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Wolfpack
Let's hope President Obama's visit to Darwin will cause his brain dead economic policies evolve into something capable of reducing unemployment and a huge trillion dollar annual budget deficit.
Posted in: Obama to visit Australia's far north
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Wolfpack
Japanese have "traditionally" been open to adopting foreign things, modifying them in some way, and making them their own. If there is no turkey than why not chicken? Makes sense to me. Now, if only 7-Eleven would start selling egg nogg...
Posted in: Haruka Ayase kicks off KFC's Christmas campaign
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Wolfpack
My old ship, the USS Blue Ridge, as flagship of the US 7th Fleet is a floating platform for political and diplomatic PR. Panetta's comments suggesting future strengthening of US forces in the region is pure spin meant to assure the leadership of Japan of the US commitment to mutual security ties. American military resources will soon be severely cut due to the looming failure of the Congressional super committee negotiations next month. Japan and the US need to start planning on ways to do more with less.
Posted in: Panetta says his Asia visit signals that U.S. forces will be stronger
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Wolfpack
No, he is probably just heterosexual.
Posted in: AKB48, EXILE, Kumi Koda receive letters of appreciation from gov't for Hanoi concert
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Wolfpack
Very true, basic human nature never changes despite advances in science and our understanding of ourselves. The reptilian inner brain is still there no matter what the kumbaya peacenik types want us to believe. That said, when a nation has hundreds of smaller nukes it doesn't really matter whether or not you have some huge ones or not. There comes a point when a bomb just doesn't need to be any bigger; it just gets to the point of being ridiculous. A single bomb lethal enough to destroy a city is surely enough to deter any opposing nation or mad dictator rational enough to be deterred.
Posted in: U.S.'s biggest nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas
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Wolfpack
“The Constitution doesn’t protect tents, it protects speech and assembly,”
If this is a public park, then of course the group has a right to assemble and speak their minds. However, they are also preventing the general public from accessing the park as well. Do not the 99%+ people of the city have the right to access this common resource at some time also? The idea of "occupying" property that doesn't belong to them is the problem. Why don't they rent some property somewhere and protest there? The government has to balance the rights of all citizens and not just those that are the most vocal or militant.
I also think there is a serious issue of public safety. At some point, the weather is going to get really cold. If the government allows for tents it is basically allowing the protestors / hippies to risk their health and safety in what will become an obviously dangerous situation. There are already several reports of problems with sexual assaults in Zuccotti Park. If America actually allowed for people to be responsible for themselves then I wouldn't care on this point about the tents. However, given the litigious nature of American society I can easily see the city being sued.
Posted in: Winter woes threaten Wall Street occupiers
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Wolfpack
What has happened in the Middle East over the past ten years has been nothing less than miraculous. Every time a dictator is overthrown somewhere in the region, there is an increased desire for freedom by the people in other countries living under their own tyrant. An ideal example of the 'demonstration effect'.
Posted in: Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy
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Wolfpack
@yabits:
Why not just post your link and stop arguing about whether or not the 900 number is legit or not? Well, unless it's the International Communist Party's website then forget it.
Posted in: Occupy Tokyo
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Wolfpack
I agree. This is what happens when people accustomed to dependency see the welfare state collapse right before their eyes. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics and history knows that socialism cannot work and is doomed to fail. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst form of economics, except for all of the others.
Posted in: Occupy Tokyo
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Wolfpack
@RomeoR:
Because like most Democrats today, he hasn't learned that it was the Democrats that were the party of segregation.
Posted in: Obama uses King speech to attack obstructionism
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Wolfpack
HumanTarget:
There is no need to be so angry.... In this day in age of polarization, there has become very little difference between liberals and socialists. President Obama is a socialist, he just hides it whenever he can so as no to scare people. The history of socialism is indeed scary so I can understand why you would want to minimize the similarities. Both words are used for a manner of government that is collectivist in nature. The conversation will go no where because Liberals and Socialists believe that government can make society a utopia whereas conservatives believe that you cannot deny basic human nature. You cannot educate away the human desire for self preservation. Therefore, you work with it for the good of all. We just see the world differently.
You shouldn't throw words around like 'ignorant', it may come back and bite you too. I never said that MLK would think about today's society. What I said was that the moral power behind his movement was so powerful because of it's simple truth. I think this simple truth is best demonstrated by a picture I say of a black man back in the 1950's carrying a sign that simply said, "I am a man".
I also didn't not say that racism is dead. There are racist among all races - we all know that. However, I will say that racism on the part of government against blacks and other minorities certainly is dead. I think you would find it very difficult if not impossible to find a law at any level of government in America today that specifies that you can discriminate in favor of white men. Conversely, I can easily find laws that discriminate in favor of every demographic group imaginable except for white men. The one exception would be Asians applying for college - there is terrible discrimination against them. I'm sorry, but it makes no logical sense to use institutional racism to cure institutional racism. There is no moral authority in a sign that says, "You race had it's turn, now it's mine". It fails simple logic.
Posted in: Obama uses King speech to attack obstructionism
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Wolfpack
I'm not sure why this discussion has turned into an outlet for blaming Republicans for everything. The Democrats have been in power since President Obama took office. If he cannot get anything done then it is a failure of leadership.
The ideal that MLK stood for was for all people to be treated equally and with respect. He was so successful because he used the nations founding ideals to pursue his civil rights goals; "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... (Thomas Jefferson)". As soon as you start trying to treat people differently for any reason, then your logic fails. Where modern society got it wrong after the success of the civil rights era was to confuse civil equality with a narrow economic equality that no government can deliver without coercion. When the government decides who gets what, then there can be no equality. This is especially true in a nation that contains so many different races of people with so many different cultural backgrounds. Even relatively homogenous societies such as Japan will decline due to the massive financial burden incurred by it's huge welfare benefits.
The young Mr. King should seek to further his goals outside of the realm of government because his father already won that fight. I would like to suggest that he create his own bank, his own Wall Street, with the significant resources of those that support him and socialism in general. Ironically, there are famous billionaires that want to pay more for social programs that he could call upon. The crass claim that conservatives are exclusionary is false - as seen by the current popularity of Herman Cain among the most conservative of conservatives.
Liberals such as those at the MLK ceremony are in crisis due to the huge debt and annual deficits that America is running. They cannot change their socialist ideology even in the face of certain failure. You can take every dime of the richest 1% and it will not pay for more than a month or two of the cost for America's welfare state. The Left has finally run out of other peoples money.
Posted in: Obama uses King speech to attack obstructionism
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Wolfpack
Made in China... that pretty much sums up the Obama era. The Chinese couldn't have chosen a better leader for the free world if they had put him into power themselves. President Obama seems to diminish everything he associates himself with and he did the same with the MLK ceremony by making it an occasion to campaign for re-election.
Posted in: Obama uses King speech to attack obstructionism
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Wolfpack
I have listened to what the protestors are saying and it doesn't make sense. They seem to want someone else to make their life better for them - and that is what they are saying in a nutshell. They want the government (ie. everyone else) to payoff their college debts. Meaning, they decided to go to college, get into debt, and now don't want to be responsible for paying it off. It says a lot about the America education system when people who sign a piece of paper in which they agree to borrow money are upset by the fact that they are expected to pay it back.
The fact that there is so much government involved in everything in America life - including college loans - is the reason why Americans are in the situation they are now. I understand that young people are frustrated - I was frustrated when I graduated from college during a recession. However, I didn't get school loans and I worked more than one job at a time in order to get by and build my skills and get into a position to make a more stable life for myself. When a young person gets themselves into serious debt to go to college, that is a decision that they make because they didn't want to do it the hard way (work, save, and take longer to complete their degree).
I think it's interesting to hear the occupy wall street protestors compare themselves to the Arab Spring. The people in the Middle East simply want basic human rights. The occupy people want to be able to skip out of paying for their own decisions and crap on police cars.
Posted in: Occupy Tokyo
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Wolfpack
@Mahiru Shiratori
Do men in Japan shave their underarms now too? You would think that plucking their eyebrows and carrying around man-pursues would be enough to smooth out the modern Japanese males brutishness. It would be weird if he didn't have hair under his arms.
Oh, and congratulations Uchimura!
Posted in: Golden man
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Wolfpack
The only bipartisanship that President Obama has been able to achieve is in opposition to his second stimulus/union bailout bill. When the president had a filibuster proof majority in Congress he implemented an economic policy that has led to trillion dollar annual deficits and an economy based on structurally high unemployment, and a heavy dose of crony capitalism and anti-competitive regulations.
President Obama's stimulus bill that was not supposed to allow unemployment to rise about 8% but in fact it caused the rate to rise to over 10%. The Obama extension of tax cuts from the Bush administration brought unemployment back down to around 9%. It's not likely to help him get re-elected but at least some people have a job that they otherwise wouldn't have.
No, it's pretty clear that the GOP doesn't care about President Obama's re-distributionist economic ideology. President Obama's economic policies have failed, they will continue to fail, and in fact similar ideas used in the US in the past and in other countries have failed in nearly all cases.
Posted in: Obama blasts Republicans for blocking jobs bill
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Wolfpack
I don't understand all of the hatred towards this woman. Liberals really hate successful conservative woman because they are supposed to be oppressed by conservatives, not supported by them. What has been done to her is the same thing that is about to happen to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. Since his rise in polls among conservatives, you can count on Liberals and the media belittling him as an Uncle Tom or some other ridiculous attack.
Posted in: Sarah Palin says she will not run for president
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Wolfpack
So basically this is about politics and not true economic grievances. Why go after only conservatives when there are plenty of liberal millionaires that do not pay any more in taxes themselves? With the labor unions joining this effort this 60's style protest movement has become just another arm of the Democrat party. The problem is that the person in charge of the country at the moment is a Democrat.
Corruption is bipartisan and is manifested by government policies that do not treat all entities (individuals, companies, organizations, etc.) equally. It is what people can get away with legally and not illegally that is truly appalling. When the presidents jobs czar is the head of a huge multinational corporation that pays nothing in taxes, something is seriously wrong.
Posted in: Protesters in New York march on billionaires' homes
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Wolfpack
A really fascinating discovery. Credit the scientists for making the connection between large quakes and upper atmospheric disturbances.
Posted in: Look! Up in the sky! It's an earthquake!
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Wolfpack
This is good news. Maybe if the protestors go to a new place they might have a better chance of finding a job. Unless protesting is their job...
Posted in: Wall Street protests spread