Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

An article in the Illinois Statehouse news recently reported that the Asian carp, which supposedly is threatening the ecosystem of the Great Lakes, is now being caught by fisherman and to be sold to China. This is what I had advocated all along. Why were we thinking of spending millions to put electronic "fences" in rivers to prevent the carps from migrating into the Great Lakes? If these carps did come from China, I would bet the Chinese had been eating them all along. The Chinese are known to eat anything that moves. There must be a market for the carps. The only thing that I worry about is that we are too good in fishing them and they become almost extinct. Then some group will argue to put them on the endangered species list. Then what are we going to do? Right now with this deal with China we stop the carps from spreading and employ some fishermen and workers in processing plants. It is a win-win. Why wasn't this thought of before by the Illinois government?

Of course anything that is bad from nature, we seem to blame it on Asia. I mean, how did the carps get here in the first place? Are they really from Asia? Where I live, citrus agriculture is very important. Now there is a warning about an insect known as Asian citrus psyllid invading. Are we so sure that this is from Asia? How many times have we heard of a flu coming from Asia? Remember the Hong Kong flu? I don't remember anyone in Hong Kong proclaiming that we invented a flu and it is spreading to the rest of the world. Of course, it maybe that people in Hong Kong do blame themselves too much. Take athlete's feet. It is caused by fungi that are all over the world. But you know what the people of Hong Kong call it? Hong Kong feet! So I will blame my inability to dance on the disease "Hong Kong Two Left Feet".