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Smog shuts down Chinese city:

If the Chinese want to be considered a “Super Power” they are going to have to step up to the plate and start acting like a super power by helping the rest of the world preserve Mother Nature’s clean air. Up until now they seem to be going in reverse instead of forward with their rickshaws.

In the USA,  the kids get off of school because of snow days; in China the kids get a free day or two for smog day.

In the northeastern city of Harbin today ushered in the season with smog so thick that visibility was reportedly limited to 10 meters in places. Classes were canceled, roads closed, and planes grounded.

It got so bad that a guy named One Hung Low couldn’t read his fortune cookie that said “Man who bicycles in smog, gets ass in big jam”!

On the way home poor One Hung Low got hit by a truck that was loaded with cat pulp for delivery to some local restaurants’ for the next day meals.

The Chinese government isn’t sitting on their hands and came up with a solution to improve the air quality by 2017. The tab to clean up this mess and get it under control will cost $817 billion dollars.  It remains to be seen if they can keep that commitment.

One Chinese official was overheard saying “If we could only get these Americans to pay their tab, it would make things a lot easier for us.”

“如果我們只能得到這些美國人支付他們的標籤，這會使事情更容易為我們。”