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Most important is that the Baystars eliminated the Giants on their way to victory in the JS. Good to see an underdog come through to win it all but it does make it clear that despite the perceived differences between the top of the table teams in the NPB, they are all pretty the much the same when it comes to talent.

Swing state North Carolina just got a jolt for the next election as the Republican candidate for Governor Mark Robinson came out for slavery being reenacted as "some blacks need to be slaves." He said he would buy some if he could. Robinson himself is black. This is a Trump 100% endorsed candidate who Trump said is 2x better than MLK. Oops. NC was trending democratic and with this huge scandal with a key Trump ally it may in fact turn NC blue this year. Kamala should visit NC in the next few days and call out the racism and just plain weirdness of Trump and his hand picked candidate for Governor. Robinson has said far worse things but JT would ban those comments.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

The fact is Trump should resign and let someone else run for President on the republican ticket. He is the new Biden, old and wildly out of touch. Totally unqualified to be President due to his growing mental weaknesses and his deteriorating health. He may not make it through the next two months of campaigning despite the medications he is on to prop him up. Let JD set up and run and get RFK Jr. as the new VP. With that ticket the republicans have a chance to win. With Trump it's yet another whomping in November. Maybe even a landslide victory for Harris.

I hope the diners were tested for mercury poisoning after their meal.

The whole whale industry is paid for by the right wingers in the LDP through massive subsidies. So all of us are paying for the fake dinner above. If not for the massive government support the entire whale "industry" would collapse and quickly vanish. There are tons of whale meet wasting away is storage as no one wants to eat it any longer other than rightwing adherents. Besides, it tastes terrible. Japan ate whale back after WW2 because the country was starving. Not the case today obviously.

Taro Aso, a leading figure in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who was deputy prime minister during Trump's term, travelled to the U.S. last month to try to meet Trump, though he was not able to see him, according to three of the six officials. Aso's office declined to comment.

This is hilarious. Aso goes to USA to visit Trump and he can't get an appointment with him. Well, Trump is out on bail from four indictment's and is now a convicted sex offender so he is pretty busy with all the court visits. If Aso could become a juror somehow his chances of meeting Trump would go way up.

Xi is ten times smarter than Trump and would outfox him easily, as he did when Trump was President. That is why China (and Russia) helped Trump win in the 2016 election. They wanted a fool in the WH.

What about the lost Japanese lives due to letting thousands of unvaccinated athletes and thousands of staff and tourist into the country during the games. Right after the games another wave of deaths hit Japan due to COVID and Koike then and only then said hey this COVID is serious. Add another billion or so US in losses due to illness and deaths. The whole event was corrupt to the core from the bribery to win the games to how Dentsu managed the games. Will go down as one of the worse mistakes in modern Japan history.

Walker is a latecomer to politics with his 2022 Senate run.

What? Walker has never been in politics ever. He is not a late comer he is a non-starter

Alabama elected an idiot football guy but thankfully Georgia did not make the same mistake. Rack up another huge loss for Trump on the same day his business was judged a huge legal failure. Makes no difference however to the Trump misfits, they will vote for him again in 2024 anyway.

There is another powerhouse European team that crumbled against the might of an Asian team.

Hah, have the Oz team comes from Scotland. Denmark lost to a European team last night.

Nuclear is a huge money loser and of course contributes spectacularly to radioactivity on occasion.. Japan will never finish paying for Fukushima. Thanks to Tepco and all the LDP corrupted pols who supported this

man made nuclear disaster.

Of course no one likes smoking poisonous fumes in their lungs other than suicidal smokers themselves.

Japan is making progress but it is way too slow. The tax on tobacco needs to be quintupled to start. The only way to get smokers to stop is to make tobacco more expensive. They are clearly illogical as they know they are killing themselves so only the pocketbook makes a difference to them. When enlightened California went smoke free deduces ago they increased the tax and smokers quit in large numbers. Saved their pathetic lives the State did.

Amazing anyone serious could consider promoting trickle down voo-doo economics once again. Talk about zombie economics, wow. Who wants to relive the massive failures of the Reagan/Thatcher era. That is when the middle class began to be raped by the fanboys and girls of the rich. Same is true here when Koizumi ran the same policies and decimated the middle class in Japan. Good that she is gone and viewed as a massive and total failure. But of course whoever comes next will probably be worse but at least not living in an 80s time warp.

Non-issue. Nothing will change regarding this matter no matter what the circumstances. Abe created this fake political issue and he made sure that it would never, ever be resolved. The whole issue stinks of cynical political manipulation of the families involved and a gullible Japanese public.

The owner is obviously mentally ill and needs to be taken care of hopefully better than he took care of the 170 cats.

These soft-minded people who feed stray cats leading to overpopulation of the animals are everywhere in Japan. Mostly they are old people with too much time on their hands.

wanted to eliminate the damage caused by religion

That says it all. Religion indeed does poison everything. But the Moonies are one of the most potently virulent of the mix. There are many others like the Moonies, easy to think of them. JW for one.

So much for freedom of religion. Nobody is forcing you to worship as a Mooney and by the same token you have no right to deny anyone else the right to worship as they please. This is about as fundamental a human right as exists, no less important than the right to free speech. There are a lot of religions I personally consider cultish and kooky, but I no right to demand those religion be banned. None. Period. Full stop. Nor do you.

The Moonie church is no more a religion than any other corporate fraud that appears periodically. Like Enron for example. A cursory examination of its origins and management over the years of this fake church clearly show that it is basically a criminal organization that uses its members at ATMs to fund worldwide rightwing political activities. All religions are at heart fraudulent but in some cases, as with the Moonies, they are criminal as well.

Many countries have banned the Moonies as they have learned what this fake church is really about. Singapore is one example.

The above comments are naive.

Soda of any kind is a poison. The artificial sweeteners have been proven to be even more poisonous than sugar and do not assist with weight control at all as studies have proven over and over again. If everyone just drank water the whole world who experience a huge health boom.

The money should be used to pay back families that were extorted by the Moonies while getting political cover from Abe and 100 plus other members of the LDP. Once again it is clear for all to see how deeply corrupt the LDP is and will always be. And yet they win election after election in this country making Japan a one party state, no different from China.

This also includes any religious, popular or unpopular, believer to participate in politial activities, supporting any politicians or ppolitical parties.

Amazing how USA religious people do not even know their own constitution, which many of them believe was written by Jesus. Look up the Establishment Clause in the first amendment. The fact is if a church gets involved in politics then it is no longer a real church, just another political action committee corrupting politics. Like the Moonies in Japan and all over the world if you know this fake church's history.

Separation of Church and State is a phrase that refers to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The phrase dates back to the early days of U.S. history, and Thomas Jefferson referred to the First Amendment as creating a “wall of separation” between church and state as the third president of the U.S. The term is also often employed in court cases. For example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black famously stated in Everson v. Board of Education that “[t]he First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state,” and “[t]hat wall must be kept high and impregnable.”

He was involved in a horrible motorcycle crash a number of years ago and has not really recovered physically or mentally. Hence doing a show at a Doubletree Hotel.

the Doubletree Hotel on Aug 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb

The Moonie religion is a scam and was designed to be one from the very beginning in 1954. It is a fraud and those above in the picture are victims. Perfect example of how religion poisons everything.

NK would no more give up its nukes than the USA would. Not gonna happen. So the SK President is either delusional or just plain stupid.

Basically this clearly demonstrates the deep corruption between the Chaebols and the Korean government. There is no way one company should represent 1/5 of any GDP anywhere. It is anti-competitive and incredibly corrupting of the government at all levels.

The Korean people know this has nothing to do with economic renewal and everything to do with corruption.

Of course there are lots of religious groups like that but plenty of others hold fairly moderate views

Sure, the analogy would be there are lots of criminals but some are less terrible than others. A petty thief is not the same as a murderer. So with all religions, once they based their beliefs on imaginary principles or beings they have crossed over to fantasy land. The Moonies aggressively exploit human weakness to make money. But so do all other churches to some degree. No difference.

Once former PM Kishi embraced the Moonies in the 1950s he allowed the rank and file LDP to all sign up for the free money and free labor from the Moonie cult members. Even though it is a Korean organization, amazing. Politics makes strange bedfellows and there are none stranger that the LDP and the Moonies.

Of course the 600,000, if that number is right, members of the Moonie cult will continue with the church despite their church being dragged through the mud right now and exposed as a complete and total fraud.

The Moonie operation is an extortion racket parading as a church. The founder of the church made that clear from the beginning of the organization being founded. That is not propaganda, that is fact. As a result families are ruined and lives lost. One of those that lost his future life to the greed of the Moonie cult struck back, immorally and illegally obviously, but his motivation was clear. To pretend otherwise is naive at best and an outright lie otherwise.

Trump is a criminal and finally legal agencies are acting on this crimes. If he didn't steal government property to hide his crimes he would not have had his home searched. And regarding the illegal activity of this company as being exposed by the NY AG what does Trump do in response, pleads the 5th because as he admits if he told the truth it would confirm his crimes. Trump has said it before himself, if you are innocent you do not plead the 5th. You plead the 5th if you know you are guilty of the crimes.

Trump belongs in jail for hundreds of crimes he has committed, the most horrible his being a traitor to his country and responsible for the deaths of cops on January 6th last year.

Well, if you're into the business of hurting people, threatening their livelihood, destroying families and driving people to social alienation, financial collapse and possibly suicide, you have to expect some kind of "backlash" from said people, their families, friends or acquaintances.

This can be said of all organized religions to some degree. Think of the child molestation issue recently in many churches. Granted the Moonies are out there in terms of their criminal activity. The fact is if you know the history of the Moonie Church it is simply a business hiding behind a religious facade. The goal of the church originally was world dominance. The list of crimes committed by the Church in that pursuit all over the world are innumerable now. But again take a look at any major church and you find similar horrible examples.

Trump has lied and weaseled his way out of crimes before but not this time. You know, everyone knows, he is a criminal and traitor to his country. The blood of the dead police from Jan 6th is on his hands. The insurrection by the loons that follow him is due to his instruction. There are so many crimes committed by Trump the DOJ can pick among them all. The people who voted for Trump, welcome to reality. You voted for a criminal and a fraud. Not for first time in some cases and probably not for the last time either.

Pelosi has move juevos than the entire leadership of the Republican party. Can you imagine Mitch standing up to China? No way. Good on her.

Everyone mentioned in the article are complete asses. Credit only to them for using money to make money. Exception is Andreessen who created Mosaic which did indeed change the world, once again a huge innovation funded by the government. Good to see them all hit the wall supporting the incredible stupidity of Musk making a novelty purchase of something he is totally clueless about and furthermore did not even bother to do his homework before committing $44 billion. Only the insane and/or incredibly rich are that stupid.

99.99% of accidents are caused by licensed drivers, so what exactly does having a license do? Money, money, money and control, control, control.

Could you imagine being told that you had to get a license to ride a horse? A samurai would have lopped someone’s head off for being told that.

A horse does not weigh two tons and go 120 kph. What a dopey thing to say.