Archive for the 'Social Issues' Category
When a loved one departs, it is always a distressing time and soon thoughts are turning towards funeral arrangements and remembrance. For those who have been touched by the life of an individual who has gone on to their final rest, there seems to be no way we can express what the person meant to [...]
Tags : birthday flowers, toronto flowers, funeral flowers, symphaty flowers, flower delivery
As an artist (Photography not music) I often find it hard to get enough people wrangled up to view my images online, so I can only imagine how hard this is for other people as well. A few months ago I was searching around for an easier way to be able to add friends but [...]
Tags : Myspace Friend Adder, Free Myspace Friend Adder, Myspace Friend Adds, Friend Adder for Myspace
To follow this story, you are requested to assume you are an Anglo Saxon male. You are in a shop that sells things ladies buy and you would rather wait outside. But she who must be obeyed and several garments are having a time out. She- your beloved- is Oriental(Chinese): your sales clerks are both [...]
Tags : china,ethnic,minorities,contrast,america
There are four major religions in China, as any wise Chinese Antiques shop keeper could tell you. The original worship was for deceased ancestors, and this is still to be seen in the present time. Next religion came out of the writing and words at Lao Tsu, who lived in the fifth century BCE and [...]
Tags : taoism,chinese,
Someone asked me yesterday why I believe in capital punishment. I immediately gave them four good reasons: Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, and Chris Dodd. But, in all fairness to these fine people who have devoted their lives to “public service” — even more so than community organizers — there are several hundred other [...]
Tags : U.S. Debt,Bailout,
Chinese Antiques Shop collecting predates the life and times of Buddha, who lived BC 566-486. Buddhism came to China from the west, up and around the Himalaya mountains and then across the Tibetan Plateau and then the Mongol deserts. The mighiest of all the deserts in Asia was the Gobi- so much that today the [...]
Tags : buddhism,china,
Japan, after surviving two terrifying Mongol attacks with some of China’s looting plunder and rape, developed a protective samurai sword that has never been equalled, of any sword ever yet created. In any discussion of the evolution of the mind set of the mild mannered Japanese antiques shop personality, in contrast with the terror of [...]
Tags : japanese,culture,samurai,sword
I am writing this article on the fund raising day known as Children In Need. Many people are doing weird and wonderful things to help raise money for this good cause. There are lots of things you can do to raise extra cash on and around this special day. Children in Need is not the [...]
Tags : children in need, red nose day, fund raising, charity, dressing up, non uniform day, bunjy jumping
When we think of Chinese antique shops our mind tends to think of delicate and precious items. If you are in a traditional Chinese building then it likely has, or had a red tiled roof with curves tending upward at each of the four corners of the structure. Today in modern Chinese architecture there [...]
Tags : chinese,architecture,past,present
I just watched a youtube video that showed the paparazzi following Britney Spears and was shocked. Let me be honest, I am not a fan of the music or any pop music for that matter. That being said I would never wish what I saw on anyone. There were over 70 photographers following her into [...]
Tags : celebrities, paparazzi, britney spears, reality television,
