JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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yabits
The truth is always tough for Republicans to take. They lie, they lose, they lie even more.
Posted in: Pelosi says CIA misled her on waterboarding
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yabits
According to the CIA, Pelosi attended ONE meeting -- back in 2002.
There is specific mention of waterboarding in meetings held from February 2003 on -- but Pelosi did not attend any of those meetings. And even some of the records of the 2003 meetings are under dispute.
This is just another in a long history slimy tactics by the party of false accusers: the Republicans. They lie; they lose; they lie even more.
Posted in: Pelosi says CIA misled her on waterboarding
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yabits
True. He was "working hard" to create his own mistakes.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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yabits
It's always good to learn from a major blunder(er), isn't it?
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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yabits
In his favor, he's immensely teachable. So much so that it amazes me how much some people seem to wax nostalgic over the boundless ignorance and arrogance of his predecessor.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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yabits
Republicans say they are for those things. Doing the opposite doesn't make them Democrats. It makes them liars.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
Molenir writes: "despite the Republican tag, [Bush] was more of a Democrat then most Democrats."
My scale stops at extremely ludicrous. This goes far beyond that.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
A documentary based on how this thing came to be, from conception to final production, would be hilarious.
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yabits
Imagine all of the time and effort that went into creating this thing.
What a waste.
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yabits
Only hold a referendum on the issue every two years and look to see how the trend is going against the position of the troglodytes. Within ten years it will be plain to see who is standing on the wrong side of history and progress. (As they always have.)
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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yabits
Why would society cater to its most narrow-minded and intolerant to draw the boundaries of what is normal and what is deviant? In a free society, an agreement made between two consenting adults should be sufficient. The people of six states seem to get this.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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yabits
The humor of Sykes didn't involve the actual death of anyone.
WMD were the major rationale for an attack that led to the deaths of thousands of Americans. George Bush thinking it was a good idea to make a joke about it is something we guess that only die-hard Republicans can understand.
What we know is that, had Obama launched an invasion on such specious circimstances and then joked about it, Republicans would never let decent Americans hear the end of it. Anyone who can actually try to claim that a joke about Rush as a hijacker is the same as laughing at the victims of 9/11 is ludicrous. Totally ludicrous.
The hijackers, like Rush, want the President to fail. Therein lies the humor, even though you can't seem to understand it.
Posted in: Obama jabs at himself, DC's establishment
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yabits
Taka writes: "RNC Chairman michael steele:"
And it must be very upsetting to Rush to see his Republican Party being led by a black quarterback.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
That is an extremely foolish or ignorant statement. "Day 45-46-47-48..and on and on, of America held hostage." Day after day, just as ABC's Nightline did.
People were unhappy so they turned to Rush to engage in their "victim mentality." There's a difference between espousing hate and rubbing salt on a self-perceived wound. It's not a big difference, since the person who feels himself "taken hostage" might then start to feel justified to spout hatred. Just as so many of Rush's listeners do.
I will not deny that the man is deviously brilliant.
As for so-called liberal talk shows, I can't say. I have heard a few and some, like Rachel Maddow's are pretty entertaining too. But I will take time to tune into a program in order to learn something. And there is more valuable information being passed in just one hour of Fareed Zakaria's Sunday show on CNN than in an entire month of Rush's non-stop axe-grinding and recriminations.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
It is one thing to laugh at someone else's joke. I recall very well when President Obama's predecessor carried on a little skit that made light of the failure to find a trace of WMD in Iraq. Take a nation to war, causing the deaths and maiming of thousands and then joke about it? I wonder if some mother whose son or daughter (in the military) was lying in hospital bed somewhere, having been injured in Iraq, would have thought it was funny.
Decent Americans need no lectures on class from the Republicans, thank you.
Posted in: Obama jabs at himself, DC's establishment
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yabits
The decision involved the condition of a human being -- property or not property -- where one state declared him a human being and other said he's just property.
So, in one state, the act of two committed people living together is recognized as a civil union. In another state, their union is treated as worthless and something not deserving of the protection of the laws involved.
I am quite frankly amazed that some folks can't see the parallel.
Moderator: The Dred Scott decision is not relevant to this discussion.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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yabits
The only thing that scares me about Limbaugh are the millions of brain-atrophying Americans out there who hang on his words. Americans who'd rather spend their time being lied to in the name of entertainment, rather than informing themselves.
As a counterweight to a steady diet of Rush, I would suggest the local library and full course of reading. Pick ONE issue and really, thoroughly research it so that you know your opponents' points of view as well as you know your own.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
It is you who are hyperextending my remarks into something I never said. For a "mere entertainer," he certainly has a large percentage of one of the major political parties in the world's most powerful military empire feeding out of his trough.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
The examples I gave LONG preceded yours. So give Rush a lot credit for helping to lower the level of what passes for political discussion.
Posted in: Cheney backs Limbaugh over Powell
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yabits
timorborer's analysis was as first-rate as Wolfpack's was laughable. (How do you show you are "escalating" by firing the guy who most wanted to escalate?)
Afghanistan is certainly hopeless when relying on the tactics favored by McKiernan. What the country needs most is the peace and prosperity that comes via nation-building.
Posted in: U.S. fires top general in Afghanistan as war worsens