buddha4brains said...

buddha4brains at 10:23 AM JST - 1st April

But did they play twister?

Wasn't that what they were playing these past 30 years?

Posted in U.S., Iranian diplomats break the ice at Afghan conference at 10:23 AM JST - 1st April
buddha4brains at 10:20 AM JST - 1st April

Wrongful deaths is a neutral term to describe it. Murder is an extreme word. Executing murderers is not murder.

Wrongful death is legalese for identifying responsibility without the moral taint. Murder is what you call putting a bullet in the back of the heads of prisoners (in any language). It…

Posted in U.S. sergeant jailed for murdering prisoners in Iraq at 10:20 AM JST - 1st April
buddha4brains at 08:31 PM JST - 31st March

I can understand the rationalization he made, but killing prisoners - even enemy combatants - is a universal wrong. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen as it had in this case. The damnable shame is that the frontline soldiers are the ones who pay. The leadership (particularly Cheney & Rumsfeld) showed…

Posted in U.S. sergeant jailed for murdering prisoners in Iraq at 08:31 PM JST - 31st March
buddha4brains at 10:50 AM JST - 30th March

Thank your fellow liberals for driving a once great society right off the tracks.

Huh? I thought America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. But now you're saying that a nutter shooting 8 people is the fault of liberals? What about the NRA and the gun…

Posted in 7 residents, 1 nurse die in N Carolina nursing home shooting at 10:50 AM JST - 30th March
buddha4brains at 10:43 AM JST - 30th March

hit, whack, smack ... all seem to point toward abuse. Spank, on the other hand, is not necessarily about administering pain, but about control. This is effective for children under five to imprint on children that certain behaviour is not tolerated (i.e. not a substitute for inattentive/lazy parenting in bamboohat's…

Posted in What are your views on parents hitting their children as a means of discipline? at 10:43 AM JST - 30th March
buddha4brains at 07:59 AM JST - 30th March

That still doesn't gurantee that someone on the Japan end won't just toss out the paperwork and file a complaint against these US exporters.

Man you are paranoid. Like you said, this is a multi billion dollar market, which means that money is being made on both sides (hence the…

Posted in Japan lifts suspension on beef imports from U.S. factory at 07:59 AM JST - 30th March
buddha4brains at 09:33 PM JST - 29th March

http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/

While the world economy craters the GOP focus on a prop. Reminds me of their last "absolute best fight" against Clinton: a blue dress. Yes smithinjapan it is very sad.

Posted in Obama unveils agenda for first overseas trip at 09:33 PM JST - 29th March
buddha4brains at 09:27 PM JST - 29th March

Obama is determined to continue to waste Western lives in Afghanistan for no reason at all

It never ceases to amaze me how easily some forget what started this mess and why there we are in Afghanistan in the first place. Just because Bush forgot does not mean the mission…

Posted in Afghan, Pakistani leaders praise new U.S. strategy at 09:27 PM JST - 29th March
buddha4brains at 12:31 PM JST - 28th March

That is correct, but let's hope that is not the only reason why we are going there. Afghanistan has always been a good political tool. That I worry about.

Agreed. David Brooks wrote and interesting opinion piece in the NY Times which points to some optimism. But, still Afghanistan is…

Posted in Obama widens war against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, ordering in 4,000 more troops at 12:31 PM JST - 28th March
buddha4brains at 10:09 AM JST - 28th March

A shotgun wedding is a slang euphemism to say the bride is preggies regardless of the amount of force used. Anyway, Fredster you seemed to miss the point that the fact of her pregnancy did force upon her to decide to do something. Pregnancy is like that.

Posted in Miyavi and melody. wed in shotgun marriage at 10:09 AM JST - 28th March