JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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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
The problem arises when ample evidence is provided about the Sarah Palin photo taken by someone who claims to be a "long-time resident or Wasilla" -- Judy Patrick -- whom Palin must know. On Patrick's website, the blurb for the calendar says: "Over 50 photographs of Sarah and her family."
If someone was to be presented with that kind of evidence and still, like a petulant child, claimed he was right on the basis of dead links and innocuous, unattributable comments, why would he expect a break from others? Anyone can be wrong, but someone who won't admit it doesn't deserve much respect.
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yabits
The photo is from the official "Sarah Palin calendar" showing our monthly pinup gal for July 2009. The Atlantic Monthly has been a respected chronicler of issues affecting the United States for well over a hundred years, despite the smears and misinformation from Palin's ignorant supporters.
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yabits
Supporters of Palin are good for a laugh a minute.
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yabits
Yeah, she's signed up to play president in Scary Movie 5.
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yabits
No. It has to do with a combination of ignorance and arrogance.
Conservatives are very, very angry and bitter people. And so they hunger for a candidate who is malicious enough to allow them to take it out on their political opponents. No nice, decent folks like the Obamas for them!
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yabits
The moment Sarah Palin opened her mouth and removed all doubt in the minds of intelligent people that she is a mindless conservative who abuses authority and divides America up between "real Americans" (like her) and "the rest," she hung a target on herself.
The scene of "Mrs. Pit-Bull Hockey-Mom" running for the hills when the onslaught of pucks came is just too beautiful to behold. Hell yeah!
America has suffered enough through John & Kate + 8 and Bush & Dick + Hate, and we finally have a decent person in the White House. We don't need the embarrassment of the latest chapter of the Palin Family Drama playing itself out on the national stage.
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yabits
Sarah Palin did nothing.
The Republican Party presented Palin to the nation as someone they thought was qualified to lead the nation -- just as they did with George W. Bush.
And normally intelligent people quite justifiably retched.
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yabits
I would not go so far as to call Sarah Palin those things.
However, about those who actually believe that Palin is fit to lead the United States of America....
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yabits
I can understand how it might seem that way.
There is a faction among Americans who want to believe that the USA is an absolute force for good, with no qualifications whatsoever. (I consider Palin to be among that faction, and explains why others of like mind slather over her.)
Amongst any group of people you have these types who are self-blinded, self-deluded, self-righteous hypocrites. Any person who can see through this and attempt to speak the truth to these people must be seen as evil haters, and, in some cases, fodder for crucifixion. These people project their hatred on those who want to know if America is really and truly as good as the Palin-types blindly believe it is.
What I deplore and fear about the Bush-Palin types is that they do NOT show the slightest evidence of having the kind of conscience that would ever give them pause about their train of thought and subsequent actions and spring from it. Anyone who believes that the disdain arises simply because of her gender or her conservative viewpoint are missing the point entirely.
These people are so wrapped up in their own self-righteousness and the feeling of victimization that comes when others disagree with them that they have to dehumanize their political opponents into haters. That does not mean, however, there are NOT the genuine haters. The haters, for example, are the ones who would witness someone going into a church and killing another person in cold blood and then say that the victim had it coming. We on JT are all too familiar with these types.
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yabits
Yes, the conservative slathering over Palin produces enough drool to float an ark. It must be the evil people who refuse to drool over Palin.
If Palin was genuinely intelligent, she would have enough self-awareness to know how to disarm the snobs and the media. But she does not rise to that level of intelligence, and therefore she is completely unqualified to lead any nation as diverse as the United States.
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yabits
More like Mother Superior.
I can see it now: Three years into the horrendous mess of a mythical Palin presidency, in the midst of a crisis, she announces to the American people "I have decided not to run again. And so, to use a basketball analogy, as player-coach, I've decided to bench myself and fire the coach. In short, I'm OUTA here! I wish you all the best and know that you'll be in my prayers. I suggest you all keep praying too. As one of my magnets on the White House fridge says: 'All prayers get answered, but sometimes the answer is NO!' The world needs more special people like my son Tripp. Shucks, I owe my presidency to a whole lot of people on the 'challenged' end of the development scale. Well, there's just no way for this great country to go anywhere but UP from here. Good-bye!"
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yabits
The rise to fame and prominence of politicians like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Sarah Palin does indicate something that some Americans look for in their politicians. There is a certain segment of the American population that truly is pig-ignorant and cravenly resentful of anyone who attempts to present them with the genuine complexities of the vast majority of issues today.
And, being simple-minded, they look for politicians who "look nice" and who feed them simple platitudes to bolster their unquestioning faith in their own "goodness," and, like the snake-oil that claims to "cure-all," promise simple answers to all problems. And they leave horrible, horrible messes for others to try and clean up.
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yabits
LOL! Imagine a pistol with a ten-chamber cylinder, nine of which are loaded with U.S. bullets, and the tenth a communist bullet. Then line up a thousand mannequins, spin the barrel, walk up to the first one and fire into it. Then replace the spent cartridge with exactly the same type of bullet, spin the barrel and repeat the operation on each mannequin.
The laws of statistics provide the basis for the claim that roughly 90% of the targets will have been done in by U.S.-made bullets.
But there are two other significant factors which further tilt the odds that it is U.S. made ordnance that is causing more than 90% of the casualities. The first factor is type of ordnance. We got our 9:1 ratio by assuming that ALL of the communist supplied munitions were of the type that would remain a serious danger. This can't be the case.
The second factor is location. The North Vietnamese did not bomb themselves, and they did not bomb Laos or Cambodia. The U.S. pulverized those places with millions of tons of bombs, and heavily bombed areas of South Vietnam too. The thousands killed and maimed in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam in the years since the end of the war have a certainty in the high-90 percent range as being caused by U.S. ordnance.
At some point, common sense has to take precedence over the delusional, unfounded belief that the United States, while responsible for well over 90% of the most dangerous unexploded ordnance, is somehow only responsible for "maybe" a shade over "half" of the victims.
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yabits
Nah. Alaskans have Pay-per-View.
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yabits
You said maybe more than half of them.
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yabits
LOL! Exactly.
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yabits
Saw a great preview for an ad for the Republican Party. It's that scene from the movie "Shane," only the little kid keeps yelling out "Arlen! Come back! Arlen!"
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yabits
Palin is an opportunist. If I may be permitted my own basketball analogy, she's like the high school star who decides to leave college after a few months and head straight to the NBA -- and the big bucks.
She sees that there are so many suckers out there who'll lap up everything she says and pay good money for it, that it's just too good to pass up. Our young basketball star could get injured in a college game and be ruined for the big show -- and one or more of those ethical investigations just might find something that sticks.
The funniest thing in this discussion so far has been the comment that "nobody does the politics of personal destruction like Democrats." This coming from a party that gave us the baseless Troopergate, Travelgate, Whitewater, Filegate, and the "death list" -- all directed at just one person who happened to be a sitting president.
Nothing, but nothing, makes a Republican squeal like a stuck pig like a little taste of their own medicine. Sarah, like Jim and Tammy Faye, knows how to shill a buck from suckers, and Twain and Mencken must be smiling up above to see how many more suckers are going to line up and pay to hear the message from magnets on her refrigerator.
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yabits
Not even one complete term as a governor. Her growing partisanship and unpopularity makes her vulnerable to an embarrassment in the 2010 gubernatorial race, and so she acts true to form. Always the "beauty queen."
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yabits
Anyone dense or intellectually dishonest enough to believe that the above, stupidly-written sentence portrays reality deserves very little in the way of slack.
Gore could not be challenging "the results" of the "election" in Florida, because no human being could actually know what the results were until every legally-cast ballot (requested on a county-by-county basis, per Florida law) was physically examined by the most accurate means possible (i.e. human inspection) to determine the intent of the voter. It's called the democratic process and it had been followed in every close, contested election since the birth of the country -- until the Republicans found a way to get their pals in the state to subvert the process by stopping any and all physical inspection of ballots.
Any simpleton knows that when you are confronted with the results of machine-tabluated balloting that is as razor-close as Florida's presidential electors of 2000 and the Minnesota senatorial race of 2008, you hand count. It is only natural that anyone who loves democracy would resist any and all attempts to block the inspection and tallying of legally-cast ballots.
Republicans have to perpretrate the big lie that in American democracy the way to steal an election is by counting the ballots, and so counting ballots must be forestalled in any close election when a Republican is ahead.
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