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DS at 09:03 AM JST - 22nd July

Great advice from Ah So. Kids pick up on what language is and is not really needed or valued, based on the attitude of the parents. So, if mommy and daddy use Japanese all the time with each other, the kids will see it and figure that English really isnt…

Posted in Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily at 09:03 AM JST - 22nd July
DS at 08:10 PM JST - 21st July

Papasmurf has the right idea. One language at home/with family, one with the rest of the world. We have done the same thing with our son (now 13) and it has worked very well. When the three of us are together (wife, me, son),it is English only, no matter where…

Posted in Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily at 08:10 PM JST - 21st July
DS at 01:58 PM JST - 2nd May

He could always just nominate a hispanic woman and keep both groups happy.

Or, God forbid, he could pick the best person for the job regardless (gasp) of gender orethncity. That would be more in line with his rhetoric about there being only a UNITED States of America...

Posted in Obama: New Justice will combine 'empathy and understanding' at 01:58 PM JST - 2nd May
DS at 12:10 PM JST - 2nd May

At least Spectre was honest about his reasons for defecting. They had nothing to do with ethics or principles. He simply wanted to keep his cushy government job for a few more years, and going to the Democrats was the easiest way to do so.

It's rare and refreshing to…

Posted in Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats at 12:10 PM JST - 2nd May
DS at 12:06 PM JST - 2nd May

This just proves that 46 schools are run by paranoid fools, who totally are tricked by the mass media hysteria surrounding this problem. You have more chance of being struck by lightning (or by a crazed obasan in a white kei-truck) than catching swine flu. Much less being killed by…

Posted in 46 schools change travel plans due to new influenza at 12:06 PM JST - 2nd May
DS at 12:03 PM JST - 2nd May

Gitmo was torture?!?

Since when was getting 3 halal meals a day, free dental work, and your own copy of the Koran (handled with gloves by your infidel jailers) considered torture?

Posted in Even if it works, U.S. shouldn't use torture at 12:03 PM JST - 2nd May
DS at 09:00 AM JST - 2nd May

A lovely gift for Obama from a Supreme. His first Court pick! Could we be looking at Justice William Jefferson Clinton?

Posted in Obama: New Justice will combine 'empathy and understanding' at 09:00 AM JST - 2nd May
DS at 08:54 AM JST - 2nd May

I think a lot of cops join the force here for reasons different from home. The police force is seen as just another civic worker type job- decent salary, good job security, retirement benefits. They dont join up over love of justice or the desire to help crime victims. I…

Posted in Police stymied by ineptness, lack technical savvy at 08:54 AM JST - 2nd May
DS at 04:09 PM JST - 1st May

I do feel sorry for Ai-chan. It's apparent she is, like so many young athletes, the product of an extremely pushy set of parents.

Still, when she holds up her left arm in a mantis-like post and gives that fake little "AAAah" cry, I'd like to see her opponent crack…

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DS at 05:33 PM JST - 30th April

If you think waterboarding is torture, you're a moron. Consider this; would you allow yourself to be waterboardedfor $5,000? Now think about this; would you allow some crazy to smash your fingers with a hammer for the same $5,000?

Now you know what torture REALLY is. It isn't something reporters…

Posted in Even if it works, U.S. shouldn't use torture at 05:33 PM JST - 30th April