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Galaki on 15 May 2009

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Confucius Question Stumps Beauty Queen

(May 13) -- A question about the Chinese philosopher Confucius was apparently a bit too high-brow for a contestant at the Miss Panama 2009 beauty pageant.

"Confucius was one of whom invented confusion," Giosue Cozzarelli replied, adding that he was one of the "Chinese Japanese who were one of the most ancient."

Check out the blunder in the video below.

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Tyrannical on 15 May 2009

Confuscious invetned the civil service exam. Of course weighing the "poetry" section heavily was probably a mistake.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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