Mattypdx comments

I like the idea, but not Uniqlo. Uniqlo uses cotton fabrics from China produced by Uyghur slave labor. I love Uniqlo’s cotton, but stopped buying anything at all from them when I found out where it comes from.

What an idiot. I hope he enjoys his time in Japanese custody. I hear it’s not terribly accommodating like the US system can be.

The next big problem that looms are the lithium-ion batteries that are proliferating in devices and vehicles everywhere. Recycling those should be an immediate priority.

Breakdancing is still a thing?

Like every other administration I’m sure they’ll promise to look into it, then forget all about it.

Unfortunately, the Russian people were too poor and working too hard in the 90's to realize the freedoms they had at the time after the Soviet Union fell. It won't be until every single one of their freedoms are gone before they realize what they lost under Putin.

I’ve seen these idiots weaving in and around traffic in Tokyo. It doesn’t surprise me a bit to hear people don’t want to fund lunacy. The payback would be zero.

Would anyone notice if it just didn't happen at all?

I bet I know a condo manager in Seattle that's about to get hit by a discrimination lawsuit. And he will lose. Stupid idiot.

Haha. Kind of like President Obama saying there are 52 states. (there are only 50). Or president Bush vomiting on the Japanese prime minister. Presidents, they are human! There is a Kansas City Kansas, but he should have know that this Kansas City is in MO.

They need to shut this down now or risk a pandemic. The only reason that countries haven’t just shut down flights from China all together is, as Hobart_Mark says, ¥¥££€€$$.

Ah, the friends that Japan keeps!

Well well well. The UK media are currently reporting that... it WAS an errant missle fired by the Iranians.

It has nothing to do with Japan’s own protectionist policies though, right?

Crazy Joe:

You mean the people that don't think the way YOU do.

It’s clear by most of these comments that a clear perspective of what happened is lost due to time and lack of proper education of that period in history.

Is there more than a concrete enclosure for these monkeys? That looks horribly depressing!

FYI: President Clinton was not impeached for any sex act. That is and was his personal business. President Clinton was impeached for suborning perjury... persuading Monica Lewinsky to lie under oath about it.

When I first read the book some 35 years ago I was comfortable knowing that it could never happen. Now here I am today watching it become reality.

FYI: The US legal system does not find defendants "innocent". They are simply "not guilty" based on reasonable doubt. Same difference, but legally quite different.

Canadian beef exports to Japan have tripled in recent months "while the Americans do not have that kind of access."

That's kind of funny. Every time I'm in Japan I dine at least once at a restaurant that is so very proud of the American beef on their menu. Even funnier is that most Americans want to try Japanese beef, not American.

The two admitted to killing Cambodian man Him Chan, 40, with a knife around 5 p.m. Sunday to steal his taxi which they planned to use in committing further crimes, according to Huot Sothy, deputy police chief in Siem Reap Province.

Nowhere in the article does it say they are intelligent.

As I commented in Saturday's article about this: The problem is that Putin has already effectively abandoned the treaty by developing new hypersonic nuclear weapons. The Chinese have also done the same in tandem as well as developing submarine based weapons. The entire western world is (sadly) dependant on the US to keep them free and safe from Russian and future Cineese aggression. There really is no choice but to counter that threat. Unlike the Russians, the US has abided by the treaty. Therefore the US is announcing its abandonment of the treaty, which Russia already has done. China never was bound by it. Putin and Xi are pulling the western world back into a Cold War that only they seem to want. Do people want a weak US that can’t protect them? The other option would be for all nations to build nuclear capability and beef up thier own militaries. But that’s not going to happen. The situation is regrettable, but Putin and Xi are making it nesesarry.

The problem is that Putin has already effectively abandoned the treaty by developing new hypersonic nuclear weapons. The Chinese have also done the same in tandem as well as developing submarine based weapons. The entire western world is (sadly) dependant on the US to keep them free and safe from Russian and future Cineese aggression. There really is no choice but to counter that threat. Unlike the Russians, the US has abided by the treaty. Therefore the US is announcing its abandonment of the treaty, which Russia already has done. China never was bound by it. Putin and Xi are pulling the western world back into a Cold War that only they seem to want. Do people want a weak US that can’t protect them? The other option would be for all nations to build nuclear capability and beef up thier own militaries. But that’s not going to happen. The situation is regrettable, but Putin and Xi are making it nesesarry.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said "we use rules rather than weapons to safeguard and promote our own interests," and that the U.S. should focus on cooperation with China instead of issuing such a report.

China only uses rules when they favor China. Otherwise it is China’s way or the threat of war. Everyone knows this.

It’s hard to believe the former limit was 0.1. That’s more than legally drunk in many countries and twice the legal limit in some. Yet they could fly hundreds of people at that level? Crazy. It should be zero.

More and more Google appears to be more of a global crime organization, with a search engine.

If Trump was to attend he would be criticized for doing so while government employees are not being paid. If he doesn’t attend it will be construed as a personal weakness. He can’t win either way.

If three people (or more) professed love for each other and mutually agreed to enter into in a polygamous Mormon style wedding with perhaps one old guy and several young women, would you grant them that right or deny them?

A mediocre attempt at misdirection. No one is asking for polygamy to be legal. Nor beatsiality nor the ability to marry a child. Any other red herrings you want to throw out there without discussing the actual subject matter?

Not only would a robot be less costly, isn’t there a constant labor shortage?