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Japanese man sets self on fire over military rule change
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| 29 June 2014
Posted on 06/29/2014 3:51:31 PM PDT by kingattax
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posted on
06/29/2014 3:51:31 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale; Bender2; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
It’s probably time to let Japan back in the sandbox.
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posted on
06/29/2014 4:06:53 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: kingattax
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posted on
06/29/2014 4:19:29 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
To: kingattax
The man was taken to hospital after being hosed down but his condition was not immediately known, officials said.He burst into flames, and then fell about 40 feet onto the roadway after he was hit with the fire hose. I'll go way out on a limb here -- he's not in awfully good condition.
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posted on
06/29/2014 4:32:26 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: Sooth2222
The police may be trying to figure out a way to do the honorable thing and rule this a drowning accident.
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:00:43 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
To: kingattax
The people of Japan are good enough to build a strong defense and watch out for their security. With nations like Iran and North Korea building nukes, the Japanese should get ready to defend themselves in that way, too.
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:25:31 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:48:56 PM PDT
by
onona
(IÂ’ve pretty much given up on sanity returning.)
To: Impy; NFHale; Bender2; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
I agree, it’s time. They’ve been obedient since Harry T. dropped the 2 biggins on ‘em.
To: kingattax
Japan is one of the safest places on Earth, why the hell would they want to spend a dime on a deployable military???????We have their butts covered and the whole world knows it.............now that I think it over, with Obama in charge, they should probably be building up....sad.
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:19:26 PM PDT
by
terycarl
To: kingattax
??? I’ve been deployed with Japanese in the middle east and Africa.
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:28:31 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: ViLaLuz
He’s a little late - The Japanese SDF were deployed to Iraq in 2005
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:34:09 PM PDT
by
AbnSarge
To: AbnSarge
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:44:12 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: kingattax
Witnesses said the middle-aged man, wearing a suit and tie, climbed onto a pedestrian bridge at Tokyo's Shinjuku station. Hmmm, location of a Krispy Kreme.
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:45:02 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: NonValueAdded
I guess he showed them! I wish leftist protestors here in the USA would protest in the same fashion. Speaking of fashion, the guy wore a suit and tie. If you're going out in a blaze of glory, do it neatly dressed.
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posted on
06/29/2014 8:25:22 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; NFHale; Bender2; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
Apprently since the post-WWII constitution, they’re not even ALLOWED to have a military. It called the “Japanese Self-Defense Forces”
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posted on
06/29/2014 8:47:52 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
To: kingattax
Sukippi* is not allowed to set himself on fire to avoid deployment.
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posted on
06/29/2014 8:57:11 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Skippy lives!)
To: BillyBoy
It is a military though. It’s like if you renamed the IRS the Department of Sunshine and Puppy Dogs.
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posted on
06/29/2014 9:00:23 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: kingattax
What a stupid way to try to make a point.
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posted on
06/29/2014 9:01:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BillyBoy; Impy; NFHale; Bender2; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj
Correct. They could/should change their constitution to allow a military.
I very highly doubt they’ll get the imperialist bug again.
To: GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; Impy; Bender2; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj
“...I very highly doubt theyll get the imperialist bug again...”
It may have been less “Imperialist” and more just plain insecurity. They’d kicked Russia’s ass - a Western power - in 1905, and were feeling their testosterone on the Big Boy Stage of world players.
Sort of like Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany - he was incredibly jealous of his cousins - The Duke of York of England and Czar Nicholas of Russia - and wanted to be as powerful as they were thought to be.
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posted on
06/30/2014 5:19:26 AM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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