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買春疑惑、NY・スピッツァー知事の相手女性

2008-03-14 01:07:38 | Weblog
NYT記事

Apparently she was charging $1000/hour and the most expensive escorts charge around $4,300/hour, according to the NYTimes. Wow, isn't that how much lawyers charge? でも、1時間1000ドルを払うくらいなら、新しいギターを買った方が良いと思う...まぁ、価値観は人それぞれということですね。http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

Dupre氏のmyspaceも公開された。因みにMyspace.comは米国を拠点とするソーシャルネットワーキングサイト。2006年、5.8億ドルでNews Corporation(Fox Broadcasting等のメディアアウトレットの親会社)がmyspace.comを買収。(10~20代)若年層を対象としたネットワークである。日本でも同社が経営するMyspace Japanがある。ビジネスモデルは広告収入を基本とする。

myspaceについて

US to Attack Iran?

2008-03-13 04:28:46 | Weblog
03/04/08, Navy Admiral William J. Fallon resigned as Commander from US forces in the Middle East, prompting speculation that Bush and Cheney plan to attack Iran before their time is up. This comes as a recent Esquire magazine article spotlighted his disagreement with Bush's plan to attack Iran.

More in this AP article.

NY Governor Resigns

2008-03-13 00:59:30 | Weblog
At approximately 11:45AM (est) NY Governor Spitzer resigned as a result of his connection to a prostitution ring. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he propelled through the ranks as a champion ethics, ultimately becoming the governor of NY. In the end, it turned out to be an ironic demise, having succumbed to the policies he helped implement as attorney general.

Standing next to him is his wife, gazing out with a blank stare. You can only imagine the shock and humiliation...


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US foreign policy

2008-03-12 03:25:08 | Weblog
With the Missisippi primary only a day away, Americans are again faced with the difficult choice; Clinton or Obama?

The two candidates offer virtually the same policy options, so the deciding factor has come down to what each candidate has done in the "past".

Clinton - favored the Iraq war.

Obama - opposed the Iraq war.

The question here isn't "was the Iraq war the right thing to do?" but rather "what would Clinton/Obama do in the case of a national security emergency?"

最近、クリントン上院議員のCMが注目を集めている:「午前3時、皆様が安らかに眠っている時に、ホワイトハウスの赤い電話(緊急時にしか鳴らない電話)が鳴りました。あなたなら、誰にその電話をとってほしいですか?」。つまり緊急事態が発生した場合、「経験があるクリントン」と「経験の浅いオバマ」の誰が大統領になるべきか、を問いかけるCMです。

Personally, thinking back to the days immediately after 9.11, opposing the war on Iraq would have been perceived as "unpatriotic" (非愛国的)and thus would have been the more difficult stance to maintain. Of course "hindsight is 20/20" (後から振り返ると、視力が左右2.0かのように物事がはっきり見える)so it's easier today to criticise the Bush administration for its failure in Iraq. But given the state of the US intelligence community (CIA・FBI・NSA等の情報機関), it's quite understandable how a President could make wrong and hasty decisions.

I do give credit to Sen. Obama for opposing the Iraq war. Maybe experience is not such a good thing if the whole point is to change the status quo.

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