leitmotiv said...

leitmotiv at 03:13 PM JST - 18th December

BTW - regarding this article - the NIID updates flu cases in Japan weekly compared to previous years. There is no spike in the current NIID report. Yet the NIID was the source for this alarm article.

https://hasseidoko.mhlw.go.jp/Byogentai/Pdf/data4e.pdf

Posted in Flu epidemic starts across Japan at 03:13 PM JST - 18th December
leitmotiv at 03:10 PM JST - 18th December

Flu shots in Japan cost consumers 5000 - 10000JPY. In the US $10-12. Many bureacratic layers of distribution in Japan is the main price culprit. The cost of making them is the same in Japan as in the US and EU.

Posted in Flu epidemic starts across Japan at 03:10 PM JST - 18th December
leitmotiv at 03:54 PM JST - 15th December

We Americans have paid the price for so many other countries and very rarely are we thanked for the service we do.

You mean in this case thanked - after they have presumably already thanked the US previously for putting him in power and supplying him with goods and know-how…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 03:54 PM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 02:30 PM JST - 15th December

TooFarGoon:

More of Baghdad Bob, Saddam mouthpiece and, judging from what B flag, cleo, smithjapan and friends have vented here, apparently some kind of proto-Lefty blahblahblhblah.....

Honestly - cant you actually come up with a cogent argument instead of just standing there insisting that everyone who does not agree with…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 02:30 PM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 01:04 PM JST - 15th December

techall at 11:57 AM JST - 15th December leitmotive: Your "facts" are a bit off. The U.S. did not put Saddam Hussein in office. Saddam was vice-president under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr who assumed the presidency as the result of a coup. Saddam became president and dictator in 1979 - Carter…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 01:04 PM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 11:12 AM JST - 15th December

"You think they should be grateful? For what?"Oh, for liberating them from an awful dictator, giving them the opportunity to choose their own leaders, you know, stuff like that.

That's wierd, they also did not thank the US for helping put Saddam in power in the first place. Nor for…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 11:12 AM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 10:17 AM JST - 15th December

Tatanka at 07:48 AM JST - 15th December

I bet if that guy was in Iran and he threw a shoe at the Iranian president, his head would already be separated from his body. The Iraqis are the most ungrateful people on this earth...

Holy crap....what are you smoking? You…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 10:17 AM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 08:46 AM JST - 15th December

TheStreet.com just named Elan's CEO the "worst biotech CEO of 2008". And there was some good competition for that prize, it seems.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10452694/1/elans-martin-named-worst-biotech-ceo-of-08.html

Posted in Elan closing New York, Tokyo offices at 08:46 AM JST - 15th December
leitmotiv at 01:49 PM JST - 11th December

"To finish off the French kitchen rocks."

It certainly does not "rock".....for a culinary city like tokyo and for the prices they charge, this food is extremely mediocre and very forgettable. Only good thing is service, which is pretty standard in Tokyo anyway. Best advice: Skip it. You can eat…

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leitmotiv at 01:54 PM JST - 4th December

Vaccines can do both - that is tune your immune system to fight a specific virus or a specific tumor cell. The basic principle is the same.

Posted in Outpatient unit to administer cancer vaccines to be set up at 01:54 PM JST - 4th December