Does Love Hurt ?

Some people say Love doesn't hurt. I disagree. Beware: the people you love the most would hurt you the most. Yet, there is no cure for love pain, except you love even more. Love is a great lecture but a lousy performance. What do you think ?

My Beautiful Wife

Jeopardy is an American quiz show hosted by Alex Trebeck. I am not crazy about any T.V. show, but I do sometimes watch Jeopardy. It is a good show.
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I noticed something amusing: whenever Alex asked a male contestant to introduce his wife, the married man always said, "she is my beautiful wife." Yet I have never heard a female contestant introduce her husband by saying that "he is my handsome husband."
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Why do such married men always describe their wives as beautiful? Is it enough just to say "she is my wife" ? Is it because they want to please and respect their women? Is it because they want the whole world to know that they are proud to have made a great choice? Is it because they have inferiority complex and must insist that their wives are beautiful? Or is it because they have superiority complex and want to boast about the beauty of their wives? Why do they have to include the adjective "beautiful" before the word "wife"? Is it necessary to do so? When there is love, everything turns beautiful.What man would introduce his wife by saying that "she is my ugly wife"? (even if she is really ugly).
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The truth is that most people are in the middle range. They are neither super beautiful nor extremely ugly. The human form, including the face, is basically artistic and beautiful. There is no need to overvalue or undervalue it. Jeopardy is a quiz show, not a beauty contest. I once heard a female contestant introduce her husband by saying that "he is my lovely husband". Mmmm .... maybe all these married men can copy this lady and introduce their wives by saying that "she is my lovely wife", instead of saying "she is my beautiful wife". Being lovely is more than just being beautiful, handsome or good looking.
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All said, you are free to say whatever you want, 'cause I believe in freedom of speech. All these expressions are only my thoughts and comments. Good Day !  

    

Hockey and Canada

Both Canada's teams, men and women, won hockey GOLD in the Olympic Games. No doubt hockey is the game of Canada !!!

China and Taiwan

Peace is always better than war. Current relationship between China (the Peoples Republic of China) and Taiwan (Republic of China) is good. 
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Taiwanese people are largely the same as Chinese people in terms of history, culture, ancestry, ethnicity, language, and in so many things. It was politics and a civil war that caused the separation of China and Taiwan. 
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Time and economics are on the side of China for reunification, not Taiwan for independence. My hope is that whether Taiwan will become truly independent (unlikely) or re-unified with China (hopefully), it must be achieved peacefully. War sucks. I respectfully ask the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments to find peaceful solutions to all issues and problems between China and Taiwan, and not to use military action against each other. Thank you.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple, the cutest and most talented child star ever, has passed. She was 85 years old. What child stars do we have today ?

Sochi Winter Olympics

My view is that all Olympians are winners, even if they don't get a medal. This new game of slope style snowboarding is fantastic. I watched the men's competition. I couldn't believe my eyes. How did they do that, really? It was crazy, like spinning and doing somersaults in the air, and then nail a perfect landing all hand-free. Amazing skill and timing! Congratulations Mark McMorris, for winning the first medal for Canada.Thank you !         

Gordon Chang, America and China Bashing

This guy Gordan Chang is very biased against China. I've watched him talk in some Youtube videos. He wrote a book called "The Coming Collapse of China"'.
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USA and China are frienemies, with a love-hate relationship. American ( or any) capitalists and industrialists worship money, not Uncle Sam or some imaginary god. From a purely economic point of view, that's what they do, to minimize cost and maximize profit; money is much sexier than nationalism.
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Many big companies and factories in China are owned, co-owned or controlled by Americans. American workers lost jobs to Chinese workers not because Chinese workers "stole" their jobs. It was due to cheaper labor cost in China and other political and economic reasons.
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Complaining about pollution in China and Chinese stealing jobs from Americans must include the understanding that the Americans themselves are the consumers of these many affordable Chinese-made goods. If the American capitalists and industrialists stay home to create the same Chinese-made goods, American labor cost will be much higher, and the American-made goods will be much more expensive. Also pollution and poor air quality will stay home for the Americans to suffer.
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A recent world survey shows the least peaceful and most dangerous country in the world is not China, Russia, North Korea or Iran. It is U.S.A. The country with the most deadly killing machines and weapons of mass destruction is U.S.A., not China or Russia. The rise of China is certain, but the decline of USA is not. Who is going to collapse first ? If you ask Gordon Chang, he'll say China. If you ask many other political and economic analysts, they'll say USA. Let's wait and see who is right ! ( I hope nobody is right, that neither USA nor China will collapse. I hope all countries will stop fighting and give world peace a chance ).

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P.S. Gordan Chang has been predicting the economic collapse of China for years, even providing a timeline when it would happen. He published his book "The Coming Collapse of China" in 2001, and predicted that China would collapse in 2006. He was wrong. Instead, USA had a financial collapse in 2008. He was wrong each and every time, again and again, and his followers (who ? people looking for entertainment ?) are still waiting for China to fall. Will Gordan Chang shut up, if and when China overtakes USA as the largest economy in the world, possibly in the next few years ???