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
Iowa law doesn't require it. For the Republicans to do it on their own would require Iowa to de-facto deem a voter I.D law that they have REJECTED to have passed anyway and sanction the voting result as legitimate. To put bluntly Yabits you want the Republicans in Iowa to not follow their own laws of their state and endorse BREAKING them. Yet you call people who are following the law of their own state hypocrites and racists to boot.
Sad yabits, very sad.
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sailwind
Guess that explains why Herman Cain was leading in the polls in Iowa before the Media lynching and he suspended his campaign.
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sailwind
Understand the if Grandma is racist and hasn't registered Granny can't vote. It does seem that really would help the 'racist' Republicans to get a another vote though in their favor.
Yabits,
So rather than leading by principle and example, what the Iowa Republicans are demonstrating is that, when a group is nearly all-white and conservative, a completely different set of rules and principles applies.
Iowa is nearly all white and just not conservative. Do you have a problem with whites being in the majority in the state?
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sailwind
Agreed under Federal law passed in 2002..............
The Help America Vote Act (Pub.L. 107-252), or HAVA, is a United States federal law which passed in the House 357-48 and 92-2 in the Senate and was signed into law by President Bush on October 29, 2002. Drafted (at least in part) in reaction to the controversy surrounding the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Almost two million ballots were disqualified in the 2000 election because they registered multiple votes or none when run through vote-counting machines.
Now means that to vote in a Federal election...............
HAVA requires any voter who registered by mail and who has not previously voted in a federal election to show current and valid photo identification or a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. Voters who submitted any of these forms of identification during registration are exempt, as are voters entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
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sailwind
With no state law on the books the Republicans if they required it in Iowa on their own accord would be open to an ACLU lawsuit for discrimination and disenfranchisement. Any results from the Republican caucuses would be declared null and void and would not certified by the State of Iowa as legitimate for the general election ballot.
No sane Party would ever open themselves up for such folly including the Democrats if Obama was facing a primary challenger this year.
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sailwind
They tried to in Iowa last April your talking point failed to mention that.
A proposal to require Iowa voters to produce identification at polling places appears unlikely to become law this year.
House File 95 went to the Senate State Government Committee after being passed by the House in January.
Because it failed to win the panel’s approval by Friday’s deadline for committee action, it’s unlikely the bill will advance any further this year.
“It’s dead,” said Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who made voter identification a cornerstone of his 2010 election campaign.
It was the Democrats that killed it.
Sen. Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, the Senate majority leader, said the voter ID measure died in large part because of the opposition of county auditors.
“This proposal that we have seen so far does not appear to solve a problem that actually exists in the state of Iowa,” he said. “Tell me what the problem is ... and show me one place in Iowa where you can prove voter fraud.”
Schultz said he knew of no prosecuted cases of voter fraud in Iowa that would have been prevented by requiring voters to show identification.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110402/NEWS01/704029858/1009
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sailwind
What is even more amazing is that Iowa's population demographic is 94% white to go along with it.
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sailwind
Surprised that they also didn't request that the South brings in some food to share with the North as little show of respect also to the Dear leader be good time for them to not call it begging after all.
Posted in: N Korea blasts South's lack of respect for Kim Jong-Il
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sailwind
Ronald Reagan Dec 12 1983 popularity approval 53%
Bill Clinton Dec 15 1995 popularity approval 50%
Barrack Obama Dec 12 2011 popularity approval 42%
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php?pres=40&sort=time&direct=DESC&Submit=DISPLAY
Posted in: Obama declares victory for Americans as tax deal reached
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sailwind
The Democratic-led Senate voted for a two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday in a compromise at the weekend, but the bill was blocked by the Republican-led House which wanted a one-year extension.
I guess trying to give workers a 12 month extension instead of 2 months is now called a shafting.
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sailwind
Sushi,
It is called a Monarchy, History is replete in it.
Posted in: Kim Jong Il's body displayed; N Korea media hail son
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sailwind
Christopher Hitchens visited this sad country in the late nineties and his words are in my opinion the most apt description of what life is really like in North Korea.
Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him. Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still “eternally” held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with grass in their mouths.
I could only hope that Kim Jong II, pathetic Dictator that he was would have had grass stuffed in his mouth also while he breathed his last.
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sailwind
Agreed, I was always amazed the media and the democrats always tried to portray the Tea party protests as filled with violent extremists while they consider the OWS's as peaceable critters.
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sailwind
@sailwind
Ha! I hope you appreciate the irony here.
I do. Actually going to the trouble of obtaining permits to use public property to stage a protest does tend to stop the police from arresting you.
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sailwind
I guess that is why The Tea Party took as its inspiration the actual Boston Tea Party protests that sparked the Revolutionary war for our independence and many Tea Protesters actually wear Revolutionary garb in their legally permitted protests and the Occupy movement is inspired by hatred for Wall street and breaking the law in setting up squatter camps.
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sailwind
Those troops wanted their student loans payed off for free also? Who'd a guessed.
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sailwind
Apologies, Article does mention the Tea party movement on page 2 of the article.
In the U.S., the Obama campaign was in part a feel-good protest movement that galvanized young people, and then its shocking success and the Wall Street bailout produced an angry and shockingly successful populist protest movement in the Tea Party, which has far outlasted its expected shelf life.
I stand corrected.
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sailwind
Read the article. Time mentions every large protest movement in the last thirty years........except The Tea Party protesters. I'd say that's called discrimination in a nutshell.
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sailwind
Guess that is why the most recent Gallop poll has the American people at 50 / 50 on this.
A significant majority of respondents, 60 percent, also perceive bias in the media — 47 percent said the media is too liberal, and 13 percent said that that it was too conservative.
Case Closed
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sailwind
Yabits,
He didn't say he could argue that the national media leans to the right. We all know that would be silly. Only Fox news does.
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