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    sweeping many victims away as they slept.

    So does the prediction include a failure to issue a tsunami alert, or does it assume a great number will go back to sleep, or what?

    If I lived on the coast, and I felt a quake, I don't think I would be hanging around waiting for a tsunami alert. The hell of it is, you won't feel the quake if it was thousands of miles away and sent a tsunami your direction.

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    When was the last time a tsunami hit the west coast of Japan?

    Thank you Aspara! I should have said east coast.

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    “He can’t fix the economy because he doesn’t know how it was built,” Boehner said to roars of approval.

    Anyone who thinks a pack of politicians, much less two, can fix the economy, does not know how the economy was built.

    He may however know how to get a room full of morons worked up with words.

    Posted in: Republican anger at Obama rages at convention

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    Horrible. We shall see about that bit about the brakes failing.

    Posted in: 100-year-old driver hits 11 near LA school

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    Japan could really try setting the tone here, and first go to the ICJ with China over the Senkaku islands, promising to do whatever the ICJ demands even if means handing them over to China. When that is all said and done, then ask South Korea again about Dokdo.

    But we know that Japan will never go to the ICJ if it has anything to lose. And neither will South Korea.

    And Frungy is right too. The South Korea government will whip this dead horse for all the political points its worth, and are probably secretly very thankful to the Japanese government for handing them this little distraction on a silver platter over and over again.

    Posted in: S Korean document rejects proposal to have court settle isle dispute

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    Preventative action for a tsunami is not really all that hard. The answer is to MOVE INLAND. I would not live within sight of the west coast of Japan if it was all expenses paid, not even on a mountaintop (got to come down sometime!)

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    One of the big questions being skated around here is if these Afghan soldiers are doing this of their own accord or being blackmailed or promised money to do this by some group.

    Posted in: 3 Australian soldiers killed by rogue Afghan soldier; 2 others die in copter crash

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    People and super heroes move on.

    Glad to see the one man/one woman/one love dopey ideal dumped. Goodbye Lois Lane. Goodbye Bruce Wayne. Superman and Wonderwoman are moving on and found eachother...until they too break up and move on again.

    New love is a wonderful thing. To each their own. Not knocking permanent monogamy here. Just saying that as an ideal, for most of us, its the road to extreme disappointment boredom. For those that find it, great, but its no better than what anybody else has.

    Posted in: Superman, Wonder Woman lock lips as power couple

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    I am not really sure its a racial thing so much. Back in the 18th century, everything French was in vogue. If the French were black, I have no doubt people of the world, men and women alike, would have used dark make-up instead of white, to emulate the French.

    White faces say "America" to the Japanese. That's about it.

    Posted in: Clothing ad touting Japan’s beautiful tradition features no Japanese faces

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    They need to just completely reopen the case of the murder and stop dragging their feet. The woman was murdered in 1997 for Pete's sake!

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    Its not really about bullying. Its about a lack of acceptance and a lack of freedom to pursue their personal dreams and desires. A child or teen who has those things can brush off bullying, and also won't run away from home.

    Trouble is, even the foreigners posting here generally have trouble accepting what acceptance can mean, and what dreams and desires young people have. The parents and boards of education here are even less open minded.

    Posted in: Gov't revises suicide prevention guidelines

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    Japan is not the only country with which China is triggering territorials disputes

    And Japan has territorial disputes with ALL her neighbors. Every last one! China just has more neighbors. China is dead center of Asia. Japan is just an island chain on the edge.

    And China did not trigger all disputes. Everyone in these disputes holds some guilt. Anyone with an eye truth can see that. Anyone pointing fingers at only one has interest in the truth.

    Clinton needs to stop giving lip service to slogans of peace

    Slogans? Aside from some words, some trespassing, and some boats bumping into each other, there is peace! You have something against peace?

    SemperFi, be always loyal to truth and peace, not governments and men.

    Posted in: Clinton to address territorial disputes during Asia tour

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    There is almost a nice view on the floor panels!

    Posted in: Can I take your order?

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    If this drags out any slower, not only will the polonium have decayed, but so will I!

    Posted in: France opens murder inquiry into Arafat's death

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    This must be the 8th article talking about a big help in the search for alien life I have seen in the last 3 years. And we still have not found any.

    Could we tone it down, just a notch. I don't much like hype.

    Posted in: Search for alien life gets boost at twin star

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    cue paranoid drivel about radiation...

    At least one incinerator has already reported ash over allowed radiation limits. Its in Kashiwa. They could not even contain and store the ash. http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/radioactive-ash-causes-shutdown-of-kashiwa-incinerators

    Did you explain the geography, the location of Iwate-ken with reference to Fukushima to your sister?

    Maybe he did, explaining that Japan is the size of an American state, and a prefecture is the size of county. Its not really so hard to think that since the main plume of the explosion went northwest with the wind, that plenty of radioactive materials might have traveled straight north, over one county and into another, since we have been told that is how Kashiwa, to the south, got their hotspots. (Kashiwa again!) And do you know which way Pacific currents flow in Japan? That's right, north from Fukushima to Iwate! What has been picked up since 3/11 has had plenty of time to get contaminated with the sea water that was dumped into the ocean from the Fukushima reactors.

    All it is going to take is a few greedy, careless people with some greedy, careless friends working night shift at the incinerator for some stuff to get burnt that shouldn't.

    And there is no reason to move anything from such an empty place as Iwate to be burnt anyway, except again, greed. There is big money to be had in transporting and burning, and none to be had in piling it up on some empty useless mountain land away from everybody within Iwate to be disposed of locally and slowly.

    When you do things for no good reason, bad things happen. Like in Kashiwa. Did the radioactive particles fly there by themselves you think? Or was it related to the incinerator? Paranoid drivel you say? When you live in Oz, its not at all strange to wonder what the hell is behind the curtain, and not trust the wizard.

    Posted in: Saitama to accept tsunami rubble from Iwate

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    and further promoting the sexual degradation of young women in Japan.

    Sounds like mindless repetition of a slogan with little to no thought behind it to me. I cannot tell you if I ever saw a woman "sexually degraded". Degraded sexually, yes, but not "sexually degraded". What does that even mean?

    Some women have assets valuable to men. If they choose to cash in on those assets, so what? Its an option like any other, and they have many more.

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    Mostly I am wondering how badly the combination of all that neon and straining to see the ladies damages the eyes.

    Far be it for me to diss robotic women. I just hope for them to be more practical and soft to the touch.

    Posted in: Can I take your order?

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    What, are they trying to catch up with Iran and China?

    Given Iraq's past, they may be ahead of Iran already. They don't get a clean slate just because Saddam is gone. And this news shows why.

    Posted in: Iraq executes 21 in single day

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    Whats with the slick hair look?

    Elementary. Her husband likes big hair!

    Posted in: Clinton to address territorial disputes during Asia tour

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