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@Ewan Huzarmy, I think wave power has huge potential for Japan. This particular company chose to…
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Why would America even need more than 300 atomic bombs, more powerful than what was dropped…
Posted in: U.S. weighing steep nuclear arms cuts
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illsayit
wow deadbeat dads? thats really rough, I guess there is nothing like taking control and responsibilty of your sexual life is there. There is jobs for single mothers, like married mothers who work they use child minding facilities, and do what work they can. If you planned on being a single mother then you would know it. If you divorced, then thats a choice you made, same as it was a choice when you married and when you got pregnant and so on.
Posted in: Single women at bottom rung of the economy
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illsayit
You may think it's silly, I equate that with disgusting. Lets see miyazawa, you assume is a Japanese national by the name. You state that third world countries should be able to adopt out their children to a single compassionate person, I contradict that viewpoint, that third wolrd countries or so they are claimed-Australia was considered a third world country not too long ago-are not really third world, just that their living standards are different. I feel that the parents there should be given more support, rather than some altruistic superior complex of a person adopting their child. Civil unions where ever they are not legal then that is what should be argued, the same as for this case, arguing for acceptance of a civil union acknowledgement. Not bending the argument to suggest it is a religious one, whereby the word marriage is defined as a man and a woman, and you want it to make an exception. I dont see that as religious. Just the same as saying this couple is a wife and a wife. Youre not going to say one of them is male and change the meaning of the word are you? Same as changing the definition of marriage seems a little bit of a superior complex that you want to try and do that. Why dont you change the meaning of male and include it to mean a female that wants to be a male? Then there wouldnt be such a subject as homosexual couples-easy! Why doesnt this happen? Because the obvious is hard to put past as the truth? No you want to change the meaning of marriage, and you want to lay blame on religion. WHich is really weird cause you admit that it isnt necessarily religious. And hypocrisy is it when you suggest God reminding us that it is silly. What is silly is that you ignore my plea of persecution, claiming that I need a dictionary.
Posted in: Deportation could split up lesbian couple
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illsayit
the snake okay? are you kidding? I hope they pickled the buggar! It is a very good remedy potion, and while this snake isnt poisonous it is lethal, and it seems to have made it's territory close to houses. In an area where the ratio of snake to human must be at least 20:1, if not more, save your animal hike until your bold enough to live there, smith
Posted in: Python attacks 2-year-old boy in Australia
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illsayit
Beware! all (oh that's right you didnt stipulate how many you were talking about, like when you mentioned heterosexuals, you just stated that that is the truth, and now youre trying to wing in your case by mentioning the word Japan, as if there is a generalization that you have defined as truth)salary men are getting it on with the prostitutes! I admit youve had a way with your words mentioning heterosexual couples that arent able to have children. So certainly they deserve to be able to adopt a child in comparison to a gay couple. Single person adoption is a farce. And something I would also not agree with. Yepp proudly disgusting I am.Gay 'marriage' is legal, it's called a civil union. You might want to try that dictionary you suggested. But I do agree with shirokumas point about the visa, that was the other lie that I was thinking of when I wrote earlier, and thought had already been highlighted, my bias, did tend to take me on a tangent-albiet a critical point in this discussion, thus the title including the word lesbian, and one that I find tends to conflict and create persecution of my lifestyle. That is the discussion of education of women, which this situation highlights with it's so-called student visa, working econmic situation.
Posted in: Deportation could split up lesbian couple
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illsayit
good point tiger, but it has me wondering what nationality the writer is, I mean every vegemite kid knows that water area is known for being sinister, a 'rogue wave' in the roaring 40s is so common place that to call it rogue is mislabelling the well-known natural environment
Posted in: Huge waves damage Sea Shepherd boat during chase
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illsayit
again you obviously didnt understand that my question was rhetorical, and some pop singer must be the ideal of righteousness now? and again you lower yourself and your understanding when you suggest that heterosexuals are amoral-and if you know anything about adoption, your pull it out of the hat trick of stating a single person is a farce. I tell you what, if a gay couple can procreate and have a child then it is okay to adopt, you never know there could be a Mary amongst you. That by the way is the lie. And I forgot to say in my opinion, it's disgusting, as is your words about me being muddled, your opinion. It is a free world afterall-fallen or otherwise.
Posted in: Deportation could split up lesbian couple
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illsayit
2400km southwest of western Austraia-sure sounds like open waters to me
Posted in: Huge waves damage Sea Shepherd boat during chase
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illsayit
What's pedantic? You are pedantic about one thing, and in the next breath, totally rounded off. Who is gaga? Which ones the wife? Which ones the husband? How do you decide that? Im ready for the thumbs down. This is disgusting and full of lies. You can use any amount of words to say that it is okay, and if these sort of people kept their relationship to themself, I could be understanding. But while ever there is talk of children, or demanding equality of that which isnt equal, Im totally disinterested in the suggestion that there isnt fairness.
Posted in: Deportation could split up lesbian couple
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illsayit
well globalwatcher you just deflated your argument in my books; what is the difference between a single woman and a married one? I havent clicked Japangals good yet-but Im willing too if you need a little more highlighting. Listen, I believe people make choices, we do have that freedom. We dont always make the best choice, or not all choices may be open to us, but if you fail to see that people, women have a choice in what they are doing, and continue to point fingers at discrimination towards women, you cant be selective about which women you are talking about or your whole argument is just swimming in biast.
Posted in: Single women at bottom rung of the economy
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illsayit
along the lines of incognito-I also think a well-sized family would help break that cycle, as unlike ambrosia, while a family isnt living in a vacuum, sometimes there are just things, that if possible, be kept in the family, and a well-sized family I believe would break this cycle of selfish elderly
Posted in: Wives recoil from violent fathers-in-law
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illsayit
obviously they didnt include married, mother, not employed women in this survey-they are definitely at the bottom of the rung, and as you all have highlighted, discriminated against making that choice-even this stupid survey discriminated by not including them, hmph, typical,yall just ranting over nothing.
Posted in: Single women at bottom rung of the economy
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illsayit
harper you should try the new tourism there-Fukushima is about as much of Tohoku as it is of Tokyo. But what's everyone focused on rice for anyway? If thats all your eating, you need to get out! I bet the American cars havent been pushed in Tohoku-Id be willing to pedal them for you?! Thats the whole thing about this SEZ, iT's that, the trade isnt so hindered anyways-it's not China-you are pretty much free to sell your ware. It's just saying SEZ emboldens the idea for some people to quit sitting around and get into it, Id say. So by example, if anybody wants me to pedal there stuff, Im all ears and ready to go? Of course you wont get all the govt subsidies helping you sell it, but Im pretty sure the road is open, how much do you really want to help out?
Posted in: Rebuilding Tohoku, renewing Japan - Part 2
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illsayit
Very Cool. Fukushima is not the whole Tohoku region, some people still cant fathom how big that wave was. Educational tourism a necessity. As for the trade/ag idea....give it a shot, Id say, there is enough people to make it work.
Posted in: Rebuilding Tohoku, renewing Japan - Part 2
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illsayit
It's only ever crowded in the city, ak. Id just like to meet even a family with 4 kids, it's a fib about small families being born from concern for the environment. It's lifestlye choices that gets everybody concerned. And youd think with the level of education these days and the ability to tap into resources and recycle and everything, that the crowded areas would want a little more space.
Posted in: Are you concerned at China’s growing might in security and economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region?
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illsayit
Wow ! There is more Christians in China than in Australia!
I dont get everybody starting to talk about the word religion with this article?? Is it some Christians of America that became disillusioned with the churches there? So rather than dealing with that, they want to degenerate the religions of the world? Religion's are a community of people.
Posted in: Study: Christian population shifts from Europe
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illsayit
Wow! And Japan? Better not say.
Posted in: Study: Christian population shifts from Europe
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illsayit
oh thankyou for being so informative ak. I wouldnt call it needless, or worried. It is the ideal that is driven around the country that I believe strangles any sort family compassion. Chinese Ive met out of China seem, well, rather family orientated, but they all have stated that they ve thought the ideal was a small family. There is a lot of other people besides Chinese who also think that too. There is a lot who want to say things like 'greedy for resources'. As if the limit is just around the corner. I dont believe that. So it's neither needless or worry from where I'm coming from. It is the thought pattern that resources are so limited, that I wish to contradict. And I've said before, I think if China increased it's population it would be able to deal with the society's economic unbalance better. It is actually touching on the subject of gender, and far be it from me to suggest that everybody, male and female alike, has to work. It is that subject that is being prodded, and I would be concerned how much THAT would cause people's 'knickers to get in a knot'.
Posted in: Are you concerned at China’s growing might in security and economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region?
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illsayit
What worries me about China is if they have an attitude that all the world need only have one child-which to be honest I dont think all China thinks that. But making moves to show that China also values family, I think, would ease a lot of tensions about any economic or security issues they undertake.
Posted in: Are you concerned at China’s growing might in security and economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region?
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illsayit
Congratulations! A young woman pregnant, I think is beautiful. And her wording sounds like a new Mum-beautiful!
Posted in: Kumi Koda announces pregnancy to fans during performance
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illsayit
This is all so silly, and obviously strange moves by certain countries, that Im just praying that theyre not using all this talk as bait.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt