Showing posts with label comfort women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comfort women. Show all posts

Sunday, March 04, 2007

I wonder...

You know, on a normal day, a lot of things strike me at odd. Sometimes oddly wonderful, sometime oddly annoying, sometimes just downright odd....

SO here a few of the things I think are odd today...
Ran across this YouTube blurb that reveals Ann Coulter basically calling a Democratic candidate for President John Edwards a fag. Its a nicely worded barb, but the thing is...I didn't see any humor in her when she said it, and that's what bothers me. Of course, if there enough of a stir she'll do the rounds and perform a dismissive mea culpa; and probably without pausing to draw another breath tell us all to get over it. Look, I don't give a crap about this stuff for the most part, but its the sort of mean-spirited polarizing commentary that has really disaffected many voters. You want to claim its a joke making a parody of the overly-sensitive nature of our society (thanks to liberal pussies no doubt) by throwing a reference to the black guy from Grey's Anatomy who had to go to "rehab" for calling a co-worker a "faggot" that is fine, but watch the clip...I don't see any dark humor behind her eyes, like I might with an actual comedienne.

Oh well, how about this story about a U.S. expert on Russia Intelligence getting shot in his driveway just days after appearing on Dateline NBC and claiming the Russian government has a underground campaign to silence critics of Vladimir Putin. Ummm, guess its not so underground anymore....

Talk about a Japanese two-step, I haven't a politician dance like a cat on a hot tin roof this well since William J.
On Thursday, Japan's PM Shinzo Abe said "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion." He was referring to the Japan's abuse of hundreds of thousands of women during World War II, when the Imperial Army furnished what were known as "comfort women" for its troops abroad.
Today his special advisor was jumping through his ass to control the damage. "Though there are many definitions of coercion, Prime Minister Abe has said ... that he will stand by the Kono statement,'' said Hiroshige Seko, special adviser in charge of Abe's public relations, referring to a 1993 statement issued by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono apologizing to the victims of sex slavery. The Kono statement also acknowledged many women were forced into prostitution and that the military government was involved in some cases.

Monday, February 19, 2007

When the Moods Strikes

Ok, so they found the climbers on Mt Hood. Big fat hairy deal. I want to know what happened to the DOG! Heck, those fellas made a choice to put themselves in peril (and at least they the good sense to bring along survival equipment) but the I doubt the Labrador Retriever woke up and thought "hmmm, good day to climb a mountain."

And who gives a flying fart if Britney Spears shaved her head? Its HAIR people...its grows back!

The funniest article of the day so far is the Hispanic pastor who thinks he is the living embodiment of Jesus Christ...but has 666 tattoo'd on his arm...hee hee..um, dude...

On the home front, I guess the Congress angered some Japanese politicians today by passing a non-binding resolution call on Tokyo to formally resolve the female sex-slave during World War II issue. Here's to guessing the Japanese don't want to be reminded that they "employed" more than 200,000 "comfort women" almost 70 years ago....My thought: this will blow over soon. Heck, I doubt the people IN WASHINGTON realize the impact of their vote. To them its just another throw-away non-binding resolution that law-makers can pass to soothe the collective conscious.