"We need 500 Greyhounds man! Get off your a$$es! I am pi$$ed!"
Can we send him to China?
Posted on 11/25/2005 9:28:40 PM PST by HAL9000
Maybe this has something to do with it?
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Ah yes, communism at its best.
No, not since "market reforms" several years ago.
There was a story posted a couple days ago about a peasant woman who suffered a stroke, and the family couldn't afford to leave her in the hospital any longer, so SENT HER TO BE CREMATED.
The mortician saw tears in her eyes, and called a halt, and notified authorities.
My first thought.
8000 buildings collapsed?
Yeah. Uhhh... Yeah.
Six people dead?
One of these figures is damned wrong.
Of course, it could well be a bunch of crappy huts.
Not tens of thousands dead, then. Say a thousand or so. Happens all the time in China.
And if not, then we'll 'know' it was just one of their burning coal deposits collapsing in on itself.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Another of my pet peeves (I guess the media is having a 'tick Karen off' weekend). I suppose it's possible that all those buildings collapsed and the people died AFTER the earthquake, and since I wasn't there I can't really assert otherwise, but it seems far more likely that those events occurred DURING the earthquake. Exactly how many people succumbed to H5N1 after the earthquake will probably never be known. That is making me a little edgy.
That's why we don't have our buildings made in China. Who cares if toys collapse.
How do over 8000 buildings go down and so few die?
Yes, that's what they get for building directly on
The George Bush's Fault.
LOL.
"Karnac The Magnificent."
Hmmm.
Maybe it means only 6 dead found so far... Or maybe these are all pretty whimpy light bamboo structures.
I gotta ask how a 5.7 damages that many buildings, thats just a strong window-rattler in most places.
ROFLMAO.
It's nowhere remotely near the Chinese test area of Lop Nor, which is a completely unpopulated area and a perfectly good area to test in, unlike the area where this quake occured.
What on earth possesses people to have a desperate desire to stupidly proclaim earthquakes nuclear tests? I see it all the time.
While unlike the vast majority of quakes this quake actually was small enough for it to physically to have been caused by a nuke, there is an OBVIOUS difference in the seismograms of the two, such that even an amateur with a homemade seismograph could tell the difference. I assure you the seismogram of this quake in no way resembles that of a nuke.
You'd already be seeing headlines of "Chinese nuke test undeground" if it was a nuke.
This is not unheard of in an area where strong quakes are rare (as is true in this part of China) and where the quake was DIRECTLY under a populated area.
"We need 500 Greyhounds man! Get off your a$$es! I am pi$$ed!"
Can we send him to China?
"How do they come up with "8,072" right off the bat??"
Trace the information back to the source, one step at a time, and it's not hard to figure out. This came from an official source, meaning he checks with the Party before blabbing, in an attempt to keep his head long enough to collect his Pulitzer.
He got it from other official sources, double CYA. Joe Chang, head of CHEMA in downtown Sechzuan said he had 3 dead and 8000 buildings down, an estimate from an early People's Army helicopter fly-over.
Steve Chong, chief of police in Mayberry, a small town in Jillhack province, passed on an account from his deputy Pharney Phife, saying he had no dead (yet) but had counted at least 72 buildings collapsed.
Voila, official reports claim 8072 buildings collapsed.
SOP for early third world disaster reports. The dead will climb, the collapses will bounce around and eventually stabilize, the after shocks will topple leaners, the isolated areas will practice triage, and in a bout a month, we will have some pretty hard numbers.
How about less that 2.4 hours?? Something is wacko with this and I have not heard tiddly squat about it on the main stream media!
That is a poignant story!
At the human level, individuals within bureaucracies, even the worst kind, will do the RIGHT thing despite the 'rules.'
I'm aware of some of the 'market reform' of late; my comment was intended partly as a slam on HRC's evil utopian schemes, past and future.
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