October 3, 2009 archive

Oct 03 2009

Random Japan

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BAD IDEA

A traveling exhibition of cartoons from Japan depicting “the horrors of war” made a stop at the Nanking Massacre Memorial Hall in China.

It was a hard day’s night for some Tokyo record store workers: to accommodate brisk sales of all 14 digitally remastered Beatles albums, some shops opened at midnight.

Two doctors in Nara, including one who had previously been arrested for defrauding the national health insurance system, performed unnecessary surgery on a patient’s liver, resulting in the man’s death.

Lee Myung Bak, the president of South Korea, said he hoped Emperor Akihito would visit his country next year to mark the 100th anniversary of Japan’s annexation of the Korean Peninsula.

It was reported that then-US President Gerald Ford was pondering a trip to Hiroshima in 1974, but the plans were scrapped for fear of ruffling feathers in Japan. No sitting American president has ever visited either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Oct 03 2009

Overnight Caption Contest

Oct 03 2009

Empty Talking Points, Faux Outrage, and The Lie Factory — Exposed.

Ed Schultz: This wasn’t flippant, Grayson just took it to them ‘by the rules’. And he doesn’t have to apologize to nobody for anything. And you know what, there are a lot of Lefties around this Country, in their living rooms tonight saying, ‘YES! this is how you got to handle these folks!’

The Republicans are demanding an apology for the same reason they are offering Amendments about Czars — They have nothing to offer in the Health Care Debate!

[…]

Ed Schultz: Congressman Grayson do you take anything back?

Alan Grayson: Absolutely NOT!  — the people WHO should be apologizing are the Republicans — they’re the ones who should be apologize for dragging us all through the mud here, while we are just trying to improve Health Care in America.

Oct 03 2009

Mr. President, Ben Carnes was fasting 4 Peltier’s freedom

After this, I don’t know what to do next.


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It seems like someone ought to let the president know that an American Indian man fasted in front of the White House for one week. Someone ought to say this man sat on a bench in Lafayette Park, starving in a silent protest, not taking even water.

Except to briefly say –

Someone should tell the White House there was a Native American man starving for the freedom of Leonard Peltier on their front lawn.

Mr. President, Ben Carnes was fasting on the White House Lawn for Peltier’s freedom.

Oct 03 2009

Friday Philosophy: No, we don’t tolerate bigotry

On a better day, I probably wouldn’t write this, but workers have spent the last three weeks showing up at 7am to renovate the downstairs apartment and I am sleep deprived.  And there is no appearance that more than one person as showed up at Muse in the Morning for the past two days, so screw it.

I mentioned the title to some people earlier today.  buhdydharma commented,

Tough thesis to prove!

I responded,

Probably should say “shouldn’t”…

…but the “we” needs to be expanded upon.

Reading on may offer an explanation.

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