Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Annoying Driver in a Van; Disappointing Tony; CCP 100; Story of Covid Hotel (Prison) Confirms My Suspicions from a Previous Entry



I was driving my son Tony to boarding at his soon to be former school.   I stopped at a light waiting to make a left turn.  At this intersection,  there is no left turn signal.  One can try to sneak in a left turn before the oncoming traffic comes or one can wait in a civilized manner like they would in Canada or at least the Canada I lived in all those years ago.

The green light came on, and the driver behind me, who was in a van, immediately blared on the horn.  This annoyed me so I deliberately drove slowly.  This annoyed the driver of the van and he flashed his high beams at me which only annoyed me more.  His high beaming made no sense because I would have had to run over pedestrians to satisfy him.  I further made a wide turn to block the van from passing me.  (some Chinese drivers are so impatient that they will pass other turning cars while turning.).

When I was able to complete the turn, I rolled down the window, put out my arm and made a one finger salute.  This further enraged the driver and he accelerated and passed me in an aggressive manner.  It didn't do him any good because he had to stop because of a red light at the next intersection.  I pulled up beside, pointed my finger at him, stared at him and mouthed some choice words about what an inconsiderate prick he was.  He didn't like I could tell from the expression on his face.

We then proceeded to take a ramp onto an elevated road.  For about 10 clicks he was following me until he had to go to a turn off.  I suppose he will remember me.  I don't remember him.  He looked like a million other Chinese male drivers, and drove like them too.  The dirty rotten so and so!



Trying to tutor Tony for his science and math didn't help him on his finals.  He did really badly.  I will have to spend the summer trying to get him to change his ways.  He has to learn how to learn.  He is so lazy in his ways, even about things he claims he likes.


CCP 100!  No one seems to care.  I can't get anyone to give me any CCP100 swag.


In a recent blog entry, I said that a pass through security at the Winnipeg International Airport 1n 2019 was a foreboding of the security measures that have taken place because of the government's overreaction to Covid.  I was in 2019 submitted to an unneeded search of my laptop which require me taking off its cover.  On the Richie Allen show, I heard an interview with an English woman who was able to escape a Covid Hotel (aka prison) where she was spending unnecessary time being quarantined.  She was perfectly healthy, not a sniffle, and yet she had to do it.  I could feel her frustration mounting.  I had a similar feeling at the Winnipeg Airport in 2019.  And I praise her for escaping.





Monday, June 28, 2021

Andis Kaulins R.I.P.

A far better Andis Kaulins than I am passed away this year.

Sunday, June 27, 2021

They're going to turn the world into an airport; Nuremburg Trials for Them; Emperors without Clothes; Stanley Cup and the CCP; Incident at Winnipeg Airport was a Foreboding of the Canadian Government's Covid Madness; Sadly, My Brother is Getting the Jab; End of an Era;

I've been listening a lot lately to the Richie Allen Show podcast, a BBG (not BBC) show from Salford, England. Allen is properly skeptical of all the government Covid Corona nonsense. He has a wonderful accent and a great sense of humour. He did a bit where he started naming Covid variants scariants after suburbs in the UK that was so so funny. 


Allen did an interview recently with a doctor named Roger Hodkinson who is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Never have I heard a man who said so much I agreed with about the government reaction to Covid and the current state of Canada. Masks, lockdowns, travel restrictions and social distancing were all unnecessary, said Hodkinson. He further added that the vaccines were being pushed because the government was never going to admit that it had overreacted in the first place. Hodkinson who said he had moved to Canada because he was unhappy with the state of the UK said he was saddened to see how Canada had degenerated. [*Sadly, Hodkinson abruptly broke off relations with Allen because he had been told that Allen was an anti-semite. Bollocks on Hodkinson's part.*]



I have always been suspicious to the government reaction to Covid. When I heard of garden seeds being taped off in a Michigan store and thus prohibited from being purchased because they weren't deemed as essential goods, I knew right then and there we were in clown world. I feared that we were going to enter a world where airport type security was everywhere.



Nuremberg Trials for the leaders who ordered the lockdowns. They have a lot for which to answer. And many of these leaders I am sad to say are Canadian conservatives. Talk about emperors with no clothes.



I am watching a Stanley Cup playoff game on a Chinese TV website. It is rather surreal to see, during breaks in the action, PSAs celebrating the achievements of the Chinese Communist Party.



I also saw a long video, on the Subway train video screen, of Chairman Mao. Usually, not much is shown of Chairman Mao but Xi seems bent on celebrating his legacy. [Students at my Speaker's Corner told me that they were being bombarded with the CCP Stuff.]



I may have reported this incident from 2019 at the Winnipeg International Airport, but when I think of, it confirms my suspicions of the current government reaction to Covid is evil and overdone. What happened was that the people at airport security decided it was necessary that they take a special close look at my laptop. For this, they wanted me to take off the cover. When I told him that I had never taken off the cover and didn't know how, I was told in a menacing voice that I could take up my concerns with some higher-up in the airport security bureaucracy. This would have screwed up my return to Wuxi, so I had no choice but to comply. The security guy then told me how I could take off the cover which showed that he had done this procedure with many other annoyed travelers. I and all the other travelers were right to think that this government procedure was very unnecessary.


How much of the Covid procedures are equally as useless unnecessary I wonder..



My brother, who lives in Canada, told me that he is going to have to get "the stupid jab." I am not sure why he is being forced to, as of this moment. I wonder if it is for work or for travel.


I haven't gotten the jab and hope I never do. I won't be traveling for a year and by then I figure there will be a backlash against the people who forced the evil thing on so many unsuspecting people.



"That's the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper." That's the way it will end at my old school. The one I have been with since 2004. The last week, I will have nothing but SPCs to do. Back in the day, I would do teaching five or six hours a day. Now, nothing. And I have to say that to be idle is as painful as being too busy.



Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Change; Heat; No Chinese Food in China

For a Tuesday at my soon to be former school, I chose the topic of "Change" for a Speakers Corner. It just so happened that in the days between when I chose the topic and then had the SPC, a big change took place. My son Tony will be changing schools next year. The Tuesday of seven days before, I would have told you that he was going to attend his school next year until events....


Events that I won't discuss in this blog.


So when I do go to the new school in the fall, Tony & I will move into a an apartment that is close to our new school.




The heat here is oppressive. It is like being in a furnace when one walks on the sidewalk in the open sun.



I have a friend in Canada that who wants to visit Shanghai. He just had to convince his GF who didn't like Chinese food.


I replied that there wasn't any Chinese food in China, which though a joke is true. You can't find the sort of Chinese food that they serve in Chinese restaurants in Canada in China.


And there is a large variety of food and regional cuisine in China that will appeal to even the most fastidious of tastes.


Still, I find it strange that there are people who see some sort of romance in coming in China. It must seem strange to me because I have been here so long...


Friday, June 18, 2021

What Josef Biden Should Do about Systemic Racism

You would think that Josef Biden was old enough to know better. But Josef Biden only knows how to be a politician and a grifter; and so it shouldn't really surprise me that he likes to use the term systemic racism in his public statements.


I had been thinking how strange it was that a figure who entered in the US senate in 1972 never talked about systemic racism for over 45 years. But Biden has always been a weirdo. Be that as it may and now that he is, no doubt, in late stage dementia, one could defend him by saying that he is being made to use the term by his handlers, and that he in fact didn't believe in the concept in his days of , what for him could count as, lucid thinking.


But let's pretend he does take the idea seriously. Here is what he could do to fight systemic racism. He could admit that as an old white guy, who has clearly benefited from a system full of systemic racism, that it is wrong for him to occupy the office of the president of the United States, and that he will forthwith resign and give the position to a person of colour Kamala Harris.


Of course, the only problem with this is that Kamala Harris suffers from dementedness to a greater extent that Biden suffers from Dementia.


Thursday, June 17, 2021

Long Weekend I Had; G7; Humidity!; No Hangzhou; Long Vacation

I had a three day weekend (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) because of DBF.


What did I do? A few things but not much.


I spent a lot of time at home. It wasn't enjoyable because of the humidity.


I went to an expat pub with my son Tony. Tony had a good time. He watched AFL on the big screen. He talked to some of his teachers from his school. I drank a pitcher of beer and then started talking to people. Probably not the right order to go about doing this. My time in Wuxi since 2004 flashed before my eyes.



The North Americans at the G7 were an embarrassment. What a bunch goofy lookers are Trudeau and Bojo. And Joe Stolen? He should be put to pasture.



The humidity is making it hard for me to function normally. I've been having trouble sleeping and can't get up at my usual 5:50 AM.



Tony isn't going to Hangzhou to attend baseball camp. It turns out it is only for younger kids.



I am going to have six weeks off this summer. I am entitled to vacation time from my current (soon to be old) school and I get free time to start off my contract with the new (soon to be current) school. What will I do? Who knows. Summer in Wuxi is best spent indoors. Tourism in China in Summer is torture. I will have to have some projects.


Monday, June 14, 2021

What is the Chinese for Canadien?

I was watching game one of the playoff series between the Las Vegas Knights (aka Army of the Dead because of the recent movie) and the Montreal Canadiens on Chinese Television.


The Chinese announcers referred to the Canadiens as 家那大人 (Jia Na Da Ren) which is basically Chinese for Canadian.


I don't think that is right.  I would, if I was Chinese, call them 法裔加拿大人 (Fa Yi Jia Na Da Den) which translate French Canadian Nationality People.


It seems the Canadiens are being misgendered!


She's Humid, She Is; Tony is going to Hangzhou; Being a Speaking Contest Judge; Podcasts that AKIC likes; Locals Hate Covid Mask Wearing; DBF



June in Wuxi and the humidity is increasing in ferocity. I sweat so much that I can smell my own perspiration. Either that, or some gland is being set off by the change of seasons...



My son Tony will be going to Hangzhou, one of the places on Earth that approach Heaven they say, for some sort of baseball camp which will last about seven days.




I went to some company or school near the Livat (Hui Ju) shopping centre to judge a speaking contest. But when I got there, what I had to do was quite vague. I first had to watch three group of students have a discussion about a question and then offer them some sort of evaluation f their English. The question had to do with countries and their prioritizing of environmental protection. A rather staid topic. Anyway the first group didn't so much have a discussion as make statements. It wasn't till halfway through the exercise that someone asked someone else a question. The second group had one student actually take charge. I commended him for this but he didn't delegate questions very well and the rest of the students ended up sitting silently as he wrote the group's final statement of what they agreed on during the discussion. The last group was best, talking, arguing, questioning but without a chairman. 


After these group discussions, I had to judge some individual students talking about a question they had chosen from a list of a question. One student simply read her notes. One student read from notes and I was able to give her a good evaluation. The next student forgot all he had to say and I had to tell him that it was okay to have notes with him. The final student tried once, said she didn't have time to prepare which she then went to do, before coming back and only being marginally better.




Podcasts which I listen to regularly these days: The Daily Decade Podcast; Radio Derb with John Derbyshire; The Z Blog Power Hour; Revolutions by Mike Duncan; The Kunstler Podcast; The Delingpod, London Calling with James Delingpole and Toby Young, The Cotto Gottfried Podcast and the Don Cherry Grapevine Podcast. There are also podcasts which I will listen to if an episode or part of an episode interests me: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast; The Culture Wars Podcast, The Rebel News Daily; The New Discourses Podcast; The Gerald Celente Podcast, The Richie Allen Show; The Republic of Mike Graham, the Patrick Coffin Show, Poem of the Day, Myth of the 20th Century; Counter Currents Podcast and Our Interesting Times.




I was walking on Zhongshan road, the main drag of Wuxi city, and I saw an older man playing with a baby that was placed on a mat on the sidewalk. Seemed a strange place to be doing that. But the infant didn't seem to mind and looked quite jolly.




The retired teachers at the SPC told me that the most annoying thing about the Covid panic was the mandatory wearing of masks. I was surprised that they said this because I thought that the locals were accustomed to wearing masks and were all in with it. It seems that these older women and I all think that wearing masks is usless. And it will feel very useless in the intense humidity of a Wuxi summer as one of them also pointed out.




Dragon Boat Festival. I eat some Zongzi.


Updated List of Ways of Referring to Joe Biden

I keep thinking that they have run out of ways to refer to the mediocrity that is Joe Biden, but I have added yet more entries to my list! The new ones have been marked with an asterick (*) except the 46* where the asterick is permanent.


A real nowhere man

Absolute Puppet*

Alleged Catholic Biden

Alleged President Biden

America's Empty Suit*

Amtrak Joe

Apparation Joe

Backwards Biden

Banjo Boy from "Deliverance"*

Bank Robber Joe

Bedpan Biden

Beijing Biden*

Biden as President

Blinken Biden

Blundering Biden

Boring-snoring Joe

Botton-Of-His-Class Biden

Bubble Biden

Bullshit Biden 

Bumbling Joe

Cadaver Joe

Chairman Xiden 

China Joe

Cho Bai-Din

Cigar Store Biden

Cognitive Delinquent 

Crazy Joe

Creepy Groper*

Creepy Uncle Joe

Dear Leader

Demented Joe Biden

Dementia Joe

Dementia-in-Chief

Diaper Joe

Disaster in Chief 

Doddering old plastic surgery experiment*

Doddery Joe

EO Joe

Fake President Biden

Feeble Joe Biden

Forgetful Joe

Fraudulent Joe

Fumbling Old Hack

Green Screen Joe

Grifter Joe

Gropey Dopey

Gropin' Joe

Grumps Joe

Idiot Joe

Idiot Joe Biden

Joe B, the revenant in the White House

Joe Biden, America's first idiocracy President

Joe Blow, Father of Hunter**

Joe Buy Dung

Joeloco

Joe Chi Minh™

Joe Braindead

Joe China *

Joe Plagiarist Biden*

Joe "sanctuary city" Biden

Joe Society and his son Hunter Society**

Joe Stolin

Joebama

Joeblow*

Joementia

Joey Cabbage

Joey Cringworthy

Joey No-Pulse

Joltin' Joe

Josef Biden*

Joseph Robinette Biden

Landslide Joe

Low-Drag Biden*

Low Key Biden*

Lyin' Biden

Malarkey boy

Mean Joe

Mister Magoo*

Mister "What day is it?" Where am I? Where's my lollipop?" Joe Biden *

Mumbly Joe

New Dear Leader Buyden

non compos mentis

OBiden

Oddball Hair Sniffer

Ol' Joe

Ol' White Joe

Old Bedpan Bidet

Old Joe

Old Man Biden*

Old Mashed Potato Brain

Old Senile Joe

Our Totally Legitimate (P)resident Biden

Our Totally Legitimate, not in anyway fraudulent "president."

PedoJoe

Pedophile Muppet Biden

Pedophile Race Baiter

peeResident China Joe Bedpan

Pevertacus

PINO: President in Name Only

Potato Joe

POTATUS: President of the After Trump U.S.

Premier Bai-Din

President Alzheimer

President Bonehead

President Potatohead

President Puddingbrain

(P)resident Deepfake

Pudding Cup

Racist Joe

Resident Joe

Rutabaga Joe

SCROTUS: So Called Ruler of the United States

Senility Joe

Sleepy Creepy Biden

Sloppy Joe

Slo Groppy Joe

Slo Joe

Slow Joe

Sniffing Joe

Sniffer Joe

Sniffy Joe

Snoozey Joe Biden

Spendthrift Biden

Stairmaster Joe

Stumbling Joe

Stupid Gasbag

Temporary President Biden 

The asterisk president

The China-sponsored hologram known as Joe Biden

The Classic American grifter who somehow made it all the way to the Whitehouse but it took so long that he's barely aware of what's happening anymore.

The corpse that is Joe Biden

The demented man in the White House

The doddering, photo-op front-man for a kind of politburo centered around Barack Obama*

The do-nothing President*

The Election Thief in Chief

The great pretender

The invalid in the White House

The lying, senile corrupt, creepy and perverted jackass in the White House*

The mummy

The puppet

The puppet usuper

The senile man in the White House

The Ten Percent Cut Man*

The totally-legitimate, not-at-all-fraudulent Uncle Joe Stolin

Traitor Joe

Trippy Joe

Vegetable Joe

Vegetable-in-Chief*

Wheelchair Joe

Zhou Bai Den

Zombie Joe

Zombie Obama

46*