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If govt. offers to “give money” to balance things out, they are taking much more than they should be. Remember, govt. has no money without the people’s taxes. They are not some benevolent entity, looking to lighten your load.

Not really. Every American expat I know in Japan thinks America sucks.

You ought to get out more.

The recommended retail price was listed as $449,99 in the United States

$449.99?

Strategically wise to welcome Russian tourists.

Trash cans are still gone from train stations, yet the living victims from this attack are told to ‘move on’.

If one woman gambles with her working future

by delivering a swift kick to one of these creeps with a bell-ringing kick to the nads,

this would stop.

Publicity would be epic.

Be humble, sez he…

This, after being slapped down for trying to raise people’s medical costs.

This guy is zero- charisma.

Police quoted Takahashi as saying he had no intention to kill Shinohara.

Nope. Just bleed him until he felt sufficiently paid back…

Nonsensical.

RIP.

Poor people vote MAGA. Trump is just expanding his voter base.

Uneducated people also vote MAGA, which is why Trump is planning to defund the Dep of Education.

Thick, impoverished people ruled by autocratic billionaires is the MAGA dream

Ignorance personified, in one fell swoop, by yet another tolerant liberal:

Doesn't think like me, so it must be less than me.

The Dept. of Education has been given too much power, with no good result.

The states will decide, and therefore the constituents of that state, what will and what will not be taught at their schools, a direct result of the overreach displayed by the last administration attempting to turn parents into bystanders, while "wokeness" and all its derivatives became federally approved.

That time, is done.

Yoshimoto Kudo, 85, who cultivates around 150 trees at his 4,000-square-meter orchard, said many branches were broken, and the trunks of some trees as old as 50 to 60 years even snapped.

85 and still working that hard...

He must eat an apple a day!

No intent to kill.

O_o

It is natural for people to feel uncertainty or concerns about new vaccines, but Haraguchi’s series of remarks and actions as a lawmaker have gone beyond the bounds of acceptable opinion or commentary.

No, they haven't.

Much more needs to be said.

Side effects, injuries, turbo cancers,

sudden death, are not to be dismissed

as "beyond acceptable". Not when a company

selling said product, is set up to not be viable.

There should have been more done for these people who lost everything.

This old man probably dreaded going to live with his son as much as his son

dreaded him being there, but what were their options?

He lost everything, then his son lost his privacy, then the old man lost his life.

Too much loss.

There needs to be a sex offender registry in Japan,

so all job applicants for jobs near youths can be properly vetted, and there’s no second chance to ever mingle with innocents.

Govt has no money to "hand-out".

If they "give" money, it's taken from somewhere (one) else.

Virtue signaling "grand" gestures don't fix the underlying problem.

Lower taxes, trim waste.

During the trial, Osada apologized, saying, "I made innocent children victims in order to satisfy my own selfish desires.”

Selfish is a gross understatement.

He is a pedophile, and what he did is beyond “selfish”.

When he is released from jail, his “selfishness” will persist.

U.N. = United Nations.

Is the Taliban a sovereign nation now,

or a terrorist group that bought a spot at the bargaining table of the U.N.

Things clearing up any?

Over the next few days, millions of Americans will learn that someone they loathe will be president of the U.S. How can the winner unify the country?

Get rid of the fake news.

Because a slush fund?

The arrogance of both the press and the powers that be, to attempt to gaslight the public after they just handed you your ass…

It’s the economy, stupid!

If the kids want to party, they’ll find a way…

Trump is the hope for the USA, and in turn, the world.

Beating a child to death.

Let that sink in.

Single parents, choose your next partner very carefully- your precious children’s lives may depend upon it.

Sounds like the woman needed a break. Her call to 119 was a cry for help.

She’s no doubt in charge of 8 people’s meals, and general care of household, yet this “minion of propaganda” has the cheek to label her as “unemployed”.

When did this disrespectful shift denigrating

housewives to unemployed, truly take hold, around the time when they were prodded to work outside instead, and pay taxes?

Why are there less children in Japan?

THIS is your answer.

My favorites of hers: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 'California Suite', All the 'Harry Potter' films,

with her as Professor Minerva McGonagall, 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', 'Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', 'A Room With A View', 'Quartet', 'Ladies In Lavender', 'Evil Under the Sun', and her role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey...

We have lost a great presence, light and wit.

R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith.

Usually a film that changes my perspective, helps...

I just watched "Ladies in Lavender" with the late-great Dame Maggie Smith,

and Dame Judy Dench. Other great co-stars, a great story, scenery, the whole package...

I cry buckets, but then feel better...

Harris calls for more immigration controls at border, tougher fentanyl measures

Why NOW?

She's an INCUBENT vice president!

She was the border Czar, and this is the first time she's spent any time at the Border

at all.

And there she is, smiling for the cameras.

The press, who enable this woman, do nothing anywhere close to investigative journalism.

I’m ambivalent, but hopeful

Mr. Ishiba will be the right fit,

bringing stability and reason to his post.

Koizumi demonstrated his close relations with Washington in July when he spent a day surfing with the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel.

Great resume material.

"Among the current top three candidates, Koizumi would probably be the most favorable if the U.S. had a say," said Jeffrey Hornung, Japan Lead for the RAND National Security Research Division. "He is young, and he doesn't have the governing experience and so the easiest path is to move forward with what's already working."

This statement assumes a lot:

What currently is "already working", is.

It isn't.

He's also saying the quiet part out loud:

Has no experience, and is easily influenced.

IMO,

A Japan first, conservative thinker, with common sense ideas

rather than another globalist place holder, would serve Japan well.

Before leaving for Tokyo on Monday night, Kishida also held talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

This.

Allegiance? Sovereignty?

This is where he goes at end of term- Not to any disaster ridden place in Japan, but to kiss the globalists ring.

Buh-bye, Kishida.

Japan is facing a steadily worsening population crisis, as its expanding elderly population leads to soaring medical and welfare costs, with a shrinking labour force to pay for it.

This is assuming old people get free health care, when they’ve been paying into a system all their lives, with extra tack ons added after 60.

Working people are not paying entirely for the elderly, and making such a statement is emotional manipulation, creating resentment.

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