Holiday!

It is the May 1 holiday tomorrow but unlike last year, we get only one day off.  I don't know what I am doing tomorrow.  Here is what we did last year, in a time where there was no Tony and when the May Day holiday was a week long:

 

Oh! how the times have changed.

The mother-in-law wants to take Tony to Beixing this week.  I am not too enthusiastic about the idea, but the wife needs a rest.

We have more furniture and appliances in the apartment now.  This week, the wife has received deliveries of a microwave and a bed for the master bedroom.

My mother-in-law just fried some peanuts.  Yum!

Yesterday, I was up at six AM.  I didn't go to work till 1300.  By the time, 2100 rolled around I was ready to drop dead.  And I wasn't that busy.  I was just awake farting around as you would say.

In the U.S. presidential race, Obama's reverend just won't go away.  Seablogger has an excellent posting on the subject.  Obama has to repudiate the Black racists and race hustlers.  He didn't in his first speech about Wright.  He has to make a second one that puts these Sharpton and Wrights in their place.  Problem is that if he does, he will be called a traitor by them.  He also courted their support to get where he is now.  Welcome to the world of compromise and making hard decisions and exhibiting the courage of being a leader, Barry!  Hopefully, he does not get away with his indecisiveness by finessing himself out of his quandary.

Meanwhile, a man who Obama should listen to, Thomas Sowell, uses a baseball analogy to show what is wrong about Obama's support.  He also points out that Obama has no original ideas, none , na da.

The students heard about the Sean Bell shooting in NYC.  White policemen had killed the African-American Bell and seriously injured his friends in an early morning incident outside a strip club.  Fifty shots were fired at Bell and his friends who had just celebrated a bachelor night for Bell who was to be married later that day.  In my English corner, one of the students used this incident to back up his claims that China had better human rights than America.  I use the link above to show that the details of the incident aren't well known about the case and to cite it as proof of some human rights infraction is ridiculous.  The incident was tragic for the victims and the police.  The victims did act stupidly that night.  They also couldn't get their story straight at the trial of the officers.  One of the policeman apologized and the two others did not.  The policemen had been frightened by the prospect of these drunk men running them over with a car.  The notorious race-baiter Al Sharpton is on the scene planning to protest. 

Sharpton and Wright have made a good living out of pandering to people's prejudices.

I remember an incident in Canada where policeman had shot a native.  It turned out the victim was drunk and had pointed a very authentic looking toy gun at the police.  But it was made into a racial incident.