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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sailwind
Iran could have saved itself a ton a grief if besides trying to hide parts of their nuclear program if they weren't also developing and advancing their ballistic missle technology at the very same time.
Doesn't do you any good to develop a nuke if you can't deliver it. Iran wouldn't be such a world Pariah country if they actually showed by actual deed that they only interested in a peaceful nuclear program. Such as never developing ballistic missle technology on a parallel path and by having a totally transparent IAEA inspection regime of its nuclear facilities in place to verify at anytime.
Anything the Iranians say about a "peaceful nuclear program" is null and void by their very own actions in developing ballistic missles technology at the same time.
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sailwind
Um...you seem to have forgotten to reply to Laguna upthread regarding the press' constant references of Pres. Obama as a community organizer. I guess that's page one news at Sailwind One Minded Press
You mean like this New York Times piece from 2008 when he was being venerated.....errrrr....vetted by the press.
Turning deficits into assets — a skill Mr. Obama learned in his 20s as a community organizer — could well be called the motto of his rise. With his literary gifts, he transformed a fatherless childhood into a stirring coming-of-age tale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/weekinreview/26kantor.html?pagewanted=all
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sailwind
Madverts,
I agree with that 100 percent. The Media was more less cowed at that time prior to the invasion of Iraq. It did not do its job then either. Which brings me to this most important and critical point. No matter what is the burning issue of the day when the Media does not perform its duty as the fourth estate in keeping those in power and influence in check through objective and non-bias reporting we all lose, both left and right.
Thanks for the compliment and I also wish to return to you the same. Does have some drawbacks though but in a good way. I know that I will be held accountable for my past posts and positions, which is how it should be.......it keeps me honest. Though Smith in Japan, Superlib, Cleo, Sushi and Yabits have been here a long time also. I guess I'm the JT version of FOX news as I seem to be the only "conservative" channel that seems to usually be against the positions of the "Liberal Mainstream JT Media Longtime Posters" ........Again thanks for the compliment.
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sailwind
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that George Bush was an unpopular President and that the economy tanked with the financial crises right before the November election.
The American people were so concerned about the Vice Presidential candidate choice because the Vice Presidency is just soooooo important. Just ask John Nance Gardner one of the many the FDR had as his Vice President.
When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States, no statement is more repeated than John Nance Garner’s observation that “the vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit.”
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sailwind
This is how they made so much of it......
From 2007 until last month, some 300 liberal journalists and policy wonks exchanged ideas and commentary on a secret, off-the-record Internet email group called JournoList. It was shut down after portions leaked, leading to the resignation of Washington Post writer David Weigel last month over his intemperate criticism of conservatives he was covering.
Some of the comments will no doubt revive conservative allegations of a liberal news media conspiracy. Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent, now at Wired, urged fellow journalists to kill the story of Mr. Obama's ties to the controversial Revered Jeremiah Wright by going after some of his critics. "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares -- and call them racists," he urged. "What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically."
Chris Hayes of the Nation magazine urged "those in the ostensible mainstream media" who were on the list to ignore the Rev. Wright story. He insisted the real issue had nothing to do with Mr. Obama's pastor and instead "has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379194025225772.html
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sailwind
Just in case your really want to know what was really of interest to Nevada's voters today that this article didn't report on:
The economy is far and away the top issue for Nevada Republican caucus goers today, with 54 percent identifying it as their top issue. Another 33 percent said the budget deficit, while 5 percent said illegal immigration and 3 percent said abortion.
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sailwind
All 200,000 plus of her e-mails that were dug through by the Media sure proved it.
I'm sticking with Mr. Heilemann......No person with eyes in his head in 2008 could have failed to see the way that soft coverage helped to propel Obama first to the Democratic nomination and then into the White House.
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sailwind
It's how Mr. Obama he got elected in the first place. John Heilemann a Journalist for New York magazine in a recent article states it clearly and also states what I do hope also in 2012 in Media coverage.
No person with eyes in his head in 2008 could have failed to see the way that soft coverage helped to propel Obama first to the Democratic nomination and then into the White House. But in the course of the past three years, reporters, as is their wont, have arrived at a more measured (and even jaundiced) view of him. Let’s hope that means that in this fall’s horse race, both ponies get ridden equally hard.
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sailwind
Under the Wyden-Ryan plan proposal Seniors would also be able to purchase private insurance plans that would very well also include coverage for assisted living benefits such as visiting nurse home care so they wouldn't have to very well sell their assets in the first place.
Blame Bush isn't going to work this election cycle, Obama's got a record now as President.
The Treasury Department estimates the government will lose more than $23 billion on the auto bailout:
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans jumped a startling 9 percent from 2010 to 2011
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sailwind
Congratulations to the wealthy former venture capitalist, who earned $20 million from his investments in 2010 and paid just 13.9% in taxes. As the article points out.
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sailwind
How much did I win? (it's bi-partisan also).
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Medicare reform: This could work Editorial The Wyden-Ryan proposal brings innovation to the market without dismantling the federal program.
December 28, 2011
If you were looking for someone to save Medicare, you might think of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a healthcare wonk who helped found his state's chapter of the Gray Panthers advocacy group for senior citizens. You probably wouldn't pick House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), whose proposal to replace Medicare with vouchers has made him some senior groups' Public Enemy No. 1. Nevertheless, the two have teamed up to offer a bold and politically risky plan that could help slow the rate of growth of premiums and bring more innovation to the health insurance market without dismantling one of the federal government's most popular programs. Lawmakers should give it serious consideration as they look for ways to solve the government's long-term budget problems.
The Wyden-Ryan plan is, simply put, a much better version of Ryan's previous proposal. Starting in 2022, it would give seniors subsidies that they could use to buy insurance through new regional marketplaces called exchanges, similar to the ones created by the 2010 healthcare reform law. But rather than eliminating Medicare for anyone not yet 55 years old, as Ryan proposed, Wyden-Ryan would continue to make the current Medicare program available as an option through the new exchanges. And rather than shifting the risk of rising healthcare costs onto seniors, the plan would guarantee that subsidies would be large enough to buy at least as much coverage and value as Medicare provides. In other words, the government would provide the same kind of defined benefit that Medicare does today, while giving seniors the option to obtain that coverage somewhere else.
Why bother providing a private alternative, if Medicare works? Because its costs are growing unsustainably. It's already one of Washington's costliest programs, and its burgeoning demand for dollars is draining resources from other priorities. It can't survive on its current trajectory.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/28/opinion/la-ed-medicare-20111228
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sailwind
Just like President Obama and his Nobel because they both have made the world economy and peace for all.
Superlib,
Any way you slice it, it was a horrible choice of words and he deserves criticism for it. If you don't agree with what the media has been doing then that's your choice, but I'm not hearing a lot in the way of your own criticism of Romney, if you think any is necessary.
Romney is nothing than more than Obama's policies in a Republican dress. But he is "electable".........The only reason I give my support to him is this, he actually understands a budget and that we can't spend our to prosperity.
He gets that part . Obama does not.
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sailwind
Only a fool would think that forking out a bit of cash for a political point is going to solve this woman's problems. Now if he had given it to her and said, "Let this tie you over for a couple of days. Then come to my local campaign office and we'll see if we can help you earn some more" then I could have respected it
Start respecting it......
Williams said she has been volunteering at Romney’s Columbia headquarters since meeting his bus last week.
“I’ve been working at his campaign office cleaning and just doing little things,” she said.
“They really did, they really came through for real,” she said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/romney-gives-unemployed-woman-cash-on-ropeline/
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sailwind
KingBasil,
Paul Krugman?????
The economic genius that was behind Obama's stimulus plan and his economic policies that have resulted in this?
WASHINGTON -- The number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of Americans in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates have been published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Median household income in the U.S. also declined.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/13/national/main20105376.shtml
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sailwind
Romneys actions, on 1/14/12
SUMTER, S.C. – Presidential candidates hear tales of woe all the time on the campaign trail. But rarely does one respond by pulling cash out of his back pocket to help a struggling voter pay her bills. Mitt Romney did just that here Saturday night, according to ABC News. When a 55-year-old woman, Ruth Williams, who said she lost her job last October, approached the Republican presidential front-runner on the rope line following a campaign rally in Sumter, he gave her what an aide later said was about $50 or $60. It did not appear that the exchange was caught on camera, but ABC’s off-air reporter, Emily Friedman, witnessed it and interviewed Williams afterward. “I was on the highway praying and said, ‘God, tell me how to get [my] lights on,’” Williams, apparently referring to her electricity bill, told Friedman. “I pulled up to a stop sign and his bus was there. And then God said, ‘Follow the bus,’ and I followed the bus.” Williams told Friedman that South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Romney’s state campaign chairman, paid her light bill on Thursday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/mitt-romney-gives-cash-to-financially-struggling-woman-at-south-carolina-rally/2012/01/14/gIQAbxHRzP_blog.html01/14/2012
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sailwind
You thought wrong.
He said that almost exactly word for word in the interview (time 29 seconds into it in the video)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/03/romney-on-poor-comment-i-misspoke/?iref=allsearch
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sailwind
Mitt Romney admitted Friday he “misspoke” in an ill-advised comment about poor Americans.
Thought I'd help the Media here by including their exact past descriptions about Mitt in the article so far from articles about him here on JT.
Multi-millionaire, wealthy businessman, former venture capital boss Mitt Romney admitted Friday he “misspoke” in an ill-advised comment about poor Americans,
I can't wait to see what they come up with next, Former Wall Street Tycoon is still up for grabs.
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sailwind
He has his work cut for him then if he wants to top Obama when it comes to increasing the ranks of poor Americans.
WASHINGTON — Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.
And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html?pagewanted=all
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sailwind
Warren Buffet decided to endorse Romney instead of Obama this year?
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sailwind
In my Bizarro Media World, some journalists still actually value being professionals as in the BBC and its take on his "I like firing people" by their North American Editor.
The idea of a politician saying he likes firing people, when so many live in fear of losing their jobs, is toxic. It puts him on the wrong side of the "them and us" divide.
But it is quite clear Romney's remarks were ripped out of context. He was talking about changing health insurance companies when they are not doing a good job.
He is using the phrase "firing people" as a folksy way of saying that it is good to be able to choose between companies, and dispense with the services of one if it is not doing a good job.
But it is crass for Romney in particular to use the F word.
The image his enemies - inside and outside his own party - want to create is of an out-of-touch patrician who made his money asset-stripping companies, earning millions by sacking thousands.
If we are going to use cliches, perhaps this was a "blunder" rather than a "gaffe".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16497647
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