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Thread #139026   Message #3186161
Posted By: The Sandman
12-Jul-11 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: an embarassment as a blues singer
Subject: RE: an embarassment as a blues singer
Any more discussion of this matter between us by PM only.quote.
Laying down the law again Vic, sorry sir, but I will not be told by you, how and when I will discuss anything.
   you remind me of Chairman Mao, he who was supposed to have swam as recorded below, and he who loved telling people what to do.
On July 16 he[mao] took a vigorous and well-reported swim in the Yangtze River by the Wuhan bridge. It was a signal that Mao was in robust health--and that he was launching a counterattack against his critics in the party leadership.

Although Mao was in his early 70s, party propagandists claimed that the Chairman had swum nearly 15 km in 65 min. that day--a world-record pace, if true. The contention elicited guffaws from foreign observers, who took the claim as a sign that China was descending into political madness. Yet for the old man of the revolution, the swim was a call to China's younger generation to dive into a political struggle against "counterrevolutionary" party bureaucrats. If the aging Chairman could conquer the mighty Yangtze, surely the nation's youth could brave the winds and waves of a political storm and overthrow Mao's opponents.