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Sick. Fruit is not worth THAT much.
Posted in: Pair of Yubari melons fetch Y1.6 mil
Instead, they demanded that Hashimoto, 43, apologize and resign. This. Thanks Hashimoto for all your crap.…
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
At this point to save any part of his party's future he to resign. Japan Restoration…
Posted in: Hashimoto regrets meeting cancelation; wants to apologize to U.S.
"Gov't denies ghosts keeping PM out of residence" The government denies a lot of things, doesn't…
JHFC. Take the whole thing off them, now. As mentioned above, at least the aluminium buckets…
Posted in: 4 researchers exposed to radiation at Tokaimura lab
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Paparazzi or homicidal fan? Does Bieber have a detector to tell him which? I don't think so.
The police arrested the wrong person/people, if paparazzi are worthy of the title. The paparazzi are clearly the source of the speeding. Let them go, and we will have another dead Diana.
Posted in: Justin Bieber caught speeding 'like a maniac'
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Yes, and you too trust authorities far too much Cleo! Of course the police should give an explanation or they will resort to arresting anyone!
Yes, any damned fool can play the cherry pick/mix and match with people's quotes game. You want to keep playing?
Firearms are mentioned in the article. Explosives are not. I am not going to assume.
But you know, near every car in Britain has an explosive. You call it petrol. I call it gasoline. There are also road flares. Then we have those pesky farmers with their explosive fertilizers.
Who the Devil said anything against investigations???? My problem was terrorism charges out of the blue and vital but missing detail.
Posted in: Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids
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I just cannot figure out why you did not factor the price of tea in China into that formula! LOL
I never thought I would ever see anyone try so hard to link the American consumer to the Japanese taxpayer to the U.S. military! Please. I am an American citizen and I DONT want to be linked to the U.S. military and government AT ALL.
But I simply posit that since the American military is stationed here, like it or not, (and putting Japan on the map of those who call America enemy among other things I mentioned) its not at all odd for Japanese to expect America to defend Japan, even those crumby islands.
Posted in: Two Japanese land on disputed island: coastguard
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You go on to answer the question real nice all by yourself. The details man. There are not any that make an assumption of terror plots valid, but there are the terror charges.
Caution is wise. Jumping to conclusions never is!
I may be extremely distrusting of authority, but I don't consider that a problem. You are ALWAYS extremely trusting of authority and I find that to be a MASSIVE problem. Your trust is revealed as just prior to what I quoted you above, you said:
You give the authorities the benefit of the doubt, and its a fool's errand.
Posted in: Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids
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Yes and no. Fact is they are here and use Japanese land and money. One might not want the appointed bodyguard, but if their salary is drawn from someone's account, its not odd to expect some work, is it?
I can only speak for myself, but I want the American military out, I want them out of affairs on the islands, and I do live here in Japan, and my tax money does go to them.
And contrary to troyinjapan's assertation, I am on the Japanese side of the fence, but I would like to see these islands returned to China. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Japan MUST do it. I think the Chinese have lacked military control for so long, they no longer have a valid claim, and Japanese military control, followed by American military control, followed by giving the islands to Japan, followed by Japanese military control means the islands belong to Japan in reality, and this pattern is historically valid. But the trouble is that if Japan goes that route, they further validate the doctrine of "might makes right", and they may as well shut up about the Kuriles.
Japan took the islands in a hostile move. It can keep the islands yes, but its not a good precedent for the future or Sino-Japanese relations. Japan should be more civilized, admit how it obtained the islands, reject that, and give them back to China.
Posted in: Two Japanese land on disputed island: coastguard
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The headline is a spanner in the works of this debate. Seriously, no thanks. Very misleading.
Posted in: Natural climate change shut down Pacific reefs: study
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Bingo! So why is this in the news? Its their bent, and their petition to the magazine they subscribe to. But its being relayed as an issue of international import.
So they believe everything they see and will go bulimic/anorexic because of some pictures? There is a greater problem here, you just don't want to admit it.
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Absolutely not true. It depends on the person. Again, there is a bigger problem here, and its entertaining the unreality that one person can successfully mimic the body of another. All the photoshopping has done is carry the problem on to yet another natural conclusion. But the problem has been around and will continue to be around until concerned people develop real strategies to combat it, and THIS AINT IT.
Thanks for the link, but as it was not Seventeen magazine, its a fail. As that one picture was the most bizarre and extreme example EVER, its a fail. Many of the other pictures were far more representative of what is being done with photoshopping, and yes, they look normal and healthy, even the one of Kate Winslet. Its just that that ISNT Kate Winslet in reality. Doesn't matter. Seeking to look like Kate Winslet to the point of harming oneself is one of the core problems. And the only way to combat that constantly recurring foolishness is by education.
I would say that another of the core problems is simple false advertising. And that would be the best grounds to ending this relentless photoshopping in law if anyone really cared enough to end it. But what would happen is that America would wind up importing more foreign models, as would Britain and Canada.
Posted in: Teen magazine Seventeen pledges 'real girls' only
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. All schools need to get serious about educating students on how not to get fat in the first place. All governments of countries with obesity problems need to ensure that companies promoting unhealthy diets and lifestyles either change or fail.
Posted in: What do you think of obesity drugs that control the appetite through receptors in the brain?
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Yeah, those helmets look really cultural! As do the rust buckets of the whaling fleet!
Posted in: Japan, Norway block U.N. role on whales
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More so than that, you have to be pretty dumb to make this herb illegal!
Posted in: Couple arrested for growing marijuana on apartment rooftop after neighbor tips off police
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Images on the eyes do not necessitate a flapping of the gums.
What I know for sure is that at least one did not have the guts to shut up. If the cops come knocking, you just feign ignorance. At that point you fairly say the plants belong to so and so, but you don't have to admit you thought it was marijuana all along. In fact, you tell the police to their face that you cannot possibly be expected to recognize marijuana, as its illegal!
I don't know. It may have been a spot on the roof hidden to view. It seriously might have been a nosey neighbor who saw someone in an odd place and decided to investigate, and otherwise, no one would have been any wiser.
Posted in: Couple arrested for growing marijuana on apartment rooftop after neighbor tips off police
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Cue violins. Melodramatic statements over two nuts swimming to an island gives the acts of the nuts credence. Should have taken the bull by the horns and said "These two fools swimming to our islands changes nothing; except to expose two fools. They really should not violate our sovereignty, but I hope they had a nice visit to China!"
Posted in: Two Japanese land on disputed island: coastguard
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The PRC's date of joining the U.N. is not relevant. China existed long before the U.N. and even longer before the U.N. decided to recognize and admit the PRC....so they could finally file their claim to the islands.
You seem to have reality confused with paperwork, a common mental block among conservatives, I know.
Posted in: Two Japanese land on disputed island: coastguard
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And yeah, I would like to see those examples come from this mag that claimed to never print such photos. That should be interesting!
Posted in: Teen magazine Seventeen pledges 'real girls' only
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Hardly. These are just images in a magazine. It takes a certain bent to think this is so important.
How did images in a magazine turn into a goal?? However they did, THERE is your trouble, not the images.
A statement like that is certainly worth an example or two.
Right....one country's "slim" is another country's "husky".
Posted in: Teen magazine Seventeen pledges 'real girls' only
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Okay so we have Muslim found with a weapon, so they instantly arrest him on terrorism charges?
What is wrong with this picture? Oh yeah, no evidence that the people had plans for terror acts!
Hello police state!
Posted in: Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids
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You mean as a defense against a possible accusation of being drug dealers? Well, if anyone thinks the number cannot possibly be for personal use, they don't know a damned thing about marijuana.
Anyway, why can't neighbors just keep their fat mouths shut? Wish I knew who the snitch was so I could go have a word with them.
Posted in: Couple arrested for growing marijuana on apartment rooftop after neighbor tips off police
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Everybody needs to move on and get over the past. But those who refuse to admit the truth of the past, here in the present, are a problem in the present. And they will continue to be a problem until they admit the truth of history or die.
Posted in: S Korea's president raps cabinet on bungled pact with Japan
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If the issue is ever going to be resolved, is it not vital that Russian politicians see the situation first hand? Japanese anger is childish and counterproductive.
Posted in: Russia's PM dismisses Japan's anger at his Kuril trip
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No charges is yet another crime, the first being the killing of Suraj!
Posted in: No charges over Ghana deportee's death in Japan