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China: GOP responsible for giant killer hornets

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From the Guardian.com:

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets

Jonathan Kaiman visits Ankang municipality where swarms of highly venomous hornets have killed 41 people in three months

by Jonathan Kaiman in Ankang

Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, scallions and corn where his friend Yu Yihong was stung to death by giant hornets.

“When he got to the hospital, there were still two hornets in his trousers,” says Chen, a local farmer who, like many villagers, declined to give his full name to a foreign journalist. “The hornets’ poison was too strong – his liver and kidneys failed, and he couldn’t urinate.”

Vespa mandarinia is the world’s largest hornet, around the size of a human adult’s thumb, yellow and black in colour and highly venomous. Their 6mm-long stingers carry a venom potent enough to dissolve human tissue. Victims may die of kidney failure or anaphylactic shock.

vespa mandarinia An Asian hornet (vespa mandarinia) eats a honeybee. The sting of the highly venomous giant hornet, which measures about the size of a human thumb, can dissolve human tissue and cause kidney failure. Photograph: Scott Camazine

Yu’s story is a tragic but increasingly common one in north-west China‘s Shaanxi province where, over the past three months alone, hornets have killed 41 people and injured a further 1,675. Ankang, a municipality in the province’s south, appears to be the epicentre of the scourge. While hornets infest its mountainous rural areas every year – 36 residents were stung to death between 2002 and 2005 – locals and municipal officials say this year is tantamount to an epidemic, the worst they have ever seen.

Chinese leaders, in consultation with Harry Reid, have decided that the GOP is responsible for the invasion of the giant flesh-eating and deadly hornets.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, from HuffPo:

Here’s A Tally Of Which House Republicans Are Ready To Fund The Government, No Strings Attached

WASHINGTON — In the hours since the government shut down, House Republicans have slowly but steadily been coming forward to say they’re ready to pass a bill to fund the government with no strings attached.

Who might those House GOP members be?  Try:

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.), Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.), Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.).

It’s heartening to see that so many House Republicans are willing to give away the store for absolutely nothing in return.

It’s also invigorating to note that the east coast is well represented by GOP Surrender Monkeys in the form of Pennsylvania, Virgina, New York and New Jersey.  Closer to their paychecks and pork, they realize the Demorats may not be so willing to drink heavily with them at the end of the day in various local DC watering holes.

BZ

 

 

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Want to get the GOP’s attention? “Boycott the RNC.”

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From the IrishExaminerUSA.com:

Time To Boycott The RNC

By Alicia Colon

Throughout the 2012 election, I kept receiving mail from the Republican National Committee urging me to send in a donation for what was probably the most important election of our lives.

I ignored the entreaties and instead gave what I could to individual campaigns and ignored the RNC because it is totally clueless when it comes to winning elections. What worked in 2010 to win the House was ignored this year because the RNC is full of the establishment GOP that lives in an elitist bubble ignoring the fact that the Democrat Party has community organizers trained by Saul Alinsky.

Stop right there.

Because I have stopped right there.  And I suggest — no, entreat — all of my readers to do so as well.  To: stop right there.  NO MORE cash to the RNC.

Alicia Colon continues:

Meanwhile, the liberals in Congress and the media continue to apply Alinsky’s rules for radicals by shouting racism and sexism at Republicans whenever they can. One can always tell when the liberals have no way to refute the truth when they bring up the race card.

Consider the attacks on those critics of Ambassador Susan Rice for her misleading statements on Benghazi incident:

On the Chris Matthews show, Richard Wolffe, who was recently named the vice president and executive editor of MSNBC’s revamped website, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and Attorney General Eric Holder have faced criticism recently because they’re black.

Alicia Colon, you are now on my Most Favored Nation Status.

And she gets down to the bone:

The Republicans have many outstanding people of color to reach out and convey the history and principles of the GOP in their communities. Unfortunately these individuals do not rank high in the upper echelons of the RNC and that is why throwing money at it to continue the cluelessness is a waste.

The GOP needs people like Alfonzo Rachel of PJMedia’s Zonation to speak for the party. Watch his YouTube videos where he demonstrates that he knows more about the history of the party than the RNC which refuses to get back to its basics. He equates how the Democrats rationalized slavery and is now equating abortion with it by not considering blacks or fetuses to be human.

The Paragraph, here:

For heaven’s sake, in Lincoln’s time, the GOP had brave radicals fighting against slavery. They were fighting a Democratic Party which founded the KKK yet most blacks and Hispanics believe that it is the party of civil rights and the GOP is against them.

Precisely.  Thank you, Alicia Colon.

And to all: go see the movie “Lincoln.”

I wrote earlier (in 2011) of the GOP’s tenuous predicament:

Dear GOP:

You are about to go the way of the Whig Party, and you don’t even realize it.

You were given a so-called “mandate” this past November.

You didn’t understand it then, and I’m convinced you simply don’t understand it now.

It’s a fight, and you said you would fight for Conservatism but, since then, you’ve shown nothing but limp-wristed — at best — compromise and, at worst, agreement with some of the Demorats’ bills and principles.

You are about to create — due to your indifference — a Third Party in this nation which will, in truth, weaken the GOP and Conservative values whilst, at the same time, strengthen Demorats and Leftists.

I used to write general checks to the RNC but, these days, I specifically TARGET my checks to individuals I consider to be more reflective of my thoughts. My most recent checks were to Sharron Angle, Tom McClintock, and Marco Rubio. They received, shall I say, a minimum of $1,000 each. That is money that could have gone to the GOP but, in my opinion, would have been squandered for the pablum that passes as the current GOP “platform.”

You, GOP, are losing your predominant Water Carriers. You are losing Rush Limbaugh. And, in my realm, more importantly, you are losing a much more even-keeled individual — Hugh Hewitt.

You were proffered what most people would consider a true mandate.

And, for the most part, since then, your “stands” have been akin to nailing Jello to a tree.

In the meantime, Mr Barack Hussein Obama has officially announced his candidacy for President in 2012. Earthshaking? Not quite. He is already at a 50/50 chance of election. Considering past and current standings, I find that absolutely amazing and, further, a revealing insight into the ignorance of American voters.

That said, in opposition, what does the GOP offer? Who? What? When?

I learned one thing, just one thing, from my high school “Civics” teacher, Mr Helms — goateed as he was in the 60s. He said: “Democrats don’t win elections; Republicans lose them.”

Perhaps it is truly time for a

Or am I completely and radically out of line?

Bottom line?

Stop sending cash to the RNC.  Period.

BZ

 

 

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