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  30061015Nov. 05, 2008 - 01:07PM JST

  Pride comes before a fall, but power hates a vacuum. Will those who gloat about America's decline lovingly embrace the Asian super power that replaces the Paxamericana as empire's new global dark age strips away civil liberties? Better the evil you know than the evil you don't. Embracing the unknown as "change" is a risk that may invoke the law of unintended consequences. ObaMania may be just a knee jerk emotional manifestation of American novelty, and not necessarily for the better.

  Posted in: World hopes for a 'less arrogant America'

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  30061015Oct. 31, 2008 - 05:42AM JST

  You can put any fried mystery meat in a combini bento ( east meats west ) with assorted "oishii so" chunklets of dubious content and origin and the huddled harried masses will masticate on demand. What's really in it? Who cares as long as the trains run on time. The only safe way to eat is to grow it and know it, kill it and grill it. Anything beyond that is simply food for thought.

  Posted in: Why are food scandals surfacing one after another and what can be done about it?

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  30061015Oct. 27, 2008 - 01:45AM JST

  I worked at a Japanese kindergarten in th 80's and the bentos back then did not rely on all the frozen breaded deep fried globs for the microwave.

  I think japan is starting to wake up. Promoting domesticly produced food is ultimateluy wise. Why pay someone else 1000's of miles away for frozen fried globs when you can grow better and healthier food at home?

  As distribution of high calorie processed foods is automated and corporate farming is driven by our malignant consumer culture, hydrocarbon humans spend a disproportionate amount of time consuming calories rather than burning them (especially in SUV fast food America.) Our leisure society, founded on immediate gratification and convenience, now has more time than ever to indulge its naturally selected affinity for a wide variety of surplus sugars and microwavable fats. We are all slowly being poisoned by our dependency on the system. Its way past time to get back to the garden.

  Posted in: Agriculture minister, celebrities promote Japanese food in Tokyo

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  30061015Oct. 25, 2008 - 12:53PM JST

  "I joined the campaign because I want children to eat healthy and tasty Japanese food.”

  Children? This is Japan. What children?

  Posted in: Agriculture minister, celebrities promote Japanese food in Tokyo

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  30061015Oct. 19, 2008 - 02:27AM JST

  What, did I miss something? This article is about:

  A) Trick or treat at airports and your child's right to dress like Britney going through insecurity

  B) Box cutters, 911 and the need to ban all those boxes

  C) Walking like an Egyptian

  D) Gun owners in America who have legal concealed carry permits in airport terminals.

  The only single example you can site regarding this "threat" is of an Egyptian terrorist in 2002 who, "killed two people and wounded several others near a ticket counter at the Los Angeles airport before being shot to death by an El Al Israel Airlines security guard"?

  Ooooh, how scary.

  I mean, not the terrorist, but the thought of all those Americans clinging to their guns and religion at the same time while the country is at war and in recession! And worst of all, all those crazy Americans might actually vote to keep the rights that generations from Lexington and Concord have fought and died for. No, we cant have that.

  Posted in: In many U.S. airports, guns are OK outside security

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