Have you noticed? NBC is always the first to point out that the Cherry Blossoms are thriving magnificently in D.C. They are quaint and colorful and quite Japanese. It seems to me that there are probably some tekkies at Toyota in Tokyo thinking that the snot-nosed Americans are not showing enough respect because after all, 'we did give them the damned Cherry Blossoms'. I can understand that. They were caught short with their hands in the till; so to speak. This is no different than the activity which transpires in this country when some rich politicos pay for a trip to a strip club while the economy is still mostly in the crapper due to the fact that they were at bat and refused to hit the ball at all! But, the cherry blossoms are still quite beautiful.
I remember clearly pictures of said trees peeking out at us in the early Spring some years ago while being doused by an inordinate amount of snow from a 'surprise' late winter storm. Having lived in Richmond for many years, I can attest to the fact that there is nothing surprising about any one of these storms when they come around the mountains to the Southwest of the body of the state in Northern North Carolina, line up with a source of water (say......the Atlantic Ocean), and keep air temps in the twenties. It would help to have a high pressure center pushing the whole system up the coast from North Carolina also. This closes Richmond and gives our techoncrats, Republicans, Democats, and associates of the Fox Network a rich dusting in the city named after Mr. Washington. That is that. TV is good to see what happens in D.C. when such a storm occurs in early April. There is a surfeit of pictures showing kids sliding down the embankments just outside the Supreme Court and other laudable fixtures in our goverment. It is sad to think that because all the justices in that building have signed on to a term equal to the life of a Roman Catholic Pope, none of them would dare expose a spindly ancient body to the rigors of sliding down an embankment with a bunch of screaming and laughing kids; but that is what they truly need.
We have become so enamored with ourselves as the only people empowered by God to take care of everything on this planet that we have let others in our society sell us down the river. We are sitting in the chicken wire canoe without a paddle. Oh there will be some who will put a hand and arm in the water to push us forward. And there will be others who may do the same to help steer the ship of state; but none will withstand the hunger and sharp teeth of the predators beneath the boat. If they are lucky, they may just end up missing a hand or an arm. Unlucky means that they are dragged into the ever darkening pool of mess to drown in their own stupidity and then drag us all along with them.
The snow in late April is nothing when one comprehends that we have sold our manufacturing base down the river. A bunch of greedy bums played with the rules at hand, asked us to bend over, and then did to us what we wanted to do to the U.S.S.R. a short few years ago. We never even got a kiss out of it. That's really cheap. Now the excuses for media are declaring that one or another of this motley group of thieves is going to get away with it altogether. Isn't that great? We'll all be learning Chinese and eating day old rice while they get to live in palaces and be protected for FREE by the police state. That's America folks! This is truly the land of opportunity. It is colder for the soul to live in that kind of society and think that there is still something salvageable. This was no dinky recession; it was a call to arms; but the money for the guns and ammo is in a bank in beij...PEKING damn it! We did not change the language, they did. Let them live with us calling it Peking. Do you eat Beijing Duck?
We are now owned and operated by a different corporation. It is the corporation which owns and operates Hong Kong. Have you noticed how polite and quiet the Hongkongese are now? I guess they have nothing bad to say about the mainlanders. Just recently, a man who had been taken away (they say he disappeared and his wife agreed because she KNEW that he was being taken care of by some nice doctors and nurses) to a camp somewhere....IN CHINA.... He came back home and did not have any words for the cameras. I wonder why??? Your food is coming from these people too.
We stay away from frozen Chinese fish. Let's say that you buy some of this Karp (sorry I can't spell)and cook it up so that all the germs have gone to sleep. Don't you think that the chemicals might live on? What is O.K. to the Chinaman on the street will probably kill us. Then, as we stop reproducing, they will appear in our cities and send us to .......... oh well......I'm ranting again. I feel like I'm standing in front of a huge tank and ...I've seen that picture somewhere.
It's nice to stand out in the late April snow in Washington D.C. It's nice to see the kids having such a good time. It's nice to dwell on what once was and then think of that which will be. No supernatural God is going to come to our aid this time! When push come to shove and everyone puts down their armaments to pray they will find that Jesus has gone fishing (and not in a Chinese stream).
