The Largest Minority

The Daily Connect: 01/26/07

By Manila Ryce
Published Friday, January 26th, 2007, 2:04 pm
Filed under: The Daily Connect, Personal Posts

What�s the only thing big enough to stop Starbucks? The Chinese population. Starbucks planted their flag in the Forbidden City and for some unknown reason, Chinese bloggers aren�t too happy about it. That Starbucks better have some damn good tea to be in that location.
Since we�re already covering China, here�s a story about a Chinese man who has convinced his wife to get plastic surgery so she can look like� wait for it� his dead first wife. I�m assuming he wants her to resemble his first wife when she was living and not resemble the way she looks currently.
Moving west from China, we come to an island nation of more godless commies. Legislation has finally been introduced to lift the ban on US travel to Cuba. This is all too weird for me. I�m not use to congress having common sense. How will we live?
Now away from China and Cuba and on to the real threat � women. A new policy may be added to only take blood plasma from men. Why? Because certain antibodies in the blood of women who have been pregnant cause 50-100 transfusion-related deaths a year. But cheer up ladies, blood cell donation is still welcome.
Being the dirty hippy that I am (more the former than the latter), I found CNN�s 9 Technologies to Save the World very inspiring. However, they left out my world-saving invention of an ejection seat in the oval office. Everyone making minimum wage would be given their own button for it.