GrouchyGaijin said...

GrouchyGaijin at 09:09 PM JST - 3rd June

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-shoots-himself-after-being-holed-up-in-car-for-8-hours-in-saitama YES! The stupidest I've ever had the misfortune to encounter!

Posted in Are Japanese police really as incompetent as readers on Japan Today make them out to be? at 09:09 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 02:23 PM JST - 3rd June

Two pieces http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/333629.html which beg the question, of which country are they running to be President? And, it's high time that Hillary come to grips with realpolitik: http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/341353.html Even Hillary's campaign co-chair has faced it. Bill Clinton himself announced that this would be his last day on this kind of…

Posted in Obama nears win amid signs Clinton may admit loss at 02:23 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 02:16 PM JST - 3rd June

And, bad as Olmert is, just look at who they're tipping as the successor, http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/343271.html The frontrunner to become Israel’s next prime minister, Tzipi Livni, was a Paris agent for Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence agency, in the early 1980s when it ran a series of missions to kill Palestinian terrorists…

Posted in Olmert under fire over settlements ahead of U.S. visit at 02:16 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 02:08 PM JST - 3rd June

I find this all very interesting. IF this is the law of the land, 第九条　日本国民は、正義と秩序を基調とする国際平和を誠実に希求し、国権の発動たる戦争と、武力による威嚇又は武力の行使は、国際紛争を解決する手段としては、永久にこれを放棄する。二　前項の目的を達するため、陸海空軍その他の戦力は、これを保持しない。国の交戦権は、これを認めない, translated: ARTICLE 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as…

Posted in Fukuda willing to consider sending personnel to Afghanistan at 02:08 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 01:59 PM JST - 3rd June

What he means is that he doesn't want the contractors to gouge the taxpayer, as usual.

Posted in Ishiba asks Gates for 'transparency' in cost of military relocation at 01:59 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 01:57 PM JST - 3rd June

If I was the head of a national team, I would block-book some of these hotel rooms for my staff/athletes if they were close to the venue. I saw a piece done by CCTV on the athletes' quarters, and they're kinda spartan. Might be the only creature comforts they get.…

Posted in Hotel rooms still available for Beijing Olympics at 01:57 PM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 11:46 AM JST - 3rd June

Competing year on year to reduce losses is not the same as making a profit. 71.45 Billion Yen of taxpayers' money over the past two years down the drain. And for what?

Posted in Shinginko Tokyo books Y16.73 billion loss at 11:46 AM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 07:04 AM JST - 3rd June

The US should ask the same of Israel. Full co-operation with the IAEA. First.

Posted in U.S. urges Syria to cooperate fully with IAEA at 07:04 AM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 07:03 AM JST - 3rd June

Well said, realist, "Japan does not deserve a seat on the UN Security Council - but Germany does. Why? Because Germany has acknowledged its vile past and repented of it, while Japan tries to deny its past and cover it up." The day Taro Aso apologizes in person for Nanking,…

Posted in Uganda to support Japan's bid for UNSC seat regardless of aid at 07:03 AM JST - 3rd June
GrouchyGaijin at 12:04 PM JST - 2nd June

Captain Karen Nyberg on board, LeRoy Cain and Matt Abbott on the ground! Wow, so there are OTHERS involved besides Hoshihide and Kibo! Wow! Who knew?

Posted in Shuttle astronauts perform cursory wing inspection as they zoom toward space station at 12:04 PM JST - 2nd June