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Posted in: Yahoo faces investor mutiny as Asian asset sale talks unravel
Japan should drop the bid too as they cannot afford it either.
Posted in: Rome's 2020 Olympic bid scrapped, leaving Tokyo, 4 other cities
Taxes going up again by 1.2 % for Kaigo kids.
Posted in: Government home care scheme to be limited to 13 locations
I don't want to hear any excuses, or sympathy for the guilty. The safety of the…
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Gombei424Canada
shitamachipride:"Anyone who knows anything about anything know that 9/11 was an inside job. Must be hard for "patriotic Americans" to come to terms with this. "
Bingo! You could be the next Michael Moore, my fine friend.
"First US bombed their own country and then bombed the wrong country as an excuse for bombing their own country."
Double bingo!I think I see what you are saying.The US bombed the US and then they bombed Afghanistan and Iraq when they really should have been bombing the US.
Keep the faith mon ami, and keep fighting the good fight.It's not a conspiracy if THEY can't disprove it!
Posted in: Iran's Ahmadinejad calls official version of Sept 11 attacks a 'big lie'
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Gombei424Canada
Well, it hurts to be IN Asia and be told that Obama's visit will be postponed but I guess I can live with it, especially if health care reform looks more likely and the 145,000 Americans who drop dead EVERY day because they know they will never have access to free health care now have SOME hope. I predict that it WILL pass, and Scott Brown and his evil pickup truck will be defeated.
Posted in: Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
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Gombei424Canada
beelzebub:"I like Obama. He can parse his sentences, speaks the English language lucidly without drooling and doesn't choke on pretzels"
Bingo! When bush, who was the woorst president ever, was in office, illegal aliens HAD to come to America because bush's crony capitalism was literally choking off the surrounding economies mainly by exporting American jobs to China,and Mexicans had to come and do the jobs Americans woudn't. But now that the people spoke and elected Obama, who is just fabulous, well, undocumented workers pour into the country because yes, as strange as it might seem to rightists, Obama can parse his sentences correctly, he has a incredible dialect and he doesn7t drool like bush did.And even though unemployment is now slightly higher than it was in the past there are still millionsof jobs Americans WON'T do so there is really nothing wrong with undocumented workers doing them AND getting free health care in exchange. Anyways, methinks Obama is just as popular in Central and South America as he is worldwide, so immigration overhaul will be a piece of pie.
Posted in: Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul
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Gombei424Canada
Well, just knowing that Obama will be in the same neighbourhood, geographically, makes so happy I could burst! If HE won't come to Hirakata maybe I will have to go to HIM! I'm sure I could master enough Bahasa to make my myself understood in Indonesia.
Posted in: Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my friends, even though Mahmoud Ahmadinejiad has revealed himself to be a truther I still think Barack was right to say he would meet him without ANY preconditions, which is something bush,worst president ever, from the get-go,wouldn't do.
Posted in: Iran's Ahmadinejad calls official version of Sept 11 attacks a 'big lie'
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Gombei424Canada
sfk2:"Good Night and Good Luck"
Bingo!It's refreshing to know I am not the ONLY Keith Olbermann fan on this website.Keith is fabulous(almost as fab as Barack), and I just know he is pulling his hardest for Barack,and he is really stroking opinion in favour of passing this bill.Extreme kudos for including him in the struggle.
Posted in: Obama urges Democrats to seize moment on health care
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my friends, something that is too funny is seeing the few deadenders,the few remaining supporters here of bush, try to defend the illegal innvasion of Iraq,which was a sovereign nation.From the get-go I warned everyone(and not just my students) who would listen. It is hard being so much more clever than other people.When I point out that Mugabe is ALSO a dictator of a strategically located country that could choke off world trade and he has also used chemical weapons on his own citizens and has liquidated hundreds of thousands of his opponents and sponsored terror BUT the US has NOT brought freedumb [sarcasm] to HIS country do the wingers have an answer for that? Of course they don't! Well, anyways, tis sad that the oil has been successfully stolen from Iraq by bush's oily pals who didn't let any other nations, except China,Malaysia,Holland and France,win bids for the oil.Big Oil in America didn7t get ANY of the oil ha ha ha ha, too funny! This war was not in the least ever justified, and saying "It was justified, but then we knew it would be chaos after" ,well, it's disgusting!
sfk2:"As oil dwindles soon enough we'll revisit these issues again."
Bingo!We know what it will be, it will be Vietnam 3.
Sigh.
Well kiddies, here finisheth my lesson.
Posted in: Brown blames U.S. over Iraq reconstruction errors
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Gombei424Canada
Well,my friends,Obama is still just fab.
Posted in: Obama told to kick smoking habit, eat better
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Gombei424Canada
sushisake:"Oh, and yes - as usual - the massive global recession that began in December 2007 under George W. Bush and that triggered this economic meltdown is **all **President Obama's fault."
Bingo!Another incredble post from you my friend,and one that Ramen won7t have a chance in Hades to reply to.Too funny! Like you I have always intuitively known that the global recession is bush's fault, and his alone! And like you I know only President Barack Obama can save the world.It HAS to start with healthcare for all! After that, well, maybe a moratorium on ALL mortgage foreclosures.And after that, well, free legal representation for all would go a LONG way to helping millions of Americans who can7t afford a good lawyer.
And if the repubs obstruct?Well, the Obama administration needs to get even harsher and more frequent with the portrayal of them as TERRORISTS.
Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my friends, once again it is too funny watching the few supporters of the republican party try and defend the party of No! and their filibustering on this issue, which is hopeless,and disgusting!
Their racism was on display for all to see,and the hate and the bias was all over the place, although I can7t give a specific example.
Obama was magnificent as usual, and I took the day off so I could immediately rip the YouTube version of his smackdown of the rethugs to my i-pod, where it will join continuous play of ALL his best speeches,which are still fabulous,even after 20 or 30 listenings.
Oh and to the haters let me say that Obama is NOT done.Far from it!His approval ratings are still sky high,especially with my students (not JUST the private students either) and the US economy is picking up,thanks to Obama's incredible foresight in economics,which will earn him ANOTHER Nobel Prize if the trend continues and health care is finally made available to the thousands of Americans who lose a home or a beachfront condo EVERY day,because they are diabetic but unable to pay the 14,000 dollars for leg amputations to doctors who, as Barack explained,LET them get to the point where amputation is the only option.Disgusting! Well,anyways, it won't be long now until America has health care for all and the whole country reelects the Democratic Party in November,which will be ANOTHER shellacking.Said shellacking will be even worse than November 4 2008,which truly was one of the happiest days of my life in Japan.
Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
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Gombei424Canada
zurcronium:"Another home grown wacko terrorist probably stoked by the right-wing radio nuts like Savage and Drugs Limbaugh. "
Bingo!You have done it again, mon ami.I too am sure the terrorist was a tea bagger, and that his last message to the world and the media corporations included many hate-filled racist slur against Obama,(whose popularity is STILL rising,by the way.) I haven't bothered to read the crazy man's manifesto, but clearly, if he is flying planes into buildings he doesn't care about other people's health,or his own, so he must be a republican who clearly wants people to die, and die quickly.
Anyways, as I have repeatedly said here and as my fellow Canadian zurcronium's posts PROVE it those of outside America who understand the country best and understand the threat violent teabaggers pose to ALL of us.Some Yanks might dare to disagree with me, but I don't care.It's just the way that I am rolling these days, dammit!
Posted in: Man, angry at IRS, crashes small plane into Texas building
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Gombei424Canada
Well,my friends, I am not the LEAST bit surprised that the usual carte blanchers are here defending israel AND the terrorist mossad for assassinating a Hamas member in a third country.Disgusting! Tis sad indeed in this day and age that murder still wins out over conflict resolution,which is clearly what Ghandi would have wanted, and what I would too. Anyways, I think other Middle East experts,like Elton John, need to man up and condemn mossad,who are no better than japanese whalers.
Posted in: Hamas: Suspects in Dubai killing include Fatah men
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Gombei424Canada
RIP, people.
Posted in: Minaret falls during prayers in Morocco, killing 36
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Gombei424Canada
Well,my many friends, I don't know about other people,but hating on palin helps fill the void in my online life which was created around the end of January 2009,when I could no longer hate on bush, who was the worst president,EVER,had finally left the office of president, which he destroyed.
Posted in: Palin lashes out at Fox animated comedy 'Family Guy'
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my many friends,what we all know is that is that it's all too clear that conservatublicans are simply too weak to admit that the out-of-control debt-funded spending that occurred under the watch of the worst president EVER that they supported has destroyed America.Obama is blameless, and is still as fabulous as ever.
Well, that's it. Once my brain registers 'Obama' I am pretty much incapable of rational thought for a few hours.
Posted in: Obama says stimulus bill saved U.S. economy
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my many friends, seeing as how I have the same last name as this poor guy I feel a urgent need to comment.First,the fat oppressors here need to cut the bias and the hate.What's next, are some of you going to start demanding that airlines,which we all know only care about PROFIT,ban ALL actors and directors who AREN'T height/weight proportionate? Huh?Is that how the logic goes?Disgusting! Clearly,this is politically motivated.We all know that the most dangerous documentary maker in the world(if you are a neocon),a man who HATED bush,the worst president of all time, is slightly overweight. Well, anyways, I for one will NEVER fly southwest again.And I will NEVER capitalize the name of their company,even though I KNOW it is a proper noun.Maybe the sargies of the world don't like it,but I could care less, it's just the way I am rolling these days,dammit!
Posted in: Actor-director Kevin Smith ejected from plane for being oversized
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my friends, tis another sad day. It seems like just last week that Michael, the King of Pop, was taken from us (or taken OUT by Palin,I'm not ruling out THAT possibility), and now, well, the untimely passing of Doug Fieder.Well, anayways, if you see a foreign guy in Hirakata this week dressed head to toe in black, that would be me.
Posted in: The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger dies
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Gombei424Canada
RIP,people.
Posted in: U.S. rockets strike Afghan home, killing 12 civilians
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Gombei424Canada
I hope someone tells the young TV smasher that violence never solved anything.
Posted in: Man walks into Wal-Mart in Georgia and smashes 29 TVs with bat
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Gombei424Canada
Well, my many friends, it really is just too,too funny watching the few remaining bush supporters here rally behind palin, who was the worst governor of all time,from the get-go. Really, the only thing that scares me about palin is her simply atrocious inability to speak English and communicate ideas effectively. But hey, logic never was the right wingers strong suite.
She scares me almost as much as Scott Brown's pickup truck.
Posted in: Sarah Palin assails Obama at 'tea party' gathering