An Accidental Virus Release Here, an Accidental Dam Failure There, Pretty Soon You’re Inside an Accidental World War
An Accidental Virus Release Here, an Accidental Dam Failure There, Pretty Soon You’re Inside an Accidental World War
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I Return to the Place I was Born
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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And let us not forget the PLA ramming small fishing vessels of their neighbors who dispute the 9 dash line claim to the South China Sea, the persecution of all religions under the rule of Emperor Xi, the organ harvesting of dissidents, the threat to take Taiwan by force, the imposition of the new “security law” in H.K. and so much more.
The U.S. and China have clearly entered the Cold War stage. It will only take one small incident in the Formosa Straights or South China Sea and everything goes hot.
No big deal, there would only be about 400 million people dead, injured or their livelihood seriously destroyed. This reminds me, for some reason, of the famous quote, “Oh the humanity”. It’s hard to believe that a SNAFU of this magnitude is even conceivable. Yet, the CCP could very well finally accomplish the hellish opposite of their “Peoples Paradise”. Even so the rioting idiots in Seattle would probably still try to impose their disgusting Marxist will on decent people claiming “The Chinese didn’t do it as well as we could”.
Denny-
The subtle racism of assuming roundeye could do communism better than slanteye…
the bright side being all those drowned will never again be subjected to that ***t background music…
Denny sed: “Oh, the huge manatee!”
Drunk already today, ghost?
& then I read the article about the baboons in the safari park armed with knives and chain saws.
Right you are Mr. ONeil, I should not have replied, our entire world is really about the enemy within a man’s heart.
Do they have nuclear power plants?