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Month: October 2015
Chinese To Stop Drowning Second-Born Babies In Buckets Of Water
Chinese Communists announce the end of China's "One-Child" policy.
If history has taught us anything, it's that the arc of history bends away from nations which drown babies.
In buckets.
Of.
Water.
(Mommy, my Chinese Dream is not to be drowned in a bucket of water by Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party!)
UPDATE: Let the record show that was a RED bucket…
UPDATE (November 12 / 2015): In actuality, the One-Child Policy has been merely been relaxed to a Two-Child Policy.
Therefore, it is still OK in China to drown third and fourth born children in buckets of water.
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With The Necessary Changes, This Applies Also To Chinese Nationalists
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Hey Eric Chu, Remember That KMT Candidate Nobody Wanted To Vote For Because Of That Policy They Hated?
The China Post says you should adopt her platform yourself. Just totally GO with it:
Chu has to modify his stance on unification [ie: to a more unificationist position] if he wants to win over those hardcore supporters of [Hung Hsiu-chu] and improve the KMT's chances of returning enough lawmakers to keep a majority in [Taiwan's] highest legislative organ.
On this matter, the Foreigner finds himself in rare agreement with the editors of the China Post. Does Eric Chu have the, uh, guts, to do the same thing over and over again while expecting different results?
And The Judge Sentenced Him To 10 Years In The Spice Mines Of Kessel
Did Crooked Chinese President Xi Jinping Attempt To Assassinate The Queen Of England?
So why the hell should his motives NOT be viewed in the harshest possible light?
Our Two Weapons Are Fear And Surprise … And Ruthless Efficiency
Russian prosecutors investigate citizens suspected of (Grammar) Nazi sympathies:
Back in May, prosecutors in Rostov questioned the organizer of a local spelling bee about whether he has any connections to so-called "grammar Nazis."
Grammar Nazi, of course, is a slang term for somebody who habitually — and often annoyingly — corrects other people's grammar. In recent years, it has developed into a satirical Internet meme, which uses imagery that vaguely resembles swastikas.
But prosecutors in Rostov didn't get the joke. They interrogated spelling bee organizer Aleksei Pavlovsky, asking him whether he believed people who make spelling and grammatical mistakes should be exterminated.
“Little Hot Pepper” Gives KMT Indigestion
Hung Hsiu-chu toppled in party coup:
“Some have said that this [emergency] party congress is being held to replace me, but I do not agree. I think, this party congress is being held so that I can seek support among the delegates” to remain as the KMT presidential candidate, Hung said. [Emphasis added]
Obtuse to the very end. 812 out of 891 Kuomingtang delegates voted to strip her of the party’s nomination for president…so maybe the party congress was ENTIRELY about replacing her.
(Curiously, 1,607 delegates were supposed to be present, but only 55% of them stayed to vote. Where were the other 45%? Unwilling to antagonize Hung’s supporters? Squeamish about being perceived as railroading her?)
Regarding that last point:
Apparently, the KMT has a rule requiring two months’ notice before holding an ex tempore congress such as was held today. Rule broken. RAILROAD.
According to one of Hung’s supporters, the KMT has a rule stating that once its nominee has been selected, she can only be removed if “she has committed a crime or issued bribes”. Rule broken. RAILROAD.
And finally, a proposal to have the vote conducted by secret ballot was shot down by the KMT with an unconvincing excuse. Clap yo’ hands, everybody. ALL ABOARD!
(The KMT’s new nominee for president, Chairman Eric Chu.)
What Hung never understood was that she was nominated as a placeholder. A seat warmer. Or, in the military parlance which she enjoys, a soldier who charges up the impregnable hill only to die an honorable death while waving the party flag.
Definitely NOT someone with a mandate to make innovations to KMT unification policy.
Despite all the (well-deserved) ridicule leveled at her on this blog, I for one shall miss Hung Hsiu-chu. For she offered voters a real choice. An unpalatable one, but a choice just the same. And she had the honesty to attempt openly what most KMT politicians would rather do by stealth.
UPDATE (Oct 18 / 2015): More on the death throes of Hung Hsiu-chu’s campaign:
- Hung Hsiu-chu Campaign Death Watch
- Hung Hsiu-chu Campaign Death Watch: Give Me 20 cc’s Of Alarmism, Stat!
- Is The KMT’s Party Coup Against Its Presidential Nominee “Fair”?
- “Little Hot Pepper” Gives KMT Indigestion (Hung Hsiu-chu finally stripped of KMT’s nomination)
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KMT Caught Red-Handed Indoctrinating Taiwanese With Communist Propaganda Films
One China, one interpretation:
Parents and politicians on Tuesday were infuriated when they found a government-sponsored educational Web site to promote national defense concepts showing a video of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on parade, along with about 40 World War II movies that were produced by the Chinese [Communist] government.
Faced with criticism, the Kuomingtang backed down and removed the Chinese Communist Party's videos, blaming a nameless assistant for the "misunderstanding".
Meanwhile, a solitary figure in KMT Central Headquarters was heard muttering:
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Remember When Hung Hsiu-chu Put A Gun To KMT Heads To Get Them To Nominate Her?
The KMT had no choice but to nominate her for president at its national congress on July 19 after going through the process of party primaries. [Emphasis added]
Next time: measure twice, cut once.
What readers no doubt WILL remember are the numerous times the KMT has lauded its own brand of paternalism over the rule of the common man — deriding democracy as mere populism…or even "mobocracy".
But the spectacle of the KMT nominating Hung and then stripping her of the nomination nicely illustrates this:
While the KMT wishes to govern others, it is incapable of governing even itself.