technologies?

The Arlene's Floral case up here is pretty sad, IMO. I don't know the people personally, but here's what I've gleaned from radio.  It happened in Richland, I think.  The guy getting married, whose name I forget, had done business with Baronelle(the lady who owned Arlene's ) on other occasions. She had also employed gays. She didn't discriminate against gay PEOPLE, she just didn't want to do a gay wedding, because it would mean being there, being a party to a ceremony against her principles. According to what I heard, she directed him to some other florists, they hugged and it was good UNTIL his intended got wind of it, and he was the one who wanted to sue, etc.

I predict that this marriage doesn't last too long.

Now Gov. Inslee, not to be outdone by the mayor,  has declared that WA government will not be doing any business with Indiana, dang it.

Tonight's show sounds like a doozy--black eyed children and UFO "repeaters".

So how about this deal in Indiana?  Obviously they were trying to avoid cases such as Arlene's Flowers in the tri-cities here in WA, but it went horribly wrong.  The Seattle mayor(first openly gay Seattle mayor, I think) wasted no time in saying that the city of Seattle will be doing NO MORE business with Indiana if they ever have been! This man obviously has his priorities straight(I mean, well, you know)  Have you been to Seattle lately?

Quote from: yumyumtree on March 24, 2015, 08:48:51 PM
Yes, I think so.  I have a tendency to zero in on 1 star reviews on amazon, because they are more entertaining, I will admit that. I just skimmed because I was kind of in a hurry but there was one user who had a long, long, long 1 star review of one of Paulides books--he clearly hates his guts.

And I think if theres a money issue it's because Paulides thinks he can get more money out of people selling directly.  I haven't looked for his books on eBay, but they may be going for even less there.

So now I've read it, and yes, it is worth it.

I knew something about paradoxical undressing during hypothermia and burrowing from the book The Childrens' Blizzard by David Laskin.

Lots of Ted Cruz today.

Quote from: goldendeal on March 30, 2015, 01:53:57 AM
Melba sounds a little defensive. The caller never suggested it could be a Chewbacca  mask, however, there is a possibility it is  Roddy McDowall.

Defensive is the default setting for most Coast guests.

Geranium in the cranium is from Dear Abby or Ann Landers many decades ago.

That's a good question.  I'll try to find out.  They do have observances for Norwegian Indpendence Day.

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on March 28, 2015, 01:47:34 AM
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

When a naïve inventor develops a program worth billions, the company wolves come out to fleece him in this mystery from writer-director David Mamet.


Thanks for the tip, Zeebo.

If you like The Spanish Prisoner, you will really like House of Games, part of which was shot near  where I used to live in Seattle.

Well, Hans Dunshee and some other Democrats(as far as I know, all Democrats, but I'm not sure) want $5 million from Olympia to build a new cafeteria.  I have some thoughts on this, and it probably won't win me a lot of friends.

They already got a grant of $50,000 from the fed to pay for employee overtime and MPH shooting-related stuff.  I consider this more legitimate.

The Everett Herald has already disabled comment threads on all of these articles. The times hasn't even covered the story about state money for a new cafeteria as far as I can see. $5 million here and $5 million there and the next thing you know, you're California, that's the way I see it.

I have long believed that it's not in the cards for Hillary to be president. 2008 might have been her year, but Obama and John Edwards prevented that.

First there's her age and health.  Since that first fainting episode or whatever it was, I have believed that her health may not be all that good.

Then there is the email scandal.  Even other Dems and liberals are angry with her over it.  Benghazi alone did not bother them too much, but this combined with Benghazi might be too much.

The other shoe still needs to drop with Bill and the Epstein scandal.  I know it's not fair but she has stayed married to the old perv, so there you have it.

Casque D'Or 1952

Quote from: albrecht on March 26, 2015, 06:07:21 PM
Very weird. Beck has way too much "bling" going on and that wanna-be hipster van-dyke? What is with all those bracelets, etc? A man should wear a watch if he wants any bling and a ring if he is married, though I veer European on that and say not even a ring. Not cheating but just that jewelry is for women.

The advantages of not having TV

The people here with ties to Abramoff here were Rabbi Daniel Lapin(now relocated to the SF Bay area, I guess) and Michael Medved, who is now seriously ill, so I'm not going to kick him further while he's down. I think Lapin lived on Mercer Island when he lived here.

Basically it turns out that Grover Norquist has a lot of ties to front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood. I know that Beck can be a nut at times, but he's also right about some things, and I have a feeling he's right about this one.

Ballard may not be the Ballard you remember.  I don't go down there much anymore but it's pretty much gone condo.  Even that little house of the little old lady who woudn't sell out when Trader Joe's and them went in there has been discreetly torn down now that she's died.  I don't know if you can actually discreetly tear down a house, but you know...

Actually I've always considered Rush to be one of those who does dwell awfully heavily on politics, excpet when he's talking about football. Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager and Michael Medved are more apt to do non-political topics with authors, etc. I feel Rush jumped the shark in the early 2000s, around the time of the drug problem, his third divorce and Donovan McNabb controversey.  That makes it sound like I don't like him.  Actually I do--I just think his show is past its prime.  He has also embarrassed himself when he ventures into topics such as medicine, science and the arts. And I get tired of hearing his childrens books promoted so much.  But I listen on weekends--that's about the right amount.

I suspect what you say about AM in general is true.  The calibre of advertisers is a clue.  I need to look up how many of Noory's stations are still AM.  He's been on an FM station here for several years. I guess talk radio and the end of the fairness doctrine gave AM a shot in the arm in the 80s and early 90s, now they are hurting again. The aging of the demographic I'm sure has something to do with it.  It's not that the older demographic doesn't HAVE as much money to spend on advertisers' products--a lot of them do, but they don't spend as readily on the products--energy drinks, cars, whatever.  Incidentally I understand that the youth clothing industry is feeling a hit because a lot young people are choosing to be more frugal with clothes so they can spend more on electronics.

Savage continues to perplex me.  Is he mentally ill, or what? Hannity has sounded tired for years. Medved is seriously ill and on a leave of absence.

Well, I just looked at the first 3 states on the list, and it seems that at least half of Coast stations are AM. That's about what I would have expected.

Regardless of how you feel about Glenn Beck, I think these allegations about Norquist should concern everybody, especially in view of the Bergdahl affair and some of the other things going on lately.

I thought it was interesting that Jack Abramoff came up.  Abramoff had some ties too people here in the Puget Sound area.