Can The Chinese Succeed At An Industrial Revolution?

I'm not so certain about the success of a nation or country that has failed so many times.  I'm still wondering if I am in a dream for it was in a reality world of mine when I knew I was not dreaming and there I was at work close to retirement as a postal worker apologizing to my coworker for being born Chinese!  They knew what I was talking about my fellow coworkers and they were so sympathetic toward my plight of racial inequity as seen in particular racial groups.  It just cannot be ignored  although I know masses of categories of people who know so little about the American Civil War the war which had the largest casualties in all of the American wars.  For me it was mandatory to be in school and study the offered course in the Oakland public school system and I did to the best of my ability.  I was so honored having been seated at a community college next to a neighbor of mine where I grew up in Oakland his name being Robert Pon a  person of color like me of Chinese ethnicity because he was one of the few Chinese that could get a 4.0 grade point average at Oakland Technical High School way back in the 1960's and to me this was not a disgrace.  He explained to me at the time he had taken economics at the University of Berkeley which gave him a leg up on the economics class he was taking with me at the local community college in Oakland.  At that particular class of economic I knew him as many of my classmates did that he was acing out in that class too or in other words he was getting a top grade in our class.  He had a track record of getting top grades in school and he came from the same neighborhood as I did on the very same street.  I  struggled through that class in economics nevertheless which was a transferable class to the University of California, Berkeley.  Through grades in high school and a local community college I was admitted to the University of Berkeley at various times through grades rather than through the standardized testing such as the SAT.  Bill Gates aced out on the SAT as a vast number of us know.  If we all concentrated on setting our goals as being as successful as Bill Gates perhaps I think this world would be in utter turmoil.  It is not going to happen.  If I believed it to be true I would be delusional and I know I can feel in a good mood when I believe in the impossible.  Okay let me get to the point.  I'm reading into the mainstream of the reporting of the news not just by the professional journalist on radio and television with whom I have interacted live on the air with as an anonymous talk show caller but I am also reading into the reactions of the common person on the street like myself.  Top professional news journalists like Ronn Owens who is a star on KGO radio 810 discusses the news originally a local San Francisco Bay Area radio station who is known very well here in my region or area is listened more to here than Russ Limbaugh the most listened to radio talk show host.  The question is am I being delusional in believing that the country of China could be on the road to another dynasty even if it means to world importance?  Don't tell me the San Francisco Forty Niners never became a dynasty as a football team because we have many witnesses who saw glory and victory and San Francisco did not do it this year but looked like they were on the road again toward gaining another dynasty.  The question is will such champions repeat and do it again?  China has suffered too many failures and will never see another dynasty again.  I love it sometimes when I wrong.  I think China if it were to have a mind of intelligence it would want a world to benefit and not just one country a dominant power structure but everyone.

Did Parkinson's Affect Hitler's Judgement?

From my previous posting of whether Parkinson's disease affects my game in online chess I noticed I received the highest page views for that  posting in the blog of mine Nerves Galore.  Don't mind me saying so that I don't mind getting a Pulitzer Prize for writing this blog  and what I write can be widely reviewed and regarded as worthy throughout the world.  But I do say I have a   relative who says I suffer from a state of delusion or was it illusion I forget so easily but my first girlfriend said the same thing.  How dare they accuse me of of such a malady when in fact I am enjoying  this state of delusion or illusion so long as I am not hurting anyone!  Getting to my point if anyone is to judge Adolph Hitler it is I for one like Hitler I have Parkinson's and I think about Hitler often and if he or his son were alive today….sometimes it would better off if I declared myself as a writer of science fiction than a novice writer of the news of the day in this way I would not   appear insane.  But let me make it known Hitler did have Parkinson's at the time he was in power and he can sue me if this is untrue!  What if his colleagues had known about this state of his health at this time would they have withdrawn the  powers that they gave to their fearless leader Hitler?  Would Hitler have gained an edge in the Normandy Invasion to the point of even winning the second World War and would I a full blooded Chinese be speaking German instead of writing and speaking English?  Think of it.  And yes this is all absurd and if you were to be playing a serious game of chess in this manner of thinking you would surely lose. Possess a sense of humor for in this world without it then you will surely die.  Parkinson's is a serious diseases and throughout history people would kill themselves rather than live with it but in the case of Hitler he of course shot himself in the temple and took poison rather than face his enemies.  Robin Williams it is believed took his life because of early diagnosis of Parkinson's plus other ailments of addictions which proved too much a recent event of the news lately.  But let it be known through my own personal observation Parkinson's can be properly treated through modern medicine to the  point of living a near normal life.  Any medical expert can surely correct me if I am off the mark.  Ronn Owens is testifying to the same effect but on a much broader scale.  He is the great talk show host of radio and he is talking.  And by the way he once told me on the air he would sue me if I had wronged him and I bet him on the air that he would.  But let me conclude and end this jabber;  may we find a cure and not just a treatment(which is already a miracle in itself in  modern medicine).

Free Speech at Sproul Hall UC Berkeley

I can imagine what the students there are discussing for the issue is at the hearts and minds of the protesters and the issue at hand is the number of unarmed people of color who were shot by police in this country of America and died.  In 1776  Patrick Henry made a famous speech and in part one famous line said give me liberty or give me death.  Mario Salvio was well known at this place of Sproul Hall of the campus of UC Berkeley; I was not.  I did have one little fling when I was brought to task when I became emotional and blurted out an expression of disagreement when one speaker was speaking of the Christian religion on campus and how it should guide our lives but I knew the University of Berkeley was not church it was not built there for the purpose of worship of a  religious god but there I was involved in a debate with this fiery brimstone of a religious speech making orator but I knew I was there too for a purpose and so I found myself in a debate I shall remember to this day  more than forty years ago.  At that time briefly knew the dean of women Emily Reed who was impressed by my encounter but cautioned me to not participate as the authorities could clearly see the free speech movement as a disruption in student activities.   In high school I was encouraged by my teacher Mr. Lettich or rather called upon to debate an issue with another student the free speech movement which was happening at Cal and so I put my best forward and gave the green light for those who were part of the free speech movement.  My opposition debater  disagreed with me but fellow classmate Donald Sutherland who heard me speak gave me thumbs up for what I had said.  I came to know Mario Salvio as a kind of hero to me a leader of the student union in those days.  He's gone now died in his fifties of a heart failure but I admired him for what he did and what he stood for.  For the first time in many decades I read his famous speech and the nostalgia brings clear sentiment to my eyes.  I just read his speech googled it and remembered it to this day so fondly.  But I can also sympathize with journalist and talk show host Ronn Owens that there are disruptions in our normal flow of traffic with freeways being threatened.   We are on alert.  Ronn Owens and I had talked on various issues of the day throughout the many decades and it was the celebrities that he hosted which I joined in with but mainly to ask a few questions or make comments  thoroughly to my delight.  

Is There A Bad Moon On The Rise?

I'm neither a weatherman but I did meet a local television weatherman mainly because of his name where I kidded him for having the name as that former manager of the Yankees who died in a slide during bad weather from his driveway a very horrible way to die.  His name I now recalled as Billy Martin the same name as our local weatherman which is Bill Martin.   I met him on the air.  And now I've been informed that a storm is coming  and I'd like to hear again from Bill Martin but this time of the news as he reports.  But I played back the song to someone who is seriously warning me of an impending storm and the lyrics to the song I  have studied recently which reads to the tune or to the lyrics "don't go out tonight this storm is bound to take your life there is a bad moon on the rise.  Well it is not going to happen tonight but tomorrow if at all.  But I know the meaning of the lyrics which says don't go out when tomorrow a storm will take your life there is a bad moon on t he rise.  Now this is nothing to joke about when lives are in peril.  But I was told not by a weatherman but by a handyman/property management relative and he sounds serious as is the weather reports I've been receiving.  In the middle of the morning a slight blackout occurred that I had not  experiences for some time lasting for a number of seconds but sent a warning sign through my liver and spine.  Blackouts happen but I haven't experience one for some time.  Is there a bad moon on the rise?  Strong winds are forecasted for tomorrow.  Anyone can google and get this information for tomorrow.  Therefore those who have boats at the Berkeley Marina which I have flown kites at that location I would suggest not going out tomorrow but mind you I am not a weather forecaster I am merely a common man with an opinion who  uses logic to the best of my ability.   Now a large cruise ship in a storm I know little about but I did see the movie….no I'm not going to make things look okay when they may not be.  At times it is better to be too cautious than not at  all.  The yacht  owners of those luxury boats out at the Belvedere Tiburon area of the Marina I would heed the warnings if I had any kind of a boat and even those big rig trucks where I have seen blown over to rest with wheels off the ground completely turned over on the San Rafael Richmond bridge due to high winds.  I've driven those roads to work for several decades and know the winds can blow over a big rig truck.

The Day That Lived In Infamy

We remembered.  America remembers it was that day of December 7, 1941 and I remembered it so well as if I was there that day at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese came in with their planes to attack to seek and destroy and some two thousand lives were lost.  It launched us into World War 11 and the world was at war.  My father Howard Ah-Tye writes about his accounts when he was sent by Uncle Sam(they called the American government back then as Uncle Sam a kind of expression meaning like a kind of big brother looking after the welfare of the citizens.  My father was drafted into the American navy and it was only a day or two days ago I was handling his navy seaman cap a sailor cap that all military seaman were required to wear in that era in 1941.  For me to pretend and be like Norman Mailer and write about the events of the second World War and  produce a best seller book namely The Naked And The Dead would not be appropriate and so I will not.  But I read many accounts of the times we were there in  his book "Resourceful Chinese".  I'm not a journalist like Norman Mailer was and my day of birth was many years after the second world war ended.  Norman Mailer the writer did all that and yes but I did  get a chance to speak to the famed writer shortly before he died  and so I was greatly inspired to be abled to speak to him on a major radio  talk show at the time he was promoting his book  on JFK and the repercussions Lee Harvey Oswald may or may not have had to face.  I'm merely a blogger   where most other big named publishing houses would never let me get my first leg forward for as a person of color I could never show achievement.  In this blog I am given the opportunity to explain why  people like me  have not achieved in the same successful manner that Caucasians (white) people have.  I give a perspective an account of the war between the Japanese people and the American people(primarily white back then) that no other professional journalist would dare to do least we see something to the nature of a Caucasian impersonating a person of color(a kind of Charley Chaplain seen as an Oriental but acted out or portrayed by a Caucasian(white man).  If any of my readers are left confused it is because I haven't driven home my  point.  My intent is to drive it home simply put to make an understanding and if it  takes a blog to do  the job you will come to fully understand.  I can explain(as Ricky Recardo would exclaim in the old TV series I Love Lucy.