nandakandamanda said...

nandakandamanda at 05:13 PM JST - 5th August

Classic spiral path to war the Koreans are walking down. And the secret ingredient which assures the worst will happen? The fact that they are unable to see it or do anything about it. A self-fulfilling prophesy. An inablility to see anything but one side. Blaming one side but no…

Posted in S Korean military stages drill at disputed islets at 05:13 PM JST - 5th August
nandakandamanda at 04:54 PM JST - 5th August

Saw these news reporters on TV this morning and thought 'What greenhorn turkeys'. Not just the studio back in Japan, but the reporters on the ground. Sensational journalism, as the reporter waved his arms, walking backwards, pointing wildly and exclaiming in a melodramatic voice about what had happened yesterday. You…

Posted in China says it regrets beating of Japanese journalists over coverage in Xinjiang at 04:54 PM JST - 5th August
nandakandamanda at 04:45 PM JST - 5th August

The article is very polite "police raided their home and questioned Yoshiyuki", but doesn't really say how much the husband was vilified by the whole nation and especially by the police. Not only did his house and family have to suffer the effects of the sarin, (everything was ransacked and…

Posted in Survivor of 1994 Aum gas attack in Nagano dies in coma at 04:45 PM JST - 5th August
nandakandamanda at 02:46 PM JST - 5th August

lipscombe: "why do the worst possible people for the job usually get it?"

Confucius say, (abridged) "Choose for a leader someone who does not want political power, not someone who does."

Posted in Aso angers DPJ with remark likening party to Nazis at 02:46 PM JST - 5th August
nandakandamanda at 02:39 PM JST - 5th August

WilliB "Doesn´t matter. Jihadist are not afraid to die, because they go to muslim paradise."

I let this go first time around as I didn't want to appear pedantic, but it needs rephrasing. "Jihadists are not afraid to die, because they believe that they go to a Muslim paradise." Because…

Posted in 16 policemen killed in attack in northwest China; terror plot suspected at 02:39 PM JST - 5th August
nandakandamanda at 05:22 PM JST - 4th August

Can't say anything specific or I'll get moderated again, but it strikes me that the latest terrorist attacks are taking ideas from events that have grabbed the biggest headlines in recent weeks. Driving a truck into a place where a known body of people will be, jumping out and knifing…

Posted in 16 policemen killed in attack in northwest China; terror plot suspected at 05:22 PM JST - 4th August
nandakandamanda at 04:37 PM JST - 4th August

There are more formal and older words for 'half'. 'Ai-no-ko' and 'konketsu-ji' for example, but these may actually have carried more racist undertones from the people who used to use them. Words can get loaded over the years in a certain cultural climate.

I'm with Cleo. My kids are stronger…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 04:37 PM JST - 4th August
nandakandamanda at 04:29 PM JST - 4th August

Does anyone ever collect on these bounties?

Posted in Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders at 04:29 PM JST - 4th August
nandakandamanda at 04:28 PM JST - 4th August

Is the title really apt? (un-American vs non-American...)

Burning the flag is being un-American and unpatriotic, surely.

Not being American, = being non-American??? would be the advantage here?

Posted in As U.S. Internet companies expand worldwide, being un-American can be key to success at 04:28 PM JST - 4th August
nandakandamanda at 02:58 PM JST - 4th August

“We tell the enemies of God that God has saved those who will be even more painful for you,” it said. “As Abu Khabab has gone, he left behind, with God’s grace, a generation of faithful students who will make you suffer the worst torture and avenge him and his…

Posted in Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders at 02:58 PM JST - 4th August