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It is true that it is hard to be pro smoker (I am smoking myself), I…
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
I have a feeling that another characteristic of the "Rolled Cabbage Men" is that they smell…
Posted in: From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
> > therefore we have every right to invade beyond our legal borders, attack anyone we…
Posted in: Noda urges Israel not to attack Iran
Rurality has its own risks. Farming jobs can be hazardous, including vehicle accidents and exposure to…
Posted in: To be healthy, live in the big city
Cleo. Sorry about your loss. I lost two grandfathers and a grandmother to cigs. TokyoKawasaki-san, you…
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
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illegally occupy other people's land" Are you referring to the pre1967 borders or the entire area of Israel?
Posted in: U.S. presents new proposal to Israel on reviving Mideast talks
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samwaters: "I'm all for government jobs programs" I wouldn't be against them if they didn't cost so much. Oh, I sell to the gov and I've seen my fair share of programs and what you have to watch out for is a lot of taking advantage of the system and once locked in, its locked in. I say you are correct, get them in school as a second chance (you think they should have already gone to school?) and if they fail, they are on their own. Put more into the military, make them work with sanitation departments, etc... And replace them with Embassy staff who take off untold amounts of time.
Posted in: Off the sofa! UK gets tough on welfare
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All able bodied welfare recipients should be filling government jobs like passing out towels at the base gyms, cooking and cleaning at the Sanno. replace all of the current gov workers, slash that gov pay... If found to not having to really be in need, they should pay back... I've setup orgs and given to charity partly as a pay back for the three years after my dad died and my mom was incapable of working much less standing.
Didn't know the UK's in worse shape than the US.
Posted in: Off the sofa! UK gets tough on welfare
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repub or dem... I don't care, two people from my birth state tore up some butt... Marco Rubio and Lt.Col Allen West.
Posted in: GOP says main goal is to deny Obama re-election
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can you guys please throw your support around Marco Rubio... I'd like to see a Cuban American president for once since it looks like my chances have faded
Posted in: GOP says main goal is to deny Obama re-election
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GOP says main goal is to deny Obama re-election' Maybe we can move Marco up
Posted in: GOP says main goal is to deny Obama re-election
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skipthesong
We are all fooling ourselves thinking that any one party, by itself, is going to bring the US out of its problems.
Posted in: Obama, GOP talk compromise, conflict
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how many kurds and shiites found themselves in the same position under this guy? Actually this news is very sad and speaks so bad about the American led regime of Iraq, it is not a democracy at all..." Its there place now.. I'm sure he knew that one day, he'd find the this very fate..
Posted in: Saddam aide Tariq Aziz sentenced to hang
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I am proud to be MEXICAN and very happy to have US nationality too. If these other immigrant fools are not ready to give up their prior nationality, TOO BAD!" And the best post of the day goes to fellow Latino elbuamexicano. He's damn right.
Japan Take Note": man, as highly educated as you are, you could make a lot more money in the US than in Japan, so if you donb't like the rules just leave.
they are paying taxes" well and what about the ones who aren't working or are out of a job? Better yet, what about those receiving public assistence?
Posted in: U.S. states weigh letting non-citizens vote
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the GOP candidates are just plain stupid" Of course they are, but so are the dems. I mean, come on peep, we got Obama not being able to say how many states we have, another dem who thinks Guam may capsize, and the list can go on and on Face it folks, we are doomed from both sides.
Posted in: Nevada Senate race turns ugly with Hispanic ad
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skipthesong
it would be funny to watch all those guys who got out by saying they gay but weren't are now to be re-instated!
Posted in: U.S. military personnel discharged for being gay try to re-enlist
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all this by young people over a 2 year difference and on a government retirement plan at that.. Get your own retirement plan, its a lot better
Posted in: French rioters rampage, block airports
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WTF does looking more Asian have to do with Hispanic voters??" Well, its better than being asked if you are Arab or Indian, like so many ask me lately.
Posted in: Nevada Senate race turns ugly with Hispanic ad
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mrc32: Well, that works for hetros too but they still separate. I mean I've come across some UGLY members of the opposite sex, but we were still separated.
now that this going through, and I knew quite a few gays/Les in the army.... I wonder what going to happen to those trans-gender types.
Oh, and for those that want to get out, I guess you ain't got the "I'm gay" things to get out on....
Posted in: U.S. military personnel discharged for being gay try to re-enlist
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skipthesong
You shouldn't buy a house that you know you couldn't pay off in a year at less than 20% of your income.
Posted in: Bank of America to resume seizing more than 100,000 homes
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or God sake, legalize it, tax it and make it a main source of income. together with military backed tough regulations" in one way, I agree, but on the other, you just can't keep legalizing things out of convenience. Would you like us to legalize prostitution across the board too as it does make about as much as this drug trade. what about crack, meth, etc... How about getting everyone get their heads out of their butts?
Thank goodness Mexico kept that poison from coming into the U." American punk kids will just find another way to get high.
Posted in: Mexican authorities seize 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana
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Everybody has a friend or a relative or an old classmate who was 'flipping houses.'" Tried it several times.. overall I failed
Posted in: Bank of America to resume seizing more than 100,000 homes
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Dear Madam Secretary, It would help sealing the drug cartels from their major market - snot nose suburban white kids.
Posted in: Clinton: U.S. working to ending Mexico drug violence
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nly choice is about who will make things less worse" I'm a bit tired of that. Maybe we should have a no confidence vote (none of the above)
Posted in: Senate Republicans, Democrats fight for cash edge
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what has the tea party done, in terms of destruction or death? I'll put it to you like this, no Jew, or tea party member has done a thing to me, but I do know 19 Muslims changed my life, cost me a lot of friends, forced me and my then new wife to up root everything and basically live in circles for a year and a half. Up until that point and I spent a lot of time in Muslim lands (former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Kuwait) during times of need and still never harbored anything type of undesired feelings. Why should I be so happy that so many want slant hug up to Islam when I personally feel screwed by them and I really don't see enough being done by the people with pull in that religion to rectify the issues. On a side note, I don't get you libs, especially you white libs.... we spent years removing religion out of the public, especially schools, now you want to bring religion back to the public sector but this time you want it in the form of Islam. I'll go with my mom's belief and that is that understanding and acceptance can not be forced, that is what yous guys are doing, but is best when we come together naturally. I takes time sure, but the way yous have been pushing it ain't cutting it. You guys need a different approach. As for the tea party, what I have recently learned from my brother who's now part of the Hispanic tea party of Chicago is that 1. there are a lot more blacks and latinos, asians -especially orientals, mixed religions, than what you or I imagined. In fact last time in NYC, I spent time in Jersey City, a mostly black and Puerto Rican city and I was surprised at what I saw who was down with the tea party and against what they say is an Islamicazation of some parts of NY and NJ. 2. Many in the tea party of old, you can't possibly tell me you agree with Chris Matthews that they should be listed along side Islamic terrorists.
Posted in: British Anti-Islam group seeks ties with Tea Party