cleo said...

cleo at 12:26 AM JST - 23rd September

She had to take the girl to her workplace when she worked nights.

The mother works as a nurse in a hospital run by her own mother (the little girl's grandmother), so that rather than she had to take her to work, she was able to take her and have…

Posted in Girl, 5, found naked, unconscious on Chiba street; confirmed dead at hospital at 12:26 AM JST - 23rd September
cleo at 12:05 AM JST - 23rd September

not only can these guys not solve crimes thoroughly, they can't man a watch bill either.

'These guys' don't have any choice (unless they quit); it's their superiors sitting behind their big desks and working 9 to 5 who decide the crazy working hours, and they are apparently dinosaurs with…

Posted in On-duty officer apparently shoots himself at Tokyo police station at 12:05 AM JST - 23rd September
cleo at 08:33 PM JST - 22nd September

I really dont care about you bashing an American

Well I do. I don't bash indiscriminately, and if I bash I want to know that I've bashed. Tell me, which one of you have I bashed?

you generalize too much and are insulting to Americans in general

Being anti-war and…

Posted in Obama to head south to prepare for debates at 08:33 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 06:29 PM JST - 22nd September

Anytime a soldier fights for his country (any country be it Iraq or Germany, or Japan.) he is fighting a just war in his mind

Exactly the same argument I made a while back on a Yasukuni thread. Your point here being...?

Starting a war is rarely necessary. Of the…

Posted in Obama to head south to prepare for debates at 06:29 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 05:02 PM JST - 22nd September

If a patriotic American dies in a war he wasted his life.

Patriotic or not, American or not, when a person gets killed in an unnecessary war, the people responsible for starting and running that war wasted his life.

Posted in Obama to head south to prepare for debates at 05:02 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 04:51 PM JST - 22nd September

i have heard they can be on duty for up to 48 hours then two or three days off.

The up to 48 hours is correct (more usually 24+, though), but there's only one day off before it starts again. More than enough to disrupt body rhythms. It's crazy.

fatloser…

Posted in On-duty officer apparently shoots himself at Tokyo police station at 04:51 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 03:20 PM JST - 22nd September

sailwind -

You . are . a . card

lol

But you forgot to mention the dastardly meatballs.....

Posted in Unidentified 'submarine' may have been whale at 03:20 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 03:03 PM JST - 22nd September

Fish are wild animals. They're already acceptable as food.

My guppies aren't.

Posted in Wild animals are going to become acceptable as food. at 03:03 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 02:20 PM JST - 22nd September

Education can't start too early. The key is age-appropriate education. (Where have we heard that term before?)

Toddlers don't need or want flash-cards. They need stimulation - different textures, colours, shapes, sounds, sizes, things they can manipulate with their hands, tunes they can clap or sway to and later sing…

Posted in Overzealous mothers prep their infants too early for school at 02:20 PM JST - 22nd September
cleo at 12:30 PM JST - 22nd September

statistics ....

105 children under 13 were murdered in Japan in 2005, a fall of six from 111 in 2004 and down from a record 121 in 1998 but still one of the highest levels of the last decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurderofAiri_Kinoshita

*Compared to other developed nations, the United States has the…

Posted in Mother arrested on suspicion of killing 6-year-old son in Fukuoka park at 12:30 PM JST - 22nd September