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TEPCO should be forced to sell its nuclear plant in Niigata and banned from ever running…
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
I don't see how 12,000 kilowatts can supply 100,000 households. Correction needed here.
Posted in: Firms plan to build floating wind farm off Fukushima coast
The first priority for TEPCO after ensuring the reactors and spend pools are being cooled is…
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
If people can't control what they eat, they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Posted in: After diabetes diagnosis, U.S. celebrity chef feels heat
Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse? Mostly, because they can.
Posted in: Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse?
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SushiSake3
unreconstructed - o, I thought you were going to say something relevant.
Maybe next time.....
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
An attempt at explaining the GOP nomination clown show.....
A few contributing factors:
1/ Conservative voters only have themselves to blame for the utter shambles the GOP nomination process has become. If conservatives were on average a little bit smarter, they would have seen last year that Bachmann, Cain, Perry, etc. are total losers and an embarrassment to everyone.
2/ Conservatives clearly don't know who who they want as shown by the cycle of pushing each of their joke candidates (except Ron Paul, the guy with 2 first names) to the top and then pulling them down.
3/ They really don't like or trust Mitt, as shown by his steady 25-30% polling for years, and the only way he'll win is by default or because the rest have imploded.
4/ The conservative elite are now starting to panic for a number of reasons:
1/ primarily - the conservative base is so mentally lacking and ignorant that the bunch of losers (except Huntsman) they have put on the national stage are and always have been unelectable.
2/ running with that, at the moment, the loudest of the remaining candidates - Newt - also unelectable - is gaining traction because he's so much like the conservative base: Loud, angry and racist. But his past - as the GOP elite knows all too well - makes him unpalatable and unelectable - but he's only at the top today because of the near total lack of rational thinking ability of the GOP base.
So the situation now is all of the GOP/conservative base's own making.
Conservatives everywhere need to apologize immediately to all Americans. Why? It should be blatantly obvious now: conservatives have never taken the process of electing the next leader of the free world seriously. Every time they treat it like a joke:
Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 wrought unimaginable havoc on the global economy and tanked the US economy.
Supporting Sarah Palin in 2008 - were they serious????
And in 2012, they're propping up a lying serial adulterer and an uber rich elitist who parks his cash in offshore tax havens while claiming to 'understand' the common man.
Are. They. Serious?
Clearly not. For the sake of all of us, the GOP clown show needs to be defeated.
To the humor benefit of all of us, it's pretty clear the GOP will defeat itself even before election day.
Which just goes to show how stupid they really are. Their overall strategy is that they don't have one.
And patriotic Americans everywhere will be cheering in November when the SS GOP goes down.
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
LOL! Gingrich getting an endorsement from Herman Cain is like getting a call from a recent lover that you have an STD.
But it's totally understandable. they're 2 peas in a pod--cheaters.
But it's still pretty amazing - a guy who was forced to suspend his campaign due to the fact that he cheated on his wife is now endorsing a serial adulterer.
You just can't make this stuff up. :-)
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Yes, and it's also home to a massive immigrant population, the same type of people both Newt and Romney have been howling need to be thrown out.
That's why Newt changed the subject this week to building a multiple-billion $ colony on the moon. Hello? Have his handlers not told him there's a recession?
Good switch but way too late for a candidate who is and always has been unelectable.
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Can this election process get any more bizarre?
Palin stating that Newt is being treated like Stalin (does she even know who that is?); then Newt saying he'd like to see the moon become the 51st state; Romney and his usual flip-flopping; Santorum pontificating about life in general...this whole GOP primary business is unbelieveable.
Republicans and conservatives should be ashamed that this is the best they have to offer and need to aplogize to everyone for treating a process to elect the leader of the free world with such disdain.
Really, do they HONESTLY think Newt or Mitt would make good presidents?
That idea is hugely funny. But at least conservatives will have a long time (4 more years to be precise) to realize they should take these election processes seriously after they get their butts handed to them on a plate by the Dems this November. :-)
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Heh, the next time someone tells you that the Republicans care about Americans, show them this list:
Dubdubdub.addictinginfo.org/2011/01/03/bills-republicans-have-blocked/
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Looks like the GOP/conservative elite's rounding on Newt.
Drudge Report, Ann Coulter, Tom deLay, Bob Dole are all slamming the guy.
Heh, funny considering Newt's one of them. :-)
I couldn't help noticing that virtually none of Newt's former colleagues have endorsed him....pretty much says it all.
But Sarah Palin is one who has back-handedly endorsed Newt, and she has come out slamming the conservative elite for trying to slam the door on Newt saying she's seen all these tactics before.
Perhaps Ms. Palin needs to realize the GOP establishment is desperately trying to take Newt down for the same reason they tried to take her down: they know/knew then Palin and now Newt would be a disaster.
Heh, so when Newt goes down in flames - give him a few more days - the GOP-annointed will be the Flip Flopper himself and one of the biggest takedown targets on the block - Mitt.
Heh, funniest election cycle yet.
Someone needs to tell conservatives - you need to learn how to pick candidates based on more than just how proudly ignorant, uneducated, anti-immigrant, pro-war they are.
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Heh, the huge irony's really going to hit this November when Boehner, Cantor and the old guy who always looks shocked find themselves thrown on the unemployment heap after the GOP gets a planet-sized shellacking - and realizing that the unemployment benefits they struggled so hard to eliminate are, in fact, important.
Posted in: Surging Romney aims to knock Gingrich out of race in Florida
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SushiSake3
Only a card-carrying conservative would watch their candidates spew lies and hate on national TV and not say a word.
Politics first. Country last: The Pure Republican Way.
Posted in: Romney, Gingrich square off in key Florida debate
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SushiSake3
Looks like the JT conservatives have given up defending their 'candidates,' packed up shop and gone home.
No surprises there. I would too if I was one of them.
Interesting paradox: A Republican senator will yell out that Obama lies as the President addresses the nation and be congratulated for it, yet a Republican candidate will lie before millions of people on TV and his constituency will not say a word.
No surprises there either.
Posted in: Romney, Gingrich square off in key Florida debate
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SushiSake3
Wow, that's a bit of history!
Talent, in every sense of the word. :-)
Posted in: Monty Python members to re-unite for new film
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SushiSake3
"Romney said, continuing, "Obama caused job losses, raised taxes on corporations, and has traveled the world apologizing for America."
Yes, some Americans can't do humble as they think their nation really is'exceptional.'
At the moment, thanks largely to GOP/conservative leadership.the American economy is exceptional all right, exceptionally failing.
Posted in: Romney, Gingrich square off in key Florida debate
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SushiSake3
The circular firing squad continues to battle it out yet another day.
Sooooo funny. :-) The GOP implosion has been really entertaining. I wonder whether people can donate to a fund to keep their comedy coming?
Wha-? It's **not **comedy? It's real??? LOL!! :-)
Posted in: Romney, Gingrich square off in key Florida debate
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SushiSake3
Rush - "hadn't thought of that. but the hypocrites of the left obviosuly have."
Care to let us know who these folks are? Or are they just imaginary folk in your head??
Posted in: Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy
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SushiSake3
Molenir - "Besides since they're dead, does it really matter to anyone except their families?"
I think that between religious folk, it really does matter whether one person's imaginary god is more real than the other person's imaginary god.
Posted in: Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy
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SushiSake3
I'd like to call it the Post-Death Reverse Baptism business.
They reverse baptized Buddha.
So Buddha is now a Mormon?
Nearly fell off my chair when I read that. :-)
Posted in: Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy
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SushiSake3
With all this talk of fantasy, probably it's best not to mention some interesting news about Mitt's Mormon church - which has reportedly been involved in **proxy baptism for the dead. **
"According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church, these posthumous "blessings" are intended to "save" ancestors and others who weren't baptized in life or were baptized "without proper authority."
Apparently, any Mormon can baptize any person posthumously.
"Church members have performed the ritual on Buddha, Catholic popes, 9/11 hijackers, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Elvis Presley, President Obama's mother and even reportedly Jesus Christ. In 2002, the managing director of the Mormon's family and church history department told The New Yorker magazine that as many as 200 million dead people had been baptized as Mormons."
So, after people have died and supposedly gone on to the afterlife, a Mormon can somehow baptise them and get them out of hell, if that is where their soul is being tormented.
But before evangelicals get all excited and start high-fiving due to this potentially game-changing revelation, perhaps they could explain the Bible's book of Matthew 27 v 51-53 where it says, "At that moment [when Christ died] the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people."
The Earth shook?
Dead saints came back to life, came out of their graves and strolled through Jerusalem?
Can any Christians out there please give us the lowdown on this?
Whic
Posted in: Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy
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SushiSake3
A self-deportation plan?
And they've both supported it?
Only conservatives could hatch something so embedded in fantasy.
Posted in: Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy
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SushiSake3
Pretty amazing......
in ConservativeLand, moral bankruptcy is a virtue, ignorace of basic facts is worn as a badge of honor, and opinions are things the shrieking heads on Fox News give you.
But, credit needs to be given where credit is due - it takes being a True Conservative to think there's nothing wrong with this attitude.
Posted in: Jobs, energy, values top issues in Obama's State of the Union address
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SushiSake3
Daniel’s intellectually lazy response to Obama’s address…..really, the Republicans are an embarrassment to the Republican party.
And the GOP self-inflicted beat down continues.
Honestly, this hyper partisanship is getting tiring but I’m truly appreciate of the Tea Party and everyone involved in that movement for putting a bomb under their parties.
The GOP has had 3 winners for 3 different primaries AFTER over 20 debates: they're too splintered to be able to make this work. But they are so used to manufacturing outrage that they see purpose in surrounding every important issue in ambient noise. The only way I could have respect for these guys again is for them to come out and say, "Look, we've got nothing. We're wrong and we're going to get out of the way now."
Oh, and if this week’s GOP front runner Gingrich thinks its bad now, imagine when someone asks him how his mistress during his second marriage is good enough to be First Lady.
Posted in: Jobs, energy, values top issues in Obama's State of the Union address