Going To The Olympics?
August 8th, 2008 by ACTivist
If you are planning on taking your life savings and going on that dream vacation to the Chinese Olympics, it be best to do your homework so that you don’t get more than you bargained for or you bring home a souvinier you would rather have not. I just want to see the below Olympic records in some events, caused by the polluted air. Then again, we might be able to steal that Chinese technology (big fans) that push smog and hydrocarbons into the upper atmosphere where nobody (other that astronauts and space aliens) go anyway. Hey-I’m a realist!
First up is protesting and there is quite alot to protest about China. Being as they are tolerant, they will allow you to protest-with stipulations. You need a permit, you need to be in a “protest zone” (there are only 3) and be careful to read the fine print. Atheletes competeing need to be aware of this also. I imagine that the “higher profile” individual would be kicked out of the country for a violation. A schmuk like me, well let’s just say a little fish in a big counrty. If you disappear do you think your government will make an international incident over it? And when the Chinese government shrugs their shoulders and says “we don’t know what happened to him but we will check it out to be sure”, then it is time to bundle up cause you’re going to a camp in Mongolia. See ya!
Second, be careful what you eat. Don’tcount on that meat to be beef. It appears that there is a high incidence of mercury in their Tolapia (fish) that they farm and export by the thousands of metrik tons all over the world. We are catching on to it in the U.S. but if you are in China, well…. It has appeared in most of their waters and in food crops. As a matter of fact, if you aren’t wearing an oxygen mask with an internal source, you are probably inhaling gobs of it. It debilitates and kills, people. Unless you take…forget that. You will know when they diagnois you. And we worried about leaded gasoline! Sheesh.
Next up is Asian flu. Scratch that. Avian flu which is most prevalent in Asia. Now how come they get all the good kooties over there? These people are BIG on chicken. And it has been found in many of their other bird populations. The whole of southeast Asia and northern Africa is a hotbed for this flu and IT KILLS! We don’t here much about it anymore but that’s because people are dying in small numbers. Wipe out a village-big news story. There will be other nationalities there carrying their own brand of disease (remember hepatitis, AIDS, tuberculosus, pneumonia and others), some of which are highly contagious.
I don’t know about you but I am all stoked now. Throw in the smog and you have what’s called Utopia. There is nothing in China that I can’t get here at Wal-mart, K-mart and the like. Matter of fact, we have things from China HERE that you can’t get in China. I have a TV set that is willing to give me everything I couldn’t get a ticket to plus I can record if something pressing comes up. I have been in my share of dictatorship countries where iron fists and terrorism rules. I think that if I just sit on the couch, barring the TV from blowing up or a plane falling on the house, I will be able to enjoy the parts of the Olympics I want to watch in safety and without spending the kids’ inheritance. I know-my loss but each and everyone of us needs to make sacreficies at times in our lives. Enjoy the games!
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