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Ryugasaki is a great big hole with rice paddies. The fugitive couldn't have picked a better…
Posted in: Passenger robs taxi driver, then steals cab in Ibaraki
I've had both, an iPhone for 4 years and I just got a Galaxy SII WiMax.…
@Disillusioned Actually, this does not border on child abuse, but fall right into the category. The…
Yes indeed, large struggling companies realising there is a lot of dough to be made through…
Posted in: Remembering
I don't understand why this story is under "National", "Crime" maybe. It used to be that…
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sarcasm is so lost on this site...
Posted in: Toyota secretly developing solar-powered green car: Nikkei
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Solar cars... should work great in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait ... where they are really needed.
Should work about 3 days a week in Tokyo... except for the rainy season of course.
Posted in: Toyota secretly developing solar-powered green car: Nikkei
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Associated Press writers Dheepti Namasivay in Paris, France, Frances D’Emilio in Rome, Italy, Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin, Ireland, Robert Barr in London, England, Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Australia, Denis Gray in Bangkok, Thailand, Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong, China, Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Biswajeet Banerjee in Lucknow, India, and Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo, Japan, contributed to this story.
how many AP writer's does it take to write a New Year's article?...
that's a sign of hard times...
Posted in: World bids sayonara to a rocky 2008
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and JAL responds by raising international fares... makes sense
Posted in: Asian airlines brace for recession blues in 2009
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**That’s how you win a modern war. By fighting the war on want. ** the article address the 'war on terror', not war in general... seems the war on terror is fighting the "want"...
The enemy:
wants to kill people who don't believe their interpretation of islam, including other muslims.
wants to impose it's governmental and legal beliefs on the whole world by threat of death.
wants death to America etc....
based on the authors "bio" he certainly is not going to be critical of his "keepers."
Posted in: Dealing with Muslim fundamentalism
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seems no one calls for calm when rockets are being fired at Israel, but let Israel respond and the they get jumped on...
I was raised under the "don't tease the dog or you might get bit" philosophy, I would think that would be part of islamic culture as there seems to be a real disdain for dogs... I guess not.
Posted in: Israel strikes Gaza in 2nd day of attacks; death toll tops 280
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all the local family restaurants, supermarkets and conbini's in my area of Tokyo are hiring...
Posted in: Japanese workers face horror of mass firing era
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Hicks’ father, Terry Hicks, said the conditions imposed on his son by the court order had made his son’s life difficult.
They said Hicks converted to Islam and sought adventure as a fighter in Kosovo and Kashmir after the Australian army rejected him because of a lack of education.
I think the kid did a good job of making his own life difficult....
Posted in: Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee freed
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all those 70 and 80 year old grandmas are safe now from the prying eyes of "Big Music"...
I do hope this turns around and bites the RIAA in the butt.
Posted in: Music industry drops effort to sue song swappers
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at least he had the freedom to throw in Iraq... I would like to see him toss a boot at any of the benevolent leaders of the glorious muslim countries around Iraq...
but never fear, the blessed Obama is coming... I am sure the reporters will be fighting to wash his feet... with his family ties to islam.
s/
Posted in: Across Mideast, Arabs hail shoe-hurling journalist
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hope I have reflexes like that at his age...
Posted in: Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq
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how can they say that about Obama!? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!!!!
Posted in: Obama faces heady challenges, and they're growing
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when did copyrights become commodities?
Posted in: Creative industries get ready for an offensive in copyright war
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just put the signs in "English"... that would solve everything.
Posted in: There is resistance to putting up posters saying, 'Shoplifting is a crime.' Merchants don't want their customers to think that they are regarded as potential shoplifters.
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just sounds like part of evolution to me... so justification is meaningless.
If you discount evolution then you might be able to work "justification" in somewhere, based on your humanism... or other "ism".
Posted in: Are there any circumstances that justify war?
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Sarge, I think we only get the "head-shot" because she is usually "undressed"... but even then she still might make the list...
Posted in: Aya Sugimoto makes PETA's best dressed list
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introduce measures aimed at identifying people who are observed acting suspiciously around children that would include all Engrish teachers who teach children, and all those costumed folk at Disney and other amusment parks... Santa better watch out this Christmas.
Posted in: We'll change our conventional attitude, which has been to act only after crimes are committed, and will instead adopt a more proactive stance toward cutting crime and eliminating the factors that cause fear in society.
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Why not call Ramadan something else?
skip.... what are you crazy!?!?, people will blow you up for thinking like that!!
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hereandthere
now he's got the Clintons locked out of politics, and under control... way to go O!!
Posted in: Obama announces Clinton, Gates for cabinet
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go Osaka!!
now if they would just do something in Tokyo...
Posted in: Cyclists using phones to be fined up to Y50,000