shimajiro said...

shimajiro at 10:52 AM JST - 2nd July

Betzee: Yet when McCain, presumably based on his own experience as a POW who was tortured, speaks out against torture he runs up against the party line.

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 10:52 AM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 10:51 AM JST - 2nd July

adaydream -

He started wearing his lapel flag pin again because people like yourself judge someone's heart and patritism based on trinkets worn.

That's the kind of gratuitous ad hominem I have come to expect from people who lack a good argument. I trust you will be unable to substantiate…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 10:51 AM JST - 2nd July
shimajiro at 12:51 PM JST - 1st July

Silly stuff. After 9/11 Sen. Obama, like many other Am. pols, took to wearing a flag pin on his lapel. Sometime later he stopped wearing the thing and himself made a campaign issue of public displays of patriotism by desribing flag pin-wearing as a sign of inauthentic patriotism. Now he's…

Posted in Obama vows not to question anyone's patriotism at 12:51 PM JST - 1st July
shimajiro at 11:57 AM JST - 24th June

Oops - I had intended for my post above to begin: "The US should support Cuba's economic integration...

Posted in EU lifts Cuba sanctions at 11:57 AM JST - 24th June
shimajiro at 11:33 AM JST - 24th June

Increased consumption in the developing world - especially China and India - is the primary cause of the rising cost of of oil and other commodities. Beyond discouraging some countries' (e.g., China and Iran)practices of keeping the price of energy artificially low and hoarding, developed countries should accomodate themselves to…

Posted in No relief from oil prices in sight at 11:33 AM JST - 24th June
shimajiro at 11:25 AM JST - 24th June

The US Cuba's economic integration both to improve the sorry lot of Cubans and because it will tend to undermine the Castro brothers' authoritarian regime.

Posted in EU lifts Cuba sanctions at 11:25 AM JST - 24th June
shimajiro at 11:21 AM JST - 24th June

If the Pew polls are to believed most foreigners back Obama in the General so perhaps they'll refrain from attacking the US between now and election day rather than give McCain a boost. But seriously, it's difficult to predict how a major attack would affect the election.

In any case,…

Posted in McCain disavows aide's comment about terrorism at 11:21 AM JST - 24th June
shimajiro at 11:10 AM JST - 24th June

Taka,

I'm all for ending subsidies of all kinds - including those for corn ethanol aand other green energies (which Obama supports). But I'd oppose caps on salaries or profits. I'm afraid unintended consequences will leave us all worse off. We have only to look to Venezeula to see how…

Posted in Obama details plan to tax excess oil company profits at 11:10 AM JST - 24th June
shimajiro at 12:54 PM JST - 23rd June

Taka:

Instead of taxing windfall profits, why not cut the oil company's subsidies? The point of taxing windfall profits is to get more money.

Now there's an idea.

Will Obama propose to prop up oil industry profits if they dip too low, one wonders? Would President Obama similarly manage the…

Posted in Obama details plan to tax excess oil company profits at 12:54 PM JST - 23rd June
shimajiro at 02:18 PM JST - 22nd June

Good news for exporters and consumers. Hopefully this agreement will hold.

Posted in S Korea says new deal reached with U.S. on beef imports at 02:18 PM JST - 22nd June