Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Moo goo FAIL.
I’ve been so busy the past two weeks so I’ve been unable to post the awesome stories contributed by my awesome friends. This tidbit from about ten days ago is golden. I think Gohmert himself looks a bit embarrassed just before he speaks, knowing he is about to say something astoundingly stupid. [Note: WordPress is [...]
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Tags: china, chinese, food, politics, wtf
Jackie Chan opens can of worms.
There’s a lively discussion going on at the “Room for Debate” blog at the New York Times. I’d heard about Jackie Chan’s remarks, but the issues brought up in the comments to this blog post provided so many different perspectives that I thought I should post them here. From questioning whether Jackie Chan was mistranslated [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, film, hong kong, media, politics, taiwanese
Guantánamo to be no mo’.
I don’t plan for my blog to become an extension of Obamamania, so I will be sure to post about other topics soon. But I am so excited about his signing executive orders today to shut down Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons and detention camps. I’m so excited that he is taking bold steps [...]
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Tags: diplomacy, obama, politics
Chu and Shinseki confirmed.
In the midst of an awesomely festive day of inauguration activities, the Senate managed to get some work done, unanimously confirming the appointments of 7 cabinet secretaries. And it’s great to see two Asian American faces among Obama’s new crew! Steven Chu, who received some press upon his appointment by Obama, will be the Energy [...]
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Tags: chinese, japanese, obama, politics
Anh Cao elected to Congress.
In a year of political firsts, I was interested to see that Anh Cao has broken another barrier by becoming the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress. He ran as a Republican in Louisiana, unseating William J. Jefferson, a nine-term Rep-D who was dogged by scandal this year. Apparently, Jefferson was “charged with money laundering and [...]
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Tags: firsts, politics, vietnamese
I’m excited about the Chinese- and Taiwanese-Americans who Barack Obama has appointed to his administration.
He just chose Dr. Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy, and earlier he picked Christopher Lu as White House cabinet secretary.
Lu was born in New Jersey after his parents moved to the States from Taiwain. He met Obama [...]
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Tags: chinese, obama, politics, taiwanese
Ugh. China, why must you continue to make negative headlines.
Stop spying on everyone!
A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
Researchers in China have estimated that 30,000 or more “Internet police” monitor online [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, irksome, politics
So they knew about the milk all along. From the NY Times:
One of China’s biggest dairy producers received consumer complaints about its baby milk formula as early as December 2007 — much earlier than previously thought and nine months before the producer ordered a nationwide recall because of concerns that the formula had been adulterated [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, media, olympics, politics
50,000 babies are sick on milk.
That’s not even the worst of it. We lost David Foster Wallace. The economy’s in the shitter. LIRR employees are cheating the system. 53 dead in Pakistan. A sizable chunk of voters still think Obama has ties to Islam. I just broke a glass.
It’s hard to be optimistic on Monday morning when things seem rather [...]
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Tags: china, irksome, malaise, politics
You are being removed from America’s terror list. Nice work. Though I feel like being on America’s terror list might carry a degree of badassitude, or at least impress a stranger at a dinner party to go home with you. So, sorry Kim Jong Il and ilk, you no longer terrify us. Now to bully [...]
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Tags: diplomacy, korea, politics
