This is going to get sporty

Protesters in southern Guangdong province, China, took to the streets last week to demand the communist government not build a polluting crematorium near their town, adopting slogans common to the Hong Kong protest movement, Time magazine noted on Monday.

The Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, which openly supports the anti-communist movement, reported the use of slogans such as "revolution of our times," which China considers seditious hate speech, and "just like you, Hong Kong!" in Guangdong. As China heavily censors coverage of the Hong Kong protests and bans all statements of support from the few permitted social media sites in the country, the adoption of the Hong Kong movement's slogans and tactics is a sign that people within Communist China are informing themselves regarding the protests through unapproved means.
Since they've got a lot less in the way of 'get news out' I'd imagine the PRC army stomped all over the place.  Because any such resistance to what the .gov wants cannot be tolerated.

But if it happened in one place, what's going on under the surface?

So the short version is "No matter what the officer did,

it was justified."  Including shooting people in the back, and lying under oath, and other little things like that.

'Disgusting' is a start.


Yes, on the subject of firearms Mother Jones is full of crap.  Again.  (link fixed)


No, the hands of the PRC aren't exactly clean, either.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to stand under a water stream, dry off, and then collapse.

Another reason not to use Progressive Insurance

Now, here’s where it gets interesting: Katie’s policy, Fisher explains, would have required that Progressive, her insurer, pay the difference in funds. She had apparently paid for this form of insurance in case someone who was under or uninsured ever hit her (a sad reality that inevitably came to fruition). When this happened, the family assumed the situation would be rectified, but this was far from what unfolded. Fisher explains:

At which point we learned the first surprising thing about Progressive: Carrying Progressive insurance and getting into an accident does not entitle you to the value of your insurance policy. It just pisses off Progressive’s lawyers. Here I address you, Prospective Progressive Insurance Customer: someday when you have your accident, I promise that there will be enough wiggle room for Progressive’s bottomless stack of in-house attorneys to make a court case out of it and to hammer at that court case until you or your surviving loved ones run out of money.

Coming here soon if the nannies have their way: "The man was positioned close to a small group of protesters and based on his manner, his state of dress and his proximity to the course, officers made an arrest to prevent a possible breach of the peace," Surrey police said in a statement.
Arrested and taken away because of what MIGHT POSSIBLY happen... Think the Brits will care what we think of this kind of crap? Probably not, as the 'worry about World Opinion' crap only seems to go one way.


The Zombie Apocalypse Academy: also general emergency/disaster-type stuff, and additionals.


The EPA answer to problems with 15%ethanol fuel: more rules.
To help keep E15 out of these and other engines, service stations offering E15 and E10 from the same pump station must agree to sell a minimum volume of fuel, four gallons, to the customer. The reason for the minimum purchase is to protect the engine of the next customer’s vehicle, as the fueling hose retains roughly a third of a gallon from the previous customer’s fill-up.


More of the "We have to pass it so you can find out what's in it!" bullshit forced on us.


Agitating for the right to arms in Russia. And the Usual Suspects^tm speak a lot of different languages, don't they?
But some skeptics claim the real reason the Kremlin is not allowing the public to own firearms is fear that armed citizens will turn their guns on the country's notoriously corrupt bureaucrats.

“They’ll just start killing off officials,” said Mikhail Pashkin, head of the Moscow Police Labor Union.
Y'know, when 'officials' are this scared of the populace, there's usually a reason why the populace is so damn mad.


Some information on the past of China, and How They Got This Way.

It's unpossible that he shot at the White House:

if he's got that criminal record he can't get a gun, it's illegal! And in DC, at that!


And it was about to get worse.Bloomberg would have looked even weaker if he didn’t thwart an OWS threat to storm the New York Stock Exchange, a massive action that was planned for tomorrow, multiple sources said.

“His Wall Street friends wouldn’t stand for it,” one source said.

The OWS eviction was actually planned for weeks — but it was only on Sunday that Bloomberg finally decided to pull the trigger, during a secret meeting at Gracie Mansion with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Fire Commission Sal Cassano, Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway and Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo, sources said.


And yet more delights promised by some OWS members:
Ain’t no more talking, They got guns we got bodies. They got bricks we got rocks. Let’s see what they got. [Young man in the background] They got missiles, we got bombs. I want them…I want them to make that decision so they can see…in a few days you going to see what a molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s.


Well, yeah, if Kagan had any real ethics she'd already have recused herself from the case; but since it appears she lied about this in her confirmation hearings, I doubt she has. And the party that makes excuses for and supports Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Pelosi and Rangel sure won't hold her to any real standard.


If this information is correct, not only does the OWS movement in Oakland have nazis as members, it has them- or, at the least, Jew-hating clowns- in high position in the teacher's union.


You have to prioritize risks and benefits:


Lawdog had a post a while back on just why the hoplophobes and gun bigots are lying when they say guns should be treated like driving/owning a car; Uncle points out that, with a law trying to do just that, they're crapping their pants.


TSA demonstrates, once again, that this is all about theater.


"If only we had gun laws like (formerly Great)Britain, things would be so nice! Let's just ignore the crime rates and that those laws don't stop criminals from getting guns..."


I haven't tried Slipstream lube, but I can still pretty much guarantee that this was NOT caused by the lube. ANY lube.


Yeah, if the PRC hits the wall, it'll get real interesting.


And, I need to go to the store. And do some loading. And make one last effort to find the !#)(*#$&&&^ screw that fell of the table the other night and vanished into the ether.

Well, let's see, I wonder if this group was inspired by Al Gore

too?
A package bomb that injured two professors at a university here this month is the latest in a string of attacks by a new terror group inspired by the Unabomber. Its violent actions have put campuses across Mexico on alert and caused nanotechnology researchers worldwide to take precautions with their mail.


I mentioned once before that someone should ask Carville why he's so unhappy with Louisiana's situation, since he wanted Obama in the White House and got his wish? Well, we're all looking at Obama's skyrocketing energy prices and Louisiana is one of the states taking primary hits on jobs because of it:
Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010 and others could follow soon, a detailed July 2011 report from Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) office shows.

...The rigs have left the Gulf for locations in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria and Brazil.(Remember Obama giving Brazil billions of our money to help them do the kind of drilling he opposes here?)

It gets worse.

Several of the remaining rigs could be relocating soon, according to the report. These include the Paul Romano, the Ocean Monarch and the Saratoga. Moreover, eight other rigs that were planned for the Gulf have been detoured away, Don Briggs, President of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA), points out.

“When you have companies that would be spending hundreds of millions of dollars, or some cases, billions of dollars, they need certainty,” Briggs explained. “We don’t have that now and I don’t expect that we will anytime soon. We will be in a deteriorating position until this changes.”


If I were at an embassy, and I looked out at this kind of demonstration, I'd be warning the people back home to get ready for war. Because these people intend to kill every Jew. Everywhere. Starting with Israel.


What? The PRC is not our friend? Really?


If you live in Florida or elsewhere along the possible strike zones, I hope you're prepping, just in case.

And that's it this morning; I'm just not feeling it. And I'm tired and have some crap to take care of anyway.[/morning bitch]

What does this sound like?

All websites must strictly fulfill the demands regarding propaganda and reporting. They are to strengthen control and surveillance of news comment spaces, blogs, on-line forums, micro-blogs, and other interactive tools. Harmful information that attacks the Party and government, or attacks the socialist system of our nation must be deleted immediately.

Sounds spookily like something you'd find at Media Matters and such, doesn't it? Of course, a lot of those clowns really like the PRC, so not too surprising.
From the Anhui Provincial Propaganda Department (issued at 3:00, April 14, 2011): Provincial media are to immediately return from Haozhou city, Lixin county. Do not conduct further follow-up interviews or reports regarding Zhou Wenbin’s political recantation-style report information against leaders of the local land bureau.
...
From the State Council Information Office: All websites are requested to immediately delete the article, “29 Differences Between Democratic Countries and Autocratic Countries,” as well as related information. This is particularly required for all on-line interactive spaces.
Got to control what the masses get to hear, don't you know.

Taking a look around, oh, where to start?

How about this:
The combination of rising gasoline prices and the steepest increase in the cost of food in a generation is threatening to push the US economy into a recession, according to Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners.
We got OUT of the recession? Really?



If we don't raise the debt ceiling:
"What will happen is that we'd have to stop making payments to our seniors -- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. We'd have to stop paying veterans' benefits. We'd have to stop paying all the other payments on all the other things the government does. And then we would risk default on our interest payments."
...
Is any of this true? Will seniors not get their June Social Security checks? Will doctors be stiffed for the health care they provided Medicare patients? Will the Pentagon be unable to buy fuel for missions in Afghanistan? If history is any guide, the answer to all of these questions is "no."

The United States has reached its debt limit three times in the past 30 years and not only did economic Armageddon never materialize, but not a single Social Security check was late.
So why is Geithner saying this(besides being a tax-cheating dirtbag)?
The GAO reports highlights the tremendous discretion Geithner has over how and when the federal government pays what bills. So the only reason June Social Security checks might not go out, as Geithner warned they might not, is if Geithner chose not to send them.
Anyone willing to be that he wouldn't decide to stop SS checks or something similar just to make the situation worse?


The government of Gambia says muslims are hair-triggered nutcases who can't act like civilized people. Not what they wanted to say, but that's what it works out to. They also demonstrate their ignorance of how things work here.


Breakables alert in effect. Remember the name Johnny Sutton? The slimy little bastard federal prosecutor? He's at it again:
This latest prosecution against a U.S. border agent stems from an October 2008 incident near the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, TX where Diaz and several other agents responded to illegal aliens who had crossed the river into Texas with bundles of drugs.

Agents apprehended the aliens and as Diaz was getting ready to put one of the aliens in the truck for transport, he allegedly pulled on his handcuffs, a common law enforcement technique to get suspects to cooperate. It was 1:30 in the morning and Diaz and the other agents were trying to find the drugs brought over by the suspects and determine if any other cartel smugglers were hiding in the bushes nearby. The suspect refused to answer their questions. They eventually found the drugs and all were taken to the station for processing.
Go read.


Near the city of Qom, Iran has a secret plant that is part of its chemical weapons program, according to a secret U.S. cable sent by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which is part of the WikiLeaks documents obtained by Haaretz. Clinton instructed the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to take action against a Chinese company that is involved in the transfer of equipment, know-how and technology to Iran.
Joy, the thought of the Iranian government making lots of chemical weapons.


Ah, the integrity of pacifist principles in Spain; "We won't fight terrorists, but we'll sell weapons to ANYBODY."


Go read why Sarah Hoyt calles him that.


One more thing, it I'll put it in a Post Of Its Own

Hmmm. Bleep.

Police have seized two containers loaded with equipment parts believed used to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads, from a vessel in Port Klang two weeks ago.

The Sun daily reported today that the contraband, comprising dismantled parts listed under controlled or restricted sale by the United Nations Security Council, was found in the containers on board a Malaysian-registered ship bound for the Middle-East.

The free daily said police were tipped off about the illegal shipment when the vessel arrived at Northport from China.
Isn't THAT a nice thing to read about?

Found at Rodger's place

Things have been getting nasty in parts of the PRC lately,

and here's two things. Insty points to this roundup, and Stingray had a link to this on China's economic problems. Including
Recent figures do not bode well for China’s current economic forecast. Unemployment has risen dramatically over the last few months, with an estimated 20 million of China’s 130 million migrant workers unable to find work. Textile factories are closing by the thousands leaving large swaths of China’s textile workers unemployed. The World Bank on Wednesday lowered its economic growth forecast for China this year to 6.5 percent, down from 7.5 percent at the end of last November, after huge falls in exports and shrinking private sector investment.

As a large country with an unusually high degree of openness to the world economy, China depends on other countries, notably the United States, for its domestic prosperity and stability. Thus China is highly vulnerable to shocks from the international economy. The latest figures show foreign trade accounts for 75% of China’s GDP - an astounding figure when put in perspective.
I'm not an economist, but for a nation that size to depend on foreign trade for that much of GDP... that's not good.

Also,
Consequently, since 1989, the term “social stability” became a fixture of CCP rhetoric. Stripped down to essence however, this is merely a euphemism to convince the Chinese public that Communist Party rule is essential for maintaining order and prosperity, and without it, a country as large as China could descend into civil war and chaos. In their speeches, the leaders make no secret of their anxieties and social unrest, frequently using the catchphrase ”维护社会安全“ or “maintaining social order” as the overarching principle of Chinese development.
"Maintaining social order"; translation, "The Party is your best friend and leader, remember it or else."
To be sure, it is easy to see why CCP leaders are obsessed with preserving social order. There are signs all around them of burgeoning social unrest that Beijing is acutely aware of. Official statistics indicate that there were 58,000 “incidences of social unrest” in 2003, 74,000 in 2004, and 87,000 in 2005. Scanning the horizon from Zhongnanhai, the government epicenter in Beijing, CCP leaders see nothing but the spector of inchoate social unrest threatening the legitimacy Communist Party rule.
Remember that ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times"?