JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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yabits
Politico went to Herman Cain just over 10 days ago with the allegations to get Cain's take on this, and to give him a chance to respond before going public. Cain, inexplicably, did nothing.
Cain's changing and rolling disclosures -- first he says he doesn't know about any payments, then he tells another interviewer that he thinks one of the women got 2 or 3 months pay -- are terribly incompetent and lacking in candor for a man who was tipped off with that much notice.
Cain says human resources at the NRA handled the arbitration with the women. Politico's investigation of current and former executives and human resources managers at NRA reveal a much different story.
The man is simply unelectable.
Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment
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yabits
So why do conservatives resort to lying and cheating at every turn? I would think that someone who decries lying as much as conservatives claim to would be scrupulous seekers of "the truth." But they are not.
I proudly cast my vote for President Obama and will do so again.
With my blinders off, I can see yours quite clearly.
Posted in: Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events
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yabits
You brought up the accusation of racism, but don't have a single line of evidence to justify it. So it's just another false accusation. Par for the course.
You brought up Ayers. I have not seen any source that is as reliable as Factcheck.org produce any credible evidence -- and plenty of evidence which refutes the claim. The deep well of lies that conservatives drink from has polluted their judgment.
Why did the Republicans (or Democratic challengers) not produce this evidence during the run to the 2008 election? Yes, it does make the right-wingers look desperate, as well as childish.
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yabits
Awwww...listen to the stuck-pig-squeal of a right-winger getting a dose of some of their own medicine. The problem here is that Anita Hill is and was always a decent and honorable person who told the truth, while Thomas proved himself to be the worst kind of dishonorable liar. The kind that many conservatives seem to love.
Who has the most to immediately gain from getting Cain knocked out? It's not the Democrats. It's funny when right-wingers pretend to completely deny just how lying and sleazy their own kind can be.
Seriously, this is the kind of gross ignorance that got Cain and Thomas into trouble. Not knowing the difference between contact and speech which is consensual and appropriate to the parties involved and that which is not.
Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment
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yabits
It shows the extent of the mendacity the right-wingers will engage in to satisfy their deep-seated hatred of our president.
Posted in: Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events
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yabits
So what? Cain was the head of the Association and the multiple instances of alleged misconduct occurred at numerous association functions. So it would have been while Cain was acting in his role as association president. So, during that time, a check to keep the women quiet coming from the organization is pretty much identical to coming from its president.
Gee, Paul, you really do some unique stretching to defend one of your own. What next? You going to put the whole jury system on trial here? So the women accusing Cain were blackmailing him? I'm sure the question that Herman asked them was: "C'mon now ladies. What do I have to pay to make this all go away?"
Neither Cain nor the association would have had to pay the women a penny, or go to trial. All Cain had to was apologize for his inappropriate conduct and resign as president of the association the very first time it was brought to his attention. These payments to buy silence make Cain look very, very bad.
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yabits
I would behave precisely as I would wish someone else to behave who has found something I may have lost or had stolen: I would turn it in.
Posted in: If you found a bag with a huge amount of cash, say 10 million yen, would you hand it in to the authorities or keep it?
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yabits
Let's get this straight. If evidence comes in that a person has had to pay off women in order to buy their silence with regards to sexual harassment charges, we should just take that person's denials as the truth?
The charge at this point is that Cain had to reach settlements with at least two women. I seriously doubt that the allegation is unsubstantiated.
It could be the work of some Republicans. At this point, Cain is more of a danger to them.
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yabits
Whether Wright -- if that's who is being referred to here -- is "racist," is a matter of opinion. I have seen no evidence that he hates any race. (There is evidence that Cain "settled" by paying off women.)
Sure. It's another example of a right-wing lie. Where is this "personal friendship" documented anywhere? FactCheck.org has a great piece on how McCain and the Republicans lied about the extent of the relationship between Obama and Ayers, backed up by solid evidence of its extent. And right-wingers continue to repeat the lie. However, there is strong evidence now coming in that Cain had to pay off at least two women.
Certainly not yours and my president Barack Obama.
LOL! Perhaps it's just reporters doing their jobs. What "dirt" we heard about Anita Hill comes from the right-wing smear job known as The Real Anita Hill by David Brock. Brock later had to reckon with his conscience and ultimately revealed that his book was completely false about Ms. Hill's true character. He then wrote an apologia titled Blinded by the Right. Since we know the right-wing admittedly told lies to smear Ms. Hill, her accusations about the lecherous Clarence Thomas suddenly are tremendously more credible, making Thomas one of the worst kinds of liars.
There are many ways to be "dangerous." Paying off women to buy their silence would count as one of them.
Posted in: Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events
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yabits
Hot off the news wire.
Looks like Cain has got some sexual harassment charges in his past. Women that he had to pay off in order to buy their silence.
Maybe he was just trying to show them some of his motivational techniques.
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yabits
It's quite clear that Cain's supporters are divorced from truth and reality. How else could they be Cain supporters?
I read that Cain has done yet another back-flip on his abortion position -- even after he's had ample opportunity to "explain" himself on it. Now, he is opposed to abortion even if the mother's life is in danger. I find it hard to understand how endangering the life of a woman is a "pro-life" position. For years, Cain agreed with abortion under the conditions of rape, incest, if the mother's life was in danger.
You get a sense of Cain's real pro-life values when he says he wants to put up a fence that will electrocute Mexicans and any from south of the border who try to breach it. One has to assume that includes pregnant women.
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yabits
Darn, I sure needed that good laugh.
Posted in: Perry to GOP: I could handle Obama in debate
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yabits
Well done!
Posted in: Final curtain
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yabits
Herman Cain is to American politics as Stonehenge is to a Spinal Tap concert.
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yabits
The roots of OWS were there well before that. In 2009, to be more precise.
Posted in: Occupy Wall Street movement flexes muscles one month on
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yabits
Yeah, Phil, you're going to have a lot to like there. Just about everything that comes out of the motivational speaker's mouth has to be apologized for or rationalized away with lame excuses.
I didn't think anyone could ever match the sheer, shameless stupidity of George W., but you've got to hand it to the right-wing teabag-partiers for finding folks who can in their current crop of candidates.
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yabits
You've hit it right on. Breitbart is Fox News on steroids -- a faster way to kill off brain cells than glue sniffing.
Posted in: Obama waits for GOP race to end 'Survivor'-style
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yabits
Yeah, there's something about good music that transcends everything.
Here's a question that kind of reflects on the state of music today: What group or artist that has emerged only in the past 10 years would stand a chance of making it -- when the time comes -- as an artist or act who was great over 25 years?
Gaga?
btw, I think Stone Roses and XTC were terrific bands. And I think Mark Knopfler's work deserves some mention too.
Come to think of it, "Best Act of the past 25 years" is an award that is given....how often? Every year?
Posted in: U2 honored as 'Greatest Act' in last 25 years
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yabits
I'm sure bin Laden and Ghaddafy would agree with you. Clearly, U.S. politics is not your area of expertise.
You may be at your best commenting on the pictures of young girls shown on JT. It's all downhill from there.
Posted in: Obama waits for GOP race to end 'Survivor'-style
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yabits
The destructive spawn of Fox News are creatures like Palin, Cain, and Bachmann. Steve Jobs would have jumped over a dozen lousy Republicans -- Huntsman excepted -- to cast another vote for Obama, who can be fairly criticized for a number of reasons.
The only advantage I can think of of a Romney presidency is they won't have to build a robot for the Hall of Presidents -- they can just use any of his videos -- a trait he shares with Al Gore.
Posted in: Obama waits for GOP race to end 'Survivor'-style