The 2-Belo wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
> 
>>> Didn't one of the old guys in Tokyo get woozy from the heat and sort of melt
>>> right there on his truck? The foreign media were *all* over that one.
>> Don't recall that particular incident, but there have been a bunch of 
>> them recently.  Lots of people are touchy about any politician falling 
>> down after Obuchi collapsed and died while in office.  
> 
> (It's all good though, in his case; his daughter got elected this time.)

Ever met her?  She's smart and "nice" in a way that "nice" girls from 
Catholic school are "nice."  Sort of the starched white blouse / 
too-long blue wool skirt / blue sweater / sensible shoes type.  Doesn't 
reach my personal level of PILF-iosity but she's sort of chirpy and cute 
... and actually makes sense when she talks.

>> The other surprising thing ... for me, at least ... is some of the stories I hear 
>>from the cops about the number of knives they take away from people 
>> during political speeches and the sizes of some of the knives they take 
>> away.
> 
> And their fear is not unfounded because such a thing has precedent:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM

The Asanuma assassination is famous mostly for the photos.  the right 
wingers all seem to have it on their web sites since it was snuffing an 
evil leftie.

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CL