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Murray Peshkin does not have to take pride in his work, but he should not feel that he is party to a war crime either

Mr. Peshkin is not a war criminal. America's entrance into World War II ended up saving more lives than had it chosen not to get involved

The war criminals were and are the Japanese, the Germans, the Italians, and those who gave support to them

America's dropping bombs on Japan was not without justifications - it was the japs who attacked the Pearl Harbor first, and the japs were also attacking and invading other countries, from Korea to the North to the strings of pacific islands to the South, and all the way to Burma to the West

Along the way the japs committed atrocities that were so horrible not even the Islamic Terrorists of today could hope to match.

Furthermore, Japan as the aggressor country not only refusing to officially apologize for the crimes they and their ancestors have committed to other people, many of them, including the current Japanese Prime Minister, Shinto Abe, are doing everything they can to whitewash the barbaric acts that their fathers/grandfathers had done.

Before the japanese apologists launch their ad hominem attacks on me, let me include some links to photos documenting the atrocities that were carried out, by none other than the japs -

http://www.documentingreality....

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No, Mr. Peshkin is *NOT* a war criminal!

Thanks to Peshkin and the team which built the bombs, the two bombs that were dropped in Japan successfully halted the japs from perpetrating even more heinous massacres, illustrated by the photos above

We must be fully aware of the scams the japs are busy doing today - maximizing the effect of their 'victim card' while denying everything (and refusing to apologize for) the crimes they did to others

And I already know how we're going to erase that memory.

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Gundams are coming!

They don't look that scary to me.

And some of the worst cases is when you have brilliant teachers and parents who could care less.

Every time I read "photonics" I think of the doctor.

Nah, TL;DR.

It's going to be about sex.

So what you're saying is that there was shrinkage?

... You can't have a business without customers, you can't have customers if people don't have money, and they can't get money without wages or social security...

What we have here is the situation when corporate power, and the power of the financial elite, takes over all aspects of government policy. It transforms the entire consumer market based economy into the Tragedy of the Commons.

Every corporation aims to to fatten its bottom line, stock price, and C-Suite compensation package by reducing the wages of its labor force. It is a rational micro-decision, just as grazing as many sheep as possible on the commons is rational for the individual farmer, but it destroys in the long run the basis of the whole economy - a nation full of consumers with lots of money to spend on products. The majority of the increases in corporate profitability, and the source of the exploding CEO paychecks, over the last quarter century have come from holding wage payouts flat (or reducing them. Increased productivity stopped being linked to worker compensation a full 45 years ago, an entire working lifetime. As the proportion of wages that make up the economy fall to the lowest level since the Great Depression the engine that drives the growth of the U.S. economy is running out of fuel, now an anemic 2.38%, compared to the long term mean of 4.41%.

But hey, the CEOs are happy!

NASCAR also turns right.

Pikes peak is still a joke now that it's all paved.

Calvin Bambi eyes. . .

This is a watch that is just a few months shy of being 50 years old and has seen harsher conditions than probably any Rolex as it was used in the Vietnam war

Watches + Vietnam War --> Obligatory :-O

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Couple things...

http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projec...

From around 150,000 to 130,000 years ago, North America experienced colder and generally more arid than present conditions. About 130,000 years ago, a warm phase slightly moister than the present began, and conditions at least as warm as the present lasted until about 115,000 years ago. Subsequent cooling and drying of the climate led to a cold, arid maximum about 70,000 years ago, followed by a slight moderation of climate with a second aridity maximum around 22,000-13,000 14C years ago. Conditions then quickly became warmer and moister, though with an interruption by cold and aridity in many areas around 11,000 14C years ago.

http://www.pnas.org/content/10...
Here's your citation for the 300 year drought from a respectable source (hard to filter out from all the anti climate warming sites quoting it).

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We are exiting an ice age. It's going to get warmer. The average temperature of the planet for hundreds of millions of years at a time was about 12 degrees higher. We may be exiting it quicker due to human intervention- but it's going to warm up as we exist the last ice age. It just might take it 10,000 to 25,000 years instead of 1,000 years.

While I respect masses of scientists saying there is warming (97%ish)... I really don't respect their models yet. Over the last 15 years, their predictions have been hysterically wrong. Predictions of super storms and repeated severe hurricane seasons after Ike, Sandy and Rita were also terribly wrong.

That warming is occurring is a measured, observable, testable fact. That the earth will be a given temperature in 100 years may be more reasonable than any prediction 20 years from now. But it may also be wildly off.

Given how badly they did with their prediction, I'm all for using LED's, CO2 scrubbers, etc. But I'm not willing to destroy the world economy by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ill thought out actions which may be simply wrong or even actually harmful.

The 'net has it all:

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I think a warning shot could get the point arcoss.

Reminds me of the Weeble ghost, with a different paint job and some blue lights.

I think they should have gone more for ED-209.

yeah

Researchers are force-feeding the internet into a system called Robo Brain.[...] Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on.

Good luck with that.

...disapproves of formic acid

This has been done before.

They basically did this on The Big Bang Theory. The 3D printing of themselves part, not the make-your-own-better-resin-printer-out-of-scrap part. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg....

My wife was given a PJammer alarm clock in the mid 80's and it's still going strong today. It was in storage for a couple of years but we dug it out five years ago and it's been beside our bed ever since.

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18. Oblig. Far Side:
Far Side Cartoon

Not to derail your point which was well made - just posting a helpful picture of a cheepskate for those who similarly didn't know what it meant: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0b/81/55/0b8155879ce935c9785f63d17a290f06.jpg :D