March 11, 2013
And speaking of the problem of what city people are drinking...
"Chinese authorities said they found more than 3,300 dead pigs in a river that supplies water to Shanghai.... Authorities had little immediate explanation on how so many dead pigs ended up the river or what killed them. Pork is China's primary meat and China's around half a billion pigs often live in conditions ripe for spreading disease. One industry expert said the mass deaths indicated a disease outbreak, possibly on a single farm."
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Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should worry about all the bodies in the East River...
"... or what killed them."
Demons.
Duh.
They drowned diving for pearls.
The problem of what people are drinking:
1. If it's the government's actual responsibility, then the problem is of little importance; people like pigs so pig-flavored water is no big deal!
2. If it's an expansion of the government's traditional scope and role, then it's a big big problem which must be addressed immediately call the cops that slurpee is getting away.
Dumping the dead is a hallowed tradition in Red China.
You could always tell Spring had sprung by the surge of dead into Hong Kong Harbor.
When you have air quality that is the equivalent of living in an airport smoker's lounge, what's a little dead-pig-water among friends? Besides, that's probably not the most toxic thing in their water supply. Sometimes our EPA goes overboard on politically-motivated (i.e., 'global warming') crusades, but not having one (as in China's case) appears to be even worse. It's the 'tragedy of the commons' writ large.
Thomas Friedman was unavailable for comment.
Kirk Parker said...
"... or what killed them."
Demons.
Duh.
Zombies. In the book World War Z - which is at least nominally becoming a Brad Pitt film - the Zombie pathogen was first transmitted to humans in a lake in China. I say nominally because the character Pitt plays wasn't in the book, so its not clear if they follow the plot much at all.
Thomas Friedman would be so proud.
You have to admit that bacon does make everything better. They may start a fad with this. I imagine jumping in the shower and being enveloped in the eye opening smell of bacon. That would be awesome. And no more need for skin lotions or hair conditioner. And did you ever try making love in a Jacuzzi? It will now be worth trying again. We have stumbled upon a great turning point in human history.
China. Even the water tastes like bacon!
Too many people, eroding not just quality of air, but water. The Chinese one-child policy is right. Woe to the RTL fanatics that cheer 12 kid families in Haiti and Muslim countries.
Actually more woe to the hapless 3rd worlders unless do-gooders can get 500 million or so surplus ones to the West so that they can share in the unlimited wealth and jobs the West has....but woe eventually to the right to life whackos. That see each baby born in lands with strained resources and limited (so far) ecological collapse) as a gift to Jesus.
Even if they grow up killing or repressing Christians..
I'll just stick with "Woe to C4".
Go read your demographers, stupid.
"Clyde said...
Sometimes our EPA goes overboard on politically-motivated (i.e., 'global warming') crusades, but not having one (as in China's case) appears to be even worse. It's the 'tragedy of the commons' writ large."
What are you talking about...China has it's own "EPA". It's just that it is not answerable to the people. That's the lesson, not the lack of government oversight.
Still climbing from 2800.
They now have their March 11.
Did they radiate cold shafts of broken glass?
It's estimated that 90% of China's groundwater is polluted, Or as Wisconsin Republican would say, 10% more to go!
Talk about adding pork to your environmental bill! -CP
Maxwell was unavailable for comment. -CP
Re: "Did they radiate cold shafts of broken glass?"
I now have the snorting pig section of that song looping in my head.
From Wikipedia:
"he original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of Designers team Hipgnosis, in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day's photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
On the second day, the marksman wasn't present because no one had told him to return, and the pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind on the third day, gaining a lot of press coverage. It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain and out over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night."
Oh, to be a Inflatable Giant Pig Sniper.
Scu-Ba Pork. -CP
Isn't the problem that people are drinking cities at all?
Apologies to James Taranto.
Boaring. -CP
Swine flew? Some farmer liquifying his assets? I can't help it guys, something in this story is bringing out my inner-ham. -CP
Somehow the liberals are making this a conservative problem. I'm not getting the connection.
Charlotte was unavailable for comment, but her website did say "Some Pigs!" -CP
"Somehow the liberals are making this a conservative problem. I'm not getting the connection."
You know that centralized big government run by Communists is a conservative thing. It's what they are all about and stuff. Besides that, dead pigs in the drinking water is bad, and bad equals conservative. It's very very simple.
As god is my witness I thought pigs could swim.
It's not as bad as that hotel water tank in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
Peter
Hell froze over, then thawed; pigs flew, then crashed to earth.
Hence, pigs in rivers.
The water and hamhock is ready.
Just add white beans.
Pig tea is gamey.
Is this any worse than dead hooker water at that one hotel?
Which is worse?
What, at this point, does it matter?
"Kentuckyliz said...Is this any worse than dead hooker water at that one hotel?"
The woman whose body was found in a water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles was a Canadian tourist NOT a "dead hooker." Try working on your reading comprehension.
"Kentuckyliz said...Is this any worse than dead hooker water at that one hotel?"
The woman whose body was found in a water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles was a Canadian tourist NOT a "dead hooker." Try working on your reading comprehension.
Garage - China is run by central planners, communists and corrupt jerks on the take. Democrats admire much about China's governing authority.
Garage - China is run by central planners, communists and corrupt jerks on the take
Ya? Scott walker is planning a visit to China real soon. You may be onto something.
Sorry...it's not reading comprehension, it's memory. Chemobrain.
No insult intended to the dead Canadian tourist.
I am trying to treat my memory problems with green shakes.
Dead hooker water sounds grosser than dead Canadian tourist water.
Hey Dave, don't mess with my redhead. Besides how do you know she wasn't slinging her ass on the side to pay for souvenirs? LA isn't cheap.
Meh. I wonder how many dead pigs make their way into the Mississippi, the drinking supply for the Big Easy downriver.
Not to mention all that dead fish.
I suggest the Irish solution: Don't drink water.
You know, the Chinese don't have a word for 'This water tastes like diseased pig shit."
Garage - China is run by central planners, communists and corrupt jerks on the take
They're not big on Rule of Law either.
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