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Wolfpack
So she could stand in front of the men of Japan looking seriously hot, moralize about being good husbands and boyfriends, then telling them to go home to take a cold shower. But don't forget to lust after her when her movie premiers next month.
Posted in: Kyoko Fukada appears at men-only preview of movie about infidelity
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Wolfpack
The West needs new leadership with vision or it could get ugly. Running back to Karl Marx at break neck speed is pure stupidity.
It would be easier if the election was moved up a year and Obama could be voted out of office this November instead of next.
Posted in: World may see 'collapse of demand': Lagarde
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Wolfpack
If confirmed, this is big news. However, I will suspend belief until it is repeated a few more times. Although he has certainly been proven wrong before (the idea of a static universe comes to mind) you don't just throw Einstein out the window without serious proof.
Posted in: Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet
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Wolfpack
Moore is nothing but an attention seeking blowhard. I seriously doubt he knows anything about the case other than what he heard on CNN and other Leftist media outlets. I will say that Moore's film 'Canadian Bacon' is hilarious.
Posted in: Filmmaker Moore demands Georgia boycott after execution
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Wolfpack
@Leopalacesux
Now that's funny!
Posted in: Man attacks neighbors with kitchen knife over insult
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Wolfpack
They can deny all they want, but there is a 99.9% chance that they did it.
Posted in: Japan says no key data lost in cyberattack; China denies responsibility
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Wolfpack
No a bad gig Nakayama! As for the coffee, I prefer UCC.
Posted in: Coffee break
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Wolfpack
If President Obama and Buffet truly believed all of this talk about dividing the country by class and envy towards the successful, then they - as successful people - would have either been sending 80%+ of their considerable wealth to the US Treasury every year or they would have been donating that much to charity. The fact that they don't tells you a lot about their motives. They simply believe in socialism as the best way to organize a society. I disagree because more than a hundred years of history has proven in many different nations and cultures that this economic philosophy doesn't work. Even in countries with a relatively homogenous culture such as Japan, socialist government is doomed to failure. The result of such failure is a lot more poverty and despair for everyone. Socialism simply improves the lives of people today at the expense of their children and grandchildren. Sure, it's a nice idea and the motivation for providing for all is sincere. However, it is a philosophy that is incompatible with human nature.
Posted in: Obama: Rich must pay fair share of deficit cuts
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Wolfpack
@globalwatcher:
I disagree with you on this because I don't think President Obama's goal is to provide everyone with an opportunity to become wealthy. What is more important to him is for minimize the number of wealthy people and maximize the number of people that make about the same in income. In other words - socializing incomes by redistribution of wealth. Also, given the incredible increase in the debt over the past three years I don't think many people can seriously believe Obama feels that reducing the national debt is an important goal.
If this were true, then the economy of the US would be growing now at a faster rate than the 7% growth rate that occurred after a similarly devastating recession in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In fact, the reverse - a double dip recession - is a real possibility due to Obama's misguided Socialist economic ideology.
Posted in: Obama to raise taxes on millionaires
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Wolfpack
So therefore this whole thing is about getting re-elected and has nothing to do with improving the economy. President Obama never plainly lays out in detail any plan so as not to be held to account by his wealth campaign contributors. He leaves the dirty work to his gophers in Congress; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Obama is interested in his idea of "fairness" and not about growing the economy for the benefit of all. As for his so called "Buffet Rule", nothing is stopping Mr. Buffet from writing a huge check to the federal government if he feels like he should be taxed more. The way to fix the tax code is not to make it more complicated by making another rule similar to the disasterous Alternative Minimum Tax (ATM) that was supposed to only hit the wealthy but over the years has now affected the middle class. The solution is to get rid of the complexity with a low flat tax for all types of income.
Obama is clueless about how capitalist economies work. He wants to have a command economy in which the government makes the decisions that should be made by businesses and millions of individuals in the marketplace (aka Solyndra). Socialism doesn't work - ask the great nation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Or sorry you can't, they went bankrupt and don't exist anymore.
Posted in: Obama to raise taxes on millionaires
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Wolfpack
Which Clinton is this referring to?
Posted in: Clinton: Women the key to economic growth
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Wolfpack
After three years of doing nothing about jobs no he is challenging Congress to do something. President Obama is a bit late - but better late then never I suppose...
Posted in: Obama calls on Congress to act on jobs bill
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Wolfpack
Let's just say that comparing a conservative politician to one of the most vile people in human history is more than just a little bit of a stretch. By the way, the evil one himself was a Socialist who had a fondness for eugenics - a scientific field that was endorsed and promoted by the Progressive movement of the time.
That being said, I think that your recounting of the silent German during the Nazi era is analogous more to the Islamist wing of the Muslim religion than to Christians. There is no Christian sect or interpretation that is endorsed by any significant number of followers that can in any way be seen as a threat to world peace commensurate to Islamic fundamentalism. There are extremists of every religion, political, and social belief, but none compare to the religion inspired terrorism that renders many Muslims silent in response to atrocities.
Although I am not religious myself, I understand that theology will always be a part of the world we live in. I can be tolerant of it because most religious people I meet are well intentioned and humble. They want to be good people and they are willing to put themselves below a greater cause than their own self interest. They are the first to admit that they often fail to live up to the high standards of their religion but are willing to try anyway. I respect that.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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Wolfpack
Why should conservatives (notice I didn't say Republicans) consider President Obama's latest plan? His idea is to repeat the failed 2009 stimulus but at roughly half the size. He is just replaying the same failed Kenysian ideas that has America on the precipice of a double dip recession but with vastly expanded annual deficits and accumulated debt. Obama is so tied to his ideology of spreading the wealth and punishing success that he is willing to drag the country into an extended economic malaise just to avoid giving Republicans any credit for an economic revival. Obama is a slow learner and incapable of adjusting his actions during a crisis.
Posted in: Obama unveils $450 billion plan to spur jobs
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Wolfpack
Growing the economy is the only way to eliminate huge annual deficits and reduce the ballooning debt under President Obama. Raising taxes does not grow the economy; if it did, Europe would be in the middle of an economic boom rather than a sovereign debt meltdown. Cutting the tax that is paid for Social Security is misguided as well because it contributes further to the coming insolvency of the program. Everything the man proposes is exactly backwards when it comes to improving the economy and the nations budget outlook. Obama has taken an economy that economists say was recovering before his stimulus plan was implemented in 2009 to where last month there was zero job growth.
Posted in: Obama unveils $450 billion plan to spur jobs
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Wolfpack
Well deserved - good luck next year Japan!
Posted in: Nadeshiko Japan earns Olympic soccer berth
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Wolfpack
More of the same that will have the same result - continued deficits and exploding debt, and an economy running headlong towards a double-dip recession. Last year he announced "Recovery Summer" and it never happened. The president has convened a joint session of Congress for the sole purpose of kicking off his re-election campaign.
Republicans and a handful of Democrats will not support Obama's doubling down on the same policies that have already failed to bring America on track to a sustainable recovery.
Wow, he has a plan? Now that is news!
Posted in: Obama unveils $450 billion plan to spur jobs
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Wolfpack
yabits:
Oh yes, just keep ignoring that cliff up ahead - it isn't really there. Thinks are going really great in Europe. No, the European Union isn't being challenged for the weak entity that it is. No, Greece isn't in a sovereign debt crisis. No, Ireland didn't nationalize it's banks thus precipitating a debt crisis. No, Spain didn't have a 20.9% unemployment rate in the second quarter of 2011. And no, the German people aren't really upset about having to bail out the rest of Europe. Then there is Italy, Portugal... things are wonderful in these countries too. America should be just like them according to some.
Keep spending, don't reform entitlements and when the national debt hits $20 trillion, shake it off and tax and spend some more. It's all good.... No matter what, some people just can't bring themselves to realize that their political beliefs are an economic and social disaster.
Posted in: Tea party bulling its way into Republican race
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globalwatcher:
Yes, but as long as the state does not endorse any particular faith or religious sect than anything else goes.
The phrase separation of church and state originates from Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Baptists of Danbury which states: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
The English at the time had a state sponsored religion. Jefferson opposed this and there has never been a state religion in the history of the country. But with equal weight to the first half of Jefferson's statement is the idea that there should be no infringement on the free exercise of religion either. When Gov. Perry or President Obama invoke the name of God, this is not the establishment of a state sponsored church; it is the free exercise of their religion. Nothing wrong with that.
I'm sorry but those in the tea party don't want you to waste your time worrying about them. They want to be left alone to chose their own path in life. They do not want to be held back by the misguided choices of others. Those in the tea party that are religious will place themselves in the hands of their God and not the government or anyone else that is intolerant towards them. Those that are not religious and not a member of the church of big government, will put their heart and efforts towards their particular civic group and with their friends, family, and country.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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Wolfpack
HumanTarget:
Re-read what I wrote and correct your statement. I did not make an assumption that atheists are less moral than those with faith. My comments were directed at the near hysterical certitude of atheists that religious people are wrong and that they are right. So in the end, the atheist is just as annoying and presumptuous as the believer.
As for Perry, he is no more a hypocrite than President Obama. Political leaders of all political persuasions since the country came into being have asked for divine guidance and blessings. I suppose that atheists as-well-as a large number of Liberals hate this American tradition and want to stop it by belittling people of faith. What is truly hypocritical are those on the political left that become pious about how tolerant they are right before slamming the religious as ignorant.
President Obama goes out of his way to make sure everyone knows he is a devout person but makes hateful and untrue statements about his political opponents nearly every time he opens his mouth. He is practically begging the country to believe him when he says that his political opponents are trying to destroy the economy to win the next election. When the roles were reversed, I remember Democrats getting very upset when whispers of the same motivation were accredited to them.
This section of the article points to the fact that Obama has simply used religion as a tool for political gain and that there are some in his party that would like him to do so again in 2012. This is in line with traditional politics in the US. However, as a Senator President Obama spent nearly two decades attending one of the most hateful churches in America. Thus I hardly think Republicans have the corner on religious hypocrisy.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology