Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Above the Fold

Wow. So many interesting news articles today in my daily Google News "China" update.

Mao Dropped From New China Note
This just proves yet again that China is OVERBOARD with their love of hosting the Olympics. Mao is even being bumped in favor of Olympic symbols! China is printing 10 yuan bills with the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium on them. Oh the insanity that is the Chinese Olympics. And I return to one of my earlier points . . . what are they going to do once these games are over!?

China Prepares Olympic Bible Giveaway
And if this is not the very definition of the Chinese word 矛盾 (mao dun = contradiction, problem, conflict, clash), then I don't know what is. And, once again, OVERBOARD . . . the giveaway Bible pamphlet containing the four gospels has the Olympic rings and the "running man" logo on it!

China Media Clamps Slammed a Month Before Olympics
Again . . . 矛盾 (conflict). How can you ostensibly promote your country's freedom and give away Bibles with one hand, while muzzling the media with the other?

China Trains 200,000 Cheerleaders--For Other Teams
So, for example, let's pick a country . . . um, Peru. So the Peruvian Olympic athletes are on the plane flying to Beijing in a couple weeks and they look around and suddenly realize . . . "Oh no! No tango cheero-leadersitas! (We don't have cheerleaders!)" Never fear . . . you can borrow a Chinese cheering squad who will magically become loyal Peru fans. That's right 200,000 Chinese cheerleaders are being trained . . . to cheer for other countries . . . you know, just in case. Oh and there are 28 elite squads training 4 - 6 hours a day. There are so many bizarre aspects to this article that you'll just have to read it and be amazed yourself.

And last, and thankfully, unrelated to the Olympics . . .
Pandas Born In China
One of the pandas that was temporarily lost after the earthquake just gave birth to two cubs. As a side note, newborn panda cubs look remarkably like grub worms. Glad they don't look like that their whole life.

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