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China golf: Communist Party bans club membership
BBC News ^
| October 22, 2015
| Sum Gai
Posted on 10/22/2015 12:06:58 PM PDT by sparklite2
The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules.
The new rule on golf states that members are banned from "obtaining, holding or using membership cards for gyms, clubs, golf clubs, or various other types of consumer cards, or entering private clubs".
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Someone must have been teed off.
To: sparklite2
only the ELITE get to EAT...like this
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:17:04 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
To: sparklite2
Americans want this. They think it’s equality. Just wait until they get a real dose of equality, and they won’t be able to refuse.
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:20:58 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: sparklite2
Senator, I am not a Communist. And here is my Planet Fitness card to prove it.
To: sparklite2
Makes sense. How can they claim to be good communists, if they enjoy the special benefits of belonging to a private club of some kind???
To: sparklite2
My guess is that they are not proud of the few Chinese men and women who are on the PGA and LPGA tours.
88 million seems like a whole lot of party members but, when there are 1,312,000,000 Non party members, is appears as if they are in a very exclusive group.
Can those who are members of those dastardly golf clubs ask for a “Mulligan?”
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: sparklite2
Remember when Hugo Chavez destroyed all those Venezuelan golf courses?
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:23:05 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Restore Liberty!)
To: sparklite2
Does this mean Obama will have to give up golf?
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:23:18 PM PDT
by
NRx
(An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
To: sparklite2
This might be the final straw that gets Xi Jinping’s party rivals to send him off to pursue other interests in a re-education camp.
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:26:34 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: MeshugeMikey
That would be Duffy’s Tavern,
where the elite meet to eat.
Yes, I remember the radio show,
and yes, I’m that old. :)
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:30:07 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: sparklite2
Im almost certain that the chi com elite will continue golfing and eating what they want to...whenever they choose to.
Im older than I look...
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:32:01 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
To: sparklite2
Archie the bartender speakin’
Duffy ain’t here.
Way before my time, but I’m a radio history buff.
Interesting trivia: One of the sons of the creator of Duffy’s Tavern was a co-creator of Cheers.
More interesting trivia: The last few seasons of Duffy’s Tavern were transcribed in Puerto Rico (to take advantage of generous Federal tax benefits then in place to do business there)
To: sparklite2
Even a broken clock is right twice a day...
To: Buckeye McFrog
Did not know that. Thanks.
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:55:00 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: sparklite2
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posted on
10/22/2015 2:57:19 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
To: sparklite2
88 million PLA VIPs, eh? We only have about 40 million commies,...
Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think) National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"
...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."
...and that's including the majority of ours, and according to themselves, the "conservative" ones.
OpenSecrets.org American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [
State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] [$93,830,657 [To Repubs & Conservs:] $92,879,550 [to Dems & liberals $658,305
[Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99% [Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%
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posted on
10/22/2015 3:06:01 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
To: sparklite2
Oh, sure. Let's see... I'm an elk, a Mason, a communist. I'm the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason...ah, here it is. The Stonecutters.
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posted on
10/22/2015 3:36:32 PM PDT
by
Trillian
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