LFRAgain's past comments

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    LFRAgain

    Wolfpack,

    It was Democrats that supported slavery going back Jefferson. They also supported Jim Crow.

    W... wow. You are completely and utterly ignorant of matters pertaining to U.S. political history, aren't you? Completely. Utterly. In fact, I'm more than a little stunned that anyone still peddles this nonsense anymore. And no, I'm not going to explain why your statement is so profoundly and thoroughly stupid, because the very fact that you offered it up with any degree of seriousness suggests you wouldn't be interested in the truth anyway.

    Dude. Give it up. You're obviously out of your depth here. And that's saying something, considering we’re talking about you mucking up a fundamental 11th grade high school history lesson.

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    Wolfpack,

    Like running the country into the ditch with $17 trillion in debt, slowest economic recovery since the 1940's, lowest level of adult labor force participation in modern times, high youth and minority unemployment, most number of people on Food Stamps in US history, etc...? In case you haven't noticed, America is in serious peril under this president.

    You are apperently completely unware of A. how the financial crisis began, B. how deep a hole it put the U.S. in, and C. how the near collaspe of our economy led to the burgeoning deficit as a result of vastly diminished federal income to pay for programs that didn't magically go away the minute the money started drying up.

    Virtually every economic expert out there has stated in one manner or another that there is no quick-fix to the current mess and that it will take time.

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    Wolfpack,

    " . . . I hope the tingling going up your "collective" leg is worth the undermining of Constitutional government and rule by law instead of by men."

    If you hadn't been one of the most strident proponents here of the Patriot Act, your statement would have more bite.

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    Apologies for the typos.

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    LFRAgain

    (cont)

    I too have seen the talking heads on NHK and other channels wax philosophically about "what's wrong with Japan." But it is no mystery that this is a widespread issue found in the very phenomenon you say experts attribute to the falling crime rate: "the 'numbing' of society, rising apathy among the younger generation..." Sociologist the world over have lamented these very same points for years. Japan is no different, particularly when it sees the increases in population concentrations around densely packed urban centers growing faster than the human capacity to adapt to the stresses inherent in such living conditions (according to some experts).

    New York, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Seoul, Moscow -- each of these large urban centers experiences the same societal pressures that result in the "random bizarre" crimes that make the population stand up and say things like, "Wow. Things lie this rarely happened when I was a kid." To which I'd counter, no, things were probably worse (for reasons that would make this post overly long).

    I've only been here 13 years, but being one who spends a lot of time reading the news from a variety of sources, I can honestly say I can't percieve this increase you speak of. Weird stuff has always been happening.

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    Bogi,

    the increase of random, bizarre crimes.

    Crime, almost by definition, is random. What motivates one to go against the social order in many cases is difficult for the average person to fathom.

    Bizarreness is a wholly relative term. We could talk about men abducting women in their teens and locking them up for a decade. Or a 15-year old stabbing his two younger siblings to death and then wandering off into the night. Or two men hacking another man to death in broad daylight, then calmly explaining why to anyone willing to listen. Those are news items culled from just the past few days or weeks from places outside of Japan, like other major metropolican centers arond the world.

    Claims that unreported crimes are even more unreported than before doesn't stand up to the most rudimentary application of logic. Against what non-existent, unreported numbers is this wave or unreported crime being measured? And who's doing the measuring, if not the police? Serious question. I'm not trying to be snarky here, but this assertion doesn't make a bit of sense.

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    LFRAgain

    The point is that random, bizarre crimes have dramatically increased in Japan over recent years...

    No, actually, that isn't the point. Because it's not true.

    Link: The most recent 2010 National Police Agency crime statistics report and earlier reports indicate fairly clearly that violent crime of all types have been falling consistently year-on-year for the better part of a decade across Japan.

    I know this isn't what one wants to hear when it's sounds much more sensational to say things like, "bizarre crimes have dramatically increased in Japan over recent years," but sometimes the truth is a little bit less sexy than complete fabrications.

    Of course, the usual suspects here will no doubt claim, proof unseen, that crime statistics are being massaged by the NPA, but that can't be helped in a public forum such as this.

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    OldHawk,

    The simple fact that you would take the time to string together the words "the Leftists at the IRS" does all it needs to in order to discount virtually anything you have to say on this or any other subject, political or otherwise. That you seem to view the world through these rigid Left vs. Right googles speaks volumes about your utter lack of objectivity. Best of luck with that.

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    LFRAgain

    Chances are many will greet our federal agencies the way Governor Christie greeted our President last year.

    And you can be sure that if Gov. Mary Fallin has anything positive to say about federal assistance, she'll face as much derision from her own party as Christie did for having the audacity to placing the constituency above the scorched-earth politics the GOP eats and breathes these days.

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    Sailwind,

    "Currently, Americans say by a 56 to 35% margin that they prefer a smaller government providing fewer services than a bigger one. . .

    Again, I generally expect better from you.

    You didn't provide the whole picture here. The report goes on to say:

    "There was a substantial [emphasis added] partisan divide on this question: 87% of Republicans favored the smaller government option compared to 28% of Democrats. Conversely, Democrats preferred bigger government over a smaller one by a 60% to 11% margin over Republicans. Independents favored a smaller government over a bigger one by 65% to 27%.

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    SuperLib,

    This bears re-posting because it's so utterly spot-on:

    You are so radicalized that simply agreeing with the man is considered a sin in Republican circles. Your best shot at the White House, Chris Christie, was literally shunned when he said Obama did a good job after Superstorm Sandy. Some Republicans hated him for it. You guys have become absolute fundamentalists where any kind of compromise is out of the question, and the only thing you will accept are agreements where you can make Obama look bad. You need that humiliation. You keep trotting out the crazies like Palin and Santorum and Huckabee and have no clue as to how out of touch they seem in the new America. Your party is completely blind. Your only hope is obstructionism to increase disenfranchisement with government to lower voter turnout. That's your only plan.

    This is the Republican Party in a nutshell as it stands now, today, at this very moment. Fractured, confused, angry, and lacking any legitimate outlet for that anger (Heal thyself, doctor...), it blindly latches on to any and every half-baked scheme it can to try and soothe the pain it caused to itself via it own philosophy by placing the needs of the few (the rich) before the needs of the many (the rest of us slobs).

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    LFRAgain

    "Hashimoto's party 'faces extinction,' some media say"

    Good riddance, I say. This man is toxic, pure and simple.

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    Wolfpack,

    Thank you for that spirited defense of the "Obama is a Socialist" claims.

    I see what you did here. Clever, really.

    You redefined Socialism as something that could have two different meanings, the first being it's, well, actual meaning.

    The second meaning is whatever convoluted, wholly contrived definition you need it to mean in order to drive your underlying argument that Obama is a bad, bad man.

    What's amusing and clever about this is that you present the second definition of Socialism as if it actually exists in the form you claim it does (it doesn't, at least not occording to most educated political scientists, btw), and then you borrow heavily upon the original meaning to conjure images of bread lines and one-pair-of-shoes-per-year rationing, a la the now-defunt U.S.S.R., in hopes that the common understanding of Socialism, e.g., "one small step away from Communism," will lend generate fear and uncertainty in the minds of anyone, well, stupid enough to believe your silliness, while you conveniently pretend, "No, I'm not saying he's a Communist. That would be stupidly incorrect in an economy that has seen corporate profits grow to account for 11.1% of the U.S. economy in the last quarter, compared with an average of 8% during the last economic expansion and nearly three times the 4.6% they fell to during the recession. Sheesh!"

    Cute. Clever. And painfully transparent.

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    Come on, Sail. I expect better from you. You can't seriously expect anyone here to look at your suggestion that Hillary Clinton is or ever was a "Birther." Clinton never once publicly questioned Obama's citizenship. Never. You know this as well as I do. And yet you not only imply it, but also attempt to support the claim by providing precisely the sort of facts that I was about to in rebuttal.

    Theories floated by Clinton supporters during the Democratic Primary campaign don't magically make Clinton the originator of the rumor, no matter how desperately you wish they did; Guilt by association isn't a particularly compelling argument.

    Regardless of who started the rumors, they died quite unspectacularly on the vine; They were never pursued in earnest.

    What should be giving everyone here pause is that of the three nonsensical accusations against Obama that SuperLib attributed to the Right (is not a U.S. citizen, is Muslim, is a Socialist), the only you or Oldhawk felt compelled to explain or defend was the "Birther" one. And even that defense was a feeble, "Well, your side did it too."

    This suggests a couple of things:

    One, you still perhaps cling to some notion that Obama is indeed not eligible to be president based on a convoluted interpretation of U.S. citizen naturalization laws.

    Two, you admit (albeit implicitly) that that the Muslim/Socialist idiocy is just that: Idiotic.

    What you should be taking from all this is that if these three particular conspiracy theories about Obama were not only allowed but wholeheartedly encouraged by the GOP to take root, fester, and be treated as legitimate political discourse, thus eating up significant amounts of valuable Primary Election debate time that could have and should have been devoted to more important issues like the economy, then perhaps some of the other theories leveled against Obama require a more discerning eye as well.

    Like Benghazi.

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    LFRAgain

    Birthers? You mean the people who insist that Sarah Palin didn't give birth to Trig?

    If you seriously think this tiny blip on the radar of Sarah Palin's bizarre foray into the world of national politics compares in anyway to the vastly more intrusive, non-stop silliness coming from the GOP about Obama's place of birth, you're sadly deluded.

    While Palin's detractors remain limited to blogs, satire website, and fringe outlets, those questioning Obama's American citizenship include a long list of notable such as:

    Michael Savage, G. Gordon Liddy, Brian Sussman, Lars Larson, Bob Grant, Jim Quinn, Rose Tennent, Barbara Simpson, Mark Davis, Fred Grandy, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs.

    Or how about politicians with juice like Newt Gingrich, Alan Keyes, Mike Huckabee, Michelle Bachman, and Donald "I've lost my eff-ing mind" Trump?

    You seriously want to try to turn this into a tit-for-tat discussion about which party is more bat-s#!t insane? Your party wins by a landslide.

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    LFRAgain

    Okay. That was impressive.

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    LFRAgain

    Hashimoto is an imbecile. He apparently won't be happy until he's got folks brandishing pitchforks and torches outside of Osaka City Hall, considering how he's recently shooting for one idiotic statement per week. The sooner this toxic asshat fades away, the better.

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    LFRAgain

    Well at least the media has finally begun to do some investigation into Obama.

    Wait. I thought the media was in Obama's pocket. Damn. Now I've lost track. First, it was "media bias in favor of the president." Now it's Obama "using the Justice Dept to keep watch on the media." If you can't even keep your scorecard straight, how are we supposed to?

    Obama is well on his way to becoming the worst president in American history. He is a bystander to his own tenure in office. Somehow the "smartest president in history" doesn't seem to know a thing about what is going on in his own administration. The affirmative action president has turned out to be not so smart. He is an ideological automatron guided solely by his Leftist beliefs of socialist utopianism devoid of any grounding in his own nation's history and traditions. He simply lacks imagination or any sense of reality. The deaths of the four men in Libya mean nothing to him except for whatever political advantage he can somehow squeeze out of the event.

    Cute rant, but still unsubstantiated slander from start to finish. Keep up the good work, Wolfie.

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    LFRAgain

    Meanwhile, as part of the continuing "We'll do anything to tarnish Obama" GOP strategy...

    According to CBS News:

    Link: White House Benghazi emails have different quotes than earlier reported

    Media bias, you say? How about deliberate manipulation of the media to produce a desired outcome?

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    LFRAgain

    your not giving a complete picture of the very complicated cold war geopolitical situation at the time.

    Ah, the "it was a complicated situation" excuse. Seems a convenient refrain for the Republican party, but is inexcusable for an Obama administration trying not to taint an ongoing FBI investigation.

    Right.

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