Nessie said...

Nessie at 12:09 AM JST - 27th August

For residents, the high point was two weeks of relatively clean air for the first time since the Opium Wars.

Posted in What, for you, were the highlights and low points of the Beijing Olympics? at 12:09 AM JST - 27th August
Nessie at 12:05 AM JST - 27th August

What's scandalous is that no-one noticed.

Posted in Newspaper reveals musical trickery at Sydney Olympic opening ceremony at 12:05 AM JST - 27th August
Nessie at 12:03 AM JST - 27th August

Well, because the USA government does not need the money to, for example, provide cheap health as in Japan. On the other hand, they are always at war against someone, so they have to print dollars, making its value fall, so the price of oil in dollars obviously increase.

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Posted in Trucking firms call for gov't action on high fuel prices at 12:03 AM JST - 27th August
Nessie at 10:00 PM JST - 26th August

Zurc, let's go halves on credit. We can call it the Larry J-Bird Principle: Any increase in height beyond 5'8" correlates with a proportional increase in ugliness squared.

Posted in Japan's representatives appointed for Elite Model Look 2008 at 10:00 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 09:57 PM JST - 26th August

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If you were better off under Clinton then i guess you were on welfare."

Clinton reduced the number of people on welfare.

Posted in Michelle Obama, Kennedy rally Democrats as convention opens at 09:57 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 06:41 PM JST - 26th August

Zurc, brilliant! The perfect name for it. I'm glad we're sympatico. My ideal woman is lovely and talented. It just so happens that such women tend to be the shorter ones, here in j-land. Luckily I don't have the sei-taka fechi a lot of guys do.

Posted in Japan's representatives appointed for Elite Model Look 2008 at 06:41 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 06:37 PM JST - 26th August

Nessie, why do you think gas is so much cheaper in the USA compared to many other parts of the world, even though they are net oil importers?

Lower taxes, structural efficiency and development deals. What's your point?

Posted in Trucking firms call for gov't action on high fuel prices at 06:37 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 04:17 PM JST - 26th August

The government should subsidise fuel to some degree as its an essential part of the economic flow, but won't I am sure.

Why? Why shouldn't demand drive the prices? Anyway, oil prices are falling, not rising.

Posted in Trucking firms call for gov't action on high fuel prices at 04:17 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 02:55 PM JST - 26th August

Without knowing the wording of the questions, it's impossible to evaluate the validity of this survey.

Posted in Majority of Japanese buying more domestically produced food: poll at 02:55 PM JST - 26th August
Nessie at 02:48 PM JST - 26th August

Great food. Not much variety.

Posted in Critics dispute Michelin regard for Tokyo food at 02:48 PM JST - 26th August