Protest China?
Maybe if everyone else in the world really wanted to send a message to China, we’d stop buying all the products produced and manufactured there?
Wait, that would actually require personal (and national) sacrifice and accountability, along with *gasp* economic impliciations.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s better to protest one of the only remaining, enduring symbols of world peace and our collective membership in the human race–the Olympic Games.
Why the post? Oh, I was just surprised when I received a UPS tracking number for my second Chumby because it’s coming to Texas directly from the factory/warehouse in CHINA –
| Package Progress | |||
| Location | Date | Local Time | Description |
| LOUISVILLE, KY, US |
04/22/2008 | 11:06 A.M. | THIS SHIPMENT IS WAREHOUSED UNTIL IT IS RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY |
| 04/22/2008 | 1:15 A.M. | IMPORT SCAN | |
| LOUISVILLE, KY, US |
04/21/2008 | 12:09 P.M. | IMPORT SCAN |
| ANCHORAGE, AK, US |
04/17/2008 | 11:30 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN |
| 04/17/2008 | 2:39 P.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | |
| CHEK LAP KOK, HK |
04/17/2008 | 9:33 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN |
| 04/17/2008 | 7:53 P.M. | HUB SCAN | |
| 04/17/2008 | 7:52 P.M. | HUB SCAN | |
| SHENZHEN, CN |
04/17/2008 | 6:48 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN |
| 04/17/2008 | 9:26 A.M. | ORIGIN SCAN | |
| CN | 04/17/2008 | 9:15 P.M. | BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED |
Tracking results provided by UPS: 04/22/2008 11:29 A.M. ET
It looks like as of this moment, my Chumby #2 is being patted down by U.S. Customs, apparently. 
America is so self-righteous and hypocritical (and yes, by America I mean you, me and everyone “born in the USA” or naturalized here as U.S. citizens.) BOYCOTT CHINA for its human rights violations (noble reason, but haphazardly and thus poorly executed), but don’t affect the cost of the goods we buy because it’s not worth THAT much to us. BOYCOTT CHINA because the Olympics are too commercialized anyway (they are, but so are all professional and competitive sports), but don’t take away our reality TV constantly selling us on a lavish, conspicuous consumption lifestyle.
I am part of the problem, just like everyone, so don’t get it twisted that I’m slamming everyone all the while excitedly waiting for my second Chumby, my Amazon Kindle and Justin’s new Dell computer to arrive. I get it.
Oh, by the way, Happy Earth Day 2008! /irony
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