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Even if McCain had won the election, I wouldn't have been criticising his record BEFORE his inauguration.
Get that chip off your shoulder, Chuck - and let's criticise Obama once he has actually had a chance to have some influence on matters
Posted in: Where is Obama's change we can believe in?
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and Americans wonder why they are hated in so many parts of the world. Blowing up kids with hand grenades probably helps to explain it
Posted in: Blackwater guards accused of using grenades on unarmed Iraqis
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Sarge, do you think it is justified to commit hate crimes against Muslims because a tiny minority of Muslims commit terrorist acts? Come out and say it if you do - otherwise I suggest you condemn violence against anyone, including US soldiers murdering civilians in the Middle East.
FnC
Posted in: Report finds prejudice rising against U.S. Muslims
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YuriOtani:
Because if you lose money on every car, the more cars you sell, the more money you lose...
The appeal to "national security" interests is the last refuge of the failed American business, I reckon. Chrysler was tied to Daimler for how long, and what did they learn from the experience? Nothing, it would seem.
Posted in: Big 3 U.S. carmakers beg for $25 billion or millions of layoffs will follow
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Something to clarify. Crude oil is not explosive - in fact, it is actually pretty difficult to set fire to. Quite a number of oil tankers were hit by anti-ship missiles during the Gulf War in the 1980s but though holed and spilling oil, they didn't blow up. Similarly, there was a suicide terrorist attack off Yemen on a large tanker about 5 years ago and though the attack caused some major damage to the ship and killed one crew member, the cargo never caught fire.
There are already some convoys in operation but they can't escort every ship. Hundreds of ships pass through the area every day.
The way to stop this is by re-routing ships via South Africa, putting security guards on board and by escorted convoys. I think that there should also be a task force sent to the main pirate towns to basically sink everything that moves and send large numbers of troops ashore to destroy and / or confiscate pirate property. Once it becomes impossible to take ships without being shot at and all your property has been destroyed, being a pirate ceases to be an option.
The forces of law and order will win this one in the end.
And powderfinger - you are simply wrong. This is not a religious or political matter AT ALL.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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Since most Japanese believe the distortion that Japan is a "homogenous" society, I assume that they are looking for someone like Barack Obama rather than a Japanese who shares his skin tone.
It's massively ironic that a senior official of the LDP - the ultimate guardians of the current status quo in Japan - should be making such comments. The your-turn-next factionalism of the party explains why the old boys almost always get it, and why anyone vaguely rebelloius finds life very hard in the job. Koizumi was a bit of a miracle really, but then again, he hid his naturally conservative instincts pretty well.
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Let them die. They can't compete with superior non-American technology and only the fittest in the auto industry deserve to survive.
Bummer, isn't it, when free competition results in inefficient industries being killed off.
Posted in: Democrats, White House clash on bailing out automakers
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powderfinger - piracy is criminal activity for material gain. It is nothing to do with Islam at all.
Ironically, if there was a Islamic government, or any other kind of proper central government, in Somalia, this would be far less likely to be a problem.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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"The Navies patrolling the waters now seem to be afraid of getting involved to the point of spilling some pirate blood into the water!"
Not true - the Royal Navy killed 3 pirates in a gunfight last week and took the remainder of the pirate crew prisoner. The French have also killed a few in various operations - these greedy boys with AK's haven't the guts or guile to fight highly-trained troops.
Soon enough the pirates will find that their little money tree withers away as a combination of re-routing, naval escorts and private security make this kind of crime impossible.
I'd love to see about 10,000 paratroops dropped on the main pirate town to destroy and burn down the assets of all of these people involved in piracy, but that ain't going to happen. They have to find other ways of making it impossible for these criminals to operate. But they will.
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker
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Powderfinger - amazing how universal genocide has been. After the West was "won" the native Americans could tell you a thing or two about it, as well...
Posted in: Congo rebels make roadblock out of bodies
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Palin was a ludicrous joke of a VP candidate, and I am personally delighted at the fatal damage that she inflicted on McCain's presidential bid.
I sincerely hope she does run in 2012 - she is going to look like a political midget next to Obama, I suspect. No credible GOP candidate will bother running in 4 years time anyway
Posted in: McCain says Palin didn't hurt presidential bid
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What a Japanese story - if I had been the victim of such an assault, I think the calling the police would come long before paying the money I owed....
Posted in: Mainichi employee punches customer over non-payment
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I would refuse on the grounds that despite paying taxes I have no political representation in Japan, therefore I shouldn't be obliged to waste my time rubber stamping the pre-determined guilt of others - which is what juries will almost certainly end up doing
Posted in: How would you feel about being called up for jury duty?
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Cowardly? More like guilty of picking the easiest of targets....
Back to the obscurity where you belong Sarah, there's a good girl
Posted in: Palin denounces her critics as cowardly
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mindovermatter - I call it a hit-and-run. We don't know the circumstances but I personally doubt that the woman threw herself in front of the speeding cyclist. Chances are, he was drunk and didn't see her, and just because it was late at night doesn't make her any more at fault.
Generally people's behaviour on bikes in Japan, and lack of consideration for pedestrians, is profoundly ignorant. Deliberately endangering yourself and ther people by wearing an i-pod while cycling is the latest trend in stupidity. It's simply daft to disable one of your vital senses when on busy roads or on pavements with pedestrians and kids that you are obliged to steer clear of. The police should arrest cyclists wearing i-pods and those young w**kers who swerve rapidly around people when on the pavement.
Posted in: 61-year-old woman suffers fractured skull after being hit by cyclist
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Unfortunately they will be regarded by some as martyrs. Despite their guilt and the magnitude of their crimes, I oppose this and I'm disappointed that they didn't get life in jail in uncomfortable obscurity, where scum like this belong.
The only thing I can say is that I know that there was no reward waiting for them after death - just nothing, if not torment in the blazing fires of hell for all eternity that they certainly deserve.
McC72 - you are either against the death penalty or for it, you cannot selectively say one person's wilful murder deserves greater punishment than another.
Posted in: 3 Bali bombers executed
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Sarge, Obama won least of all because unlike you he can see the obvious - i.e. that the last 8 years have been disastrous for America's economy and its standing in the world, and because electing McCain would be like asking for another 4 years of the same. The republicans have done their best to try and wreck the country they keep claiming to love, which makes it so ironic (apart from completely ludicrous) when you and your pals describe Obama as being "anti-American". Obama's the obvious choice for real patriots and anyone who wishes America well.
As someone has said very accurately, Bush was an abberation; Obama is the first 21st Century American president.
Posted in: Beyonce curtails Japan trip to celebrate Obama's win
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Best Chibana-ist, ...by far
Posted in: Kurara Chibana promotes warmth with Uniqlo
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Sarge, your comments demonstrate that you have zero understading on the financial crisis into which Bush has dragged America over the past 8 years. In Europe, socialist governments are normally the ones accused of "tax and spend" however in Bush's case he has done something even worse for the long term future of your country - he has cut taxes AND spent money like an old-school socialist, except instead of 'wasting' money (in your eyes) on such undeserving concepts as better education and universal minimum healthcare for Americans, the spending has been hundreds of billions of dollars to see Saddam hung and Saudi Arabia (home of most of the 9/11 terrrorists...) defended, and Iran strengthened. Plus many thousands of dead and seriously injured American troops. None of this can be said to have demonstrably made America safer at all.
And you honestly wonder why everyone is delighted about Obama coming in? I know you will be first to start whining, though, when he reverses tax cuts, or reduces government spending as an unavoidable consequence of Bush's stupidity.
Posted in: Obama to use executive orders to reverse Bush policies
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RRII - we feel your pain!
Iran - engagement is the key.
Posted in: Ahmadinejad offers congratulations to Obama