FruitsBasketFan comments

I just came back to visit Japan and now they require foreign visitors to sign a declaration form stating how much money we have and even write down passport numbers if the money is up a certain amount.

i just hope it does not become like the US where they get on my case because I withdraw 2 or 3 grand whenever I travel overseas: much below the $10,000 reporting limit.

Banks are changing g the rules without officially telling us.

Tha is because the UK and US are buddies when it comes to surveillance (spying) so obviously the US wants a United Kingdom compared to a divided kingdo to work with even if some if that surveillance is illegal.

I wonder if it is required to sign up online in advance like the 911 memorial site.

It was jokingly said that it was required to sign up in order to look into your personal details. Never mind that they already have security over there to prevent another terrorist attack.

I only say this because had this guy been American, he would most likely been tried on American courts and the government would take a keen interest on this.

Britain however, does not seem to do so. It has taken a lazy approach by getting them out of the hands and not using their own tax dollars to try their own citizens and expects a foreign government (US) to spend its tax dollars for a foreigner.

That to me, bothers me as a tax payer.

This does not make sense.

I think he deserves the sentence he got, do not get me wrong...but why did the British hand him over to the US when he was arrested by the British?

He should have been tried by the British courts!

The UK system is better than the US, but at least Japan gives you more rest.

And what it with Brits moaning about EU citizens receiving care on the hospitals when Brits are as to do so in other EU countries?

I find it ironic how the US does not have an official religion, yet our politicians mention God in work way too many times and are much more religious while the Brits are neutral with religion despite having a state religion: Church of England.

Nevertheless, Cameron is a moron.

I think the US should stop associating itself with Israel.

Good for Bew Zealand.

How is France behind the US? With the exception of Paris, French take privacy and social assistance more seriously than either the UK and US.

Sounds good in paper...but in practice: "gaijin parent is dangerous"

What about Scotland and Northern Ireland?

That extra 3% is hardly notorious in my eyes.....

South Korea's sales tax is 10%.

Most of Europe has a 17-20% tax rate.

Turkey banned msn when I visited over there in March 2012.

That is a tax hike????

Pfft

Do not make me laugh!!!!

Try paying 20% tax on goods (except grocery and children clothes).

My God, Japanese have it so lovely.

Get you facts straight!

She cannot use tax paying money to shop!

She is doing her role as First Lady meeting with the Chinese president wife on softer relations!

I believe the Japanese in the country side can be genuinely happy and laid back.....it is just those who live in the major cities or highly populated areas where they can be very cold.

Of course, this is just based when I visited over there and they mistook me as a "hafu".

I miss being allowed to carry cash and not being hold suspicion of doing anything illegal with it like most Western countries.

Welfare programs are hardly generous in the states.

But I only slightly agree with amending the solely born on soil citizenship law which requires at least one parent to be a legal resident before the child can be considered an American.

Lack of discipline?

Asians are a much smaller minority than Latinos and Bkacks so you are not going to see more bad seeds.

Anyonr is capable of becoming one, blacks and latinos are more likely to be pior due to backward ass drug laws (mere possesion of marijuana leads to years of unnecessary orison time) and people having a negative view of minorities.

Racism has not left the states, otherwise, you would not have fox news questioning Obama's birth place and portraying Latinos as job stealers despite taking the jobs which non-Hispanic whites will not do.

I felt safer in Mexico outside the big cities.

My family and I visit the smaller towns and central Mexico more often.

It is a shame that my other American friends only visit Cancun and resorts, only.

I really do not get where people get the idea that only Mexicans and South Americans are addicted to the drug.

For one thing, there are Mexicans and South Americans who are white (hell, there are even a few South American countries which are dominately white).

And another thing, it is not just them who are addicted to the stuff (see European countries). They just happen to be the suppliers due to harder economic mobility over there and thus want to make a quick buck, but not everyone is overly thrill over the drug.

My family is from Mexico and a small village where the majority of the people either not very interested or hardly touch the stuff.

And third of all, I am all full decriminalization just so the black market takes a hit and possibly weaken the organized crime with weed.

I want marijuana to be decriminalized so that stoners can come out of hiding and give Fox News and conservative whites a huge shock that whites are just as likely to be stoners, as well.

They are just never racially profiled when it comes to this type of thing.

Reading the comments here seems to be endorsing racial selection for adoption.....

Oh, please!

Buffer zones do not prevent free speech. It prevents hostile protesters from verbally abusing patients and protecting their right of privacy!

Even my parents who are anti-abortion find those protestors scum because they make the women feel even shittier despite going through an unwanted pregnancy which they cannot afford and the stingy welfare programs will not give much financial aid to help them.

I see that the woman is afraid to receive a tan and prefer to look like a ghost.

Why is it that we are listening to Boehner again?

I signed up and the offer is much generous than our previoius nsurance and with subsidies I pay only about $40 dollars a month and I even recrive help paying for my deductible.

It is clearly not what Boehner is describing.

Most of Mexico is safe away from the borders and Cancun.

I visit Mexico every year in the middle and I feel much safer walking at night then in the US.

Of course if you are female, make sure not to hitchhike or ignore cat calls.

Yeah, just like drunk driving but no one is trying to claim to make it illegal again!

Ends "sarcasm"

What does it matter what a leader does in his private life, so long as it is not illegal?

I think he sucks for a leader of France, but I am not going to hold his affair against him.....

I swear!

Why whenever the Obama's go on vacation while Congress is on holiday break people make it seem like a bad thing?

They are well off who just happen to have a holiday home in Hawaii (Obama was even born there)!