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Crack. Not even once.

I've heard.

I couldn't live in the US if I wanted to. The US is one big trigger for me: I have a short fuse for idiocy. On the plus side, watching Japanese news anchors have to explain why American suddenly started wearing vagina pink hats on their heads was priceless.

Watching America unravel while I've been over here broke my heart. I could rant at length but I have a hunch you'd already know my gripes.

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

I guess Kim Jung Un vowing to sink Japan into the ocean means nothing..
Rocketman recently launched 2 ICBM's right over Japan, causing Japan to warn their citizens to seek shelter.
KJU has been consistently setting off more ICBM tests and more nuclear explostions.. and now says he is considering
detonating a nuke over the Pacific Ocean.

What does NK have to do before people consider him to be a real threat?   Nuke NYC?   He's already got the missiles that can reach NYC in 40 mins.

Yes and no.

Do you speak another language? In translating between A and B a lot is lost. Translating to any Latin or Germanic language from any of the Asian languages makes those translations 1000 times more difficult because there are subtleties built into each language.   
 
In Japanese they have keigo, honorifics based on age and social position. Translations often make Japanese sound more polite and distant than it actually is and makes for terrible translations when taken literally. The same is true for Korea. How, exactly, do you sink an island? Kim's words are bluster and people here understand that. 
 
As for seeking shelter, be aware of the bias in the news you watch. There's a need to cast the tiny little-impoverished country of North Korea as a supervillain capable of destroying the US. That way of thinking about individuals terrorists gave us The Patriot Act. Those misdirections in the news made it okay to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan.   
 
No one went looking for shelter when NK sent rockets over Japan. Not even close. They did broadcast it on the news and that's all they talked about for the hour or so it happened. What's odd to me is that NK has launched missiles over Japan before with much less fuss. What's different? PM Abe wants to pass his amendments changing the constitution. Nothing says we need an army like a country flying missiles over your northernmost, least densely populated region.

In regards to translation, I'm glad you mentioned that.  Specifically,  translating between Chinese and English is damned near impossible.

@mhorndisk:

I will pray for her, but that's probably not what she wants.

This is what she wants.

http://www.ljsilvers.com/deepfriedtwinkies/

@Bluesurfer:

@Frederick:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/18/clinton-considers-contesting-election-results.html

Not sure if you read the article or not but this was her response on the issue of contesting the election and I quote
''Clinton later said there have been “scholars” and “academics” who argue challenging the results would be possible - but Clinton herself dismissed the idea."

Hopefully this will clear up your confusion!

I don't doubt you, however, that is how Hillary says things without being held accountable for them.  For instance.. she often starts and interview or speech by spending 10 seconds saying how she takes responsibility for her loss…  then spends the next hour blaming everybody else for her loss.

I bet she didn't name those "scholars" and "academics" who argue she could challenge the results.  They don't exist.  It's her idea, nobody else has mentioned that.  She is like a child saying "Well I COULD have done this, but I'm not because I'm a good little bitch".  She's a bad bitch, and should have just kept her mouth shut instead of restating what "someone else" might have said.

Compare the rate of temperature increases and sea level increases with the rate of debt that Sheik Osama accumulated during his 8 year occupation of the White House.  Obama increased that debt nearly 100% in just 8 years.  The rate of climate change and tides over that period is virtually nothing.. far smaller than the record low 3% economic growth rate of Obama's reign.

So.. what is the issue that is the bigger concern?

That is like the difference between a mosquito bite and falling into a wood chipper.    Or burning the roof of your mouth on hot pizza compared to being thrown into a volcano.

You may be thinking I am exaggerating.. but at the same time the moonbats are bitching about Trump wearing the wrong hat to visit victims of Hurricane Harvey..  or what 150 year old statues are sitting in parks that nobody goes to or cares about…  the moonbat fake news media ignores the fact that Kim Dung Poon has ICBM's cable of reaching anywhere in the USA within 40 minutes.  Nukes 8 times as powerful as those used in WW2,  and is vowing to use them on the USA, Guam, South Korea, and most recently said they will sink Japan into the Ocean!  OOOH!  but that HHHHHAAAAATTT that Trump wore! 
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is still condemning everybody for her presidential loss.    So, Hillary's legacy will be being married to a man who was constantly banging other women..  and things like Benghazi.  She must be so proud!    I didn't even mention her dog-faced daughter.

They're not refugees. I have a friend from Syria who came here legally and says she regrets it because Syria is an amazing capitalist country. All the refugees are fake, and just trying to take down the West. None of them in their right mind would want to leave there.

That's because all they care about is Beyoncé's big bouncin' booty and gettin' on Grindr. They don't have time for brains. They are worthless and pathetic. So don't let it get to you. They're not worth a damn.