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The purpose of this study is to determine, by means of DNA and protein analysis, the relationship between DNA and protein profiles and a number of endpoints, which are important for the patient such as overall survival and side effects.
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Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Cohort Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Storing Blood for Analysis of DNA and Protein of Patients With Cancer in MAASTRO Clinic |
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Estimated Enrollment: | 10000 |
Study Start Date: | January 2003 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | January 2025 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | January 2025 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
It has already been known for a long time that cancer is a genetic disorder and that the development of the illness is a very complex interaction between genetic and surrounding factors. Also the response on therapy and the development and seriousness of side effects is stipulated by this complicated collaboration of genetic and surrounding factors. Moreover it is not only the DNA that plays an important role but also the systems of control at protein level. At this moment a lot of questions remain to be answered because up till now the studies were of rather restricted statistic strength with frequently inconsistent dates and moreover retrospective. Major retrospective studies are necessary to distinguish the relationship between DNA/protein patterns and clinical relevant endpoints like prognosis and toxicity in which an as broad as possible patient group is being monitored. For this reason we want to take blood samples in MAASTRO clinic of all patients with lung cancer and to store it encrypted so that we can perform DNA and protein analyses in future and to correlate the results with survival and toxicity of the treatment.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
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Principal Investigator: Dirk De Ruysscher, Prof PHD |
Principal Investigator: | Dirk De Ruysscher, Prof PHD | CCMO |
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Responsible Party: | Maastricht Radiation Oncology |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01084785 History of Changes |
Obsolete Identifiers: | NCT00157352, NCT00157365, NCT00157391, NCT00157404, NCT00157417, NCT00157430, NCT00157443, NCT00157456, NCT00157469, NCT00157495, NCT00181337, NCT00181376, NCT00181389, NCT00181402, NCT00181415, NCT00181428, NCT00181441, NCT00181454, NCT00181467, NCT00181480, NCT00181493, NCT00181519, NCT01067872 |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 08-06-23/01 |
Study First Received: | March 10, 2010 |
Last Updated: | December 27, 2012 |
Health Authority: | Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO) |
Keywords provided by Maastricht Radiation Oncology:
Cancer genomics proteomics |
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HONOLULU (AP) - The White House and a divided Congress can now move on to the next fiscal crisis after a last-minute deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" laid the foundation for more combustible struggles over taxes, spending and debt in the next few months.
President Obama's victory on taxes this week was the second, grudging round of a piecemeal battle in as many years over mountainous U.S. deficits.
Despite the length and intensity of the debate, the deal to raise the top income tax rate on families earning over $450,000 a year - about 1% of households - and including only $12 billion in spending cuts turned out to be a relatively easy vote for many members of Congress. This was particularly so because the alternative was to raise taxes on everyone.
Obama signed the bill Wednesday night.
In banking $620 billion in higher taxes over the coming decade from wealthier earners, Obama and his Republican rivals have barely touched deficits still expected to be in the $650 billion range by the end of his second term. And those calculations assume policymakers can find more than $1 trillion over 10 years to replace automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as a sequester.
"They didn't do any of the tough stuff," said Erskine Bowles, chairman a 2010 deficit commission. "We've taken two steps now, but those two steps combined aren't enough to put our fiscal house in order."
In 2011, the government adopted tighter caps on day-to-day operating budgets of the Pentagon and other Cabinet agencies to save $1.1 trillion over 10 years.
The measure passed Tuesday prevents automatic tax hikes for everyone but higher-income earners. It also blocks severe across-the-board spending cuts for two months, extends unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless for a year, stops a 27 percent cut in fees paid to doctors treating patients under the Medicare program for the elderly, and prevents a possible doubling of milk prices.
The alternative was going over the cliff, an economy-punching half-trillion-dollar combination of sweeping tax increases and spending cuts. Despite the deal, the government partially went over the brink anyway with the expiration of a two-year cut in payroll taxes for the Social Security pension program.
Action inside a dysfunctional Washington now only comes with binding deadlines. So, naturally, this week's hard-fought bargain sets up another crisis in two months, when painful across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs are set to kick in and the government runs out of the ability to juggle its $16.4 trillion debt without having to borrow more money.
Unless Congress increases or allows Obama to increase that borrowing cap, the government risks a first-ever default on U.S. obligations. Republicans will use this as an opportunity to leverage more spending cuts from Obama, just like they did in the summer of 2011.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Washington, vows that any increase in the debt limit - which needs to be enacted by Congress by the end of February or sometime in March - must be accompanied by an equal amount in cuts to federal spending. That puts him on yet another collision course with Obama, who has vowed anew that he won't let haggling over spending cuts complicate the debate over the debt limit.
The cliff compromise represented the first time since 1990 that Republicans condoned a tax increase. That has whipped up a fury among lawmakers from the conservative tea party movement and increased the pressure on Boehner to adopt a hard line in coming confrontations over the borrowing cap and the spending cuts that won only a two-month reprieve in this weeks' deal.
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"Now the focus turns to spending," Boehner said after Tuesday's vote, promising that future budget battles will center on "significant spending cuts and reforms to the entitlement programs that are driving our country deeper and deeper into debt."
Obama is just as adamant on the other side, saying higher revenues have to be part of any formula for further diverting the automatic spending cuts.
The refusal of Republicans to consider additional new taxes is sure to stir up resistance among Democrats when they're asked to consider politically painful cuts to so-called entitlement programs like Medicare. Democratic protests led Obama and Boehner to take a proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age off the table in the recent round of talks.
The upshot? More scorched-earth politics on the budget will probably dominate the initial few months of Obama's second term, when the president would prefer to focus on legacy accomplishments like fixing the immigration problem and implementing his overhaul of health care.
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Hot meets hot: Cards, Padres continue series
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Given their standing atop the National League, it's no surprise that the Cardinals boast the NL's best record since April 24, a 16-8 mark equaled by only one other team.
But who in the NL has been as hot as the the 28-16 Cardinals? None other than the Padres, who have won 16 of 24 since a miserable 5-15 start. After Monday's 4-2 win over St. Louis, San Diego has also won 12 of its past 15 at Petco Park, a mark it will try to improve upon Tuesday night in the second part of this three-game series.
Looking to get within one win of a .500 record, the Padres will turn to right-hander Edinson Volquez. Volquez will be making his 10th start of the season, and he's put up respectable numbers over his last six outings, including a 3-1 record and 3.47 ERA, though San Diego is just 3-3 over that stretch.
After putting together two quality starts against the D-backs and Rays, Volquez faltered Thursday against the Nationals, allowing five runs on five hits and four walks over five innings. He was tagged with the loss, his first since April 13.
"It was my fault. I'm supposed to pitch seven, eight innings," Volquez said Thursday. "I walked a couple guys. ... That's something I've got to stop doing."
Perhaps he could pick up something from Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright, who's walked only five batters in 64 2/3 innings this season, all while jumping out to a 5-3 start and a 2.51 ERA. Wainwright's 12.60 strikeout-to-walk ratio is the best in the NL, and he added to that in his last start Thursday with eight strikeouts and only one walk.
But Wainwright was tagged with the loss in that start, giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits in six innings against the Mets. After a 120-pitch, two-hit shutout against the Rockies on May 11, Wainwright threw only 87 pitches on Thursday. But he denied any thoughts that his long outing might have carried over, saying he could have "easily" thrown seven or eight innings.
Instead, Wainwright placed the blame for his loss on a few pitches left over the plate and the absence of his usual command.
"I felt like it was good, not great," Wainwright said. "I definitely wasted today with not executing a couple pitches. But I had more than enough good stuff to get the job done."
St. Louis has still won six of Wainwright's nine outings this season, and he hasn't lost two straight starts at any point this year.
Cardinals: Jay thriving since leaving leadoff spot
• Center fielder Jon Jay has hit .354 (28-for-79) since moving out of the leadoff spot on April 22, and his 15 RBIs during that stretch are tied for second on the team with Carlos Beltran, with both three behind Allen Craig's 18 RBIs over that span. Jay has mostly found himself batting sixth, where he went 2-for-4 on Monday night, the only Cardinal with a multihit game.
Jay has hit in 15 of his last 16 starts and driven in 15 runs in his last 15 games.
"I always thought his lack of production in the past was kind of false numbers. He takes good at-bats," manager Mike Matheny said. "He doesn't do much different with guys in scoring position. I think he's proved that to himself that he can do that when the situation presents itself."
• David Freese was scratched for precautionary reasons Monday night due to some swelling in his right hand. Freese needed three stitches near his right thumb to close a cut he suffered Sunday when he was spiked while chasing down and applying a tag on Milwaukee's Norichika Aoki.
Padres: Offense breaking out
• San Diego has scored 92 runs over its last 19 games, most in the NL and an average of 4.84 per game that's left manager Bud Black praising his lineup. The Padres followed up a 15-hit, 13-run outing against the Nationals on Sunday by scoring four against the Cardinals, including three on five hits and three walks against tough rookie Shelby Miller
"Offensively, I like the mix of players with different skill sets -- there's speed, there's average and there is power," Black said. "There are a number of guys are getting into their career where their numbers should be stable and even improve. ... There should be a growth in performance."
• The Padres have hit 21 homers in 23 games at Petco Park this season, no small feat considering their 20th homer at home last year came on July 20, their 49th home game.
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• The Padres have now won five consecutive games against the Cardinals at Petco Park dating back to May 25, 2011.
• Mitchell Boggs gave up a homer to Will Venable, the first batter he saw Monday night. But the Cardinals have kept their opponents from hitting a homer in a Major League-high 26 games this season, going 19-7 in those games.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I Wanted To Touch That Dead Armadillo. Badly.
I have a hot temper fueled by a healthy dose of righteous indignation.
Recently, while navigating my wife and son through Midway airport, I took the time to get in a stranger's face about how rude and overly aggressive they were being. And when they didn't immediately back down (which, honestly, I expected they would) things got loud in a hurry.
While trekking through eerie Mirkwood forest, Bilbo Baggins and his dwarven companions, beset by exhaustion and hunger, strayed off the path chasing food and merry music despite repeated warnings to never do so. They didn't find comfort, but instead spent weeks in an elven dungeon before they found their path again.
There will always be unexpected obstacles, setbacks and distractions on our journey. Why create more?
When I was a kid and I wanted to touch a dead armadillo (yes, more than once) my dad would yell, "You don't need that!" That's one thing. But getting in a stranger's grill because I feel justified in doing so? Not on the agenda for the day. "You don't need that!" So why bother?
"To hate is to show you still care. Who needs that? Focus on what's really important."
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I clearly have some baggage (the need to publicly correct an asshole) that distracted me from my mission (getting my boy to grandma's house). What if airport security had gotten involved and we missed our flight? Grandma would be pissed! I'd rather spend a month in an Elven dungeon.
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"Safeco" Joe Saunders will try to manufacture some of his home-field magic in his old ballpark on Wednesday night when the Mariners take on the Angels at Angel Stadium.
The 32-year old lefty has been dominant in Seattle, going 4-2 with a 2.53 ERA in seven games. On the road, however, Saunders has struggled to a 1-4 record with a 7.58 ERA. To win their second straight game against the Angels, the Mariners (32-40) will need Angel Stadium to give Saunders that same home-field edge.
"I wouldn't say it's home, but it is a very familiar setting," Saunders said. "Home is in Seattle now. I know [Angel Stadium] very well, a lot of the staff and training people and weight room people and clubhouse guys. I'm still friends with all those guys and it's nice to see them, but team-wise, it's just another opponent and I'm going to try to beat their butts."
It won't be Saunders' first time back in Anaheim, having made his original comeback appearance last season with the Arizona Diamondbacks. In that game, he took a 2-0 loss.
"That was one of those things where everybody was trying to hype it up a lot because it was my former team and I'd spent a lot of time here," Saunders said. "But if you look at it, things have changed a lot. There are not many of the same guys that I played with. I just look at it like another foe."
If Saunders is to have a good game, he'll have to find a way to slow the red-hot Howie Kendrick. Since May 14, Kendrick has hit .410 (48-for-117), far and away the best in the American League. He's also turned himself into a bit of a slugger -- his eight home runs this season already match his 2012 total.
"He's had a streak where he's been locked in, and the one thing exciting about what he's been doing the last month, not only the length that it's gone, but his ability to hit with two strikes, hit with runners in scoring position," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
Taking the mound for Los Angeles on Wednesday will be C.J. Wilson, who pitched seven innings with two runs allowed against the Yankees in his last start. Wilson had some early trouble in that game, needing 78 pitches to get through the fourth inning. But the lefty settled down and went three more scoreless innings before calling it a day.
Mariners: Ibanez's home away from home
With Tuesday's homer in the second inning, Seattle outfielder Raul Ibanez extended his hitting streak in Angel Stadium to 13 games, the longest active streak vs. the Angels, and dates back to 2008.
During that time span, he's hitting .408. It's the third hitting streak of at least 12 games at Angel Stadium in Ibanez's career.
• Rookie Nick Franklin has hit safely in seven consecutive games, and he has recorded a hit in 16 of the 19 games in which he's recorded an at-bat since making his Major League debut on May 27.
Angels: Getting edged out
Los Angeles has played in an Major League-leading 25 games decided by one run, with a 10-15 record in those games. The Angels have fallen just short often this season, with 20 of the club's 39 losses being decided by two runs or fewer.
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• The Angels have outscored the Mariners 32-7 over their last four home games, and have won 27 of their last 36 home games against Seattle.
Jacob Thorpe is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Peter Conrad is a writer and artist from the East Coast, who has spent fifteen years in the Bay Area looking for decent pizza. He got his start doing cartoons for a music magazine in Poughkeepsie, and from there moved up to self-publishing his mini-comic Attempted Not Known. The first several issues were photocopied and stapled, but Attempted Not Known has evolved into what Conrad calls comic/objects: the last three have been a pack of cigarettes containing 20 tiny comics about smoking, a Comics Cube that you can twist and turn to create new stories, and a 72-page graphic novel in the form of a cassette mix tape.
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The Yuki clan (雪一族, Yuki Ichizoku) lived in the Land of Water. Some time ago, the country was in the midst of a civil war. In this war, different sides battled each other using ninja in combat, some of whom possessed kekkei genkai. After the war ended, memories of the gruesome battles still lingered in the minds of the people, causing wide-spread persecutions against those with the kekkei genkai. Because of this, the Yuki clan, whose members carried the Ice Release kekkei genkai went into hiding for their own safety.[1]
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All network gear is run by software and if you have access to the source code for the software then you have the ability to identify vulnerabilities which could be exploited. I think it unlikely that the Chinese telecoms would so stupid as to include a Trojan Horse or other bit of malware into their code because this would be too easy to identify. However, designing in a vulnerability or having access to the source code would enable them to accomplish the same thing as incorporating malware in quick order if they should decide to do so.
Given that Chinese telecoms are so tightly involved with the Chinese government and Chinese military and given that Western military effectiveness relies so heavily on command and control systems which use networks heavily, I think that it would be foolish for the west to use Chinese telecom equipment.
China's not dumb enough to have big telecoms makers embed spy tech in exports. Better chance of iPhones spying on us...
The Huawei incident shows Chinese hypocracy and double standards very clearly. Any industry that is blocked from investments or business in China should force their governments to block Chinese investments of those industries in their home country. China blocks foreign telecoms. So, Chinese telecoms should be blocked. When you add the security concerns on top of that, the Chinese have no argument other than the hypocritical one.
If China opened up their market for Europe and U.S there will not be any security complaints against them. China will not do that because they value their macroeconomic policies than helping collapsed western countries.
So you are ok with being a hypocrite and sticking up for Chinese hypocrites. Thanks for telling us that.
Chinese cite security concerns for everything BTW. Remember the Australian citizen who was arrested for stealing state secrets, which were actually common economic knowledge. He worked for Rio Tinto, if that rings a bell.
I hope you eventually learn something about China.
Coffee man, your ignorance is appalling, are your bigotry and racism. If you don't know anything, why don't you first read and learn, instead of propagating nonsense? People like you should be blocked from posting, at least until you can pass an IQ test.
First, China does not "block" foreign telecom companies. In fact, Cisco, Nortel and others, have made many major installations in China - including those related to 'national security'.
The claims you make are not only incorrect, but are fabricated falsehoods. And Huawei is no more a "threat" to US national security than Cisco is to China's national security.
Next, the "Australian citizen" was not arrested for "stealing state secrets". He was arrested for giving and receiving bribes, for illegally obtaining proprietary information on the plans of China's iron ore companies so that the Australian mining firms could know how high to goose the prices. He broke a multitude of China's corporate laws, and is in prison where he belongs - as he would be in any country.
The 'state secrets' you refer to, were a separate issue dealing with China's oil production, and they were definitely secrets. An individual paid a lot of money to obtain that information, then tried to sell it on the open market to US oil companies. He tried later to claim that information was in the public domain, but it wasn't, and it isn't in any country. If you knew anything about the oil business, you would understand that. He also is in prison where he belongs.
The only hypocrite on this forum appears to be you - pretending to an angelic halo while promulgating trash against China - from an obvious mean-spiritedness and ignorance.
It is YOU who needs to learn something about China. And about good manners, and keeping your mouth shut when you don't know what you're talking about.
Chinese people always say "your are racist" "you don't understand China" or "you are a china-basher" if they don't agree with what I say. But, they say "you are chinese" "you are a Chinese scholar" or "you are the smartest person in the word" if I agree with them.
You should take this chance to learn more about your own country and the bad things your government does instead of getting emotional about facts that everyone has already accepted.
Actually 'watchingchina' is a Canadian white guy living in China. Check out his blog that he advertises on this website for more info...
Also your posts are hardly tolerant and unbiased. For example:
"I would rather live in Houston than Paris. I prefer people who aren't full of themselves and who treat most others with kindness."
Really? You label most people in Paris as "full of themselves" and not "treat others with kindness"? Have you ever been to Paris? Much less lived in the city?
Your arrogant post doesn't bother to address the false claims you made. Instead, you ignore the evidence of your foolish so-called "facts", and continue with your white supremacy, claiming it is other who know nothing about China while you are only one, presumably enlightened by god, and only you know "the real truth".
Why are ignorance and arrogance always such good friends?
Read my other posts, read the reports on China, do business in China for 10 years like I have, and then come back and talk to me.
White Supremacy? You don't even know what race I am. Who is the ignorant arrogant one. Certainly not the one who has direct experience dealing with Chinese protectionism, xenophobia, and racism.
Perhaps he read your previous posts concerning how you believe that the American system of private schools is "racist toward white people" by allowing affirmative action benefits to blacks and hispanics?
and softbank gets to buy 70% of sprint?would that be possible in the 1980s?
USA must have fallen very very low that it has to resort to such base protectionist measures in order to contain China. However, these base measures will not help USA to gain anything, instead they will precipitate its decline. It would be better for the US to cooperate with China instead of trying to contain China. Unfortunately, the American congressmen lack the necessary breadth of vision to save their country. Maybe they are merely interested in filling their pockets. What a pity!
So how do you explain Chinese protectionism, specifically the protection of telecom businesses in China from foreign competition? Jean Michel, you are a typical hypocritical Chinese person, and we are sick and tired of hearing the hypocracy coming from the Middle Kingdom.
It would be better for the US to cooperate with China, but that requires the Chinese to stop their protectionism, nationalism, racism, and aggression against US companies first. I hope some day you learn something about business, politics, and relations in China.
In my opinion, China's investments in the U.S. should be approved. they should have more companies like shells, for example, to let them off the Chinese investors. The cash will obviously be a scam and it should be distributed to the US investors who have lost billions on the Chinese investments/plans.
You are making BS.A lot of European states dependent on China to buy their debt.
Show me evidence. China is broke. They only invest in US treasuries and Euro bonds to keep their currency low, seriously do you even bother to read the articles in this magazine? China depends more on Europe to buy its goods and now that Europe has stopped buying, China is stockpiling goods it can't get rid of. The Chinese economy is hemorrhaging money. They need to keep the money losing factories running to keep the workers off the streets, that is a lot of money just disappearing into thin air. China is producing and no one is buying, how long do you think that will last?
Please show me where China is on the following graph?
Europeans are in desperate need of funds, but remain worried about losing their independence and security. On the other hand, China is still developing. Growth may be slow now a days, but it will regain its momentum with out much delay.Truth is that China do not want to dominate Europe by buying up its debt. What they want is a peaceful rising.They don't want to be a key player in Europe.
So Europe isn't dependent on China is it? But Europe should be grateful that China has not bought its debt otherwise China would dominate it. China buys debt for only one reason, and that is to supress its currency, the only thing China dominates is its own people. China owns just over one trillion of the total,of 16 trillion debt which the US has, do you think that means China dominates the US? Not even close.
Fool! At least China has the products. Europe and the US have neither the products nor the money to buy them. The Europeans and the Americans must therefore suffer much more than the Chinese.
The Chinese are expanding their sales to the ASEAN countries, the African countries, the South American countries, Russia, India and the Central Asian countries. But what about the Europeans and the Americans? They must go without the products because they cannot buy them. And they cannot produce them, too. What a pity!
Here are some facts for you:
1. The US is the second largest manufacturing country in the world.
2. US exports are rising.
I know you are Chinese and Chinese hate facts. But, if you speak to educated people, you should learn to speak the truth.
The US used to be the first manufacturing country. Now it has moved down to second and soon will move to third. This will go on until its manufacturing sector will be reduced to insignificance.
Another fact for you:
China is the largest manufacturing country in the world, but there manufacturing has been declining in the past few quarters.
I hope someday Chinese learn that emotional responses will never win against facts.
Even then, China is still the largest industrial country because this activity had declined even more rapidly in other countries.
Western countries need China's support at the time of crisis. After getting their job done they try to torment Chinese companies. Actually these countries are Jealous of China.
I have lived and worked in China, there is nothing to be jealous of, where do you come up with this BS. China needs the west more to export to than the west needs China's imports, also if you want bring up treasury bonds the US government owns more than China by far.
Certainly the western countries are jealous of the success of China. While the western countries were invading, bombing, killing and murdering and torturing millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, China was fast prospering. Now, the Americans are doing everything to brake the development of China by using protectionist policies. Thankfully, the other countries are developing very fast and trade among them is growing much more rapidly than with Europe and the US. Europe and the US will soon be marginal countries.
The writer states, "A New congressional report about Huawei and ZTE, two of China's largest telecoms firms, appears to have been written for vegetarians. At least, there is not much meat in it. The study...declares the firms a threat to America's national security. Yet it presents little hard evidence to support its recommendations."
Meanwhile, in another part of the Economist, the publication writes about the problems associated with the soon-to-be Chinese president, Xi Jinping, going missing for several days with only weak explanations being given by the Chinese government as to his whereabouts.
Finally, we see the spectacle of US Congress, driven to lunacy by the Tea Party, calling up on national television US State Department officials to "spill the beans" on what really went on in Libya when the US ambassador and several staff were killed (presumably so they can embarrass the current administration), only to cut it short when they realize they are in fact broadcasting information about highly secret CIA operations in the country by doing so.
Put those three things together and it tells me the US Congress made the right move on deciding against opening the US telecom market in the US to Huawei and ZTE. Most enterprises in China that are large and profitable have in one way or another officials who are either party members, local government officials or investors who are party members or local government officials. More often than not, they hold considerable power within the companies. Of course they will deny that, but then again, if you ask for some sensitive company information that most non-Chinese firms regularly and are often required to give, Chinese companies, backed by government rules, will claim such information touches upon "state secrets". Not exactly an answer that bodes well for the concept of transparency.
Then, when officials even at the top suddenly disappear for days, with no firm reason being given despite the entire world wondering what is going on, that indicates the idea of transparency and corporate governance are not two ideas that are firmly implanted in China's state-run corporate community. Can you imagine what would happen if the US government says, "Okay, do whatever you like in the US in terms of going after business in the highly sensitive telecommunications market in the US," only to find out that suddenly the chairman of Huawei or ZTE goes missing and he is replaced with a former PLA military officer who refuses to divulge his background on the grounds of "protecting state secrets"? My guess is, the US government would look like a fool, on top of their already being called fools by those in the US business community.
My guess is the US Congressional report was vague because being specific (at least publicly to reporters) would further jeopardize what is an industry which is already prone to defense-related espionage and may indeed touch upon US national defense secrets.
It should also be noted (and this article apparently decided not to include it) that this was not some politician power-grab; there were many US companies which voiced their concerns over security, with some having been the targets of cyber attacks by Chinese hackers.
Strange, and I thought such a prudent measure given the fairly well-documented information about the amount of Chinese hacking that goes on towards foreign businesses operating inside and outside of China, would be viewed as a sound "conservative" principle by a prominent publication such as the Economist.
We in India have always known that USA double standards. The response of the Americans in the case of these two Chinese companies is just a reassertion of that belief.
Oh really. The US is the only country that doesn't hold double standards. After all, US telecoms can't enter the Chinese market. That means the US is holding the Chinese to the same standards the Chinese have for us. I thought Indians were smart. I guess I was wrong.
Actually both Cisco and Ericsson, as mentioned in this article, plus many other "foreign" telecommunications firms are major players in the Chinese market.
No they aren't. They are restricted in many ways. Most foreign companies are restricted. I know, I have been working in business in China for nearly a decade. Do you really think Cisco and Ericsson are going to talk about the restrictions on their company fact page? Get off your computer for once.
They are restricted in sometimes forcing to enter into a JV with a Chinese firm. Usually foreign firms can own up to 49% of the JV but are allowed to own special controlling shares.
For example here is a deal where Carlyle Group, a top 3 private equity firm in the world by assets, just did in mainland China.
Before you tell me to get off my computer again, I know how finance works in China because among other things, I work in finance in Asia and my firm invests in the mainland. Also personal attacks or insults on the Internet don't serve any purpose and is just a waste of time...
So foreign firms are not "blocked" as you say. They are just usually forced into JVs.
Sure, keep telling yourself that. If they weren't blocked, they would be invested in China a lot more heavily.
Besides Telecom, ports, mining, banks (for the most part) and many other sectores are off limites to most foreigners and/or foreign companies.
I don't really care what your experience is. I have almost a decade of experience doing business directly in the Chinese mainland. I don't pretend to know everything, but I do know foreign companies are in fact blocked in many traditional and non-traditional ways.
BTW, a forced JV is a blocking to some companies who do not agree to give up technology.
Well yes if you remove regulation on foreign investment then most likely FDI would go way up.
"Besides Telecom, ports, mining, banks (for the most part) and many other sectores are off limites to most foreigners and/or foreign companies."
Just a few examples to disprove your claim...
Shipping - NYK, the world's largest shipping company and an American company, in China.
Mining - Rio Tinto in China.
Banks - Goldman and Morgan
Point is that some companies, such as Boeing, Apple, Microsoft, McDonalds, and Carrefour are free to sell into the Chinese market mostly unrestricted. Others such as Goldman and Toyota are forced into JVs.
"BTW, a forced JV is a blocking to some companies who do not agree to give up technology."
Can you name a single large American company that doesn't have a presence in China and doesn't sell into the Chinese market? With the exception of defense firms I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Sorry having reread your claim those (counter)examples didn't "disprove" your claim but rather just are just examples of industry-leading foreign firms' presence in China. My mistake.
But if you do more research you would find that most large Western/American firms in those industries have a presence in China.
Again the only industry I can think of in which large American firms don't sell into the Chinese market are in defense.
Why is it that every bigot who shows up on these forums, finds it necessary to lay (false) claims to "I've been (or worked) in China for years", or (my favorite) "When I attended Qinghua University my professor told me . . .".
Go back to sleep. Your nonsense comments are all the proof anyone needs, that you have never been more than 5 Kms. from West Overshoe, Kansas.
Believe it or not, USA markets only have few giant competitors, who want an outsider to join the table?
Most people believe that the USA is a country of corruption, where money buys congressmen. Give each congressman a few dollars more and you can get anything.
Most people both inside and outside of China know the CCP is corrupt to its core.
Most people know that the congressmen are corrupt.
You can lie all you want, doesn't change the fact that China is heading downhill fast, bad loans and Ponzi schemes are going to lead to a lot of starving pissed off people. You are a blind, ignorant fool JM.
For the time being, China is rising and the USA is declining.
Just because that is what you so desperately wish does not make it true. Even the corrupted rich of China are taking their money out. How do you explain a population which is more than 4 times the US making just over half it's GDP? When the western markets stop buying, or declining, as you like to say, China directly suffers. I know JM, in your perfect world everyone and every nation will kowtow to China, sorry to burst your bubble, it's not going to happen, so get to work love your family and enjoy your life. Stop your nationalistic crap already, no one cares. The world has moved to being a more globalized sphere, and China is now pushing against it. China may have a large population, but it is still only 20% of the entire worlds population. China doesn't own the world and it definitely doesn't run it, and never will.
Perhaps you are not aware of it. The US seems richer than it is because of the huge amount of money it has borrowed from other countries in the form of long term and short term bonds and, more significantly, in the form of US dollars notes which other countries keep for international trade and foreign reserves. I hope you are not ignorant of the fact that a dollar note held by a foreigner means a dollar owed to the foreigner by the US. The US now owes more than one hundred trillion dollars to other countries. This explains why the Americans can live beyond their means, that they seem richer than they in fact are. It is just like an individual who borrows money from a bank or uses his credit card to live beyond his means and thereby seems richer than he is.
However, like the individual who has borrowed money, a time will come when the US will have to reimburse the hundred trillion dollars it has borrowed. This will happen when another currency will replace the US dollar as the currency for international trade. Hopefully, you understand what it means to reimburse borrowed money.
On the other hand, China is getting richer by producing more products than it consumes and investing the surplus in capital products such as infrastructures (railways, roads, sea port and airport facilities, houses and buildings etc), machines, equipment and human capital. This way of becoming richer is sustainable whereas to borrow money in order to live beyond one's means is not sustainable.
Funny you should ask the Russians how that worked out for them, they built the largest dam in the world a few decades ago. Then they went bankrupt. Looks like china is following in their footsteps. Hope the governments feet are sensitive to the pebbles below the surface. A command economy always leads to massive misallocation of capital, China cannot change economic fundamentals, no matter how hard it tries. 100 trillion dollars, you love making up shit don't you, I'm still laughing.
For the time being, neither Russia nor China are bankrupt. Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and, very soon, France, are broke. The US, which owes more than a hundred trillion dollars to other countries, will follow soon.
China is rising...... on debt lead growth......
Huawei forget to "contribute" to USA lawmakers.
This is correct. Looking at everything that has ever happened, it's always the $$$ that finally determines what will be done. The Economist will stop publishing in English and become a Chinese-only edition if the $$$ numbers are big enough. In the absence of some external shock like 9/11, everything can be bought.
Or the lobbyists who are perhaps the ex-politicians or lawyers. They have good connection with many incumbent senators. Every interest group can hire the services of the lobbyists and they will approach and "influence" the relevant senators or authorities. They are very expensive to hire. But for the giant companies like the two Chinese firms, they can afford. Yet it is worth to note the reasons for US's choice to discourage the Chinese firms from entering the US market. One possibility is that some local companies have hired some lobbyists to do the work already. Therefore, even if the Chinese firms can pay, they would have to fight an uphill battle. Anyway, its the money game afterall.
IMO It is not only blocked these 2 chinese firms, but rather a economic containment together with Australia, Canada. Kind of protectionalism or WMD (No need for evident or fake evident) too.
The bad boy (America) did bad thing and of course he doesn't want someone else do the same to him. See below :
"...This Pandora's box of cyberwar has already been opened ...
... by the United States.
Amid the ferocious Iran-bashing - and "by any means necessary" justifications for covert action against that country's nuclear program - that have become endemic in the West, the true significance of the Stuxnet exploit has been overlooked by many, at least in the West.
Stuxnet was the release of an important cyber-weapon - a virus that did not simply seek sensitive information or attempt to disrupt communication, but one that was reportedly rather effective in damaging a strategic Iranian facility by an act of sabotage.
It was an act of cyberwar.... "
Any OECD countries' govt that actually need to ban a foreign country from competing for bids in sensitive areas for purely security reasons usually means that its home-grown companies are not leading in the area anymore. Maybe a report should also look into the decline(?) of the certain US telecom fields??
China blocks US and other foreign telecoms. So, lets here what you have to say about that......
US is developed country with supposedly leading tech companies, it's natural for China and other emerging markets (India etc.) to be protective about its market to foster home-grown companies first.
My point is, if US (or other western) telecom companies were still cutting edge and leading in their field, then the argument for not using a Chinese company would be more than security issues. However, at the moment, it seems that all the focus are to do with security (which is still a major concern on its own).
Your first argument is pathetic. Sorry, but it is true. So because the US is developed, we are supposed to give handouts to China (and India)? Talk about double standards, typical of people who can't compete.
Your comment is full of bigotry and probably typical of Americans (whether you're one of them or not). What handouts? The aid? That's up to the US govt and whatever agenda they have. It's argriculture subsidies already pushed millions of farmers in developing world over the edge. China just does what it sees as its beneficial to its own interest. If US is not happy, they can do the same, but the large corporations prefer the current status quo as long as they make a large profit (unless they're threatened with competition)
Well, I know you'd like the US to dominate the world with all its military, technology and corporations (which govt doesn't wish that), but not all countries will give up without a fight.
This is how politics work, don't look down on poorer countries and people for doing what they do to help develop their country and bring up the living standards as fast as possible. US was once like this, but I guess knowing this won't fit into your self-righteous view.
You think I am a bigot because I disagree with you. That is a very arrogant, Chinese trait.
I hope you can look in the mirror and see yourself for the bigot you are.
Not for disagreeing with me, but for insulting people of the developing world when you could've made your point without the added insults (maybe you don't know what's insulting).
You showed your bigotry again by stating that arrogant behaviour is a specifically Chinese trait. How do you know I'm Chinese? Because I called you a bigot or disagree with you? I guess Gordon Brown was a Chinese as well then, since he was very famous for calling people that. If you think that calling someone a Chinese is an insult to them, way to go to classify 1.3b mainlanders and millions of others overseas regardless of their education background. You only demonstrate how low some Americans can be, but I know (and hope) that people like you're in the minority.
I'm not going to respond to your comments anymore, I've went through some of your past comments and deemed that you just don't like Chinese people (probably cos the CCP did something to you since apparently you've stayed in China for years) and arguing with you is as pointless as arguing with a Chinese nationalist with a hatred for everything Japanese.
Normally, I would side with the Economist on this one.
Alas, I have my own tainted experience dealing with China.
As a result, my suggestion:
Congress should approve of Chinese telecom investments in the U.S. They should fabricate shell companies, produce fraudulent financial statements, get them audited by the likes of KPMG, then pawn them off to the Chinese investors. Once they money is scammed out of the Chinese, the U.S. should say, "Unfortunately, we will not be able to investigate this matter....so sorry for your loss".
The scammed cash should then be distributed to all the American investors who have lost billions on what have turned out to be blatantly fraudulent Chinese corporations - investors who now have zero recourse as the Chinese authorities have refused to cooperate, allowing the criminal CEO's to live free as birds, fat on all the cash they stole.
[b8uX9HDnLyOct 12th, 22:21
Normally, I would side with the Economist on this one.
Alas, I have my own tainted experience dealing with China.
As a result, my suggestion:
Congress should approve of Chinese telecom investments in the U.S. They should fabricate shell companies, produce fraudulent financial statements, get them audited by the likes of KPMG, then pawn them off to the Chinese investors. Once they money is scammed out of the Chinese, the U.S. should say, "Unfortunately, we will not be able to investigate this matter....so sorry for your loss".
The scammed cash should then be distributed to all the American investors who have lost billions on what have turned out to be blatantly fraudulent Chinese corporations - investors who now have zero recourse as the Chinese authorities have refused to cooperate, allowing the criminal CEO's to live free as birds, fat on all the cash they stole.]
Unless you intend to be sarcastic, the Chinese are too late to get into this game. The Banksters in Uncle-land has already done all that you said.
You mean Lehman Brothers and Co., not Chinese companies!! :D
Unless you intend to be sarcastic, the Chinese are too late to get into this game. The Banksters in Uncle-land has already done all that you said.
b8uX9HDnLy has not yet borned in this time, so he did not know what happened Uncle-Land did to the world. :D
So, you have lost money in China. You must be very stupid the. Most other people have made a fortune.
Huawei needs to hire an American (preferably white Jewish guy) CEO to alleviate American fears of the company.
They have American CEO in America, why Huawei need a American CEO in headquarter China? Should Google headed by a Chinese CEO to operate in CHina?
A good company, and especially a multinational company, would hire the most qualified CEO regardless of nationality.
Frankly most (as in over 50%) of the skilled managers in the world today to run a multinational company are Americans.
I'm glad I read this article, as it has regained my respect for the Economist which was someone tarnished after the Chavez election coverage. At least you guys are consistent regarding promotion of free trade.
Now I'm not gonna get all radical and say the US is simply being unfair, creating an unfair platform towards anything which involves the word China in it. No, in fact I will admit that maybe Huawei does have such a government linked agenda etc. However I believe although security was the justification provided by the report, the reality is that the US is getting all nationalistic about major domestic projects potentially going to companies which come from your biggest economical enemy.
This stance of the the Congress is just about laughably ironic as pointed out by the Economist attempting to put dirt on companies primarily due to the nation they derive from, while promoting to the world free trade, and the insistence that governments should not unfairly support domestic companies. I hope the US government is made to be a laughing stock in front of the WTO for such actions which indirectly clearly promote domestic companies.
Furthermore, why is national security only an issue when the companies from another country? Who is to say that Apple, Cisco etc do not commit to such espionage techniques in order to gain an edge against their competitors and possibly breach into the privacy of regular civilians, management of competitors or even government officials? The US I worry is playing a very dangerous game promoted potentially by an ever diving economy compared to Asia, not to mention election year. Regardless of its reasons, if the US maintains its sly tactics of providing an advantage to its own companies, one does not feel too good of the consequences for US companies abroad.
For all those readers who naively believe all the nonsense they read about China "just copying" everyone else's ideas and technology, here is an article you should read.
It will not only give you a wake-up call, but perhaps enlighten you to the extent to which our own Western history is fabricated to please our egos.
A Brief Catalog of Chinese Invention: 60% of Our Basic Knowledge Originated in China
Are you sure about this one?
The Chinese invented the decimal number system so far in the past that the origin is lost in the mists of time. They invented and used decimal fractions, they invented the zero and its use, all of these at least 2,500 years before the West."
I believe it was the Indians who invented all that.
Also about metallurgy, some recent report suggest that the Europeans were ahead of China a few thousand years ago. Did you watch a Horizon (?) program about some blonde corpses discovered in Xingjiang and the associated story?
Let's not form a debating society on this one. The documentation is too extensive for contrary claims. Joseph Needham spent decades researching old texts and providing proof positive of all those items.
I have seen a claim which may be valid, of India simultaneously developing a zero or some surrogate, but the decimal system is totally Chinese. That is not in dispute.
As to the metallurgy, Yes, I am sure of my facts. China was infinitely ahead of Europe in all respects until very recently. Here again, the documentation is too extensive for contrary debate.
That's not to say that people don't file false claims in an attempt to trash China's history to fulfill their own political agenda.
Bernard Brizay, a Jewish historian, claimed in his book that the Chinese themselves destroyed the Yuanmingyuan and sold all the looted pieces in auction houses in downtown Beijing.
And we've had other Jewish authors like Julia Lovell claiming that China's opium century was just a "tragic-comedy" and the Chinese themselves were responsible for it, conveniently forgetting to mention it was the Sassoon family to whom Queen Victoria granted the exclusive opium franchise for China.
We can never stop people like this from writing whatever version of history they want. But we can be smart enough to not accept this trash.
In any case, China's record of inventions and discoveries contains many thousands of items, all of which were copied by the West at some stage. To focus on one item like the zero is just an attempt to cheapen the entire list.
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Bernard Brizay, a Jewish historian, claimed in his book that the Chinese themselves destroyed the Yuanmingyuan and sold all the looted pieces in auction houses in downtown Beijing.
And we've had other Jewish authors like Julia Lovell claiming that China's opium century was just a "tragic-comedy" and the Chinese themselves were responsible for it, conveniently forgetting to mention it was the Sassoon family to whom Queen Victoria granted the exclusive opium franchise for China.]
Wow, they are just like the Japanese Mike Tyson on TE forums. I am not aware of them until now.
I am not born with hatred toward the Jews but I have LEARNT to detest the Jewish propagandists.
The earliest evidence of metallurgy dates back to Turkey at 7200 bc, watching china just lives to make things up. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/turkey.htm, he is also fiercely anti Jewish.
I made no claim that metallurgy didn't exist, simply that China led the world in that area. And there wasn't a whole lot happening anywhere in 7200 B.C.
And please keep your slanderous accusations to yourself. I am not anti-anybody. What I am against is some peole rewriting history to suit their political/ideological objectives, and trying to mislead the world.
And that includes you, with your foolish link about Turkey. "Evidence of metallurgy" is hardly documentation of expertise in metals.
If you don't know anything, don't make claims. Your attempt to denigrate China's accomplishments makes you "fiercely anti-Chinese". How are you better than those you accuse?
US Government and Cisco Systems conspire to shut out Huawei
Companies in the cutthroat field of telecommunications received a remarkable marketing document recently, one aimed at causing suspicion about one of their biggest competitors, the Chinese firm Huawei.
"Fear of Huawei spreads globally," the report reads. "Despite denials, Huawei has struggled to de-link itself from China's People's Liberation Army and the Chinese government."
The paper's author was Huawei's main U.S. rival, the California-based company Cisco Systems.
Analysts say the efforts to discredit Huawei illustrate a wariness among U.S. firms of highly successful, low-priced competitors from China that are roiling telecommunications - once a distinctly American industry.
It was long thought that we were the number-one economy and China just supplied cheap labor," Guthrie said. "Now it is clear that China has a lot to offer in terms of innovation and industrial policy and state investment, and now people are scared."
US Ambassador Gary Locke is not a friend of China.
In November 2010, when Locke was Commerce Secretary, he put pressure on Sprint Nextel to reject any bids from Huawei, for purely political reasons.
Where did Huawei and ZTE get their technology to grow their product lines so quickly? Did it have any thing to do with China forcing companies to move their R&D to China if they want the product manufactured in China? The fact is these companies stole the technology. Huawei was manufacturing Cisco and other products and all of a sudden, Huawei is producing the same product and configurations. So, why give an advantage to Theives?
Your observations about China copying Cisco technology are incorrect, to say nothing of bigoted and probably racist.
Huawei's technology is all home-grown. In any place where they use foreign IP, they pay license fees like everybody else.
Where did you get the foolish idea that China copied everything from the West? You need to grow up.
Read the link I posted above, about China's record of inventions. Fully two-thirds of all so-called "Western" knowledge was originally copied from China - including things like "James Watt's" steam engine which was invented in China 600 years before Watt ever thought of it.
China has put men into space, built and orbited its own functioning space station, is launching its own GPS satellite system, has built a submersible that can descend 7,000 meters under the sea, as well as supersonic missile technology, and leading the world in DNA synthsising and human genome mapping.
All of that was developed domestically, and much more. In the future, it might be better to keep your foolish opinions to yourself and not slander China with your bigotry.
So you are cursing your European and Anglo-Saxon American ancesters for their own crime---CopyCating, just over 150 years ago.
China may be doing much of its own engineering, but is not doing those engineers any favors by having a few high profile technology espionage scandals over the last 10 years. Evidence in some cases even seems to point back to the China government as the instigator. I am not saying no one else does this, but perception is everything. Little has been done to facilitate trust.
Transparency is considered irrelevant if the issue is related to national security. If you chief says that this is an order, dont argue. On this basis, no further explanation will be given on "national security". This broad if not empty term will spread like virus. It may have no relation to protectionism as suspected.
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This just made me tear up and I had to take a bunch of deep breaths to stop myself from actually crying.
(Telephone commercials make me cry too, sometimes.)
This just made me tear up and I had to take a bunch of deep breaths to stop myself from actually crying.
(Telephone commercials make me cry too, sometimes.)
I got teary eyed as well. I can only imagine how relieved and happy the son must of been.
Ron posted this earlier. I so want to give this Dad a hug. He is what all parents should be in this scenario.
I mostly kept my cool reading that note but the perfectly-timed combination of Morton Feldman and Shoes on the Danube Promenade brought me to full-on bitch tears yesterday.
I have a very close male friend who believes his son may be gay. From the time he was 7 or 8 he's exhibited several signs, but in asking him he's denied it. He's 11 now, not sure how it will turn out in the end but he has so much support and love and good friends, I just hope if he is he's not afraid to come out.
Thatgirl, Let's hope they don't give him some weird pressure to be gay when he's not. Sometimes people are just different.
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Not necessarily. Jen knew that one of her friend's sons was gay when he was 4 when he talked about how he wanted to be a girl all the time, said that he used to be a girl, wanted to be a girl witch for Halloween, and dressed like a girl. Sometimes you just fucking know.
Because, you know, having a three year old boy who plays with dolls in 2013 means you have a gay son. Lyk, I'm SO SURE! Because being a male child with female role models in 2013 means you're homosexual. It's a witch hunt. I don't agree with homosexuality, but I do think that every individual has a right to be what they want to be. I would feel ashamed to hold someone back from being who they feel they are. On the same note, I would feel ashamed of myself for forcing an identity on someone, especially children. It's obvious that the man is proud of his son, which is a beautiful thing. I think what somewhat damaged is suggesting is that perhaps the parents, the father particularly, had an overbearing influence on the child's growth and identity. Homosexuality isn't contagious. It's no hereditary. That a father and son, mother and daughter, or any other combination of parent/ child should BOTH be homosexuals, indicates a possible radical. This potential heartwarming story of gay family bonding is at least as likely a story of a dysfunctional family.
Oh shit....
He said it.
It's 2013, Zafocaine. Don't you know it's politically incorrect, and very insensitive, to suggest that an alternative lifestyle parent is a dysfunctional parent? Haven't you watched Portlandia?
Simmer down, folks. I knew my child was going to be a firefighter, an astronaut, wear dresses, have twenty children, and learn French by the time he was two hundred weeks old. Yeah, we're one of those parenting combos who quantifies our child's time on this earth in irrelevant amounts to keep that new baby smell around.
Seriously though. I'm hoping this entire conversation is in this thread because "No one gives a fuck." Just be who you are. Don't shout it out to the world. Make sure your friends know. We'll all congratulate you, and throw high fives, 'n whatnot. Other than that, NO ONE FUCKING CARES. Keep your sexuality private. Keep your revenge plans private. Keep your ugly fucking baby pictures off facebook. And no one wants to see you holding your cousin's baby, single ladies. It makes our cocks go soft when we're stalk-jerking your photos. End.
Oh, Christ... they've driven you to talking to yourself too? This place will make you fucking nuts, man...
And yes, that is my banal confession for the day...
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Quick question, has anyone else here actually held a fetus? They're not very cute.
Don't blame the board. Plenty of us are just like this. Sometimes you have to paint a picture for all the pretty people. Otherwise they'll be left to their own devices, and Lord knows they'll either draw a jesus fish, a cock and balls, Nazi insignia, or a cock and balls with hair and semen shooting out comically. There's a fifty percent chance you're getting a variation of cock and balls, or boobs that look like the illustrator has never seen a pair.
But wait...
Actually it's funny this comes up because the other day I was hanging out with my best friend who's a homo I moved out here from Jersey, typically when we get together (used to be roommates) we smoke a lot of weed, eat some pills, and I inevitably try to find creative questions to ask him about being gay. Because he's not like your average gay, he's a Jersey Ital gay, which means he's had a lot of inner conflict and he really has the ability to turn it on and off when it comes to whether he wants to seem like an intimidating straight guy, or when he lets it slip and is sometimes just like, "Oh my god those pillows match! Awesome!" Etc.
Anyway, so the other day I was over there, high as shit, and I start prodding him about the whole "you're born gay" question. Not because I don't believe that you are--I do--but just because it seemed curious to me that by that logic it would mean that not only was he a gay teenager even though he wasn't with a guy until he was like 20, he would've been a gay five year old. Which seemed weird to me, I mean I don't really think of myself as being a particularly straight 5 year old. I have a vague recollection of liking boobs but I think that was probably more just imitating other males in my family. I guess I had some girlfriends in kindergarten but that could be anything, it's not really a definition of sexuality.
So I ask him whether he thinks he was a gay five year old. He thinks for a second and says Yes, he wasn't having sexual thoughts but you could definitely see the signs. I pressed him further and he turned around and dug out a photo album from his childhood. One flip of the page and there I was face-to-face with a 5 year old Jason in those tiny shorts people wore back then and like just by the way he was sitting on the floor in the picture--head cocked to one side, kinda sticking his ass out a little--I decided he was right. Even just in photograph, that was one fucking gay five year old.
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Quick question, has anyone else here actually held a fetus? They're not very cute.
My children informed me last night that they think at least half my friends are swingers.
This made me laugh.
Instead of ordering dolmas like I usually do at the shitty falafel place across the street, I decided to branch out and ordered the veggie wrap, which has dolmas in it. Then I just tore apart the wrap and ate the two dolmas, discarding everything else. Well, okay, I also ate the pita it was wrapped in.
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