Your vaguely racist patronizing. Or you typical idiot wonder at the 'bigness' of China.

[** President Hu sits in a bullet-proof glass booth overlooking the Bird's Nest stadium grounds. He is surrounded by a great wall of his admiring, unsmiling MSS agents, PLA officers, CSP thugs and an assortment of other Super-Paranoids - - ever on the lookout for Se-Jen Society assasins, Budhist monks & other sociatal riff-raff. ** ]

[** The Crowds below, meanwhile, continue CHEER & ROAR as the Redest-Whitest-&-Bluest of American Olympians stands forth to accept yet another Gold Medal . . . ** ]

MICHAEL PHELPS:

(looking up to the President's booth)

"Mister HU . . . . Tear Down Yer Great Wall !!"

PRESIDENT HU:

(turning to his MMS Chief)

"What is that Capitalist Pig crying about now ??"

CSP THUG:

(sneering)

"Do not be concerned ... Your Most High & Humble Mightiness ... we've mixed a Concoction of imported "Hot-Chiquita's Tabasco" - Rhino-Horn charged Viagra - a splash of 1972 captured CIA manufactured LSD - AND - a Mega-Dose of cherry flavored "Grand Moses Laxative Elixir" .... and placed it in a complimentary Won-Ton, to be delivered by a Room Service attendant tonight following the celebration dinner."

PRESIDENT HU:

(smiles)

"heh, heh, heh .... Wish I could be there when he ...."

MMS CHIEF

(cuts in)

"Your Most High & Humble Mightiness ... Do you not think that maybe the Capitalist Pigs might get suspicious & raise an international incident cry ??"

PRESIDENT HU:

(falls back into a cross-legged, buddhafully relaxed thought)

"Just keep your eyes on what mischief Secretary Rice was up to in Georgia. - - - The days of the West's contemptible part in world history are numbered ... and ticking away quickly."

PLA COLONEL:

(with a big Moon-Faced smirk)

"heh, heh, heh .... "

Feudalism is merely a system where people work in exchange for life's necessities rather than cash. As we enter an era of greater and greater scarcity (we are) such a system should appeal to more and more people.

Matt

"Guaranteed to dazzle 'em are four actual ancient terra cotta warriors, drawing gasps from large Chinese crowds, shipped down from the archaeological site in Xian"

More appropriately: "shipped up." Xi'an is southwest of Beijing.

You really needed a soundtrack of martial and nationalistic marches, you pathetic cheerleading for the great illusion that fogs the image of the two worst countries in the world.

You sound like the narrator for a 1940s government produced film - except back then writers actually not only went to school, but got an education as well.

European feudalism required the serfs/peasants to work for their lord 3 months out of the year.

Wouldn't any of us love to only pay out only a quarter of our income in taxes and the rest to our lord - the government?

Most of us are just getting by, just like the serfs and peasants of yore.

You really needed a soundtrack of martial and nationalistic marches, you pathetic cheerleader for the great illusion that fogs the image of the two worst countries in the world.

You sound like the narrator for a 1940s government produced film - except back then writers actually not only went to school, but got an education as well.

European feudalism required the serfs/peasants to work for their lord 3 months out of the year.

Wouldn't any of us love to only pay out only a quarter of our income in taxes and the rest to our lord - the government?

Most of us are just getting by, just like the serfs and peasants of yore.

King Kong wants his line back.

Back in about 1985, my mother. Mary Evelyn and her friend Elizabeth set off an a trip around the world.Japan was the first stop and China the second on this month long quest. The single most problematic thing they had to deal with was lack of public restrooms, or any identifier of such a creature.Only by using creative hand signals and sound effect attempts were they able to communicate this need. Apparently the Chinese don't have to go in Beijing! They were graciously recieved and closely watched by their "escorts." evidenly the situation has been remedied.

IMO, Putin planned the timing of the invasion of Georgia to embarrass a drunken GWB who behaved in such a humiliating fashion in every photo shot at the Olympics. God only knows what Bush membled to Putin after the invasion occurred. Bush probably doesn't remember either. And then for McCain to insinuate himself onto the political scene and threaten Russia was even more humiliating.

No, not a tale of two Beijings. Yet another tale of obvious hatred of the United States by so many other countries. We were put on the spot, unable to respond with dignity and resolve. I bet Putin is still laughing.