Ducks

We were back after attending a wedding in Powell, Wyoming and two days sight-seeing in the Yellowstone National Park. We decided to take a walking in the neighborhood before getting dark. Victor became excited after we mentioned feeding the wild ducks in the pond. We brought some bread.

"Are we allowed to feed the wild duck?" Yang asked.

"We will do it anyway." All of us answered.

When we arrived, to our disappointment, the small pond was empty today, not a single creature.

We were about to leave when three young people approached the pond, two ladies and a men. One lady carried something. It looked like they were here feeding the ducks too. They looked disappointed when looked at the pond. I wanted to initiate a conversation with them about the ducks.

To my surprise, I noticed that the lady carried a big rock. The other two persons carried a couple of rocks. We left quickly and quietly. I heard three of them threw the rocks into the pond. It looked like they wanted to scare the ducks. But with the rocks that big, they might injure them. We were glad that the ducks had left.

Till next year.

Obama’s VP Pick

My prediction: he will pick Senator Hillary Clinton at 3 AM on Saturday.

What do you call an invasion?

The most popular term is pre-emptive war. Since you're preparing to attack us, we have to invade you to prevent a war. Nazis used this term to launch their Operation Barbarossa against Russia.

A variation of pre-emptive war: Self-defense counter-strike. This is a term invented by Chinese when they invaded India and Vietnam decades ago.

Liberation, another abused term used quite often. The US forces invaded Iraq five years ago under this term. So did many other powers. India and Argentina used when they invaded the Gao and Falklands island respectively.

Peace enforcement operation. A laughable term invented by Russia when they invaded Georgia a week ago. Incidentally, the Russians claimed that they only wanted to "cool down Georgia's hot-heads" when their jets flew over the region.