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I don't think we need to be involved in the Shia/Sunni World War. As Sarah Palin…
Posted in: Putin, Obama face off over Syria; rebels get Saudi missiles
Why are those guys having to line up to get served? Just what are the staff…
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Most of what that poster known as dog says is a half truth at best, he…
Not the type of place i would choose to eat at. If i wanted to eat…
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StormRJun. 19, 2013 - 05:32PM JST dog (or is it Bee 1 Tea See H) the…
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NambyPamby
When a bum demands your money under threats, he is no longer a bum, but rather a thief.
A very stupid move by NK.
Posted in: N Korea vows retaliation over U.S. halting food aid
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I am sure we are going to hear from many people about how there is no way a 13 year old doe (my word for a teen female, teen male being a buck) could possibly look 20. I am not going to say its common, but I have seen many.
The best example was while teaching at elementary school. One day some teachers and I were seeing the kids off when a woman in high heels, fashionable clothes and make-up walked by, paying us no notice. We all thought she was a mother come to pick up her kid, but then I realized it was a girl who graduated from elementary school just a few months ago.
That doe had always been rather developed. And don't think it strange that we saw her probably before her school day ended. She skipped a lot of school, and had trouble fitting in for being so advanced.
Then of course we have Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. She really was 13 in that movie. I first saw the movie from the middle, and had no idea either of the prostitutes standing by the car were so young.
So yes, it is quite possible she looked 20 or more. There are does out there like that.
Posted in: 'Soapland' manager arrested for hiring 13-year-old girl
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Who said all women? I very clearly said "If you want kids".
And no, if they discuss it and plan to base getting married on a pregnancy, I don't see the problem. I never said they had to run out and get knocked up at random, so sorry, its your presumptive logic that is kaput.
Did Meisa and her man discuss making a baby before marriage? I don't know, but people do you know. And its a good thing.
Posted in: Meisa Kuroki officially announces pregnancy
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The guy might not be a blanket of convervative ideas and dreams, but he is definitely a quilt.
Posted in: Norway killer: 'I would have done it again'
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And yet, there you sit, without even a self-inflicted gun shot wound, after having actively surrendered yourself.
Who is this fool trying to fool?
Posted in: Norway killer: 'I would have done it again'
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China needs to accept that those pseudo-islands were stolen by Japan fair and square over 100 years ago, much the same as the Russians stole the Kurils over 60 years ago.
However, I would approve of Japan buying the islands from China to end the dispute, just as the Russians should at least buy the houses and private lands it stole in the Kurils, if not also buy them from the Japanese government.
Posted in: Ishihara says Tokyo plans to buy disputed Senkaku islands
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With the train you have much better visibility. That makes up for the difference in stopping distance to me.
I would say the only true advantage a car has is potential to swerve. But we don't always have the option, and even when we do, its usually a very small margin of error.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy dies after being hit by train at crossing
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That's it? They perk up when concentrating and lay flat when relaxed? Two lousy positions that indicate nothing special? I am not even sure what they would look like in those positions.
My impression is that a cat lays its ears flat when its ticked off or annoyed. Now THAT would be useful! Go to the club and steer clear of the women with ears pinned flat. It would make them far easier to spot and avoid yo!
Posted in: Mind-controlled cat ears hitting shelves in Japan
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Read carefully. This is just more hype. And I so surprised the press would hype us so soon after the last time!
It will also be built with wood, steel and concrete. What will the carboard tubes be used for? Probably interior design. Yippy. A step up from wallpaper. I am so underwhelmed by this bullshoot.
Posted in: Cardboard cathedral designed by Japanese architect to be built in quake-hit New Zealand city
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Glad to see people chilling out over dekichatta kekkon. Its almost like we have left the 19th century for good yo!
As far as I am concerned, dekichatta kekkon islike test driving a car before you buy. If you want kids, but marry first, you may find yourself married to someone sterile, then what? Better to have someone raise an eyebrow over dekichatta kekkon than have them condemn you for divorcing someone for being sterile.
But I think most of you have the idea that they were careless and got married despite not actually wanting to. Well, I suppose that is the case among dumb, classless people more than others.
I don't know two things about Meisa. But I hope it all goes well for her.
Posted in: Meisa Kuroki officially announces pregnancy
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Everest is like the Titanic...one heck of a big graveyard! I hope her will is completed. Its a big risk for no tangible gain whatsoever.
Posted in: Japanese woman, 73, in record Everest attempt
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> The raid didn't expect to do serious damage, its purpose was psychological
I doubt the people blown up consider what happened to them to not be serious damage, but only psychological. It truly bothers me the way males, especially the war supporting kind, are so focused on the macro that they forget about the micro, such as the people who die. Its always Japan this, and America that, as if they were just some guys brawling in the street. Nuke a city and its like one of those guys lost a finger. No. Civilians die and its murder.
Again, I dont put the Doolittle Raid on that level, but I sure am not going to deny that it was a small beginning of America playing the role of the Germans and Italians at Guernica, only at Kobe, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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But so many spout so much hate they seem to be praying for a cuss like Breivik to stand up and do it for them.
How many times have we heard Islam this and Islam that? How many times have we heard the us against them arguments, followed by the idea that you are with us or against us? How many times have we heard pleas for war, bombs and death for our enemies, and the death penalty for criminals? Support for gun culture and the need for violent self defense ala stand your ground laws, etc. etc. It was not people on the left making those arguments.
Breivik might not have done 100 percent precisely what so many on the right have pined for. For example, some my object because of the ages of the victims. But if I put all those typical and common righ of center arguments in a meat grinder I am pretty sure the resulting ground rhetoric would be at least an 80 percent match to Breiviks massacre and diatribes spewed in court.
Posted in: Breivik defiant as massacre trial opens in Norway
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Why should Obama pack his bags? Has Romney raised enough money that he is going to pay to build a new White House for the two term president??
Posted in: Obama raises $53 million; Romney says 'pack your bags'
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Rather than replacing the pretty packaging with gory packaging, I would much rather they fight to remove the formaldehyde, ammonia, and other junk that was added to the tobacco and also no doubt responsible for just as much illness as the natural nicotene.
Posted in: Australia takes on big tobacco in court
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Not quite sure why this is in the crime section.
Most war crime stories are not printed here are they? Of course, for some, attacking an Embassy is just another part of war, especially if you just firebomb the whole city safely from the air, and point to the collateral damage clause.
Posted in: Japan's embassy in Kabul attacked in Taliban's 'spring offensive'
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What is really annoying is you have to wonder how many people saw a two year old boy alone on his 100 meter walk, but just pretended it wasn't happening.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy dies after being hit by train at crossing
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If a factory worker worked many hours of overtime and made a fatal mistake, I can imagine the sympathy.
Most mothers work overtime all the time, but man can some people be harsh.
I always thank my lucky stars that my in-laws are around to give my wife and I a break. And I cannot even claim to be much use myself. My wife and others mothers get lots of respect from me, because I know full well I could do what they do.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy dies after being hit by train at crossing
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Bravery? Yes? Honor? Not all that much. I would call it honor if they kept their bombings strictly to bases and other pure military targets. Going for factories is not honor nor is it dishonor, its just understandable. Not much sympathy for workers making weapons during a war of aggression, but its not honor to kill them either. One should expect that other civilians would have had time to get to shelters at least. I give the men of the Doolittle Raid that much slack.
But my understanding with regards to dropping bombs in civilian centers ends when civilian cities are firebombed or worse, and there is no possibility of escape. That is just slaughter of civilians, pure and simple, and refusal to accept that is naught but lying to oneself. All that do that are scum.
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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Due to your point about women and children, I gave you a thumbs up. That is more important than any other concern, no matter how much people adopt a mentality of never-ending excuses.
But what I must impress upon you, NeverSubmit, is that these men were NOT celebrating, not by a long shot. Unlike the (insert explicatives here) that firebombed Tokyo and other civilian cities and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I have at least some respect for the Doolittle Raiders.
That right there is the excuse mentality I was talking about. The women and children are never responsible for what soldiers did. You cannot blame them for what soldiers did. Soldiers do not take orders from civilian women and children. If vengeance is what you want, you don't go after the women and children. You go after the killers, the ones who committed the wrong, as best you can, PERIOD, or else you are a scumbucket.
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