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Kid troopers’ marching orders
A newspaper final week printed a picture of Chinese youngsters smiling, blissful, clapping, excitedly reaching out towards welcoming America’s president.
Yeah? Really? Must be they thought he introduced day-old dim sum.
A number of Christmases in the past, I flew to Shanghai with a good friend whose household then lived in China. Being a vacation, their children — roughly 7 and eight — had been allowed to carry company to go to their close by college.
Classroom good. Neat, quiet. Bell rang. The youngsters rose. Stood. In straight traces. No confusion. No chat. No cellphone. No gum chewing. No trying to find place. No backing out for the lavatory. No noise. No shifting about. No nothing. Each proper in step. One after one other. Single line. None needed to be instructed. None reprimanded nor repositioned. Stood. Erect. Silently. Tall. Like troopers. The trainer put on a marching recording. They paraded round, inside, exterior, in step with the marching beat earlier than being allowed to take a seat back down.
Didn’t seem like they had been ever being reared — not with that coaching — to ever grow up seeking to collapse or lie down or applaud — not for Taiwan, not for US, not for no one.
Nice newspaper picture.
‘Wall’ of China
Bill O’Reilly: Every president hits the wall. Washington, tax revolts. Lincoln, Civil War. China supplies dancing women and walk-arounds with the president. They need Taiwan. Iran believes the US will cave on the nukes, so why do something. Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries is making an attempt on new Speaker of the House fits.
Family satisfaction on show
In the Nineteen Thirties, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo visited NYC as a visitor of John D. Rockefeller. Her artwork is now visiting MoMA. I went with her just-arrived household — Mara Romeo Kahlo, Mara de Anda Kahlo and Frida Hentschel Romeo — to see new roomsful reveals of her work. Four, plus me, unannounced, like plain civilians, simply walked into MoMA. No VIP consideration. No spectators knew who they had been, however the night time earlier than they had been honored on the Metropolitan Opera.
“The opera’s party went until 3 a.m.,” they mentioned, “but we tire of Frida depictions that focus solely on pain and suffering.”
Art lovers, they needed to see a Broadway show, so they picked what? Ready? The one on Michael Jackson.
Now back in Mexico, the Kahlos will return subsequent 12 months.
Double-check it
How scams unfold — from one who practically skilled it.
The caller from his bank’s “fraud team” mentioned his account’s been “compromised.” To defend his money, he ought to rapidly switch to the new, “safe” account she’d open in “my name.” He had her maintain whereas calling the actual bank quantity on the back of his debit card. They confirmed nothing’s flawed with his account. It was a rip-off.
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Letting everybody know: If you think fraud in your account, promptly call the quantity on the back of your card or account assertion or wherever you keep that kind of personal data — and confirm.
So this man was gazing one other man on the subway. The stared: “What’re you looking at?”
Starer: “Excuse me, but if it wasn’t for the moustache, you’d almost resemble my wife.”
Guy: “But I have no moustache.”
Starer: “I know, but my wife has.”
That’s America for you, children, that’s America.
