JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Nippon5
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/states/az/ Mccain
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/ Obama
Based on these numbers Obama votes more for his party then McCain does. It also shows what they voted for....
Enjoy
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The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced back to 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Soon after the invasion, Osama bin Laden traveled to Afghanistan where he helped organize Arab mujahideen and established the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) organization to resist the Soviets. In 1989, as the Soviets withdrew, MAK was transformed into a "rapid reaction force" in jihad against governments across the Muslim world. Under the guidance of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden became more radical.[82] In 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwā which called for American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia.[83]
In a second fatwā issued in 1998, bin Laden outlined his objections to American foreign policy towards Israel, as well as the continued presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War.[84] Bin Laden used Islamic texts to exhort violent action against American military and citizenry until the stated grievances are reversed, noting "ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries."[84]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
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Nippon5
Ive been in them a few too many times... They never feel right to me like they shouldnt be in the air..
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Nippon5
In Japan, kids are generally allowed out to play with friends as soon as they enter primary school. It's great, because the kids get to play with their peers every single day, not like the poor kids in the West whose parents are so busy that the kids are lucky if they get one supervised "play date" with one carefully chosen peer once a month. The kids also develop independence, making them a lot more mature than Western kids, who often have to wait until they're in their teens before they're let out of their parents' sight because of all this crazy paranoia about child molesters.
Sure, tragedies will sometimes happen, but we can't protect our children from everything forever.
Yep my 12 year old goes to the park and plays with all the kids from his class until the 5 oclock bell, of course all they do is DS or PSP so they really dont need to go to the park for that.. My 6 year old no way is he running around here without a parent or his older brother watching him, sorry but at 6 they dont have the greatest decision making process yet. As far as more mature, why would a child from a society that never grows up be more mature then any other kid??? I would think that most 6 year old children are just that 6 year old children...
I really hope this poor child makes it through and hope it doesnt happen again to a child that age.
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Nippon5
Very sad news... Hate to fly in those things.
My condolences to the families and unit of the soldiers who perished.
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Nippon5
Seems like a bad month for Obamas campaign, do you guys think he can still pull of the upset and become the first Non white president? Or do you think we will have the first female VP (we Had hillary as president cause we all know who Bill got his ideas from)..
And Clinton should be able to go to a rally when Palin is there or will they start a cat fight?
Might be fun to watch them go at it:)
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Nippon5
In a word
STUPID
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Nippon5
Madverts ,
where did I say it hasnt increased since we entered Iraq??? Did I defend any president? Did I say anything other then this has been happening for a long time?? It happened when I was in the military and I served under three differnt presidents.. So please explain how I am kidding myself in a statement that is 100% the truth?
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AQ has been targeting Americans way before this administration and has attacked US embassies and US buildings before. It has always caused more damage and death to the locals then the US personel. Its a sad thing that I hate to say will happen for as long as the US is a global power, just like it has happened to other global powers..
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Nippon5
Yabits
I havent embarreassed myself (but your statement is embarrassing and makes you look so much the extremist)I also havent had my nose up any political rumps either, Im just tired of hearing people blame one person all the time when in reality he isnt the main problem this time.
Your making up what you want to hear. Which is usual for those who talk but dont listen...or in this case read..
Bush isnt the reason something happened to the Financial markets, it was caused by the Law being changed originally during the great depression and then rewrote during the Clinton administration.
The companies took the loophole and pushed it to the limit. Why would the goverment interfere in the business of private companies??
The people buying the houses paid too much and didnt plan for a budget..
Yes Bush could of changed the law, but so could of the 535 members of congress, and no one did.
So you cant blame one man for the problem which was what I said in the first place, but you want to try to make me a Bush supporter which would be wrong since I never voted for him. People like you seem to feed off of trying to make everyone a REP or a DEM and I wouldnt waste my time with either.
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Dude? first of all son I served in the military and did my time in war. Second of all Im not a Bush supporter, but I am a firm believer you cant call a kettle black when your the pot.. He is not going to make magic he isnt going to wave a wand and save the day, and he isnt listening to the Military either as he served in congress and voted against money for the soldiers, voted against the surge, and lastly got confused which of the 61 states the troops came from:)
But hey who ever wins this election is going to do one thing for sure...]
. . . . Not fulfill their campaign promises!!!!
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Nippon5
"No. However, goverments should seriously consider saving companies whose failure may bring down an industry." The Industry will not fail when a few companies go broke.. did Enron make all energy trading companies fail, did Mcgomery Wards make all retail companies go under... Your stretching far to make such outrages statements.
"It has everything to do with it. The money that the US government is currently spending to bail out these companies (in case you missed it, the US government has just injected $85 billion to save AIG) isn't there in no small part because it has been wasted on stupid ventures such as the Iraq war, which, like these recent bailouts, is being completely funded using borrowed money."
The US goverment always borrows money to pay things it doesnt have a bank account to withdrawl from, hasnt in a long long time even when we had a surplus with Clinton we still had a deficiet and borrowed money to pay for things..As far as stupid ventures I think we should add foriegn aid to countries, rebuilding foriegn countries, paying for political ads,and ETC ETC....
"A bit of economic common sense wouldn't go astray here..." Ok you should try some it would make it easier to understand the US economy if you did
"What has not liking bush got to do with this? It's simple economic common management."
Always blaming problems on Bush is your trade mark on here and not actually using the facts its not the presidents job to run private companies in America , I know thats hard to understand but thats the way it is.
"Gotta love it - it's the "Look over there - it's Bill Clinton!" line again :-) Blaming Bill Clinton is pointless and clueless.
Goto love the it cant be CLinton even though Clinton was the president at the time when the bill (modified by Clintons office) was passed and caused the loophole called subprime loans, I guess we cant blame Bush for going to war in Iraq under your logic... If Clinton was a Rep you would be all over him for the mistake, but your glasses cloud your vision again.
"Despite your stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality, Bush and his government has had 8 long years to fine tune regualtory practices that have been fundamental to this financial industry meltdown."
Goverment shouldnt and cant regulate business in the way you want unless you want all Americans to be called Comrade.
"They go under."
Just like the ones in the states should because its not the goverments job to maintain the business of the country, Goverment can insure a persons money in a bank, but they dont insure the bank...
Thank you for proving your whole logic was wrong with that final statement that in your country the goverment doesnt bail out the company because the goverment isnt running the business therefore the goverment doesnt have a direct effect on the companies misuse of money nor a responsibility to fix them as they cause their own failure....
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SushiSake3 said:::
Nippon5 - "The money the US is putting into the war doesnt take away money from anything at all involved in this."
Completely and patently false.
The $1 trillion + the Bush administration has spent on Iraq has utilized funds that could have been otherwise spent on shoring up these financial institutions, not to mention the $200 billion the US spends per year on debt servicing that has been growing rapidly due to rising war costs - all of which are sucking money out of the US economy
Should goverment save all businesses that dont do well... Maybe in your country SushiSake3 But not in America.Your talking about money that wasnt there for bailing out business and it has nothing to do with it....
You dont like Bush WOW we are suprised at that, but maybe you can take off your hate glasses and see life for what it is, goverment had nothing to do with the demise of these companies except when Clinton and the congress of that era created the loopholes they are using, Could the goverment bail out all these greedy fat companies_??? Yes but as an American I dont think I should be bailing out a company that has a ceo making more in a year then this whole boards members make in a life time..
So please tell me what they do in your country for failing companies, maybe like the ones here in Japan that sell rotted rice, or maybe the pipe company here that sold pipe for natural gas that wasnt hydro tested???? Did the govement bail them out when they failed because of thier greed....????
So once again your just misinformed and very wrong, sorry but thats the truth..
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Nippon5
Yea Obama is a strong president, please show me when he served as president and showed us his strenght? Or are we just going off what his campain say he will be... Hes an unknown with no background in military operations or foriegn diplomacy. Bush wasnt good and neither will be obama, its just a pipe dream thinking he would be the golden warrior of justice...
No president is going to effect the other 535 idiots in Washignton enough to do anything outside what they want to do.. But hey you can have a dream right?
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Im guessing since he doesnt have any good news he doesnt say anything. Those who dont understand finance blame it on the president and try to tie it to this and that, bu tthe truth is this was started in the clinton years and was pushed to become by the greedy banks, and the idiot people who bought homes with money they didnt have. The money the US is putting into the war doesnt take away money from anything at all involved in this. Infact the goverment bailed out too many of them already..
But hey lets blame everything on a president and not really look at the problem, its much better that way..
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Nippon5
I will say sorry for my country (and I have many times before) but cant you say sorry to all those who serve that you called stupid.....
Thanks in advance
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Nippon5
Sorry I still dont get your point, is it you would like to say that people in general around the world hate the US goverment (which is a goverment elected by the people) more then a Terrorist group who kills woman and children on purpose???
Even though you dont like the present president (one of 537 people in Washinton DC representing America) I hope it doesnt mean you dislike it more then AQ cause it would be silly and pointless to respond to you as your not on level ground in your thinking.
As far as comparing Germanys killing of innocents (in ww1 ww2) to AQ it was suppose to be a ridicules thought just like your original post was..
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Taka313
lmao yea I think I could of ran it into the ground for a good 10 million..:)
As far as
Thats BS the problem was started way before him, all that does is show you will try to change history to make it a Bush issue, Bush messed up the economy but he didnt create this problem..
Posted in: What do you think of the recent financial upheavals in the U.S. that have seen Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy, Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, the collapse of Bear Stearns and the U.S. government take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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Nippon5
Clinton shouldnt of opened the loopholes with his policies.....
Posted in: What do you think of the recent financial upheavals in the U.S. that have seen Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy, Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, the collapse of Bear Stearns and the U.S. government take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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Nippon5
sounds like a case of the dog biting the hand that feeds it..
I think just like Iraq is tired of American soldiers in Iraq, the Arab countries are tired of AQ in their lands killing their people.
Soldave... seems like your trying a tad hard to make a point that isnt even close to being acurate... Thats like saying is AQ less popular then Germany for all its killing of innocents.. apples and oranges. One is a country and the other is a terriost extremist group...
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