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yabits said...

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  yabits at 06:12 AM JST - 14th July

  Also, are you suggesting that by remaining anonymous enough not to "get caught" then there is no moral obligation to come forward and apologize?

  I am suggesting that this incident does not imply any moral superiority on the part of the Japanese involved in it. And some posters using…

  Posted in Japanese girl returns to Florence to atone for graffiti at 06:12 AM JST - 14th July

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  yabits at 03:26 AM JST - 14th July

  We're not seeing all the other probably thousands of other graffiti writers from various countries stepping up to apologize, are we?

  Sheeeyiiit...

  How many of the thousands of other writers wrote the name of their school and took pictures while doing it?

  Posted in Japanese girl returns to Florence to atone for graffiti at 03:26 AM JST - 14th July

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  yabits at 12:28 AM JST - 14th July

  rdr jr writes:

  Now folks this is a genuine act of class and decency.

  What I know is that those words just sucked all the class and decency out of the action. They remind me of words said by my first Japanese language teacher: When explaining something, she would…

  Posted in Japanese girl returns to Florence to atone for graffiti at 12:28 AM JST - 14th July

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  yabits at 10:43 PM JST - 10th July

  Can someone tell me what in the heck that means in english.

  C'mon, sailwind, you really can't interpret that message? kinniku's lame attempt at humor aside, what Jackson is saying is this:

  "Black males are not entirely responsible for their condition. Society shares in the responsibility. Therefore, Obama needs…

  Posted in Jackson apologizes for his comments about Obama at 10:43 PM JST - 10th July

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  yabits at 09:30 PM JST - 8th July

  I was a little surprised to see "Bush's brilliant strategy" myself. In fact he was belatedly following the advice of General Eric Shinseki who was shown the door when he suggested more troops might be needed in the run-up to the invasion.

  It is a bit like proclaiming the…

  Posted in Iraq raises idea of timetable for U.S. withdrawal at 09:30 PM JST - 8th July

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  yabits at 07:20 PM JST - 8th July

  So, the headline might actually need to read: "Actress CK gets buzz-cut WIG for stage play?"

  What kind of reporting is this?

  Posted in Actress Chiaki Kuriyama gets buzz-cut for stage play at 07:20 PM JST - 8th July

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  yabits at 07:11 PM JST - 8th July

  Sarge writes:

  You really don't know, do you? Well, for one thing, Iraqis are divided mainly into Shiites and Sunnis and they've hated each other for a thousand years and they still don't get along...

  And a few years under an American occupation and Shiite-run government is going to…

  Posted in 15 killed in Iraq attacks at 07:11 PM JST - 8th July

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  yabits at 06:05 AM JST - 8th July

  I applaud her dedication to her craft. Her face is very lovely.

  Posted in Actress Chiaki Kuriyama gets buzz-cut for stage play at 06:05 AM JST - 8th July

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  yabits at 06:00 AM JST - 8th July

  rjd jr writes:

  As I have been saying since the beginning, what exactly is so earth shatteringly hard about training these Iraqi's that it takes over 5 years and counting? The average American recruit straight off the street takes 14 weeks of training (infantry) to report to their unit,…

  Posted in 15 killed in Iraq attacks at 06:00 AM JST - 8th July

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  yabits at 10:07 PM JST - 7th July

  Yabits, you have some vaild points but if the south (never been) is as monolithic and as racist as you paint it how to explain the election in post-Katrina Louisiana of a Republican governor? - and one who is not white.

  The south used to be pretty monolithic for…

  Posted in Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms dies at 86 at 10:07 PM JST - 7th July