JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Actually those are because the lungs and liver don't develop until later in life generally speaking children normally asertain wheter or not they are of the religious persuasion by the time they are finished developing in childhood.
I belive Aleister Crowley said it best, “Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
Posted in: In some countries, there is a ban on adults and children wearing religious clothing and symbols such as burqas, veils, head scarves, skullcaps, turbans and crucifixes in public places like schools, recreational facilities and so on. What's your stance?
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Good on the Arizona protestors. They are doing what they feel they must do to display how strongly they feel about their guaranteed constitutional rights.
But they didn't, why? Because the vast majority of legal gun owners are responcible with their firearms.
Posted in: Gun-toters, including one with assault weapon, attend Obama protest
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So the obvious alternative is to have a nanny state because the american public is unable to take care of itself? No, responsibility must be left solely in the hands of the people, the same applies (or at least should apply) to every other industry.
Posted in: Liberals complain over Obama health care concession
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Hmm... being interviewed after your name gets tagged on a watch list database, not unlikely. Having your luggage lost at the New Jersey international airport, almost guaranteed. Looks like another day in New Jersey to me.
Posted in: Bollywood star's detention at U.S. airport prompts outrage in India
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And America has some of the highest survival rates in the world in terms of invasive surgery and the U.S paves the way in terms of new and experimental medical treatment from the first coronary bypass surgery to modern day prosthetics. Our medicine is at the forefront because it is profit driven, because companies are motivated by a competative market to outsell and outperform every other drug company. The same goes for hospitals and private clinics and if we start with nationalization of health insurance the next logical step is taking control of such private institutions eventually leading to complete govenrment control of the health industry and if they handle it anywhere near as well as amtrak or the post office we get to look forward to health care that is slow, inefficient, and overly expensive in the long run.
Posted in: White House appears ready to drop 'public option' on health care
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The human condition makes us a violent and illogical bunch by nature, take away one sedative and we will find another to latch onto and fight about and religion is merely one of the things we find appealing so we flock to it in order to give meaning to our lives. These items are used as a physical manifestaion of a person's internal beliefs and to supress that is just asking for problems.
I've read The God Delusion, Letter to a Christian Nation, and God: The Failed Hypothesis and agree that the belief in a supernatural being is illogical at best. Yet I remain a devout Catholic because I believe in the scriptures all the same.
zurcronium mentions some of the evils commited in the name of the christian faith but were those edicts of the scripture that the purpotrators used as justification of their actions? No, they elected to warp whatever religion they followed in order to give them just cause for whatever actions they took. Josef Mengele commited unspeakably evil acts in the name of science, Stalin did so in the name of the soviet society, Pol Pot in the name of restarting civilization, all monsterous all having different justifications.
I've personally never worn a cross or any religious paraphernalia but if a law was enacted banning such a practice I may just take it up.
Posted in: In some countries, there is a ban on adults and children wearing religious clothing and symbols such as burqas, veils, head scarves, skullcaps, turbans and crucifixes in public places like schools, recreational facilities and so on. What's your stance?
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Speaking for myself (I was uninsured for about ten years up until 07) I just didn't feel like paying for something I never used aside from my two physicals and my two dentist visits a year. I ended up banking all of what I would be spending so even if I did have a health emergency I could cover it myself. I used common sense and kept myself physically fit and fiscally sound, but hay I was uninsured on my terms and thats all that matters to me.
Posted in: White House appears ready to drop 'public option' on health care
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Who cares? I would rather be searched along with everyone else on the plane and be a little bit uncomortable than end up sitting next to a crazy that brought a plastic explosive onboard the plane.
Posted in: Bollywood star's detention at U.S. airport prompts outrage in India
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Dang, thats a little bit more than 37 km/h if I've done my math right, and to think I get all worked up when I top out at 15.
Posted in: Bolt wins 100 in world record time of 9.58 seconds
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And most of that 66 minutes was probably waiting for paperwork to be completed with maybe 10 minutes tops of actual questioning. Sounds like this was blown out of proportion for the purposes of advertising the guy's new movie.
Unless the immigration officials are afficionadoes on Indian film I highly doubt they would share Miss Chopra's sentiments. To them he was just another foreign guy who's name came up on an alert list, so they did their job and got him on his way.
pfft, most people could care less if this sort of thing happened to any other actor and they certainly wouldn't burn the flag of whatever country detained them. And FYI, the guy's name was flagged so the gentlemen from immigration were obligated to check him.
Posted in: Bollywood star's detention at U.S. airport prompts outrage in India
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That may be because, I don't know, they are drug addicts? All they care about is their next fix.
Posted in: Obama attending first U.S.-Canada-Mexico summit
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I'm still trying to figure out why the right dislikes Judge Sotomayor and why the left loves her so much. She's an independant, a Roman Catholic, and in the case of Krimstock v. Kelly she halted New York City's practice of seizing the motor vehicles thereby protecting property rights. She really doesn't have any Second Amendment record (aside from not allowing a man in New York to use a nunchaku) and her upbringing probably has her leaning toward a pro-life stance.
If she had cut the 'wise latina' garbage I think the vote would have included many more republicans but thats neither here nor now.
Posted in: Sotomayor sworn in to Supreme Court
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2 is nowhere near enough. There is more money to be made now that these cars are gone than when they were still functioning. For starters there's the scrap trade which will make some hefty cash by melting down and selling the metals, fabricators that may be needed to produce auto parts that may not exist a few years, repair shops to fix the ageing fleet, junk yards, and a slew of other small time industries. It's times like these when I can tolerate socialism, times when it stands to make me and others like me wealthier than everyone else ;) .
Posted in: Congress OKs $2 bil refill of 'cash for clunkers'
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I'm personally loving this, I've got some equity in a junk yard my brother started a few years back and this is driving the price of some parts through the roof. Although, I almost feel bad for the folks that have to buy off of little bro' , if the CfC program jacks up the price 20% he'll up it double that, just for starters, makes me proud.
Posted in: Congress OKs $2 bil refill of 'cash for clunkers'
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It was the bombs or Operation Downfall, pick your poison. The first destroys two cities the second estimates the extermination of roughly 80% of the japanese population and tens of millions of allied soldiers. And even if Japan did surrender after the first year or two fighing on the main island it would have been divided like germany.
Posted in: Poll in U.S. finds support for World War II atom bombings
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So what you're saying is that cruelty justifies cruelty, gotcha.
That's the way news media works and it sucks for all parties involved.
Thats like saying that Al-Qaeda are Islamic, techically true but they both pervert the holy texts for their own warped sadistic agendas. Islam is a religion of peace and any act of violence in its name is operating under a flawed interpretation and the same can be said for violence in the name of christianity, judaism, buddhism, hinduism or any otherwise respectable religion.
Posted in: Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial
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Actually the artical makes that abundantly clear in the last few paragraphs.
Hell with happy and loving boarder relations like that its a wonder why Georgia would want weapons in the first place. It's like a huge slavic man threatening to slaughter a four year old because the little guy might be buying a new pocket knife.
Posted in: Russian troops on high readiness in South Ossetia
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You had me up until the last part. I smoke Dominican cigars a few times a month in the states and Cubans when I'm on business trips and the price of tobacco is already outrageously high. It's not an addiction for me (thats not denial thats me being practical) its a cultural thing that I indulge in as a hobby and between the rising taxes and the public restrictions it's becoming increasingly difficult for me and my abuelo to reminisce over a fine cigar.
Posted in: 3 Japanese wage court battle against Japan Tobacco
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Thats so unfair it's not even funny! Apparently robbers get treated better than I do.
He's not a criminal, he was just fired for going against bank policy even the teller himself understands that.
Posted in: Seattle bank teller loses job for chasing, catching robber
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The difference is that these hikers weren't trying to immigrate, they were probably just putzing around on a hiking trail when some armed Iranian's cuffed them and threw them into the back of a truck. Any other country would conduct an expedited removal, only Iran would force confused hikers to stay in the country rather than deporting them.
Posted in: Iran state TV confirms arrest of 3 Americans