shimajiro said...

shimajiro at 12:53 AM JST - 3rd March

It's depressing to see so many here willing to justify attacks on free speech. Some Korean hackers have also exposed private information about an Olympic judge whose call in a speed skating competition they didn't like. These attacks are crimes and should be treated as such by the Korean authorities.

Posted in S Koreans launch cyberattack against 2-channel for anti-Kim Yu-na posts at 12:53 AM JST - 3rd March
shimajiro at 10:15 AM JST - 7th November

Romney is widely viewed as someone who could handle the economy. He's conservative, and with him coming from Massachusets, with deep roots in Michigan, he could quite possibly carried either or both of those states.

He certainly would have had more appeal to a segment of the social conservatives -…

Posted in Obama victory sets off jubilation across U.S. at 10:15 AM JST - 7th November
shimajiro at 10:04 AM JST - 7th November

Perhaps the Democrats, in their zeal to muzzle mostly right-leaning talk-radio hosts, will reinact the Fairness Doctrine as some among their ranks seem to hope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

I can't see why they would spare the mostly left-leaning comedians, playwrites and documentarians the same even-handed approach to the regulation of speech.

Posted in Comedians sharpen claws for Obama presidency at 10:04 AM JST - 7th November
shimajiro at 02:04 PM JST - 6th November

Well, I would have preferred that McCain had won but my hat's off to Obama and his team. His campaign raised prodigous amounts of money in both the primary and general and the candidate himself stayed on message and comitted relatively few gaffes.

I'm proud of my country for having…

Posted in Obama victory sets off jubilation across U.S. at 02:04 PM JST - 6th November
shimajiro at 10:38 PM JST - 2nd July

But it's the republicans that cried when he didn't wear the trinket on his lapel.

Actually it was Obama who, over a year ago, took the affirmative step of stopping to wear the flag pin and ostentatiously explaining that he had done so because it "became a substitute for, I…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 10:38 PM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 10:30 PM JST - 2nd July

Betzee -

Shima, I simply think McCain looks a bit silly denouncing Wesley Clark's criticism of his record and how it relates to his ability to serve as president when he never denounced a personal smear campaign which finished his chances back in 2000.

I don't recall, didn't he?

If…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 10:30 PM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 02:27 PM JST - 2nd July

Betzee -

LOL. Rather than simply agreeing with me that Sen. McCain is, in this one respect at least, admirable, you go into considerable length casting aspersions on elements of his party and then, lest anyone get the idea you might have gone soft on the Republican candidate himself, throw…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 02:27 PM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 02:07 PM JST - 2nd July

adaydream

I wasn't saying that you said anything of the such. I was just tagging onto your post.

You were trying to associate me with beliefs I do not hold. I asked for evidence, suspecting (correctly, it now appears) you had none.

I was only stating that there are those…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 02:07 PM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 11:36 AM JST - 2nd July

Betzee-

So you're saying we should trust McCain will do what he thinks is right after he's elected to office?...It would have meant taking on the GWB administration...

He's long been an outspoken proponent of banning torture and closing Guantanamo. As you suggest, his position didn't win him many plaudits…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 11:36 AM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 11:06 AM JST - 2nd July

A week or so ago when Sen. Obama was being criticized by one evangelist or another for comments he had made about faith in America, I had the opportunity to hear a lengthy excerpt from the speech in question (i.e, the one the evangelist was criticizing) on the radio. I…

Posted in Obama courts conservatives with new faith program at 11:06 AM JST - 2nd July