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Free Hep B and Hep C Testing at AHSC’s Healthy Living Pavilion
18 May 2012 11:42 PM | No CommentsThe Healthy Living Pavilion at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration taking place at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 19th, will provide free and low-cost health services, professional medical advice, interactive activities with prizes and health-related education materials. Located on Larkin Street between...
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
18 May 2012 11:35 PM | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball...
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SF Hosts Largest Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Saturday, May 19 at Civic Center
18 May 2012 11:11 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – The City is hosting the largest pan Asian street fair nationwide to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Saturday, May 19th at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, produced by the AsianWeek Foundation, will feature a...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
18 May 2012 1:53 AM | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob...
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Cultural Procession Highlights Faces of Asia
18 May 2012 12:08 AM | No CommentsColorful Asian ethnic attire will be paraded through the Asian Heritage Street Celebration as part of the Faces of Asia cultural procession at 11 a.m. “The cultural procession is an opportunity for people from different ethnic groups to come together to wear their cultural attire...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob... -
Obama’s Eddie Haskell versus Romney’s Ward Cleaver
Posted on May 17, 2012 | 1 Comment[ Hu's on First] Asian Americans need to decide if this election is about standing with the first Black and now Gay president who will stand up for minorities using race and gender identity as a way to get more out of government and squeeze more... -
Asian English Teachers Need Not Apply in China
Posted on May 16, 2012 | 4 CommentsHere’s another one for the Wierd Stuff Asians Do File, as in Asians Who Don’t Hire Asians. I’ve not heard of the preference for Whites (and in a pinch, Black) as english teachers in Japan. The MSNBC says that ads in China blatantly ask for... -
Alina Powell Shows Home Video of Presumed Murdered Susan Powell
Posted on May 16, 2012 | 4 Comments[Demons and Saints: Murder of Susan Cox Powell Family] I’ve created a book-on-a-blog website on the Susan Powell case here at the link above. It has the most detailed biographies and timelines of events that I’ve seen, and the closest thing to a comprehensive reference... -
Fukushima Crisis Is Completely Over After One Year (NOT!)
Posted on May 15, 2012 | 3 Comments[Fukushima NukeBlog Index| Radiation On Children's Shoes] This piece from the World Nuclear Association, which is a platform for apologists of the Nuclear Power Industry is unbelievable in the extent they present the opposite of the MASS NUCLEAR DEATH scenario, which is EVERYTHING IS COMPLETELY... -
Borax II: 1954 American Mini-Chernobyl Meltdown And Explosion
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 3 Comments[Fukushima Nuclear Crisis|Simplyinfo] Here’s a nuclear meltdown I’ll bet you never heard of. Atomic Arnie mentioned on Infowars the Borax experiments which was a DELIBERATE nuclear meltdown and prompt-critical explosion. Yes that’s what is was. Man they did some crazy stuff in the 50s, like... -
Fukushima One Year: Apocalypse Not – Nuclear No
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 23 Comments[Fukushima Nuclear Crisis|Simplyinfo] The mainstream media continues to ignore the heroic efforts in Japan to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident site which remains a huge mess. Some of this smells like the usual “no White Americans Were Harmed So We Don’t Have to Report... -
Korea’s Girl’s Generation Twinkle Dominates YouTube with 6M hits in 5 days
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 1 CommentHu’s On First Blog GIRLS’ GENERATION TWINKLE Music Video Traditionally, Asian girl groups have been fun but haven’t been able to make much of a dent compared to western groups, but this popped up in my Youtube feature list with about 1 million hits a... -
Tokyo Gets New 2000 ft “Skytree” Broadcast Tower and Tourist Trap
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No Comments[Hu's On First] Seattle’s 600 ft 1962 Space Needle gets a new 2000 ft rival in Tokyo, which previously just had a clone of the Eiffel tower as the “Tokyo Tower”. The old tower just wasn’t hacking it as a broadcast tower because so many... -
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC ASIAN VALUES
Posted on April 28, 2012 | No Comments[Hu's On First ] I wrote this as the result of a research project I did for the progressive Asian American Resource Workshop in Boston (headed by Peter Kiang, now professor at U Mass) with a couple of other members who helped with the research....