GrouchyGaijin said...

GrouchyGaijin at 08:00 AM JST - 12th April

"Al-Sadr blamed the Americans" is code-speak for Mossad.

Posted in Top al-Sadr aide assassinated in Iraq at 08:00 AM JST - 12th April
GrouchyGaijin at 08:00 AM JST - 12th April

Trespassing, I understand. Does that mean I can have the folks who inundate my mailbox with fliers about everything from headstones to garden sheds arrested? Sure hope so!

Posted in Top court dismisses appeals by activists in flier distribution case at 08:00 AM JST - 12th April
GrouchyGaijin at 07:57 AM JST - 12th April

Probably going to the dentist, and doesn't want to discover when he went home that they gave him a vasectomy instead. A goodly number of ROC doctors printed their own medical licenses!

Posted in Taiwan opposition heavyweights travel to Japan on unknown business at 07:57 AM JST - 12th April
GrouchyGaijin at 07:55 AM JST - 12th April

Oy! Airbus, deliver the ones you promised first!

Posted in French PM calls on Japanese airlines to buy A380 at 07:55 AM JST - 12th April
GrouchyGaijin at 07:53 AM JST - 12th April

In Canada free speech is enshrined in the preamble to the constitution, and has parameters set to it, so that if the speech is considered hateful, it should be curbed. I think that's a good balance. Courts have decided in both directions in different cases. In Japan, I think, speech…

Posted in Is the concept of freedom of speech ever carried out in practice? at 07:53 AM JST - 12th April
GrouchyGaijin at 09:12 PM JST - 11th April

Trouble is, I just saw an OL this evening hitting on last week's hire. She was only 28 herself. Things MUST be desperate! Instead of the endless remembering and forgetting that Mombusho teaches, why are social skills not on any curriculum?

Posted in at 09:12 PM JST - 11th April
GrouchyGaijin at 09:09 PM JST - 11th April

No license requirement, driven by a bunch of "Out of my way" Oya-ji's and Oni-baba's, in the dark, on the wrong side of the road, with no lights....and think they have the right of way over a 25 ton loaded dumptruck. That's how you have a fatal. Seen it happen…

Posted in Ministry probing fatal accidents involving Suzuki wheelchairs at 09:09 PM JST - 11th April
GrouchyGaijin at 09:06 PM JST - 11th April

Better still, "Let him eat G Y O Z A!"

Posted in China's foreign minister to visit Japan at 09:06 PM JST - 11th April
GrouchyGaijin at 09:05 PM JST - 11th April

"The number of good-quality trade-in vehicles available on the used auto market decreased." Snapped up, like the yellow-plates, because of lower operating costs overall.

Posted in Used vehicle sales hit 21-year low in FY '07 at 09:05 PM JST - 11th April
GrouchyGaijin at 09:03 PM JST - 11th April

Was it a cultivated pinky-finger 2 cm nail from one of the salarymen from the train we talked about recently? You know, the one for nasal and aural cleaning? (Sorry, hope nobody was eating!)

Posted in Nail found in sandwich from supermarket in Fukushima at 09:03 PM JST - 11th April