Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    grafton

    BP took the full blame for this oil spill while it was going on, but anybody with half a brain knew that the day would come when BP would take action against the companies that were really responsible for the rigs failure. Now Transocean one the two main companies that brought about this rig failure are trying yet an other public relations con job on the American sheeple. Why should BP provide Transocean with information that is very likely going to be used by BP to take action against Transocean?

    Posted in: BP accused of withholding critical spill data

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    grafton

    Triumvere at 02:25 AM JST - 16th August

    "Of course, you can see the name as a coded message pointing to an underlying jihadist agenda, if you so choose. But there is a much more plausible explanation."

    I think you know I wasn't being serious about the Cordoba thing.

    Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero

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    grafton

    My personal objection to this building is the name, Cordoba; this is a snide reference to the Spanish province a lot of Muslims believe is theirs.

    More seriously, I can’t understand why the Muslims involved with this project are so determined to get that building in that place. Would it not have been a little more respectful for them to have tried to understand the feelings of so many people and simply built the thing someplace else?

    If I wanted to construct a building and came up against this level of debate I would question why the client was being so adamant and failing getting an answer that made sense I would back out and not build. There isn’t a NEED to build on this site, so why create so much bad feeling? Fine, they have the right, but why force the issue even if you have the right, some other agenda perhaps?

    Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero

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    grafton

    Did it ever have a usefulness?

    They were/are useless and the schools always seemed to avoid giving them anything of value to do anyway.

    Posted in: Do you think the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) program has outgrown its usefulness?

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    grafton

    I really do want him to go so that we can see make another total screw up. He has done such a good job of alienating America’s close allies one more isn’t going to make a lot of difference and it could be fun to watch.

    Posted in: Should U.S. President Barack Obama visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he comes to Japan in November?

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    grafton

    Really it is all a matter of how you look these things. If you are going to this shrine because your grandfather is there (even if only in spirit) then who else is there is of no consequence.

    As for who are and who are not war criminals, well that might depend for a lot of people on whose side you fought on. You can see how your view of a war changes who are the good guys and who the bad and just because Japan was the enemy and lost the war doesn’t mean that they have to believe what the “victors” tell them to believe. It could be reasoned that even war criminals dies for their country, you may not like it, but then they were not your leaders.

    And have you thought that if people with cameras didn’t go to this shrine at these times these blue suited folk might simply not be an issue.

    I don’t normally like baby pictures but this one’s fun, nice expression on its face.

    Posted in: Generations

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    grafton

    If you are doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear.

    Well that is the usual defence of intrusive measures of this kind.

    But then the same can be said of the government that feels it needs to monitor every little detail of its population’s lives. What is the government so frightened of?

    Posted in: UAE, Saudi to block BlackBerry on security fears

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    grafton

    I am a man. Just a simple man. If you cut me will I not bleed? Will that blood not be red (with a blue tint)? Why JT, why then do you give us (men) this so large picture of old Japanese politicians and yet on another part of the site you present us with this tiny little picture of Koda Kumi? Do you do this to be cruel? Are you trying to teach us that lust is a bad thing? But it isn’t lust, I promise you it isn’t, it is the appreciation of all things of beauty, well alright, maybe there is just a little hint of desire there, but not lust, no, no lust. Do any of us, including you, really care about these old men in suits and what they look like? We know the names, we really, really don’t need to know what they look like. I am sure their mums are really proud to see their little boys getting their pictures in the news, who knows, maybe their wives are happy too, well maybe. But we men are simple creatures we have simple pleasures and ask little, well not little pictures, big pictures yes, but little in the more general sense. Please, it’s the beginning of the week, for some it will be a hot hard working week, please be kind and swap these picture over, please?

    Posted in: Day at the office

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    grafton

    Are the ratings important? Yes. But should they be given that importance? No.

    My very simplistic reasoning on this is that these people work in a world of serious money but seem not to be related to it. Who pays their wages, what motivates the work they do? Are we to believe that there is this group of financial saints that sit around all day looking out for all the large companies and counties to protect them from making terrible mistakes without some self interest? Are we to believe in financial social workers who only have our best interests at heart?

    They are private companies that work for their own interests yet those interests do not show in the statements they make. Granted if they got it right all the time we might simply accept what they do without question, but they don’t.

    I need to know why you are telling me something as well as what you are telling me before I give you credit for what you are telling me.

    Posted in: How important are ratings given to companies and countries by agencies like Standard & Poor's and Moody's?

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    grafton

    Before any one else condemns these poor guys for picking up land mines they really need to see what these things look like, and they do not look like any mine I have ever seen before. They really look like a DIY back garden job. Talk about doing a job on the cheap. Have a look and then come back and say how smart you would have been not to have picked such a thing up.

    http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924019

    Posted in: Land mine swept ashore from NKorea kills SKorean

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    grafton

    Personally I blame those ten Russian spies; they have exposed the truth about the US, totally incompetent.

    smithinjapan at 12:54 PM JST - 30th July

    “not the military graves of shredded remains coming home from who knows what wars”

    Nice try at miss direction there, but not really what this is all about. By the time the dead reach Arlington they have been (rightly or wrongly) identified it is where they have or haven’t been put after that that is the issue here. You might also keep in mind that not all dead soldiers go to Arlington so it is not as though there was sudden rushes of incoming dead that might overwhelm the system. This is simply people who have got lazy because management isn’t managing. So much for respecting the heroic dead of the country.

    Posted in: As many as 6,600 US military graves mixed up

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    grafton

    Wouldn’t this be a good time to start a war? Not an Afghan type thing but a real aircraft and ships big number? These are always good for the US economy which has such a large section given over to the production of weapons. Maybe Iran now really does need to be worried.

    I also like the bit that goes, “and cash-hungry state and local governments cut spending”. And this after they have just robbed BP of 20 billion. You will not have seen too much about this because admitting that Heyward was right and the money hungry pirates in the US were wrong just doesn’t get the same degree of press coverage. One of the real problems for the US is that they want the almighty dollar to be just that but will not then accept responsibility when it all goes wrong. So what is the next target for getting the US a little extra spending money, oil, are we going to see oil prices messed about with now?

    Posted in: Economic growth likely slowed in second quarter

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    grafton

    Chavez may be the nastiest thing to have happened in Latin America in a long time, but when it comes to survival he knows what he is doing (unfortunately) and now the heat is on just watch how FARC disappear from the country, for a while at least. But I will bet there is a plane on the tarmac 24 hours a day ready to leave, just in case.

    Posted in: Venezuela severs ties with Colombia

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    grafton

    I have just had a great idea for a new political TV programme in the US. Why not get the soon to be unemployed Tony Hayward to host a show that invites political guests on to explain where all their money has come from, what companies they are directors with and who they are all related to in whatever way. It could be called “Money trails” and Rangel could be first one on since he obviously hasn’t long to go before he too is unemployed.

    Posted in: U.S. House panel charges Rangel with ethics misdeeds

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    grafton

    Alf.

    I am not by any stretch of you imagination a young person, I would guess that I am in fact a lot older than you.

    “and millions visit every year to visit Buckingham Palace and Windsor and bring in a great deal of income.”

    If care to read my post again you will see that I did cover this point. Your money spending tourists never see the old dear and her offspring, they see the buildings. So really it matters little if at all if she and they were there. The tourist money would still come with or with out the pointlessly expensive royal family.

    “Yes British monarchy is the best and is respected by all of those with decent moralities.”

    Are you trying to say that because I have no respect for these people I have no morality? I have no respect for people that blindly believe in the divine right of kings, such thinking is a throw back to an age of ignorance that we in the 21st century should be intelligent enough to need.

    “Also th Queen can stop a madman from making Britrain a facist state and keep us the leaders in morality and decency”

    Then how would you explain Blair and Brown and 13 years of insane Labour? She is nothing more than an expensive rubber stamp in a silly hat.

    “Anyone who dont like it can clear off, maybe back to their ptivildege family.”

    You have alluded to my family a number of times now and seem to dislike the fact that we didn’t live in some poor run down council estate. I am sorry if it seems we had more money than your family had, though the educational opportunities were there for us both equally so really you cannot now hold it against me that you are where you are and I am where I am. Trust me I have worked very hard for all that I have. I am not sure that the same could be said of your precious old lady and her sponging family, now they really are privileged even by your standards. And you have to admit that I didn’t go too far, I didn’t suggest the French or Russia method of royal removal. Which does make me wonder how you managed to get in a mention of terrorists. A bit of extra strange thinking there, even for you.

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    grafton

    The monarchy of any country is only thought about and defended (by a few) when they are brought up as a subject. Beyond that they are not a part of anybodies lives and they in their turn live in their cocoon of royalty so have no idea what the common heard are really like.

    They are redundant to all but a few throw back nationalists who can’t get their heads into the 21st century. As for the British royals being a good tourist draw that is nonsense. Simply look at France to see what they have done, they got rid of their royals (cheaply) and then used the buildings to attract the tourists. Think about it, how many tourists get to see an actual member of a royal family? They see the buildings and go for expensive walks around old palaces and castles, but that’s it. The monarchy serves no function that a president wouldn’t also serve. And a bad president isn’t going to last a life time, a king or queen does, and their obnoxious offspring then get a chance.

    Remove all of them, if they wish to keep their titles fine, but they earn their own living.

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    grafton

    Yukie Kawamura is quite an attractive young lady and doubtlessly she knew what SHE was doing when she got dressed to make this appearance. Also given some of the picture we have been presented with over time here on JT this really isn’t that demeaning for Japan. You really are over reacting.

    “Considering most don't even live here in Japan, is THIS the image you wish to convey?”

    Why would living I Japan or not make any difference at all to reading and sometimes commenting? I think you will find that most here do live in the country though some do sometimes sound as though they wished they didn’t, which I find very strange. Perhaps you can tell us exactly what image you feel JT should be portraying of Japan. Given what can be and has been portrayed I think Yukie Kawamura is not a bad image at all.

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    grafton

    I wonder what the umpire’s wife is going to say to him when he gets home?

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    chotto at 12:44 AM JST - 18th July

    “I heard it was some doctor in his 70's checking the boys and then the girls, the latter also pulling up their tops in front of him. There were female nurses present, but still, stuff like this gives me the creeps.”

    Now you are just being silly, it is quite normal and necessary for doctors to examine young girls. There are counties in the world where it is not allowed for a male doctor to examine a female and there are likely to be no female doctors in such place either. Women die because of this. Are you going to object if a doctor of the opposite gender needs to examine you? Please keep in mind that there are gay and lesbian doctors. “Oh no! who can I possibly trust?” Don’t worry too much, I think most doctors can be trusted.

    Posted in: Doctor arrested for taking lewd photos of sisters during check-up

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    grafton

    Mexico and Afghanistan the two most intractable and deadly “wars” taking place at the moment and guess what? They both have drugs as a back drop. All we need now are Catholic suicide bombers and then we will know the world is lost.

    shinjukuboy at 03:01 PM JST - 17th July

    “cocaine use has dropped 75% in the US since the 80s”

    I don’t doubt that you read it but I do doubt that it is true. Sounds like government propaganda. I could imagine a drop the other way about, 25%, but not 75%.

    Posted in: Car bomb used in attack on Mexican police

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