I was in HK on vacation . It reminds me a little of Europe but with exceptional service.

Redmond, nice stats.

Thanks – wiki is good for some things… Not climate science though.

Following Den’s logic Hong Kong should have twice the pollution, poverty, and crime than the Philippines.

Not to sound like a jerk, but it is actually twenty-two times.

Having just returned from HK three weeks ago, I can report that indeed the Chinese island is clean, wealthy, and safe.

I visited HK and China three years ago – email me at fpwuat@gmail.com and I’ll send you a link to some of my photos.
May I ask why you were there?
HK was great, it reminded me a lot of my hometown – Toronto. Except for the English style pubs filled with Filipino hookers.
But that is another story.

I suggest any lassiez-faire minded person take a trip and experience the most economically free place on earth.

Unfortunately it isn’t politically free, but no-one seems to mind the enlightened dictatorship of the Chinese.
At least not yet.
Regards
Redmond

I don’t see anything about Economic views in this.

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–noun
1.
the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
2.
(sometimes initial capital letter) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
3.
feminine character.

BC: I know that Diane Francis calls herself a feminist on The O’Reilly Factor

Your tone suggests that you think she is not a feminist.

However, my g*d, she’s a columnist for the Financial Post, which is part of the National Post chain in Canada (about as conservative as you can get). Have you ever read what she writes? I don’t think that you would find her financial writings all that problematic.

It sounds like you are suggesting that because she has financially conservative views, and writes for the National Post, that she could not possibly be a feminist.
By the way, what does g*d mean? How do you pronounce “*”?
Let me give you a scenario.
A woman who has benefited from the feminist movement, and has moved up in the corporate world.
She is treated fairly by her male colleagues and makes an equal salary.
She hires male or female employees without thought for their sex, only for their qualifications.
However, she is financially conservative, and votes that way.
Is she a feminist?

She got labeled a feminist and liberal leftwinger (which she can’t like) by someone who disliked her blog on Sarah Palin.

I thought you said she called herself a feminist… Which is it?

The woman (Diane Francis) is a conservative, always has been, always will be.

And? Is she a feminist or not?

The problem as I see it is that Laura Ingraham would deny women the right to abortion – after all, she said on the program that she was a Roman Catholic and she calls abortion, infanticide. Abortion is not infanticide, no matter what the religious right wants to say.

Ray Harvey Agrees with you – Although I must admit, after reading a Harper’s article on Late third term partial birth Abortion, I have begun to have some reservations.

I don’t like Diane Francis’ economics, clearly I don’t like her version of feminism either.

Why don’t you like her economics? Please elaborate – I don’t know much about it. As for her feminism, again I haven’t read what she has written on Feminism – have you?

In the end, the following is what should be aimed for:
“Wherever women have adequate access to education, the right to work, equality before the law, and contraception, the birth rate plummets. And this is where western liberal proclivities towards cultural relativism start to break down.

Agreed – relativism is BS, and wealth lowers birthrates – Laissez Faire Capitalism brings more wealth – sounds like Diane Francis is right in one area.

However much we might want to respect other cultures, those that deny women these rights are directly harming all of us, even if our own society is an equitable, gender-blind utopia.

I don’t respect other cultures at all – at least when they come to Canada. They must obey our laws. Otherwise they can do as they please.

Unless we want a world ravaged by droughts and floods, we are going to have to start demanding women be treated as equal citizens – everywhere.

Equal rights for women = fewer droughts and floods? non sequitur alert…

However, people that call her a hypocrite because she (& her sister) has two children are just being silly. Give me a break! Find something better to hang her on.

Nope – I’ll hang her on that. Not only is it hypocritical, it is also morally bankrupt, and she is giving support to the green movement, which is collectivist by nature, and has no respect for the free market.
It is surprising that she can’t see that, given her economic views. I guess she is blinded by the fact that China has adopted the tenets of Adam Smith. Their economic growth however, has nothing to do with their one child policy. And they may find themselves in a bind in about 10 years when all of their spoiled only children don’t feel like working… Gen-Y China style.
It makes her something of a Useful Idiot.
Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

I suggest any lassiez-faire minded person take a trip and experience the most economically free place on earth.

Ray – sorry for the clutter.

BC: I know that Diane Francis calls herself a feminist on The O’Reilly Factor

Population density of the Philipines: 796 people per square mile.

Japan – 873
Belgium – 918
The Netherlands – 1,035
South Korea – 1,260
Hong Kong – 16,442

And you said

Overpopulation causes pollution, poverty, starvation, crimes, and what-have-you’s.

I think you need to re-examine your beliefs.

Best Regards

Redmond

BC: I know that Diane Francis calls herself a feminist on The O’Reilly Factor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9–Zp-d5Zs&feature=player_embedded#), however, she certainly did not respond as strongly as she could have. I suspect that she was a little unprepared for the type of interview Ingraham does. However, my g*d, she’s a columnist for the Financial Post, which is part of the National Post chain in Canada (about as conservative as you can get). Have you ever read what she writes? I don’t think that you would find her financial writings all that problematic. She got labeled a feminist and liberal leftwinger (which she can’t like) by someone who disliked her blog on Sarah Palin. http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/francis/archive/2009/07/20/sarah-palin-on-fox-talk-show.aspx. The woman (Diane Francis) is a conservative, always has been, always will be.

However, her position here is untenable – on this point, I do agree. NO ONE has the right to FORCE a woman to have an abortion just as NO ONE has the right to DENY a woman an abortion. The problem as I see it is that Laura Ingraham would deny women the right to abortion – after all, she said on the program that she was a Roman Catholic and she calls abortion, infanticide. Abortion is not infanticide, no matter what the religious right wants to say. I don’t like Diane Francis’ economics, clearly I don’t like her version of feminism either.

In the end, the following is what should be aimed for:

“Wherever women have adequate access to education, the right to work, equality before the law, and contraception, the birth rate plummets. And this is where western liberal proclivities towards cultural relativism start to break down. However much we might want to respect other cultures, those that deny women these rights are directly harming all of us, even if our own society is an equitable, gender-blind utopia. Unless we want a world ravaged by droughts and floods, we are going to have to start demanding women be treated as equal citizens – everywhere. In fact, you don’t even have to call it feminism. You could call it calculated self-interest.” From the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/oct/27/climate-change-contraception-women-feminism

Diane Francis use of the China One Child Policy is unacceptable, and frankly, I am rather shocked, although I probably shouldn’t be. However, people that call her a hypocrite because she (& her sister) has two children are just being silly. Give me a break! Find something better to hang her on.

If women are allowed the right to an education; if women are allowed to live without fear of being raped, beaten by their significant others (i.e., husbands, dates, male partners); if women become equal before the law – & trust me they still aren’t; if women have the right to choose; if women have the right to equal pay for equal way – & trust me they don’t have that in most fields, then maybe we will see some headway in creating a reasonable society.

‘The population of the entire world could fit shoulder-to-shoulder in a space about the size of Jacksonville, Florida’

Now why would they want to do that?

Ha-ha! Why, indeed.

Now why would they want to do that?

More seriously, overpopulation is a myth. In parts of Europe (not the UK) they are worried about potential steep population declines. It may be that this will turn out to be a myth too but all the evidence suggest that economic development is the best contraceptive. When children are your pension policy plus social security provision and plenty die in childhood, you will have LOTS.

I’ll try this out next time…

a href=”FULL URL ADDRESS BAR ADDRESS HERE”>Your link word here

You must leave the quotation marks there.

You must add at the very beginning, before the a href, a bracket like this <

Then, at the very end you must put in another bracket, just like the one above, then /a
Then you close the bracket with this: >

And that’s it.

It also amazing to hear feminists talk about the need to control womens bodies, I guess only in the third world eh, they must be less than human, not deserving of the right of choice that you fought so hard for. 

And witness this, from a woman with two children.

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438

I guess she must know that the rich in china can buy their way out of it, doesn’t she. And that the Chinese are quietly reversing the policy due to their massive gender imbalance.

Anyways I am going to expand this into a full post on my blog…

Great work as always Ray.   

Oh yeah I thought it was gonna max at 10b?