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January 25, 2007
It's the Year of the Pig
And not just any year of the pig - it just happens to be the Year of the Golden Pig!
There are 12 animals in the Asian horoscope, and each sign comes around once every 12 years. Put together in a combination with elements such as water, fire and earth, each year is characterized to certain special meaning. Twelve different signs with five elements means you have 60 possible combinations.
The Golden Pig Year - calculated through yin-and-yang theory - happens only every 600 years.
It happens once every 600 years, and China kowtows to moslems:
Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said.
This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestlé's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday.
The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean.
This, from a country that consistently suppresses any dissent, especially from its moslem population. Any sign of trouble in any moslem providence in China, the Army goes in, and like magic, ten percent of the jihadists disappear, never to be heard from again. If that don't do the trick, well, they just round up another ten percent. China doesn't give a crap about how moslems feel, this is just China looking to score propaganda points off the West.
Well screw them damn moslems, I'm celebrating!
Hat tip to Fausta for this one!
Posted by LindaSoG at January 25, 2007 08:28 PM