Thursday, June 27
China's New High-Speed Sleeper Train
Hong Kong (CNN) —Interested in capping off your trip to Hong Kong with a long weekend in Beijing or Shanghai? A new high-speed sleeper train service is making that possibility easier than ever.
Two new overnight routes connecting the city with Beijing and Shanghai entered into service on June 15.
Both trains depart Hong Kong West Kowloon Station in the evening and arrive in Beijing at 6.53 a.m. and Shanghai at 6.45 a.m., making the journeys around 12.5 hours and 11 hours respectively. Return trips depart from Beijing and Shanghai at around 8 p.m. and arrive in Hong Kong at 8.47 a.m. and 7.29 a.m. These routes run four days a week, departing all three stations every evening from Friday to Monday. READ MORE...
Wednesday, June 26
JEW ME DOWN
A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to a yard sale in our community; it was close enough to our house that we decided to walk rather than drive.
We went there for shits and giggles because since we have downsized, we stopped buying STUFF we no longer really needed; although, I have been looking for a large plastic spoon so that I can properly scramble up eggs in a large frying pan. It's a two-prong large plastic spoon that I once had.
Anyway, while we were at this yard sale, I heard the proprietor of the yard sale make the comment: "Everyone that has bought something today as tried to JEW ME DOWN on the price."
I did not think much about it then but a few days later it popped back up into my mind when FOX News was reporting a story on antisemitic views here in America.
My first thoughts went back to the yard sale and what that person had said. I doubt that she was anti-Jewish even though her phrase was not flattering for the Jewish community. I performed a google search trying to discover the origins of that phrase but got nowhere.
It appears that the Jewish community hundreds of years ago acquired a reputation of trying haggle on the price of everything they wanted to purchase... hence: JEW ME DOWN.
I remember hearing my parents and their friends use the phrase although I cannot remember under what circumstances it was being used. Nevertheless, JEW ME DOWN has come to be used as a commonplace phrase by most Americans and I don't think they are consciously aware that they are disparaging the Jews every time they use it.
More importantly, this awareness of mine showed me how easily it is from someone to convey hate. without realizing it
Women's Athletics
My concern obviously is WOMEN'S ATHLETICS (Title)... but first there are some disclaimers.
First - I have no problem with males who want to cut their male parts off, take hormones, get breast implants and pretend to be females. Nor do I have any problems with females who want to be males. This is their RIGHT whether they are living in the USA or not.
Second - I also realize that there are some females who are just as strong and as athletic as males and that there are males that appear to be just as feminine as females and those are the statistical outliers that when collecting data are taken out of the statistics.
Third - homosexuality and lesbianism has been around since the beginning of when mankind first walked upon this earth. It is nothing new. Whatever or whomever is responsible for our creation knew beyond a shadow of a doubt (simple logic) that this variation between male and female was going to take place and did nothing to stop it.
MY OPINION: I do not believe that biological males should play in female sports whether in high school, college, or professionally... nor do I believe that biological females should play in male sport at those same three levels.
WHY?
On average, there are too many biological differences between the two genders to prevent them both from being considered EQUAL, regardless of what the US Constitution says about equality.
For the most part and until science is able to change this FACT, males cannot give birth to babies no matter how feminine they look. Females will never pee through penises not matter how hard they try. The bone structure of males is different than the bone structure of females.
I remember ready a study years ago, that Black Americans made better football players because their skulls were thicker than White Americans.
There will always be these kinds of differences and medical science will not be able to change this unless they restructure or EDIT our DNA. And I doubt our government will allow that to happen.
Males and Females ARE NOT created equal in some ways.
If this continues to happen, one and/or two things will happen.
One - a transgendered category will be created in sports
Two - female athletes will simply stop competing
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