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It seems that some of Bush’s hometown support is waning…

One of the benefits of being an American living abroad, is that you get a new viewpoint on your home country. This is why I have comet “It’s national pride. They want their country standard to be the international standard.” Ellen Matten, international issues analyst for the U.S. Codex Office, on Japan’s reaction to a soy sauce dispute with the U.S. which wants all soy sauces created the same way.

Japan Today - News - Saitama man dies after being bitten by hamster - Japan’s Leading International News Network: “Saitama man dies after being bitten by hamster Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:59 JST TOKYO — A man in his 40s from Saitama Prefecture fell into a coma after being bit on the finger by his pet hamster in February and subsequently died, his doctor said Monday. The man, who was asthmatic, fell into anaphylactic shock, — a life-threatening allergic reaction — after being bitten. He bred hamsters over the past several years and was bitten several time, the doctor said. He is believed to be the first person in Japan to die from a hamster bite.

Overseas Voter Website Censored by U.S. Government : “The International Herald Tribune reported on September 20th that “the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.” Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke confirmed that a number of Internet service providers worldwide had been blacklisted “to thwart hackers.” Such measures are generally recognized to be ineffective against hackers while blocking legitimate users.”

While we were in Tokyo a few weeks back, we spent an afternoon at Tokyo Disneyland. While everybody else was crowded around waiting for the Parade of Lights, my son and I ran from ride to ride trying to get as many in as possible while everybody else was distracted.
We started out by making our second trip to the “Its A Small World” ride for the day.

“Now I’ve been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be, something good has begun Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again”  Apparently it will not be the Peace Train taking Cat Stevens home again this time… He has been taken into custody at Bangor International Airport and will be sent back to London immediately.

I was just reading JJ’s blog when I noticed that she had some blogs that I knew in her blogroll. I took this to mean that she may have similar interests, so I clicked a random link in the list: Burning in the Desert. There I found something that gave me a chuckle, but that was not properly attributed on that site, so I did a quick search for “if i duck tape 2 turtles together they are unstoppable” ,