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redacted at 10:48 PM JST - 9th April

This article, like most, downplays and minimizes Charlton Heston's social activism, if only because in the modern world 'liberals' alone can be given the title of activist; conservatives are usually simply labeled 'haters' or 'ultraconservatives.'

Heston picketed a segregated theater premiering his own movie. He accompanied fellow Republican and civil…

Posted in Actor Charlton Heston dies at 84 at 10:48 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 08:50 PM JST - 9th April

Interesting presupposition, frontandcentre - America is responsible for a lasting Arab-Israeli settlement?

Why America? Was it America that gave Arab land to European and Russian Jews?

Was America behind Sikes-Picot?

The Holocaust is not blood on American hands.

Why is America responsible for what Europe started?

"We are all pro-American…

Posted in Japan, Germany top list of positively rated countries: BBC poll at 08:50 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 07:57 PM JST - 9th April

"redacted, sorry, I'll answer my own question"

No need to apologize. All but four of your posts on this site are about America.

You answer all your own posts, as far as I can tell.

Posted in Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions at 07:57 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 07:23 PM JST - 9th April

"If the US really believes in freedom and justice then it would try these suspects fairly rather than practice such gross hypocrisy, fighting for freedom by using cruelty and injustice. If they're guilty, prove it, and jail them..." yeah yeah yeah whatever. They were lucky they weren't shot and left…

Posted in Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions at 07:23 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 06:46 PM JST - 9th April

notimpressed -

Convince me that I as an American really need to start worrying by posting election results that would prove the US has alienated its traditional or even recently-won allies.

France? Germany? Canada? Australia? Japan? The UK? India?

Sorry, all led by democratically-elected presidents and PMs who are pro-American.…

Posted in Japan, Germany top list of positively rated countries: BBC poll at 06:46 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 06:32 PM JST - 9th April

"...when Ahmadinejad says that Bush used the attacks as justification for invading Iraq, are you really disputing that?"

I wouldn't dispute what Ahmadinejhad jad says for the simple reason that I don't believe him to be serious (or sane) in the first place. He plays to a deeply cynical power-hungry…

Posted in Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions at 06:32 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 05:13 PM JST - 9th April

"Meanwhile, your country simply locks up people for years without any proof of their "crimes", limited or no access to lawyers, legal services or the case against them."

All those "locked up" at Gitmo are foreign born. A child could work that one out.

Iran is imprisoning, hanging and stoning…

Posted in Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions at 05:13 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 05:11 PM JST - 9th April

"But what is proven is Bush's government arranged for members of bin Laden's family to be flown out of the U.S. when there was a complete aircraft flying ban right after 9/11.

Isn't that interesting?" asks sushisake.

Factcheck.org has this to say -

" Media Fund Twists the Truth More…

Posted in Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions at 05:11 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 03:39 PM JST - 9th April

Starbucks is a godsend. The absence of chain-smoking oyaji alone makes it worth a visit.

Can anyone confirm the rumor that they even opened an outlet within the Gitmo compound for guards and gov't employees?

Brilliant.

Posted in Starbucks website flooded with ideas for improving customer service at 03:39 PM JST - 9th April
redacted at 02:47 PM JST - 9th April

front and centre - "tenuous handling of facts"?

Yes, your population is growing - the new additions to the census numbers are immigrants and the children of Pakistani, Indian and Sri Lankan immigrants the BBC refer to as "Asian" for some peculiar reason.

"A record number of British citizens are…

Posted in Japan, Germany top list of positively rated countries: BBC poll at 02:47 PM JST - 9th April