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Also, tomorrow is Chinese New Year (ox)!

hell yeah bob!
best pres since REGAN.
totally! we need to FIX north korea - show them who's boss.
Do you like chuck Norris?
I do! I fuckin love chuck norris. he'd roundhouse kick kim Jong into next year - haha the chinese new year!
I fuckin love machine guns. are you cool with machine guns! long live the NRA.
Do you want to watch chuck norris movies with me?
I like him and arnold and stallone too. we could play CALL of DUTY on XBOX together.
I have a bunker that I built in my back yard. I need a buddy!
It has a bunkbed (in the bunker! arg arg!). let's hang out.
I have several machine guns and prescription drugs.

went to 3 different Chinese New Years dinners this week. Lots of hot pot (aka steamboat). Earlier tonight was the first time we did Yu Sheng (description). It's not well known outside of Singapore & Malaysia, so it's not surprising they didn't mention it.

This map/video is so wrong on so many levels.

Firstly, to call the entirety of the present day United States "Indian Land" before the states were created is wrong and idiotic. Native Americans (another misnomer) were not present in every spot of every bit of the lands in any way. For the majority of the middle of the states, Natives were nomadic peoples, thus while they could lay claim to all of the land if you asked, it is just as dumb as saying that a bear owns all of the territory it can walk on.

Secondly, for those of you who think that Native Americans should have more reservations, you should read any number of books by Native American scholars that say that the worst thing the governments have done is treat Native Americans as separate from standard citizens of the countries that have them. What they should do is eliminate reservations altogether to get rid of the dependency trap that is killing the Native American people as we speak. One might say, "well, they will lose their culture." But this, too is incorrect. Have the Chinese lost their culture in North America? Have the varying kinds of Europeans? In my city many people still celebrate Chinese New Year and lots celebrate Saint Patrick's Day and Robbie Burns day (regardless of whether or not these are ex-pat holidays).

So in conclusion, what the government did in the past vis-a-vis the murder of Native Peoples was absolutely despicable. However, taking land was very often something that happened without bloodshed and was done with trades and treaties, the bloodshed that followed was a clash between terrified Europeans and the people whose culture they didn't understand. But for many of the incidents the Native Peoples sanctified the taking of the land.

"Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix)":

Erhu: Hou Shih Chieh
Keyboards: Johnny Yim
Percussion: Tung Tang
Guzheng: Morton Wilson
Chorus: Jaxqueline Fu, Mazy Yap, and the Lok Sin Tong Primary School
Rap: MC Yan
Chorus Lyrics: Chantal Sun
Programming & Mix: Tung Tang
Produced by Ann Yeung & Tung Tang
Executive Producers: Morton Wilson & Hans Ebert
Mixed at Schtung Music Ltd, Hong Kong.

Available on 'D-Sides', I'm told.

>> ^Fantomas:

There needs to be a year of the ant .


I agree!!!!!

Thank you, Longde!

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Happy Chinese New Year.

I vehemently disagree with your stance, but you have been nothing but civil in laying it out when asked. So, screw people if they are upset by other viewpoints.

Happy Chinese New Year.

I vehemently disagree with your stance, but you have been nothing but civil in laying it out when asked. So, screw people if they are upset by other viewpoints.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

On second thought, fuck family.


Ew!

I actually took Religion in High School. It was an interesting class to say the least, but didn't sway my opinions on anything religion wise.

In fact, it was one of my reasons for becoming an Atheist. It's where I found out that Jesus wasn't the first "Miraculous" birth, in fact, Zoroaster and Buddha were also born in the exact same fashion.

My favourite part of the class, however, was the field trip. We went to three places, a Hindu temple, a Mosque, and a Buddhist temple.

Hindu temple and Mosque were interesting, but nothing special. The Buddhist temple though was nifty, I walked into the main hall and there were 3 giant golden Buddha statues there, with thousands of candles lit around the room. I was amazed by this, and eager to learn about it expecting our tour guide to be a monk of sorts.

Turns out he was a little middle-aged white guy, who turned out to be a dick. When asked "Why did you become a Buddhist?" we all expected some result that included soul searching, or because of it's outlook on everything. The exact answer we got was "Well, my friends were something different, so I decided to be different, too."

Needless to say, by the end of our tour, none of us were too impressed with this guy. Chinese new years was coming up so they showed us the basement that was being decorated in silks and lanterns, and looked pretty cool. The guide asked us "So, any of you know how to say 'Happy new year' in Chinese?" with a slight smirk on his face.

I looked him square in the eye and said "Happy new year in Chinese."

That's when we got kicked out of the temple.

Worth it.

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WISHING YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, and all that!

actually, in Taiwan "good" driving is when you can go fast, so this guy isn't a very good driver.

he should have pointed out how left turns are made - there is a square at every major intersection that is made for scooters/bikes (you see it at 0:25 when he's talking about power rangers). To make a left, you would go straight and then pull into that square, and wait for the next light to change and go straight again.
It's counter-intuitive, but works really well in practice. That's only for scooters/motorcycles though. Cars just have to deal with making a regular left.

oh, and if you want to see the craziest display of multiple people + stuff on scooters, check out the Costco in Taipei right before Chinese New Years.

Never leave a recording of 'Chinese New Year' in the VCR.

If I remember right, I'm a Water Rat. Happy Chinese New Year!

Heh James Roe, it's only because I live in the multiracial/religious country of Singapore and you can always see the change in decorations at shopping malls when each holiday arrives. Eid for the muslim (majority Malay) community, Deepavali(festival of lights) for the Hindu community, Christmas of course, and Chinese New Year.

I mentioned Eid first coz it's tomorrow and there are preparations and decorations everywhere on this tiny island and about 20% of the world's population will be celebrating.