Posts Tagged ‘Asia’

Hawaii, that great Asian getaway

November 15th, 2011 | No Comments

President Bush took a lot of heat for saying some pretty stupid things. President Obama blows him away on a very regular basis. Today President Obama gives another lesson in geography. ( At about the 35 minute mark Is Hawaii in Asia? Public OpinionView Results Just a technicality, Hawaii is a state within the United [...]

Since when is China part of North America?

February 28th, 2008 | No Comments

The amazing thing about this one so far is it seems only my buds in at Independent Sources seem to have noticed: Quoting Barack: “In Youngstown, Ohio, I talked to workers who have seen their plants shipped overseas as a consequence of bad trade deals like NAFTA, literally seeing equipment unbolted from the floors of [...]

10 Most Polluted places in the world

October 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country: Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities; Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery [...]