JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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SushiSake3
Let’s face it – there are NO 100% genuine religious people out there of any faith.
**EVERY **religious person breaks commands, tenets, etc. all the time and we are all hypocritical creatures.
The only difference is to what degree we are ‘religious’, and even that is subjective and biased.
Very unfortunately, what there is a heck of a lot of, are people who think that they and their religion are “better” than the other ones.
But is it REALLY?
This is a very deep subject, as you can no doubt guess.
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edojin - "... that is, Obama's connection to the Black Muslims in America."
I trust it is a good connection and would hope it continues.
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SmithinJapan: "I went on to explain that religion, as Taka touched on, should have nothing to do with the election and that this man's personal views, so long as they don't dictate policy, are his own and his own alone. "
Exactly, exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself. People need to realize: every U.S. president in recent history has attended Christian churches, Christian prayer breakfasts, and supported Israel based on Biblical principles.
To have these same people then turn around and start making negative insinuations about potential future presidents possibly letting their (non-Christian) religions affect their policy-making is – of course – the height of hypocrisy.
The key, of course, is that most people posting on this board have been raised or at least significantly exposed to the Christian faith, and we think it is ‘right’ almost by default.
But let’s face it – people have murdered, raped and pillaged more people and places in the name of Christianity than any other religion in history.
SmithinJapan: “Regardless, the GOP has ZERO chance in the next election because they are not bothering to field anyone who is serious. You've literally got a bunch of circus animals running for the GOP top spot. The GOP themselves have handed Obama the White House again next year.”
Lol! Bang on. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times now, I’m STILL waiting for the GOP to field a serious candidate for president.
In all honesty, I never would have thought that this election cycle’s conservative candidates could have been worse than the last crop, but they are – WAY worse!
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JapanGal - "Don't Mormons promote multiple wives and sex with kids like the Muslims do?"
Doesn't Christianity endorse genocide, rape, infantacide and indiscriminate murder?
It does, oh yeah it does (& I can give you Bible verses if you like).
Anyway, what has any of that got to do with running America?
Anything at all?
I would say that the majority of religious people never follow their religious books and commands verse by verse, and to insinuate that people do is not particularly smart.
As an example, if Christians honestly followed their religion, the would sell all their possessions, never judge anyone, and love their neighbors.
Do you know ANY Christians who follow these commands?
I don't.
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I'm still wondering...when is the Right going to prop up some serious candidates??
Surely, the current crop is just the comedic introduction to the main event?
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Sorry, that should be 100% :-)
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Taka, I also agree 10 %.
The degree of a person's opposition to a candidates's religious beliefs is also the degree they should not be permitted to cast a vote.
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Yabits, this all leaves me wondering: when is the GOP/TP going to field a serious candidate??
All they have at the moment - bar Jon Huntsman - are clowns in different clothing.
Posted in: Republican debate shifts from Cain scandal to eurozone crisis
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As a prould Kiwi I’m genetically and morally bound to say that Australia is……yeah –c’mon down a few hours south of Sydney to New Zealand and you’ll be in a country that’ll set you right.
Quantas HQ did the right thing this week by offering all 100,000 slacked off passengers free return flights to New Zealand (or inbound Oz). That’s because even Quantas top management knows that deep down, when Australians and most other travelers are Down Under, they’d much rather head to New Zealand for a coldie and some real customer service than to sky-high-priced Australia.
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HumanTarget - "He's also been caught off guard with very simple foreign policy questions and proposed in seriousness limiting all bills to three pages."
Looks like neither Cain - nor any of his GOP presidential candidate colleagues - will be inducted into MENSA this week.
Maybe next week?
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SushiSake3
Unlike Sarah Palin's fellow staunch conservative colleague Herman Cain who believed up until only last week that China has never possessed the nuclear arsenal they have had bolted to the ground for the last 50 years, I know I really have to up my game.
Apologies are due.
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JeremiahW - "Europe is not a country."
Really? Former Alaska Govenor and staunch conservative Sarah Palin was convinced Africa was a country,
I was simply using her logic.
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Triumvere - "None of the candidates had anything whatsoever to say about the Eurozone crisis."
Do any of them even know where the country of Europe is?
That's the question I would be asking.
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"They (Republicans) also warned that failing to cut budget deficits at home would doom the U.S. to the same sort of crisis that now plagues Greece and Italy."
Perhaps they should have thought of that when they launched 2 wars without paying for them, and introduced the incredibly costly prescription drug benefit, all of which have done massive harm to America's financial future.
"Some critics continue to assert that President George W. Bush’s policies bear little responsibility for the deficits the nation faces over the coming decade — that, instead, the new policies of President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress are to blame. Most recently, a Heritage Foundation paper downplayed the role of Bush-era policies. Nevertheless, the fact remains: Together with the economic downturn, the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years (see Figure 1).
The deficit for fiscal year 2009 was $1.4 trillion and, at nearly 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), was the largest deficit relative to the size of the economy since the end of World War II."
[Source: Critics Still Wrong on What’s Driving Deficits in Coming Years]
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SushiSake3
"Australian tourism industry 'in crisis'"
That's a fairly credible headline. More so than some economic headlines I have read such as "stock index plunges by 1.2%."
That's not a plunge. It's a burp.
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Taka - "Obama used his time machine to back to the early 1990s"
Obama's time machine with the wheels or the one with the boom box on the roof? :-)
Posted in: Cain says he won't be forced out of White House race by sex scandal claims
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Message to all conservatives:
All **jokes aside: it will hopefully be dawning on some of you by now that **YOU DO NOT HAVE A SERIOUS CANDIDATE.
Herman Cain is not a serious candidate. Neither is Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachman or Newt Gingrich. The only half-serious candidate you have is Jon Huntsman.
You had better get yourself a serious candidate before the election otherwise your party and your ideals will be beaten.
Again.
As I said, all jokes aside.
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Serrano - "Question: Where were these women in 2000 when Cain was running for president or in 2004 when he was running for the Senate? Wasn't important enough to go public then?"
That's called Rearranging Chairs On The Titanic. :-)
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The Cain Train needs to quit while it's behind.
And when he does, conservatives are going to be lumped with a rag-tag bunch of total no-hopers to choose their candidate from. If I was a conservative with a pick like there is, I'd have been on the bottle every day for months.
Honestly, the conservative presidential candidates are hopeless; I don't think it has ever been this bad.
I'l say it again: when the smoke of the conservative presidential campaign finally clears, there's going to be nothing and nobody of any substance left.
And as Cain is illustrating so deftly, they're destroying themselves with uncanny skill.
Hilarious, sorry, I need to sit down. :-)
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unreconstructed - "It just gets more ludicrous. Cain's second accuser is in the Obama administration."
So? She probably has to work somewhere.
No, what's ludicrous is that you think you had a point.
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