This is a very sad story.
I understand the arguements on both sides, but I cannot imagine that these people would have to be deported.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090210zg.html
Jus
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Balance
Ok, this is getting completely out of control. Today I found ANOTHER marijuana "news" story. The police, government and their tool, the mass media are very good at using sensationalism to distract people from the real problems of Japan "DEBT, DEBT, DEBT" by constantly running what I call "panic stories" about INFLUENZA "oooooooooooooooooooooooh abunaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" and soft drugs like MARIJUANA "ooooooooooooooooooooooooh, dameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". I think it is time that there was some balance in the news and some truth needs to be told.
I'll start the balancing with my statement "Marijuana is not a dangerous drug". If you want to tell me it IS dangerous, then please introduce me to someone whose life it has ruined. I could introduce you to about 50 marijuana users in Canada whose lives are just fine. And if somebody wants to tell me that marijuana is a stepping stone drug, then I can point to alchohol and tobacco as being stepping stone drugs to marijuana. The arguements are completely ludicrous. Japan banned marijuana because Douglas MacArthur said so. That IS the truth about marijuana.
Here's today's foolish news story:
AOMORI —
A seaman of the Maritime Self-Defense Force was arrested Saturday for allegedly possessing marijuana in violation of the Cannabis Control Law, a local headquarters of the MSDF in Aomori Prefecture said. The MSDF’s Ominato District Criminal Investigation Command arrested Leading Seaman Takeru Narumi, 30, after finding marijuana at his home in Mutsu on Saturday, according to the MSDF Headquarters of the Ominato District.
The MSDF police searched his home Saturday after he tested positive for marijuana in a drug test conducted last Monday. No other members at the base turned out positive in the tests, according to the headquarters. Katsunori Kawamura, Ominato district commandant, said in a statement, ‘‘It is an inappropriate act as an MSDF member. We will make efforts to prevent any recurrence of such misconduct.’’
© 2009 Kyodo News.
And here are some statistice about drug related deaths in the United States in 1988:
Sample year 1988. U.S. federal government Bureau of Mortality Statistics.
SUBSTANCE............................................NUMBER OF DEATHS PER ANNUM.
TOBACCO... 340,000 to 425,000
ALCOHOL (not including 50% of all highway deaths And 65% of all murders)...150,000 +
ASPIRIN (Including deliberate overdose...180 to 1,000 +
CAFFEINE (From stress, ulcers, triggering irregular heartbeats etc) ...1,000 to 10,000
LEGAL DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental from legal, prescribed Patent medicines and / or mixing with alcohol) ......14,000 to 27,000
ILLICIT DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental from all illegal drugs).........3,8000 to 5,200
THEOPHYLLINE (Prescribed asthma drug) ...................50
MARIJUANA..................................................0
See? Marijuana does not kill people, while legal drugs like alchohol, aspirin, caffeine, and tobacco.
Real news, NO PROPAGANDA.
Jus
I'll start the balancing with my statement "Marijuana is not a dangerous drug". If you want to tell me it IS dangerous, then please introduce me to someone whose life it has ruined. I could introduce you to about 50 marijuana users in Canada whose lives are just fine. And if somebody wants to tell me that marijuana is a stepping stone drug, then I can point to alchohol and tobacco as being stepping stone drugs to marijuana. The arguements are completely ludicrous. Japan banned marijuana because Douglas MacArthur said so. That IS the truth about marijuana.
Here's today's foolish news story:
AOMORI —
A seaman of the Maritime Self-Defense Force was arrested Saturday for allegedly possessing marijuana in violation of the Cannabis Control Law, a local headquarters of the MSDF in Aomori Prefecture said. The MSDF’s Ominato District Criminal Investigation Command arrested Leading Seaman Takeru Narumi, 30, after finding marijuana at his home in Mutsu on Saturday, according to the MSDF Headquarters of the Ominato District.
The MSDF police searched his home Saturday after he tested positive for marijuana in a drug test conducted last Monday. No other members at the base turned out positive in the tests, according to the headquarters. Katsunori Kawamura, Ominato district commandant, said in a statement, ‘‘It is an inappropriate act as an MSDF member. We will make efforts to prevent any recurrence of such misconduct.’’
© 2009 Kyodo News.
And here are some statistice about drug related deaths in the United States in 1988:
Sample year 1988. U.S. federal government Bureau of Mortality Statistics.
SUBSTANCE............................................NUMBER OF DEATHS PER ANNUM.
TOBACCO... 340,000 to 425,000
ALCOHOL (not including 50% of all highway deaths And 65% of all murders)...150,000 +
ASPIRIN (Including deliberate overdose...180 to 1,000 +
CAFFEINE (From stress, ulcers, triggering irregular heartbeats etc) ...1,000 to 10,000
LEGAL DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental from legal, prescribed Patent medicines and / or mixing with alcohol) ......14,000 to 27,000
ILLICIT DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental from all illegal drugs).........3,8000 to 5,200
THEOPHYLLINE (Prescribed asthma drug) ...................50
MARIJUANA..................................................0
See? Marijuana does not kill people, while legal drugs like alchohol, aspirin, caffeine, and tobacco.
Real news, NO PROPAGANDA.
Jus
Monday, February 2, 2009
Kabuki-cho street child photo book
From the current buzz around Hollywood, the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” about a destitute boy from the Mumbai slums who becomes a phenomenally successful quiz show contestant on Indian TV’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” seems a sure thing to win numerous Academy Awards.
Perhaps this need to empathize with the underprivileged may help boost sales of the recently released photo collection “Kabukicho no Kokoro-chan” (Kodansha, 1,500 yen).
According to Shukan Gendai, Kwon Chol, a 42-year-old Korean photojournalist, has chronicled the mean streets of Kabukicho for the past 12 years. Kwon’s newest work introduces touching scenes of a homeless 4-year-old girl he first encountered there in September, 2007.
“What’s your name?” he asked her. “Kokoro!” she replied, holding up four small fingers to indicate her age and grinning to reveal badly stained teeth.
Her parents, from a nearby prefecture, had moved to Tokyo, where they shifted from job to job, and eventually wound up living on the streets of Shinjuku.
Apparently from age three onward, Kokoro was left to wander around Kabukicho on her own, waiting for her mother to return from work. According to Kwon, other homeless fed her—items such as hamburgers with expired consume-by dates and ice cream—and she adapted naturally to her surroundings.
“Her living room was a game arcade,” he’s quoted. “Her toilet was the toilet in the arcade. She’d walk around the plaza in front of Koma Theater in her bare feet. Maybe she regarded it the way other kids think of their own backyards.”
Kwon tells Shukan Gendai he became emotionally involved in the child’s well being, helping her father to find a job and assisting the family in the search for affordable housing. But at the same time he couldn’t resist snapping photos of Kokoro-chan, padding about the entertainment district in a tiny hooded sweatshirt, carrying discarded cardboard boxes and sleeping on the sidewalk.
“I have to accept that I’m not really a professional,” Kwon admits. The scenes in his book, of a street child smiling with a mouth filled with cavities, seem out of place in Japan’s prosperous capital city.
Kwon was relieved when the homeless chapter of Kokoro-chan’s saga came to an end, and her mother obtained admittance to a welfare facility. Assuming things have since gone well, she should be entering first grade from April.
Perhaps this need to empathize with the underprivileged may help boost sales of the recently released photo collection “Kabukicho no Kokoro-chan” (Kodansha, 1,500 yen).
According to Shukan Gendai, Kwon Chol, a 42-year-old Korean photojournalist, has chronicled the mean streets of Kabukicho for the past 12 years. Kwon’s newest work introduces touching scenes of a homeless 4-year-old girl he first encountered there in September, 2007.
“What’s your name?” he asked her. “Kokoro!” she replied, holding up four small fingers to indicate her age and grinning to reveal badly stained teeth.
Her parents, from a nearby prefecture, had moved to Tokyo, where they shifted from job to job, and eventually wound up living on the streets of Shinjuku.
Apparently from age three onward, Kokoro was left to wander around Kabukicho on her own, waiting for her mother to return from work. According to Kwon, other homeless fed her—items such as hamburgers with expired consume-by dates and ice cream—and she adapted naturally to her surroundings.
“Her living room was a game arcade,” he’s quoted. “Her toilet was the toilet in the arcade. She’d walk around the plaza in front of Koma Theater in her bare feet. Maybe she regarded it the way other kids think of their own backyards.”
Kwon tells Shukan Gendai he became emotionally involved in the child’s well being, helping her father to find a job and assisting the family in the search for affordable housing. But at the same time he couldn’t resist snapping photos of Kokoro-chan, padding about the entertainment district in a tiny hooded sweatshirt, carrying discarded cardboard boxes and sleeping on the sidewalk.
“I have to accept that I’m not really a professional,” Kwon admits. The scenes in his book, of a street child smiling with a mouth filled with cavities, seem out of place in Japan’s prosperous capital city.
Kwon was relieved when the homeless chapter of Kokoro-chan’s saga came to an end, and her mother obtained admittance to a welfare facility. Assuming things have since gone well, she should be entering first grade from April.
What is wrong with the police in Aichi?
Monday 02nd February, 01:13 PM JST
NAGOYA —
A police officer fired two warning shots early Monday after being beaten by a teenage boy he tried to question on a riverbank in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, police said. The 14-year-old, a second-year junior high school student, was uninjured in the incident as the officer fired the shots into water several meters away from the teenager as the teen was about to grab the pistol, they said.
The teen was arrested for obstruction and inflicting injuries, including a shoulder dislocation, on the 26-year-old officer, they said.
The boy told investigators that he attacked the officer because he did not want to be arrested, they said.
The male officer from the Toyohashi police station was out on patrol when he stopped the teen at around 2:30 a.m. Monday to ask him questions. The teen began punching him and tried to grab his pistol, police said.
The officer then fired the warning shots toward the river, they said. He sustained minor injuries to his face and abdomen.
An official of the police station said the officer’s use of his gun was appropriate as the teen had violently resisted and tried to take the weapon.
According to police, the officer was in a patrol car with another policeman when they found four male students riding double on two minibikes, which is illegal, and started following them.
When one of the teens hopped off the back of his bike and began to flee, the officer got out of the patrol car and chased him before getting into a scuffle with him near the river.
The other police officer, 58, was not at the scene of the shooting as he was going after one of the minibikes, police said.
© 2009 Kyodo News.
NAGOYA —
A police officer fired two warning shots early Monday after being beaten by a teenage boy he tried to question on a riverbank in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, police said. The 14-year-old, a second-year junior high school student, was uninjured in the incident as the officer fired the shots into water several meters away from the teenager as the teen was about to grab the pistol, they said.
The teen was arrested for obstruction and inflicting injuries, including a shoulder dislocation, on the 26-year-old officer, they said.
The boy told investigators that he attacked the officer because he did not want to be arrested, they said.
The male officer from the Toyohashi police station was out on patrol when he stopped the teen at around 2:30 a.m. Monday to ask him questions. The teen began punching him and tried to grab his pistol, police said.
The officer then fired the warning shots toward the river, they said. He sustained minor injuries to his face and abdomen.
An official of the police station said the officer’s use of his gun was appropriate as the teen had violently resisted and tried to take the weapon.
According to police, the officer was in a patrol car with another policeman when they found four male students riding double on two minibikes, which is illegal, and started following them.
When one of the teens hopped off the back of his bike and began to flee, the officer got out of the patrol car and chased him before getting into a scuffle with him near the river.
The other police officer, 58, was not at the scene of the shooting as he was going after one of the minibikes, police said.
© 2009 Kyodo News.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Chicken wings
I made somethng like this today. It was great!
You can try it too, if you use your oven range on 220℃.
Tasty, tasty!
Jus
You can try it too, if you use your oven range on 220℃.
Tasty, tasty!
Jus
Batman Can't Speak English
I feel sorry for The Joker. He's a smart guy, even if he is a little crazy. Ok, he's ALOT crazy. But how is he supposed to answer Batman's questions if Batman can't speak English?
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