A great submission received today. However, I can't say I support the ban on CFWP from China!BAFOON PROPOSES CHINESE FWP BOYCOTT
We all know about the flap going on about the little Chinese gymnasts that are ostensibly underage.
He Kexin, the Lilliputian gnome who won two golds to beat Johnson and Lukin in balance beam and barsis reportedly 14, not 16 (the minimum age for qualifications, according to Olympic rules)... discovered by computer geeks breaking into Chinese records and downloading pertinent Excel data before the Chinese could get around to blocking access (which they ultimately did).
Online documents show that that He, Yang Yilin and a third team member, Jiang Yuyuan, might be as young as 14 (or even 13). The Associated Press discovered registration lists previously posted on the website of the General Administration of Sport of China that showed both He and Yang were too young to compete. He Kexin was born Jan. 1, 1994, according to the 2005, 2006 and 2007 registration lists. Yang Yilin was born Aug. 26, 1993, according to the 2004, 2005 and 2006 registration lists. In the 2007 registration list, however, her birthday has changed to Aug. 26, 1992.
China’s reaction? “We have given the governing body of gymnastics documents that show our athletes are eligible,”reported Chinese coach Lu Shanzhen, saying the girls’ families are resentful over these allegations. “It’s not just me. The parents of our athletes are all very indignant,” Lu said in an interview with The Associated Press. “They have faced groundless suspicion. Why aren’t they believed? Why are their children suspected? Their parents are very angry. {How can] you trust every web site but not a government ... there are so many web sites, so much hearsay,” Lu said. “These are not official. It is possible that all news on the internet is accurate?”
Definite odor of malfeasance going on here... what the Japanese term kusai (“stinky”)... as the coach went onto bluster: “At this competition, the Japanese gymnasts were just as small as the Chinese. Chinese competitors have for years all been small. It is not just this time. It is a question of race. European and American athletes are all powerful, very robust. But Chinese athletes cannot be like that. They are by nature that small.”
Online images from the actual records belie this bullshit.
My reaction: take strong punitive steps to prevent this nationalistic chicanery:
1. No more lead-painted toys or cheesy clothing allowed into America. Maybe even close all Walmarts.
2. An immediate ban on the use of chopsticks in the U.S.A.
3. Outlaw won tons, pot stickers, egg flower soup, chow mein, Sichuan beef and prawns, all Kung Pao andGeneral Tso dishes...and especially Peking duck.
4. Halt all imports and sales of Chinese freshwater pearls. No need to punish Chinese akoya pearls as theyare already teats up due to two successive annual typhoons having obliterated their industry.
(signed)
Bafoon
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I read Bafoon’s measured rant against the cheating going on at the Beijing Olympics, and found
it quite reasonable and appropriate. However, I feel additional steps must be taken to prevent
further nationalistic inequities in the name of sport.
Why? Because our morning paper divulged even more underhandedness going on under the
unwatchful eyes of the International Olympic Committee; to wit, chicanery in boxing scoring.
This is nothing new. Look at any sport in which subjective scoring is allowed to exist: gymnastics,
diving, soccer, baseball... the list is endless. Only the highest possible modern technology prevented
this from occurring in swimming, thanks to touch pads
As the Associated Press reports: Age falsification has been a problem in gymnastics since the 1980s
after the minimum age was raised from14 to 15 to protect young athletes from serious injuries.
The minimum age was raised to its current 16 in 1997. Younger gymnasts are considered to have an
advantage because they are more flexible, and are likely to have an easier time doing the tough skills
the sport requires. They also aren’t as likely to have a history of injuries or fear of failure. North Korea
was barred from the 1993 world championships after FIG officials discovered Kim Gwang Suk, the gold
medalist on uneven bars in 1991, was listed as 15 for three years in a row. Romania admitted in 2002
that several gymnasts’ ages had been falsified, including Olympic medalists Gina Gogean and Alexandra
Marinescu. Even China’s own Yang Yun, a double bronze medalist in Sydney, said during an interview
aired on state broadcast giant China Central Television that she was 14 in 2000.
Proof that the data on the Chinese passports issued to these tumbling midgets was totally fraudulent
is incontrovertible. And it looks as if the IOC and the international gymnastic organization will whitewash
both the occurrences and the country responsible... about as effective oversight as the insipid United
Nations Security Council has over more serious affairs.
My immediate solution is to have a de-medaling ceremony in which the gold medals in question are
ceremoniously stripped away from the neck of the weeping waifs... while the Chinese national anthem
is played in reverse. Then hand the baubles over to the athletes who deserved them.
Finally: cancel all future Olympics forever and disband the goon squads who administer to this quadrennial
international circus. London 2012 doesn’t need a $40 billion exercise in self-promotion. Coca-Cola,
Budweiser, MacDonald's and other similar sponsors who are hijacked in the name of limitless
exposure on endless television don’t need waste of their advertising funds. NBC will no longer need
to send phalanxes of blow-dried reporters and tons of containerized electronic equipment around to
forty three hundred venues in bicycle traffic.
And we onlookers won’t have to face the sleight-of-hand of countries that falsify documentation, airbrush
opening events with Photoshop tricks, have prettier participants lip synch lyrics crooned offstage by not-
so-attractive singers, or imprison those who try registering for demonstrating at selected, distant
venues... all part of the Potemkin village that was the Beijing Olympics.
(signed)
Perlemeister
China produces high quality freshwater pearls at the cheapest prices so I guess it will be a dump decision to purchse somewhere else.
We don't actually *NEED* pearls to survive. Let's save that money and use it to buy better-quality items from someplace OTHER THAN Great-WAL-of-China-MART.
I came *this close* to buying a necklace of Chinese CFW pearls. However, all of the many "made in China" things I've bought--from window blinds to garden tools--have rapidly degenerated. Why should Chinese pearls be any exception?
I'll bet those "all nacre" pearls have badly-crystallized nacre just below their treated surfaces. I'll bet their luster lasts less than 5 years!
Forget fashion and live lean!!!
China creates better pearls now comparable to Japan and due to low costs of labor in China, their pearls are cheaper than in Japan.
We are not going to forget about fashion here bcoz we need clothes to wear unless your body is 0% fat free then its ok to be naked.
And just make sure you buy your pearls from trusted dealers who sells only the best Chinese freshwater and akoya cultured pearls so that you can be assured of their lasting quality.
And according to a Bible verse. "To casts pearls before swine". It means...
"Do not offer a treasure to someone unable to appreciate it."
I don't know how many people don't like pearls since humans are not swine. They should learn to appreciate God's most beautiful natural creation.
hehe I love that one:
we need clothes to wear unless your body is 0% fat free then its ok to be naked
A matter of truth vs reality, no doubt.
Close all the Walmarts?? I love it! I've been saying that for years. Finally, here's someone who may almost be as smart as me. But not quite.
;-)
Au natural is not a bad way to go!
By the way, I really do know how to spell "Buffoon".
That's nice. I love a professor who thinks he can actually spell. "Motiff" only has one "f", by the way. No matter, you knowing your pearl stuff is exciting enough for me.
And, smartie pants pearl prof., it's "au naturel" not "au natural".
Au natural, au naturale, au naturel... an arguable point;-)
But the post wasn't actually written by me. "Bafoon" sent it to me and asked me to post it for him. I figured, what the hell! My fingers were tired that day anyway.
Nice shoes, by the way;-)
Do you know what would be a great post? How about a review of the outrageous and ostentatious pearl products in the news. I’d bet there would be no shortage of fodder for that cannon blast;-)
Oh professor, I think I have just fallen in love with you.
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