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I think the Japanese will always consider us as foreigners no matter how long we live…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
U.S. automakers does not regard the Japanese market as worth much of an effort. The market…
Posted in: What do you think are the main reasons why U.S. car sales are so low in Japan?
Why so hard on people who like game centers? If they enjoy it, what's the problem?
They think this will help their exports, because with a devalued yen their products will be…
Posted in: Yen weakens as BOJ eases monetary policy
Yes the Judge threw out this stupid complaint.
Posted in: California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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"They will pick up *anything *- anything - to attack about Clinton or Obama, just to try and stay above water."
You just don't get it, do you sushi.
Obama and Hillary - with a little help from the media - are going to do more damage to their party than Karl Rove could have dreamt possible.
Google it - - Rush Limbaugh + Operation Chaos - - to see the sort of fun hardcore Republicans are having with the mess the Dems have gotten themselves into.
Posted in: Pennsylvania loss shows Obama still struggling to win key constituencies
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"They've already debated over 20 times and at this point, particularly with Hillary wanting to debate flag lapel pin points, Obama has nothing to gain. I think he has remembered the advisory against wrestling with a pig. The pig is in its element in dirt."
A good point there.
Obama looks like he knows a thing or two about handling angry women. Maybe it comes from the single mother who raised him after his father ran off. She was on welfare, yeah. Or as you so quaintly put it, support checks .
Of course his wife ain't exactly the picture of contented suburban America either. She's also a lawyer.
I reckon she is the Dems' next Hillary, by gum.
Posted in: Democrats attack each other two days before Pennsylvania vote
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"Even if Iran were to nuke Israel--and that's a highly unlikely scenario even if acquires nuclear weapons--Israel would have plenty of time, and considerably more weaponry, to "obliterate" Iran."
Sez - I think what Europeans like you need to worry about is Israel implementing the so-called Samson Option. Europe, by facilitating Iran's nuke program, may have also made itself a target for retaliation. The modern version of the Samson Option is said to portray Israel, if facing annihilation, hitting all of those responsible.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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"Last time I checked, Hamas were Palestinian and Hezbollah were Lebanese; they are not Iranian."
They are both Iranian-backed. And have admitted as much. Iran, as I pointed out, doesn't have the capacity to wage war head-on.
But I think you and I would agree, letting Hillary be the one whose finger might be on the button is a mistake.
Better it is someone battle-tested, like John McCain.
He would deter the nuke club wannabe Iran, hopefully long enough for their already faltering and unpopular regime to be deposed of by ordinary Persians, who have been made a very unpopular laughingstock these last 29 years.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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"Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran"
She's a woman, and she's talking 'nucular' devastation!
Hoooooaaaaahhhh, git some Hill!
Wow. Surely noises like that have reached the ears of "The Hidden Imam," even if he is still at the bottom of the well he was pushed into/is hiding in.
So where is he? Why does he tarry? Ahmadinejhad had the streets of Teheran widened just for him.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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"Actually Iran has a remarkable historical record of non-aggression."
Yeah, Hamas and Hezbollah spring to mind.
Of course, it's hard to match the sort of large scale mechanized agression Russia and the US and the UK and France are capapble of when your state religion is one as backwards as the one Iran's ruling regime have built their "revolution" on.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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"Unfortunately, Hillary, Obama, and McCain are trying to outdo each other to express their devotion to their Israeli masters."
I always enjoy that one. Counterbalances the "Bush is in the pockets of the House of Saud" barking your hear from the Left.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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There are reports that Mooky's own family is turning on him...
"Iraq’s Josef Al-Sadr says that Muqtada Al- Sadr has tainted Our Family Reputation; --We will deal with him internally.
Alseyed Josef Alsadar a member of the honored Sadar family wrote a letter to Alrafedain news (Nida'a al Rafidain News) which said: "Muqtada al-Sadr has tainted the reputation of this respected family, and the family disowns Muqtada. We are as innocent of him as the wolf is of the blood of Josef (Biblical (Old Testament I believe) and Koranic reference). The family is working on ways to discipline him with in the family. Consultations for this are held at the highest level to come up with punishments for its rogue son."
http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/32105/
Posted in: Rice, in Baghdad, calls al-Sadr coward
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We really shouldn't be so hard on Carter. The UN is equally hopeless. In fact, they are criminally incompetent:
"Armed Hezbollah militants warded off members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) last month when the peacekeepers discovered a truck carrying weapons and ammunition belonging to the Lebanon-based guerilla group.
The incident was referred to briefly in a semi-yearly report submitted to the UN Security Council by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976980.html
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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"Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics and her appearance. Led around the neighborhood by Gov. Ed Rendell, Chelsea was mobbed by local gays and lesbians, as she walked from one club to the next. They ran up to hug her, posed for pictures and certainly invaded her personal space. "I grabbed her ass," one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter."
http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/04/21/grabbing-chelseas-ass-in-lesbian-town/
Posted in: Battle for Pennsylvania heads into final stretch
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" In November 1967 the Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 242, the preambular paragraph of which emphasized "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war."
is lifted from someone else's writing, george.
The exact same sentence can be found in an article by Noam Chomsky-wannabe Norman Finkelstein writing at
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11745
You should credit the author.
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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" Hamas, USA, UK, EU, UN all agree on 1 thing"
Hamas is backed by Iran - we know that they want to finish what the Nazis, French and Italians couldn't.
The UN is worthless. A complete joke.
The UK -basically responsible for the creation of Israel - isn't much better. Anti-Semitic crime in the UK and on the continent are at their highest post WW2 levels.
The EU is terrified of offending the 50 million Mohammedans within their member pseudo-states outbreeding the locals 3 -1.
So it looks like once again the rest of the world shakes their little fists and demands America solve the problem.
Every president since Truman has had to deal with this b.s.
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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Great post at 5:11, superlib.
Why is it "Palestine's" defenders here can never bring facts to the discussion?
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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"Carter has done more to clarify the situation here in 3 days than the current U.S. administration has done in 8 years."
And the 8 years before that? How did that administration do?
And your country , sushisake, what have they done for the poor Leftover Arabs squatting in "Palestine"?
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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"Both sides are guilty of using force..."
Yes, "Palestine" when they attack, Israel in defense.
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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The UN is hopeless. The Commonwealth won't life a finger.
Not surprisingly, China had hoped to cash in on the chaos and instability. and is arming Mugabe's thugs.
But look who is slapping them down -
"The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned.
"At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to publish results from a disputed election that the opposition claims to have won, administration officials said Monday."
"U.S. intelligence agencies are tracking the vessel, the An Yue Jiang, and American diplomats have been instructed to press authorities in at least four nations — South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola — not to allow it to dock, the officials told The Associated Press."
Posted in: Tsvangirai urges U.N. intervention in Zimbabwe
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The last debate must have really hurt He Who Cannot Be Middle-named.
He has dropped out of the North Carolina debate.
Yup, Oprah's boy is iving up to the jabs - he's a lightweight, has a glass jaw.
Posted in: Democrats attack each other two days before Pennsylvania vote
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"Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel"
Mission Accomplished, Jimmeh.
Posted in: Hamas rejects Carter's call to halt rocket fire on Israel for 1 month
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"Hamas says. We do not have anything against Jews." ?
When they took power in Gaza Hamas executed Fatah officials who had opposed them by throwing them off of building tops.
The masked Hamas thugs were heard denouncing their opponents as "Jews."
Liveleak has an entire page of the fun and games.
http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Fatah&page=5
Posted in: Carter: Hamas willing to accept right of Israel to 'live as neighbor'
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Hamas murders Arabs, Palestinians and Fatah members as well. They executed Fatah "security forces" and their children.
Why should Israel trust them?
Posted in: Carter: Hamas willing to accept right of Israel to 'live as neighbor'