JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Nippon5
Xennon at 10:20 PM JST - 9th October
The announcer introduced Biden as McCain... so:
Even Obamas guys are saying McCain is going to the white house...
means what exactly?
Well for most humans its funny as hell. But for guys like you its a political calling you must be rude to post on...
So so so so so so so so so so so
It was a funny, or do you live in the 58th state and feel left out, maybe you are part of the Alaskan group who watches out for attacks from Russia on your roof? Maybe you are just scared that Biden is McCain and your not sure who you voted for??
LMAO
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Nippon5
Seems we allow it, I dont like the fact the some people earn that kind of money when they dont produce the results needed to make the company truely profittable. Maybe someday companies will understand that companies run well because the guy on the lowest end is happy and well paid, not the guy who is overpaid at the top...
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http://www.kare11.com/news/whatsup/whatsup_article.aspx?storyid=526539&catid=333
Even Obamas guys are saying McCain is going to the white house...
Lmao what a big mistake.....
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tclh
History has shown that an Army can not control or change a country that has factions that want to change the country themselves. Most countries that have overthrown goverments in a change cycle never stop fighting. Look at Israel, Brazil, any of the former USSR. Iraq would of done this no matter how many of the armis men we brought to the table.. This was known by everyone in the military before the war ever started, some just wished it would of been different....
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That wasnt a just a Brit, it was their superhero.... Mr Naked man...
Like a flash, able to swim in the dirtiest water, able to climb a stone wall in a few bounds, able to throw heavy rocks with ease... look in the water its Mr Naked Man
Last week Mr Naked man was taking on evil in the canals of Venice......
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4542516/ Biden loves McCain and hates Obama before picked now he changed... Should we trust him? On McCain: Biden, on a post-debate appearance on MSNBC, October 30, 2007: “The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”
Biden appearing on The Daily Show, August 2, 2005: “John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who...”
On Meet the Press, November 27, 2005: “I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.”
On Obama: Reacting to an Obama speech on counterterrorism, August 1, 2007: “‘Look, the truth is the four major things he called for, well, hell that’s what I called for,’ Biden said today on MSNBC’s Hardball, echoing comments he made earlier in the day at an event promoting his book at the National Press Club. Biden added, ‘I’m glad he’s talking about these things.’”
Also that day, the Biden campaign issued a release that began, “The Biden for President Campaign today congratulated Sen. Barack Obama for arriving at a number of Sen. Biden’s long-held views on combating al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” That release mocked Obama for asking about the “stunning level of mercury in fish” and asked about a proposal for the U.S. adopt a ban on mercury sales abroad at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Assessing Obama’s Iraq plan on September 13, 2007: “My impression is [Obama] thinks that if we leave, somehow the Iraqis are going to have an epiphany” of peaceful coexistence among warring sects. “I’ve seen zero evidence of that.”
Speaking to the New York Observer: Biden was equally skeptical — albeit in a slightly more backhanded way — about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Also from that Observer interview: “But — and the ‘but’ was clearly inevitable — he doubts whether American voters are going to elect ‘a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,’ and added: ‘I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.’”
Around that time, Biden in an interview with the Huffington Post, he assessed Obama and Hillary Clinton: “The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.”
December 11, 2007: “If Iowans believe campaign funds and celebrity will fix the debacle in Iraq, put the economy on track, and provide health care and education for America’s children, they should support another candidate,” said Biden for President Campaign Manager Luis Navarro. “But I’m confident that Iowans know what I know: our problems will require experience and leadership from Day One. Empty slogans will be no match for proven action on caucus night.”
Also that night, Biden said in a campaign ad, “When this campaign is over, political slogans like ‘experience’ and ‘change’ will mean absolutely nothing. The next president has to act.”
September 26, 2007: Biden for President Campaign Manager Luis Navarro said, “Sen. Obama said he would do everything possible to end the war in Iraq and emphasized the need for a political solution yet he failed to show up to vote for Sen. Biden’s critical amendment to provide a political solution in Iraq.
December 26, 2006: “Frankly, I think I’m more qualified than other candidates, and the issues facing the American public are all in my wheelbarrow.”
On Iraq: Biden on Meet the Press in 2002, discussing Saddam Hussein: “He’s a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”
Biden on Meet the Press in 2002: “Saddam must be dislodged from his weapons or dislodged from power.”
Biden on Meet the Press in 2007, on Hussein’s WMDs: “Well, the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought he had them. The weapons inspectors said he had them. He catalogued — they catalogued them. This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream. This was, in fact, catalogued.”
Biden, on Obama’s Iraq plan in August 2007: “I don’t want [my son] going [to Iraq],” Delaware Sen. Joe Biden said from the campaign trail Wednesday, according to a report on Radio Iowa. “But I tell you what, I don’t want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years and so how we leave makes a big difference.” Biden criticized Democratic rivals such as Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama who have voted against Iraq funding bills to try to pressure President Bush to end the war. “There’s no political point worth my son’s life,” Biden said, according to Radio Iowa. “There’s no political point worth anybody’s life out there. None.”
Biden on Meet the Press, April 29, 2007: “The threat [Saddam Hussein] presented was that, if Saddam was left unfettered, which I said during that period, for the next five years with sanctions lifted and billions of dollars into his coffers, then I believed he had the ability to acquire a tactical nuclear weapon — not by building it, by purchasing it. I also believed he was a threat in that he was — every single solitary U.N. resolution which he agreed to abide by, which was the equivalent of a peace agreement at the United Nations, after he got out of — after we kicked him out of Kuwait, he was violating. Now, the rules of the road either mean something or they don’t. The international community says “We’re going to enforce the sanctions we placed” or not. And what was the international community doing? The international community was weakening. They were pulling away.”
Biden to the Brookings Institution in 2005: “We can call it quits and withdraw from Iraq. I think that would be a gigantic mistake. Or we can set a deadline for pulling out, which I fear will only encourage our enemies to wait us out — equally a mistake.”
Analyzing the surge on Meet the Press, September 9, 2007: “I mean, the truth of the matter is that, that the — America’s — this administration’s policy and the surge are a failure, and that the surge, which was supposed to stop sectarian violence and — long enough to give political reconciliation, there’s been no political reconciliation... The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the security front, there is, in fact, no, no real security in Baghdad and/or in Anbar province, where I was, dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence. Sectarian violence is as strong and as solid and as serious a problem as it was before the surge started.”
Biden in October of 2002: “We must be clear with the American people that we are committing to Iraq for the long haul; not just the day after, but the decade after.”
On Meet the Press, January 7, 2007, assessing the proposal of a surge of troops to Iraq: “If he surges another 20, 30, or whatever number he’s going to, into Baghdad, it’ll be a tragic mistake, in my view, but, as a practical matter, there’s no way to say, ‘Mr. President, stop.’”
On Meet the Press, November 27, 2005: “Unless we fundamentally change the rotation dates and fundamentally change how many members of the National Guard we’re calling up, it’ll be virtually impossible to maintain 150,000 folks this year.” (The number of troops in Iraq peaked at 162,000 in August 2007, during the surge.)
Having said all that: “There’s something decent at the core of Joe Biden.” — Jim Geraghty, December 13, 2007
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Nippon5
Fifth Degree Assault
Fifth Degree Assault
A fifth degree assault is a misdemeanor if it is a first offense punishable by up to a 90 days in jail and/or a $1000 fine. A fifth degree assault may be charged if a person
commits an act with intent to cause fear in another of immediate bodily harm or death; or intentionally inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily harm upon another. A second offense on the same victim within five years following discharge from the sentence on the first offense may be charged with a gross misdemeanor and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than one year and to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000.
If convicted of a second fifth degree assault after August 1, 1992, that person may no longer own or possess a pistol. Any person who possesses a pistol in violation of this paragraph is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
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Nippon5
dont worry they are the same except on like 5 issues.... They have the same goal get into office and never leave.
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actually Laywer its called 5th degree assult and it is a threat to commit bodily harm and you can be arrested for it.
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Nippon5
Wonder what America would say if part of it wanted to leave... Ohh thats right we had a civil war about that before... Seems whats good for the goose isnt good for the gander...
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Nippon5
someone is a tad confussed on his political parties ey solarbuster?
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Nippon5
Four words: the media was watching.
How true How true!!!!
If the media didnt film it he wouldnt be seeing daylight...
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Nippon5
Wonderfully said..
Hard to judge one side as great and the other as horrid when both are just the same crap in a different wrapper. Both have lied repeatedly over and over, even after they have been proven wrong, both have tried to slander the other, both have made claims they cant even get close to doing, but those who support one side or the other never sees the wrong on the side they support...
And so does the Democrate side, come on no one can believe Obama either he has lied over and over again, just like McCain.. Be fair and point out both sides are as bad as the other, at this point America isnt voting for a good president we are voting for the better of two bad presidents...
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factcheckingdebateno_2.html
How can you trust either one when they seem to continue to spread the same lies again and again? I for one am tired of the political mess these type of Candidates are for and are using, widh we could get a civil and factual president once and awhile...
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elite police couldn't nab him, at least they could set up a trap
and how can you do that from the Koban??? They aint getting out just to catch this guy, its too Cold/wet/hot/dry/sunny/dark...
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84.7% of citizens have some form of health insurance; either through their employer (59.3%), purchased individually (8.9%), or provided by government programs (27.8%; there is some overlap in these figures
As far as health care cost, its not a problem to have a non goverment controlled health care system, its controlling the worthless lawsuits, over charges to insurance companies, the fraud to insurance companies, and a good over sight is needed in the industry to control prices of services ..
Also the amount of Uninsured Americans is closer to 45million and isnt over 50 million, this does include those who are not citizens of the US.
Moderator: Readers, please focus your comments on the debate. If you wish to discuss health care, then you should discuss the two candidates' views on the subject.
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Nippon5
Sadly the truth is we wont get OBL its hard to fins a needle in a haystack... And we cant even get local criminals in our own country, took us a year just to find a single man and plane that crashed in our own back yard.. We blew the chance to get him in the mid to late 90's and again in the early 2000's
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Nippon5
Obama said:
And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden; we will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
McCain Said in response to Obama; I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I'll get him. I know how to get him.
I'll get him no matter what and I know how to do it. But I'm not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Sen. Obama did. And I'm going to act responsibly, as I have acted responsibly throughout my military career and throughout my career in the United States Senate.
The theme was about attacking Pakistan in order to get OBL and AQ.....
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Nippon5
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/presidential.debate.transcript/index.html
transcript
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Nippon5
Im waiting for the transcript right now, They both made so many claims that cant happen that I lost track of them all.. I had it around 15 lies each by the end
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yabits at 11:40 AM JST - 8th October
Im not for McCain but he is doing a much better job then Obama.
Really? You don't hear McCain wheezing when he walks from one side of the floor to the other? He reminded me of Sony's Asimo, but without the grace.
(He seems in as good of health as most men of his age, his debating skills where very good and his ability to talk to the people was very good, what does anything you add have to do with his debating skill?? Grow up)
buddha4brains at 11:42 AM JST - 8th October
Creapiest Moment was when McCain said that he knew how to take out bin Laden. So what is he waiting for? Oh yeah, to use bin Laden as a political tool just like Bush has done. Absolutely disgusting comment in an otherwise OK performance.
Obama said that too hrmmm or did we forget?...
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