GJDailleult said...

GJDailleult at 11:59 AM JST - 8th September

I love the "the climate is always changing, so climate change is bunk" comments. That is the same as saying that drunk driving should be legal because sober people crash their cars all the time. The fact that the same thing happens naturally is irrelevant, the point is that you…

Posted in Typhoons stronger than Katrina may hit Japan if global warming continues, researchers warn at 11:59 AM JST - 8th September
GJDailleult at 10:47 AM JST - 8th September

Did the police find the child in the freezer or did the mother tell them the child was put in the freezer?

According to the report on the Asahi site (Japanese), the mother and the oldest son came home together and she noticed injuries to the baby. He refused to…

Posted in American man held on suspicion of putting baby son in freezer at 10:47 AM JST - 8th September
GJDailleult at 08:24 AM JST - 8th September

Five weeks between the incident and the arrest. Why so long? Maybe means nothing but seems strange.

Posted in American man held on suspicion of putting baby son in freezer at 08:24 AM JST - 8th September
GJDailleult at 01:24 PM JST - 6th September

The capitalism vs. socialism argument misses the point. There is no capitalism in the world anymore, and there hasn't been for years. There is only bubbleism, which doesn't create wealth, it only transfers it. Whether or not Hatoyama's policies work, they have nothing to do with either capitalism or socialism.…

Posted in Hatoyama backs fiscal regulation; says he's not turning to socialism at 01:24 PM JST - 6th September
GJDailleult at 11:28 AM JST - 1st September

bgaudry- you are comparing apples and oranges. Present rates of death from regular flu/suicide/alcohol/overwork are known and future rates can be easily worked out from statistical trends. If those trends change for some reason, then that will be news. But as things stand, those rates are "things we know". But…

Posted in Hokkaido woman dies after contracting new flu at 11:28 AM JST - 1st September
GJDailleult at 03:24 PM JST - 31st August

Great posts by timorborder, but one thing he said, "if there was no understanding of the region", is not quite right. Both George H.W. Bush's and (gulp!) Dick Cheney's statements in the 90's showed that they understood the region very well, and accurately predicted what would happen if Iraq were…

Posted in American commander: U.S. on the road out of Iraq at 03:24 PM JST - 31st August
GJDailleult at 10:15 AM JST - 31st August

beezlebub could also have added that each mercenary, sorry "contractor", is paid a salary far higher than that of US military personnel, and that they are usually ex-US military, meaning the US taxpayer has paid for their training. Great value for the money!!!!

Posted in American commander: U.S. on the road out of Iraq at 10:15 AM JST - 31st August
GJDailleult at 10:05 AM JST - 31st August

They only won their seats in '05 because Koizimi sold his "reform" (ie. the idea that the LDP could change itself) and the public bought it. It turned out to have been a sham, and so the "children" got punished for it.

Posted in 'Koizumi's Children' swept away by DPJ winds at 10:05 AM JST - 31st August
GJDailleult at 09:15 AM JST - 31st August

lunchmeat - the Japanese word "taifu" is always translated as typhoon, regardless of whether the storm is a technically a typhoon or a tropical storm. I believe an actual typhoon is in Japanese an "ogata taifu", though happy to be corrected if I am wrong on that.

Posted in Typhoon brings heavy rain to Tokyo area at 09:15 AM JST - 31st August
GJDailleult at 07:36 AM JST - 29th August

WTF she works for them or do they work for her.

She works for them. The terms "agency" and "management company" are used but not really accurate descriptions of what they and other similar companies in Japan are. Not sure what the accurate term in English would be though. The…

Posted in Sakai's agency fires her after indictment over drug possession at 07:36 AM JST - 29th August