JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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USAkuma
SushiSake3: Thanks for the news. Just to be sure, can you provide a link about the lawsuit? Palin charges RNC for her designer wardrobe, and for her stylist, and flying her family to and fro (regardless of whether they have anything to do with the event) and McCain apparently wants to sue Obama for a one-time usage to see his dying grandmother. >:-(
Posted in: Obama's grandmother dies as presidential race nears end
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USAkuma
Agreed. Rest in Peace knowing that you have succeeded in raising your grandson to become a front-runner in the race to be the president of the United States of America.
Posted in: Obama's grandmother dies as presidential race nears end
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USAkuma
Of course McCain dismisses poll numbers. He also dismisses just about everything outside of his own reality. Maybe in his mind, he imagines that 100,000 people came to his rallies too.
He's out of ideas, and he can't find anything else to say about Obama except the same old tired rhetoric. And as far as the economy goes, he keeps changing his plans from day to day. Whatever you want, he'll do it, apparently. That doesn't install confidence that he can fix anything. He had his moment in the sun with the 700 billion... make that 850 billion with pork added buyout. Pork that he said before he would fight, but didn't.
His running mate has been hit by scandal after scandal, from abusing her position in Alaska (her only experience) to charging the state for taking her kids on vacation at the state's expense. She wants to take her family on vacation, great. Pay for it out of your own pocket. Everyone else has to.
And then of course, she goes around claiming that she's just a poor hockey mom just like everyone else... except that she charges her party $150,000 for her wardrobe and hair stylist... But, hey, she can see Russia from her house...
McCain says
Right. Washington needs another person with lots of scandals, skeletons hidden in the closet and is willing to charge tax payers for her personal wardrobe while abusing her position for personal gain.
I think he needs to go back to the old-folks home, drink some warm milk and go back to sleep. McCain doesn't have a clue, and his hearing aid is off so he can't hear the clue-phone ringing.
Well, next Tuesday, as reported in the news, he can go ahead and skip his own rally as he promised. he's lost the election even though in his mind he'll always be a wiener.
Posted in: McCain dismisses poll numbers; insists he will win
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USAkuma
Let's see. Obama says he's willing to have talks with Iran, and McCain says he wants to bomb,baby,bomb Iran and supports sending cigarrettes to Iran as another way to kill them. If I was Iranian, I would say Obama seems more rational.
Meanwhile as Taikan said, according to the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and the CIA, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda support McCain because they see him continuing Bush's failed policies of attacking Iraq where Al Qaeda isn't; to the demise of the American military and the economic ruin of the country. They propose aiding him by making an attack against U.S. interests just before the election in order to help McCain get elected.
If Bin Laden likes McCain, It would seem that it would be better to vote for Obama unless you want to support terrorists like Al Qaeda.
Posted in: Iran: Obama seems more rational than McCain
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USAkuma
Sailwind said;
I guess you overslept on the part where the FBI directly investigated McCain for his role in the Keating Five. Yes, McCain was allowed to continue working despite having been close to the convicted and sentenced Charles Keating. And, of the five senators, only McCain had a close and personal relationship with Keating, accepting $112,000 dollars from Keating, and used Keating's private jet for 9 trips abroad to the Bahamas at Keating's expense.
If you want to talk about close and personal relationships with criminals, look no further than McCain.
Posted in: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud
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USAkuma
Ahh Troopergate! Thank you Sailwind for clarifying why the McCain's so eager to pursue this matter. He hopes to keep people from thinking about how his running 'play-mate' has been found guilty by a bipartisan committee of abusing her power.
So McCain will do anything to keep people from seeing Palin's problems, his own misfortunes with the economy bill and his own skeletons...
More negative adds, more ho hum, no solutions. That's McCain for you.
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USAkuma
See here! Palin has been found guilty by a court of peers (picked by a bipartisan committee) of wrong-doing. She has illegally allowed her husband to have access and influence over people in charge of the State of Alaska.
She's going around screaming to high "Doggone it" that Obama is a terrorist for having worked with Ayers to help educate children in Chicago, yet she is the one who has been shown to have done much worse herself in the form of trying to have her ex-brother-in-law fired. She's flunked the Ethics test, but wants to point fingers at Obama about the ethics of working with a man who protested the Vietnam war nearly 40 years ago.
It's obvious to me that she has no leg to stand on as far as accusing anyone of ethical concerns. She and McCain are crooked and don't deserve to be in any office, let alone, the white house.
Posted in: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
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USAkuma
The SS McCain is sinking fast. He can deny the existence of the financial iceberg all he wants, but the damage has been done. he claimed that he always fought against any pork coming across his desk, but McCain defaulted to old government policy of slathering the 700BILLION dollar bailout with pork, driving the price even higher. When asked about the pork, he shrugged and said that's just the way it is in Washington. In other words, McCain wasn't going to change that situation. He made himself a liar about his claims of fighting pork spending.
McCain's final offensive, his Waterloo as they say, is to play the patriot vs. terrorist card over and over again like those stupid soundbites found at supermarkets. The first time, it had impact. The 100th time, its just annoying. Nothing new, and now that economy is going south and causing just as much if not more damage than the 1920's stock market crash, its seems out of touch with the concerns of regular people.
McCain needs to focus on the economy, but his policies are not helping the voters, only the corporations. In his 2nd debate, he popped up his idea of buying people's mortgages, but after the debate he changed the wording to make it costlier for tax-payers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081009/pl_politico/14414
McCain has to be careful about how much he says about Obama's past because he has a lot of skeletons in the closet himself with Keating and the Iran-Contra connections. They are just as relevant and just as important to know about. They show that McCain has bad judgement about the economy, can be swayed by shady lobbyists, and is willing to work with neo-nazi extremists in order to fund terrorism.
People in Glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. Someone should teach that saying to McCain, but then again, his house is pretty-much broken now. He has little more to lose. Soon, the report on Palin will also come out on Troopergate. The ship is sinking fast.
Time to abandon ship.
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
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USAkuma
Just to thrust my two cents back into this... If you want neutral news, you should watch both CNN and FOX. CNN supports democrats, Fox only shows Republican news. Between the two, you can find some semblance of the real story.
When this whole thing started, most Republicans disliked McCain because he was considered too liberal. His voting record matched many liberal Democrats including on supporting abortion rights and gay marriage. He seems to have been nominated by way of getting liberal-minded republicans to support him as well as the unfortunate fact that republican opponents tried less hard than he did to reach ALL republicans.
When he started his campaign against Obama it was solely based off of the idea that he had experience while Obama didn't. he unfortunately got himself tied to Bush (which he didn't want) and like Hillary (who he thought he would be running against) figured that his long term experience would be enough to decide voters during a war situation. After all, he has been a soldier as well as being in the senate longer than any of the potential democratic front-runners.
Unfortunately, like Hilary, he misread what people wanted. They don't want to continue a bad war and a bad economy. People want a change, any change from the bad situation they are in.
Fast forward to Obama picking Biden. Now McCain's message of experience vs. Inexperience fell on deaf ears since Obama now has a safety-net Vice-President who has even more experience than McCain.
McCain's reaction: bypass Lieberman, the smart choice and go for Palin. No matter what his real reason might have been, the public sees this as reactionary and a shamefaced attempt to steal dissatisfied women from Hillary's campaign to his. He also changed his campaign to virtually mirror Obama's own ideals in order to muddy the waters further.
He should have stuck to his original tactics instead of mirroring Obama because it made him a wanna-be instead of the leader he claimed to be.
Finally, he has constantly said that he opposes pork spending He, along with Palin, have made that a cornerstone of their campaign. "John fights pork and vetoes any pork bills that come across his desk." Yet the 700 Bil.Bailout he also staked his campaign upon died thanks to his own republicans. The only way to get their 2/3rds vote was to slather it in pork. The world was watching this time, and news of the pork is everywhere, even here in J-Land. Now his claims of fighting pork look empty and his words even less effective.
So, all he has left is the swift-boat attacks. turn and turn again, he could have done better but he didn't. The Republican camp lock-steps to support him, but behind the lines, they must be weeping at each mistake he and Palin make. there are still a lot of poor, white people who would rather support a white president than a black one, but even they can't ignore losing their jobs and having their candidate ignore them or in the case of Michigan, abandon them.
Sure, McCain will come out cussing 'doggone its' at the debate, but the economic iceberg has already struck, and the S.S. McCain is taking on water fast. The unsinkable candidate he no longer is. It will take more than a tenuous connection to Ayers or Rezko to change opinions and more than a bull-dog with lipstick to keep him afloat. sorry hockey mom. Its back to the Troopergate hearing you will go.
Posted in: McCain pins hopes on high-stakes debate
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USAkuma
Nippon5
By your frequent reference to the definition of a terrorist, GWB is a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist.
He has single-handedly destroyed the economy(Reps want to blame Dems during Clinton's time, but Bush had 8 years to notice and didn't)
He has stomped on and ripped up the Bill of Rights/constitution with his 'Big Brother' Patriot Act Gestapo methods (Shall we mention use of torture and denying rights accorded to all from the Geneva Convention at Guantanamo).
And of course let us not forget his failed ability to win a war against a single country with no advanced weapons (or weapons of mass destruction) to speak of certainly seems to have filled the American people with terror. Note that this war has now lasted longer than World War II which started in 1939 and ended in 1945
McCain wishes he weren't sleeping together with Bush, but they're tied at the ankles; inseparable.
McCain should have been able to see that no one likes a prolonged war without clear goals or definable victories. No one likes a war in which its nearly impossible to tell who you are to defend and who you are to shoot. That is what people learned with the Vietnam war when soldiers couldn't tell if the village they were entering was filled with south Vietnamese or Northern Vietnamese insurgents. Oh yeah, McCain spent a large part of the war as a prisoner. He didn't have to worry about being told to stop advancing because of a parallel that was on some map. For him it was easy to tell friend from foe. Those in the boxes with him were friends, those keeping him a prisoner were foes (unless you count the guard who drew the christian symbol... then it would seem that McCain was making friends with the foes).
GWB saw his father defend Kuwait and repulse Saddam easily. He didn't understand what his father already knew; that Saddam was the linchpin keeping The Shiites and Sunni's from killing each other. GHWB put Saddam in place while he was working under Reagan in order to deal with the problems Carter encountered at the end of the 70's with the Ayatollah in Iran. Now he's stuck with a pile of "doggone it" and can't get rid of it. McCain thinks the best solution is to keep up the war for another 100 years without any accountability, only body-bags.
I for one am sick of that style of government and this election is my chance to change things.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
I love how the relationship between Obama and Ayers keeps growing with each posting by the right. First, its that he's pals with Ayers, now its Ayers and Dhorn. Palin's friends are going keep going "doggone it" until they can claim that Obama was the bomb maker in the 60's (at the age of 8).
But in my original post, which has been long forgotten about, I mentioned that McCain was one of the Keating 5 accused of severe corruption in 1989 for aiding Charles Keating in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association that resulted in the loss of life savings for 21,000 elderly people.
How's that for terrorism? We are having an economic meltdown and the republicans want to ask a guy who was a part of a group who destroyed the lives of so many people to be in control of the entire U.S. economy? That's just horrific.
Lets not forget that Palin and McCain's lawyers are now trying very hard to prevent the truth about Troopergate from being revealed because they know that she misused her power while Gov. The independent investigator hired by both Republicans and Democrats in the state has found something and now Palin's lawyers don't want it exposed so they will continue smear attacks to divert everyone.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
FandB said:
So by your own accounting, no matter what source or solid evidence I provide, if it is against Palin it's merely idle gossip. We used to call that "looking at things through Rose-tinted glasses." In this case, Palin-McCain colored.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
This was supposed to be in quotes in my previous post, but somehow it didn't get highlighted. This quote is from theGreatEscape not me.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
TheGreatEscape said;
These are facts, and OBama is now finished, thank goodness to bad rubbish!
So the fact that McCain was one of the Keating five isn't important at all? The U.S. suffers its worst financial breakdown ever, and Bush turns to the guy who was a part of the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal for ideas on what to do. That's like asking Ahmadinejad for advice on how to save Israel from the Palestinean mortor attacks.
As for Obama and Rev. White... I guess Palin's association with the Pentacostal church where she was supposedly cured of witchcraft by their members is OK. Or her current church's philosophy concerning Jews must be okay. Here's the quote from CNN.
Yeah, Go Palin go! sounds like she supports terrorists and their killing of Jewish people. That is if you believe that an association with a person who says bad things means that you also believe those bad things as Palin does.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
You gotta love this time of the year. "The Pot calls the kettle black" trying to hide its own black color. Its Halloween and all the skeletons are flying out of the closets.
Obama was 8 when Ayers tried to be a terrorist. If this guy was such a bad terrorist, why is the government allowing him to run around teaching university classes and be a community supporter. Its not like he's Bin Laden and can't be found or anything. As for pals? the guy held one dinner for Obama in 95.
Meanwhile McCain was one of the Keating Five when he was 58. McCain actively helped Keating with the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal that cost 21,000 elderly people to lose their life savings and 747 banks to fail.
Gee, doesn't that sound familiar to what's going on now? McCain may have been allowed to continue to serve his terms in office, but there's a lot more association between these two than there is between Ayers and Obama.
But republicans like Sarah and McCain rarely bother with worrying about reality. To them, the Economy is strong, and the 159,000 lost jobs in September aren't important.
McCain has based his campaign on his claim that he vetoes any pork that crosses his desk, yet he helped add huge amounts of pork to the $700 BILLION dollar bailout of yet another savings and loan collapse. When asked about this about face, he shrugged and said that's the way it is in Washington. Apparently, old age has allowed him to forget what he promised before, or what he's doing again.
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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USAkuma
After the Debates, I reviewed both CNN and Fox for their views. TIME/CNN admitted that both did well, giving each a rating of "B" in that neither made any major muck-ups, but neither truly outshone the other. Fox said republicans were breathing a sigh of relief that Palin didn't muck-up anything major. After her previous TV interview blunders, they were happy to see her say her lines correctly.
Personally, I agree with TIME. They both did what they needed to. Biden kept himself in check and didn't throw out any big gaffes, nor did he rise to Palin's attempts to go tit for tat. His cracked voice during the recounting of his having to raise his injured sons alone after their mom and sister died in a car wreck may have helped him connect with single parents.
On the other side, Palin kept throwing off low-brow comments and affections like winking at the camera and using "doggone it" in order to try to connect with under-educated white people. I personally found her behavior insulting and patronizing. She reminded me of a bad actor in one of the English textbook CD's I teach, trying to pretend that she's a hick when its clear she isn't. I'm surprised she didn't throw in a "Y'all come back now, y'hear?" and then spit chewing tobacco into a spittoon. But I'm sure she made her masters happy. Fox News definitely thought so.
Posted in: Who came off looking best in the Palin-Biden debate?
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USAkuma
I won't count Palin out automatically. She will try to egg Biden into making an attack that she will say (later) is domineering and sexist. Biden's also known for his gaffes. If Palin can get him to throw one of those out, she'll be able to pick up the win.
As Time.com says, Biden needs to reign himself in, while Palin needs to work to make herself look knowledgable. Wish I could watch these debates live, too...
Posted in: Biden, Palin spar over Iraq, economy in debate
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USAkuma
The difference to me is that the $700 billion WILL come from tax payers of all classes, including the very poor, and those who rely on government programs for their daily needs. Meanwhile the potential $1 trillion in lost wealth would likely only go to investors and profiteering stock corporations.
McCain put his reputation on the line saying that he was sure he could get both sides to agree to this bill, but 2/3rds of his own republicans nixed the bill. Don't look so good for all that experience he says he has let alone for his supposed ability to unite both sides for bipartisan efforts.
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers try to revise bailout plan
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USAkuma
Interesting. Seems like female otaku. Where the male otaku dive into their figurines in order to avoid social interaction, these gals dive into their dolly-dresses to avoid men and avoid having to keep up with western fashion expectations.
Actually met one of these girls before, though I thought she was just being a goth-girl. Very socially inept. The Japanese staff shook their heads, but I found that she was just very shy.
Posted in: Tokyo's Lolita subculture thumbs nose at men
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USAkuma
Agree with Buddha4brains. McCain's using a lot of "What If's" to point out all the bad possible endings.
Anyone can do that. We could say "If Senator McCain is elected to office, he will make yet another gaffe which will cause Iran and China to start nuclear wars to end all of existence." How's that? Just as meaningless and just as dire as McCain's "If Obama gets his way,....we'd lose everything." speech.
Posted in: McCain ridicules Obama over Iraq policy