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I've been a registered independent for over 20 years. I would never affiliate myself with either Rs or Ds. I judge issues on a case by case basis, not rigid party platforms. No thanks.

If everyone started apologizing and making amends for the past, who would the nationalists blame all their problems on and scapegoat for everything?

Herein lies the problem. Surrender is anathema to Japanese. Look at battles such as Iwo Jima or Okinawa, which probably weren't really necessary since Japan was pretty much toast already, but they still fought tooth and nail from hand dug caves in volcanic mountains until the last. They'd...

What does it say about the Rupublicans that an outsider with zero background in policitcs can hijack their party so easily. The one good thing to come out of this might be Bernie and Trump igniting the populist base and steering things away from the vested party elites. :monocle:

I grew up in a weird time when Star Trek was only in reruns, and these fat old guys with bad toupees and one foot in the grave kept making movies. Also James Bond was Roger Moore. Odd times. But that's who I identify with. TNG is superior for sure, but TOS really grabbed my imagination...

It's not like one side of the political spectrum holds a monopoly on this. Yeah republicans play off of "The commie-fag-junkies are coming to take your guns" just as much as the left plays off of "The bible-thumping Wall street WASPs are coming to put you in chains." It's equally shrill on...

It is a circus, and yet, we ultimately don't need to get that worked up about it. Obama was a radically different president that Bush and how much difference did he make in terms of policy? Nothing really gets done in Washington anyway, just posturing and grandstanding, it reminds me a lot of...

As vile, repugnant, reprehensible and despicable as the Westboro Baptist Church are they don't assassinate cartoonists or blow up civilians on public transport. The only violence they do is to the boundaries of the 1st Amendment and good taste. I swear, watching you guys discuss politics is...

I think Bernie's done, it looks like the Corporate/Establishment Dems have finally decided to turn the dogs on him. He doesn't take millions from Wall St. and he votes against wars. Can't have madness like that spreading around the party. I'm kind of looking forward to the demise of the GOP...

Yeah sure, but will he follow through on his campaign promise to reinstitute the Tree Of Woe as a method of capital punishment? Can we really expect his Wheel of Pain to come through as a viable source of alternative, renewable energy? You have to give the man credit, his human stew orgies may...

わたし　も。 Where were you? I worked in Ikebukuro, Tokyo for about 4 years and go back about yearly. You can find good Japanese food stateside, but certain dishes you just have to give up on I think. I wouldn't think there's so many ways to fuck up tonkatsu, but evidently it can be done. A good...

I set Page 3 as the over/under for when any NMA thread gets veered by the same jagoffs I feel this would mostly lead to disappointment.

It's not a subject I can say I really delve into at all, but I wouldn't say that holocaust denial is exclusively German. It seems to have some appeal and traction in other ideologies and religions that already have antisemitic proclivities. Not too hard to figure out who. Nah, I don't think...

I don't know about that, I used to work with a dude from Germany, he was quite sillly. He'd get all serious if the subject of the war came up and he'd say, Ben: It's not funny man, my grandfather died in the war. Us: Oh shit, sorry Ben. Ben: Yeah, on the last day of the war. Us: Oh jeez...

Love me some Merle Haggard myself. Saw Willie in concert many years ago... and Skynyrd. Not living up to my New England yankee stereotype too well, am I?

Yeah, I worked in Tokyo for many years and go back frequently, traveled other parts of E. Asia. Of all the places outside the US I'd live, I've always flirted with the idea of Bermuda.

Let's be clear though, you haven't denied that you've got a Skynyrd tattoo.

It is really sad and pathetic, I read this book and the Escape from Camp14 one a while back, it makes the Gulag Archipeligo look like Disneyland. Depressing shit, although you'll never complain about the food you eat ever again. MacArthur had everyone convinced they wouldn't intervene and...

Screw that, I want a tax rebate for every time my wife serves me brown rice, kale and quinoa. Although I'm not sure a govt that doesn't balance the budget and runs a 19 Trillion dollar deficit has any grounds to lecture citizens on the responsibility of 'calories consumed minus calories burned'...