JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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Betzee
The Republican Party of America were the masters of the election sham long before Ahmadinejad tried it.
The Islamic Republic nearly consumed two presidencies. Carter's of course, and then Reagan's. While Iran Contra has been all but excised from the historic record, in the late 1980s it posed some very troubling constitutional and leadership questions. one of the Reagan administration's defenses was that it had been trying to strengthen moderates within the Tehran government.
The missed opportunity was when a moderate was elected in 1997 Bill Clinton didn't move on it. Of course the "we don't negotiate with evil we defeat it" chorus would have been louder than when Reagan strengthened diplomatic overtures to the USSR after Gorbachev came to power.
The Iranian people did show solidarity with Americans after 9/11. There were candle light vigils in Tehran. But that couldn't be accommodated in a black and white mindset. When GWB declared Iran to be a member of "the axis of evil" that must have been music to the hardliner's ears. There was no way anyone could campaign on a reapproachment with the USA platform in 2005.
American conservatives probably see the noble Iranian people are suffering under a tyrannical regime led by religious and assorted crackpots. Yet such a view is hard to maintain given the fact Ahmadinejad does have a strong base of popular support which owes both to populist domestic policies and his confrontational foreign policy. It is viewed, by some Iranians, as a source of strength in a dog eat dog world. Don't mess with us.
Posted in: Iran declares win for Ahmadinejad in disputed vote
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Betzee
I'm a republican and neither I nor any of my republican friends want Ahmadinejad in power.
Most Republicans have said it doesn't matter who wins because they don't see the elections as anything other than a sham.
Posted in: Iran declares win for Ahmadinejad in disputed vote
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Betzee
*he unleashed his hatred of both Presidents Bush and other "neo-conservatives" *
Well that settles it, I'm sure he supported Obama and backed ACORN's efforts to rig the election, don't ya think?
Posted in: 88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Betzee
He [teleprompter] only knows one topic and, as usual, he falls short:
von Brun's book, "Kill the Best Gentiles," is a screed against the Talmud and is dedicated to Revilo Oliver, a well-known denier of the Holocaust. Von Brunn's writings condemning "Negroes" and Jews were prolific.
Posted in: 88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Betzee
I'm sure the NRA has put out a press release saying, "This just goes to show the only way to be safe is for everyone to be armed." In a museum??? Imagine what the insurance would run to cover the items on display.
Posted in: 88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Betzee
i suppose he feels his innings is coming to a close and fancied going out in a blaze of "glory"
I know everyone who visited the museum today and emerged unharmed is grateful for the professionalism of the security staff. No doubt his imaginerd blaze of glory would have been bigger had he taken out more.
Posted in: 88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Betzee
This violence and hatred against the Jews has to stop whether its some kooky white supremist or muslim jihadi.
His victim was a black security guard named Stephen Tyrone Johns. RIP Mr. Johns.
Posted in: 88-year-old gunman kills guard at U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Betzee
I voted for GWB because he assured us he had the clout to "jaw bone" the Saudis. When the price falls, the oil companies have no economic incentive to expand production. Then when it shoots back up again, as is currently underway, well why weren't you drilling?
There's a way out of this boom and bust cycle that we are captive to, but it's ain't "drill, baby drill."
Moreover, as long as someone wants to buy oil, those petro-authoritarian states will have power. And Mitt no doubt will continue talking tough while downing corn dogs to show he's a regular guy.
Posted in: Romney raps Obama's 'tour of apology'
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Betzee
Yes, GWB looked very presidential last year when he went a callin' on the House of Saud twice over a period of four months to beg them to lower the price of oil. The answer was "nyet."
His presidency will be remembered for the ascendance of a bunch of petro-authoritarian states — principally Russia, Venezuela and Iran — and for that most Americans would like an apology.
Posted in: Romney raps Obama's 'tour of apology'
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Betzee
“I take issue with President Obama’s recent tour of apology,” Romney said. “It’s not because America hasn’t made mistakes—we have—but because America’s mistakes are overwhelmed by what America has meant to the hopes and aspirations of people throughout the world.”
Mittens doesn't seem to appreciate that the primary reason America inspires hope is that our government can be held accountable for mistakes by ordinary citizens.
“Arrogant, delusional tyrants can’t be stopped by earnest words and furrowed brows,” he said.
What is his alternative? Tough talk from the Iowa state fairgrounds while leaving others to do the heavy lifting?
Action, strong bold action coming from a position of strength and determination, is the only effective deterrent.”
Yeah, the fightings Romneys really inspire fear.
Posted in: Romney raps Obama's 'tour of apology'
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Betzee
China is an Asian nation relatively free of religious fanatics - and just look at how well their state-mandated, state-supported abortion program has turned out.
The average Chinese person supports draconian family planning policies as necessary given the country's limited resources. If you've ever tried to get on a public bus in Shanghai you might too.
Posted in: Abortion foes fear backlash to doctor's murder
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Betzee
But unlike the muslim radicals sad to say that this guy had a specific target.
Or unlike Timothy McVeigh who dismissed the day care attendees who died when he blew up the Okla City Federal Building as "collateral damage."
But I don't recall that distinction counted for much when Bill Ayers, who never killed anyone, was denounced as a "domestic terrorist" by prominent Republicans and here on this site, harsher words than "far Right Loon" which refers to a man who is being held for murder.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
Yabits,
The silence is really deafening here. The same posters who are quick to denounce Muslim terrorists as having given up all claim to their cause by resorting to violence, instead shift this thread into a discussion of male paternity rights. Can't have it both ways...
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
There's the case of Larry Hillblom, who founded the courier company DHL and "retired" to Asia.
Hillblom has had an extravagant afterlife.
Its principal source proved to be his vigorous taste for young, often very young Asian women. Several — from Micronesia, Vietnam, the Philippines — stepped forward to say Hillblom fathered their children. A paternity suit ensued, involving stealthy quests for Hillblom’s DNA — his bathroom was mysteriously scoured with acid after his death and his every possession buried — and years of transcontinental litigation.
“He cut a wide swathe through the Pacific,” Barry Israel, a lawyer who represented Junior Larry Hillblom, the oldest of four children ultimately recognized, told me. Each of the penniless Asian kids received about $50 million, after tax, from the $600 million Hillblom estate.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
Bill O'Reilly, who made repeated references to "Tiller the baby killer" may find himself in court, not for child support, but as an accomplice in a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed on behalf of Dr. Tiller's family.
On June 12, 2007, O'Reilly said, "Yes, I think we all know what this is. And if the state of Kansas doesn't stop this man [Tiller], then anybody who prevents that from happening has blood on their hands as the governor does right now, Governor Sebelius."
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
but with that must come the acceptance that men should no longer be responsible in any way for children that they fathered since they have no choice at all.
They have the choice not to sleep with a woman with whom they are not in a committed partnership.
A man could say "Hey, I didn't want the kid, so why should I have to pay" using your argument.
Until DNA testing came along, men had the ability to walk away, deny paternity and shrug off the financial consequences which come with it. I'm sure some of the women who sought out Dr. Tiller's father services, which could have gotten his medical license yanked and made him eligible for a stint behind bars, were pregnant and alone.
Biology did not create an equal division of labor. Yet I've never heard a woman complain, "It's unfair men don't assume 50 percent of the responsibility for gestation and childbirth."
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
I do know of someone who did have a late-term abortion (back in the 1960s). The married mother of one, who went on to have two more children, she'd had meningitus (?) and there was a good chance the fetus had been affected. Some may disagree with that decision. But I think bringing a disabled child into the world represents an enormous responsibility that should be left to the discretion of the parents who will have to consider who will care for the child after they are gone.
In China late-term abortions have been routinely performed on women against their will. This is wrong and the Chinese government deserves to be condemned for such practices.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
But I'm sure the Left is gonna play fast, loose and very selective with all of that.
Well maybe they can learn a trick or two from your posts, then again probably not.
I read this about Dr. Tiller:
When George Tiller was young he dreamed not of being one of the most visible and strident advocates for abortion rights, but of becoming a dermatologist.
The 67-year-old physician, who was shot and killed Sunday in his church, had said his path was altered by a 1970 plane crash that killed his father, mother, sister and brother-in-law.
The former Navy flight surgeon was left with his father's family practice in Wichita, and he soon learned a secret. One of his father's patients asked him whether he, like his father, would perform abortions.
At first, Tiller said, he did not believe his father had risked his medical license by performing then-illegal abortions. But after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortions in 1973, Tiller began providing them.
If abortion were outlawed, it's reasonable to presume those seeking to terminate their pregnancies would again seek out the services of an illegal provider. Certainly Dr. Tiller could have moved his practice to a safer locale, but that would have left pregnant women in Kansas and surrounding states, since I read he had patients from Oklahoma as well, with no licensed health care professional to tend those who did not wish to carry their pregnancies to term.
I don't want to play fast and loose with statistics like others, but a woman's own health is one reason why she might seek a late-term abortion. Now endangering a mother's life might not be a sufficient reason for the male shooter to find abortion permissible, but then he's never going to walk in her shoes.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
Since African-American women are something like 6 times more likely to avail themselves of an abortionist's services it is your side that has to answer to the charges of "genocide."
Isn't this thread about a murder of a doctor whose patients sought out his services? And what's your source?
According to Center for Disease Control statistics, blacks account for 13% of the population in the U.S. and black women make up 37% of women who undergo abortions.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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Betzee
Bill Clinton's mistake was not talking tough but assuming the North Korean government would collapse like the rest of the communist world. It didn't.
Talking tough only works if you are prepared to back it up.
Posted in: S Korean, U.S. troops on alert after North's threats