(Tokyo Station in 2007)President Mr. Bush and Prime Minister Mr. Aso
Last night I saw Mr. Bush in a dream.
He was playing table tennis.
With whom? It is a top secret. But he seemed to win.
Of course, I saw somebody else sometimes in a dream, too, if not Joan of Arc.
SECTION I: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
First, following are pieces of information that have captured my attention.
1) Lovers of coffee love Mr. Obama while Wal-Mart shoppers have a good opinion of Mr. McCain.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94973392
2) Obama-supporting Hispanics are expected to make up only about 6.5% of those who actually turn out to vote next November.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/652/hispanics-2008-election
3) There is a claim widely circulated over the Internet that Lehman Brothers was abandoned to help Mr. McCain in the Presidential Election.
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Yet, the largest key to determining the outcome of the 2008 Presidential Election seems now to be the $700 billion bailout plan, since the NYSE index plummeted about 777.7 points due to the rejection of the plan by the House of Representatives.
In other word, I think that the result of the Presidential Election depends on how the incumbent Republican President Mr. George W. Bush would continue to work out so that the financial crisis will be contained, providing a sense of economic security for American citizens and voters.
It is no more rhetoric, speeches, addresses, or gestures of Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama that will decide the next President but how President Mr. Bush would contribute to stabilization of the economic situations.
After seven and a half years in his presidency, President Mr. George W. Bush is facing the real test time as he was in the wake of the 9/11 Terror.
His good job will lead to voters giving more credit to the Republican Presidential candidate Mr. McCain.
Coffee lovers, Hispanics, and stock holders might lend more credence to reasonably expected ability of another Republican President.
In summary, it is still President Mr. George W. Bush that finally holds the key in the 2008 Presidential Election, not only in terms of the War on Terror but more also in terms of the War on the possible Great Depression (and Wall Street).
SECTION II: JAPAN'S GENERAL ELECTION
Now many non-nonsense critics and pundits in Japan are requesting the early general election with expectation of a regime change, namely from the LDP dominant cabinet to the DPJ dominant cabinet.
But, I have other idea.
As the LDP presidential election took one month, namely almost entire September, if Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso holds a snap election expected to take almost a month including some arrangements and post-election settlement, this year would be a year immersed in elections.
Specifically, two months in 2008 would be spent for political circuses in Japan.
It is not desirable.
At present, the result of the next general election, if called immediately, is predicted as being a draw between the ruling parties (the LDP and the New Komeito) and the opposition parties (the DPJ and so on).
If both the LDP and the DPJ cannot, or even can, claim victory in the same manner after the election, the situation will be more troublesome than before the election.
I hope that both the parties will sincerely concentrate on legislation and administration until Japanese voters clearly indicate their intention as to their choice between the LDP and the DPJ.
However, the power to dissolve the Lower House of the Diet belongs to the Japanese Prime Minister.
So, it depends upon how Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso decides the matter.
But, one thing sure after the next election is that the ruling parties will lose the power to pass whatever bill even if the opposition-occupying Upper House rejects it, though currently they have a two-thirds majority in the Lower House that gives them an overriding power over the Upper House.
Maybe Japanese voters simply want the ruling parties to lose this power, so that the LDP and DPJ will fully negotiate any bill with one another.
In this case, with almost the same number of seats held by the LDP and the DPJ but allowing the LDP to form a cabinet, the real political power might be taken by DPJ, paradoxically.
Nonetheless, Japanese leaders in the business community and the financial sector must not like either case.
I think that leading businessmen and financiers in Japan share the same view with me, at least for the time being or till we see how the next U.S. President will work out as much as or more than President Mr. Bush.
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That is all for today.
On December 24, 2007, I wrote:
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On February 22, 2007, I wrote in EEE Reporter:
"According to a recent astronomical study, a great eclipse of Jupiter by the new moon or the crescent occurred, in a manner that captured great attention of then astrologers, that is, on the horizon, on March 20 and April 17, 6 B.C.
(In 6 B.C., a Roman Governor in Syria is said to have held a census count.)
There is also a description that the parents of Child Jesus traveled due to a census count, and gave His birth in a not so cold environment.
Therefore, Jesus Christ might have been born in April 17, 6 B.C."
But, it also looks like an authentic thought that Jesus was born on the 360th day of the year and also in the 12th month of the year, since he had a duty to glorify Abraham and other ancestors, namely descendants of the Sumerian Civilization that had introduced the duodecimal calculation method, that is, based on the base number 12 or 60.
Then we have two Jesus' born on December 25, 7 B.C. and April 17, 6 B.C., respectively.
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Indeed numbers are always mysterious, though we have usually five fingers on each hand.
The 9/11 Terror and the 777.7 point fall of The Dow Jones industrial average might be very significant.
We had better check CHAPTER 7 as we did CHAPTER 9 of a certain book of the Gospel.
(No super rich man could buy out Paris, either, no matter if he wants to appropriate the fabulous city to himself or make a killing in tourism; then what value does money have while you love Paris so much if you live in New York or Tokyo?:
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/champselysees.html )
Rev 7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Rev 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Rev 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.