Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Wolfpack

    I wish I could stroll down to Ginza and check out this huge poster of Sawajiri for a good while. Too bad I'm not in Japan now...

    Posted in: Larger-than-life Erika Sawajiri returns

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    Wolfpack

    In actuality, the sides battling it out are the slightly moderate "blue dog" Democrats and the arch-Liberal Pelosi wing of the Democrat party. The Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House. Pelosi is going to do whatever it takes to beat the blue dogs up until she gets the 50% plus one that she needs to foist this budget buster on the American people. Like most Americans, the Republicans - even Liberals like Snow and Collins - are all against this health care scheme because they know it will destroy any hopes of the nation from getting it's fiscal affairs in order.

    There has never been this level of partisanship and pure thugerly on such a hugely imporant domestic policy that will literally touch the lives of every citizen. The only thing that can be considered bipartisan about ObamaCare is the bipartisan opposition to it.

    I just hope there are enough blue dogs with the courage to stand up to Peloi and Obama's bullying and vote their conscience. The only way that is policy can pass is by subterfuge - and Obama and Pelosi would never let something like the Constitution stand in the way of their ideological extremism.

    Posted in: All sides playing hardball on U.S. health care bill

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    Wolfpack

    Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.

    If bin Laden were to be captured no one can predict what the circumstances would be. This isn't even a serious answer. Holder only makes ridiculous statements like this to avoid answering questions directly. He doesn't want to make an honest and straight forward answer to the very legitimate question as to how bin Laden would be handled if captured. The reason he won't provide an answer is because he doesn't have one. President Obama and Holder are just making things up as they go along hoping that their appeasement of America's bitter enemies will not damage them politically. They do not deal in reality but in their nether world of ideological idealism. Yet another amateurish performance by Obama's administration.

    Posted in: U.S. official: Bin Laden will never face trial in U.S.

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    Wolfpack

    I must admit that I love go-hon (five) toe socks. I bought some the last time I visited Japan and my mother-in-law sent me a few more pair a couple of months back ("free size" for big footed foreigners). You just can't find them for adults in my country; which is probably why I don't wear them when I go to the gym.

    Oh, and it was pretty nice of the guy to pick up some socks for Kendrick knowing that she had been looking for some.

    Posted in: Up in the Air

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    Wolfpack

    GJDailleult says:

    I'll say it more simply then. The idea that man-made climate change is NOT happening may be correct, but it is NOT provable. That is undeniable.

    Molenir says:

    Thank you for coming around to my point of view. You've just admitted the problem with the climate change hysteria. The simple fact that they can't link man caused CO2 to global warming. As you said, its undeniable.

    Just as a matter of logic, Molenir is completely correct. GJDailleult - the attempt to link human action and CO2 levels to warming has not succeeded because "correlation does not prove causation." It does not make much sense to make economic and public policy decisions based upon mere correlations. For example, just because I wake up just before the sun rises everyday doesn't prove that by waking up, I cause the sun to rise.

    At this point, those that believe in man-made global warming do so based upon faith. Even leading evionmental scientists are among the faithful and have gone so far as to seek only to prove their hypothesis correct, and are not open minded enough to accept evidence proving it to be false. This belief is so fervent that non-believers are branded heretics; or in the words of the faithful, "deniers."

    Posted in: World's top scientists to review climate panel

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    Wolfpack

    LostInNagoya says:

    As I said some posts before, I advise people like you Molenir and Wolfpack, to stick your heads out of your small, tiny, English world. Go to other coutries, learn other languages, so you will see what really lays beyond those political reports that are written with the purpose of attacking Al Gore (call it envy!) instead of dealing with what is happening around us. You call us hysterics, I call you blind.

    How can you assume that people who simply disagree with you have not traveled and lived in different countries (non-English speaking) and have not learned other languages? Isn't that a pretty arrogant statement on your part? I have traveled a great deal and speak a foreign language (although not as well as I would like to). What is blind is to ignore different scientific evidence and viewpoints; which is why the real "deniers" are Al Gore and those who follow him so blindly that they are unable to objectively view the scandalous state of current climate science.

    Man caused global warming theory is currently undergoing a serious re-thinking due to the very unscientific and politically motivated actions of it's leading proponents. Al Gore has made so many baseless assertions on the "science" that he now looks silly. Gore refuses to even debate people who disagree with him about AGW theory. This simply demonstrates that he is unable to make a factual defense of it. Those that attack skeptics do so based on closed mindedness and ideological fervor. Open your mind, if the science is settled, why so much bullying and lack of sientific rigor on the part of Phil Jones, Michael Mann, the IPCC's Rajendra Pachauri, and so many others?

    Posted in: World's top scientists to review climate panel

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    Wolfpack

    I can't tell how many times I've heard people say how nice Umemiya's eyebrows are - until now I never really believe them...

    Posted in: Anna Umemiya chosen as celebrity with best eyebrows

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    Wolfpack

    After all of the recent evidence that global warming is a fraud perpetrated by ideologically motivated and politicized "scientists", isn't it evident that the real deniers are Al Gore's statist minions. Phil Jones, one of the lead quasi-scientists espousing anthropological global warming, recently admitted that there has been "no statistically significant" global warming over the last 15 years (see his BBC interview). Despite Michael Mann's famous "hockey-stick" graph which basically won Al Gore a Nobel Prize, Jones admitted that warming during medieval times may have been greater than any recent warming - as if knowledge of Vikings farming in Greenland is a recent development.

    There is no consensus on global warming. However, there is an emerging consensus that a cabal of leading world scientists have stupidly risked their reputations by pushing a political agenda and ignoring scientific principles by destroying data and bullying other scientists and scientific journals in order to make it appear that their is a consensus supporting man made global warming. This has to be the biggest scientific scandal since Eugenics.

    Posted in: World's top scientists to review climate panel

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    Wolfpack

    I didn't see the Academy Awards myself but I heard that the best director - Kathryn Bigelow - actually said something positive about her own countries military in her acceptance speech. I'm curious if she was able to get out of the building without getting her teeth knocked out by an enraged mob of arch-Liberal Hollywood actors?

    Posted in: 'Hurt Locker' wins Best Picture, 5 other prizes; Bridges, Bullock, Mo'Nique, Waltz get Oscars

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    Wolfpack

    ObamaCare looks to be dead. President Obama and the Democrat leaders just can't stop dragging this pathetic failure of theirs out. In the end, House Democrats will not trust that Senate Dems will be able to fix it after they are suckered into voting for a bill they hate. Let's move on to Jobs Jobs Jobs!

    Posted in: 3 Democrats unsure about changing votes for health care

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    Wolfpack

    Out of the ordinary relationahips like that of Takahashi and Mifune can often be difficult to understand for those people that are not in it. Her parents decision to allow her to marry at such a young age to a man much older than her has proven to be correct. I'm sure that the Mifune is well aware of all of the negative issues involved with being married to man so much older than her. She will likely live a pretty long time after him. But they are happy and that's all that matters now.

    Posted in: Takahashi's bond with wife 24 years younger is stronger than ever

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    Wolfpack

    HeyLars:

    The rich guy will live. Half a country should be enough for any man.

    What gives you the right to say how much is enough for any person? Each person should be allowed to decide that for themselves. It's called freedom. What if someone in power were to decide that you deserve much less than what you believe you should be allowed to have? What you end up with is a country where the vast majority of the people live in poverty and a small number of government elites enjoy the priviledges that power provides them. Any decision about how much wealth any one person can have will always be subjective and different for each person.

    One more thing to think about is that health care costs less if problems are detected early.

    This isn't necessarily true although I do agree that it is a good idea to get regular checkups. The problem with this is that to test everyone for any and all of the most expensive deseases costs a great deal and studies have shown them to be more expensive than treating those much fewer number of people that actually get the desease. It would be better for those people without health coverage to give up cablevision, iPods, cell phones, and all of the other "can't live without items" of modern life and buy some health coverage so they can get preventative care. However, people are free to make their own choices and many choose unwisely. The government should only be concerned with the 10 million or so that are truly poor and cannot afford health care.

    Its either that or give hospitals the right to refuse treatement, and I don't think you want that if you find yourself robbed of all your ID and shot and the hospital says "Well, we don't know if he can pay so let him die!".

    It is illegal in the US for any hospital to deny life saving care to any person regardless of their ability to pay. Hospitals spend a great deal of money providing free health care.

    Posted in: Obama urges Democrats to seize moment on health care

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    Wolfpack

    Sushi:

    Too right. Conservatives in general are absolutely PETRIFIED of government control, it's almost laughable.

    I got news for you Sushi - the Founding Fathers feared government and that is why America exists. The Consitution is based on negative rights - things the government cannot do. Whenever the government has the power to give you something, it has the power to take it away as well. They are rioting in Greece and Spain now because the people became dependent upon their government and now that the government cannot afford generous benefits anymore, they are necessarily attempting to scale them back. Americans today are becoming aware of the false security of big brother and have rejected ObamaCare.

    Try as they might, the Democrats are tilting at windmills by continuously pushing their ideological health care plan. It was supposed to be Jobs Job Jobs! But no, it's still health care. It's over, give up on this stupidity and focus on the economy - that's what the American people want. ObamaCare is dead.

    Posted in: Obama urges Democrats to seize moment on health care

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    Wolfpack

    It's amazing how the country that creates the most wealth in the global economy cannot implement a universal healthcare system.

    Most of the rest of the developed world can and has.

    Yes, and those countries are beginning to go bankrupt. Seen the riots in Greece lately? Is Spain, Italy, and Portugal all that far behind the Greeks? Oh, and the Germans and the Frensh aren't too happy either - they are being asked to bail out these profligate spenders.

    America may be capable of creating a great deal of wealth but it is even more capable of spending it's wealth so that the government is currently in debt to the tune of about $12 trillion! Taxes will have to be raised greatly just to pay for the interest - let alone starting up any new huge social programs like a socialized health care system. Can't you Liberals get real - the country is broke! It is just madness to even consider passing ObamaCare at a time like this.

    I suggest that President Obama and the Liberals in Congress "seize the moment" and reform Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid before we end up begging the Chi-Com's for our own bailout.

    Posted in: Obama urges Democrats to seize moment on health care

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    Wolfpack

    What, no one is slamming the US for continuing the mass murder of innocent Iraqi civilians? Oh that's right - the US President now is a Liberal... well, at least they get to vote. Heck, most American's used to think that was worth dying for.

    Posted in: Iraq early voting shattered by deadly blasts

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    Wolfpack

    yabits:

    And the Republicans have no feasible plan to address that whatsoever.

    You are exactly right and that is why I am no longer a registered Republican. At least Conservatives want to keep the government from taking on more budgetary obligations. ObamaCare will compete for funds with Social Security and other government social programs that have fixed and built-in cost increases from one year to the next.

    At least President Bush attempted to address a serious federal entitlement issue that is unsustainable. Democrats refused even to engage in the debate or put forth their own ideas - talk about the party of 'No'.

    If Democrats want to raise huge amounts in taxes for anything, it should be to pay for the programs we already have and not to create a new one.

    Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit

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    Wolfpack

    adaydream:

    Translation: Let's have more and more poor people die off. Translation: Death Panels. Are you deserving to live a long life or are you just fodder for the cemetery? Thanks Wolfpack. I appreciate your insight on the health care issue. < :-)

    It's a nice sentiment to say that you want the government to safeguard everyones life by spending money that we don't have but it's just not sustainable. Once Dems force everyone into a government system that the government cannot continue to fund due to huge budget defificts, there will be more than just 15 million poor Americans that cannot afford health insurance. There will be 300 million Americans in a health care system that cannot pay for anyones health care.

    The government should look to assist those people that are simply too poor to afford health insurance and not force everyone into a system that the American people do not want (see Liberal columnist David Broders analysis of the publics view of the debate: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/28/andnowtothevoters_104589.html)

    Government run health care will become another huge government program just like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that will swallow up the vast majority of the federal budget forcing government to either continue to borrow more money or cut other important priorities. At some point, the government will not be able to continue borrowing from the Chinese and will have to face up to it's fiscal situation. Putting that day of reckoning only makes it harder later on. President Obama and the majority of Democrats are socialist ideologues that are blind to economic and fiscal reality.

    By the way, your arguments will carry more weight if you were to actually address the opposing viewpoint (ie. the unsustainability of government spending) instead of simply saying people against government run health care want other people to die.

    Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit

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    Wolfpack

    adaydream:

    Wolfpack, apparently you haven't read my posts. I've advocated higher taxes for a long time. We got the bush tax breaks and bush's wars to pay for. I've never heard a single republican advocate raising taxes to pay what we're indebted for.

    No, I don't try to read every post you have written on all political topics here on JT. It's fine that you and Liberals want higher taxes and it's fine that I and other Conservatives want less taxation. But regardless of how the US has gotten into such a financial mess the reality of today is that there is no money for the programs we have now and the huge yearly deficits and the cumulative debts that have been incurred. Add to that the financially unsupported future obligations that are in excess of $50 trillion it becomes clear that government spending and/or tax cutting has reached the point of insanity. By the way, a whole bunch of Democrats voted for the wars - even the so-called good war.

    To even consider adding another huge government financial obligation at a time like this is just crazy. How long can a nation deficit spend before the bottom falls out as is occurring in some places in Europe?

    You republicans work under the cheney deficit reasoning ("Deficits don't matter") until it's the democrats running the country. Then it's our fault.

    I am no longer a Republican but I remain a Conservative (though an independent one). There is a certain level of deficit and debt that can be sustained - what we have now is impossible to sustain. Do you realize that? But it isn't just the deficits/debt, when the government promises more than any reasonable amount of taxation can support, then something has to change. Look at Greece now, the government is attempting to impose austerity on a population accustomed to generous social programs - like health care - and the country is beginning to riot against itself.

    Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites. < :-)

    And Democrats aren't? Democrats promised fiscal responsibility and won control of Congress during the last few years of the Bush administration. What happened? Annual deficits ballooned even more so than when Bush had a Republican Congress.

    Oh, and if you and other Liberals want to pay higher taxes so bad, what is stopping from upping the percentage of taxes that you pay to the IRS? How about practicing what you preach.

    Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care

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    Wolfpack

    Wolfpack, you're complaining about a bill passed by both democrats and REPUBLICANS? It's a reduction in taxes, even for a year. You whine about that?

    Yes, both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Instead of making tax policy with an eye towards creating a lasting expansion, they pass a paltry bill that will have zero effect on an economy the size of the US and whose miniscule benefits will end in a year. It simply adds $15 billion to the national debt and really no benefit.

    Oh yeah, let the people who use COBRA just die. Let's not help get jobs for people. Let's all be republicans. < :-)

    I don't wish anyone to "die". But should the government be obligated to pay for every human need? I don't think so. There has to be a balance between charity to those less fortunate and creating unsustainable dependencies. The US government has done that through multiple programs that encourage people to not look for work, to retire early, etc. On ahd by the way, does anyone supporting more government programs realize the seriousness of the US deficit and debt? Obviously, they do not.

    Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care

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    Wolfpack

    “We have a very difficult gap to bridge here,” said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican. “We just can’t afford this. That’s the ultimate problem.”

    The fact that the US government already has so many social programs that it can't pay for makes it even more nonsensical that the Dems are pushing ObamaCare - this after a full year of failure with a filibuster proof control on Congress. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are not sustainable and are a tremendous failure by government.

    The reason why President Obama's approval ratings are under 50% and the Dems have lost a string of special elections for Senate and Governor is because the American people do not want another huge government program that we can't affort. How about fixing Social Security and it's trillions in unfunded liabilities? How about paying down our soon to be $14 trillion national debt? How about getting the annual budget under control - $1.6 trillion will be added to the national debt this year alone. All of these plush social programs won't do anybody much good when a Greek style bankruptcy grips the nation in a decade or two.

    ObamaCare is a very short-sighted ideologically driven program that is based solely on Obama's ego and arrogant insistence on foisting his Leftist ideology on a country that clearly doesn't want it.

    Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care

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