JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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yabits
How accepting would he be of it if Callista presented to him as an ultimatum. My sense is that he's a total hypocrite who'd use his perverted powers of reason to conclude she was doing him all wrong -- unless, that is, he already had something on the side that he felt was better.
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yabits
It certainly does. Seeking out truth will always demand that one change and progress to higher and higher truths. (This is one of the bedrock assumptions of the liberal philosophy.)
In the little story, Kilrain didn't see any unifying "equality" -- just superficial differences. The highest truths of the major religions all point to a "one-ness" of all things despite of those differences. But just because he can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
I think you meant "anything." And you'd be right. When you live in a purely superficial world, all "truth" is malleable and subject to -- what do conservatives call it? -- situational expediencies. Truth to them, after all, is just a thing to play with to attain one's goals.
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yabits
"For better or worse...Forsaking all others."
I completely agree. Conservatives castigated Hillary Clinton for not leaving Bill. Their ultimate faithfulness to their marriage, which caused them to work through their problems and stay together, is admirable.
Whether Woods, Gingrich or Clinton, in my view adultery is a sin. (Yes, I believe there are such things as sins.) Twain said that true character consists of the ability to resist temptation. A person whose behavior adheres to a higher standard of morality, in my opinion, provides a better model for others than one whose behavior gives the impression that adultery is perfectly OK.
I am very familiar with, admire, and have been influenced by Maslow's work. Nevertheless, the highest parts of his heirarchy -- the ones above friendship and social intimacy -- are self-esteem and self-actualization. (Needs which can only be supplied from within by healthy individuals.) Maslow emphasized that human dysfunction occurs when any higher-order need is consistently sacrificed for a lower need over time. The work of other people in the field of human mental health and potential, like Karl Menninger, supply much needed "field-work" with hundreds of cases of neurotic and depressed people. Whatever Became of Sin? is a work that provides a lot of relevant case examples to Maslow's observations.
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yabits
It's a stupid question. Canada is a sovereign nation and can sell its oil to whom it chooses to. There's no need to have to build a pipeline through the United States to the Gulf in order to bypass Midwestern refineries and so export their oil to China from there -- all the while raising prices for millions of Americans.
It's what inferior minds do.
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yabits
The American who is capable of rationally and maturely assessing facts would be doing that, and not engaging in meta-talk. For example, the fact that TransCanada -- in their own permit request for the pipeline -- asserts that one of the main purposes for building Keystone is to divert crude away from Midwest refineries, thereby raising prices to those markets by "correcting" an "over-supply" situation. Therefore, the pipeline will mean higher oil and gas prices for millions of Americans.
Have the Americans who are supposedly in favor of the pipeline been informed of that? Not by the lie-through-their-teeth conservative backers and their willing dupes. I seriously doubt if a majority of Americans are in favor of paying higher gas prices.
Actually, what is amazing is how some people want to remain so willfully clueless, such that disdain for them is richly warranted.
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yabits
The Right Stuff
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yabits
There is a substantial difference between an American who may be temporarily ignorant or misinformed of the important facts regarding Keystone, and the American who is beyond rationally and maturely assessing those facts -- as readers of those who ask questions like the one above can well attest.
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yabits
I don't see it that way. Why? Because I regard oaths and vows to be as close to sacred obligations as we can approach in this world. As long as the sexual person remains as true to the vows they have sworn as the asexual person, one can't be said to be better or worse than the other.
Sorry, but oaths and vows in our society are taken in the presence of witnesses. The words mean what they mean, and therefore others do indeed have a very good clue and two legs to stand on. It is a corruption of character and morality to rationalize breaking vows and oaths simply for expediency's sake, or for the sake of satisfying one's carnal desires.
A person who blithely disregards his/her vows to the woman or man they have joined with should not be trusted to uphold an oath to defend the Constitution.
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yabits
Totally wrong. Let's not get stupid here. No company builds a $7 billion pipeline in order to get a "drastically" DECREASED price for the product flowing through it.
The reason TransCanada wants the pipeline comes directly from their 2008 Permit Application: "Existing markets for Canadian heavy crude, principally PADD II [U.S. Midwest], are currently oversupplied, resulting in price discounting for Canadian heavy crude oil. Access to the USGC [U.S. Gulf Coast] via the Keystone XL Pipeline is expected to strengthen Canadian crude oil pricing in [the Midwest] by removing this oversupply. This is expected to increase the price of heavy crude to the equivalent cost of imported crude. The resultant increase in the price of heavy crude is estimated to provide an increase in annual revenue to the Canadian producing industry in 2013 of US $2 billion to US $3.9 billion.."
Get that? If you can read English, you should be able to understand what the pipeline is supposed to accomplish: It's going to bypass the U.S. Midwest refineries (which are "oversupplied"). The crude destined for the Gulf is intended for export.
Independent analysts estimate that prices of gasoline will strengthen (read: INCREASE) by the tune of 30 to 40 cents a gallon.
I similarly utterly reject your environmental opinions as based upon the same kind of disinformation as the impact on gas prices.
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yabits
What is "conservative" about the above statement is the assignment of "fault." Again, in l'affair Lewinsky, Clinton was NOT a predator. He showed he didn't have the character to resist temptation, but he was not the predator that some sick-minded people accused him of being.
There are many May-December romances out there, and certainly some young adults find more mature adults attractive. If thinking that's "OK" makes a person a "sick lunatic," then I think it's a charge that reveals more about the person making it.
It's about the ones, like Gingrich, who denounced Clinton's values while at the same time acting with similar low morals and character. Not Clinton, but those hypocrites who accused Clinton whose character is the topic.
Wrong. But there is one very big pile of morally bankrupt conservatives. (Not all conservatives are in it, but Gingrich certainly is.)
I don't refer to my wife of 30+ years as a partner, and I'd never demand from her the kind of ultimatum Newt demanded of his second wife. Compared to Newt's conservative standard, defended by other conservatives, I consider my "record" to be more in line with the way conservatives talk, though not how many walk.
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yabits
These kinds of statements show the craven dishonesty of those whose minds are totally given over to the "conservative world."
Only in their sick fantasies do they visualize a Bill Clinton "preying" on a Monica Lewinsky. It was Monica, after all, who sought some private time with Bill to show him her new thong underwear. I totally disrespect Clinton for giving in, but calling him a predator in this regard demonstrates contempt for the truth.
More importantly, this is not about Bill Clinton! It's about all those hand-wringing jackasses among the conservatives who decried Clinton's behavior who are now trying to sell the nation on Newt Gingrich. Note very carefully the mindset of the perverted conservative: Gingrich is to be respected because he gave his "partner" -- his partner!! -- the ultimatum to accept his affair with his new woman or file for divorce. (Note that he was already playing around with her before he got around to delivering his terms.)
Liberals were chided for being "pc" about all this, but we hear all about family values from one side of the mouths of these jackals while out of the other side they call wives of their conservative leaders "partners."
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yabits
The fact that so many die-hard conservatives are so willing, by their actions, to disagree with you shows their own lack of moral grounding. And it casts their moral crusade against Bill Clinton in the light that we liberals always knew it was: rank hypocrisy.
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yabits
That same "majority" could not locate Nebraska on a map of the United States.
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yabits
Hey, if I had people like Sanitorium, Willard, and Newton-Leroy leading up my party's fight back, I'd be dissing Obama with all I had. Facts? Who needs 'em??!!
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yabits
LOL!! His aides want you to believe that pigs can fly.
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yabits
Perry supports Gingrich...
Oops.
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yabits
Of course, Newt "Family Values" Gingrich was already having an affair with Calista when he asked his wife to accept the situation. While at the same time wagging his finger at Clinton.
Limbaugh is a real horse's ass.
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yabits
Silvafan and Sioux Chief have done the board a service by properly defining the terms involved.
The author makes some good points but fundamentally confuses genuine entitlement with an individual's "false sense of entitlement."
When we make a promise or obligation to another party, the other party is entitled to expect that we will hold up our end of it. Thus the flip side of entitlement is obligation. Ron Paul is not my man because he uses a very perverse form of logic to argue that no such things as obligations exist between generations in the United States. It's a shame to see the author falling into a trap of associating a former classmate's false sense of entitlement with the genuine thing.
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yabits
No. If you "earn" a dollar and then invest it and end up with 5 dollars, four of them were never subject to payroll taxes.
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@tkoind2
I liked what you wrote. I think sometimes that people have a tendency to deify heroes because it provides an excuse for us mere mortals to remain as we are.
Here is King's challenge to us: "A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
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