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bishamonten
rajakumar at 04:23 AM JST - 2nd February
Tonight (yes night) I am in Spain, so not bogging away in the early morning hours. I travel a great deal & it can get a bit tedious, hence my sometimes sarcastic posts, I sometimes just see the humorous side of things & feel a compulsive need to say something. There is no offence intended & I hope none is taken.
Though what I said about criminals having their place in the scheme of things is almost true, they have come to play such a major part in our societies & the way things are today we really do need them, they create the fear that creates the need for insurance & all that collected insurance money is used for investments.
That does not mean we should condone criminality, but to find a way of removing it wholesale for our societies would create chaos. And guess what, chaos would re-create greater forms of criminality.
Given the figures in the above article (assuming them to be true) I would have to go along with Grafton, this really looks more like an insurance job of the other kind, claiming the insurance when the goods haven’t been stolen at all.
Nice to meet you, now get some sleep, it’s not good for the brain to spend too much tome on the internet, just look at the state of some of the other posters here. You wouldn’t want to end up like that would you?
Posted in: Thieves make off with 100 cell phones in Saitama
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bishamonten
Battle Royale 1 & 2.
I hate kids & so few survive in these films.
Moderator: Readers, please answer the question in the spirit in which it was asked.
Posted in: What are some of your favorite feel-good movies?
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rajakumar at 04:02 PM JST - 30th January
“people need to come up with new ways, ideas to make the system work and prevent stealing.”
Rajakumar, if people (the other ones, not the ones that steal) were to come up with really goods ways to stop stealing then the insurance companies would go out of business & when the insurance companies went out of business there would be that much less money being invested on the stock market & other companies wouldn’t be able to get the capital they need & they would have to lay people off or not employ people & with more unemployment more people (this time the kind that steal) would steal even cheaper things just to get by, because even cheap things would too dear for unemployed people. So, you see, stopping people (any people this time) from stealing really isn’t such a good idea. Society & the economy need these people.
Posted in: Thieves make off with 100 cell phones in Saitama
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bishamonten
The man on the bench was a burglar that was released from prison about six weeks ago. The crimes he committed were extremely violent, he has also been extremely violent towards his own family, possibly because he is a heavy drinker & drug user. Help has been offered in the past & been abused &/or refused. It can of course be reasoned that this man has some very serious mental health problems, but under the law he cannot be forced to accept treatment & when offered help & treatment he has always reacted aggressively & rejected any help. If you really believe that you can help man & feel that you can get through to him I would warn you to be careful about trying to talk with him, he has an irrational temper & can be dangerous.
How do I know all this? I don’t. None of the above is true. But it equally fits with all the other above posts that have this man a poor unemployed soul deserving of our empathy. It is just as likely to be true.
Some people live in a very black & white world.
Yes, there but for the grace of what-not go any one of us. But let us not get carried away to the point of seeing a social revolution on the horizon because there are some people that sleep on park benches, because there will always be some people that sleep on park benches. They are social misfits that society does not want & cannot accommodate.
tkoind2
The picture is really so much bigger than the one you want to blackmail us with. The CEO on 150mil a year should be a thing of the past, but not because of this man on the bench, but because such people have brought our economy to the edge of ruin & brought us all that much closer to that bench. THAT we agree on. What we cannot ever agree on is this naïve idea of a safety net for the poor, safety nets create more “victims” than they rescue & somebody (you, tmarie & I) has to pay for them. Ask the wise old Alf (above) for some of his wisdom about how the UK is doing with its safety net. I think he will give you a very depressing picture of what happens when the state starts to take care of everyone.
Posted in: Homeless man
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bishamonten
All of it, I hate airports & anything to do with them.
Flying I like, its just the getting off the ground & back on the ground that I hate.
Is it airport policy to make it all as painful as possible?
Posted in: What behavior by passengers or staff at airports annoys you the most?
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bishamonten
This is the World we live in, get used to it now, there will be more before there is less.
I’m looking forward to the day I come across a few bankers I know sleeping (uncomfortably) on benches.
Posted in: Homeless man
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bishamonten
Bushlover.
Trust me, I am waiting with baited breath, & a giggle or two.
Posted in: Hamas bombing, Israeli airstrike shake Gaza truce
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bishamonten
“Mitchell said the crossings should be opened on the basis of a 2005 agreement brokered by the U.S. that put the main crossing—the passage between Egypt and Gaza—under the management of Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, with European monitors deployed to prevent smuggling.
However, Hamas, which routed Abbas loyalists when it took over Gaza, has said it, too, wants a role at the crossings in recognition of its power in the territory. Israel and Abbas do not want Hamas there.”
Hamas are the weapons smugglers & they also want to monitor the crossings. And they wonder why nobody wants them there.
“Olmert said crossings between Israel and Gaza “will only open permanently” after the freeing of Sgt Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier Gaza militants captured in June 2006, the aide said. In Qatar on Wednesday, Hamas’ supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, said the group would not link the opening of crossings to the release of the Israeli soldier. “We reject these Israeli conditions. We will not accept them,” Mashaal said. Hamas wants Israel to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Schalit.”
As we can all see Hamas are working extremely hard at NOT coming to an agreement.
Posted in: U.S. envoy urges stronger Gaza truce amid airstrikes
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bishamonten
I cannot imagine two more irreverent people than Takeshi & Tokoro, I look forward to seeing what they do to Okinawa.
TheMarion
Wow! I haven’t seen you post in a long time, given your age I assumed you were either dead or in an old folks home. Nice to see that you are still banging the same old drum. Though I have to wonder about this idea of friendship you perceive. Friendship really wasn’t the feeling I perceived. Maybe we just know different people.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi to report on Okinawa issues
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bishamonten
So where are all the usual suspects today?
Because somebody really needs to say they told you so.
Hamas are killers & know & understand nothing else.
Posted in: Hamas bombing, Israeli airstrike shake Gaza truce
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sabiwabi at 06:36 PM JST - 27th January Sorry to break in on what you are doing, but I note that your question was missing a detail or two.
“OK, so lets move closer to the topic of this article. What do you think of Israel bombing schools, mosques, ambulances, hospitals, and UN relief organizations? Is this "justified"?
Should you not have added something about callous terrorist using those schools, mosques, ambulances, hospitals, and UN relief organizations for storing weapons &/or firing on the Isrealis?
You may feel that you have an understanding of motivations behind the actions Hamas takes, but I wonder, have you allowed for the fact that Hamas may not view honesty as a useful thing? They are fighting a propaganda war & propaganda has little if anything to do with truth. You have shown that you are ready to disbelieve anything that Israel may say, yet you believe what Hamas say.
Mephistopheles wants your soul, so I would say to be careful about all that you believe.
Posted in: Israel vows to back soldiers accused of war crimes
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sabiwabi at 11:28 AM JST - 27th January
“but eventually if you are capable of critical thinking you can figure out what is legit and what is not.”
But doesn’t it follow that you would be approaching every subject with your own prejudices that have been built from selective viewing of information that you agree with? What you agree with is comfortable & easy to accept, but to some degree this in it self becomes the trap that leads you (us) into simply reinforcing our closed thinking. To what extent is the internet changing what we believe?
Posted in: What do you use the Internet for the most?
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zurcronium at 09:18 PM JST - 26th January
"Self censorship to cover the war crimes of Israel. Happens all over the world."
If it has been censored how do you know? Or are we only to believe what we want to believe? Sounds about right for the posters here.
The BBC cannot be trusted, because they are anti-Israeli, NOT pro-Israeli.
Posted in: BBC slammed for refusing to air Gaza appeal
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Luddite at 08:34 AM JST - 26th January “So apart from me, no one who has posted here is actually in the UK. And has more than a couple of biased websites for information. Why I avoid other ex-pats.”
Until this morning I was. Agree about the ex-pats. I always have doubts about why they are ex-pats.
wuzzademcrat at 12:47 PM JST - 26th January
“- in which case how could anyone trust any of its news organizations?”
Who ever told you that you could?
The Daily Mail is fighting an ongoing war with the BBC because that is what it’s readers like, it helps sell that paper. Daily Mail readers dislike what the BBC broadcasts, its too liberal for them & they don’t want their licence fees being used for programmes they don’t want to watch. Most are old enough to remember the dreadful old Alf Garrnet type sit coms that still believe in “EMPIRE” & in some odd way they blame the BBC for the loss of “EMPIRE”. Quote anything from that paper & you are quoting the far right of British thinking.
Posted in: BBC slammed for refusing to air Gaza appeal
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bishamonten
The BBC is funded by the British tax payer via a licensing system so they do not in fact have any right to broadcast any kind of advert that they believe their fee paying viewers would not support. Given that we are now only part way through a truce between the Israelis & Hamas (the Palestinians) broadcasting this appeal would be taking sides. This is an ongoing war with a few days holiday in the middle. If the fighting starts again, & where Hamas are concerned that is very likely, then this appeal would be seen by the not so bright British public as having supported (overtly for a change) the Palestinians.
Every one will have noted from Alf & northlondon’s posts (among others) that there is still a strong anti-Jewish feeling in Britain. Support for Israel in near non-existent as can be seen by the ease with which a demonstration of thousands can be brought about. The British government will bend over backwards to keep the muslin population happy, very probably because they fear them & what they can do. Big bangs on tube trains for example.
Impartiality at the BBC? Not a chance, it supports the Palestinians 100%. Maybe airing this appeal was just a little too overt even for the BBC.
Posted in: BBC slammed for refusing to air Gaza appeal
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bishamonten
“The policy had banned U.S. government money, usually as U.S. Agency for International Development outlays, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counselling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the “global gag rule,” because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.”
So, the US government wasn’t happy about spending the American people’s tax money on even abortion advice in third world countries. But it was alright to control populations in the third world by selling weapon to them & getting them to kill each other. Sometimes with a helping hand (missile, bomb or whatever) from the good old US of A? Strange set of moral values the Americans have.
Posted in: Obama reverses Bush's abortion-funds policy
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bishamonten
I hope he acts fairly to the Palestinians who voted for Hamas & suffered so much because of doing so. Poor demented fools need euducation, education, education, as some other Brit once said. I wonder whatever happened to that one?
Posted in: Iran: Obama must seek new Mideast foreign policy
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bishamonten
"Gazans, trying to get their lives back to normal"
Firing rockets again is "normal" for some demented nutters.
Posted in: Gaza tunnels back in business
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bishamonten
Here we go again, Gasa gets back to smuggling (whatever), Israel hits some of the tunnels, Hamas gets back to firing rockets, Israel attacks again.
This is one thing we can be guaranteed of while another is that the anti-Israeli Hamas supporters here (who pretend not to be) will get back to seeing ONLY Israel as being responsible.
The Palestinians were given a hard lesson but were too stupid to have learned anything from the last few weeks. Hamas will lead them to their graves & like sheep they will follow. But the Hamas supporters should not worry or grieve, they will all be happy little martyrs. Just as Hamas told them they would be.
Posted in: Gaza tunnels back in business
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bishamonten
“We are still ready and capable of firing more rockets. We are developing the range of our rockets and the enemy will face more, and our rockets will hit new targets, God willing,” said Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’ military wing.”
This is one of the people that works for “Alf’s” charity & I am sure that Palestinians can see just how much good this man & his fellow works have done for Gasa. Though now that the Hamas police are out of hiding & back in their nice uniforms I doubt any Palestinians are likely to say anything negative about Hamas.
But that is a point, how DO WE KNOW that all the dead “civilians” were civilians? WE don’t. Can we have an independent body count of all the dead babies? No we can’t. Hamas today is celebrating a victory while we look on in wonderment at this & ask “what victory?” While I can understand how Hamas can control the civilian population of Gasa through intimidation & indoctrination I cannot understand how anybody outside Gasa can get fooled by these people. Israel hit them hard, as Israel always does, it is Israel’s policy to hit hard & everybody knows that. 10 to 1, sounds about right to me for a lesson. The question now is, are Hamas smart enough to learn that firing stupid little rockets into Israel is a very expensive thing to do? Expensive in human life that is. Not money, the money will come rolling in now, maybe that is the victory that Hamas is celebrating.
Posted in: Hamas fighters seek to restore order in Gaza Strip