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The First Full Day
Below are some pictures of the day. The major non-shot event: a gigantic Billboard of Mount Rushmore. And when you're finished with the pictures, a quick blog note: Catholicgauze was linked to by Little Green Footballs. Congrats!
Living in the Shadows (of Fog and a Hill)
Construction cranes in the distance
180 from the crane
A Traffic Nightmare
Be Like Washington. Buy Goods and/or Services.
Construction Boom
Alley Behind the Dwelling of the Grandparents of the Lady of tdaxp
Communist Flags Are (almost) Exclusively Limited to Foreign Hotels
The Only Other Communist Flags: The
Fashion Billboards
Non-Ironic Chinese Writing
Are the Communists Good to Puppies?
Street Ping Pong
The Flags of Two Countries. One is a godless, statist regime facing economic stagnation and demographic decay. The other is the People's Republic of China.
08:25 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Beijing 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5) | Email this | Tags: beijing
Comments
RE: Top 2 photos.
That is one nice neighbourhood you are staying in! We musta been in the Projects.
Keep the pics coming.
Posted by: Younghusband | Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Evil mathematicians
Statists Regimes *shakes fist*
Posted by: Ashley | Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Younghusband,
The apartment and the neighborhood are just gorgeous. It is in north-west Beijing, near the Chinese Agricultural University. More pictures have since been posted
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/05/10/a-forbidding-city.html
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/05/11/the-summer-palaces-of-tdaxp-and-prc.html
http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/05/12/lufthansa-shopping-centre-and-peking-university.html
Ashley, heh :-)
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Friday, May 12, 2006
Economic stagnation in France ? What a good joke..All the statistics show that France will be the N°1 Economy in Europe in a few decades... And France is actually, in 2007, one of the wealthiest and richest country in the world... Well France will n°1 in Europe Thanks to ?? Its birth rate, the highest in European Union after Ireland...So, i don't think that "facing economic stagnation and demographic decay" is accurate...Please, reads some stats before post some hilarious stuff like this, that's really a PITY ! Haha your lack of culture make me lough so much thanks !
Posted by: Adrien | Sunday, April 29, 2007
Adrien,
Thanks for stopping by, and for the comment!
I'm unaware of data showing that the French economy will exceed the British economy in a few decades -- could you post the link?
I'm aware of a recent bump in the French birthrate -- I wonder of the demographics, though (France of course not reporting racial or ethnic information in her census). A France which grows bigger only by growing increasing Islamic may not be in the best interests of European civilization.
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Sunday, April 29, 2007