The Trees comments

Delegates? Funny. But as is said and as is true, to each his own.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTDENzpW7tw&pp=ygUPb2dyZSBuZXJkIGNoYW50

12th generation here, since 17th century. From Henrico County Virginia Colony to the West Coast in 350ish years. Love the flag and the country. I fly the flag on Memorial Day, July 4th, and Veterans Day. Never celebrated Flag Day before though. Big thanks to those for their service.

Of course women should be allowed to become empress, if it were up to me. Love these funny photos they are so serious, it always gives me a good chuckle.

5€ is not likely to dissuade much, I’m guessing. How to strike the right balance between tourism and commerce, and maintaining a pleasant experience for both tourists and locals is difficult to derive. Overtouristed places are unpleasant for everyone. Visited family in Kyoto again early last August and it was just miserable at so many different places around town. They really should do something about it, a lottery entry permit maybe (although don’t know how that would be implemented), otherwise it will be ruined.

I am a Taylor Swift fan. Not a fan of her music, except for a few songs I have learned to enjoy (sometimes I have to ask my daughters to please change the music, I can’t take it anymore), but of her talent and her massive ability to inspire happiness on what is, or is becoming, a global scale, in spite of all the haters, curmudgeons, fascists, and those unable to see or feel beyond their own cynical worldview. Some people will complain about and try to tear down anything and everything, that is their existence, but others live full of life themselves and remind others what it is like to be young, full of life and possessed with unbeatable spirit, and inspire millions and millions of people, even if their music is not necessarily our cup of tea (or if we have to tell our daughters to change the music.).

¥3,879/month. Go to town with that.

Why so many people carrying knives?

“People who intend to stab someone generally don't just intend to find one along the way…”

Plus, they can’t readily get guns. If they could the stories would be different.

What parts of the criminal statutes of a jurisdiction do not apply to any specific individual resident of or otherwise connected to the jurisdiction? Right, none. And when the evidence is shown to bear out what he has already admitted doing... you know the refrain… Lock him up.

It all felt off when he didn’t twirl.

Bad call, cheap goal. And Ronaldo runs around and twirls after that. Memeshi.

She defeated He. Yes, in a way.

Taiwan is clearly, by any measure, an independent country. Economy and trade, government/politics/elections, military, customs and borders, domestic and international affairs- all administered and controlled by itself, answering to no other country. Irrespective of its past, those are the facts today and for the past 77 years at least.

Taiwan, along with other sovereign countries, like Japan here, have every right and interest to work together on mutual defense as mutual partners.

China can threaten all it wants, militarize the seas all it wants, and everyday it makes it clearer and clearer that it is the threat to free peoples.

NCIS- thanks for the article link. Great story!

The company’s acts were “inevitable.” I imagine the court was inadvertently speaking truthfully on this point. Certainly with some management and some companies harassment and termination is indeed the inevitable outcome of putting family first.

^haha comedian.

Seems to be eyeing the kokeshi.

Or they could use the data from the body scanners at the security check to offer every single passenger a personalized greeting as they board. That would be the customer service Japan is known for.

We weren’t the ones who killed George Floyd. We’re not bad cops. Cops all over are punished because of bad Minnesota cops. Don’t paint us with the same paintbrush is their point, I gather. Right. Don’t assume all of the group are bad because of some bad actors within the group. Most are not bad. Funny, because that’s the same point made against cops’ use of racial profiling, stop and frisk, etc. Cry me a river. No one is killing unarmed cops over and over and over throughout the country, based on some mistaken belief that all are bad. We are calling for you to get your house in order and stop murdering people. And you get all bent out of shape, poor little disrespected Michael O’Meara.

You’ve all heard what Trump said in broad daylight on camera. He threatened to order the US military to be used on US citizens in the United States. And somehow there are people still defending him.

Intentionally falling down- playing the doddering old man card. Sky, very sly.

It’ll disappear. It’ll be a miracle.

Math. And English.

Gross.

“I like to obey the law.” Dude’s a comic genius trolling us all. Funny like corruption and betrayal and war and assassination. I wanna be funny like that too. Hey, he and his family should be Romanov’ed. That way they’d all get the royal Russian family treatment that you know he’d just dig. Nobody is serious anymore, we’re all just spinning along in our own comic genius worlds. Dudes, I’m just kidding. But he’s not. He’s a great, inspirational president who gets his jollies obeying the law. Really.

I have heard about this restructure but I haven’t followed it closely. Admittedly I am not informed enough to form much of an opinion. If the plan would make for efficient government then I suppose that’s reason enough, but as a former resident of the Fu I would be a little sad to see the Fu fade away.

I have a Christmas tree in my house and I think it looks pretty damn fine. Smells good too. I am also looking forward to Christmas cookies and Christmas caroling with my neighbors. If someone wants to have a Holiday tree or holiday cookies or for that matter put a tree up in June and call it their Christmas tree, that’s all good to me. Doesn’t get in the way of my Christmas one bit.

He’s getting impeached because his own appointees have testified to impeachable offenses regarding Ukraine. That and he’s incompetent, yes. The GOP defending him are thoroughly despicable, so this won’t go anywhere as far as removal. But I haven’t given up on Americans in general, yet, and he will not win re-election next year. I do not believe there is a majority of American voters in the swing states willing to reward this clown with another term.

At this point it’s clear that it’s not just Trump who is a danger to democracy. The Republicans who protect him are as well. From their faux pro-life policies, their disdain for sensible gun control, fake preening as loving, practicing Christians they have been hypocrites for decades and now it’s laid bare for the world to see that they will defend a traitorous, compulsive agitprop peddling, racist white nationalist, imbecile because they hate Democrats more than they love the country.

Many of the Dems do not inspire me personally, and I don’t agree with all their proposals out there, but to defend Trump anymore at this point you have to be seriously delusional, debased, or as someone stupidly said in the middle of an election campaign, no matter how correct she appears to have been, deplorable and I’ll add to that just plain awful American citizens.

Golden pillows a nice touch to the pegboard room. An improvement already. Go Masako!

Enjoyed some of those before. Memories.