frontandcentre said...

frontandcentre at 06:22 PM JST - 10th August

In the sense that socialism is evil, then yes ObamaCare is evil.

Is socialism inherently "evil" though? Of course not - it is the conservative American definition of it which fails to make the obvious distinction between a political system and the way in which it can be applied.

If…

Posted in Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil' at 06:22 PM JST - 10th August
frontandcentre at 05:06 PM JST - 10th August

Tried - and found guilty - by the Japanese media. Fuji TV announcers look reproachful and concerned. Case closed.

It was 0.008 grams, for Pete's sake, and then not even proven it was hers. A slap on the wrist, plus loss of face / reputation, and a long public repentance…

Posted in What do you think Noriko Sakai's fate should be? at 05:06 PM JST - 10th August
frontandcentre at 03:46 PM JST - 10th August

Well, she's hardly going to upset the family business by admitting that the Yaks (who, I heard, sanction most of the North Korean-manufactured stimulant imports into Japan) sold her the drugs. Much easier to blame some shifty gaijin, eh?

Posted in Sakai hesitated to turn herself in due to media swarm at 03:46 PM JST - 10th August
frontandcentre at 02:08 PM JST - 10th August

Celebrity or not, the hysterical blanket coverage of this rather sordid little story is way over the top. If she and her husband are daft enough to take illegal stimulants and wreck their lives, so be it. Then there's the "her brother's a Yak and she likes clubbing, so she…

Posted in Sakai hesitated to turn herself in due to media swarm at 02:08 PM JST - 10th August
frontandcentre at 06:01 PM JST - 7th August

Violent crime in Britain, including murder, is actually falling. It is still a rare occurrence for someone to suffer a random assualt of this type and so this guy was really unlucky.

Funny how most of the anti-Brits seem to come from a country where the muggers would be tooled…

Posted in Oxford sets up fund for Japanese student injured in brutal assault at 06:01 PM JST - 7th August
frontandcentre at 05:53 PM JST - 7th August

Sounds like it was his attitude towards women that was the problem - since there are major losers everywhere with girlfriends. This is clearly a case of mental illness and deep down he was possibly a repressed homosexual.

Posted in Pennsylvania health club shooter blogged about plot to kill, sexual frustration at 05:53 PM JST - 7th August
frontandcentre at 04:59 PM JST - 7th August

A billion dollars loss in 3 MONTHS? It's like a competition between BA and JAL at the moment. We might have to be comforting ranks of unemployed air hostesses at this rate...

Posted in JAL's net loss in April-June expands to Y99.04 bil at 04:59 PM JST - 7th August
frontandcentre at 04:54 PM JST - 7th August

Well I hope this is true. Anyone who sends out legions of suicide bombers deserves such a fate.

Hopefully they can also locate the position of the meeting which the other Taliban are supposed to have scheduled and wipe out that lot with one shot as well

Posted in Pakistan Taliban leader Mehsud reportedly killed by U.S. missile at 04:54 PM JST - 7th August
frontandcentre at 04:30 PM JST - 7th August

I have just watched a well-researched and quite alarming documentary called "The End of the Line" all about the Global collapse of fish stocks, and the failure so far of the relevant international bodies to do anything effective about this. The evidence is pretty compelling - the yields of fisherman…

Posted in European nations attempt to ban bluefin exports to Japan at 04:30 PM JST - 7th August
frontandcentre at 10:55 AM JST - 9th July

Leo's looking a bit porky these days

Posted in Inception at 10:55 AM JST - 9th July