Monday, March 9, 2009

USNS Impeccable

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines impeccable as: “not capable of sinning or liable to sin; free from fault or blame; flawless.”

Unfortunately, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary must not be printed in China, or else the Chinese who harassed the USNS Impeccable yesterday would have known that the surveillance ship used to gather “underwater acoustical data,” meant them no harm.

Now the frightening part about all of this is that these harassing Chinese were not simply fishermen as some articles have suggested. In fact, CNN reports that “the Chinese ships involved were a Navy intelligence collection ship, a Bureau of Maritime Fisheries Patrol Vessel, a State Oceanographic Administration patrol vessel and two small Chinese-flagged trawlers…” Read the full story here.

Well, that’s all for now. I’m off to begin translating Merriam-Webster’s dictionary into Chinese.

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