STOP BUYING ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA

At least anything you put in your body. Sheesh.

Beijing steamed buns include cardboard has tip Doda

BEIJING - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.

Lovely. One way to get your fiber, eh?

The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation.

Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.

State TV's undercover investigation features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns, called baozi, explaining the contents of the product sold in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district.

And toothpaste unless antifreeze is your plaque eliminator;

China Prohibits Poisonous Industrial Solvent in Toothpaste 

New York Times -

China banned manufacturers from making toothpaste with diethylene glycol, a poisonous solvent used in some antifreeze, the state news agency, Xinhua, reported.

Comments

[allat]

People, is it paranoid to think that China will be very happy to see our demise?

This "Serpiente" has been doing it for years, and weakening us, for years in this way.

Why do you think this is? Uhm?

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"Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean someone is NOT out to get me!"

[allat]

"The "Serpiente" China will be very happy to see our demise."

And I forgot to say, "they are doing it deliberately."

In every product exported to us. We first found this out in the matter of the pet food.

[duncan]

Does this mean you're not going to shop at Wallmart anymore? You can't shop Walmmart AND boycott China. It's just not possible.
Oh and by the way, I notice that the toothpaste reference is from the New York Times. What are you doing reading the New York Times?

[Josef K]

duncan is baaaaccckkk!!!

Apparently he thinks:

*One can't check the labels at WalMart
*One can't read the NY Times once in a while

duncan, some of us missed you the past week or so. Feel free to post comments and contribute to the dialogue.

BTW, I have to ask: Don't you too support Pamela Geller for UN Ambassador? Or Vice President?

[duncan]

Okay Joseph, why don't you go to Walmart this weekend and see how many items you can find that are manfactured in the U.S.? How many items will you pick up will have the China label?
With re to Geller for U.N. Ambassador...don't ambassadors have to possess diplomatic skills? Vice President? I suppose she would be a step up from Cheney but that would only place her in the same category as Dan Quayle. Couldn't we do better than that?

[Josef K]

duncan;

a) I just might.

b) Geller's got diplomatic skills - try telling truth to power as you lefties would say. She's got the skills to push the fundamentalists and the sweet courage to punch the bad guys in the face.

And if there was a Vice President Geller one heartbeat from the Presidency, I'd be shutting my trap if I were Amadenjihad or whatever his name is. Dan Quayle doesn't have her... articulateness nor her truthiness.

GELLER: Our last best hope.
duncan: Welcome to be the official opposition.

[duncan]

GELLER: Our last best hope.
We are doomed.
You call pushing and punching diplomatic skills? How silly of me to question. Of course you do. Pushing and punching are the skills Bush employed to get us into the freakin mess we now find ourselves in.
Sorry to have to disagree with you on your last point as well. But play an Atlas vlog and then an old Quayle tape. Only Atlas can make Quayle sound like Churchill. And how sad is that?

[Josef K]

Only to the official opposition on this blog can an Atlas Vlog not sound heavenly.

Frankly, I want somebody virtuous like an ennis. I want somebody who is going to stand up to the corrupt, morally void entity called the UN. That is Pamela "Gell-ton" Geller.

duncan, rest assured more cool headed people than the UN Ambassador decide when we go to war. Especially if it was UN Ambassador Geller.

duncan, please enjoy your status as official opposition :-). Feel free to question!

[duncan]

Atlas vlogs and Atlas radio shows sound heavenly indeed..... heavenly comedic. They are reminiscent of Mike Myers' Cawfee Talk skits from Saturday Night Live. (You remember "Holy Roman Empire ...Niether holy nor Roman. Discuss. Talk amongst yourselves.")
The same intelectual level can be seen/heard in Atlas' efforts. Unfortunately she doesn't realize that others view them and think, this has to be self parody. ("Bomb Iran. Yeah baby!")
Beleive me I know who decides when we go to war. Under this administration it is the V.P , Cheney. And I believe you offered the vice presidency as an alternate position for your dear Atlas. Once again, I can only assume that this is your lame effort at humor.

[Josef K]

duncan;

Well, sort of. I doubt seriously any politician today has Geller Guts (as in the guts to stand up to radical Islam and bash the corrupt UN to have her on the ballot.

But I am serious about UN Ambassador. And I believe Pamela Geller runs things on a high level here if I may say so.

[duncan]

I'm interesed to hear how your Walmart shopping spree went. Find anything not manufactured in China?
Pamela runs things on a high level? I guess you're blind/deaf to the vulgarity and hate that is regularly leveled toward those with whom she disagrees. If you consider that high level, God help you. God help us all really, since she represents the accepted level of crassness in our society. Her mouth somehow manages to get her interviews with Bolton and meetings with Bloomberg. Either they don't know what she posts here, or they are accepting of it. And if it's the latter...well, as I said, God help us all.

[Josef K]

I'm going to WalMart later in the week.

Yes, sometimes Pamela uses foul language. Thing is, I don't blame her. And John Bolton probably reads this blog every day and sends Pamela flowers (and if he doesn't, I will).

Hey there are other more recent postings you can post comments duncan!

[duncan]

Can't help it Joseph. I am just facinated by the hypocricy. "I love Walmart."/ "Don't buy anything from China." To me these statements are so illustrative of how out of touch most neocons are. They have no idea what Walmart is all about. They do all their shopping at Neiman Marcus, Sacks and Bergdoff's.
I inherited my "boycott China" purchasing practices from my mother (a Reagan supporter, believe it or not.) She would always look at labels when shopping, and would frequently walk out of Macy's when she couldn't find anything manufactured in the U.S. She always made it a point of complaining to management prior to her departure. This approach to shopping can be very frustrating, but one thing about it is very simple.... it prevents me from ever even walking into a Walmart.
Oh and by the way, are you aware of recent legislation in Maryland? They went after Walmart for their labor practices. It seems they would keep the bulk of their employees on a part time basis so as not to have to pay for health insurance. The state soon realized that they were covering these "working poor" Walmart employees on its Medicaid program.
Of course you realize that Medicaid is partially paid for by federal taxes, so that's you and me as well as the citizens of MD.