Bone of Boeing

Did anyone else hear the NPR coverage of China's president Hu visiting the northwest? After meeting with regional business leaders, he was rushed to surgery to have their noses removed from his upper GI tract.

It was embarrassing.

If there is an ass-kissing bone, Boeing's Alan Mullaly broke it today. Compound fracture with torn ligaments.

Boeing very recently got a $3 billion order for aircraft from China, and the Chinese are making noise about moving from an 80 aircraft order to a 2,000 aircraft order over the next 15 years. This is patently absurd, but it was enough to get Alan writhing on his belly as if he were a person who makes millions in bonuses.

Oh, wait. He does make millions in bonuses.

Howard Schultz of Starbucks was just a few strokes shy of a happy ending for Hu, but also weighed in as a person who has given up any real shred of self respect. I'm sure he was thinking, "hey - we have shade grown coffee. Haven't we done enough for the world already?"

Free Tibet. Free speech. Free noodles. Free your currency. ($200 billion trade imbalance with the US.) Free something. Show a backbone, people.