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grafton at 05:44 AM JST - 27th September

Somebody needs to get both their geography & history sorted out. This was a Spanish ship sailing from one Spanish colony to another Spanish colony. There was no such place as Mexico. And if you think what Mexico became & then degenerated into, why would anybody want to maintain ties…

Posted in Crown Prince attends ceremony to mark 400 years of Japan-Mexico ties at 05:44 AM JST - 27th September
grafton at 02:59 AM JST - 25th September

The Basic framework of what Obama has to say is sound, there does need to be a greater unification between countries taking action. America should not be doing the lion’s share. All that is true & cannot be disputed, but where he does lose the plot is when he does…

Posted in Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all at 02:59 AM JST - 25th September
grafton at 01:42 AM JST - 25th September

kinniku at 10:56 PM JST - 24th September

When I saw the headline I felt sure it would lead to a Wasabi comment, as for Cicada he seems to have got himself into a corner & can’t get out. You could be kind & let him off the hook because…

Posted in Egyptian minister blames Jews for UNESCO job loss at 01:42 AM JST - 25th September
grafton at 12:56 AM JST - 25th September

barristerwolf at 04:51 PM JST - 24th September

“Doesn't the perp know the difference between the smell of gas and the smell of water?”

If this is the same plastic container that once held petrol it might have still had a small amount of petrol in it & petrol floats…

Posted in Gasoline thief arrested after hopes of quick getaway dampened at 12:56 AM JST - 25th September
grafton at 09:33 PM JST - 23rd September

isthistheend at 09:24 PM JST - 23rd September

"Are you saying Brown also would like to get out of Afghan commitment or that he's also in favor of trying to provide them with vocational training?"

Both, Brown is an idiot that World see vocational training as a good socialist idea,…

Posted in Hatoyama hints at providing vocational training to Taliban soldiers at 09:33 PM JST - 23rd September
grafton at 09:23 PM JST - 23rd September

Until Europe as a whole starts to pay to protect its frontiers individual counties can’t complain when counties on the edge of the EU fail to do the job. Why should Greece & Spain & others cover the whole cost? As for the naive notion that these people are the…

Posted in French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais at 09:23 PM JST - 23rd September
grafton at 09:00 PM JST - 23rd September

The real problem for newspapers is that site ads don’t pay nearly as much as do ads on paper, site ads are about 15% or less of that paid for those in a newspapers so most real newspaper (JT is not a newspaper) sites are just not making money. The…

Posted in Many newspapers around the world are considering charging fees for readers to view online content. What do you think about it? at 09:00 PM JST - 23rd September
grafton at 08:23 PM JST - 23rd September

Does he really believe that the Taliban are going to forgive & forget that his country were re-fuelling US ships? The Japanese are already targets for this reason & the Taliban are not the forgiving type. All Japan would be doing is making it easy for the Taliban to get…

Posted in Hatoyama hints at providing vocational training to Taliban soldiers at 08:23 PM JST - 23rd September
grafton at 04:18 AM JST - 23rd September

LIBERTAS at 04:04 AM JST - 23rd September

“WHY was Palestine given to the Jews for what Germans did? Shouldn't they have given them, say, Saxony? Or Bavaria? Or even Rheinphalz Westphalia (if you can pronounce it)??????? Logic anyone?”

I you are being deliberately obtuse here, because you claim to…

Posted in Iran President Ahmadinejad proud of Holocaust denial at 04:18 AM JST - 23rd September
grafton at 04:08 AM JST - 23rd September

“It is the third fire reported since May 2008 on a bus manufactured by German company Neoplan.”

Sabotage.

By the way the reason the tires are still intact is because the bus was moving & the fire was therefore trailing behind & when it did stop the driver/s would have…

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