Japlan comments

...Oh, and since the introduction of wolves into Montana and the Yellowstone area in the late 80's, there's just that much LESS food in the ecosystem for the Grizzlies. Ooops! This isn’t going to be reported in the media.

Brown bears/Grizzlies had a range that covered the entire Pacific NW and the Great Plains. They inhabited the low lands and depended on salmon runs to get enough calories to make it through the bottle neck of winter hibernation. They also preyed up the vast herds of bison and caribou that roamed the plains. With dams and habitat destruction ending historical salmon runs, the bear’s range has shrunk to just the northern Rockies in the lower 48. There’s just not enough high quality food.

Nuts and berries are a poor supplement to the fat found in spawning salmon. Right about now as August ends, the alarm bells are going off in the most primitive part of the bears brain to eat or die. Hikers and campers are just an energy opportunity for a hungry Grizzly in the wrong place, but at the right time for the bears.

They blow up skyscrapers; blow themselves into hamburger to murder as many as they can, behead "unbelievers" and stone women for infidelity. Yup, cut the nose right off that poor woman on TIME magazine. Gee, just can’t wait to have one of them "houses of worship" built right in my neighborhood! Makes me warm and fuzzy just to know they are so serious about world peace… WOW! Just like Miss America!

Everybody must get stoned.

the right that people have that dates back to our founding

Oh, So socialist Obama suddenly supports private property rights? Hmmmm.

Most Democrats stayed silent

A silent majority, hmmmm... how odd.

White House aides have spent four days trying to explain exactly where the normally eloquent president stands on the mosque.

Normally eloquent? So like, the emperor really has no clothes?

Obama has set a welcoming tone even as the Christian president

Whoa! If he is Christian, then Louis Farrakhan must be Jewish!

“Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”

“a place of worship” notice he avoided saying the M word.

“ Lower Manhattan” notice he didn’t say near the site of the Twin Towers, where 3,000 Americans were roasted alive, fell to their death or were crushed into powder.

Building mosques on the site of other religions/countries that have been beaten by Islam is their MO. Look at the Al-Aqsa Mosque …built over the temple mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Its all about insult and intimidation, while the dumb ass secular humanists like Bloobburg talk about tolerance. Tolerance? Lets see some tolerance in Arabia:

“Hello? Yes, is this the king of Saudi Arabia? Yes, this is your good friend Obama. I need your help. You see we are building this mosque in LOWER Manhattan and well… intolerant Americans are making a childish fuss. Can you order a church built near Mecca? No, no it doesn’t have to be that close, just a few blocks away… so Americans will understand that you Muslims are as progressive and tolerant as we are.

This is a gift from God! Thank you Obama!!! The people may finally wake up now and take back the country from the traitorous vermin that have sold us out. If radical Christian crusaders blew up Mecca and Medina and slaughtered thousands, what do you think the Saudis would say if Billy Graham wanted to build a giant cathedral over the rumble?

Ha ha haaaaaah!!!

Japan’s people still are among the world’s richest, with a per capita income of $37,800 last year, compared with China’s $3,600.

...China overtakes Japan

When you can hire 10 Chinese and make them work like slaves (and there are 1.4 billion of them) at the cost of 1 Japanese, no big suprise here.

Yes, get them out before the bombs fall on Iran.

Asia floods, Russia burns... Whats next?

The guy on the right wants very badly to hit devilman with that stick... So go ahead! Smack him! You know you want to!!!

Is it me or are these girls facial expressions best described as "clueless"

In that they live life inside a fantasy bubble, I'd say they look just about right.

There is only ONE WAY to become a citizen of the United States of America

Nope, the other way is to be an anchor baby.

Go Jan go! Give em Hell!

The trains are less crowded than this beach!

The already fragile economic recovery may be getting weaker.

There never was a "recovery". Govt.spending does not a recovery make.

unemployment now at 9.5 percent is likely to stay high.

This is a systemic economic crash that has shut out a large demographic from finding work, mostly in construction. Unemployment is more like 15-18% because many of these folks have given up looking for work and they are not counted in the skewed govt numbers.

Some little kid is gonna try to drink from the bottle and choke/die on this thing... not too swift.

$8.7 B? awwww... THATS nothin!!! Its all phony money anyway... Print baby, PRINT!

As troops get pulled out of Iraq... where they gonna go? Back home to 15% unemployment, or to NK for a new deployment? Bang bang. Lets get it on!

Nothing unusual here.

Bubye Pelousy

He's much more of a man than the deluded 'It's all my money' wimp.

Cleo, Why does a man's gender even need to be in question in the context of money? Its odd that you should even bring it up. I thought women were liberated? Just because your dream man wont roll over and be castrated on demand, he is a "wimp"? Are his balls any larger because he is dumb enough to hand over all his money in exchange for an allowance, sex maybe once a year and a pat on the back to insure him of his masculinity? This is nothing more than a socioeconomically accepted form of prostitution, which some would call marriage, to their own poor-little MANipulating Cinderella syndrome advantage.

Most Jwoman are disingenuous and duplicitous. They want it both ways. As long as men don’t respect themselves enough to be in control over their own finances, women will determine the defining criteria by which hubby's “masculinity” is subject to scorn and ridicule. When she doesnt get her way, watch out! She gets bitchy and wrathful like a spoiled brat. This is a nice little game Jwomen play, called extortion. Some might call it emotional blackmail… Sweet mama just don’t love you anymore!

cake-and-coffee sessions moaning about their husbands, and wishing that they were dead...

Basically, to a Japanese woman, a husband is a cash machine and - on at least one occasion - a sperm donor, and nothing more.

This is spot on. This IS the issue. If Jwomen would ever grow up and start acting like mature women, maybe Jmen would actually want a relationship. But Cinderella is much too busy hatching bitch sessions with her friends and going off to Disneyland with his money.

Guys, c'mon! Its YOUR money! You work hard for it just to die an early death, for what? Not worth it.

becoming Asia’s Greece

Not likely. Unlike Greece, Japan can always print Yen and sell govt bonds to itself, delaying the inevitable just long enough for the next batch of puppets to take the stage.

Modern symbols of arrogance go way beyond skyscraping. …like building unsustainable economies on mountains of debt.

Impotence needs a phallic symbol at least this big.

forests overwhelmingly planted out in a single species, either Japanese cedar (“sugi”) or cypress (“hinoki”)

Japan is responsible for millions of acres of clear cut in Asia, Siberia, Alaska and South America. So now they are having a tizzy fit about what “ the foreigners” are going to do with their own precious forests? Boo-hoo.

When you cant see the forest for the trees and plant monoculture tree crops that sacrifice forest diversity, you get a no win situation like this; commodity trees for the highest bidder. Restoring native forests should be the priority of the Japanese govt., but that would actually take radical thinking. Its easier to fear the foreigner than take responsibility for the trashed environment in your own backyard.

“Let’s bring financial crimes down to zero(rei)!”

Zero is as zero does.

she stood reading books just after noon

Wow! There ya go. That’s the crime right there! OMG! What was she thinking? Reading books in a skirt capable of being video upskirted? She should have known better. If she was reading in a mini in the morning while the cop was on duty, none of this would have happened.

when he saw the woman, he “just couldn’t resist”

Wow again! ( See cartoon light bulb hovering over my head) He was arrested by desire and nabbed by an off duty upskirting cop nabbing woman (who just happened to be there). No doubt an upskirting sting operation targeting none other than… Japan’s finest.

This is an unprecedented conspiracy to undermine Japanese law and order given the statistically off the chart number of up skirting/panty thieving off duty cops who are being targeted without mercy (tears pouring down my cheeks) by short skirted criminal elements with high power female assets... all while cops are at their must vulnerable: Off duty.

So next time you non-undercover ojyousaminis see an off duty cop in Japan, stop and thank him for not video upskirting you. (Just think of the beads of sweat forming on his brow… the incredible resolve he must have to resist such overwhelming temptation!)

Remember girls; only you can prevent video up skirting.

we will all be wearing mad max clothes and have mohawks.

Nothing wrong with mohawks and no need to be so defensive.

actions and cash speak louder than posts.

Martin Luther might disagree. Free speech should not be hostage to anyone's tyranny, no matter how good intentioned.

I’ve spent years working with the handicapped in Japan and I’ve noticed that because they don’t have crushing expectations placed on them ( juku and exam hell) they learned to work with their hands and do practical tasks at a younger age. As a result they are generally better adjusted socially, more spontaneous and genuine in many ways than their peers.

to show them their future is not as scary as their past.

Nobody knows this. The future may be worse than the past. You can try to give hope, but you cant deliver the future.

exercise emotional intelligence

I couldn’t agree more.

The generalists are, by definition, "everyone else."

There is nothing wrong with specializing and yes, everyone would like to be rich. But if you specialize to grab the “dream job” just for the money, how special is that? A dream can also be a nightmare. If we choose myopic goals for the dollar, myopic dollars will eventually choose someone else’s goal.

The values we assign to human tasks have consequences, not all of which are immediately understood or even intended. Learning to think outside the box and be more self sufficient would go a long way towards ending the social psychosis and cultural narcissism that feeds off the institutional dependency we have all been conditioned to accept as normal.

A rock star may make more than a basketball player. The ball player makes more than the banker. The banker makes more than the car salesman. The farmer makes less than all of them, yet they all eat his food. The star can fall from grace, the ballplayer foul the ball, the salesman face a recall and the banker go bankrupt, yet they still need to eat at the end of the day.

What does the farmer need? A farmer needs to be a businessman, a veterinarian, horticulturist, conservationist, a heavy equipment operator, a mechanic, electrician, repairman and a craftsman. He may be generalizing in all, but he generally knows how to work. This is my point. Knowing how to work is an acquired skill. Something the banker will have to learn late in life when he can no longer afford to have someone else changing his oil.

children choose a job and learn what they have to do to be successful at it, what kinds of certifications or college classes they’ll need to take

This is a very good idea to get kids to think more about the real world of work and economics while they are incarcerated in kyoiku prison. Good idea, but it portends that a particular job will even exist when they graduate. Division of labor work force economics is becoming thing of the past.

Teaching kids to think of singular pursuits is a set up for failure. A well educated person needs to be skilled in many areas and be flexible and relevant in a job market that demands everything and will spit you out if you cant morph. More Jkids need to have practical experience working while they are still young; before they grow up believing that the world somehow owes them a living.

Some people say that humans cant ruin the earth, but I think we are doing a great job.

The drone of drones... that will scare them! If it doesnt, Janet surely will.