JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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powderfinger
"There is just so much abuse the Palestinians can endure. "
I'm impressed by what they endure. But I'm amazed at how much they seem to enjoy it.
Posted in: Palestinian rockets fly deep into Israel
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powderfinger
"Fanatics on the Right that spread hate about Muslims just fuel the fire of the fundamentalist Muslims that are fanatics who commit the atrocities like squirting acid in a child's face."
Are you actually trying to say that literate Muslims in Afghanistan are driven to disfiguring young women of their faith because of what an American scholar writes about Islam, in English, thousands of miles away?
Posted in: Acid attacks threaten Afghan schoolgirls
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powderfinger
smithinjapan :Please don't go around asking questions and then mocking said people for posting proof that you call impartial; I mean, after all, you tend to quote blogs."
Good point, smithinjapan. I checked if Bill Ayers has one. Turns out he does. Real spiffy too. Like his office door it features a photo of the loser lefty Che Guevara. Hey - Did you know Bill has an Arabic name? That's right. He calls himself "Abu Zayd." It's all there on Bill's blog, his fear of and disgust with the blogosphere notwithstanding. Lots of red stars on there. Do you reckon they are North Vietnamese or Communist China military paraphenalia? There are even links to sites selling his book Fugitive Days. A glowing review from Edward Said - who was replaced by Obama's pal Rashid Khalidi. Small world, eh? And it turns out Obama reviewed one of Ayers' books, waaaay back in 1997. Gosh, it's like we haven't been getting the real picture, have we?
Fugitive Days. Hmmm, that kind of contradicts what some have posted above, doesn't it? If Bill was innocent, why was he on the lam for so long?
http://www.billayers.org/
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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powderfinger
"No end in sight, and the crappy Taliban is getting even stronger thanks to Bush and Co., allowing the former to commit heinous crimes like this. There, that make you happy?"
Bush and "company" allow religious fanatics to disfigure young helpless women?
Please elaborate for us, professor.
Posted in: Acid attacks threaten Afghan schoolgirls
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powderfinger
"The reality is that either the United States provides the necessary global leadership to get us out of today’s mess or we are all sunk."
It never changes. Half the world blames America for all its problems and half the world demands America solve all their problems.
Posted in: So who exactly is running the global show?
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powderfinger
"according to Mayor Daley."
Oh, yes. Him. The guy who inherited control of the Chicago Machine.
There's an impartial player.
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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powderfinger
"Yet Bill Ayers has clearly been rehabilitated based on his diverse associations, as was pointed out"
When?
If you are actually interested in learning if Ayers' views have changed you can hear him and his wife peaking at an SDS reunion 2007. SDS was the group that the Weathermen splintered from.
Ayers:
"We were people who had a moral vision of what was possible. And when we talk, for example, about health care, about peace, we’re talking a language of ethics, not a language of instrumentalism or opportunism, or what we might get. So we have to speak in a language that’s large and generous and encompassing. And then we have to act.
"Empire resurrected and unapologetic, war without end, an undefined enemy that’s supposed to be a rallying point for a new kind of energized jingoistic patriotism, unprecedented and unapologetic military expansion, white supremacy changing its form, but essentially intact, attacks on women and girls, violent attacks, growing surveillance in every sphere of our lives, on and on and on, the targeting of gay and lesbian people as a kind of a scapegoating gesture to keep our minds off of what’s really happening. "
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/bfdb9f9c-01c5-474c-a97d-8f29631d2178
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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powderfinger
The answer to why the terrorist Bill Ayers is not rotting in jail is not "Because he was never convicted of anything."
He was freed because the FBI bungled the case. Wiretaps were illegal in the late 70's.
And upon being freed Ayers infamously quipped, "Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it's a great country."
There is a documentary from the 1980's which contains a more in depth look at the Weather Underground, including some pretty chilling testimony from an FBI informant (Larry Grathwohl) in the group - "reeducation" centers, assistance from Cuba, Russia and Red China, dealing with the counter-revolution and liquidating those who resisted reeducation.
"...I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZ1xp8rhiM&feature=related
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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powderfinger
"No end in sight."
And from posters like you no criticism of the Taliban either...
Posted in: Acid attacks threaten Afghan schoolgirls
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powderfinger
"Ayers and Obama also served together on a Chicago school reform board and a foundation board, but their discussions were limited to the issues before those boards, and the two never talked about anything he wrote in his book."
And it's pure coincidence that Obama and Ayers shared their office with another educator named Mike Klonsky. And it is also a coincidence that Klonsky was a self-described Maoist. And it's pure coincidence that Ayers' wife worked for the same law firm that hired Michelle Obama and then Barack Obama. But politics, and what they really wanted to do to America, never came up.
Yeah. Sure. I'll buy that. I believe everything I read. Why would newspapers, in the midst of an industry-wide slump threatening the existence of some of the most powerful in their business, conceal or distort information damaging to the candidate from the party that wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and silence the blogosphere - which Ayers tries to blame in this case.
All of this 'he's just a guy from my neighborhood' and 'he has been rehabilitated' can be easily refuted.
If it is the truth people are actually interested in.
Have a look for yourself at the posters and photos and sayings that decorate Professor Ayers' door.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, all the silly, fetishized failures who are the icons of the radical loser left.
One picture, a thousand words.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2107619/posts
Posted in: Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama
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powderfinger
As far as I can tell, besides regime change in Iraq it appears that almost anything about Sarah Palin is what generates the most communication on this site.
That doesn't bode well for Democrats...
Posted in: Palin urges Republican governors to keep Democrats in check
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powderfinger
What will the death toll be when Obama steps up attacks? He promised to invade.
Posted in: U.S. missiles kill 12 in northwest Pakistan
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powderfinger
You really can't argue with what all those gathered at this conference heard from President George W. Bush:
"Free-market capitalism is far more than an economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility — the highway to the American Dream. And it is what transformed America from a rugged frontier to the greatest economic power in history — a nation that gave the world the steamboat and the airplane, the computer and the CAT scan, the Internet and the iPod.”
Capping all this off, Bush said, “The triumph of free-market capitalism has been proven across time, geography, culture, and faith. And it would be a terrible mistake to allow a few months of crisis to undermine 60 years of success.”
Posted in: Bush: Intervention not 'cure-all' for financial crisis
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powderfinger
"The U.S. economy is enormously complicated. "
Truest words on this thread. You would think, reading everything else here, that the American economic model has died of self-inflicted wounds. So why can't the clever Europeans or the Chinese leapfrog ahead of us? What is stopping them?
Posted in: Bush: Intervention not 'cure-all' for financial crisis
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powderfinger
I'm just shocked. Obama is behind "the hate on 8."
The LA Times reports:
"In the days leading up to the election, some Democrats received "robo-calls" on their cellphones containing an excerpt from such a speech.
"Here is Barack Obama in his own words on the definition of marriage," the call began.
Then the voice of Obama speaking to a crowd comes on: "I believe marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God is in the mix."
A narrator then urged a yes vote on Proposition 8. It looks like Obama has a lot of support in California, particularly among black voters:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gayblack8-2008nov08,0,1601616.story
Posted in: Criticism mounts among gays over California ban
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powderfinger
"Wow, the Republicans stupidity and lack of financial oversight can bring the global economy to its knees, but they can't find an old guy with breathing problems living in a cave."
There really are some melodramatic and silly comments on this site.
Posted in: CIA says hunt for bin Laden is on
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powderfinger
The NY TImes is reporting that "Palin's Appeal Proves Durable"
"...the big question for Gov. Sarah Palin has been whether her backers would remain enthusiastic over the long run.
"As it turns out, over the past few days, about 1,000 people have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Our Country Deserves Better, a political action committee that is planning a pro-Palin advertisement later this month.
“We thought it would be appropriate to have the thank-you ad run around Thanksgiving,” said Joe Wiezbicki, the PAC’s coordinator. The group expects to shoot on Monday and raise “a couple hundred thousand dollars” to buy airtime nationally."
NY Times Friday, November 14, 2008 Politics
Posted in: Palin says woman on ticket could help in 2012
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powderfinger
"and yet they think it is totally OK that their own former candidate Sarah Palin at the age of 44 doesn't appear to know that Africa is a continent."
Palin's father is a high school science teacher. And by most accounts I have read a very good one. Do you honestly believe that his daughter doesn't know where Africa is and that it is not a country but a continent? Do you honestly believe that running against the most famous man Kenya has ever produced, ironically an American, she was was completely unaware of Africa? I mean, come on. Hers is the political party that under Reagan bombed Libya, remember? Hers is the party that over the last 8 years has done more to help Africa than any administration in US history - and don't forget, she is one of those 'fundamentalist' Xtians. Surely she has been challenged on her position on abstinence and AIDs, and surely she was asked about Bush's program for Africa. Also, didn't she supposedly have at her church in Alaska a visit from an African priest who blessed her and prayed for her protection? Think. She's in her forties. As a journalism student in the 80's, living in Hawaii and on the mainland US she had to have encountered protests against S Africa's apartheid regime. Those are just a few examples that come to mind.
Seriously, all you do repeating childish lies like that is confirm the institutional bias in the American media.
And another thing - Palin was not candidate for president, as your post implies. She was selected to run as the vice president.
I am pretty sure you know that.
But imagine if every time I spoke of sushisake3 I referred to you as "the guy who thought Palin was running for president," huh-huh-huh.
Posted in: Palin says woman on ticket could help in 2012
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powderfinger
"btw, I don't think Buddhism should have been there. I can't nor haven't heard of them doing anything to hurt anyone. If fact, I think it is insulting to call it a religion because it makes sense and religion doesn't."
Do you live in Japan? You might want to investigate the very un-Buddhist support for state militarism some of Japan's most famous sects stooped to during the war.
That is, unless you enjoy your illusions...
Posted in: World leaders plead for religious tolerance
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powderfinger
"What, no Husseins?"
The Financial Times of November 13, 2008 has something that might interest you.(The URL doesn't load properly here.)
"8,000 Beduins stake their claim as the lost tribe of Barack Obama"
"A sheikh in Galilee says he has evidence that he and his family are linked by blood to the new President"
Posted in: Obama name popular in U.S. maternity wards