Nippori Nick comments

Time to screen is before they board a plane in China..

I've been to the distillery, and there's a bottle of 21 in the liquor cabinet. It's really good scotch, comparable to many from the old country.

While it may be good whisky, you cannot call it Scotch. By definition, that must only come from Scotland.

There are women there as well, so not sure why it just says men, etc.

I guess these worriers about their sauce would not have done well many years ago when there was rationing in many countries due to war.

Take off expiration dates for starters, or at least "best before dates". 

Uh, no thanks. I don't want to buy something a week after the best before date.

our country's fair criminal justice system

It would seem that fairness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Isnt oil exporting countries more relevant here!!!

Duh!

Not at all. If you use it domestically it still is worth X per barrel. If the price goes up, you can charge more for it (and thereby make higher profits) Does not matter who buys it, the money is earned either way.

Duh, you say?

Well at least oil prices are up, the Saudis and Russians must be happy.

Donny sure is loyal to a fault, just not to his own country!!

Huh?

Top Oil producing countries:

United States. Production: 17,886,000 bpd. ...

Saudi Arabia. Production: 12,419,000 bpd. ...

Russia. Production: 11,401,000 bpd. ...

Canada. Production: 5,295,000 bpd

Did they mention the incessant smoking. Keeps me out of most of these kind of places. I guess I save money that way, but still.

and there will be no more foreign aid from Japan to Lebanon

Perhaps for a short period, but things change rapidly in the world. Countries that were once enemies are now allies..Hmm...let me see if I can think of an example. Japan/USA for one.

. . his escape means he knew he was to be found guilty by authorities in Japan.

No. It means he felt the freedom in Lebanon was better than the possibility (not the certainty) of a guilty finding.

The word is detains. Just a formality..in a day or so they will have been interviewed and freed and be able to go on with their everyday lives.

I look forward to seeing his name on an Interpol red notice soon. He won't be able to travel outside of Lebanon ever.

Sure he will as long as the country he is going to does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.

He is a fugitive now. Interpol would send him back to Japan someday for his unfinished trial.

Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan and he holds a Lebanese passport. He will never be extradited to Japan and he certainly is not going to go back voluntarily.

If you actually want to see the first in Japan, you should be in the furthest east location..and that would be Minami-Torishima

If you have a rice cooker with a porridge setting, you can use it to cook old fashioned steel cut oatmeal. I have one that has a time, so put the oats and water in at night and at breakfast it is ready.

Great with some some fruit on it (blueberries in my case)

Fills you up and good start to the day.

I have never spent a lot of time "worrying" about whether other stores in a chain are open or closed.

If that's your biggest worry, you have a charmed life.

Ex husband could not find electrical cord without former wife's help? Really?

Suggest someone look at his life insurance policies or will and see who would benefit?

> They should play HYDEs music on big speakers non stop on board.

Worst idea ever . Imagine having to suffer that noise on a train ride.

This is a lot of money to pay for humble fishermen. Seems like the Russians simply did this to get easy money from Japanese . Outrageous.

It is not "a lot of money". It is chump change to the government. Ask how much they spend on summits or other such activities.

> Japan, with the death penalty, has the lowest murder rate in the OECD. Fact. There is no doubt that would be killers think again before committing heinous crimes, and the statistics show this

Yes, Japan has the lowest murder rate but that does not prove that Japan having the death penalty is the cause of this low murder rate.

There is also no proof that would be killers "think again" before committing murder. Certain criminals do not spend a lot of time pondering their actions in advance.

How about them Cowboys. I am not counting my boys out

Even Jerry J is counting them out...the axe is being sharpened right now for the coach.

Prediction? Ravens get cold feet and blow their bye week by losing to Bills at home. 

I hope you are a good predictor then because I would love that outcome.

Removing shoes and socks and picking at dead skin on feet to the extent a little hill of dead skin is left on the floor of the carriage.

Could not believe my eyes.

 PM Abe, on the other hand, is an experienced man who knows how to handle situations like these.

Evidence of this please? He has not handles situations like that well at all. Hence we are at this point.

Yet the touts act with impunity.

 a majority of the nurses accepted as part of the first intake in 2008 returned home.

When they found out what working in Japan was really like.

I guess in an Australian summer one goes to Hawaii to cool off?

Last job on earth I would sign up for. Don't know how they do it.

Japan will never get those islands back. Russia does not cede it's territory to others as long as Putin is in charge.