Hey everyone, how's it going?

Las Lausla Montgomery here.

With all the recent intrigue and rumors going on with the case of former Chong-Ching Party

Boss and one-time contender for the standing committee, Mr. Bois-Elai, I thought, what the heck,

let's look at his dad this week.

If no, Bo-E-Bois, there wouldn't have been any Bo-Shilai. And Bo-Y- Bo, he was one of the many giants in party history.

So everyone has heard more than their share about Bo-Shil-Lai

this past month or so, and his exploits in the city of Chong Ching.

Let's sort of relive Chinese history again, looking at the years his father, Boi Bois Boa, lived.

This was from 1908 to 2007. That's a long life. 98 years. In fact, he was only a

month shy of making it to double nine. Boa was one of China's eight immortals as they were called. This was

sort of a play on the ancient Taoist deities so popular in Chinese culture. They

were called the Ba' Ta'uenlau, the eight elders, also called

the Balau. These were the most preeminent party leaders in China during the time of Deng Xiaoping

after he made his last and final comeback in 1977.

And our subject today, Boi Boi Bo, he was the last of them to pass from this earth leaving us in early 2007. I think only

Wandley survived Bo but not by much. He wasn't one of the eight immortals, however, but maybe he should have been.

So with Bojibaw's passing in 2007, that was pretty much the final living link to those earliest days of the CCP.

Of the eight elders, Ball was considered one of the four principal hardliners who, although he was an ally of Deng Xiaoping, also tried to keep some of the reforms from moving too fast.

And this is especially true of the political reforms.

And Boi Bo and the other hardliners all back down when it came to calling in the tanks when the Tiananmen incident

happened in June 1989.

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