JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

Nessie's past comments

• 

  3

  NessieDec. 11, 2011 - 10:08PM JST

  @Ossan

  Any organization with he slightest whiff of eco-terrorism is at a disadvantage in any US Federal Court. The only mistake the Whalers and ICR are making is that they aren't filing a seperate action against Discovery Channel and Animal Planet for damages.

  There's an old adage: Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the gallon.

  Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.

• 

  2

  NessieDec. 09, 2011 - 05:20PM JST

  If only the victims had been armed, this never would have happened.

  Posted in: Virginia Tech gunman kills officer; later found dead

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 09, 2011 - 05:18PM JST

  "I simply do not know where the money is"

  I've got to try this line next time I pay my taxes.

  Posted in: Corzine can't explain missing MF Global funds

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 03:58PM JST

  (p.s., sensei-man, i realize your comment was directed at david)

  Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid

• 

  3

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 03:57PM JST

  You can't seriously be waving the flag of free market principles on the one hand while defending an industry whose entire existence is dependent on government subsidy on the other

  It's possible to argue against whaling on economic and other grounds while arguing for the right of Japan to conduct whaling. I'm anti-whaling but pro-whaling rights.

  Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 03:49PM JST

  Soon Japan will have to resort to QE to lower the yen-time to buy gold

  Might even have to do it twice. Then we can have the QEII.

  Posted in: Japan's current account surplus down 62.4%

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 03:48PM JST

  Saudis finally abolished slavery in 1962. They are coming along just fine. We can't expect miracles

  Oh, those Saudis and their newfangled ways.

  Posted in: Australian sentenced to 500 lashes in Saudi Arabia for blasphemy

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 12:44PM JST

  The thrill of victory...the agony of defeat.

  Posted in: Shark sighting causes jitters ahead of World Sailing Championships off Western Australia

• 

  3

  NessieDec. 08, 2011 - 12:40PM JST

  @senseiman

  True - this is from the government budget and not from donated money. Though one could argue that every yen in donated money has freed up budgetary space for the government to allocate money to this, so the indignation displayed here, while overblown, isn`t entirely without justification.

  Yours is the most thoughtful comment on the thread.

  There's a word for this idea: fungibility. If you donate food to North Korea, in one sense you're doing good by saving lives. In another sense, you're doing bad by freeing up NK resources to maintain a totalitarian dictatorship. Both sides of the whaling dispute are mispresenting the situation. In one sense, the aid donations are not going to maintaining whaling. In another sense, they're enabling whaling relief by freeing national funds for application to whaling. Of course, subtlely and accuracy have never been Sea Shepherd's virtues, so they're not about to lay it out like this.

  The eco-terrorists have scored a PR coup by misrepresenting the situation, and the J-government has happily walked into the trap.

  Whether you're for or against whaling, most people see subsidized whaling as a waste of taxes. Allow limited catches without subsidies and let Adam Smith's invisible hand chuck a big ol' free-market harpoon into it. Then let my taxes go back where they belong: to political junkets and lavish heathcare subsidies for elderly voters.

  Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 07, 2011 - 02:39PM JST

  accused of insulting companions of the prophet Mohammed.

  They would go into details except the media is afraid.

  Posted in: Australian sentenced to 500 lashes in Saudi Arabia for blasphemy

• 

  4

  NessieDec. 07, 2011 - 02:34PM JST

  China's economy is slowing down or US wants to divert public attention from Wallstreet Protests that's getting huge momentum.

  It's not the U.S. who's rattling the sabres here.

  Posted in: China's Hu urges navy to prepare for combat

• 

  -2

  NessieDec. 07, 2011 - 02:21PM JST

  At her age, there's not enough time for her to develop cancer from any radiation. At least she made the effort.

  Posted in: Yoko Ono visits Fukushima to meet children

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 06, 2011 - 08:11PM JST

  @smith

  What's odd is that Japan thinks its coast extends to the Antarctic Ocean. Odd, or just plain moronic -- take your pick.

  Australia fishes in international waters. I don't see you up in arms about that. Should Aus be banned from doing that?

  Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures

• 

  -1

  NessieDec. 06, 2011 - 05:24PM JST

  Was the Army Air Corp

  This is still an air force.

  Posted in: Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence about Japanese attack?

• 

  10

  NessieDec. 06, 2011 - 05:11PM JST

  Sent my 20 bucks to SS last week. Let the games begin!

  Sent my taxes to J-govt last year. Let the games begin!

  Can I have them back? Please?

  Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 06, 2011 - 12:14AM JST

  If the people concerned are citizens who happen to have ancestry in an enemy nation, (even first generation), they still have the same rights as everybody else

  As I wrote above, 80% were ciitizens and had the rights of any Canadian citizens; in other words, their rights were violated. The other 20% were nationals of a hostile foreign power.

  Posted in: Japanese return to Canada's WWII internment camps

• 

  1

  NessieDec. 05, 2011 - 06:19PM JST

  citing the painful toll of “false and unproved” allegations of sexual harassment and adultery.

  At least he didn't blame the liberal media. He left that to the partisans on this page.

  Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 05, 2011 - 06:06PM JST

  @foxie

  Thank you for the link.

  Posted in: Speeding blamed for pileup involving 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 05, 2011 - 06:00PM JST

  It did not make me Snicker. And what's with the bizarre hair color? Did they do the CM shoot at reactor #4?

  Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Snickers and Erika Sawajiri

• 

  0

  NessieDec. 05, 2011 - 05:54PM JST

  Ivan, they were Canadians...

  Spidapig24, they were American and Canadian citizens. Some were resident aliens but they were residents of the USA and Canada.

  They were a mix of 80% Canadian nationals and 20% non-nationals.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JapaneseCanadianinternment

  The non-nationals did not have full citizenship rights. Their internment was regrettable but probably not illegal. Internment of Canadian nationals was reprehensible and almost certainly unconstitutional. For nationals and non-nationals alike, the seizure of their assets without proper compensation was unquestionably illegal. Theft, pure and simple.

  Posted in: Japanese return to Canada's WWII internment camps

Follow us