JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Wolfpack
Takshi89:
Except that Democrats are currently in total charge in Washington and that hasn't slowed down the "war machine" as you call it at all. There are just as many American soldiers fighting in the middle east now as when Bush was in office. Guantonamo Bay is still in business.
Obama will average over a trillion dollars in 'annual' budget deficits for each of his four years in office - three times more than Bush spent in eight years while contending with two wars, 9/11 and the resulting economic crisis, the Katrina mess, and Barney Frank's housing bust. Yes, the economy was in shambles when he took office but Bush took a huge chunk of the debt for the crisis on his balance sheet for TARP. Obama's stimulus program has been a bust. Other nations have been seeking to fix their debt problems while Obama has ignored them and kept spending - with the Fed printing money like a banana republic.
Who will buy America's debt in the future? That's a good question... at some point, other nations and investors will find that the devalued dollar isn't much of an investment. And that - as Obama's mentor Jerimiah Wright once said - is when the chickens will come home to roost. Scary times...
Posted in: G-20 refuses to back U.S. push on China's currency
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Wolfpack
Yes, let's leave the courts out of it. The country has been getting incrementally liberal with regards to moral issues for the past 50 years - with the resulting social wreckage apparent to all. However, should the policy be repealed, then heterosexuals should be given equal treatment and be allowed separate personal space from those that are openly gay/lesbian just as women and men are. Currently, men and women are kept separate in billeting, showers, etc. The same should be the case for heterosexuals and homosexuals to the greatest extent possible. The bottom line is that men and women are kept separate due to sexual attraction. Most woman wouldn't want to be forced to shower with a man anymore than most heterosexuals would want to be forced to shower with a homosexual. Yes, there are plenty of heterosexuals who would love to be able to have coed bed rooms and wash rooms, but most everyone can agree that there is good reason to keep a separation. It's best for military cohesion and just plain common decency.
That statement doesn't make much sense at all. Most of one's time in the military isn't spent shooting at the enemy. It's going through the routine things like guard duty, training, etc. Let's apply solutions for those problems and not to this non-issue.
Posted in: U.S. Supreme Court allows gay military ban for now
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Wolfpack
Suu Kyi believes in freedom for all of the people of Burma. Liberals aren't known for supporting an individuals right to be free from control by their government. Conservatives and Libertarians - generally - have a greater track record in supporting those seeking freedom for themselves and not just the replacement of an authoratarian dictator with an authoritarian socialist (ie Chavez). However, all can agree that this is great for her and the people who believe in her, and is symbolically a great thing for oppressed people all over the world.
Posted in: Myanmar's Suu Kyi freed from house arrest
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Wolfpack
President Obama is an economic imbecile. He is uniting the world against America and is lending credance to China's mercantilist trade policies. The US has the worlds highest corporate tax rate - therefore, the US is not competitive with nations that already have a labor cost advantage given the dominance of unions in the US manufacturing sector. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that US economic policy is a huge hinderance to American industry. Obama cannot see past his narrow liberal ideology which sees American business as somehow evil. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is through he roof, the yearly budget deficit is terrifyingly high, and the ruling Democrats haven't a clue that their policies are darkening America's future. Everyone can see that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid don't know what they are doing. Of course the world isn't going to back their economic policies.
Posted in: G-20 refuses to back U.S. push on China's currency
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Wolfpack
It was a "shellacking"! One member of the Obama Poliburo - Nancy Pelosi - has been deposed. That's change American's can believe in! In two years, the socialist in chief himself - President Obama - will be sent off to an early retirement. Hopefully, this marks the beginning of the end of America's experiment in European style socialism.
With divided government and a ever more ideologically narrow Democrat party, little will get done over the next two years. President Obama missed his chance to shove through cap and tax, card check, and other highly controversial legislation while he had a fillabuster proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House. However, I just hope for the future of the country that they can agree to slash spending now before it's too late to save America's financial health.
Posted in: Obama, GOP talk compromise, conflict
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Wolfpack
It is pretty much a foregone conclusion that Republicans will take the House. The only suspense tonight will be how many Senate seats they pickup. Pennsylvania will be an early indication as to their chances of getting close to the 10 seats they need to take control. No Pennsylvania, no Senate majority. I'm guessing somewhere around 48 to 50.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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Wolfpack
Thanks for the corrections yabits - getting ahead of myself.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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Wolfpack
Correction - Coates pickup is in Indiana. Senator-elect Paul is replacing an Republican incumbent.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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Wolfpack
Two senate pickups early on for Republicans - Coates in Ohio and Paul in Kentucky.
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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Wolfpack
President Obama will be repudiated by the American people in this election. He has been proven to be the left wing socialist that many suspected him to be. He has run huge budget deficits with no paralell in human history. He is divisive using his Justice Department to intervene to protect racist Black Panthers threatening whites at the polls. He calls his political opponents "enemies" as if other Americans that don't think the way he does are traitors. If his policies were right the American people wouldn't be threatening his massive majorities in the Congress. They are likely to throw his fellow Lefty Representative Pelosi out of her House Speakership and possibly even throwing Senator Reid - the Majority leader of the Senate out of office altogether.
This isn't going to be an endorsement of Republicans either - both parties are on notice. After tonight, it will be up to President Obama to get off the Left fringe and offer some common sense solutions to America's problems other than more massive spending and job killing tax increases. America cannot have any more $1 trillion deficits. It's time to promote growth in the private sector - the only way to have any chance of getting out of debt.
Posted in: GOP upbeat, Democrats brace for losses in election
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Wolfpack
Hooters Japan - I love it! I'll be there the next time I visit Tokyo!
Posted in: Girls, girls, girls
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Wolfpack
Kana is good - kanji is the problem. The Koreans did away with kanji and they are much better off for it. Japan should do the same. Why force people to learn 2,000 kanji imposed from China? A huge waste of time and energy.
Posted in: Too much katakana contributing to Japan's malaise
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Wolfpack
Just confirmation that both the US and Mexico should be cooperating in building a barrier to control the out of control boarder between the two countries. There is no way to control the drug and human smuggling related crime without control of the boarder. Political correctness and left wing politics kills!
Posted in: Beheadings, hangings plague Tijuana amid festival
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Wolfpack
It has taken Liberals 40 years to finally figure that out! States and the Federal government have been ramping up spending for decades and as a result academic acheivement has actually declined in the US. Liberals are more interested in getting taxpayer money to teachers unions so that it can be recycled back to the Democrat party in the form of campaign and in-kind contributions. They are more interested in using schools as a means to propagandize the philosophy of statism, hyper-sensitivity to race, eco-militancy and other looney ideas that have nothing to do with reading, writing, and math. The students themselves are mere props.
Posted in: Obama: Money alone cannot solve U.S. school problems
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Wolfpack
The Chinese aren't that tacky...
Posted in: Ready for a spin
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Wolfpack
She must like the orange jumpsuits and the food.
Posted in: If freed from jail, Lohan still shackled by order
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Wolfpack
I agree that the American people do not have a clear understanding of exactly who they are at war with because of political correctness. It isn't Islam - it is Islamists that are the enemy of free countries. There is a difference. Mainstream Islam has been cowed by their extremist wing and does not stand up and denounce them. Instead, the 'moderates' denounce those in the West that are attempting to defend themselves more loudly than they do the Islamists who have highjacked their religion for political purposes.
Yes, he is asking Americans to be tolerant of Muslims - which I also agree with. He seems to be inordinately concerned with the feelings of Muslims and is not all that concerned with his fellow countrymen. A perfect example of this was his public call for the Florida pastor to not burn the Koran yet he refuses to ask the Iman behind the Ground Zero Mosque to not build it on such a sensitive site. They both have a right to do what they state that they want to do, but Obama only denounces the non-Muslim. Why? The Iman also made a veiled threat on CNN about the consequences of moving the mosque from the intended site. The Florida pastor did not make threats - he just wanted to express himself non-violently. In the end, the pastor did not burn a Koran.
The attack on the World Trade Center was motivated by extremists Islamic views and a majority of Americans feel that erecting a mosque there is a provacation; just as burning a Koran is considered a provacation. You can not sever the tie between Islamic terrorists from Islam - that is the ideology behind their actions.
The ceremonies marking the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is still an emotional issue for most Americans and Obama is not on the same wavelength with the American people about it.
Posted in: Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow
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Wolfpack
I wish the President would ask Muslims to be tolerent as well - could he ask them just once - just once? He keeps sucking up to Islam and they just keep shouting "death to America" at him.
True - America is at war with Islamists.
Posted in: Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow
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Wolfpack
You may think Pastor Jones is crazy but do you seriously draw an equivalency between burning the Koran and the Taliban? The Taliban has - and would like to again - impose sharia law on the people of Afghanistan. That means beating women who don't cover their entire bodies and killing the victim of a rape as opposed to the perpetrator of the crime. And that's only the tip of the violent iceberg. Pastor Jones just suggested that he wants to burn a Koran in protest; this is the same type of act that Liberals celebrate if it were about the burning of an American flag. I haven't heard that Jones has any intention of being violent.
On this point I agree. There are supposed to be a great many so called 'moderate Muslims' but they are practically invisible. Do they take the Koran literally? No one really knows because they don't speak up about that and so many other things that the Taliban and Al Queda does on their religions behalf.
Posted in: Florida pastor cancels plan to burn Qurans on 9/11
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Wolfpack
Muslims around the world were dancing in the streets on Setpember 11th, 2001. Why should any American be all that upset about burning some paper? This is truly ridiculous! Depite what General Pretreus says, I hardly think that burning a Koran will make Muslims hate America any more than they already do. Look what has been going on in the Middle East already and there has only been "talk" about burning a Koran.
This is another example of how Islamist's are causing those in the West to cower in fear of what the terrorists amoung them might do. Where are the moderate Muslims of the world that we always hear about? There are a few people in Florida that are threatening to burn a book; it's not like they are threatening to burn Muslims? Muslims need to be more tolerant of others and not be so threatening over a symbolic act that does no physical harm to anyone.
Posted in: Florida pastor cancels plan to burn Qurans on 9/11