GJDailleult said...

GJDailleult at 01:30 PM JST - 23rd September

Despite how big your egos' are, mankind cannot warm the planet even if he tried.

and your evidence of that would be???

Posted in Hatoyama pledges on world stage 25% emissions cut by 2020 at 01:30 PM JST - 23rd September
GJDailleult at 07:17 AM JST - 23rd September

grafton is right, there is no currency printed, it is an exchange rate mechanism they are talking about. The new "currency" would be an averaged out basket of all currencies.

Posted in U.N. panel calls for new global currency to replace U.S. dollar at 07:17 AM JST - 23rd September
GJDailleult at 10:45 PM JST - 22nd September

Not quite sure how you fix an insane system by making it more even more insane.

Posted in Baucus changes health bill over Democrat concerns at 10:45 PM JST - 22nd September
GJDailleult at 11:37 AM JST - 22nd September

I hope that quote sounds a little less insane in Japanese and that something was lost in translation.

Posted in Man arrested for attempted murder after hitting parents with golf club at 11:37 AM JST - 22nd September
GJDailleult at 06:29 PM JST - 19th September

I was thinking the same as Blacklabel when I read the article. I remember seeing something on tv where he said something like "she is the world's most beautiful woman". Thought at the time that that was a pretty weird thing for a coach to say.

Posted in Figure skater Miki Ando rumored to be in love with 3-time divorcee coach at 06:29 PM JST - 19th September
GJDailleult at 11:16 AM JST - 18th September

This whole case is so ridiculous and illogical that I have to assume we are only seeing about 1% of the iceberg. I think she likely got caught up in something due to her dodgy family (and non-family) connections and is paying the price for that.

Posted in Sakai offers tearful apology to fans after being released on bail at 11:16 AM JST - 18th September
GJDailleult at 10:45 AM JST - 18th September

In the Ikebukuro case it was actually a woman who jumped and killed a male pedestrian. Took of her shoes and placed them neatly too, but didn't bother to take the time to think about the people walking below. Anyways, very lucky woman in this case if she only fractured…

Posted in Man falls to death from 14th floor of condo, hitting woman passerby at 10:45 AM JST - 18th September
GJDailleult at 09:30 AM JST - 18th September

Sarkozy has threatened to walk out of the meeting if the United States and others won’t strike a deal to curb banking bonuses

This could get really interesting if Sarkozy goes through with the threat. Because obviously the US has no intention of doing anything about bonuses. Recession is over,…

Posted in EU leaders press Obama on bankers' pay, climate change at 09:30 AM JST - 18th September
GJDailleult at 01:57 PM JST - 15th September

He declared that a bailout-weary public will not break their fall again.

That might be a case of making a promise you can't keep. A lot of people who know much more than anybody on JT think the worst is still to come. Nothing has been fixed and seeing as…

Posted in Obama warns Wall Street not to block tighter regulations at 01:57 PM JST - 15th September
GJDailleult at 05:26 PM JST - 13th September

"a system that costs almost twice as much as any other rich country’s, yet yields substandard results and leaves tens of millions of people with no health insurance at all"

That quote comes from the well known left-wing magazine "The Economist". And that's the system that people are marching to…

Posted in Obama says status quo no solution on health care at 05:26 PM JST - 13th September