Displaying 11,641 To 11,670 Of 11,789 Comments In the Nightwish vein, L’ » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:29 pm I actually have a bit of music very Sprockets-like aus Deutschland. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:28 pm Understood. More xenophobia and chauvinism than conventional racism. Didn’t know about the fingerprinting. Wasn’t there a sign somewhere (Yushukan?) that was humorously revisionist (if you’re able to find humor in such things)? I remember seeing a picture of it (which was printed in English) and scratching my head, regarding what they said about the US starting the war or something. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:24 pm I remember the kid who wouldn’t say the Pledge because of gay rights was some entertaining Troll slaying for me. I love how after I stay about 10-15 minutes they disappear. Maybe I’m flattering myself, but they were easy pickin’s. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:12 pm Festivus is Zaphod, I think. FM, were you CaCafrom Ann? » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:10 pm Sad… » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:08 pm Mon fr » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:07 pm Ah, I was wondering too. I hate this half of the year, when Jon Stewart is on an hour later… » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:05 pm Do they still have language police, or is that an urban legend, — or at least, blown out of proportion. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:03 pm Yellow Cake cheese… Yummm. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:01 pm Why I am selective when I mention it. Though, I get paranoid about lurkers, both there and here. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:00 pm I remember it as an issue among Asian-Americans, including Japanese, during the Democratic primaries. And yes, the younger voters didn’t display the same wariness. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 5:57 pm Ha! » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 5:24 pm Ha! Yes, I remember that about Obama, Japan! Thanks for the update! Nice to see this from Japan. There are still racism issues there, I believe. Nevertheless, there are still racism issues HERE, as well! » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 5:23 pm Have to admit I plugged my own article on facebook already, so I guess I’m already in the spirit – as much as I loath the networking thing on HP, if done right, it’s not a bad thing. » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 7:56 pm Is that name Bangla, by the way? or straight Sanskrit? » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 9:16 pm Right I saw it more as posturing regarding the military. China would never allow it, and it would need our blessing, I imagine. For all those who complain about their own countries, it is nice to take a step back and realize pig-headedness isn’t just a US trait, etc. The Japanese chauvinism to this day regarding China is breathtaking to me at times. » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 9:09 pm Na, nahii.n, unless you confer me honorary status for being a Bollywood addict. » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 9:05 pm I’ve said it a million times, I’ll say it again. Why did they break up right before the Bush years?! To think of the material they had during a Democratic admin! » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 8:46 pm I could have just sent you a link to the highlight at the end. I’m sorry you sat through it all. I’m so sorry for anyone who sits through that much of Larry King regardless of guest (except maybe Maher). The story here is that Larry grew a pair for once and pursued the line of questioning. I’m sure she was as surprised as me. Larry? You’re the fluff guy people go on to apologize for beating their wife, not a journalist (and not like this one instance redeems him, either). My fave part: Palin and Bachmann are “brilliant” hahaha! That was almost as funny as the Palin Oprah interview where she said she “wasn’t into drama”! » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 8:42 pm Right, I’d heard that the Lib Dems (I think) had wanted to revisit that post-war agreement in light of China and North Korea. BTW, where would I fall in Japanese politics? I know I’m not a Liberal Democrat, Shinzo Abe struck me as real skeezy (I know there was one after him too). I don’t really know enough to comment on this guy. I’m embarrassed to say I know more about his wife. » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 8:37 pm I have to admit I didn’t recognize it at first, until I realized it had been renamed. It is what is known as a bonyad. One of the many Pahlavi-era orgs that were refitted and revamped for Revolutionary Islamic (and incredibly CORRUPT) purposes. I myself was going through my books – fortunately it has nothing to do with the New York building (actually a mansion, not skyscraper) which serves as their unofficial UN embassy HQ’s – which for some reason I had feared. Some more cursory information: http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/02/alavi-foundation-clinton-oped-cx_re_0105ehrenfeld.html (yes, I know it’s Forbes, but still. Nevertheless, don’t let that article near the rabid Clinton-haters, even though I have some questions there, myself) The Mostazafen is notorious, and thus the renaming (which I should have taken note of earlier, quite frankly), might be seen as a rebranding » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 8:21 pm That was inappropriate! » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 7:49 pm Okinawa is one of those perennial issues if I recall correctly. Anything still doing on the Japanese armed forces issue, as well? » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 7:47 pm Aaaahhhhhhh! The main on HP is about Iran, people are saying the most ignorant things, and anything I try to say get sends to pending or is just scrubbed. Factual things, no keywords. Head-meet-desk frustration defined. Dumbshit mods. Sorry, needed to vent. I’m so thankful for this place. I know we need to develop our own thing here, but lord is it good to bitch to sympathetic ears. Has anyone been navigating around from article to article and accidentally happened upon the main? That’s what happened. Sorry, but I’m a bit territorial and protective about my Iran threads and prefer them in the unassuming nook of the world section (even if I yearn for some help against the woo-woos whom are at it again today). The comments I was reading… and yet ‘I’ get sent to pending purgatory?! » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 7:45 pm Yeah, got nothing against the Dodgers. The Big Cactus just didn’t work. I like the fast game as much as the temptation to have a big man underneath was thought to be the missing link to our success. Unfortunately, I don’t know what we’ll do after Nash. Luckily for me, the Blazers are ascending. Oh, and did I say I always root against the Lakers? Well, not if they play the Thunder – go Kobe! » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 7:38 pm Yeah I saw this. I don’t know what was better, this, or the Prejean spectacle on Larry King. Well, this is more serious, but that was damn entertaining. » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 5:45 pm Even though I’m a Suns fan (of course), I root against the Lakers no matter what (same goes for USC in college football). Only dilemma I would ever have is if the Blazers play the Suns (to which I revert back to Blazers, but am happy either way). » Posted By Khirad On November 12, 2009 @ 5:42 pm Woo Woo Conspiracies and a the Real Conspiracy I have more than my fair experience with these people, mostly far-left anti-imperialist types. Particularly pernicious in my battles, especially in the direct aftermath of the June 12th Iranian elections, were the “color-revolution” Alex Jones types who strung together even sometimes legitimate information to fit nicely into their prepackaged belief system (damned be the unique domestic situations of the country, all they really care about is taking down the Bilderbergs, etc) that short of anything else, an invasion of Iran is imminent if all our other machinations fail. Though these theories were often reverse-engineered, and fell apart under my scrutiny, this made the woo-woo only more animated in their self-righteous mission, with the oft common refrain of “wake up to THE TRUTH!!!” To be honest, the words are failing me to accurately describe the sense you get from them, but the analogy to a street-corner ‘end is nigh’ zealot is apt. Sometimes I was able to appeal to a hanger’s on sentiments and perform some jujitsu and was successful driving them off. Then other true believers (I liken them to their “supervisors”) would whimper off after similarly being dismantled (and, oh, it was funny that after I’d drive one off, another would come, then another, each complaining of my treatment of the last!), with a lame, okay, you may be right about all that, but still I can’t believe that [insert final central tenet that can’t be abandoned lest cognitive dissonance erupt inside their mind]… I myself am just amazed at how they come from nowhere in a swarm, and filled with a righteous mission, inured to rational discourse, drone on endlessly. They have all the answers. I wonder if I’ve ever passed any of these people on the street, or if, like everything else on the net, their crazy beliefs find more acceptance in cyberspace. The Internet is both a blessing and a curse in that way (and no, I’m not implying that I wish to restrict their freedoms in believing or disseminating such nonsense). To fit into the Jewish thing, I myself am sympathetic with the Palestinian’s plight, but on the blogosphere and HP, you find people who not only point out, rightly, that Hamas was democratically elected, but go on to support their philosophy! This is also true with Iran (whose defenders fall partly into one of three main groups, the other being the woo-woo described above, which dovetail, the other being the “drive Israel into the sea” anti-Zionist hyper-partisan). The lesser offenders are so caught up in pointing out failures and faults in US Foreign Policy and corporate media (aka, da jooze) as if this were still novel and liberating to them personally to air such grievances, that in a Manichaeistic, Borderline turn, fall into all of the IRI’s mythology of an upright nation fighting the Arrogant Power and its lies (though they don’t use the exact jargon, they fall into it nonetheless, so much so that they have even unwittingly cited contorted Iranian state-news posted on PrisonPlanet or GlobalResearch.ca). They miss the mental exercise which Chomsky exhorts (though can fall short of himself), imagine you’re a Martian and try to objectively take notes on BOTH sides’ faults. But they don’t, because they can’t get enough of the CIA, George Soros and AIPAC. They’re obsessed. Now, I have my problems with the CIA and the latter especially and am full aware of our history and hegemonic desire for oil, but the conviction of the woo-woos is that these are themselves omnipotent organizations capable of nearly superhuman feats that reeks of the selfsame credulity they smugly accuse us “slumbering masses” of suffering from. One such character also jumped on me for believing in the early migration theories of humans, many still supported by the Human Genome Project, defends the Mongol Horde as misunderstood and warns against getting immunized (and this could bring me to a whole other, $cientologist/neo-hippie woo-woo type, who believes in all things natural and the “evils” of psychiatry). Last time I checked, I was still fanned by this character, as well. (?!) The thing I find disconcerting, is that some of them are well spoken and quite bright. I always marvel at the people whom ‘should know better’ more than the average troll. One of my fellow comrades, who has the same battle scars against these feral foes, put it quite succinctly: “The classic Conspiracy ‘Theory’ approach- completely ignore the Iranian people, then be militant about knowing absolutely nothing about what they have to put up with and what they fight for. Then compound that ignorance with delusional jumps of logic of what the US is capable of doing.” Now, I used my primary personal experiences in the trenches against the woo-woo, but just insert my issue with a handful of others, like the Fed, or 2012 theories (I remember in Junior High there was a similar one, I believe it was 1992?), and you may find similarities. For your enjoyment, “The Woo-Woo Credo”: » Posted By Khirad On November 11, 2009 @ 6:09 pm Will Abortion Debate be Democrats Civil War? My emotional stance against this is admittedly personal, and I’ll leave it that. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On November 10, 2009 @ 7:45 pmComments Posted By Khirad
http://www.insolitology.com/tests/credo.htm
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