Article here. I find this sort of amusing only for this reason: The USA likes to tell people that we are trying to spread democracy, of course we aren’t one as the USA is a Federal Republic, and we are celebrating the birth of the largest Communist nation on the planet. Go figure.


Real nice! I guess since we owe them so much money, it’s just as easy to light up a building rather than paying them back.
Jay – that made me chuckle. Most Americans don’t know how much we actually owe China in the way of money.
In May 2009, the US owed China $772 billion. My family is planning on lighting our Christmas tree in red and yellow lights this year.
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Yeah my understanding is it is over a Trillion, but hey I could be wrong.
Trillion – wasn’t that the name of the hot character in the Hitchhiker series?
hmmm… i thought her name was:
The thing at the Resettlement Advice Centre on Pintleton Alpha
maybe you are meaning a different hitchhiker series (w/o a galaxy in the title), no?
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Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(character)