Harbinger of Noise
June 16th, 2010
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THE BEST OF BFAD
On the Issues:
Series:
General:
- Moralities
- Strict Constructionism
- Gun Control
- Immigration Law
- The Abortion Debate
- Private Schools (Vouchers)
- Those Who Cannot Remember (History)
- Arguing on the Internet (Selected for a College Text!)
- Poverty and Crime
- The Death Penalty
- Proving Faith?
- Hiroshima
- Minimum Wage
- Passive Persistence (Inaction as Moral Shelter)
- The Camel's Nose (Church & State)
- Fundamental Constitutionalism (Church & State)
- Thou Shalt Not Proselytize (Church & State)
- The Sixth Estate (Equal Speech)
- Rush, Quotas, and the Discriminatory Double-Standard
- Privacy
Series:
- 9/11: We Were Warned, 2+2=9/11, & PDBs)
- Bush & Character: Part I, Part II, Part III
- Outrage Overload, Part I, Part II, Part III
- Network Neutrality: Part I, Part II, Part III
- Japan Remembrances: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
- The Republican Blame Game: 1-2-3-4-5- 6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19
- The "Liberal Media" Lie: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8- 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21
- Church, State, & Christianity: 1-2-3-4-5-6- 7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21
- Right Wing vs. Judiciary & The Constitution: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18- 19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33
- Bush's Amended and Redacted Bill of Rights
- Hit by Lightning, Part I, Part II
- Psychics: Part I, Part II
General:
- Worst. President. Ever. (list of Bush crimes & screw-ups)
- Democrats: The Party of Responsible Economics
- In Case There Was Any Doubt (middle class tax burden)
- The Right Wing Assault on the Middle Class
- Fundamental Constitutionalism
- Hattori Revisited
- The Content of Their Character
- Ten Words
- Judicial Nominees
- The Right Wing War on the Judiciary and the Constitution
- The GOP Way: Blame Everyone Else
- If Clinton Had Done This...
- Another Bush Lie: Everyone Thought Iraq had WMD
- Osama on a Silver Platter?
- A.W.O.L.
- Cowards hiding Behind the Honor of Soldiers
- Media Filters and the Tools of Perception
- Using Fear As a Political Tool
- No, They Hate the Troops
- America Like Japan Like America?
- Move On, But Don't Forget
- The Futility of SETI
- The Invasiveness of DRM
- Certifiably Thuggish
- Adolescent Abstinence and Self-Delusion
- Always the Claim...
- Inventing the "Invented" Myth
- There Is a Point Beyond Bias
- "Honor and Dignity"
- Despite the Image (Bush on Security)
- Bush's War (Iraq sum-up)
- Not the Same Will to War
- The Art of Lying
- The Upside of Claiming the Downside
- Bush Cronyism in Texas
- Eyelid Twitching (An Internet Landmark!)
- The Great Chicken Struggle (hilarious hamster video)
- Was I Right? (Pretty much, yes)
- Evolution/Creationism Database
- Birdwatching Locations in Tokyo
- How to Avoid Email Spam
- Apartment Hunting in Japan: Updated, Part I, Part II
- The Republican Dictionary
- Making a Web Site - Domain & Hosting: Part I, Part II
- Filing U.S. Taxes from Japan (Unofficial)
Resources
redbay@lcjapan.com
Yeah, I Started Twittering
- No public Twitter messages.
bwahahaahaha Enjoy!
Not sure what this sign means, Luis.
Is it a political district poster? I just see a bunch of numbers…
–kb
Yep. When these things go up, it means an election is coming near. And with elections come weeks of loudspeaker trucks, running through every small lane and drive, through apartment complex ways and parking garages, blaring pithy and inane greetings and solicitations at obnoxious decibels, day in and day out, from sunrise to sunset. It’s enough to drive you completely batty.
This board is a centralized place for candidates to affix their posters for the coming upper house election. Every three years half the seats are up for reelection. There are many slots because Tokyo selects 5 seats directly:
http://www2.asahi.com/senkyo2007/kaihyo/B13.html
Plus another 48 seats are awarded to the parties to divide up based on the proportion of their share of the vote, or something. I have no idea how this works.
One of the nice things about living in Japan was not having to care about the elections.