有报道国内河北要把仿造狮身人面像拆毁,好啊,起码毁了埃及阿拉伯穆斯林笨驴敲中国一榔头的念头。美国人的评论:"So the Sphinx at my local mini-golf has to go too? Say it ain't so!","Getting upset by this stuff is silly.", "Tell Egypt to get over it already. What a bunch of crybabies.","One would think that Egypt had more important things to worry about.","The Egyptians should be happy people are so interested in their culture and history that their works of antiquity are copied in other countries.","To be fair to China, this offers Chinese people the chance to see the great Sphinx without the threat of being murdered / blown up by crazy #$%$ extremist muslims.","I guess imitation is no longer the sincerest form of flattery. How can a "replica" compete with the real thing? Are we calling for the destruction of the Mt. Rushmore replica? Is France calling for the destruction of the Eiffel Tower replica? Don't we have one of those on the Las Vegas strip?","Well, since the muslims are on a mission to destroy all works of art and all depictions of man and all non-muslim music and all toys, games, fashions, fads, and literatu... ...
中西部网客: 还有这条:In other news the Greek government has complained about the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville but the governor of Tennessee told them all to go to hell. 老牛要是河北省省长,大概也让埃及阿拉伯穆斯林笨驴"Go to hell"。 (5-26 23:14)
西班牙宪法法院判定加泰罗尼亚独立公投违宪。Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a referendum in Catalonia on independence from the rest of the country would violate the law, saying that regions within Spain “cannot unilaterally call a referendum on self-determination.”
According to a summary of the ruling, any “right to decide” their future by Catalans has to be in accordance with Spain's 1978 constitution, which stipulates Spanish unity.
The Constitutional Court ruled “unconstitutional and null” a declaration by the regional parliament in Barcelona which claimed that Catalonia has the right of self-determination.
岳东晓: 有本900多页的书,《喇嘛王朝的覆灭》《A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State》 http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Tibet-1913-1951-Lamaist/dp/0520075900 (3-27 10:26)
看看美国对付波多黎各分裂势力的手段。波多黎各人口99.9%为拉丁裔,1898年美西战争后被割让给美国,由于语言,文化,风俗与美国不同,波多黎各曾经有过极端分子用暴力恐怖手段争取独立的历史。美国当然不会允许波多黎各独立,历史上美国对波多黎各搞恐怖活动的分离势力重拳打击,FBI 对数万分裂势力重点人物严密监视,很多领导人被投进大牢。一直到90年代克灵顿当政时才被总统赦免,当然被赦免的条件之一是签署文件,放弃用暴力手段达到政治目的。前几年波多黎各公投选民居然差点投票赞成成为美国的第51个洲。阿拉斯加独立运动也一样,好象看到过报道其领导人车祸?身亡,2006年分离势力要搞公投寻求独立,被阿拉斯加最高法院阻止,判决公投寻求独立违宪。总之要学美国,各族国民中要大力提倡美国式的誓言:I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the People's Republic of China, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
岳东晓: 加州四年制公立学校包括U of California与Cal State Univ。前者属于research university,在世界排名大多是前50。Hernandez的不满是西裔进research university的太少。如果看UC的入学率,则西裔比例相当低。但之前的统计数据表明,西裔进了UC,毕业率却很低。去除种族优惠后,西裔从UC的毕业人数与西裔高中生人数比反而提高了。 (2-23 02:03)
岳东晓: Prop 209禁止在公共教育领域进行种族歧视。【Proposition 209 amends the California Constitution simply to prohibit state discrimination against or preferential treatment to any person on account of race or gender. 】 那些说这一点违宪的被法院斥为脑残。而目前西裔企图去除这一反歧视宪法,明显是企图在民主制度下将种族歧视合法化。Affirmative Action本身就具有违宪特征,加州大学以前的优待黑人的政策就被判为违宪。 (2-20 11:38)
ojx111: If the current Supreme court decides an affirmative action case, it most likely will declare affirmative action is unconstitutional. (2-20 11:59)
岳东晓: Michigan大学入学给黑人、西人加20分的做法就被判违宪。Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 US 244 (2003) (2-20 12:07)
ojx111: I know that case and I also know the views of all current justices. (2-20 12:11)
... region, the United States has a vital interest in working with all nations in developing, institutionalizing, and sustaining a rules-based order for the area. That starts with putting in place effective mechanisms to manage maritime disputes that threaten to pull the region apart, and supporting and encouraging the peaceful resolution of disputes in the Asia-Pacific maritime domain."
老黑鱼看过来:
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
07/30/2013 | Press release
Chairman Menendez Statement on Passage of Senate Resolution Calling for Peaceful Outcomes to Maritime Disputes in East and South China Seas
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Chairman Menendez Statement on Passage of Senate Resolution Calling for Peaceful Outcomes to Maritime Disputes in East and South China Seas
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
adam_sharon@foreign.senate.gov
WASHINGTON, DC - On July 29, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Senate Resolution 167, sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which calls for the peaceful resolution of maritime and territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas.
Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN), as well as Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) of the Asia-Pacific Subcommittee authored the resolution with Menendez.
"The territorial disputes at play in the Asia-Pacific region today are not about the past, but very much about the future of a region poised to serve as an epicenter for global economic development for the twenty first century," said Menendez. "With a long history of engagement in the ...