grafton said...

grafton at 11:55 PM JST - 9th October

Fadamor at 11:28 PM JST - 9th October

I think you might have stopped reading before getting to the last paragraph. You also make some assumptions about me that you really have no reason to make. I did not in any way defend smoking, because it is indefensible. I made…

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 11:55 PM JST - 9th October
grafton at 11:41 PM JST - 9th October

I would like most of the Americans to try and remember what they are reading, and to an even greater degree what they are writing on this thread. This man is both a liar and a fool, he also comes from a country where guns are (to a large degree)…

Posted in American transit passenger with handgun arrested at Narita at 11:41 PM JST - 9th October
grafton at 10:58 PM JST - 9th October

Firstly, dealing with the story, it is or should be obvious to even the thickest extremist anti smoker that this man sent an angry email with no intention of following through on his threat. It was an angry gesture and the fact that it is against the law to make…

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 10:58 PM JST - 9th October
grafton at 08:47 PM JST - 8th October

Nearly all museums that are holding Egyptian antiquities are the sole reason that those antiquities still exist, had these things been left in Egypt they would have long since have been turn into nothing.

“Hawass has repeatedly requested the return of a 3,200-year-old golden mask of a noblewoman from the…

Posted in Egypt severs ties with Louvre over artifacts at 08:47 PM JST - 8th October
grafton at 08:29 PM JST - 8th October

Sorry to spoil the fun but I should imagine that the shoes were not actually being worn at the time of arrival. By the way being extra pedantic about this he is Basque not really Spanish. Which to my way of thinking simply means he is even more likely to…

Posted in Spanish man to plead not guilty to drug smuggling at 08:29 PM JST - 8th October
grafton at 08:21 PM JST - 8th October

Klein2 at 06:23 PM JST - 8th October

Thank you, you rationally cover most everything that needs covering. Granted this is a guess on my part because you might well have been edited to make your post more acceptable to the fragile sensitivities of JT. There would however seem to…

Posted in American transit passenger with handgun arrested at Narita at 08:21 PM JST - 8th October
grafton at 09:11 AM JST - 8th October

jeffrey at 08:07 AM JST - 8th October

“after airport officials found the automatic gun in his carry-on bag”

“If it was in his carry-on, then that's a different story. However, and this was my point lost on you, is that it's an article typical of Kyodo news service since…

Posted in American transit passenger with handgun arrested at Narita at 09:11 AM JST - 8th October
grafton at 06:49 PM JST - 5th October

“If the world decides that all weapons are to be abolished down to the last machine gun, we are ready to join at once in such a convention. If the world decides that certain weapons are to be destroyed, we are ready to dispense with them immediately. But if the…

Posted in Should some countries have the right to tell other countries whether they can or cannot have nuclear weapons? at 06:49 PM JST - 5th October
grafton at 08:21 AM JST - 4th October

Next to scientology mormons have got to be the most stupid. If any of you ever get the chance to read their “bible” do so, and then never again will you be able to talk politely to those young idiots that travel the world just to stop you when you…

Posted in Mormon church to build 5 new temples worldwide, including one in Sapporo at 08:21 AM JST - 4th October
grafton at 08:02 AM JST - 4th October

Alan at 07:43 AM JST - 4th October

Whatever your issues with tobacco are they have nothing to do with this. Tobacco is legal in Japan, cannabis is not. Now that is all that matters. This fool thought she was special, she obvious believes that she knows better than some…

Posted in Int'l school principal, husband nabbed for marijuana smuggling at 08:02 AM JST - 4th October