Posted on 03/12/2016 3:20:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The road to the White House doesn't get much longer than this.
On Saturday, some 8,000 miles from the nation's capital, voters in the far-flung U.S. Pacific Ocean territories will get their say in this hotly-contested and often whacky presidential primary season.
Republicans in Guam get the contests underway, with the Northern Mariana Islands' Democratic caucuses following a few hours later. GOP conventions in Wyoming and Washington, D.C., come later in the day, making for almost 27 hours of non-stop voting.
Want to know more? You should.
Where are the Northern Mariana Islands?
About 5,800 miles south-southwest from California's Pacific shore, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are so far west that they are, technically, east -- 15 hours ahead of New York and Washington, D.C.
They're much closer to Japan -- just 1,500 miles south. The island of Tinian, one of the three main inhabited CNMI locations and home to a Saturday caucus site, was a critical strategic position in the Pacific theater of World War II. The "Enola Gay," a B-29 plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, took off from Tinian's North Airfield, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation....
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1. Don’t let everyone stand on one side of the island or it will capsize,
Ahhhh.....my famed Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson. All us Georgians are especially proud of this native son!
That joke, and its variants is very offensive to many of the the people that live on Guam.
1. You have to be in Guam.
That’s great they get an opportunity to make their voices heard.
I thought Guam was not the same
as the northern Marianas
Also, don’t stand in large groups too close to shore in case the island tips over...
It shouldn't be. The joke is on Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson, who doesn't have the Intelligence Quotient to be a bus driver, much less a Congressman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q
Interestingly, the Navy Admiral who had to endure that ignoramus while trying to keep a straight face was a young Naval aviator during the filming of the movie, and he flew in most of the actual action sequences you see in the film.
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