TAO,

Why do you insist on responding to Xi's incoherent ramblings? It just encourages her. Ignore her and, even if she won't go away, here posts should reduce in number. Though I do admit, they are funny.

Ciao.

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> Ahhhhhh, Ms. Xi, Ms. Xi, Ms. Xi ... I expected your reaction to this
> issue, but EVEN FOR YOU, this latest dose of your well-known,
> brainwashed, yet highly monocratic-sounding utterances arrived in
> record time!

> In answer to your inquiry -- following a rather extensive
> reevaluation of the abounding ESL opportunities in the PRC versus the
> overall status of the greater majority of native-speaking ESL
> personnel, there's only ONE conclusion that I (or any other SENSIBLE
> individual) could possibly reach: NO WAY JOS! Believe me, to find an
> honest agency is like the plight of Diogenes, who walked through the
> streets of Athens with a lit lamp in broad daylight in his quest for
> "an honest man" ...!!! Tell me, Comrade Xi, is my logic
> really SO damned ridiculous -- especially in light of the seemingly
> endless number of major complaints, job-desertions, and cases of
> "foreign specialists" being financially and morally
> despoiled by agencies and schools alike? WOW! And you actually have
> the chutzpah to ever-so-smugly overlook such a major infringement
> upon the "Rights of (Man/Women) TEACHERS" ... ??? And YOU
> talk about #!@&* DENIAL! You're a mess, Mama! Your reasoning (IF any)
> is "out to lunch" ... PERMANENTLY! But, PLEASE DO continue
> to respond with your customary asinine commentary, my dear. In light
> of our (the USA's) current political dilemma and suffering economy, I
> can REALLY use a good laugh -- like the one you gave me before
> breakfast this morning!

> Love, always, from ...
> The Arrogant One