(Night Fuji on November 23, 2008; Click to enlarge.)
FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY
Yesterday, Sunday, it was already 4 p.m. and getting dark.
Yet, I took a routine course via a post office to the holy river side.
Around 5 p.m. the sky was getting so dark and around 5:30 p.m. I was watching Venus and Jupiter, as Mt. Fuji was almost on the linear line linking the two overwhelmingly bright planets in the evening sky westward over the Kanto Plain in this deep autumn.
SECTION I: Terror in Tokyo
The middle-aged Japanese man who killed a former administrative vice minister of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and his wife sent a message via the Internet to a TV station in Tokyo prior to surrendering himself to the police.
The man, living alone without a job according to media reports, claimed that the Ministry kills half a million cats and dogs every year when keepers abandon them or the public office forces them to do so, which he cannot tolerate.
He also emphasized that it was not terror and he had no intention to run away and hide.
On the other hand, one bureaucrat of the Japanese Government wrote in his blog that an official should be allowed to wear a mask and use a pseudonym at work on duty to hide his identification for his safety.
(http://www.seri.sakura.ne.jp/~branch/diary.shtml )
Yet, as the culprit was arrested, the elite bureaucrat is now mostly wondering if a lucrative offer of a new post will be made to him in the near future as usual.
SECTION II: Hillary as Secretary of State
Will the new position make Mrs. Clinton richer?
Or will the decision to include Mrs. Clinton in the Cabinet make Mr. Obama look more thoughtful?
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THE BIG QUESTION, Nov. 21 — ATR President Grover Norquist
The Big Question for Friday, Nov. 21: Will Hillary Clinton work well as a member of President-elect Obama’s cabinet if she is selected to run the State Department? (See all responses here.)
Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform: Having deposed the heir apparent in the 2008 elections, Obama is very generous to bring Hillary into his cabinet. Here he mirrors the generosity of Julius Cesar who unlike Sulla refused to engage in retribution and accepted into his government men such as Cicero, Brutus and Cassius.
http://blog.thehill.com/the-big-question-nov-21-grover-norquist/
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Yes, Brutus is also well known in Japan, too.
SECTION III: "Thank You Sir, Your Majesty President"
On this Sunday morning, I unusually watched a political discussion program on TV moderated by Mr. Soichiro Tahara, the No. 1 veteran TV journalist in Japan.
To my surprise, they showed a video of Mr. Tahara’s interviewing President Mr. George W. Bush at the White House that had been conducted just before the President’s flying to Peru for the APEC meeting held yesterday or so.
As Mr. Tahara is fairly older than President Mr. Bush, his speaking very Japanese English did not look like irreverent behavior at all before the American President.
At the end of the interview, Mr. Tahara declared the end of the session, saying, “OK!”
Then the President replied, “Thank you, sir!”
Mr. Tahara said in the live TV program yesterday, “President Bush was a nice guy.”
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This morning the U.S. military radio station situated around Tokyo broadcast a joke show on the bailout plan for the Big Three auto manufacturers.
Indeed, if the U.S. Congress ordered and purchased from the Big Three cars and vehicles with the budget of $25 billion and distributed them to voters in every constituency, the Big Three would get profits, voters would get new cars for free, and people in the Congress would be reelected receiving so much appreciation.
Anyway Iraq is the oldest home town for Christians in the world today, since Abraham’s brother died in a great city of southern Iraq 4016 years ago, in my humble presumption.
It is not a car but a war that would test a navigator capability of Mr. Barack Obama, the next U.S. President.
Gen 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Gen 11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Gen 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Gen 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.