It's like something out of science fiction, reverberating around Facebook with knowing sneers from weapons fans: our new clone army, ready for the next set of Star Wars movies.
What a coincidence. Wu Po-hsiung, the former KMT heavyweight and KMT chairman, as well as one of the first KMT politicians to visit China over a decade ago in his position as head of a large Hakka federation, was out front and center this week saying that political talks are probably inevitable...
Political issues may be unavoidable for Taiwan and China as the two sides conduct economic exchanges, former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) said yesterday, stressing that Taiwan should address political issues according to the public’s needs.Wu was speaking to a Chinese audience, while at home the President was once again saying that the Time is Not Right For Political Talks with China. The Taipei Times argues that the President is actually moving toward political talks. My attitude is that whatever they say they are not doing, or accuse the other team of doing, is what they are indeed doing.
Meanwhile, stirring as those masks may look, they'd last about ten seconds in the face of shrapnel, high caliber bullets, explosives, and other nasties of a modern battlefield. But they sure look like they'd be useful against demonstrators armed with rocks, don't they? Perfect for those post-political talks riots...
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I love how the soldier of the future is being hauled around on a converted vegetable truck.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what it feels like inside these when the temperature is 31 degrees
ReplyDeleteDude, you buried the (very important) lede. I almost skipped this one!
ReplyDeleteTim Maddog
"...stirring as those masks may look, they'd last about ten seconds in the face of shrapnel, high caliber bullets, explosives..."
ReplyDeleteActually, the real problem is that they will be hot, uncomfortable to wear and greatly restrict the wearer's peripheral vision. They might in fact guard against shrapnel fairly well if they're made of Kevlar, but you're right that their real purpose is theatre.
Idiot Taiwanese for keep electing these corrupt gangster sellout kmtards to power.
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