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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16954)	4/13/2007 12:41:20 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217862

dear maurice cb ilaine brumar, oops, made a mistake, honest - <<maurice cb ilaine brumar are simply talking out of their two faced forked tongne triple standard spinmeister neocum* hats>>* mistyped "u" for "o" and thus seem to have swore but actually just and only an honest mistake ... sorry for referring to your respective hats that way by honest mistake sincerely, jay

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16954)	4/13/2007 3:58:39 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217862

>>the way they treated each other's babies<< TJ, your claims of a superior Chinese attitude toward babies is ridiculous. While there have been many improvements in the modern era, China has a long sad history of subjecting female babies to foot binding, infanticide, neglect and other abuses. Today there is ongoing evidence of selective sex-specific abortion, unregistered female births (leading to second-class citizenship), and neglect of female infants. If you wish to continue this dubious line of reasoning I'm sure we can provide plenty of evidence to the contrary... Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China's southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16954)	4/13/2007 6:26:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217862

TJ, NZ now at super duper high against yen, US$, with median house prices higher here than in Oz and USA. Being financial geniuses, we can do it with GDP per capita lower than Oz and a LOT lower than the USA and we don't even have to use our own money to do it. We borrow yen from Japanese housewives who see NZ$ uridashi interest rates top of the leader board. Debt per Kiwi has been soaring to world class records. Unemployment is at a 30 year low [though other welfare payments and numbers are well up so there is some swapping from one welfare roll to another. It seems odd that a house in a hick town like Rangataua, albeit in a rapidly developing snow-fun area, can be worth 7 times what it was 4 years ago [priced in yen] when Japanese tourist numbers are dropping in part because of the high NZ$ vs yen compared with 5 or 6 years ago. It's all very interesting. I would not want to bet that the Rangataua houses will double again in price or value. Mqurice PS: I will leave your typographical error and the non-error content alone. I'm more interested in the future than the past, which in all jurisdictions was more than gory enough for me to hide my eyes. There is more than enough coming down the pike from the future to keep us busy, without also sorting out the past of a few generations ago.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16954)	4/13/2007 7:45:27 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217862

as to cultural traits and such, maurice cb ilaine brumar are simply talking out of their two faced forked tongne I don't recall making any comments about Japanese or Chinese cultural traits. I have commented on government policies, laws, democracy, etc.