Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasilia, Brazil Formerly known as: Maaz
quote:
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese city called "Obama", hoping to boost its profile at home and abroad as a tourist attraction, cheered Barack Obama's victories in three more Democratic nominating contests on Tuesday.
"Hurray! That's really great," said Seiji Fujiwara in the port city of Obama, population 32,500 in central Japan. "Has he scored seven consecutive wins? He is truly riding on a wave of victories."
Fujiwara, 55, launched a group of campaigners to help Obama win the U.S. presidential election so that the city with the same name can share his fame.
No one in his group is eligible to vote in the United States.
Obama easily won three more Democratic nominating contests on Tuesday, extending his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton and building momentum in a hard-fought U.S. presidential race.
"We are earnestly hoping that Obama will become a good statesman and our city will become a good tourist attraction well-known in Japan and abroad with the help of Mr Obama," Fujiwara told Reuters by phone.
He said his group was preparing headbands, badges and T-shirts with Obama's portrait and a logo "We Love Obama" on them to campaign for Obama.
"But in order to do that, we need to get his approval," he said.
The city mayor sent Obama a letter, lacquered chopsticks and the city's tourism brochures a year ago, but Obama had yet to reply, he said.
"So far we have been unilaterally giving him 'love calls' as we have a close affinity with him, although we have not met him," said Hideki Ikegami, a city official in charge of promoting tourism. "Perhaps Mr Obama has yet to know and feel the real festive mood prevailing here."
But Obama knows about the small city that bears his name and has even encountered a former resident.
He once said that during a visit to Japan, the immigration officer took a look at his passport and said to him: "I'm from Obama."
Fujiwara said he would try to meet Obama if he was elected U.S. president.
"If he becomes the president of the United States, we want to make a courtesy call on the White House," he said. "We really want him to visit Japan and hold talks with the Japanese prime minister in Obama."
Originally said by Maurice Moss
I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk
Feb-14-2008 02:22
shaolin_Z
Hei Hu Quan
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Austin, Texas, USA: TXTA #102
PKC, I had to post this when I came across it since I have a feeling you'd like it
"If God Were Suddenly Condemned To Live The Life Which He Has Inflicted On Men, He Would Kill Himself" - Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870)
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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller
Feb-14-2008 13:31
LazFX
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: 9th Circle
W..........T..............F????
man, this web tubes thingy is a trip sometimes....
Feb-15-2008 12:36
LazFX
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: 9th Circle
One of my fav characters growing up as a kid,,, the first one (Raiders) was golden...
they had better not miss it up.....like that abortion of a movie Transformer..... it was ok,,, not what I expected
Feb-15-2008 13:37
Lira
Moderator Marcus Secundus
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasilia, Brazil Formerly known as: Maaz
quote:
Originally posted by shaolin_Z
PKC, I had to post this when I came across it since I have a feeling you'd like it
"If God Were Suddenly Condemned To Live The Life Which He Has Inflicted On Men, He Would Kill Himself" - Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Regardless of pkc's opinion, I like this very much myself
Originally said by Maurice Moss
I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk
Feb-15-2008 16:39
Krypton
83.798 g/6.022x10^23
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
WELP, my laptop overheated and got fried like chicken...
I won't be online much...
Feb-15-2008 23:34
donnybrasco
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: L.A.
quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
W..........T..............F????
man, this web tubes thingy is a trip sometimes....
What..........
the............
fuck............?????????
Seriously. Words can't even begin to cover all the aspects of just how fucking weird/out there/bizarre/pointless/why???/etc., that clip is.
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The thing about money? It makes you do things that you don't want to do
Feb-16-2008 01:43
LazFX
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: 9th Circle
Just found a clip of PKC and his buds......
ha ha ha
Feb-17-2008 00:30
Q5echo
asymetrical scepticism
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Dallas
quote:
Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery
Scientists Create a Black That Erases Virtually All Light
By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008; Page A01
Black is getting blacker.
Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made -- about 30 times as dark as the government's current standard for blackest black.
The material, made of hollow fibers, is a Roach Motel for photons -- light checks in, but it never checks out. By voraciously sucking up all surrounding illumination, it can give those who gaze on it a dizzying sensation of nothingness.
