Kitano, whose yakuza gangster films are popular around the world, enraged activists with his comments on a popular current affairs show as guests were being asked for their opinions on Barack Obama’s stance on gay marriage.
“Obama supports gay marriage. You would support a marriage to an animal eventually, then,” Kitano said after being shown footage of people celebrating the US president’s comments.
Homosexuality in Japan is widely accepted but not openly discussed.
Maybe he was joking, in that stonefaced way that he sometimes does?
Gotta find that video…
AP:
More than 200 pages of photos and eyewitness accounts released by prosecutors Thursday show he and Martin were in a loud and bloody fight in the moments leading up to the shooting and that Zimmerman appeared to be getting the worst of it, with wounds both to his face and the back of his head.
But how can that be? Trayvon was an angel!
“THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS!”
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/96434.php
Just days after US President Barack Obama came out in favour of gay marriage, another supporter of homosexual unions emerged in Japan: Mickey Mouse. Despite their having no legal status, same sex couples are able to hold fairytale wedding ceremonies at hotels inside the popular Tokyo Disney Resort, including at the Cinderella Castle, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
News of the unions came to light when Koyuki Higashi, 27, enquired about marrying her female partner at the resort. A member of staff who answered the call said there would be no problem with their marrying, provided they dressed “like a man and a woman”, Higashi wrote on her blog.
The staff member explained a same-sex wedding would create “repercussions” among visitors to the park if both brides were wearing wedding dresses or both grooms wore tuxedoes, the blog added.
Sure gays can have a ceremony here! Wait what? They’re both wearing gowns/tuxes?!? FAUX PAS!
http://www.ktbs.com/news/FBI-Fugitive-dead-two-sisters-alive/-/144844/13051264/-/it3jdc/-/
Adam Mayes — accused of murder and kidnapping in a case involving a Tennessee mother and her three daughters — has died, FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said late Thursday.
The two sisters he allegedly kidnapped were found… “alive and unharmed.”
Mayes and his wife, Teresa Mayes, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping.
Adam Mayes’ mother-in-law told HLN’s Nancy Grace on Thursday that he may have believed he was the father of the two young girls he was accused of abducting. “He believes they are his children…”
Adam Mayes’ mother, Mary Frances Mayes, has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping.
Always a huge relief to learn the kids weren’t kidnapped by a random pedo-stranger.
Always sad to learn it’s a parent who loved the kids but has been denied rights/access.
Mr. Obama’s announcement has little substantive impact — as an aide said, “It’s not like we’re trying to pass legislation.”
…the storage sites 4shared, VideoBB and VideoZer have all closed… UploadBox and x7.to are closing… Filesonic, Fileserve, FileJungle and UploadStation now forbid users from downloading any content they did not upload themselves…
Holy crap!
Torrent sites have been pretty resilient over the years but these direct-download sites (most of which I’d never even heard of) are dying like flies!
I would love to do iTunes Match — but not to have access to my music everywhere. I want all the stuff I ripped (in 1998~2002) at 160kbps mp3 to get upgraded to 246kbps AAC!
But there’s a couple worries, one being THE OBVIOUS, another being the 25,000 song limit (I have 35,000), and there’s also THE OBVIOUS again.
Apple’s still working out some bugs (some songs get ignored due to minute, inaudible corruptions; other songs that you don’t have end up in your account, and there’s been artwork hassles too)… so maybe I’ll wait til next year, and see if the RIAA sues anyone.
Some of my favorites from the Casually Pepper Spraying Everything Cop meme. More at http://www.occupythegame.com/lieutenant_john_pike/
If cops stopped showing up at these events, media wouldn’t come either, and then the protests would be silenced/neutered, AT NO COST! FYI, Powers That Be…
S&P downgrades USA, DOJ investigates S&P! Message received, other credit rating agencies?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/business/us-inquiry-said-to-focus-on-s-p-ratings.html
Copyright cases have typically been the mandate of the federal courts, however anti-piracy lawyers have now successfully pushed several cases through state courts, allowing them to subpoena Internet service providers for subscriber information by jumping through far fewer hoops than ever before.
If the trend continues, this could mean significantly more settlement letters being sent out, and more importantly for the lawyers, cost far less to pursue.
Anti-piracy lawyer Marc Randazza: “In my torrent cases, my defendants have to pay pretty high figures to get out of the case — because we put a lot of money and effort into the case. If there were an easier way to get in contact with the torrenters, then they would likely all get off much lighter.”
So torrenters are more likely to get letters/sued, but for less money? I’m trying to imagine a lawyer or movie/music company asking for less money, but… I just don’t have that powerful of an imagination…
This is shitty.
But the only surprising thing is that it only happens about once a year.
With all the disenfranchised citizens of the world — losing their homes, losing their jobs — wouldn’t you expect car bombs to be going off in front of banks almost daily, and overpaid CEOs and their families being shot at regularly, that sort of crap?
It’s a blessing I can take my kids to the park without wearing bulletproof vests.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic.
Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff.
Russian alcohol consumption is already twice the critical level set by the World Health Organization.
Although vodka has long been the traditional tipple in Russia, beer has soared in popularity, being marketed as a healthier alternative to spirits.
via Daring Fireball, via BBC
So much wrong!
According to the Consular Office of Japan in Saipan, Sawada attempted suicide while being restrained in the early evening of July 14th. Though he was transported to the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital, he is still unconscious.
Local media reported that Sawada was arguing with a female passenger, and is suspected for acting violently, as he hit the air plane window, and kicked the front seat on the air plane heading to Saipan. Reportedly, he also kicked a female crew member who was trying to stop him.
via Tokyohive
Women!
