Wednesday February 15, 2012

ptolemy's past comments

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    ptolemy

    Except Grafton, you are paid by the tax payers to represent your nation before the rest of the world's media acting like a drunken jack ass. Those in positions of trust are held to higher standards. Something missing in today's societies is this: Those given repsonsibility are held to higher accountability. Public service is a position of humility, something lost in societies today. That is the reason Nakagawa acted like this, the arrognace of public servats who think they are kings and not servants.

    Posted in: Nakagawa seen 'misbehaving' at Vatican; Russian official says he acted like 'brain was turned off'

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    ptolemy

    Wow, Takita looks like Dean Martin. Wonder if he has a pickled liver too.

    Posted in: Academy Awards

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    ptolemy

    71% of people polled: Aso sama, you need to resign.

    Aso: Nantonaku, no I won't.

    71% of people polled: Awww, that's not fair. Please?

    Aso: Nantonaku, not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.

    Posted in: Poll: 71% want Aso to resign

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    ptolemy

    And these are the only people in Japan rallying around him. His approval rating of 6% speaks volumes.

    Posted in: Cabinet ministers rally around Aso

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    ptolemy

    Yes I want Aso replaced, and any corpse would have more life and intelligence than Aso.

    Posted in: Would you like to see Taro Aso replaced as Japan's prime minister, and if so, who do you think would do a better job?

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    ptolemy

    I think there is link with their "fashion" sense and this being one of top years for colds and other illnesses.

    Posted in: What do you think of young Japanese women's fashion style this winter?

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    ptolemy

    Only if freedom of thought, intellectual freedom, and academic liberty mean nothing any more. People can believe in the flying spaghetti monster all day, but other people have the right to ask for evidnece. The problem with debates today, many believe without question what teachers, ADL, and others tell them.
    There is nothing wrong with a healthy dose of analytical skepticism, and asking for evidence other than "so and so who was a survivor said so". Especially after many of these "survivor and eye witness" accounts have turned out to be bogus.

    Posted in: Should Holocaust denial be a crime?

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    ptolemy

    Wow, who died? I thought they won awards. The economy must really be getting them down, or the fact Aso is still the PM.

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    ptolemy

    Cut the guy some slack, he is after all a pro-wrestler. Then again, forget it, the fact he is a prowrestler is enough cause for insulting him.
    Carry on.

    Posted in: The Great Sasuke arrested on suspicion of assaulting man on train

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    ptolemy

    Nakagawa behaved “as if the power switch of his brain had been turned off”

    I thought this was the single requirement to be an LDP member.

    Posted in: Nakagawa seen 'misbehaving' at Vatican; Russian official says he acted like 'brain was turned off'

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    ptolemy

    And to think of the odds of two of the worlds dumbest people could be in one place at one time. I wonder how all the air stayed in the room with those two together?

    Posted in: Tokyo Big Talk

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    ptolemy

    Will they be given those dorky yellow signs in the real thing?

    Posted in: Disaster drill

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    ptolemy

    It looks to me as if the mock intruder is pulling the net over himself. The robot may have only netted the torso.

    Posted in: Security robot

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    ptolemy

    Shintaro Ishihara and the unique 4 seasons of Japan

    Posted in: Who or what is the most recognizable pop culture icon on the planet?

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    ptolemy

    Why does she want to get married before 27? After that she is "Christmas cake". Why all the awards to useless and talentless people? Its PR and marketing. Why to any of this? It's all part of uniquely, unique Japan. Just like the four seasons, the unique snow, Mt. Fuji, and on and on. So unique our minds will never get it. Just sigh and keep plugging on.

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    ptolemy

    The big media companies that once invested in serious accountability journalism are shells of their former selves. The Tribune Co. — in other words, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune — has slashed its Washington staff by more than half. Newspaper chains such as Cox are fleeing D.C. altogether.

    The end result: There are few reporters in this country doing the kind of investigative reporting that hold government officials’ feet to the fire. Think back eight years to the pre-Iraq war reporting and consider what happened when the big media guys slept at the wheel and let no criticism emerge in their reports or editorials. If they had lived up to their responsibility the nation, and world, would have been better served.

    Rigorous reporting is even more important when you have one-party rule in Washington. Democrats, like Republicans, are simply less likely to scrutinize a president of their own. The end result here: Don’t expect the Democratic Congress to investigate the Obama administration or hold a bunch of tough oversight hearings. That means the only real check on Obama is the same one it’s always been — the voters.

    Posted in: Obama moves to reshape U.S. policy by closing Gitmo

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    ptolemy

    Jack Murtha said, "Go ahead and close the place down and bring the prisoners to my district."

    You people in western Pennsylvania in Jack Murtha's district, you need to know that he has offered the welcome mat for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay to be brought into your neighborhoods. This is about Obama making political rather than security decisions.

    Posted in: Obama moves to reshape U.S. policy by closing Gitmo

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    ptolemy

    We won't get a judgment based on honesty, openness, and the basis of his performance, but rather, that his criticism will only be behind closed doors. The media elite of the world might criticize him, but they'll never do so publicly because he's been elevated by their tap and their lack of criticism. President Obama deserves no less than the standard of other presidents in treatment by the press.

    Posted in: Obama's challenges are clear, remedies not

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    ptolemy

    And both together have a combined IQ of my pilot pen.

    Posted in: Paris Hilton

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    ptolemy

    In this speech Barack Obama actually said that government is where people are gonna turn when they need work. And of course people will turn to the government to fix their problems instead of trying to fix them on their own first. It was a campaign speech, and I think that he tried to just touch on too many things and strive for memorable line after memorable line. And, as such, it came off as an infomercial. There wasn't anything of substance, but there were good sound bites. Of course that's what any politician looks for.

    Posted in: What do you think of President Obama's inauguration speech?

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