China: There Will Be No Earthquakes During Olympics

The national seismic monitoring network has not detected any sign a strong earthquake would hit Beijing during the Olympics next month, a senior expert with the China Earthquake Networks Center said in the capital on Saturday.

The 107 quake-monitoring stations of the network cover a 150,000-sq-km area around the capital and are said to be the most extensive such network in the country. It can detect a temblor as light as magnitude 1.0 and report it within five to 10 minutes, Zhang Xiaodong, deputy director of the networks center, said at a press conference.

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[MissingAmerica]

Wow, these guys are even more powerful than we realized! Now wonder they don't believe in God. After all, why concern yourself with a higher power when there isn't one!

[MagisterLudi]

"China: There Will Be No Earthquakes During Olympics"

As usual, when you see a this kind of headline, one can safely assume it came from the brilliant minds of highly educated Huffpo interns... hmmmm

[donttasemebro]

Agree. They have no journalistic training, that's for sure.

[steamboat]

We can sleep well knowing China has ordered no earthquakes during the Olympics. I wish they would have ordered no hurricanes for the gulf-coast a few years back.

[AnnArky]

"There weer be no earthquake duhwing the owypics. The gwait and powerfur Zhang Xiaodong has spoken. there weer arso be no creen air, no human lights, no justice in Tibet and no unhappy rooking peasants on the stleets. there weer arso be no corored peeper or dahk-skinned Chinese arrowed in bahs or nigth crubs. The Fleedom ruvving Zhang Xiaodong has so decrared."

[MagisterLudi]

You and Don Imus... obviously of the same intolerant cloth.
Like wow dudette... this was real mature....

[metropixie]

Well, AnnArky, apparently you can't tell Chinese apart from Japanese... The Chinese do have the "L" in their "alphabet," while the Japanese do not... So, you've got your attempt at racism all mixed up.

[AnnArky]

Ah, so solly, will fix racist speech in next brog.

And, MagisterLudite, you whiny, little hypocrite, it was "sarcasm" not racism.

[gurukalehuru]

...and there are no homosexuals in Iran.

[RRK70]

Earthquake? What Earthquake? No, that was just the tremors from a billion people jumping up and down in Olympic excitement!

[LADawson]

I am waiting for the report from their national armored vehicle monitoring network that says no one will be run over by a tank during the Olympics.

[metropixie]

Don't forget our own government's history, like the Kent University shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, which occurred Monday, May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio National Guard. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis...

Several of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia as ordered by Nixon...

[MagisterLudi]

Thye'll have to borrow a bigger tank from you Americans, who pay their taxes like obedient sheep to subsidize their wars.
Protest?
Oh, you mean the online whining?
You're really putting the shoulder to the wheel... commendable.... right...

[layman]

Olympically Capitalized Communism.
For the Love of Fame and Glory and Money

[darthdarcy]

I am in no way watching this Olympic abomination...travesty...!

Free Tibet...

End the Genocide you support in Darfur...

End support for the criminals of Mayamar...Burma..

Send Condi Rice she'll fit right in...with the Red Dragon goons and running dogs...

[MagisterLudi]

Military budgets:
China---$29.9+ billion
U.S.A -- $419.3+ billion

Chinese invasions of other countries since 1980---0
U.S.A.--- 9

You wanna protest something? Hit the streets, refuse to pay taxes, blockade the militatry base.....

But if your semi-coherent juvenilia makes yuu feel like a progressive, all the power to you.