powderfinger said...

powderfinger at 03:33 PM JST - 22nd November

America's closest neighbors are multiracial nations but can't produce an Obama-like figure.

Why is anyone expecting ethnically homogenous Japan to do so?

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powderfinger at 02:29 PM JST - 22nd November

I predict that when Obama starts to flounder in the polls - maybe next summer or so - stories about all the good in Iraq will slowly start to appear in the mainstream media. At present it is still only bloggers bringing us such news. This is from an Iraqi…

Posted in Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest U.S. pact at 02:29 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 02:21 PM JST - 22nd November

"Next to al-Sistani, al-Sadr is probably the single most powerful man in Iraq."

If he is so powerful, why is he hiding in Iran?

Posted in Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest U.S. pact at 02:21 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 02:06 PM JST - 22nd November

Personally, can't wait til Royal Hosts no longer blights the landscape here.

Can we get an article or two on the new breed of tachinomis popping up, college girls behind the counter, cheap swill, foreigners welcome...

Posted in Countdown begins on extinction of family restaurants at 02:06 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 01:57 PM JST - 22nd November

I think smith would agree that Al Sadr is one hell of a community organizer.

Posted in Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest U.S. pact at 01:57 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 01:54 PM JST - 22nd November

Shouldn't some angry beardo in Saudi somewhere have issued a fatwa by now?

Posted in Somali pirates build up defenses after making ransom demand for Saudi tanker at 01:54 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 01:48 PM JST - 22nd November

How much sillier can the media get? They rail at Bush for his supposedly unilateral approach to matters international and then here they turn around and make the man President of the Entire Western Hemisphere so they can lionize yet another socialist thug - Putin's cabin boy Medvedev - use…

Posted in Russian leader embarks on defiant Latin America tour at 01:48 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 01:29 PM JST - 22nd November

smithinjapan: "Don't they [Iraqis] therefore have the right to protest then and burn effigies of unpopular people like in any free nation?"

Indeed they do. I reckon their free speech laws are more liberal than those in some of the free nations whose ranks they have recently joined;Canada, with its…

Posted in Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest U.S. pact at 01:29 PM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 10:04 AM JST - 22nd November

Just one more threat to civilization that suicidal, sentimental Lefty morality has brought us:

"The key problem is that America's NATO allies have effectively abandoned the historical legal rules permitting irregular fighters to be tried in special military courts (or, in the case of pirates, admiralty courts) in favor of…

Posted in Somali pirates build up defenses after making ransom demand for Saudi tanker at 10:04 AM JST - 22nd November
powderfinger at 09:34 AM JST - 22nd November

He forgot Canada?

Posted in Russian leader embarks on defiant Latin America tour at 09:34 AM JST - 22nd November