JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Apple dethrones Google as company with most respected image in eyes of consumers
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JFA plans to hold Under-20 Women's World Cup match in Fukushima
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John McCain = the radical right.
That's pretty amusing. Kinda like reading that George Bush, running for reelection in 04, visited britain because he desperately needed a photo-op wif duh queen.
Posted in: Obama accuses Clinton of having no restraint and using Republican tactics
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"I have never seen anything to the effect that he [Rudd] believes torture is a good idea."
I have never seen anything to the effect that he thinks waterboarding is torture.
In the article it is termed a "harsh interrogation technique."
No permanent organ damage.
To date it has been used on three individuals. The Islamofascist Khalid Mohammed sang like a little bird.
The info he provided saved lives, by gum.
American lives.
I don't know about you, but that is good enough for me.
Posted in: Cheney, other top officials OK'd harsh interrogation techniques
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Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, Condi Rice take positions on political issues or say something the racism hucksters, the Hate America First crowd and the smarmy, openly partisan liberal media elites disagree with and they get called Uncle Toms - or worse - and with their fellow African Americans often leading the ugly chorus. They get accused of selling out to "white people," ( "rich white people," as Obama's pastor would say) and letting down ordinary folks still "oppressed" by "the system."
But if Barack Obama goes to San Francisco to basically grovel in front of and try to impress a bunch of wealthy old white libs with a load of rehashed 60's Marxist cant and codespeak holding him responsible for a condescending and idiotic outburst is a "Republican tactic"?
Posted in: Obama accuses Clinton of having no restraint and using Republican tactics
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The entire Commonwealth is a failure.
Zimbabwe's rot is only slightly more accelerated.
Posted in: Mugabe deploys troops as Zimbabwe general strike looms
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"...statistics always have to be interpreted."
Statistics on gun violence in America are never interpreted, the Left has seen to that. To do so is to be denounced as "racist."
Posted in: Guns still easy to get one year after Virginia Tech massacre
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"Especially in light of America's foreign policies towards religion in other countries' governments."
Exactly what is America's policy towards religion in other gov'ts?
Can you elaborate?
Posted in: Clinton, Obama focus on faith at forum
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22, 000 suspected terrorists or supporters.
So, uh, I guess it would be silly of me to ask - is England still "a nation of shopkeepers"?
Posted in: Top UK law-and-order official warns terror threat is getting worse
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"I think it particularly ill-advised to celebrate the "moral authority" of a man who has yet to adequately account for what many Islamic people consider to be anti-Islamic views expressed at Regensburg."
Yassar Arafat called Jews "pigs and monkeys." He was invited 13 times to the Clinton White House.
Why does the Pope need to answer to Muslims?
They have their faith, he has his; just as Bush practices a form of Christianity different from the Pope's Catholicism.
Look at the article: "He [Bush] added that he wanted to honor Benedict’s conviction that “there’s right and wrong in life, that moral relativism has a danger of undermining the capacity to have more hopeful and free societies.”
Seems pretty clear-cut to me. The President of the US wants to honor a man who, like his predecessor, has aims congruent with America's.
Posted in: Bush plans big reception for pope
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Obama is as far left as you can get on abortion.
"In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote." http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647
Posted in: Clinton, Obama focus on faith at forum
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I'd say it's Newt Gingrich who really understands what Obama said and what he is:
"If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans. Their beliefs are so alien to your leftwing viewpoint that you have to seek some psychological explanation for what seem to be weird ideas.
They can't really believe in the right to bear arms.
They can't really believe in traditional marriage.
They can't really believe in their faith in God.
They can't really want to enforce the law on immigration.
Therefore, they must be "bitter" and "frustrated."
This is the closest Senator Obama has come to openly sharing his wife's view that "America is a mean country". Not since Governor Dukakis have we seen anyone so out of touch with normal Americans. It makes perfect sense that it was in a fundraiser in San Francisco that he would have shared the views he has so carefully kept hidden for the entire campaign."
http://newt.org/Blogs/tabid/59/Default.aspx
Posted in: Clinton calls Obama divisive and elitist
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22, 000 suspected terrorists in the UK?
What did the gov't do to create such numbers?
Or is it the well-known racism in England that breeds such violent resistance and dissatisfaction?
Posted in: Top UK law-and-order official warns terror threat is getting worse
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"Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Sounds quite elite to me"
I'll bet it beat going to Vietnam.
Shame he never graduated. It is very unusual for a Rhodes scholar to not complete their degrees. I believe Clinton was asked by the university not to return.
from the Sydney Morning Herald: "Eileen Wellstone: as a 19-year-old student she lodged a complaint of sexual assault against Bill Clinton, in 1969 while he was at Oxford. She reconfirmed the incident to reporters in 1999."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/paul-sheehan/undone-by-ghost-of-trysts-past/2008/03/02/1204402265736.html
Guy makes me ashamed to be American.
Posted in: Clinton calls Obama divisive and elitist
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As a group I've found Canadian males to be probably the most well-adjusted single category of traveler to Japan, though it's a different story with their womenfolk.
Perhaps there is some corollary.
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourist groups tend to behave badly wherever they go?
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You know, sezwho, to me (and maybe only me) in many of your posts it's like you try to come off as somewhat neutral or sort of commenting from a disinterested position on many of the issues discussed in the world section.
And on those rare occasions when news out of Iraq is good you are quick to play down the positive and get the perception back to quagmire or total disaster.
Maybe I'm reading too much into your personal style but on threads such as this one it's like you have a perspective - "internationalist" I'm guessing - you believe you can't openly disclose and must, usually by sort of deconstructing others' opinions or illuminating what you regard as ironies more than arguing, advance by some other way your ideas on US policy.
Which is why in your above post the frequency of "our ally" and phrases like "we have a leader" and "We aren't that important" seem oddly out of character when contrasted with your other posts.
By gum, there are times when I do believe you are not what you say you are.
But to get to your post -
" Nonetheless, our ally Spain did vote in a leader who gave rebuke to the war effort."
There was that gentle nudge from Al Qaeda days before the election. Only 200 innocents killed...
"Our ally England did see a change in leadership in favor of a politician who distanced himself from our war effort and who has drawn down troops, notably in Basra. "
If so, where is the love these days?
"The latest YouGov poll in the Sunday Times showed the resurgent Conservatives on 44 percent with Labour on 28 percent and the centrist Liberal Democrats on 17 percent." http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1269734320080413
"Our ally Australia saw a change in leadership in favor of a politician who disagreed with our war effort but does not wish to provide combat support for it."
Is that what you really meant to say?
Posted in: Cheney, other top officials OK'd harsh interrogation techniques
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The Commonwealth failed the people of Zimbabwe.
Actually, maybe it would be more accurate to say the Commonwealth has failed.
Posted in: Zimbabwe announces partial vote recount as regional leaders call for swift processing of votes
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“I’ve been meeting with Hamas leaders for years,” Carter said.
Another democrat ex-president who seems to think he rules for life and apparently also believes that among his self-appointed privileges is immunity from laws like the Logan Act.
Posted in: Carter defends plan to meet Hamas leader
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Just because Europeans took bribes from Saddam Hussein and armed him to the teeth does not mean you can try and guilt trip em.
Did I get it right?
Posted in: Bloodiest week this year for U.S. troops in Iraq
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"But they are culturally elite! That's supposed to be a good thing."
Bubba Clinton with his cigar, "culturally elite"?
Posted in: Clinton calls Obama divisive and elitist
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It's a silly Q but I'd say -
Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed.
I would also extend an invite to all the America-obsessed here on JT, that they might sit outside, listen to these three and somehow be able to translate for one another the dialogue that would ensue.
Posted in: If you could invite any three people in the world to have dinner with you, who would you choose?
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England - and by extension Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia and Canada - clearly want war:
'*"Jacqui Smith’s stark estimate came as she argues for an extension of the time authorities are allowed to hold terror suspects without charge.
“We now face a threat level that is severe. It’s not getting any less, it’s actually growing,” Smith wrote the editorial to be printed in The News of The World tabloid. “There are 22,000 individuals (police and security agencies) are monitoring. There are 200 networks. There are 30 active plots.”*'
I really feel sorry for people in those countries.
Posted in: Top UK law-and-order official warns terror threat is getting worse