Who recalls the name of that country?

China's main English language daily today carried a story saying a major U.S. toymaker was recalling nearly a million toys.

But there's one fact China Daily left out: The toys are made here in China.

That shows the sensitivity to consumer issues here. Newspapers are full of stories assuring the public that food and consumer products are safe, and that suggestions in the foreign media otherwise are perhaps hyped.

The China Daily article notes that Mattel-owned Fisher-Price is recalling 973,000 toys because of possible lead contamination in paint.

And the article dutifully says the toys are play characters like Dora the Explorer, and Elmo and Big Bird from Sesame Street.

Just don't go asking where these toys are made.

After all, only a day earlier newspapers here printed stories like this one, quoting a senior official griping that foreign media had "viciously sensationalized product quality problems" of goods "Made in China."

Comments

[x-ray fluorescence]

Hey!!!!!! It is rather a shame that the Chinese Communist Party of China thinks that they are dealing with Republicans in the United States.

[Marvin L Foushee]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooo, the FBI Chongo gets his badge number out of a coffee bean can.

What big CIA coconuts he had! It took two trips to the National Pet Cemetary to bury him.

[Maria]

Its interesting to read this all

[Tim Johnson]

Marvin, I'm giving you a yellow card on this blog. I already have had to delete some postings of yours laced with profanity. Many of your postings are completely off-topic and subject matter, and overwhelming in length. Either stay on topic, at reasonable length, or you will cease to exist here.

[Juan Valdez]

Lets get this straight because you are in incoherent schizophrenic I am the guy that ground up anthrax and mailed it. That makes a lot of sense. Why would they need to torture anyone to release my info. How hard cat it be. Any law enforcement officer could subpoena the appropriate records and track me down. Of course torture is an excellent way to make computers reveal information. Computers feel so much pain when you bend their wires. LOL. I haven't posted anything offensive to any government except the one in your personal kingdom. You wacko. Maybe you can get your axons to chase me down inside your head. Put your tinfoil had on you poor paranoid delusional appliance repairmen.

[Marvin L Foushee]

Well, I am now a expert on McClachy Newspapers; they have a newspaper in Raleigh, NC, The News & Observer. The Israeli Communist Party killed some Christian teenagers with arsenic in the restaurants so that they could take over the restaurant investigation and the restaurants. Instead of doing a crime investigation story, The News & Observer did a glorious tribute to these Christian teenagers and a tribute to the kingdom of heaven. It is a serial-killer newspaper. A Ted Bundy government newspaper syndicate. Death to the Pig God CIA Publishers!

[Marvin L Foushee]

It looks like the identity of one member of the American Anthrax Terrorist Cell is in the hands of McClachy Newspapers right now. I am sure that a little pressure or torture will force them to release your name and badge number to Interpol and the 2008 Olympic anti-Terrorist Units in China.

[Marvin L Foushee]

Georgie Porgie Pudding & Pie

Kissed the boys in Iraq and made them cry.

When the PLA girls game out to play,

Georgie Porgie ran away.

[Juan Valdez]

Has anyone ever diagnosed you with paranoid schizophrenia or the persecutory delusional disorder.

I didn't realize that the anthrax killed 100,000 agents. Who were these agents. Where is the news on the 100,000 dead. You should send this research to Matt Drudge. He will post anything. I would like to know who sent the anthrax to the news agencies 6 years ago. It is disappointing they never found the culprit.

Still waiting for that document requiring Mattel to use Yelx02586.

I'll try and catch up on your ravings later. You are psychotic.

Have fun.

[Marvin L Foushee]

If McClatchy was a trusted voice in the newspaper industry, they would have the face of Chongo on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper.

What about my face, the face of sanity: The face of the prophet of Amon-Re. I bet that would put down the Communist Party of Israel Rebellion in the Senate and in the House.

[Marvin L Foushee]

Is American getting too soft on Anthraxism?

Army scientists posing as ignorant, illiterate Arabs sent out terrorist samples of military grade antrax into the mail system so that they could take over the World.

How many Chongos operating on the Internet from the United States Department of Defense and Propraganda does it take to make that event horizon happen?

100,000 Dead Agents of an unconstitutional, whorehouse White House-Jesus Orwellian Republic sounds like a reasonable figure. Is that a crazy figure, or should I go higher?

[Juan Valdez]

"It is punks like you, Chongo, that give Timothy McVeigh a patriotic name."

That one makes no sense at all. You want to expand on it. Explain yourself.

[Juan Valdez]

You have my name. The President of Wachovia is Ken Thompson. If I were him you think I would be drinking my coffee and typing on this blog. Now, as for the White House Gestapo. Bush's presidentcy has been horrendous but to call them Nazi's may be a bit far. I don't swallow pills or do any drugs for that matter. You need to see a psychologist.

[Marvin L Foushee]

It is punks like you, Chongo, that give Timothy McVeigh a patriotic name.

[Marvin L Foushee]

You got a name, Mr. President of Wachovia, or are just a nameless, White House Gestapo face in the U.S. Department of Nazi Propraganda?

I am sure that the nameless spooks give you a pill; why don't you swallow it and do humanity a favor.

Spook N

[Juan Valdez]

If I were Tim Johnson my retorts would be a lot more impressive. Tell me did you ever get your $600 back from Wachovia. Disappearing electronic ink. Please, under GLBA and Sarbanes Oxley if that were true they would be up a creek. The FDIC would be all over Wachovia. You are a raving lunatic, a whiner, and someone who just craves attention. Write something substantial or stop your idiotic blathering.

[Marvin L Foushee]

OOOOOOOO Tim Johnson, I know where your monkey-ass lives too.

Drag-Queen Spic, American reporter in China.

[Juan Valdez]

Marvin, apparently I had you all wrong. You aren't a communist shill. You are just on lots of drugs. How can you do drugs and repair appliances. This makes you a lot less interesting. You are just a whiny guy who found a blog you post your ravings.

Epitome Appliance Repair 6020 Countryview Ln Raleigh NC (919) 828-2166 Marvin Foushee

[Marvin L Foushee]

It is rather a shame that the Chinese Communist Party of China thinks that they are dealing with Republicans in the United States. Mao taught them not to bow down to even the Morgan Industralists, but the vulgar and the obscene in their party structure seen to think that Richard Nixon and George W Bush are the cream of the crop. These people and the people in their administrations are just vulgar, degenerate, criminal assholes calling themselves Republicans for history sake.

[Juan Valdez]

Ooooh Foushee, you can cut and paste. Impressive. How are things in Raleigh, NC. Sorry your Mother died. Since she was a baptist you really should know your christian divinity much better. I see you don't like Bush or Edwards. You are still a raving lunatic.

[Marvin L Foushee]

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J. P. Morgan

Born April 17, 1837
Hartford, Connecticut
Died March 31, 1913
Rome, Italy
Occupation Financier, Banker
Spouse Frances Louise Tracy
Parents Junius Spencer Morgan and Juliet Pierpont
Children Louisa Pierpont Morgan, Jack Pierpont Morgan, Juliet Morgan and Anne Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the United States Steel Corporation in 1901. He bequeathed much of his large art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. At the height of Morgan's career during the early 1900s, he and his partners had financial investments in many large corporations. By 1901, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world. He died in Rome, Italy, in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, Jack Pierpont Morgan.

[edit] Early life and education
J.P. Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Junius Spencer Morgan (1813—1890) and Juliet Pierpont (1816—1884) of Boston, Massachusetts. Pierpont, as he preferred to be known, had a varied education due in part to interference by his father, Junius. In the fall of 1848, Pierpont transferred to the Hartford Public School and then to the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, boarding with the principal. In September 1851, Morgan passed the entrance exam for English High School of Boston, a school specialising in mathematics to prepare young men for careers in commerce.

In the spring of 1852, illness that was to become more common as his life progressed struck; rheumatic fever left him in so much pain that he could not walk. Junius booked passage for Pierpont straight away on the ship Io, owned by Charles Dabney, to the Azores in order for him to recover. After convalescing for almost a year, Pierpont returned to the school in Boston to resume his studies. After graduating, his father sent him to Bellerive, a school near the Swiss village of Vevey. When Morgan had attained fluency in French, his father sent him to the University of Göttingen in order to improve his German. Attaining a passable level of German within six months, Morgan traveled back to London via Wiesbaden, his education complete.

J.P. Morgan in his earlier years.Morgan entered banking in his father's London branch in 1856, moving to New York City the next year where he worked at the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Company, the American representatives of George Peabody & Company. From 1860 to 1864, as J. Pierpont Morgan & Company, he acted as agent in New York for his father's firm. By 1864-71, he was a member of the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Company; in 1871, he partnered with the Drexels of Philadelphia to form the New York firm of Drexel, Morgan & Company.

During the American Civil War, Morgan bought 5000 defective rifles from an army arsenal for $3.50 each and knowingly sold them to an army general for $22 each. The defects in the rifles caused them to shoot off the thumbs of soldiers who used them. Morgan himself avoided military service by paying $300 for a substitute.[1]

After the 1893 death of Tony Drexel, the firm was rechristened J. P. Morgan & Company in 1895, and retained close ties with Drexel & Company of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Company of Paris, and J. S. Morgan & Company (after 1910 Morgan, Grenfell & Company), of London. By 1900, it was one of the most powerful banking houses of the world, carrying through many deals especially reorganizations and consolidations. Morgan had many partners over the years, such as George W. Perkins, but remained in firm charge.[2]

Morgan's ascent to power was accompanied by dramatic financial battles. He wrested control of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad from Jay Gould and Jim Fisk in 1869. He led the syndicate that broke the government-financing privileges of Jay Cooke, and soon became deeply involved in developing and financing a railroad empire by reorganizations and consolidations in all parts of the United States.

He raised large sums in Europe, but instead of only handling the funds, he helped the railroads reorganize and achieve greater efficiencies. He fought against the speculators interested in speculative profits, and built a vision of an integrated transportation system. In 1885, he reorganized the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, leasing it to the New York Central. In 1886, he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading, and in 1888 the Chesapeake & Ohio. He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway.

After Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, Morgan set up conferences in 1889 and 1890 that brought together railroad presidents in order to help the industry follow the new laws and write agreements for the maintenance of "public, reasonable, uniform and stable rates." The conferences were the first of their kind, and by creating a community of interest among competing lines paved the way for the great consolidations of the early 20th century.

Morgan's process of taking over troubled businesses to reorganize them was known as "Morganization".[3] Morgan reorganized business structures and management in order to return them to profitability. His reputation as a banker and financier also helped bring interest from investors to the businesses he took over.[4]

In 1895, at the depths of the Panic of 1893, the Federal Treasury was nearly out of gold. President Grover Cleveland arranged for Morgan to create a private syndicate on Wall Street to supply the U.S. Treasury with $65 million in gold, half of it from Europe, to float a bond issue that restored the treasury surplus of $100 million. The episode saved the Treasury but hurt Cleveland with the agrarian wing of his Democratic party and became an issue in the election of 1896, when banks came under withering attack from William Jennings Bryan. Morgan and Wall Street bankers donated heavily to Republican William McKinley, who was elected in 1896 and reelected in 1900 on a gold standard platform. [5]

In 1902, J. P. Morgan & Co. purchased the Leyland line of Atlantic steamships and other British lines, creating an Atlantic shipping combine, the International Mercantile Marine Company, which eventually became the owner of White Star Line, builder and operator of RMS Titanic.

[edit] Later years

J.P. Morgan, photographed by Edward Steichen in 1903After the death of his father in 1890, Morgan took control of J. S. Morgan & Co (re-named Morgan, Grenfell & Company in 1910). Morgan began talks with Charles M. Schwab, president of Carnegie Co., and businessman Andrew Carnegie in 1900 with the intention of buying Carnegie's business and several other steel and iron businesses to consolidate them to create the United States Steel Corporation.[6] Carnegie agreed to sell the business to Morgan for $480 million.[6] The deal was closed without lawyers and without a written contract. News of the industrial consolidation arrived to newspapers in mid-January 1901. U.S. Steel was founded later that year and was the first billion-dollar company in the world with an authorized capitalization of $1.4 billion.[6][7]

U.S. Steel aimed to achieve greater economies of scale, reduce transportation and resource costs, expand product lines, and improve distribution.[6] It was also planned to allow the United States to compete globally with Britain and Germany. U.S. Steel's size was claimed by Schwab and others to allow the company to pursue distant international markets-globalization.[6] U.S. Steel was regarded as a monopoly by critics, as the business was attempting to dominate not only steel but also the construction of bridges, ships, railroad cars and rails, wire, nails, and a host of other products. With U.S. Steel, Morgan had captured two-thirds of the steel market, and Schwab was confident that the company would soon hold a 75 percent market share.[6] However, since 1901 the businesses' market share dropped, never reaching Schwab's dream of 75 percent market share.

Morgan also financed manufacturing and mining businesses and controlled banks, insurance companies, shipping lines, and communications systems. Through his firm came enormous funds from abroad to help develop American resources.

Enemies of banking attacked Morgan for the terms of his loan of gold to the federal government in the 1895 crisis, for his financial resolution of the Panic of 1907, and for bringing on the financial ills of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. In December 1912, Morgan testified before the Pujo Committee, a subcommittee of the House Banking and Currency committee. The committee ultimately found that the partners of J.P. Morgan & Co. along with the directors of First National and National City Bank controlled aggregate resources of $22,245,000,000. Louis Brandeis, the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, compared this sum to the value of all the property in the twenty-two states west of the Mississippi River.[8]

In 1900, Morgan financed inventor Nikola Tesla and his Wardenclyffe Tower with $150,000 for experiments in radio. However, in 1903, when the tower structure was near completion, it was still not yet functional due to last-minute design changes that introduced an unintentional defect. When Morgan wanted to know "Where can I put the meter?", Tesla had no answer. Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's worldview; nor would it pay for the maintenance of the transmission system. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by Morgan, and additional financiers were reluctant to come forth. By July 1904, Morgan (and the other investors) finally decided they would not provide any additional financing. Morgan also encouraged other investors to avoid the project.

At the height of Morgan's career during the early 1900s, he and his partners controlled directly and indirectly assets worth $1.3 billion. [9]

Near the end of his life, Morgan played a role in the run-up to the entry of the United States into World War I. After the first punishing year of war, the Allied Powers desperately needed financial support to continue the war effort. To that end, Morgan launched an effort to float the Anglo-French bond drive of 1915, which allowed the Allies to purchase much-needed foodstuffs and other supplies. In September of 1915, the first public loan, the $500,000,000 Anglo-French loan, was floated. Concomitantly, the resulting trade in munitions with England and France carried the United States from a depression in 1914 to boom years in 1915 and 1916.[1]

[edit] Personal life

Self-conscious about his rosacea, Morgan hated being photographed.Morgan was a lifelong member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and by 1890 was one of its most influential leaders.

In 1861, he married Amelia Sturges (1835–1862). After her death the next year, he married Frances Louise Tracy (1842–1924) on May 3, 1863 and they had the following children:

Louisa Pierpont Morgan (1866–1946) who married Herbert Penny Livingston Satterlee (1863–1947),
Jack Pierpont Morgan (1867–1943),
Juliet Morgan (1870–1952), and
Anne Morgan (1873–1952).
He often had a tremendous physical effect on people; one man said that a visit from Morgan left him feeling "as if a gale had blown through the house."[10] Morgan was physically large with massive shoulders, piercing eyes and a purple nose, because of a childhood skin disease, rosacea.[11]His grotesquely deformed nose was due to a disease called rhinophyma, which is the end result of acne rosacea. As the deformity worsens, pits, nodules, fissures, lobulations, and pedunculation contort the nose into grotesque cosmetic problems. This condition inspired the taunt "Johny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue."[12] Surgeons could have shaved away the rhinophymous growth of sebaceous tissue during Morgan's lifetime, but as a child Morgan suffered from infantile seizures, and it is suspected that he did not seek surgery for his nose because he feared the seizures would return. His social and professional self-confidence were too well established to be undermined by this affliction. It appeared as if he dared people to meet him squarely and not shrink from the sight, asserting the force of his character over the ugliness of his face.[13] He was known to dislike publicity and hated being photographed; as a result of his self-consciousness of his rosacea, all of his professional portraits were retouched.

Morgan smoked dozens of cigars per day and favored large Havana cigars dubbed Hercules' Clubs by observers.[14]

His house on Madison Avenue was the first electrically lit private residence in New York. His interest in the new technology was a result of his financing Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Illuminating Company in 1878.[15]

J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, later bought by the U.S. Government and renamed the USS Gloucester to serve in the Spanish-American War. Photograph by J. S. Johnston.Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage of R.M.S. Titanic, but cancelled at the last minute.[16] The Titanic, registered as a British mail ship, was really owned by Morgan. He had his very own private suite and promenade deck on the Titanic.

Morgan died while traveling abroad in Rome. On March 31, 1913, just shy of his seventy-sixth birthday, Morgan died in his sleep at the Grand Hotel. Nearly 4,000 condolence letters were received there overnight and flags on Wall Street flew at half-staff. The stock market was also closed for two hours when his body passed through Wall Street. [17]

At the time of his death, he had an estate worth $68.3 million ($1.39 billion in today's dollars), of which about $30 million represented his share in the New York and Philadelphia banks. The value of his art collection was estimated at $50 million.[18]

His remains were interred in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in his birthplace of Hartford.

His son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., inherited the banking business.[19]

[edit] Art, book and gemstone collector
Morgan was a notable collector of books, pictures, and, other art objects, many loaned or given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (of which he was president and was a major force in its establishment), and many housed in his London house and in his private library on 36th Street, near Madison Avenue in New York City. His son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., made the Pierpont Morgan Library a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to his father and kept Belle da Costa Greene, his father's private librarian, as its first director.[20]

The J.P. Morgan Library and Art MuseumBy the turn of the century JP Morgan had become one of America's most important collectors of gems and had assembled the most important gem collection in the USA as well as of American gemstones (over 1000 pieces). Tiffany & Co. actually assembled his first collection -- which basically implied that their "chief gemologist" George Frederick Kunz built the collection for JP Morgan -- which was exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889. The exhibit won two golden awards and drew the attention of important scholars, lapidaries and the general public. [21]

George Frederick Kunz then continued to build a second, even finer, collection which was exhibited in Paris in 1900. Collections have been donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York where they were known as the Morgan-Tiffany and the Morgan-Bement collections. [22]. In 1911 Kunz named a newly found gem after his biggest customer: morganite.

A number of USA gemstones from the Morgan collection, considered the best in the world.Morgan was a benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Groton School, Harvard University (especially its medical school), the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York and the New York trade schools.

Morgan was also a patron to photographer Edward S. Curtis, offering Curtis $75,000 in 1906, for a series on the Native Americans. Curtis eventually published a 20-volume work entited "The North American Indian".[23] Curtis went on to produce a motion picture In The Land Of The head Hunters (1914), which was later restored in 1974 and re-released as In The Land Of The War Canoes. Curtis was also famous for a 1911 Magic Lantern slide show The Indian Picture Opera which used his photos and original musical compositions by composer Henry F. Gilbert.[24]

[edit] Legacy
His son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. took over the business at his father's death, but was never as influential. As required by the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, the "House of Morgan" became three entities: J.P. Morgan and Co. and its bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust; Morgan Stanley, an investment house; and Morgan Grenfell in London, an overseas securities house.

The gemstone Morganite was named in his honor. [25]

[edit] Popular culture
In his satirical history of the United States, It All Started with Columbus, Richard Armour commented that "Morgan, who was a direct sort of person, made his money in money... He became immensely wealthy because of his financial interests, most of which were around eight or ten percent... This Morgan is usually spoken of as 'J.P.' to distinguish him from Henry Morgan, the pirate."

Bertolt Brecht the German writer based the figure of Pierpont Mauler the beef tycoon in his play Saint Joan of the Stockyards on Morgan.

In the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the character J. Pierrepont Finch is portrayed as a rising, powerful businessman; his character is possibly an allegory of Morgan's. The character Mr. Bratt alludes to the nominal similarity in the beginning of the show: "Pierrepont. Say, maybe that ought to be J. Pierrepont Finch."

J. P. Morgan appears in E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime, and in the broadway musical inspired by it of the same name.

J.P. Morgan is mentioned, by name, by Oliver Warbucks in the broadway musical, Annie.

A highly fictionalized version of J. P. Morgan appears in Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders' graphic novel The Five Fists of Science.

It has been said that Morgan canceled his suite on the Titanic for its maiden voyage because his French mistress retained him in Paris. As a result, he missed the boarding in Le Havre and was very angry. But he realized a few days later that his mistress had saved his life.

[Juan Valdez]

Communist Amon-Re party. That is a new one. So the Chinese have added an egyptian God to their title. Link me to that one or shut up.

[Juan Valdez]

If I was catholic. I would know that the Pope is not the son of God. Jesus is the son of God. No one worships the pope?!? LOL. Come on dude. Get your divinity straight. The pope is not or has never claimed to be the savior of the Falon-Gong or the Jews. He may have said that Jesus is the savior of all but not himself. Let me know what drugs you are on, because you are tripping.

[Marvin L Foushee]

If I was the BIG MAO in China, I would tell the terrorists at the United States Embassy to pack up their bags and not to send anyone back until King George's Head was hanging on a street lamp post in London.
.................

In 1959, the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia selected the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach to launch a campaign for Colombian Coffee. The agency then created the fictitious character Juan Valdez, to symbolize and personify the more than 560,000 hardworking and dedicated Colombian "cafeteros" (coffee farmers) that depend on coffee for their livelihood, and are part of the Federation.
In 1969, Carlos Sánchez of Medellín, Colombia, was chosen to replace José F. Duval, a New York based actor, who had until then portrayed Juan Valdez. Mr. Sánchez has been Juan ever since.

A coffee farmer himself, Carlos Sánchez was born in Fredonia, a small town which lies in the largest coffee producing region of Colombia, Antioquia. He currently resides in Medellín, where, when not portraying Juan Valdez, he makes silkscreens in his Graphic design studio. A longtime enthusiast of the arts, he presently dedicates himself to painting watercolor land and city scapes.


Juan Valdez is truly an international symbol. Ask Carlos Sánchez and he'll begin to rattle off an impressive and extensive list of all the places he has traveled to as Juan Valdez: Japan, the US, Canada, Korea, Norway, France and Spain, just to name a few. Juan Valdez's travels include promoting Café de Colombia's latest sports sponsorships, where his presence always draws a crowd and enhances media coverage. For instance Juan has been at the US Open, where he became a true tennis connoisseur watching the most exciting matches; in March, He also fitted on some skis at the Café de Colombia Alpine Ski World Cup Finals in Lillehammer, Norway; he was also present at the Montreal and Toronto for Canada's international women's and men's tennis championships, where he supplied the spectators with free 100% Colombian Coffee throughout the tournament.
For more information see Café de Colombia's Sports Sponsorships

Why is Juan Valdez so known? Show up anywhere with him and the majority of the people are bound to point, yell out a greeting or come up and ask for his autograph. Maybe it's due to the fact that Juan's likeness has been an integral part of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia's and truly represents the values and dedication of Colombia's coffee growers. Juan's amicable figure trassends because many people identify themselves with the endurance, honesty, authenticity and perseverence of this character.
Juan's just a multitalented, omnipresent kind of cafetero. No matter what he's engaged in, he never stops being Juan: the pleasant and affable spokesperson, who lets the coffee speak for itself. Maybe that's why everyone is drawn to Juan.

Juan Valdez. Juan in a million.

[Juan Valdez]

Link me to your Syrian reporter story with the communist party. Bring it on punk. Don't just rave and lie. IF I was a reporter and was arrested everything I had written would not disappear. It is still published. My reports and articles wouldn't disappear. If I was in any western country I could continue to publish from prison. You must be on some good drugs.

[Juan Valdez]

OK Foushee, you want to play? First off there is not Matel-Fisher. There is Fisher-Price and Mattel Inc. Note the 2 t's in Mattel. Atleast spell the companies name right when you slander them. Second, link me to this product specification you are whining over. Respond without the link and you are a chinese govt shill and a raving lunatic. Show me where it says go buy lead paint and put it on childrens toys? Please, come on fool. Hey, I spell penicillin just like you. I don't know what it has to do with the rest of your ravings, but at least you have a spell checker for that one. LOL

[Marvin L Foushee]

Juan Valdez, do you believe that there are over 25 million books of darkness and evil in China that need to be destroy so that the ignorant and superstitious people there cannot fall into darkness and evil and away from the Communist Amon-Re Party of Light?

[Marvin L Foushee]

Juan Valdez, are you a Catholic? Do you believe that the Pope is the Son of God in the divinity of the Holy Spirit and Jesus? Do you think that the Pope can be also be possessed by evil and be forced to give Black Masses in Latin to all who fall down on their hands and knees and worship him as the savior of the Falon Gong and the Jews?

[Marvin L Foushee]

This is a news story about how some Syrian reporters got picked up and arrested in their territory by the Communist Party of Israel.

When you are arrested or killed, your speech is killed as well.

...................

The Journalists Union Condemns the Arbitrary Arrest of Journalist Attila Farahat and his Colleague in Occupied Syrian Golan

Thursday, August 02, 2007 - 01:05 PM

Damascus,(SANA)-
The Syrian Journalists Union condemned on Thursday the arrest of Attila Farahat who works as a correspondent for the Syrian TV and his colleague, Yousuf Shams, after the Israeli occupation troops stormed their homes in Bekaatha and Majdal Chams.
In a statement , the journalists union stressed that such an act forms an attack on the freedom of the press , demanding the international community to condemn such an ugly crime.
It also called on the Arab Journalists Union and other Arab media establishments to expose the Israeli brutal aggression on the Arab journalists in the occupied Arab territories.
A. N.Idelbi

[Marvin L Foushee]

Who is Juan Valdez? Are you the Chief Operating Officer for Matel-Fisher in China? What is your connection with Matel-Fisher?

Corporations do everthing according to product specification. If you want to write a story about how Juan Valdez, the illiterate moron who can not read the product design specification of a toy, purchased the wrong paint in the Chinese paint store, you have all the press you want and need in this press box.

What is your story, punk? Put it into writing. If you don't have a news story, what is your title and your position at the United States Embassy in China? Are you their Spic janitor at the Embassy that cleans out their news bins at night?

HOW DO YOU SPELL "PENICILLIN": Probably like a moron.

Like you said, put your Matel-Fisher story, or shut up, Chongo. Is the Chief Operation Officer in this Chinese story White or Chinese, or Latino?

Isn't Life a Bitch when you get stepped on by Mao's Little Red Boot?

[Juan Valdez]

Blah blah blah. Show me a copy of the document stating Matel US management requires Yelx02586 which contains lead. Image or PDF the file and link it to this site. Otherwise you are a chinese govt shill. Lets go Foushee. Show me or shut up. If you can't prove it you are a LIAR. Show me.

And yo Foushee. Link me tothe communist party run by Israel. An actual site run by Israel. Not something extremist group. Show me. Or SHUT UP.

Finally, Link me to this communist party in the U.S. and prove they kill speech in China. No one can kill free speach in the U.S., so show me how the supposed "communist party in america" kills free speach in china. Show me proof. or SHUT UP. Don't post your ravings if you can'
t back them up.

You are whacked.

[Marvin L Foushee]

I was visiting the Daily Texan today, a student newspaper of the University of Texas, and they were discussing the sale of F14 fighter jet parts on the international market by the military. The newspaper article showed concern that these parts were going to land in the hands of the Iranians or the Chinese: SPIRITUAL JIHID ENEMIES OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. I put my two cents into print, and my comment was sliced in half by the Communist Party of America. The killed me at the University of Texas. They also put a virus into their website and their buggy software caused my computer.
If people kill your speech in America, it is CIVIL WAR II in America. Watch your back, Buddhist followers of Panchen Lama of Tibet, the American Communist Party members in China are trying to kill your spiritual speech there.

[Marvin L Foushee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Paley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone

Lets blame the Israeli Communist Party of America for something. The anthrax attacks; the attack on the world trade center; the death of Bobby Kennedy; the death of Lyndon B. Johnson. You name it; they probably had something to do with. It is called the Queer State Department in the United States. What is it called it China, Tim?

[Marvin L Foushee]

Mattel-owned Fisher-Price owns the plant in China that manufactures the toys. They have to manufacture the product according to American specifications. "You use this paint, YELx02586, and you do not use any other paint. This is the spec paint for this product. If you deviate from the spec product list, you will be fired, and the company will lose millions of dollars if a kid licks YELy02586 paint instead of YELx02586 and dies of lead poisoning. The American toy company screwed up. Why are making the Chinese responsible for a American corporate error at a one of their plants in China in this article? Did a spy from the American embassy going into this company and switch out the wrong paint? Did the Communist Party of China go into this company and switch out the wrong paint in order to make American companies operating in China look bad and cause them to loose millions of dollar in the capitalistic marketplace?

The buck stops at the COO of this American plant in China. Put a face of this person in your newspaper column if you want to do a perp walk in the newspaper without getting any facts at all about the story.