JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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jeancolmar
So much for the misnamed Right to Life crowd. These people are murderers and terrorists. Dr. Tiller is only the latest of many victims.
This gang of thugs needs to put the Right to Life people in the same category as al Qaeda.
Whoever this murderer is, there can be no doubt that he was inspired by the climate of hate generated by the so-called Right to Life crowd--which includes the Catholic Church.
The Right to Lifer terrorists are armed and dangerous and dangerous fanatics.
Posted in: Kansas abortion doctor killed in church
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jeancolmar
Japanese universities are basically b.s. but I do not think that all you have to do is attend class. You have to take a test or write a paper, I understand. Anyway, attendance often means sleeping through your lessons. Besides i-phone they could use alarm clocks.
Posted in: Tokyo university gives away iPhones to nab truants via GPS
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jeancolmar
Well that's a good idea. Now what are these people going to do about battered and humiliated husbands, whom no one anywhere takes seriously. This is along with men who were sexually abused as children by women.
There is a sinister subtext to all this. It says that men as still in charge, that ultimately they call the shots. Only now they have to be nice dictators.
Posted in: Malaysia men who call wives ugly better look out
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jeancolmar
I happen to be a cat lover. I've rescued cats as kittens, had them fixed, kept them and given them to worthy people. The fishermen I've given cats to are extremely grateful. Cats kill rats and mice, which are a problem to fish stocks.
Cats are better than rats.
Cat killers ought to know they are more than not killing someone's beloved pet. They are the sort of people who deserve rats in their house, rats that leave dropping in their rice, gnaw on any exposed food and bite them in the middle of the night.
Posted in: NPO provides unusual solution to Japan’s feral cat problem
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jeancolmar
Here is what, until Japan signs, the rest of the world should give the Japanese North Korean abduction issue the cold shoulder. Once that is done on a massive scale Japan will realize that it can no longer remain the child abduction capital of the world and expect sympathy for it own abduction issue.
Posted in: Japan urged to sign accord against parental abductions
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jeancolmar
Bad timing for Obama? How? The plotters were caught. Seems like good timing to me.
Posted in: NYC terror case latest of many homegrown plots
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jeancolmar
Cleo, some vows are harder to keep than others. Furthermore, a lot of people as children are pressured into becoming priests and nuns. In Ireland, becoming a priest or a nun was one quick way to escape poverty and get a free education. On top of that, simply dropping out of the priesthood or nunhood is not that easy, either economically or emotionally. It is not easy to go to the protestants after being a Catholic all your life. And another thing: the vow of celibacy would tend to attract people with sexual problems. It is obvious that among men, a lot are homosexuals who were afraid to come out of the closet and chose to hide within the Catholic Church.
Whatever the case may be, the fact that the abuse of Irish children by priests and nuns was widespread is beyond dispute. The Irish government took a decade to investigate it.
There is something endemically sick within the Catholic Church. It beyond dispute.
Posted in: Irish abuse report blasts Catholic Church
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jeancolmar
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Catholic Church breeds pervs by making their priests and nuns take vows of celibacy. That the Church is rampant with pervs has been showed to be true over and over again.
I'll be that this latest scandal is far from the end.
Posted in: Irish abuse report blasts Catholic Church
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jeancolmar
It is a pity to hear that about the EF24-90L. It was not really meant for a full-frame DSLR. The greater the zoom ratio is the more problems you can expect, particularly when it goes from super wide angle like 24 to telephoto, even short telephoto. Telephoto zooms have the least problems while wide angles, particularly those going to telephone, have the most. This one reason I tend to favor prime lenses.
Posted in: Canon EOS 5D Mark II awarded top honors in Japan's premier photo industry awards
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jeancolmar
The price of this Canon is remarkably cheap for what it does. Check out the prices of the Nikon D3s and the Leica M8 and film M7 new.
Posted in: Canon EOS 5D Mark II awarded top honors in Japan's premier photo industry awards
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jeancolmar
The mess that Bush made is very much with us, and Obama, unfortunately, has become a part of it. What will it take for the US to admit that the "war on terror" is hype and either charged the people it has detained or let them go. I predict that the good vibs that Obama started will not last long internationally. And that is a great pity.
Posted in: Obama to restart military tribunals for Gitmo detainees, dismaying liberals
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jeancolmar
The US has a seemingly nice guy president but nothing has changed. Bush's wars go on, wasting lives and money. And the American antiwar movement is dead.
Posted in: U.S. House votes for $97 billion in war funds
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jeancolmar
Whether the photos are released or not, the damage has been done. Americans are hated in Iraq and Afghanistan. As long as America continues those wars expect American soldiers to get killed.
Release of the photos might have the opposite effect. It may be taken as atonement.
But the military brass who don't want the photos released are not worried so much about the lives of grunts as they are about the image of the US military.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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jeancolmar
The UAW is not the problem. It's only "fault" is that it has been fairly successful in seeing that GM workers get descent wages and benefits, something that is the rule in Western Europe. The problem with GM are short-sighted CEOs and capitalists. The voice of doom has been there for three or four decades. Stop making lousy cars and giving lousy service or else. First came the European imports, then the Japanese, the the Koreans. They are not going belly up. There are giving the Americans what they want.
Everything was tilted in favor of the Big Three. Public transportation was destroyed. Urban planning was cu- de-saced. Americans were forced to buy cars and use them for routine things that would have ordinarily required public transport and walking.
The greedy Big Three got it all--a transport monopoly. And they did what you'd except. They screwed the public with crummy cars.
Guess why practically every other car in the Japan is made in Japan?
The public quietly rebelled.
But still Detroit did not get it. Uh, uh. The CEOs walled themselves off from reality with tons of money.
I say good bloody riddance to GM and Chrysler and, let's hope, Ford. With these parasites gone maybe the US can have civilized public transport and urban planning.
Posted in: Experts say GM bankruptcy almost inevitable
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jeancolmar
"Why don't you ask the millions who fled in '96?"
A better idea: Ask the people who are there now.
Posted in: U.S. blames Taliban for civilian deaths in Afghanistan
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jeancolmar
US militarism has not changed. The US drops the bombs and kills innocent people, then blames the Taliban, who did not drop the bombs. What a load.
How does that make the Taliban look in the hearts and minds of the Afghan people?
Afghanistan is known as the breaker of Empires. Gorbachev was smart enough to pull out of Afghanistan, though it was already too late. Let's see if Obama will wise up.
This loser war, started by Bush, has thrown the entire region into chaos. It is going to get worse.
Posted in: U.S. blames Taliban for civilian deaths in Afghanistan
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jeancolmar
“Extremely over-exaggerated” is bad English. It is also a cheap lie to cover up that once again the US military has blown away innocent civilians.
Posted in: U.S. denies 147 civilians killed in Afghan violence
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jeancolmar
Remembering that this woman is one out of many and we have only the newspaper's profile, I'd like you to consider how this woman who obviously comes from an abusive family and had the misfortune of marrying abusive men would have fared before the economic meltdown. She very likely would not have had to resort to prostitution. She would have had enough temporary jobs to pull her through. No, this is not simply the woman's problem. This is a lousy time to be a temporary worker, even if you are socially adjusted. That's the reality. That's the reality for not only this particular single mother but a lot of other single mothers.
One must remember that this a weekly and weeklies are notoriously unreliable. This human interest story may be a concoction. But the statistic on the income of single mothers can be checked out. I tend to trust at least that part of the article.
Posted in: Single mothers, squeezed by recession, turning to prostitution as last resort
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jeancolmar
America has a nice guy president and a war that is getting worse by the day. This unfortunately is blood on America's hands and, unfortunately, Obama's hands. It is past time for the US to get out of Afghanistan. It was a mistake to start the war there in the first place.
Anyone remember why the US is in Afghanistan? Originally it was to get Bin Landen. That's one mission that wasn't accomplished and won't be. Before the war we at least knew where he was. Now we don't know. Before the war the Taliban were an Afghanistan problem. Now they are a regional problem and, therefore, an international problem.
Bush is gone but Bush's evil is still with us. What a bloody mess Obama has inherited.
Posted in: Afghan death toll from U.S. bombings rises
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jeancolmar
You know friends, getting married and having children is normal. Women in this country have been conditioned to think that being a housewife is a good thing. When it all goes to hell, there ought to be social safety nets. That is logical. It saves society money and pain in the long run.
In a case like Ruriko's it is wrong to blame the victim or her "karma." What happened was her bad luck but not her fault. There are a lot of people who seem very good but turn out to be monsters once you are married to them. If anyone of you here has a fool-proof way saving people from marrying "arseholes" you will be a millionaire as soon as you published. In the meantime, something other than blaming the victim ought to be done so that single mothers do not have to turn to prostitution to earn a living wage.
Posted in: Single mothers, squeezed by recession, turning to prostitution as last resort