yabits said...

yabits at 08:33 PM JST - 21st June

The poster on the right has a good message. It is truly for all of us to work together to protect the world's environment.

(Regarding waribashi, when I travel to Japan, I will remember to bring washable, reusable ohashi with me. Each person can do his or her part.)

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yabits at 07:20 AM JST - 20th June

When the Republicans had the majority in Congress, oil wasn't $130 a barrel.

LOL!!!

When President Squander declared his "strong dollar policy" in December of 2004, the smart money started shifting to Euros. (And what a smart move that was.) He's the closest thing I've ever seen to Colonel…

Posted in Bush urges Congress to lift ban on offshore oil drilling at 07:20 AM JST - 20th June
yabits at 01:36 AM JST - 20th June

In what universe is a declaration ("Universal Declaration of Human Rights") an "important law [ legal ] body"?

The UDHR became the basis for two important international human rights treaties. The United States has ratified both of them. According to Article 6 of the US Constitution, ratified treaties are…

Posted in Obama says bin Laden must not be a martyr at 01:36 AM JST - 20th June
yabits at 09:54 AM JST - 19th June

Name a single act or group that Soros has funded that doesn't serve his agenda. He wouldn't "invest" his money on anything that didn't produce results in his favor.

Soros has no connection to the Johns Hopkins-Bloomberg School research inasmuch as I have been able to determine. (If there…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 09:54 AM JST - 19th June
yabits at 09:01 AM JST - 19th June

The used the same flawed technique for estimating Iraqi death rates as did Lancet

Johns Hopkins' research was peer-reviewed and found to be based on sound methods. I don't know what Lancet has to do with it.

What about Fumento's work? Why nothing about that?

It makes NO…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 09:01 AM JST - 19th June
yabits at 05:28 AM JST - 19th June

Still, don't you think it's odd that a Soros-funded "survey"...

You really seem to believe that George Soros paid for the survey, and by so doing, told the researchers not to conduct an honest survey. Do you actually expect others to be as gullible as you have chosen to…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 05:28 AM JST - 19th June
yabits at 05:20 AM JST - 19th June

And it's how many times higher than any other estimation?

No other estimates have been compiled by anyone doing research with anywhere near the same level of detail and rigor as the two universities cited in the Johns Hopkins report.

The real story is why the US war-supporters have…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 05:20 AM JST - 19th June
yabits at 04:27 AM JST - 19th June

Indicates sheer speculation rendering the rest of the discussion absolutely moot !

LOL!!!!! Such shoddy reasoning is really funny.

The number given, 654,965, is only speculative because the researchers cannot claim an exact number. Applying a 10-20% error rate to it still provides a result over a half-million who…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 04:27 AM JST - 19th June
yabits at 11:06 PM JST - 18th June

According to nonbiased sources: "As many as 654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003 than would have been expected under pre-war conditions, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in…

Posted in Iraqi violence down at 11:06 PM JST - 18th June
yabits at 10:58 PM JST - 18th June

The key question of whether this marks an inflection point or just a deviation from trend can only be answered with the passage of time.

Good. Then it is foolish to jump to any conclusions about the trend, and certainly dumb for some to declare that this temporary lull…

Posted in Car bomb kills 51 in Baghdad at 10:58 PM JST - 18th June