smithinjapan said...

smithinjapan at 05:49 PM JST - 11th July

Here's an honest question to those few remaining bush supporters still desperate for a republican to take office in the next election.... how many people has McCain now distanced himself from, including Bush, in the mere few months since he got the green light to run on the republican ticket?…

Posted in Obama ridicules McCain economic adviser for calling Americans 'whiners' in 'mental recession' at 05:49 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:45 PM JST - 11th July

McCain: "My advisor, who gives me speeches and tells me what to say, does not speak to me... I speak for me!.... just a minute folks... (in a whisper) Psst! where's Phil? I don't know what to say next!"

Posted in Obama ridicules McCain economic adviser for calling Americans 'whiners' in 'mental recession' at 05:45 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:43 PM JST - 11th July

Skip: "Oh, and slashing tires is a big offense. So big it could get you killed back where I am from."

So you're clearly misdirecting your personal experiences onto an unrelated event. Slashing tires is not at all, in any universe, as serious as starting wars, etc. It's just odd…

Posted in Rove ignores subpoena, refuses to testify in Congress on allegations of political meddling at 05:43 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:37 PM JST - 11th July

"What I do need is to hear opinions about this issue from people other than the America-haters. America-haters will always oppose anything that could protect America from its enemies. So their opinions, which are always filled with hyperbole like this, are meaningless."

Ah, the 'us against them' argument. I think…

Posted in Bush signs new rules on government wiretapping at 05:37 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:31 PM JST - 11th July

nandakandamanda: Thanks for the info. Definitely sounds like she's to blame for being shot AT, anyway, but that's not going to stop a frenzy of SKorean anger. It seems, after all, my comments on them shooting her simply because they could were premature. Perhaps the shot to the leg was…

Posted in S Korean female tourist shot dead by N Korean soldier at 05:31 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:24 PM JST - 11th July

Oh, geez.... whenever this happens it sets the levels of any progress back to what they were immediately after WWII. I'm very sorry for this woman, and angry at the NK government, but I hope it doesn't set the two governments back at high alert and the DMZ into a…

Posted in S Korean female tourist shot dead by N Korean soldier at 05:24 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 05:16 PM JST - 11th July

My wife wears Korean coloured contacts once in a while for fashion (I tell her she doesn't need them, to which she immediately puts them in), and at least on a few occasions one of her eyes has flared up to be completely red. Granted, she sometimes doesn't put them…

Posted in Color contact lenses to be strictly controlled at 05:16 PM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 01:06 AM JST - 11th July

stanoue: "a) I can't see how that's relevant to the current topic and b) if (for example) a Non-Maori person played a lead Maori role in a film, I'd be disappointed. Just because Hollywood doesn't care about the accuracy of films with a cultural/historical background, doesn't mean that this is…

Posted in Glover examines prejudices in new film set in Japan at 01:06 AM JST - 11th July
smithinjapan at 06:04 PM JST - 9th July

If Bush REALLY wants the government to bow down, reject its moral authority on the case, and accept American beef, he should have a one to one with Fukuda over dinner that goes something like this:

Bush: (chewing on an American steak) Now, what was it you wanted to talk…

Posted in Bush asks Japan to fully open its market to U.S. beef at 06:04 PM JST - 9th July
smithinjapan at 05:53 PM JST - 9th July

Betting: "News like this isn't exactly new. A similar situation was reported, last year I think, with kaiten sushi joints doing the same thing with fish."

You're kidding, right? Didn't you hear about the deliberate mislabelling of eel in Osaka? How about the mislabelling of 'tarako', among a mere few…

Posted in Meat packer accused of falsely labeling Brazilian chicken as domestic at 05:53 PM JST - 9th July