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daaitoulaam: @Tim_Bousquet Hidden? Pilfered documents and pardons? Pedarasty protection?
11 Feb 2013 07:17 PM

daaitoulaam: RT @Badcanto: @Badcanto On this morning, a guarding lion on the front door of Che Gung Temple was splashed red paint. #HK
11 Feb 2013 05:03 PM

daaitoulaam: Sometimes I need to step back on the clever check. Who is she is enough without mistaking your gf for your daughter.
11 Feb 2013 11:28 AM

daaitoulaam: So will CY and friends unleash Andy Tsang to arrest/harrass the "little men" CCP sees criticizing them to counter Che Kung draw?
11 Feb 2013 10:30 AM

daaitoulaam: @celticshk No wonder he's a backup
10 Feb 2013 05:21 PM

daaitoulaam: @celticshk a deserved send off?
10 Feb 2013 05:01 PM

daaitoulaam: Thought the CCP delayed denial of targetting radar was more of a "shit, they saw that" than "we didn't do it"
10 Feb 2013 01:03 PM

daaitoulaam: RT @mcgregorrichard: RT @yu_miles China wants to know how Japan detected PLA naval ship's fire-control radar. t.co/1XSIMSgm …
10 Feb 2013 01:00 PM

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09 Feb 2013 08:43 AM

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08 Feb 2013 02:04 PM

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Daai Tou Laam Diary

The United Front is Spinning CY Leung Hard

by Tom Legg at Thu Jan 17 19:14:32 2013

After spinning the Liaison Office's Scrooge McCY as a man of the people and someone to shake up HK's tycoons prior to taking office last July, the United Front is back with a vengeance on the day after his inaugural Policy Address.

Of course the actual Policy Address was a potpourri of goodies and subsidies for HK's tycoons with no asset...

What's Your Plan?

by Tom Legg at Fri Jan 11 12:33:36 2013

Hong Kong pan-dems pushed forth a motion of impeachment of Scrooge McCY that was pushed back by the non-democratic shoeshiner monopoly of power. Hong Kong's most annoying shoe-shiner castigates the pan-dems for this futile waste of time over minor affairs, almost sounding like Carrie Lam's bullshit script to LegCo.
It's true the motion had...

Predictable Behaviour From Scrooge McCY and Friends

by Tom Legg at Thu Jan 10 10:48:15 2013

Given Scrooge McCY's history as a surveyor, it's predictable that his solution to Hong Kong's housing problem would be the equivalent of some over-the-hill pop band doing a one-hit wonder revival tour. Scrooge McCY's one-hit wonder was helping to lay out Shenzhen. So obviously to this man the solution is laying out new towns, which is why he's r...

Scrooge McCY and His URA

by Tom Legg at Sun Dec 30 09:59:45 2012

The options were obvious: 1) Favor the tycoons, 2) Favor the small property owner, 3) Keep your mouth shut. Isn't it obvious which one Scrooge McCY's URA chose?

Given the "Big market, Little Government" propaganda that floods HK, you'd expect the government to keep their mouths shut about a private property market transaction. With the p...

Scrooge McCY and The Night Before Christmas

by Tom Legg at Mon Dec 24 10:50:41 2012

Even HK's most annoying shoe-shiner is heaping praise upon the PR maneuvers this holiday season of Scrooge McCY. The band has squawked loudly about him breaking the monopoly of the monopolists and Scrooge McCY being a true populist, but that's all bah and humbug.

What has Scrooge McCy done? Why today HK finds that