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Chinese antiques Come to mind when i recall the British Commonwealth Games in my home city Victoria Canada. It Was 1994, and Victoria Was hosting the Commonwealth Games, as They Are Called. They are bigger That the Winter Olympics, are Held Every four years, two years apart from the Olympics. They are a huge success wherever They Are held, As They Were Here. They begin and end much the same format at the Olympics: Athletes from Australia Through Canada and India to South Africa to Zanzibar.
The Those Athletes at ceremonies.For Later in order to parade around the foot stomping cheers of all, in joy of this impossible club of People Who Loved Each Other, and spoke other languages, But Also all Español. So it Was a constant meeting of dancing blacks and whites and browns and goldens all singing and swaying to Some Jamaican drums. And This Was The Last year for Hong Kong, Being Taken Over by China the next year.
The Chinese antiques moment, for me, and moment from hell for my Vigorous are in law, next meat. My son in law Darren and I work out with at Each Other the gym weekly. Darren Asked this young athlete historical WHO favorite football team Español WAS, historical Was Tottenham. The young man puzzled Looked into my Son in Law's eyes. He paused, Shrugged, and said, "Follow That stuff I do myself, that's for old blokes from pubs."
And although Some birds sang and Where Was the sky blue, for my son in law if it Was I HAD Been slapped hard, as I jerked his head back. We never spoke much about it. But two summers Later I took my youngest daughter, aged ten Then, six weeks for a glorious holiday of Europe. The day of the flight, and I've watched England lose to Germany in Europe Cup Finals in London. I Drove us out to the airport. We flew all night, and Arrived in London early in the morning. I Asked the cabbie to drive us To Our hotel by way of Buckingham Palace for my daughter to see.
We did that, and Then proceeded down the Mall, Trafalgar Square Into Towards a scene of litter and debris and police Still loading wagons vans Into drunken men. We detoured, and the cabbie Explained That the lager Louts at the stadium Felt That HAD won the war Hitler After All When the Germans won the game, and HAD Been rioting all night long, They Were worn out and it's all over But the Glaziers and window clean ups. And I Knew That somehow the athlete WHO HAD Was Those Words spoken off training somewhere, Not empty beer bottle historical Tossing to Herman sounding pub-through window.
Terms and global in today, we see the world a deeper outrage Showing Against the torch bears of China, as They try to run this symbol of a far Greater civilization from ancient Greece Allowed That Also an athlete to speak His mind, Even as in the case of Socrates at bis peril. Consider the Immense change, a miracle of nature, or God we prefer. How Can the inner fires of mother earth Sometimes Almost shoot up side down streak of lightning strikes-through common coal, Creating a Democratic or small group of Citizens of Athens so long ago. That This Was Almost a lightning of fair progress to Humanity from the heavens above, so as to strike from the inner fires to the surface of earth Brings us diamonds. Or lumps of coal.
Ownership of an area, in law, Usually depends on how early you determine this Arrived by boat That Claim to your true roots. As in, China took over Historically independent Tibet in 1950 in a Land That Treasured Thousand Buddha for over two years in peaceful Independence: Surely Franklin Roosevelt's Shangri La, That created so many legends of mysterical Lives long holy people living up in the mountains unbothered by the Outside World. Until, as we say, 1950. The Dali Lhama Was Forced Into Exile Into India by 1959, and has-been reviled as a Terrorist Since in China.
And to Acknowledge, as did a Chinese official on British television yesterday, That Chinese and Other civilizations were great and did not needed to be democratic. And I Thought of how the previous Chinese HAD Been Treated by the mighty boy named Tamujai WHO created a Need for a Great Wall of China, by Becoming Such a fearless leader of historical Mongols invade That They vast and took over China in the most bloody way, killing millions. Always They did save artisans and Civilized Those with skills, But Had to as many example be put to the sword Still Until all WHO Survived Learned to bow and submit to the Mighty Khan.
And so Marco Polo entirely to peaceful kingdom, all very Confucian in Their stoic That understanding to to be the Emperor Was Obey, learn to be very good at your skills, and all would be well. And so it Seems to continue today, except the Valleys of the artisans are subject to the eviction of old factories Being Such as, perhaps, the old Ming place, for a fine new burning coal fired plant to make fake copies of Ming vases, and at waqes These, They will buy in the west, while we invest in Their best. Enough! If we think this through, so as well Japan has Accomplished, China is doing to us again.
Except this time it is Not Cheaper, better, smaller cars, it is enough That we are in huge line ups at Our discount Our stores with Hughes buggies of junk we do not needed, CAN NOT AFFORD, and will be out at the same time yard sale dumb as Ed in three over the line from you. Is This Not What made Japan rich so it Could Our buy up treasures? At least we got a car ran so well That it changed the auto safety standards of the world to compete. But this stuff? Leave the line up to Ed
Stay home, Click on the net, Chinese antiques notice That Can Still Be HAD Some very reasonable for bargains. Why is that, you might well ask? Well, as With Every Quickly getting rich peoples, They Always Become Their so excited about new cell phones, gadgets, coffee shops, high rise tower in the city, They Do Not high rate gradm's old Ming vase, Not by a decade of Wealth building yet. But you and I, if we stop with the buggy and the line up, clear Our mantles and begin an oriental flavor in honor of the new rising power.
By the time the new richer Wants Susie Wong together all her old family song, May she search the net, and You Can Be Have you find the rest of grandma's Ming vase set. Will you sell? For a price, you bet. That May Come as the world goes funny again, or you Need back surgery, Which Is Causing Ed to try to sell fake historical CO2 lead lined pottery, whih Because nobody nobody Wants Needs, Because Their yard sales have the same. While you enjoy, inflation oh boy, how Those Chinese Worker and got so rich. Investments That please the eye, till you say goodbye again, are rare. But They Do eat by. And never last forever, moments Taken or not. You choose.
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