Tuesday February 14, 2012

taj's past comments

  • -1

    taj

    Is this the diamond in Masaaki-cho? (No articles I find give the neighborhood or name the owner of the land.)

    Posted in: Volunteers build baseball field for children in Iwate city

  • 0

    taj

    "Why bother farming? It's too much work."

    good question. but what about the people who rely on the produce?

    Living on this island, nation, do all of you really want to be completely reliant on imports for food? Do we want to put all of our trust in Chinese and Thai for the basic staple? (US will also be too expensive). Do we really want to set ourselves up for such a simple seige / blockade? Do we really want to mess with something as basic as food security?

    Yes the TPP is about a lot of things and I'm willing to look at the whole, but I would like for people in this discussio nwho say things like "just sell off the farm land and grow all the food somewhere cheaper" to actually think about what that means.

    Posted in: Anti-TPP groups, lawmakers step up pressure on Noda

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    taj

    Barthalomew Harte, WHat do you mean by "America is now and has been the "Goat""? I think you must be using goat in a way that I'm unfamiliar with. When I think about goats I think, "eats everything in sight, making a mess, without restraint." I suspect you had something different in mind, although Canada and Mexico might both agree with that goat reference.

    Posted in: Anti-TPP groups, lawmakers step up pressure on Noda

  • 4

    taj

    Can you imagine traveling with 6 kids!?! (Even with nannies and tutors,... brave couple, I say!)

    Posted in: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie arrive in Tokyo

  • -1

    taj

    And PS: For those wondering why the farmers are available for protest on a weekday: 1) Farmers don't have a Monday-Friday, 9-5 (or to11) job. They work when the sun shines and the weather holds. 2) Seeding and harvest are the businest times of year. And the rice harvest should be about done for this year.

    I'm not necessarily opposed to the TPP. I just am really annoyed at the rude comments being thrown around here by the ignorant.

    Posted in: Anti-TPP groups, lawmakers step up pressure on Noda

  • 2

    taj

    Not sure about the rest of you, but I like food. And in particular, food stability.

    Sure it's nice to get mangos from Mexico in the winter, but if the bulk of your consumption is grown halfway round the world and then shipped here on freight liners, ... well that's just not environmentally stable. And what happens in a year like this when 20% of Thailand is flooded, and rice production is drastically reduced? Will the rich countries be unable to get export? No. The poor locals will suffer.

    Eating locally is a good thing - at least for the large part. Japanese rice farmers are NOT rich. Jeebus, Mary, and Joseph! spend some time in a farm house or working a field!

    Posted in: Anti-TPP groups, lawmakers step up pressure on Noda

  • 0

    taj

    Is Noda sporting the beginnnings of a moustache in that photo? Or is it just a wrinkle/shadow illusion?

    Someone should clue him in on Movember. He'd look very entertaining with a mo.

    Posted in: U.S. seeking to boost its clout in Asia through trade

  • 2

    taj

    I however, with spend my Rememberance Day as usual. Remembering.

    Posted in: 11/11/11: Are you one with this week's fateful date?

  • 1

    taj

    But wait, it's 23/11/11 here. Is it 100/11/11 in Taiwan? or still 99/11/11?

    Also, by my reckoning, Benedict would already be the 112th, if Pope Joan hadn't been struck from the books, but then I'm sure there are other irregularities that have been ignored for convenience. (like when there was more than one pope at a time,...)

    Oh well, I agree it would make for an easy to remember anniversary.

    Posted in: 11/11/11: Are you one with this week's fateful date?

  • 0

    taj

    I suspect that there's a fundamental problem with health care being a for-profit business enterprise. I do not have the stats to back that up. Just hypothsizing.

    Posted in: Deaths from painkiller overdose triple in decade

  • 1

    taj

    I'd like to think this has all been taken out of context, because otherwise, John Becker is completely right. Ol' Petey is showing his age (and years of brain-abuse).

    Posted in: Pete Townshend brands iTunes a 'digital vampire'

  • 0

    taj

    I wonder how this compares to countries that have universal health insurance - I'm assuming that that would make it easier for total perscriptions to be tracked and over-prescribing to be avoided.

    Not surprised to read that legal perscription narcotics are 3 times more deadly than the narcotics that gets poor people into the for profit prison system.

    Posted in: Deaths from painkiller overdose triple in decade

  • 4

    taj

    who?

    Posted in: Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 10 weeks

  • 1

    taj

    ironchef, what is the income gap between the TDK management and TDK rank and file? How does that compare to, say, US-based corporation averages? (Please don't muddy the waters.)

    Posted in: TDK to cut 11,000 jobs worldwide

  • 5

    taj

    They were there (dressed the same) about a month ago. Same overcast sky. This might be a photo from that day. Lots of people were getting the cheek kiss and/or the bear hug. And then a handful of supporters ran around getting the kissee/huggees to sign a waiver. It was all being filmed. Not sure what for. Some friends of mine signed the waiver, but I didn't think to ask them if it gave any information. Too many other things to do on a Sunday afternoon in Harajuku/Yoyogi Park.

    Posted in: Nice offer

  • 0

    taj

    > To equate the 'infringements' to your life in Tokyo proper with what many people in Tohoku have had to lose and endure is completely insulting to them.

    Amen to that, Shaolin!

    Posted in: Thousands rally for Fukushima compensation, decontamination

  • 1

    taj

    I hope that being charged, investigated, and then absolved of all responsibility, proves to be therapeutic for the poor driver. What a horror.

    Posted in: Kindergarten bus driver held over girl's death

  • -1

    taj

    Did she? (know what was going on, I mean.)

    Posted in: Madoff's wife: We tried suicide after Ponzi arrest

  • -1

    taj

    Sailwind, is their party affiliation relevant? (I do dislike the constant black and white, bipolarisation of everything that comes from America's '2-party only' system). I think the majority of people are starting to realize that the differences between the parties are not as large as the differences within the parties, and that the biggest differences are between the rich and the rest.

    (But, admittedly, I'm Canadian and I see in colour).

    Posted in: Patience tested over waste, crime at Occupy protest sites

  • 0

    taj

    1.99 Singapore dollars?

    Posted in: Putter King Adventure Golf now available on Apple App Store

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