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Reason #1,001,001 I Love Japan: Ordinarily I'm against the death penalty except in cases where the plea was "guilty" — it's too easy to make a mistake and kill the wrong guy. But I'm happy today because Japan still has the death penalty and has used it to rid the human race of one of the lowest pieces of shit that ever existed: Tsutomo Miyazaki, the "killer Otaku". Agence France-Presse gives us the details:

Japan on Tuesday executed three people including notorious serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, a fetishist convicted of murdering four little girls and eating some of their bodies, officials said.

Miyazaki, 45, was nicknamed the "killer nerd" for his obsession with sexual cartoons and pornography. But defence lawyers contended he was mentally ill and could not be held fully responsible for his actions.

Japan is the only major industrialised nation other than the United States to apply the death penalty and has been stepping up the pace of executions, which enjoy wide public support.

"We are carrying out executions by selecting the people whom we can execute with a feeling of confidence and responsibility," Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama told a news conference. Source

In Japan, they don't fuck around with all that kinder- gentler lethal injection bullshit. When they execute you in Japan, they HANG YOUR ASS.　おめでとう、日本！ And keep up the good work.

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Hey, kids! You can make your own ULTRA-KOOL Obama posters online! Here are mine: Poster 1 Poster 2 Poster 3


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I'm not what you'd call a fan of Ann Coulter — although I do admire her pugnacity and her long, blonde hair — but her June 11, 2008 blog was too sweet not to quote:

BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001

In a conversation recently, I mentioned as an aside what a great president George Bush has been and my friend was surprised. I was surprised that he was surprised [ ... ] the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. [ ... ] Merely taking out Saddam Hussein and his winsome sons Uday and Qusay (Hussein family slogan: "We're the Rape Room People!") constitutes a greater humanitarian accomplishment than anything Bill Clinton ever did -- and I'm including remembering Monica's name on the sixth sexual encounter.

[ ... ]

It is unquestionable that Bush has made this country safe by keeping Islamic lunatics pinned down fighting our troops in Iraq. In the past few years, our brave troops have killed more than 20,000 al-Qaida and other Islamic militants in Iraq alone. That's 20,000 terrorists who will never board a plane headed for JFK -- or a landmark building, for that matter.

We are, in fact, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them at, say, the corner of 72nd and Columbus in Manhattan -- the mere mention of which never fails to enrage liberals, which is why you should say it as often as possible.

The Iraq war has been a stunning success [ ... ] The Iraqis have a democracy -- a miracle on the order of flush toilets in that godforsaken region of the world. Despite its newness, Iraq's democracy appears to be no more dysfunctional than one that would condemn a man who has kept the nation safe for seven years while deifying a man who has accomplished absolutely nothing in his entire life except to give speeches about "change."

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Monthly casualties in Iraq now come in slightly lower than a weekend with Anna Nicole Smith. According to a CNN report last week, for the entire month of May, there were only 19 troop deaths in Iraq. (Last year, five people on average were shot every day in Chicago.) With Iraqi deaths at an all-time low, Iraq is safer than Detroit -- although the Middle Eastern food is still better in Detroit.

Al-Qaida is virtually destroyed, surprising even the CIA [ ... ] Just this week, The New York Times reported that al-Qaida and other terrorist groups in Southeast Asia have all but disappeared, starved of money and support.

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But no one notices when 9/11 doesn't happen. Indeed, if we had somehow stopped the 9/11 attack, we'd all be watching Mohammed Atta being interviewed on MSNBC, explaining his lawsuit against the Bush administration. Maureen Dowd would be writing columns describing Khalid Sheik Mohammed as a "wannabe" terrorist being treated like Genghis Khan by an excitable Bush administration. [ ... ] But liberals have only blind hatred for Bush -- and for those brute American interrogators who do not supply extra helpings of béarnaise sauce to the little darlings at Guantanamo with sufficient alacrity.

The sheer repetition of lies about Bush is wearing people down. There is not a liberal in this country worthy of kissing Bush's rear end, but the weakest members of the herd run from Bush. Compared to the lickspittles denying and attacking him, Bush is a moral giant -- if that's not damning with faint praise. John McCain should be so lucky as to be running for Bush's third term. Then he might have a chance.

Now, most of you know I'm not the President's biggest fan — but thank God he was the president when the Muzis hit New York. Can you imagine what the world would be like today if Al Gore had been in the driver's seat that September day instead of a grownup? Fort Worth would probably be a radioactive crater by now. Brrrr.

Anyway: President Bush and I have had our differences over the years, but I'll give him this: he's kept the bastards from flying any more G--D--- planes into any more G--D--- buildings. For that alone he deserves our appreciation.

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I got to converse with Exchange Daughter Yuki today via Skype. Holy cow, it was good to hear her voice. We all still miss her a great deal and I think about her every day. Hans is Child #1 but Big Sister Yuki will always be Child 0 -- our first 'little one".

And, by the way, Skype rocks.

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