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      Author: Ken Peacock

      Ken Peacock, a former senior Australian executive of a mining company, first visited China in 1972 at the end of the Cultural Revolution and before diplomatic recognition by the Australian and US Governments. This was the first of many visits to China during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1978, he traveled throughout China with a trade delegation and revisited Shanghai where he stayed at the Shanghai Mansions Hotel and discovered the “Last Bottle of Gin in China”.
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      MLK in SA

      Over 100,000 people peacefully marched through the East Side of San Antonio yesterday. This is not uncommon. We really like this march, and for the past 25 years, rain or shine, our Texas burb turns out for MLK day. Here are a few reasons why we are probably in the top ten list for bringing out the

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      On a Dewy Early Morning

      Morning has always come much too early to my way of thinking. That too-early morning, there was only the grey dawn light outside, even dimmer in the kitchen; I didn’t want to damage my eyelids by turning on a light. Besides, after years of training I functioned pretty well in half-light. Got th

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      Southerners rush to Haiti's aid

      Southerners rush to Haiti's aid

      Aid groups, churches and individuals across the South rallied to help victims of Haiti's horrific earthquake, and many families in the region had loved ones in Haiti when the earthquake hit and some of them were still awaiting word on their condition. The Palm Beach Post reported that Catholic Ch

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      Blitzed on Deutche Wine

      I wish Mel Brooks, maestro of the Broadway hit and the even funnier movie version of "The Producers" -- his whacko inspiration that made an insane musical comedy out of Nazi Germany -- could have been with us one inebriated night a generation and more ago. Who knows what more zaniness Brooks' twi

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      What the truck! Should monster pickups be outlawed?

      What the truck! Should monster pickups be outlawed?

      I was stopped for a red light while on my way to the grocery store when it pulled up in the lane next to me. I heard its rumble and felt its shadow fall like a partial eclipse before I actually saw it. When I glanced left from the window of my medium-sized sedan, I was eye level with its underbe

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      The Apocalypse

      The Apocalypse

      Were I to tell you a story in which Jesus, the son of the virgin Mary, was sent by God to guide the children of Israel, perform miracles including curing blindness, raising the dead and casting out demons, was crucified and raised alive into heaven to be the God incarnate. Jesus, who is promised

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      So long, Clyde

      So long, Clyde

      I got the news yesterday from my friend Ralph McGill that Clyde Hogg had died. Clyde, Ralph and I plied our trade in the advertising wars for many years. Ralph is a world-class writer, I, too, am a writer, and Clyde was an art director. But to call Clyde an art director is like calling The Bea

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      The Grim Joker

      The Grim Joker

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      Georgia State University was once a stepchild of University system

      Georgia State University was once a stepchild of University system

      Now that the Board of Regents have decided to merge Georgia State University with Georgia Perimeter College, GSU will soon total more than 50,000 students, and will be the largest unit of the University System of Georgia. Not only that, but it is an urban university, as well as a research uni

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      Advocating Human Rights Is Not Anti-Semitic

      Advocating Human Rights Is Not Anti-Semitic

      The Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement (BDS) calls for the international community to put economic pressure on Israel to end its flagrant violations of human rights. It demands an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the dismantling of the apartheid wall; equ

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      There Is a Season

      There Is a Season

      There Is a Season To everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn. And a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, a time to die. We never thought Sophie would be our last cat standing.  Our almost eighteen-year-old aging feline, still a debutante in her own m

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      Billy Goats Gruff, or Not

      Billy Goats Gruff, or Not

      Let’s just say you own a restaurant in a tiny South Carolina hamlet beside a salt marsh. And outside your window is a lovely island with a few trees on the north side and marsh grass around the edges. Your patrons enjoy the view of fishing boats heading out to sea from the nearby docks, and you wa

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      Southerner's Guide to Lovin' the London Olympics

      Southerner's Guide to Lovin' the London Olympics

      God bless your heart, you are really going to try this year. You're really going to try. Not to watch at least a little of the telecasts would be downright unpatriotic you tell yourself. [caption id="attachment_41149" align="alignright" width="300"] Olympic mascots Wenlock & Mandeville (Lo

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      Cruz Spurns Five Girlfriends to Pick Fiorina as his Running Mate

      Cruz Spurns Five Girlfriends to Pick Fiorina as his Running Mate

      Texas Senator Ted Cruz bucked all political convention Wednesday by naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate instead of one of the five women he’s run around with on the extramarital sex circuit, according to rumors reported in The National Enquirer. “You figure they had leg up on Fiorina

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      Andy Griffith's Lost Episode: The Death of Helen Crump

      Andy Griffith's Lost Episode: The Death of Helen Crump

      Just a few years ago, a lost script for the Andy Griffith show was found. It was found at The Snappy Lunch in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, Andy Griffith's hometown. Efforts to learn more about this script have proven futile. Calls to people associated with the show were never returned. Therefor

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      Love Is Not All

      Love Is Not All

      I can't remember her face very well. It has been years since we last saw one another and we have both obviously aged so she probably doesn't look much like the young woman I had once known, anyway. But I could hear her voice still ringing lyrically in my head. "Love is not all: It is not meat no

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      A Fondness For Old Gas Pumps

      A Fondness For Old Gas Pumps

      Something about old gas pumps pleases me. I think of them as elder statesmen, as senior citizens left behind by the rush of time itself. When I see a proud old pump, its dispensing days behind it, I feel a surge of pride tinged by sadness. Veterans of another era, they have been put out to pasture.

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      Mindset

      Mindset

      A friend of mine sent me a video link to a documentary on the Federal Reserve Bank. The documentary tried to establish a "proof" that a powerful international oligarchy exists that controls most national governments and, particularly so, the United States government. This is presented as an oligarch

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      Go visit your friends

      Go visit your friends

      Jack and I recently learned of the death of Frank Ludden. Frank and his wife, Louise, owned the Sunset Lounge on Long Island, where Jack’s parents, Jack, Sr., and Fitz, would go on their “date nights.” According to the story that Jack tells, an elderly woman would go to the bar most nights to

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      Trash-talking back to the Tea Baggers

      Trash-talking back to the Tea Baggers

      The Mid-South Tea Party in Tennessee is demanding an apology from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen after the Memphis Democrat likened tea baggers to Ku Klux Klansmen "without hoods and robes" and said Sarah Palin, in black leather at a John McCain rally, was "dressed like Elvis in the comeback event in Hawaii.

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