JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Ah. Where did they hide the camera?
Posted in: Pedestrian paradise
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You'll have my Thin Mints when you pry them from my cold dead hands!!
...Provided I haven't eaten them all first...
Posted in: World leaders to discuss junk food ad ban at U.N.
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Dumb.
Children don't buy the food, the parents do. The idea that advertsing (or promotional toys in kid's meals, in the case of SanFransico) is behind childhood obesity is idiotic. Look, kids want to eat junk/fast food because it tastes good. (Foodies may disagree, but the phenomenon is undeniable). Kids eat junk/fast food because their parents buy it for them. Parent's buy junk/fast food because it's A) cheap, B) easy, and, C) because they think it tastes good too.
You want to get serious about childhood obesity? Especially in poor comunities? OK, how about this:
1) Invest in ensuring that poor neighborhoods have access to aforable grocery stores. Do you have any idea how many inner city neigborhoods don't even have a grocery store? In the US, it's quite a lot. How are parents supposed to feed their kids fresh vegatables when the only place to get food withing driving distance is McDonalds? Or when a fast food hamburger is cheaper than a home cooked meal?
2) Encourage exercise. And do it by more than Phys. Ed. classes and parental education campaigns. Kids need a place to play outside - that means a safe, clean public park, basketball court, etc... in the neighborhood. It also means afterschool sports programs, and things like community basketball and youth boxing at the local gym.
3) Affordable daycare. The sort that working parents can rely on so that they can go out an make the money their family needs to provide for their children. The sort thay will prepare the kids healthy meals so that the time-strapped parents don't have to every night. Also the sort that will provide physical activity for the kids while their parents aren't their to supervise.
4) Education about health and nutrition - many parents need this sort of stuff so that they can understand how to prepare healthy, afordable meals for their kids, and understand how not getting the right sorts of vitamins and minerals and dietary balance can effect their kid's health. Info on cheap, easy to prepare meals that even the worst cooks could be expected to prepare.
This is just the begining of what we should be doing. Instead, the UN (and like minded "do-gooders") are out trying to tell us what we can and can't buy. There is nothing wrong with a healthy kid eating the ocassional Big Mac or gulping down a cola. There problem is when the kid eats nothing but junk and never exercises any of those calories off. Lay off the happy meals and Cheetohs commercials and start getting serious.
Posted in: World leaders to discuss junk food ad ban at U.N.
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This is little more than a farce. The bill will never get past the senate, and the authors know it. This waste of time serves not purpose other than Republican theatrics. I suppose they deserve some credit for (attempting to) fulfill their campaign promises, but given neither the attempt nor the original promises were ever serious in the first place, it remains a farce.
Posted in: U.S. House votes to repeal Obama's health care law
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You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted in: Palin explains 'blood libel' comment
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...only, it doesn't. Palin's favorability ratings are atrocious; far worse than Obama's, Hillary Clinton's, or Bush's ever were. What she does have is a small, very dedicated base of diehard supporters who idolize her. That's not enough to get one elected to the presidency - especially as more and more Republican politicians and commentators have started distancing themselves from her.
The claim that liberal distain can only make her more popular is frequently made by her supporters; it is undoubtably true among those supporters themselves, and I would not be surprised if she got a small boost among conservatives following the rather absurd claims of Democratic partisans that she was somehow to blame for the Giffords incident. Such a boost, however, is unlikely to last for very long and will do little to aid her dismal favorability ratings over the long term.
I can't help but think these sorts of claims are the result of extreme tunnel vison; Thanks in part to the easy availability of dedicated partisan media, political demographics, and the natural tendancy for people to self-segregate socially, it is very easy to look to the left and the right of yourself and see nothing but like-minded individuals. Small wonder that people then assume that they and their neighbors are representative of the "real America" and that their opinions are sensable, moderate, and mainstream - shared by the majority of their fellow voters. This is not a specifically conservative failing, mind you, but rather a human one; liberals are equally guilty of it. With the exception of radicals (who take superiority from the belief they know better than 99% of the populace), most men see themselves and their opinions as rational and well reasoned, and therefor expect those points of view to be shared by the majority of other resonable, rational people. Taken too far, this line of thinking makes anyone who disagrees with your "reasonable" positions into either idiots, fanatics, or liaring crooks. Then the election comes along and the only reasoning that can be found for your candidate's "inexplicable" loss is that of underhanded enemy tactics and voter fraud.
Posted in: Palin explains 'blood libel' comment
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It is more or less impossible to affect a revolution without some bloodshed; would-be revolutionaries take warning.
Posted in: Tunisia hit with looting, riots as new leader is sworn in
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WilliB,
radicalism does not seem to have a strong hold in Tunisia; if things go south, a military dictatorship is more likely than Islamism.
Posted in: Tunisians drive leader from power in mass uprising
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This entire photograpj is terrifying.
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This has the potential to have a huge impact on the arab world.
Posted in: Tunisians drive leader from power in mass uprising
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This really is not the approptiate time to be trying to score political points. Show some respect to the those who have lost their lives in this senseless act of violence.
Posted in: Arizona Rep Giffords shot, 6 killed, including judge, 9-year-old girl
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I'm going to assume you meant "AIDS" there.
Posted in: More than 1 in 3 South African men admit to rape: study
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North Korea has alwats been very adept at pushing limits; all it takes is one push too far, however.
Posted in: N Korea warns region on brink of war after more artillery fire heard
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yabits,
A little bit of false equivilancy there; the situations aren't analogous. And, while the US might not go to war over two marines, the US forces in Korea are called a "tripwire" for a reason.
Posted in: N Korea warns region on brink of war after more artillery fire heard
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China doesn't want 2 things on it's border:
1) A large and vicious war, complete with floods of refugees and large numbers of US troops milling about.
2) A stable, unified Korea - strong economically and militarily, with strong ties to the US.
So we get this tightrope walk, trying to prop up Pyongyang while attempting to manage to it's erratic and beligerant behavior.
Posted in: S Korea boost security after North warns of more attacks
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The TSA should be dismantled. It should be taken appart brick by brick and replaced by a new security agency - one that has some grasp of the concepts of hospitality, courtesy, and decorum. It is impossible to make flying 100% safe - rather, our goal should be to get the best ratio of security to inconvenience possible.
Posted in: TSA chief calls for understanding; pat-down leaves Michigan man covered in urine
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No. But he knows what ever it means he hates it.
Posted in: Liberal Dutch marijuana policy takes another hit
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This wasn't how I interperated it; rather, that you could be recieve a full rape charge for something that wasn't vaginal intercourse (say, oral for example). Sweden already has a sexual molestation charge which is seperate from rape - we know this because Assange is charged with it as well.
I support the concept of Wikileaks, if not necessarily the implimentation. We need institutions that combat the ever creeping overreach of gov't secrecy apparatus. That said, Assange has come off as an arrogant self-ritgeous ass who thinks he is some sort of martyr for truth and justice. Exposing the misdeeds of the US gov't does not entitle you you go out and force women into having sex with you.
Posted in: Sweden to issue international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
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" The Swedish rape law is broader than similar laws in many other countries, partly because it covers rape within relationships. "
" Following a revision in 2005, the threshold for what is considered coercion to a sexual act was lowered, and the definition of rape was widened to include all sexual acts, instead of only intercourse. The change also meant that someone who has sex with an underaged, unconscious, drunk, or sleeping person can be convicted of rape. "
Tim, this sounds exactly like the definition of rape here in the US. What do you find objectionable in this?
Posted in: Sweden to issue international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
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Great title.
Posted in: Liberal Dutch marijuana policy takes another hit