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Holo Lukaloa
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8/5/2008 6:28:46 AM
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Why is China such a craphole and why do other countries tolerate it as much as they do?
This question came to mind. What a lousy place for a world event.
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satch
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8/5/2008 7:07:28 AM
Boycott the olympics - don't watch it, don't buy anything from companies who sponsor it.
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srm
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8/5/2008 7:36:42 AM
Even the ground is trying to leave. (rumble, rumble).
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Magnetfisch
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8/5/2008 7:40:37 AM
and the pollution is extremely worrysome
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qelizabeth
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8/5/2008 8:03:23 AM
I would boycott if I were an athlete. I'd put human rights and politics before my career, especially if I could encourage others to do the same and really create a movement.
At least I think I would.
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Holo Lukaloa
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8/5/2008 8:17:04 AM
I'm not watching one minute of the Olympics.
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8/5/2008 8:22:50 AM
I'm glad noone boycotted. Lord knows, China has a lot of problems needing dealt with, but embarrassing them in front of the world on a global stage is hardly the way to go about it.
by the way Holo...
Original thread posted: 8/5/2008 6:28:46 AM (Hawaii time = 3:28 am)
Do you ever sleep? LOL, you're sure you're from Hawaii right?
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:33:26 AM
I would translate namaste in Chinese to you Holo but I would'nt even try to get the characters to show up right, if I CARED 2.... btw Holo, stands for Hologram right?... careful what You preach baby.
mahalo.
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Holo Lukaloa
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8/5/2008 8:41:00 AM
Saphire, your research on me is lacking
(That ought to keep him busy for a week) :>)
What's your problem, Roach, do you run a Chinese restaurant or something?
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Susan Raven
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8/5/2008 8:41:35 AM
"I'm not watching one minute of the Olympics. "
Same here!
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:42:02 AM
Yeah.. it's called Egg Foo Fighters. :-)
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:48:12 AM
Have you all noticed there is some pretty freaky significance in the timing of some our posts?... if your into numerology, science or basic math, it's kinda interesting to note.
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:56:44 AM
F*... am I in heaven or hell?
I double god dog dare you to think about it.. don't cheat by looking at the clock or alter it with an update unless you choose to look at life from another point of view, just for the fun of it... wrong, right, left, up, down... it's all g8d in the neighborhood.
hip?
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8/5/2008 8:57:53 AM
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LOL, Holo, as usual, you have an unsurpassed talent for avoiding a simple direct question.
Roach says Have you all noticed there is some pretty freaky significance in the timing of some our posts?... if your into numerology, science or basic math, it's kinda interesting to note.
Well, what I am noticing is that the threads don't seem to get boinked after I post in them. (or get displayed in the recent topis list).
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:58:41 AM
hop. :-)
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 8:59:53 AM
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pop.
not poop......
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Roach up your nose
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8/5/2008 9:01:53 AM
peace.
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Holo Lukaloa
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8/5/2008 11:05:25 AM
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Saphire, do you contribute anything to this forum other than attacking people? I don't think so. You started posting here in the first place to attack me and I can't seem to lose you. Are you a cyberstalker?
Besides, didn't you say you were leaving?
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8/5/2008 12:05:29 PM
Paranoid delusion, and false persecution rantings can be used as an effective diversionary tool, I'm not disagreeing with you on that.
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kurtkurtley
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8/5/2008 12:12:47 PM
Hollow,
have you been to China? Craphole?? Have you been to the South Bronx, Detroit, South Central LA??? Do you know of which you speak? Having just (two days ago) returned from the "Craphole", I can tell you that the air quality is not the best, but the people and their spirit is as good as anywhere on the planet. So get a grip, and go back to banging your endless, mindless Obama-drum!
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The CODE
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8/5/2008 12:54:55 PM
Yeah - Agree with you on that Kurtley!
Normal people everywhere on this planet all want the same thing!
Not Gender/Race B/Shit - future for kids, food and a sense of wellbeing!
And a place to relax!
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qelizabeth
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8/5/2008 1:54:22 PM
Never been to China but Kurtkurtley, I don't think Holo is speaking of the people. I for one hold the people in high regard. They are to be loved like all people, however the Government is a whole different story.
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Holo Lukaloa
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8/5/2008 2:21:40 PM
Yes, exactly. Not the people, the lack of human rights.
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Saphire, look at your words, you sound like a stalker too.
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The CODE
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8/5/2008 2:37:03 PM
What the fuck is a boink???
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IAC Admin
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8/5/2008 2:40:17 PM
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It's when somebody posts and puts a thread up at the top, usually the word boink is used to mean doing that without saying anything of substance.
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The CODE
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8/5/2008 2:45:48 PM
Thanks!
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Maria Daines
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8/6/2008 1:31:36 AM
I won't be watching one second of it and when I hear Olympic news on the radio I switch off. It's my personal protest about all the cruelty to people and animals that continues in China year in and year out.
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satch
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8/6/2008 1:59:19 AM
Further - we will not support any of the companies shown here because they are sponsors of the Chinese government's games.
It's a darn nuisance, I had to change my credit card from Visa, but I am glad that I did it!
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Eye Of Storm
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8/6/2008 7:27:08 AM
Eye will definately NOT be watching the Olympics. I am horrified at what is going on over there. Just as an example, last night some residents of China were devestated as their homes were just destroyed to make room for the Olympics. They lost everything and were all left homeless. Those poor people.
I don't even want to talk about what they do to dogs over there. OMG, it just puts me into a spin.
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Paul groover
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8/6/2008 11:01:54 AM
I feel for the poor athletes that train there there whole life to reach a pinnacle of fitness to compete in the Olympics. I was an athlete in my younger days and was able to compete at national level and i trained hard every day to compete at this standard it was no joke very punishing. To compete at Olympic level you have to be almost superhuman with a hunger to win bordering on insanity. So please remember what the spirit of the Olympics is about. It is not political grandstanding or greedy businessmen it is about sacrifice and the willingness to push yourself to edge of what is humanly possible. Ask your self this what do you think the athletes would have to say about the Olympics being held in China. They cannot pull out on political reason,s because they may only have one chance to compete at this level. Whatever there feelings about where it is being held
The Olympic committee should be sacked for choosing a country with so much political and humanitarian issue,s. I would ask what is there motivation behind choosing China that is the real question
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The Man With No Band
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8/6/2008 11:19:20 AM
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Paul ... my grandmother's sister was (or was supposed to be) a member of the 1940 U.S. Olympic squad to compete in Tokyo Japan ....
Needless to say the games were not held, so she never got the opportunity to compete .... She had put her all into her training ...
... but when later asked if she felt cheated ... she said "No way, when human rights are at stake, games are of little importance, one should never be so selfish as to put one's own dreams and goals over the common good of all people"
. In her honor ... and in the honor of human rights ... I will not be watching...
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satch
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8/6/2008 11:19:27 AM
I think, in fact I am pretty sure, that many of the athletes would prefer for the games to have been held elsewhere.
I am also pretty sure that, just like the legendary Black Power salutes, there will be political protests from some of the athletes - only I won't be watching :)
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Paul groover
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8/6/2008 11:41:47 AM
I totally agree with you it is entirely up to the athletes though in that regard what there personal feelings are. I haven,t heard about any athletes pulling out though because they all have sponsorship now and would lose that if they pulled out on political reasons
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8/6/2008 1:09:25 PM
I can only hope that this spotlight that is shinning on China right now will in itself bring about some change for the better. They must be concerned and ashamed at the pollution levels and of how the rest of the world views their human rights violations. I hope that china will be able to free itself and see itself and can one day become the nation that it can be.
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LyinDan
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8/6/2008 6:35:34 PM
Raymond, I can't help but think that those considerations played a part in China's selection for the Games.
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Magnetfisch
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8/7/2008 2:51:41 PM
glad you meant the country and not the song ;-) btw, "China" is more about earthbound female mysteries...
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8/7/2008 3:07:51 PM
I'm sure that good and change will come from this whole experience.
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Eye Of Storm
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8/13/2008 11:03:30 AM
This is pathetic!!!!!
From The TimesAugust 13, 2008
China banned child singer with crooked teeth
From The TimesAugust 13, 2008
China banned child singer with crooked teeth from singing at opening ceremony
(China.com.cn)
Lin Miaoke, top, who lip-synched at the opening ceremony over the voice of Yang Peiyi, below, whose appearance concerned Chinese officials
Jane Macartney and Ashling O'Connor in Beijing
Alpha Mummy: how would you comfort Yang Peiyi? | China imports 'cheer squads'
She warmed more than a billion hearts with her sweet and pure rendition of one of China’s favourite revolutionary anthems at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
As Lin Miaoke sang sweetly through Ode to the Motherland in the Bird’s Nest stadium on Friday night, an emerging superpower swelled with pride at their beautiful little songbird in her red dress and cute pigtails.
But as she was fêted across China yesterday for a charming performance that made her a star, the Beijing schoolgirl was exposed as a fake.
Far from being angel-voiced, it seems Miaoke was simply angel-faced, as it emerged that she did not sing a note.
The real singer was Yang Peiyi, a seven-year-old deemed not pretty enough to be the face of China’s most watched moment in history.
Chubby-cheeked with crooked teeth, she was substituted at the eleventh hour by Communist Party officials desperate to present the best possible image of Chinese youth to a curious world.
After watching a rehearsal with Peiyi in the lead role, a senior member of the Politburo told Beijing Olympic organisers that they had an urgent problem that needed fixing.
The solution was to front Peiyi’s “perfect” voice with the more acceptable face of Miaoke, who had already appeared in a television advert.
“The reason why little Peiyi was not chosen to appear was because we wanted to project the right image. The reason was for the national interest,” said Chen Qigang, the renowned contemporary composer and French citizen who directed the music for the opening ceremony.
“The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings and expression. Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects but in terms of voice Yang Peiyi is perfect.”
The lip-synching revelation is the latest in a line of admissions by the Chinese organisers that not everything at these Games is what it seems.
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Holo Lukaloa
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8/13/2008 2:20:32 PM
Thanks for that, Eye. I was going to post that very story as a separate blog. Unbelievable how messed up the leadership over there is.
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Eye Of Storm
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8/13/2008 5:23:37 PM
That poor little girl. So glad they were exposed for this. If nothing else, the Olympics will hopefully show the rest of the world what they are made of.
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