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jdog2050
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 Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: Do your korean coworkers have...any clue how big this is? |
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| mine just keep on toiling away. I cannot stop watching msnbc.com |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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Nope, they've been suckered into the Obama "change" thing. Only, they don't understand that "change" does not mean anything positive for Korea. It likely means more taxes on their US exports, which is fine by me.
The Korean gov't has been working overtime this past week to pass the FTA... why? Because they want to be able to blame the USA for "not following through with it as it is" when Obama tries to change it. A lot of Koreans don't want the FTA as is, but they will vote for it now, assuming Obama will not allow it anyway. Koreans want to save face after the embarrasing meat protests. |
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dean_burrito
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Nope, they've been suckered into the Obama "change" thing. Only, they don't understand that "change" does not mean anything positive for Korea. It likely means more taxes on their US exports, which is fine by me.
The Korean gov't has been working overtime this past week to pass the FTA... why? Because they want to be able to blame the USA for "not following through with it as it is" when Obama tries to change it. A lot of Koreans don't want the FTA as is, but they will vote for it now, assuming Obama will not allow it anyway. Koreans want to save face after the embarrasing meat protests. |
Honestly, do you ever have anything positive to contribute? Anyways you won't be raining on any parades tonight. I think I will go listen to Scorpion's Winds of Change on my mp3 player now and bring my happy self to the Obama victory party! |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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^ actually, so did i.
i told my co-teacher who won and she didn't seem all that interested, and when i said it was very exciting, she said "it is?" |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| dean_burrito wrote: |
Honestly, do you ever have anything positive to contribute? |
Eight years of hearing doom and gloom from the left, and now the cry is to stop being negative.   |
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itstiff
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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I work a public middle school and all of the teachers are all interested and all of them wanted Obama to win. We jokingly said Obama was the cousin of a teacher here who is Mrs. Oh.
One of my 7th graders wouldn't stop talking to me for 30 minutes about how much she likes Obama and the differences between Obama and McCain it was truly cute and she's a smart girl. |
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dean_burrito
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| dean_burrito wrote: |
Honestly, do you ever have anything positive to contribute? |
Eight years of hearing doom and gloom from the left, and now the cry is to stop being negative. |
let's get one thing straight.. i ain't crying, i'm rocking out to the scorpions. ok? |
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pidgin
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| "Rocking out" to 'Wind of Change!??" BwAAhhAAAAAhhaaaaa |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| It's been kind of frustrating, because I came in all excited about the change the United States is finally making, and they all acted like absolutely nothing about it was important, significant, or worthy of further conversation. Then they started talking about where to order kimche. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: Re: Do your korean coworkers have...any clue how big this is |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| mine just keep on toiling away. I cannot stop watching msnbc.com |
not a fucking clue.
I actually teared up and one student who follows me around like a puppy, saw me in this state and said.. why you cry? you're not black! |
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MrRogers
Joined: 29 Jun 2008
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| It's been kind of frustrating, because I came in all excited about the change the United States is finally making, and they all acted like absolutely nothing about it was important, significant, or worthy of further conversation. Then they started talking about where to order kimche. |
That's more or less the response I had when my Canadians friends started talking about their election....my first response was "you guys have one going on at this time too?!?". |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Ukon wrote: |
| sarbonn wrote: |
| It's been kind of frustrating, because I came in all excited about the change the United States is finally making, and they all acted like absolutely nothing about it was important, significant, or worthy of further conversation. Then they started talking about where to order kimche. |
That's more or less the response I had when my Canadians friends started talking about their election....my first response was "you guys have one going on at this time too?!?". |
Hell, even most of us Canadians didn't care about that one. Just another Conservative minority government. |
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Korussian
Joined: 15 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| dean_burrito wrote: |
Honestly, do you ever have anything positive to contribute? Anyways you won't be raining on any parades tonight. I think I will go listen to Scorpion's Winds of Change on my mp3 player now and bring my happy self to the Obama victory party! |
For starters, Bassexpander's podcast, I find, is wonderful. |
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