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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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Alpine cretinism in Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism
Posted in: Austrian had seven children by daughter locked in cellar for 24 years
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"Fierce clashes between Shiite militiamen and U.S. and Iraqi forces in eastern Baghdad killed at least 38 people, including 22 who died when a U.S. tank fired on attackers, the American military said Monday."
Brave holy warrior goat fanciers all dead and gone to paradise for an eternity of dark-eyed virgins - or raisins; translators aren't sure on this point.
Gots to admire their faith!
Posted in: 38 killed in Baghdad clashes
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"However, Hezbollah is not under the direction of Iran and was not under the direction of Iran at the time of the death of the marines."
Plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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The idea of either frontrunner in this Identity Politics Sweepstakes that the Dem race has now devolved into offering, accepting or even considering to partake in a "Lincoln-Douglas-style debate" is obscene irony, when you recall which side their Democrat predecessor took on the slavery issue:
"I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother or any kin to me whatever."
Posted in: Clinton challenges Obama to one-on-one debate
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"One could say world peace just depends on some American arch-conservative rednecks."
One could also say that endlessly and mindlessly parroting the cliches and labels like "back country rednecks," "arch-conservatives," "neo-cons" and "warmongering" that reverberate in the echo chamber the far Left constructed and crawled into after 9-11 is why Democrat party bigwigs, who only months ago expected they'd see their nominee waltzing uncontested to the White House in November, are now worried that a brokered convention or their undemocratic super delegate system could sunder their party.
Posted in: Clinton challenges Obama to one-on-one debate
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Hillary wants debate.
Barack just wants to eat his waffle.
Posted in: Clinton challenges Obama to one-on-one debate
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Sharpton is in Hillary's pocket and is trying to hurt Obama with this stunt.
Posted in: Sharpton vows to `close this city down' after NYPD officers cleared
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"the sad fact is that our credibility is somewhat low at the moment."
By gum, you could have a point there, ol' chum.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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" What has Iran ever done to USA? Absolutely nothing! "
We are fighting a proxy war with them.
WSJ:
U.S. Says New Find Shows Iran Still Sends Arms to Iraq By YOCHI J. DREAZEN April 25, 2008; Page A1 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary.
Officials in Washington and Baghdad said the purported Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in the past two months. The U.S. plans to publicize the weapons caches in coming days. A pair of senior commanders said a presentation was tentatively planned for Monday.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Can the Dems' openly partisan allies in the media make it til June 3?
Keith Olberman looks like his head is about to explode;or maybe that's just how he always looks. I've really only watched "Special Commentary" and "Worst Person in the World" - nice Stalinist ring to both of those - since this Hillary vs Obama Identity Politics Super Cage Fight to the Death thing started to shape up a few weeks back.
Remember Air America? They were supposed to be the liberal voice that would blow El Rushbo out of the water.
What happened?
Why did AA host Randi Rhodes call Hillary Clinton "a big [effing] whore" ?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/3/92843/19398/790/489406 "Wow!! Randi Rhodes worse than Rush + Coulter"
They know there is a grave crisis, threatening the party's very existence, but unlike all the other failures the Dems are responsible for and the 20 percent approval rating the Dem-majority Congress has they can't blame this on Republicans/Karl Rove/the "corporate-controlled media."
This sooper delegate meltdown/blowup is entirely their own making.
btw - The mancrush certain foreign observers3 of our Great Experiment have on Obama is embarrassing. How obsessed with US politics can non-Americans get?
Is MSNBC Chris Matthews broadcast here in Japan? - -
"The feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech, I mean, I get, I felt this thrill go up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/02/13/chris-matthews-obama-mancrush/
Posted in: Clinton lobbies superdelegates
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"why doesn't this lady just get out? I don't understand why she continues to bring everything down.."
She and her husband - the only post WW2 Democrat prez elected to two terms, but during the little "Holiday From History" between the end of the Soviet empire and 9-11 - do not believe that Obama can win the general.
Posted in: Clinton lobbies superdelegates
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So North Korea was helping Syria (which refuses to sign int'l chem/bio/nuke disarmament treaties...) build a nuke facility capable of producing weapons grade material and the same IAEA guy who basically gave Iran a free pass in this endeavor denounces Israel's attack upon the rogue regime of Baby Assad?
Why, it's almost like there is some kind of axis of evil out there, and it's comprised of Stalinist North Korea and totalitarian Mohammedan regimes in the mid East.
Posted in: IAEA chief hits out at U.S., Israel over Syrian reactor claims
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sezwho wrote:
"If you have a point about Dreams From My Father, I think you would be better to state it instead of asking whether I have read it. Here's your chance. What is your point?"
You just made it, ol chum.
You have not read the book but are apparently quite happy to defend the pathetically racist sentiments within it:
"I found solice in nursing a pervasive sense of grievancee and animosity against my mother's race"
"That hate hadn't gone away"...."white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
I found this one especially ironic, coming as it does from the pen of the media-annointed "uniter" -
"The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
all of the above from Barack Hussein Obama, Dreams From My Father
Sezwho: "Yes, Africans sold Africans to venal white men. But so what? This does not excuse white men from buying and then often cruelly exploiting other human beings."
I noticed you coldn't quite bring yorself to write white European men there...
And in your rather selective view you omitted the much larger and older slave trade between Africans and Arabs - which many insist continues to this day.
Can you find Rev. Wright's thoughts on that? Anything I present would of course be "taken out of context" so I'll let you do his talking for him.
Happy hunting.
Posted in: Obama's ex-pastor slams 'devious,' 'unfair' attacks
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"Selected, not elected"
Welcome to the party.
We're all lawyers by the way.
So sit down over there with the little people.
And don't you dare call us 'elitist.'
Posted in: Clinton lobbies superdelegates
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"And that is why people might do well to pay attention to what Reverend Wright really said in his chickens-coming-home-to-roost talk."
Why are you again discussing Wright, sezwho?
Are you trying to link and make an issue of Iran's state religion with Wright and Obama - who happen to former Mohammedans?
Sheesh.I'll try to phrase this in a way that "progressives" and the PC-obsessed can understand:
This thread is about the consequences Ms. Clinton is promising if theocratic, imperialist, Islamo-centric, Israeli-phobic Iran makes good on any of the public threats uttered by the mullahs mouthpieces - Ahmadinejhad and before him Rafsanjhani.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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"Clinton lobbies the super-delegates"
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"Reid, Pelosi, Dean may intervene in nomination"
"Reid said he would consider writing a joint letter with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding that superdelegates make their endorsements public.
“The three of us, we may write a joint letter [to superdelegates],” said Reid. “We might do individual letters. We are in contact with each other.”
"Reid's comments suggest that the party’s top three officials are contemplating a high-level intervention if the primary season concludes in June without a nominee and many superdelegates still undecided."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0408/ReidPelosiDeanmayinterveneinnomination.html
Amazing. They have a central planning committee that is basically going to decide who gets the nomination.
Posted in: Clinton lobbies superdelegates
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Even better than American victory - -
"April 25, 2008
"Iraqi forces see victory in Basra
"Iraqi soldiers are standing proud in Basra one month after launching a surprise offensive to wipe out murderous gangs of Shia militants that had been allowed to flourish under Britain’s watch."
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"Much of the bomb material is thought to have come from Iran, a charge that the Iranian Government has repeatedly rejected. Lt-Gen Furaiji keeps a small collection of Iranian-made mortars in his office at the Shat al-Arab hotel, which sits on the bank of the Shat al-Arab waterway. He said: “Thanks to the Iranians for handing over all these weapons to us.”
http://timesonline.typepad.com/insideiraqweblog/2008/04/iraqi-forces-se.html
Posted in: Al-Sadr says threat of all-out war applies only to U.S.-led forces
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Heh.
With their hedging ("But, if civil war or uprising doesn't happen...") and now their backpedalling and tortured retrofitting the anti-liberation crowd are sounding like defeated and humbled Muqtadas...
Posted in: Al-Sadr says threat of all-out war applies only to U.S.-led forces
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Hikozaemon:"My problem is the statement of principle angle. Bush advisors have not hidden the fact that the plan to invade Iraq went into action the day of the 9-11 attacks. "
Wrong.
Bush stately quite clearly in debates preceding the 2000 election that he wanted regime change in Iraq.
It is a matter of public record.
The Lefty media (and obviously not just in the States...) like to pride themselves on their vigilance and foresight.
But they failed.
As they have also failed in properly "vetting" the Democrat candidates.
Posted in: N Korea helped Syria's secret nuclear programs: White House
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sushisake writes:"I'm just wondering what breed of dog President Obama is going to keep from next January when he moves into the White House."
So predictable.
As much as I disliked Clinton, I have to admit the dog was a good idea.
It kept the Japanese media, and obviously the media in sushisake's country, focused on White House and US politics at all times.
Mission Accomplished!
Posted in: Clinton, Obama focus on Indiana; McCain visits New Orleans