chokonen888 wrote:All we need to find out now is if Abe has been fucking his sister and the circle will be complete.
To channel a J-school graduate, there is no verifiable evidence that he isn't.
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chokonen888 wrote:All we need to find out now is if Abe has been fucking his sister and the circle will be complete.
Yokohammer wrote:chokonen888 wrote:So back on topic...Justice Minister Midori Matsushima resigned after the opposition Democratic Party of Japan filed a criminal complaint against her over distribution of hand-held fans, or “uchiwa.” Matsushima is also facing complaints over using parliament-provided housing while keeping security guards at her private residence in downtown Tokyo.
I made (and IPU can vouch for it) something like 35,000 uchiwa for PR the last two summers....no idea how many she handed out but since when is "over distribution of uchiwa" a crime?
Distribution of any goods to voters is forbidden, so technically she is a bad girl. But it's just that ... a technicality, and another trivial waste of time and taxpayer money that has been played out as fcuking politicians who don't give a shit about the real problems facing the nation jockey for position and power to serve their own personal interests. If every little breach of election law and protocol was treated in the same way there wouldn't be a soul left in the diet to argue about it. I didn't particularly like the woman, but this is just a shameful demonstration of how useless and wasteful the whole political system is.
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chokonen888 wrote:wagyl wrote:chokonen888 wrote:what is the real reason they wanted her out?
Real reason? It is a political game. The ruling party spend so much time putting out fires that they can't make any progress on their political plans.
Anyway, good to see that the nepotism balance was preserved. Ex PM's daughter replaced by an ex PM's nephew. As I saw someone allude to, I suppose it makes sense: the PM is an ex PM...
All we need to find out now is if Abe has been fucking his sister and the circle will be complete.
wagyl wrote:Also, it might be a time to be grateful for small mercies:She is a supporter of death penalty. She said that Islam convicts being served non-pork meal in Japan prisons is a reverse discrimination and should be stopped (in 162nd Committee on Judicial Affairs, 2005). She also said in the same committee, "Criminals' human rights is of secondary importance." and "We should make sex criminals see movies of school girls playing in swimming pools, and use some kind of Lie detector to check if they became decent. Even if they served their time decided by a judge, we don't want sex criminals to be in the outside world."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_Matsushima
This was the person responsible for forming policy including for the Immigration Bureau (well, nominally, at least)
chokonen888 wrote:WTF is with the red feather on this bitch?
chokonen888 wrote: no idea how many she handed out but since when is "over distribution of uchiwa" a crime?
kurogane wrote:chokonen888 wrote: no idea how many she handed out but since when is "over distribution of uchiwa" a crime?
We have 3 options here:
1) brain fart
2) disingenuity for humorous purposes
3) Messi needs a refresher course at ECC
But regardless..............
Wasn't she doing it at a rally or on election day? At any rate, she sounds like a real peach. I agree with her for different reasons, but that definition of Reverse Discrimination was so Pearl Harbour Head worthy she surely deserves to be rehabilitated to any future LDP cabinets.
FTR, my notion is that the voluntarily retarded should not place themselves in situations where their particular form of retardation becomes an issue, and if they do, F' Em.
wagyl wrote:Choko, they don't even give out snot rags. They only give out newsletters and leaflets trumpetting their achievements and policies.
They don't come to your front door and shake your hand, for fear that they will slip you a little something.
The origin of this rule was the US Occupation, but the way, to foster healthy democracy.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/1 ... ed-quirky/
chokonen888 wrote:
Sorry, my FG-mind can't comprehend that paper/plastic fans covered in advertising could be considered "a gift" and yet still be written off as an advertising expense. (or that one would want to vote for someone because they received said fan) Regardless of the method though, seems like a good thing she has "resigned."
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was Thursday dealing with another ministerial accounting scandal, after the office of newly appointed trade minister Yoichi Miyazawa admitted it had paid ¥18,230 to a sadomasochism sex show bar in Hiroshima.
Kyodo News first reported the scandal, citing an entry in Miyazawa’s official political fund report for 2010.
The ¥18,230 was paid to Mazan, an adult-entertainment bar in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward. The bar offers visitors a live S&M show featuring a woman in underwear tied up in ropes. Enthusiasts are invited to join in.
Reporters performing due diligence confirm that at least one blog on the Internet carries images of the scene.
“It came right out of the blue,” Miyazawa told reporters at his ministry later Thursday. “I swear I didn’t go there . . . I’ve never even heard of the bar’s name.”
Shigeru Muta, a secretary to Miyazawa, told The Japan Times that the expense arose when a member of the office staff went to the bar privately. He underscored that the visit did not involve the minister.
Miyazawa is an Upper House member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a nephew of former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
Muta said the expense was “very inappropriate” and that Miyazawa’s office intends to recover the money from the staffer. It may also amend its political funds report declaration.
The revelation is particularly embarrassing for Abe’s Cabinet because it was only Miyazawa’s third day on the job. He replaced Yuko Obuchi, who resigned on Monday after only seven weeks in the post, brought down by her own office’s allegedly shady spending of political funds.
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Meanwhile, the chief accountant of Miyazawa’s office is unlikely to be punished under the Political Funds Control Law because the amount of the expense was so small and the name of the bar and the amount of the expense were correctly recorded, said Hiroshi Kamiwaki, professor of law at Kobe Gakuin University.
Russell wrote:Well, he is doing the right thing. Let a staffer take the blame...
Reporters performing due diligence
Wage Slave wrote:Is this taxpayers money or "his" money - or at least money donated by his supporters to be used as he sees fit.
Same question about the fans. The problem was not misuse of public funds - it was the fact she used her own (or her supporters donated) money to do something that could be seen as buying votes.
In the wake of former trade minister Yuko Obuchi's resignation last month over dubious political funds reports from 2008 to 2012, a report released Wednesday shows more than 8.14 million yen in unexplained expenses by her support groups in 2013 and around 950,000 yen spent on "potatoes."
The discrepancy was found in the 2013 income and expenditure report on political funding tabled by the electoral management committee of Gunma Prefecture in eastern Japan, home to Obuchi's constituency.
According to the report, Obuchi's support group and the chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party in her district posted expenses of almost 19 million yen on tickets and other costs for organizing trips to theater nights and baseball games in 2013, but listed only about 11 million yen in takings from these events.
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