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From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 05:36 MooseFET wrote: > Many Iraqis believe that the US plans to stay. The US is building > great big permanent bases Not to mention that billion dollar Embassy ! More money flushed down the drain. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Nov 2006 05:37 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Expansionism ? What expansionism ? After we ( and the other allies ) > >>kicked his > >>troops back out of Kuwait he wasn't doing any expansion. > > > > It didn't get into the papers much, but there was a continuous > > campaign of bombing and so on for many years after the Gulf War had > > allegedly ended. To enforce the "no fly zone" mostly, I think. Look it > > up. > > And none of that had anything to do with "expansionism". At worst, it > *might* have been Saddam attacking his own citizens in the no-fly zones. > However, based on the patterns of flights and such, I remember analysts at > that time suggesting it was only Saddam thumbing his nose at Shrub Sr. That's essentially what I recall too. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Nov 2006 07:00 In article <454CA33F.20867B1F(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >> >When people I know go to [Insert European Destination Here] on Holiday, they >> >will often shop for things as well. >> > >> >Isn't it strange. >> > >> >Also, we actually do have shopping malls here in Europe. >> > >> >What a wonderful world we live in. >> >> Think about how mobile people how work are. When they >> go visit a foreign for their jobs, they experience new >> foods, products, etc. They bring back enough and their >> neighbors see the stuff or taste it. So now they would >> like to have some. The next time a friend of theirs goes >> to that country, he a grocery list. Eventually when the >> authors of the list go on vacation, part of the constraint >> of their plans is go somewhere so they can stock up on X >> product. > >There's no real need to do that in the UK since we have the ingredients for most >world cooking available in the shops here. > >That's just one aspect of having such a broad mix of races living here. > >Heck, I've even eaten traditional Zambian style cooking here ! > >Popular restaurants here include Chinese, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, >Turkish, Thai, Japanese, French, Moroccan etc etc ..... There's even Swedish food >available ( at Ikea ! ) and you can find Swiss cooking !!! of all things at the >Swiss Cente in London. More 'exotic' eating out ( rather fewer restaurants ) >include Russian and Hungarian. What?! No Mexican food? /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Nov 2006 07:07 In article <HA83h.4312$9v5.2836(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:eii49d$8nc_008(a)s792.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > >> We never saw Mexican nor Thai (e.g.) in the northeast until >> people started to bring in supplies. > >What year (approximately--decade is close enough) did that start to happen? In the 70s, there were only two restaurants that I know of. After that, you could get stuff in the stores and now you have your choice of all kinds of peppers in the produce section. Before that you had grow your own. One of these restaurants was northern cooking. Then it disappeared and everything was southernish. I miss the northern cooking. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Nov 2006 07:22
In article <454CA452.12150F77(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> In article <454B962A.4DD0FD81(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >I believe there may even be shopping malls in China now too ! >> >> There were when I was there. They were only for the tourists. > >That'll soon change if not already so. I'll bet there are some in places like >Shanghai for example.... > >Jing An District People's Square (Ren Min Guang Chang), a large park, affords a >peaceful oasis in the middle of hectic downtown. Also a cultural stopover, it is >the site of the impressively designed Shanghai Museum We didn't get there. Shopping was substituted instead. >and the Shanghai Grand >Theater. Underground, beneath the park, lies a shopping mall that proves popular >with the young and trendy. For those who crave more gaudy fun, check the Great >World Entertainment Center with karaoke, Beijing Opera, acrobatics and more. > We got to see the acrobats. There was a store designed for the tourists and I can't remember what China called them...Friendship Stores? AS you walked up the grand staircase to go in, there was a display along the wall on the right. In it was a block of jade, 2'x2', where somebody had carved a village on top of a mountain. I was enthralled with that item. The artist had carved domestic and wild animals; donkeys pulling carts filled with hay or something; the huts; the path leading up to the village. I could have stood there all day but JMF dragged me away. The rugs in that store were wonderful. The knots were 500x500 minimum. >Nan Jing Road stretches east to west through Shanghai's commercial section. On >the western side stands the massive Shanghai Center, a multi-complex that houses >the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel, commercial businesses, consulates and a shopping >mall. On the eastern side, a stretch of Nan Jing Road has been converted into a >pedestrian-only area. This section has held the commercial center since the >1930s, as you might tell from the commercial signs that have sprouted almost >organically since then. Once Shanghai's major shopping street, Nan Jing's glory >faded somewhat with the advent of Huai Hai Road, but it still proves worth >visiting--especially at night in its full, neon-lit glory. > >http://www3.oag.com/Cities/CityHome?cat=0&city=79 I got waylaid by college students who wanted to practice their English. :-) > >> >> >I wonder if BAH and unsettled still think the Chinese all go round still in >> >Mao style suits ? >> >> Only the old ones dressed that way when I was there. > >Indeed. They were filled with loathing. They did not like the changes that were happening because of China opening the country for tourists and a taste of capitalism. They were seeing the country go from strict discipline where everyone knew what to do and say and think to a country that allowed choices in everything. It's not an easy transition and makes messes. I was a little sad because I could see why they did not us (western tourists). /BAH |