Wednesday February 15, 2012

TheTim's past comments

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    TheTim

    I've flown out of the U.S. several times in the last few years, and aside from the ridiculous requirement of taking ones shoes off, has not been that bad. (Yes I know that requirement is related to the underwar bomber, but there's no proof that taking shoes off will stop another one.) All this talk of not flying to the U.S. as a quasi-punshiment for the security measures are obviously from ignoramasses who just don't get it. Why would you pass up an unprecedented and not likely to happen again opportunity to fly to and shop in the U.S. at rock bottom prices with the current deflated dollar?

    Posted in: TSA has met the enemy — the people

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    TheTim

    I'm assuming Tsukiji police stations is near all that good sushi at Tsukiji fish market? If so, what a great place to get the munchies!

    Posted in: Man in possession of marijuana locks himself in car in Ginza

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    TheTim

    Give me a break. Those were the best costumes they saw that night? I saw a guy dressed as the Duff man last night. Now that's a costume!

    Posted in: Trick or treat

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    TheTim

    Hooters has great breasts, oops, I mean wings. All the talk about "setting women back". I'm bored already. Did you drama queens read the part about how many women applied vs. how many women were selected? Sounds pretty progressive to me.

    Posted in: Girls, girls, girls

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    TheTim

    Are you freakin' kidding me? The reason the Taliban has not been completely snuffed out is the fact that they have a refuge in Pakistan. Time and time again, Pakistani officials have been caught assisting them, or at the very least looking the other way. the U.S. should give the money to Darfur or something and go in there anyway to take care of business.

    Posted in: Pakistan resists U.S. push to expand terror fight

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    TheTim

    Boom, ba bum bum! The Intel commercial jingle is playing loudly in my head now.

    Posted in: Good moves

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    TheTim

    I'm not overly enthusiastic about this prospect. In particular the 10 foreign girls. If I see one tip cup, I'm gone! Even the Japanese girls who speak good English are much different than the average Japanese waitress. ie, not near as friendly from what I've found as their time in the U.S., Canada, or the UK commonwealth has typically played with their mind for the worse.

    Posted in: Hooters to open first Japan restaurant in Tokyo on Oct 25

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    TheTim

    I will not speak to this case, but I had a foreigner acquaintance who was held for 21 days in Japanese prison because a girl claimed he raped her. There was zero evidence to that fact other than her word of mouth and he was released on the 21st day because of lack of evidence. Anyone can be held in jail to be questionsed WITHOUT BEING CHARGED for 21 days in this country. I would shutter this talk about Japan being a "first-world power" on the subject of defendent's rights.

    Posted in: 3 firemen arrested for alleged gang rape of woman

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    TheTim

    Congrats to Waipahu for making it that far. Much smaller population base to pick from, yet their competing with a national team. Also bet that even the Hawaii team had mostly Japanese last names at least.

    Posted in: Tokyo beats Hawaii to take Little League World Series title

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    TheTim

    How can so many people watch this ridiculous "sport"? Give the food to the homeless shelters. There's plenty of those in New York these days.

    Posted in: Kobayashi leaves jail after hot dog contest fracas

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    TheTim

    Ummm, I would bet she is going on tour with him more to "watch" him rather than "support" him. Lot of cute and bubbly temptations in this country and I don't mean Champagne!

    Posted in: Anzen Chitai gets another groupie for the road: Noriko Aota

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    TheTim

    McChrystal was just venting, though they should know best at their level that there is zero tolerance for airing dirty laundry about your superiors in public. Like it or not, you need to pay the king his schilling when in senior leadership. As Beavis says....FIRE....FIRE, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE....

    Posted in: Obama rebukes top U.S. commander in Afghanistan

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    TheTim

    Why do some people need to be so hyper dramatic? "Given that most of the golfers there are actually Japanese, this seems pretty harsh. I bet they don't do the same for Japanese courses. More double standards for US installations in Japan" Those "Japanese" golfers should consider themselves lucky to play at the quality and challenging course on Camp Zama for a fraction of the price they would pay at a Japanese commercial course. I'm quite certain this policy was mandated by the local government whom Camp Zama leadership bends over backwards to appease. BTW...There are 2000 local jobs and not 20,000. Sorry, I lived on Camp Zama for 6 years so I felt a burning need to correct this. Camp Zama has a very delicate footprint in the community and is a model of how to have a relationship with the host nation.

    Posted in: Camp Zama introduces strict penalties for over-enthusiastic golfers

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    TheTim

    I wonder if a comment made by their kid that ruined the family and landed his parents in the slammer could be "Kids Say the Darndest Things" material. Maybe in four years they should submit that to the show. Putting Mayumi in jail also is the worst decision in the history of decisions made by judges. He has alread made an example enough out of the husband.

    Posted in: Balloon boy parents get jail time for hoax

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    TheTim

    "mother of a 12-year-old girl was charged Tuesday on suspicion of violation of child welfare laws" Allowing a man almost old enough to be her grandfather have his way with her for cash. hmmm...Violation of child welfare laws, you think? The mmost disturbing thing to me is he has been arrested several times before and it walking free now. Doesn't Japan have a 3 strikes rulle? If not, they need one.

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    TheTim

    The U.S. cash for clunkers program benefitted Japan tremedously. It's not secret Japaense cars are better than American cars. However, the U.S. auto makers are coming back with a vengence. Don't be surprised to see more American cars overseas as soon as the U.S. Congress pulls their heads out and ratifies the international trade agreemeents that have been stymied.

    Posted in: Japan’s version of a 'cash for clunkers' program intended to spur auto sales discriminates against imported vehicles.

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    TheTim

    This is disgusting on so many levels. I hope the drugs were worth it.

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    TheTim

    Americans don't see it as simply an act of protocol. They see it as a sign of submission. Right or wrong, that's the way it looks. It's particularly significant with Hatoyama's anti U.S. comments and Ozawa's anti-Christian comments made recently. Personally I think it's over the top. The Japanese don't even bow that low anymore for the most part. Lately, it's almost like Obama is just asking for the American people to vote him out of office. And, who gives a crap whether the rest of the world doesn't like Americans. You have noooooo idea how hard it is to be an American. It's not what you see on MTV cribs or in the movies. Most Americans work very hard and deal with lots of adversity that Europe and Japan's citizens don't even have to think about. By the fact that you don't like America without knowing much about it shows how ignorant and bigoted you are.

    Posted in: Obama's bow to emperor causes outrage in Washington

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    TheTim

    Put yourself in the shoes of the Okinawans. If the Japanese military was stationed in the U.S. or the U.K. or anywhere else in the world, and they committed even one crime, residents of those countries would be pretty angry. U.S. personnel have been committing crimes like that in Okinawa for 60 years. They're sick of it. All this talk of Japan being babied and protected is ignorant rhetoric. Did you know that the Govt of Japan pays more than half the U.S. military budget in Japan? They build every facilility to include the base housing which usually far exceeds the size and comfort of Japanese homes in the area. If I was a Japanese tax payer and those same individuals were committing heinous crimes in my country, I would be doing everything I could to kick them out.

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    TheTim

    To assume that a Japanese speaker is not able to discern whether or not someone is speaking Chinese is ludacris. I'm an English speaker and with my minimal exposure to the Chinese language I'm able to determine when someone is speaking Chinese. I'm certain an English speaker can tell the difference between French and German. It's that easy for a Japanese speaker to recognize Chinese. What are they going to do to a Chinese criminal? Put him in a heated Japanese prison cell with hot meals as good or better than he's used to back home and surrounded by many of his countrymen? That's not much of a deterrent.

    Posted in: Woman attacked, robbed in her Tokyo apartment

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