JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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WhiteHawk
SushiSake3:
Have you seen the deficit projections for the Obama/Pelosi spending?!? Their future has already been sold off!
Who is polluting? Other countries, which get exemptions from global environmental initiatives because they are "developing" nations, are polluting (and it's real pollution, not carbon dioxide), but instead of holding them accountable, Western civilization is expected to make up for them. How short-sighted and naive is that? VERY!
Everybody. That's why we have such things in abundance, and provide them to other countries. You make it sound like the world is crashing down on us, when it's actually getting better all the time. But that's not good enough for some people, so now that real pollution problems like dirty rivers and acid rain have been tackled, now they're making up new "threats", like carbon dioxide (which plants need to breathe).
The delicious irony is that the building of solar panel farms in the American southwest has been halted by... environmentalists. It seems they want an "impact study". So yes, they claim to want alternative energy, but only if it can be done without affecting anything, anywhere. Which is not possible, of course. And do I need to remind you about Sen. Kennedy blocking the construction of a wind farm in his favorite boating area? Everybody wants to save the planet, they just don't want to do what even they say needs to be done.
It would be have to be more than profitable to make up for the cost-of-living increases all Americans (and those who buy our products) will see because of Obama's "energy" bills.
Palin wants more drilling in Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia? I'd like to see you prove that one! No, she wants more drilling here, which would produce more jobs here (oil doesn't just magically jump out of the ground and into your car, y'know), and provide a more economical and efficient source of energy than "green" solutions.
Take that darling of the environmental crowd, the Toyota Prius. Do you know what's involved in securing and producing the nickel for the batteries in a Prius? The worldwide environmental footprint would astound you. It is such that even if it used no gas (petrol) at all, it would still have a greater enivonmental impact than the production and lifetime of use of a standard SUV.
Then how come the only boost McCain got in the polls was when he picked her?
Who said she was good enough to counter all the glowing press (even SNL did a skit about it) Obama received in spite of the fact that he had nothing of substance to offer, and having her two interviews with Obama supporters edited out of context? That rookie senator, an even more empty suit than John Edwards, was held up in an unprecedented display of media bias so blatant, so shameless, that even MSNBC anchors had to comment and laugh about themselves on the air. Who said she was good enough to overcome that? Who?
Helter Skelter:
Some Leftists do, just not the ones posting here:
The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.
"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.
Link: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance
SushiSake3:
Yet, those same sectors are seeing jobs outsourced or farmed out to H1B's. Oops.
That's all the GOP's fault? Funny, it's been documented that the housing market bubble started with the Community Reinvestment Act, was destabilized by Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, and congress was held by the Democrats in 2007. But it's all the GOP's fault, eh? Wow, they wield more power than I thought...
Why do you keep posting (unprovoked, I might add) about Sarah Palin? Is Ann Coulter right, that she's like the ex-girlfriend you can't stop obsessing over?
You say that like they're something wrong with it.
smithinjapan:
Like most Americans, I don't watch Couric. And since Palin has done dozens - if not hundreds - of other interviews by people who are more capable and professional than Couric, I'd rather watch them.
I'm flattered. But really, he's just stating the obvious.
Where can one find the stats?
Wood stove in the winter, with the wood coming from my family's 40-acre farm. I cut it and split it myself.
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WhiteHawk
JoeBigs:
When did that happen?
Some people can't finish a sentence when the teleprompter is turned off. Who is like that? Oh yeah, our current president. LOL
Yes, Hillary's credentials look good on paper. I thought she was a terrible First Lady, and I wasn't impressed by her time as a senator, but I'll have to admit she hasn't been half bad as a Secretary of State.
Not necessarily. Ill-informed, perhaps.
It's what all Democrats do. It's called Wealth Redistribution, and they're not exactly shy about it.
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WhiteHawk
"subsidized SUVs"? Where's mine?
And yes, raising the prices of existing sources of energy soley to justify expensive and inefficient "green" sources of energy will be damaging to the economy. How does raising the cost of doing business or having a home help the economy?
Of course, we can always buy oil from the Russians, who won't use as clean or efficient technologies or equipment to extract the oil as we would have.
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smithinjapan:
I trusted Cheney more than I trusted Pelosi or Reid. Does that work for you?
Yes. Cheney was already where he wanted to be. He had no aspirations of climbing the ladder any higher, or running for any other office. If he is guilty of keeping the program (which never got off the ground) from Congress, I expect his intentions were to keep sensitive information from being leaked to the media. I don't trust Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, or Leahy to not leak such sensitive information if there was political gain to be had, and if I were Cheney, I wouldn't trust them either.
adaydream:
No kidding, really? ;D Gee, I thought you'd wait for the investigation to at least start...
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WhiteHawk
As usual, the Leftists are attacking their ex-girlfriend personally, since they can't prove her wrong on the issue.
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WhiteHawk
cleo:
Many of the people who want to carry handguns are single women who do not want to be raped, and women going through rough divorces. See if you can spot the difference in these two news stories about women, their ex-husbands, and restraining orders: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528300,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528072,00.html?sPage=fnc/us/crime
If you fear such women and their guns, your fears are unfounded and irrational.
smithinjapan:
..and she lied about Catholics and abortion, she lied about the previous adminstration not warning congress about potential problems with the economy, she lied about leading a more transparent congress... And she's a class-warfare elitist who favors punitive taxation and unchecked spending of other people's money. Shall I go on?
You mean the ethics complaints that she was cleared on?
What hypocrisy, and which lies? C'mon man, be specific.
The edited ones she did with Democrat members of the media, or the unedited ones she did with Republican (or at least not blatant Democrat) members of the media? She did more than two interviews, not that you would know it by listening to Leftists.
Yeah, all the money she's out for defending herself from all of those baseless ethics complaints filed by Obama campaigners and people who don't even know why they hate her. As for her resigning early, the only reason the Left hates her for that is because she didn't continue to be a sitting duck for all of their baseless ethics complaints and media obsession. Now she's a moving target. Ann Coulter, not one of my favorite pundits, had a great column recently about how Leftists treat Palin as an ex-girlfriend they still obsess over. Funny stuff, yet very accurate.
Again, what wrongdoings? As for the media attention, how much do you know about Palin's children? By contrast, do you even know the name of Biden's daughter? How about her drug use? No? Fancy that.
Again, specifics and reference sources, please.
Do you want my list of reasons alphabetically, or arranged by issue?
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WhiteHawk
TheQuestion, thanks for the info.
zurcronium:
ILLEGAL immigration. Why do you Leftists always leave out the word "illegal"? Oh yeah, because the whole truth doesn't fit your agenda.
And guess what? Illegal aliens come here from all over the world, not just where people have different skin tones. But that doesn't fit your agenda either, so you leave that out too.
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WhiteHawk
smithinjapan:
Of course I don't think they're AQ spies. Where on Earth did you get that idea?
Allegedly. Again, the investigation hasn't even started yet...
Like the AQ spies comment, you're trying to put words in my mouth (post) again. I never said Cheney never should have been trusted, I just don't trust the political partisanship and wanton hunger for power of those (Pelosi, Reid) who would be the oversight.
Actually, Biden offers the rare window of transparency that Obama promised but has never delivered. Granted, it only occurs when Biden wanders off the script, but still...
So you're okay with Biden as VP, eh? Okay, I'll remember that, and hold you to it.
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WhiteHawk
Thank you sailwind.
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WhiteHawk
spinning
Not yet used to typing on this new laptop.
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WhiteHawk
zurcronium, you've spping and twisting even harder than yabits. It's entertaining, but less even accurate than Al Franken.
It's true though, the Democrats are guaranteed to have 60 votes. So much for all that bipartisanship they promised.
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WhiteHawk
Someone with an unfounded and/or irrational fear of weapons, including handguns.
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WhiteHawk
Pelosi? Reid? Can you honestly tell me you trust them?
And you're okay with Joe Biden? Somehow I doubt that, seeing how hard libs/leftists try to pretend he doesn't exist.
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WhiteHawk
I don't hate oversight, as long as those doing the oversight can be trusted.
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WhiteHawk
sabiwabi:
Eh? When did that happen?
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TheQuestion:
I'm not familiar with her rulings in such cases. Would you mind explaining?
Also, I'm not totally against her and I know we're not going to get anyone as far to the right as me from this administration, but I would like to see someone who's a bit less of a lightning rod with their statements.
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WhiteHawk
We had lots of snipers in Iraq. Not just military, but from the CIA, FBI, and other law enforcement. What did they do? What they always do, take out assigned targets, often potential suicide bombers before they could detonate their explosives. This was widely reported in the press.
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WhiteHawk
grafton:
The true problem is that Joe Biden IS seen as normal. Though that's not necessarily exclusive to American politics. Each country has its own Bidens, Pelosis, Reids, Byrds, Kennedys and other assorted dangers.
It's a funny thing: The people who hate Palin the most can't give you a clear reason why they hate her at all. They'll ridicule her, call her names, vilify her children, etc., but they can't point at anything more substantive than their perception of her. Judging by the level of their curious obsession and hatred, you would think she drove an Oldsmobile into a body of water and let a young woman drown while Palin walked up and down the road trying to think of a way to salvage her political career. Or that she had been a Grand Beagle (or whatever) in the Ku Klux Klan. But no, she's done none of those things, and what she's been accused of by the people who hate her (Troopergate, clubbing baby seals, hunting moose from helicopters, 14 post-presidential-election ethics complaints), she was cleared on.
The only reasons I can think of are: 1) She's different from the "cultured" elites, in that she's capable of doing more than run for office and read from teleprompters, 2) She's a woman who doesn't hate men, and isn't rumored to be a lesbian, 3) She didn't get her political office as payment for tolerating her husband's repeated dalliances, 4) She isn't a knee-jerk hoplophobe, 5) People who work for a living can relate to her, 6) She doesn't promise potential voters piles of other people's money.
And really, such reasons tell you more about the people who hate Palin. But I've seen the same hatred for blacks, hispanics, and other women who dared to not reflexively join the herd and instead became Republicans.
Michelle Malkin, who has never used a racist or sexist slur during her career, has been the target of many, many racist and sexist slurs from the "tolerant, cultured, enlightened, open-minded" Left. And when you mention that, the first (and typically only) reaction or defense you get from a Leftist is "she deserves it because she's a big meanie". The treatment of Palin isn't very different.
Again, it tells you more about their critics, and what it tells you is disturbing.
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WhiteHawk
No, I admit that I should have clarified my 7:51 comment so as to avoid misinterpretation (accidental or intentional) by anyone reading it.
The thought actually occured to me as I was typing the original comment that I should be more spefic, but I thought "Nah, anybody familiar with the controversies surrounding Sotomayor will know what I'm referring to." Silly me, I should have remembered that there are always those who will try to twist anything said by someone who doesn't agree with them. In the future, I will try to leave you less room to spin and twist my posts.
You should check to see if any of your local movie theaters need a projectionist.
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WhiteHawk
yabits:
More like you're still deflecting, as your knowledge of Palin won't stand up to inspection. Oh, and your laughter was... deflated. Re-check the thread.
As I said, better luck next time.
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