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plasticmonkey
That hasn't changed.
Posted in: Gov't plan to sell Japan Tobacco stake causes volatile trading
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plasticmonkey
You should never trust an article that claims things like
JapanGal speaks the truth. Great sushi ain't that hard to find. And once you hit the top level, it's all just a matter of personal taste.
Posted in: Best sushi restaurants in Tokyo
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plasticmonkey
@silverspring
Do you get pleasure from watching people who you will never know (and whose talent and art is unremarkable) achieve their goal of becoming famous?
Posted in: Lucky girl
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plasticmonkey
@Serrano Yeah, I bet it's really fun ogling pics of scantily clad minors. There are web sites for that, you know.
Posted in: AKB48 perform at Shanghai Japan Week event
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plasticmonkey
This story reads a lot like North Korean KCNA propaganda.
Thanks again JT for keeping the religion alive.
Posted in: AKB48 perform at Shanghai Japan Week event
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plasticmonkey
ubikwit -- absolutely gd right
Posted in: Lucky girl
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plasticmonkey
supercross
Yes, grassroots social movement by the wota, and brave soldiering by the objects of their sublimated desires. So inspirational.
Posted in: Lucky girl
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plasticmonkey
Unfortunately, the Japanese public's expectation for an opposition party is to simply oppose everything the ruling party does. Like the audience in a vaudeville show that's supposed to boo whenever the villain comes on stage. Many Japanese do not admire Tanigaki for doing this, but neither do they see it as unusual. Tanigaki and the LDP are simply playing their part in the script of Japanese politics.
And so nothing ever really changes and the masses remain, as ever, apathetic and disempowered.
Posted in: LDP chief grills Noda in Diet Q&A session
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plasticmonkey
Monsters is the right term. What kind of people attack a school van? How can anyone think killing children will lead to happiness for anyone? Is this radical Islam's vision of paradise?
Posted in: Gunmen attack school van in Pakistan; 5 dead
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plasticmonkey
This is sure to give the Swanson Frozen TV Dinner Museum some stiff competition.
Posted in: Cup Noodle Museum to open in Yokohama on Sept 17
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plasticmonkey
@Virtuoso -- that's right. I remember within days of Bill Clinton becoming president I could see bumper stickers saying, "Don't blame me. I didn't vote for Clinton." Same sort of thing for Obama.
Anyway, old Dick has well proven his disregard for rule of law and constitutional authority, so who cares what he thinks.
Posted in: Cheney: U.S. would have been different if Hillary Clinton were president
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plasticmonkey
This is news? There are all sorts of study exchange programs between universities worldwide and in Japan.
Posted in: Univy of Louisiana to conduct exchange study with 4 Asian universities
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plasticmonkey
@Breitbart
So you're defending a movement to deny the free exercise of religion (e.g. building a mosque), while denigrating those who raise concerns about Perry's blatant employment of God for political gain.
Perry is running for president and implying that he's God's choice, that he's the rain that's going to water the parched earth. That's not what MLK did. Obama did not hold mass prayer rallies in his campaign.
You're the epitome of the religious right's hypocrisy. Although I sense you are not terribly religious at heart, you embrace a cynical kind of American civil religion (the Christian God and his favored land) that clearly goes against the founding principles of America, principles that shed hundreds of years of an unholy and oppressive alliance between church and state. And you'd be ready to accept such a theocracy because it serves your anger against true pluralism, diversity, and open discourse in culture.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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plasticmonkey
Yes, but the great reformers you mentioned did not organize mass prayer rallies to give the impression that God is a socially and fiscally conservative Republican. Read up on the people behind "The Response", the New Apostolic Reformation crowd. Pretty scary.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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plasticmonkey
No, it doesn't. It means the system is deeply flawed because it is dishonest and/or deluded. Come on, you know better.
Posted in: New justice minister won't OK executions in near future
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plasticmonkey
I'm saying they should not have been executed by an enlightened governing body. Nothing is accomplished by doing so, and moral integrity is lost by doing so. If you want to talk about maximum penalty, why not torture people to death?
The death penalty is no solution to such a problem (and I question your data).
Posted in: New justice minister won't OK executions in near future
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@Breitbart
So by that rationale you believe in theocracy. And sharia law, were that the majority persuasion in your neighborhood. Which I doubt it is.
"Collectivists" and Marxists are right that religion (especially monotheistic, faith-based claptrap) should be ridiculed (I'd take out the maginalized and expunged). The history of Europe is a prime example of how power-hungry politicians and tyrants were co-conspirators and competitors with power-hungry clergymen, both of whom were eager to invoke the name of a fictitious God to impose a guilty, superstitious, and subservient spirit upon their subjects.
And it still works wonders for Rick Perry.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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plasticmonkey
What? How about corruption and collusion between government, bureaucrats, zaibatsu, and gangsters? Not on the list? Oh, they'll take care of that after Japan's miserable trainwreck of an economy gets back on track.
This country will never get its stuff together, in any lasting way, until the greedy old elite squad is put in its place (i.e. the toilet).
A summary of Noda's plan is lots more construction projects at the expense of the middle class.
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@CrazyJoe
Yes, I agree. And that's why there is a thing called a justice system. Because without it people would be inclined toward inflicting justice based on raw anger and loss. That is what most crimes are based on. Justice should be the attempt to transcend that basal instinct in the best interests of all members of society. The death penalty is a profound example of the stubbornness of irrationality and willful ignorance.
I welcome this statement by the new justice minister.
Posted in: New justice minister won't OK executions in near future
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plasticmonkey
As many AKB fans are likewise unable to have relationships with the opposite sex, they too can love vicariously through her character. A real stroke of marketing genius here.
Posted in: Karina, AKB48's Yuko Oshima to costar in drama