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Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl #1 Gossip Girl revolves around the lives of privileged teens living in New York City’s Upper East Side. The vast majority of GG’s protagonists are spiteful and superficial: they are as deep as the ink on paper after a girl signs her name with a Montblanc fountain pen.
Is voting a game? In Texas, it is. To the lawmakers there, voting is a free-for-all vote-as-many-times-as-you-can extravaganza.
I’m not surprised. But it’s odd to think that their voting rules are:
To vote, press a button. The first person to press a voting button wins.
It doesn’t matter if the button is on your desk.
You may vote as many times as you want.
It’s all about speed. (i.e. If X next to you wants to vote yea, but you vote nay for him before he presses his button, that’s just too bad for him.)
Don’t believe me? Watch the video. For the record, these dirty little lawmakers need to stop what they’re doing. Their actions are completely without integrity. But, you know what?, I understand how this sort of practice could come about—it looks fun, doesn’t it? I’m always up for a challenge and I’d love to see how many votes I could ring up in favor of one my causes… fun fun fun. I digress.
This isn’t a real post but, the resolution passed!!! For once: Yay USA! For, at least, 16 years the Japanese government has been dancing around this issue… Maybe we’ll see some change?
US urges ‘comfort women’ apology
US lawmakers have called on Japan’s government to formally apologise for its role in forcing thousands of women to work as sex slaves in World War II.
The symbolic and non-binding resolution was passed during a vote in the House of Representatives.
Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from across the Far East were part of Japan’s military brothel programme.
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The resolution calls on Japan - one of the strongest US allies in Asia - to “formally acknowledge, apologise and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner” for the suffering of the women.
Earlier this month, a group of Japanese lawmakers demanded the US government retract the resolution, saying it was based on “wrong information that is totally different from the historical fact”.
Tom Lantos, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, described attempts to deny the use of sex slaves as “nauseating”.
“There can be no denying the Japanese imperial military coerced thousands upon thousands of Asian women,” Mr Lantos said.
“Those who posit that all of the comfort women were happily complicit and acting of their own accord simply do not understand the meaning of the word rape.”
Mr Abe caused an uproar in March when he said there was no proof that the government or the military had forced the women into sexual servitude.
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