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How disappointing. Not because they're protesting, but because Koreans can do better than this. They're known…
Posted in: Bad eggs
The more Hashimoto yammers on like a fool, the less likely he is to get (re)elected…
Posted in: Ishihara advises Hashimoto to stop tweeting
Sfjp330, I do not think a foreighn teacher in Saga who claims on his site that…
Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse
This has nothing to do with fixing pricing. This is an act intended only for Japanese…
Posted in: Denso execs to plead guilty to price fixing in Toyota case in U.S.
I wish, I really wish that there were a Japanese Wikileaks! God it's so needed here,
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There is one person in Congress I can think of who describes himself as a socialist: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Sanders does not describe President Obama as a fellow socialist. In fact, he is critical of Obama and differs with him on many issues.
I trust Sanders more than the half-crazed haters on the right wing to help rational Americans come to an understanding of what is and what is not socialist -- since the right-wingers use it as a smear more than anything else.
They are analogous in that they are primarily concerned with justice and opportunity for ALL people. Right-wingers have driven the modern Republican Party to be very much analogous to the Fascist parties of Europe.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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It's clear you dress yourself up for Segretti's world. The rest of us smell the rat.
Posted in: Obama calls IRS targeting of conservative groups outrageous
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And we know this actually happened how? From the link, it appears to be second-hand hearsay. You state it above as though it were a proven fact. (Isn't that dishonest in itself?)
Apparently?
And the moderate Nixon had henchmen like Donald Segretti who had a special name for what his boys did. Those engaged in touting Nixon's moderation are engaging in it too -- which must be all too natural for them.
Posted in: Obama calls IRS targeting of conservative groups outrageous
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Where is the evidence for this false statement? We read:
And who was the source of this "anonymous email?" Is there any evidence that Hillary herself endorsed it or gave it any creedence? Just who were these "supporters?" I find no evidence whatsoever that Hillary Clinton joins a "list" of people questioning the citizenship of Barack Obama. Zero -- making the statement above an outright fabrication.
There is a saying: "The skunk smells his own hole first." We find that, soon after the emergence of this "anonymous" email, a staff writer of the National Review -- in June of 2008 -- became the first person of note to officially request that Barack Obama release his birth certificate. One thing can be certain about this writer: He was not officially working to support Hillary Clinton. I strongly suspect the "rumor" was hatched in conservative circles and "fed" to these "anonymous" supporters of Clinton.
This directly pertains to Nixon. The tactic was used constantly by his supporters who are not anonymous and openly admitted them. (Later picked up and adopted by Lee Atwater and others.) You'll find the description of the tactic listed with the Nixon henchman who coined it: Donald Segretti. It fits these Republicans falsely smearing Hillary perfectly.
A criticism was leveled at Bill Maher, but putting Hillary Clinton on the list of birthers is every bit as sleazy. Even IF an unknown, anonymous "supporter" of Hillary Clinton started a false rumor, it has been the Republicans/conservatives, starting with the National Review who have fully run with it. But's just another par for the course in their sleaziness: Constantly keep publishing false rumors and then try to justify it by claiming that some Democrat actually was the source of it. I can't think of a better example of the product of Segretti, and how some of these people came into existence.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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Just a few words on this sad news: In an industry notorious for short-term relationships, Ray Manzarek maintained a solid 40+year relationship with wife, Dorothy (nee Fujikawa).
The songs mentioned in the article and comments are great ones, but the song that really credits Manzarek's style and essential contribution -- in my humble opinion -- is that awesome opening to When the Music's Over, accompanied by Densmore's percussion.
It doesn't get any better than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfv9z23lu9E
Ray, thank you for many, many hours of of the sheer pleasure of your music. May it all be repaid to you, multiplied.
Posted in: The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies at 74
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yabits
The Democrats who didn't support it were correct according to the Republicans who are reversing course today. I can't recall any Republicans who opposed it -- not to say there wasn't a smattering, much to Herr Karl's dismay.
A "whole lot" -- LOL! A "whole lot" of Democrats voted against it at the time.
Posted in: U.S. Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
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yabits
LOL! You have to ask?
Yes, secret from the American people. And here I thought he was supposed to be working for us. Meeting with energy executives? What is he hiding?
He also kept things secret from his president. But that is perfectly OK with you too.
Readers can be assured that you don't have a single clue about the IRS "problems."
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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yabits
Let's not forget the one who has most resembled Nixon in sheer criminality over the past decade: former Vice-President Dick Cheney. He's the current holder of the "I'll-Tell-You-I'm-Not-A-Crook-But-I-Really-Am" Award, and it's not likely anyone will challenge him for it anytime soon.
Remember when Nixon tried to convince people that the president was above the law? ("When the President does it, it's not unconstitutional.")
Well, compare that to Dick Cheney trying to argue that the Vice-Presidency was a fourth branch of government that didn't have to answer to either the executive or legislative branches. (Since the VP has a role to play in both branches.)
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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Fact: In 2001, it was a Republican-controlled Congress that gave a Republican president "broad authority," which included invading a nation illegally -- a nation that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. Recall that this was the same Republican congress that tried to argue against the U.S. getting "entangled" in Bosnia (!!). Now that a Democratic president is using the power to make surgical drone strikes, many of the same Republicans are finding it necessary to "rethink" things. Perhaps because the drones have been tremendously effective at seemingly minimal financial cost, and thus greatly benefits the president who authorizes their use. (And they just don't want a Democratic president enjoying any benefits of success in what they used to call the "war on terror.")
Posted in: U.S. Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
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yabits
Yeah. add them to the "Clinton death list," and join the putzes.
Posted in: White House releases Benghazi emails
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It's quite natural that those inclined to criminality want to hide their immoral behavior behind a smokescreen of "complications." It's how Nixon secretly invaded Cambodia, triggering events that led to the overthrow of the government and subsequent genocide. And how his continued daily bombings took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Indo-Chinese.
It's also why these conservatives viciously attack and undermine any American leaders who won't join them in their criminality. Carter knew what Saddam was and didn't want his country to deal with him.
Soviet experts in the U.S. knew their system could not be sustained into a second generation of leadership. Its failures were evident and there were just no believers among the young people.
The real question is: What does the U.S. demonstrate to the people of the world when it deals in such a two-faced and Machiavellian manner as trying to play both sides against the other? (Answer: That it can't be trusted.)
LOL! Funny how one arguing about complications tries to over-simplify things. The green light for arms sales to Iraq was given around 1982 after Reagan took office and tried to make nice with what he thought would be his new buddy. If the United States truly wanted its NATO partners not to transfer weapons to Hussein, they could have easily managed that. The sailors of the Stark [1987] were actually very much victims of the Machiavellian machinations of their own leaders -- and used as pawns in a game played to stalemate.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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yabits
A United States president has the prerogative to answer a talk show host in his own words. I well understand how the Fox-Limbaugh crowd thinks it is fine to openly disrespect a sitting president (as long as it's a Democrat) -- making the Dan Rather-method of confrontation their ideal rather than trying to set another example. Why not model Jim Lehrer, Walter Cronkite or the late Tim Russert?
Obama's haters have yet to explain why him using the T-word on a talk show is so vitally important regarding the issue. Especially when Americans can have complete confidence that their president will go after the perpetrators, once all the facts have been gathered. After eight years of loose-lipped, shoot-from-the-hip, "Bring it on," "Mission Accomplished" malarky which ended up in disaster, Obama's measured words are a quantum leap improvement.
I would rather defend the truth, especially when it's under assault from haters who seem to have set no standard low enough that they still can manage to slither under.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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From the GOP's own report:
“We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue.” [emphasis mine]
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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The "media" did not "gloss over" the internal report that GOP did on itself and released in March. The leadership of the GOP itself admits that it faces serious challenges in the future, not the least of which being the age group between 18-30 is strongly identifying itself with Democrats and progressive policies.
The GOP leadership conducted interviews in places like Iowa and Ohio, seeking out the views of former GOP voters who have become disenchanted with their party. One of the perceptions delivered in the report is that voters consider the GOP, "scary" and "out-of-touch," views best exemplified by the scary, out-of-touch delusions that it is "the media" who have created this story. It's all a media fabrication that Governor Jindal called upon the GOP to stop being the "stupid" party.
As for the governors races, political re-alignments often take a decade or more before their effects can be analyzed. As young people become more active in local elections, this cannot bode well for the GOP and its messages of never-ending war, never-ending austerity, and never ending obstructionism with anyone who doesn't toe their line 100%.
As it relates to this topic, the current attempts to smear President Obama are a sign of the GOP's desperation, and an admission that they can't win with new ideas -- or show any flexibility at compromising with their political opponents.
It is pathetic and insulting when Republicans imply that these events would be treated the same way by them if one of their own was in the White House. Most intelligent people know that these Republicans have no principles other than selling themselves to the highest bidder. Intelligent people recall how Republicans at the time tried to defend and rationalize Nixon's actions -- which were crimes directed by him and his office. (Until, that is, the facts became obvious to everyone.)
"Anyone who wants to be an ambassador must give at least $250,000," Nixon instructed his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman. Remember how the country found out all about the CREEP (Committee to re-elect the President) money flowing to Nixon -- after some of it was used to pay off the Nixon-directed break-in of Democratic headquarters. Hopefully, young people are intelligent and reasonable enough to realize that some of the laws formed as a result of Watergate -- like donors to political causes having to release their identities and amounts -- have been effectively subverted by the Citizens United ruling.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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Can't believe no one has yet mentioned The Arrival.
Yes, Charlie Sheen could act.
Posted in: What are your five favorite science-fiction movies?
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So many great ones have been mentioned. A few on my list that have been not:
Westworld and The Incredible Shrinking Man, for icing on the cake.
Posted in: What are your five favorite science-fiction movies?
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Here's Ronald Reagan in 1982: "President Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment" and "My administration will do all it can to support his progressive efforts."
And thus Reagan made the United States complicit with genocide.
Posted in: Ex-Guatemalan dictator found guilty of genocide
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Hatch must have totally slept through the Reagan-Bush years. In terms of the sheer number of administration officials indicted and convicted of crimes, it stands as the most corrupt regime in American history. Sending arms to Iran -- whose proxies in Lebanon murdered scores of Marines -- and then denying he did just that, makes Benghazi look like a Sunday school picnic. Running a secret government out of the White House to bypass Congress and support genocidal murderers like Rios-Montt of Guatemala (see JT article, barely a week old), trumps anything Nixon did.
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
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yabits
The real scandal is how the IRS is not enforcing the rules behind tax exempt status for organizations whose activities are primarily political.
Why aren't conservatives concerned about that?
Posted in: U.S. tax authorities admit Tea Party scrutiny
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Inform the North Koreans that the next carrier we send will be the USS Dennis Rodman.
Posted in: N Korea slams U.S. aircraft carrier's arrival