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
The problem with that statement is that it confuses everything that is less conservative than the hard right wing as "far left." The far right has real issues with any moderate conservative who is willing to compromise with centrist Democrats -- calling them RINOs.
There is far more rational and balanced thought and discussion coming from the Democrats these days. It is where the real political center is.
Posted in: Obama declares victory for Americans as tax deal reached
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yabits
Total cave by the Republicans. Of course, they have only themselves to blame for painting themselves into the corner. Thank you, GOP, for the Christmas present!
A great WIN for President Obama.
Posted in: Obama declares victory for Americans as tax deal reached
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yabits
The Republicans sure know how to expend a lot of time and energy on a such a no-win issue.
Posted in: Obama urges lawmakers to extend payroll tax cut
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yabits
The end of the book shows how the ordinary animals looked back and forth from the pigs to the pig-like humans and could no longer distinguish the difference.
Now that the pig-like Kim Jong Il has bit the big one, many of us ordinary animals find some extraordinary similarities with the big-lie-spouting right-wingers. The corporate-state is indeed a "person" and those in the 99% should never complain about their status or else be accused of instigating "class warfare." Some chilling similarities indeed.
Posted in: Kim Jong Il's body displayed; N Korea media hail son
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yabits
Well, there's Cambodia which overturned a communist regime and went back to monarchy. But I see your point.
I suspect that China's and Vietnam's far more market-oriented economic systems will continue to cause their political systems to evolve as well -- putting even more pressure on North Korea.
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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yabits
If we look at the Incas, we'd find an "empire" that lasted all of 130 years -- and caved very quickly when confronted with less than 200 people from the "modern" world.
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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yabits
I believe the odds are better than 75% that this new guy is going to suffer the same fate as the South Korean president did in October of 1979.
Unlike with the father and grandfather, it's going to be very tough to spin myths of celestial occurrences around this kid. I think a critical mass already recognizes that the whole thing is an evil farce. It is now only a matter of time.
Posted in: North Koreans rally around Kim Jong Il's heir
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yabits
Being that no hardline communist regime has ever made it very far into a third generation of leadership, I believe that hopes can be realized for a reunification of the Korean peninsula -- though not the way the Kims would have envisioned -- in the not-too-distant future.
Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69
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yabits
Gee, but that's just plain ignorant. Liberals did not oppose the bombing of Libya the same way most did not oppose the containment of Saddam, which involved the same kind of air support and occasional bombing to enforce a no-fly zone. Comparing a limited show of air power with a full-scale invasion is just plain dumb.
Posted in: Author Christopher Hitchens dies at 62
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yabits
I wonder.
Many Americans obviously have a sixth-grader's level of maturity and wisdom when it comes to issues like the Iraq war. It means that debacles like this are likely to be repeated.
Posted in: Last U.S. troops leave Iraq
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yabits
Only within the warped minds of the duped. The original tea partier's stormed and occupied a corporate trade ship -- throwing its goods overboard. And they didn't ask for permission to do it.
A lie. The Tea Party is filled with a lot of angry and hate-filled, and essentially lazy, people, typified by the ignorant slogan: Keep your government hands off of my Medicare. That doesn't mean that many don't relish the concept of violence, especially in rhetoric and symbols. Relatively few, however, would be willing to pay the price demanded by violent extremism.
Posted in: 'The protester' named Time's person of year
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yabits
The Ref, Bad Santa, Elf and All Mine To Give.
Posted in: What are some of your favorite Christmas movies and TV shows?
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yabits
The debacle of the Bush presidency ensured the election of President Obama. (A sixth-grader might not be able to make the connection.)
It is understandable how some conservatives hope, pray and otherwise rant about how they want the current U.S. president to fail. After the debacle of the Bush presidency, they only way they know how to save face is by dragging down someone else.
Posted in: U.S. formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
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yabits
Even a simp could see that throwing off indebtedness to Great Britain was just as much a legitimate end of the struggle. But the point was made of a clear comparison in terms of the level of commitment and spirit, which makes the Tea Party look like more of a tailgate party at a sporting event: yell for a couple of hours with Glenn Beck and then go home and "occupy" their L-Z-Boys.
Posted in: 'The protester' named Time's person of year
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yabits
Worst debacle in U.S. history.
Posted in: U.S. formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
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yabits
It's such a scummy, hate-filled comment -- one worthy only of those who despise the true proponents and practitioners of freedom, creativity and progress.
Posted in: As Gingrich surges, Romney attacks
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yabits
It would be a misinformed charge of discrimination. (As you correctly pointed out later.)
Well, it comes amid a larger allegation that Time and other media outlets lean left by -- as the accusations go -- discriminating against the conservative side.
The Tea Party is well worth a mention, but, in spirit and commitment, the OWSers bear much closer resemblance to the early American troops who braved the winter at Valley Forge.
Posted in: 'The protester' named Time's person of year
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yabits
Interesting choice.
Posted in: 'The protester' named Time's person of year
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yabits
Wrong. But well above 90% of the conservative drivel that is posted on this board is just that. Absolutist nonsense.
Wrong about that too.
Posted in: As Gingrich surges, Romney attacks
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yabits
So, subtract the 13 percent from the 60 and then derive that we've got 53 percent of the American people who don't believe the media is too left leaning. Unfortunately, among the 47 percent that still do believe it, there's a substantial portion who have heard the right-wing whining and bleating that the media is too liberal and just blindly follow along (as you have done) without really investigating the matter.
Not sure if Colbert was the one who made the statement famous, but in America today, but conservatives exposed to any article that doesn't toe their line 100% -- in other words, exposed to the truth -- will cry liberal bias. That's how emotionally invested they are in their ideological delusions. Any compromise or seeking of middle ground with a political opponent is viewed by them, absolutists as they are, as appeasement.
Posted in: As Gingrich surges, Romney attacks