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If wishes were fishes? Can't you even come up with something new for the curious readers on TV? There is some sort of idiom, a chengyu, a four-character phrase, in Chinese, which goes something like this: 缘木求鱼 (Yuánmùqiúyú) Yu is Fish, and Mu is Wood. I feel sorry for you if you have never studied any classical Chinese, WenYanWen. But, anyway. This means, please believe me: To Milk The Ram. In other words, to engage in something completely fruitless. === Milking the Ram, Sir. Have you ever tried such a thing? No need to reply, Sir.

Who stole from whom? Wavy Gravy or The Mamas & The Papas? Give me a break, Man! Anyway....no matter who stole from whom, still such really disgusting music, which should be first derided and then buried for all time.

MAGA Hat? Thank you for teaching me a new vocabulary term. You see, of course, that, unlike you, I have never really LIVED in America. You lived (live) in America. But, I never lived until I came to Asia. Do you get the difference?

Wavy Gravy is Crazy... Yet, still quite good.

Don't sell either yourself or your photography short, by any means. I really enjoyed your photo. And, I spent quite some time looking at it, for what this might be worth.

Anyone with a bicycle, in China, years ago, was considered to be wealthy. Nice photo. Thank you for sharing this. But, still, if truth be told, the CCP is responsible for delaying China's economic progress by, at least, two decades. Or, is this just a matter of opinion?

We have been fighting the deleted since before Vietnam. Think Korea. Even the Chinese on Taiwan have been fighting them, along with us. By US, I guess we mean people from Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and everyone who is against restriction of freedom and democracy. If you wish a more nuanced approach to this topic, please feel free to check with Chomsky. Chomsky is The Man! (My apologies about the TERRIBLE music. Please do not click. Terrible is not even the word for it.)

They are STILL poor. Only, less poor. It would have been impossible for a Marxist-Leninist Communist regime to lift the peasants out of poverty without the help of market-driven economies in the Western World. China has been selling it's cheap labor to the world, for decades. And now, this cheap young labor is drying up. The population pyramid in China is against them. The CCP is totally corrupt. The CCP will surely die. But the question is, will the Chinese Revolution, started by Mao, now controlled by Xi, become the unanticipated, by some, source of our destruction. Mao's legacy, even after so many years, may be to destroy our world... Talk about a revolution! I don't know about you, but I think that... Democracy is the best we have.

I find your post almost incredible, at least judging from most of the feedback I receive here.

Conrad hailed from Poland. This reference to keeping pigs together does not mean quite the same thing in English as it might in Polish. Maybe this is a reference to a Polish idiom? You tell me, please.

After many decades, I finally learned how to pronounce the word, 'apotheosis', and this was not easy. But, as for me, the book of Steinbeck which still sticks in my craw, after so very many years, is, still, "Grapes of Wrath". This book still spooks. After 58 years, since reading this book, it continues to haunt me. In other words, we are our brothers keepers...always.

So then, one might assume, that you worked for a Fortune-500 company, for 15 years in China, before deploying your golden parachute, in order to land safely in paradise? China is interesting, for the short haul, but this less-than-Middling Kingdom, while under the control of a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship, and a Stong Man, is no place to relax, while under constant state surveillance, for long, especially when one is ready to retire in the sun. Sometimes, it takes over 30 years in China for someone to finally get the point that enough is enough. The CCB, the Chinese Communist Bandits, are holding down the hopes and aspirations of all Chinese people. Life in China, these days, under the thumb of such autocratic rule, is intolerable. Still, some foreign flies remain in China. But most of them, these days, only remain in China due to the Stockholm syndrome.

Well, then, was it your need for speed?

Mister. Most people in Thailand call me Mister.

This Sunday, please, do not worry about Zhao Lijian. Don't let his image spoil your Sunday in some Chinese or Japanese Love Hotel. Zhao Lijian is such a sourpuss... Why is he such a sourpuss, almost every day? How would you feel under the same circumstances? Poor Mr. Zhao.

Years ago, we read of Malthus, James Lovelock, and, what's his face, the author of The Population Bomb. In light of what these great authors tell us, then how are you able to enjoy your Scottish breakfast? Fortunately, when God created Man, God provided Us with sufficient defense mechanisms strong enough to endure the unendurable. The strongest of our defense mechanisms is that of Denial. Denial of Truth. Also, Denial of Death. And, Denial of Almost Anything. Without the ability to hide the truth of our reality from ourselves, nobody would be able to survive. Therefore, thank God for His providing us with the necessary defense mechanisms which allow us to survive the unjust world created by Him, in all His Perversity. There are 6 (probably only 5) more defense mechanisms you might want to know about. But can't we first think about just the first, "denial", this Sunday? === Hopefully, no one here will deny themselves of anything, this Sunday. The World is coming to an end, quickly. Therefore, do not be guided by any church minister, this Sunday. Rather, like Henry Fielding, and his character, Tom Jones, sleep in the barnyard, among the hay, and bed ye there any comely farm girl you might see. Go ye therefore, and commune with the farm girls, be they in Pattaya, or elsewhere, this fine Sunday morn.

But fortunately, we have been granted another Sunday, this morning. Some of us, if we are not in Pakistan, in Karachi, do not need to contend with such blistering heat. And so, if you are one of the fortunate ones on planet Earth, I would suggest to you, that you seek out another human being, maybe rent a short-term room in some Japanese style Love Hotel, and, just like Savoy Brown, stay while the night is young.

Did that.

Take You HIGHER, now...

No longer is there any Common Ground. The divide is too wide. We are doomed, as a result. Enjoy the time which still remains. The time for chit-chat is at an end. The chattering classes will be doomed. And, the LaoBaiXing will soon take over, Using ancient traditional farming techniques, After the destruction of more organized technologically-based civilization.

Some of the above makes me, also, consider whether or not some of the posters here on this forum have ever attended The Citadel? Have you ever attended? What was your experience there? https://go.citadel.edu/corps/

One of the greatest scenes of filmdom is the intro to the film, The Great Stantini, based on the book by Pat Conroy. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS MAN?" It's the flu, Sir, it's weakened him.