I have been considering buying Yoko Ogawa's novels; she's Japanese. Well, I watched some Japanese flicks weeks ago. One of the movies features a farouche girl who owns a hotel that even provides sex toys for holiday makers; it's also a shelter for lonely souls.
She jibs at running this hotel at first, thinking that it's awful for a lass like her to mingle with flossy girls and randy men who are on the prowl. Then one day she meets a debonair salesman hawking sex toys and takes a liking to him. "I'm going to have a new life, she says blithely. Yet to her consternation, that seems not to be the case. A girl and her teacher are found dead in one hotel room adorned with a queen-sized bed, embroidered with lace-trimmed sheets.
Petrified, she calls the police. The salesman also turns up to help her come to terms with it. Elated, the girl sums up her courage to seduce the salesman. And the salesman is also receptive to accept the offer. He walks over to the bed and starts kissing her hotly while touching her body. Then he jumps off the bed and tells the girl that he can't get laid like this. " I'm married. I can't do it it since I have a wife, "says he disconsolately.
Making a moue, the girl rises up and peers at him, not knowing what to do. Dismayed, she decides to sell this hotel and leaves all the bad memorizes behind her. Days later, she packs up and strides towards the door. Then she spots an old painting left by someone in the room, with old memories overwhelming her. She drew this painting when she was still a little girl, and her dad told her that he's so proud of her. "I could have been a painter, " she says to herself. ”It could have been a different life. Why?" Her life has changed lots over the years: her mom left her dad for another man; her dad became a self-loathing man; and she had to return to her hometown in order to earn her keep.
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
He doesn't have the political power to go to war with them. The Democratic Party did abysmally in the '20 election, losing state houses left and right and giving the GOP the chance, once again, to control redistricting. Sure, people voted Trump out of office but that didn't translate into Democratic seats in Congress. Biden doesn't even have enough support among the Democrats to repeal the f***ing filibuster. The Democrats don't have enough support in the country to elect sixty senators. And in red states where the Republicans might be vulnerable they simply make it difficult for Democrats to vote, and give their state governments the power to overturn elections which
don't go their way. Pretty slick.
I know that. But he is wasting his political capital and looking weak. He acts as if he doesn't know the Republicans have no intent to pass anything he wants ever. He could do some things without congress such as cancel student debt. He didn't have to up the military budget. Democrats don't have to bail out one of the richest men on Earth's space program. Democrats instead of pushing for law enforcement reform gave the police more money. He has no cross words for Democrats who help Republicans block him. Once people get used to things getting almost like they were before Trump only amazingly still Trump-like they are not going to be happy.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:He could do some things without congress such as cancel student debt.
Can he though? What is the argument that he has this authority?
edgarblythe wrote:He didn't have to up the military budget.
That is a good thing. We need a strong military to protect ourselves.
edgarblythe wrote:Democrats don't have to bail out one of the richest men on Earth's space program.
Awarding a contract to a company to produce space vehicles is hardly a bailout.
And it is not necessarily a given that he would even receive the contract. Dynetics is also in the running for it.
edgarblythe wrote:Democrats instead of pushing for law enforcement reform gave the police more money.
More money for the police is good. The police protect us from the bad guys.
I believe I've heard something on the news about a strong push for law enforcement reform.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:But he is wasting his political capital and looking weak.
I disagree. He just looks like Joe Biden. But if you really want him to fight, he needs an army behind him. Vote Democratic in '22.
@hightor,
If they fight for the people I vote for them. If they diddle around all the time I look elsewhere.
@edgarblythe,
I little too much tRump-light!
Matt Walsh launches fundraiser for AOC's 'abuela' after Dem blamed Trump for home damage from Hurricane Maria
The Dem 'Squad' member had recently visited her grandmother's home in Puerto Rico
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh is taking matters into his own hands after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appeared to blame former President Trump for the poor conditions of her grandmother's home following Hurricane Maria.
On Tuesday, the Democratic "Squad" member took to Twitter following her visit to her "abuela" ("grandmother" in Spanish) for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak and documented the damage to her home that remained from the natural disaster in 2017.
"Just over a week ago, I went to Puerto Rico to see her- my 1st time in a year+ bc of COVID. This is her home," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted while sharing images of buckets on the floor catching leaking water and damage to the ceiling. "Hurricane María relief hasn’t arrived. Trump blocked relief $ for PR. People are being forced to flee ancestral homes, & developers are taking them."
She continued, "We immediately got to work reaching out to community advocates and leaders and following the money. What’s happening to Puerto Ricans is systemic. Much of it can be traced to La Junta, aka the Wall Street-connected fiscal control board that the US gave power to over the island."
Ocasio-Cortez accused the Trump administration of overseeing "millions in public $" being handed to "unqualified donor pals" and imposing "extremely difficult eligibility rules for Puerto Ricans, which allowed mass rejections of recovery fund applications."
"I want to be clear - while Trump admin had a major role, it wasn’t just them," the congresswoman wrote in the Twitter thread. "La Junta, local policies, etc were all on the same page: policies that pushed out local families. To turn this around, we need audits & get recovery relief to people ASAP, without the onerous strings. And for the record - my abuela is doing okay. It’s not about us, but about what’s happening to Puerto Rican’s across the island. She had a place to go to and be cared for - what about the thousands of people who don’t?"
At the time, Walsh reacted to her tweets saying, "Shameful that you live in luxury while allowing your own grandmother to suffer in these squalid conditions."
The Democrat fired back, "You don’t even have a concept for the role that 1st-gen, first-born daughters play in their families. My abuela is okay. But instead of only caring for mine & letting others suffer, I’m calling attention to the systemic injustices you seem totally fine w/ in having a US colony."
On Friday, Walsh launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to "Save AOC's Abuela's Ancestral Home."
"One cannot be certain of the cost to repair grandma’s house, but surely most of the work could be completed for the price of AOC’s shiny Tesla Model 3," Walsh wrote in the campaign description. "Sadly, virtue-signaling isn’t going to fix abuela’s roof. So we are.
Walsh continued, "Let’s all kick in to help save AOC’s abuela’s ancestral home. Any amount is appreciated, but the cost of a monthly lease payment on that Tesla is around $499… All proceeds will be donated to abuela, if she will accept them."
The Daily Wire personality promoted the fundraiser on Twitter, revealing he kicked off the fundraising with a $499 donation, which he stressed is the cost of a Tesla monthly lease payment.
The #HelpAbuela campaign has already attracted big-name donors including Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and Dave Rubin.
The campaign has already raised over $60,000 in just the span of four hours and continues rapidly accept donations.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
I'm skint, AOC. I can't help you. I still have to buy more novels for myself instead of helping you buy luxury goods.
Dailymail reported that the price tag of AOC's Tesla Model 3 is $35,000 . I could buy lots of novels with $35,000 . You sure she is a progressive? Wait, what's egalitarianism all about? Did Karl Marx promote hedonism in his books? Didn't Marx tell his readers to emancipate the have nots from capitalists' talons and rail against oppression.
$35,000? $35,000? $35,000?
Hi, tell me who's poorer, me or a progressive like AOC?
@neptuneblue,
You shut up. You progressives are crooks. You are richer than most white Americans
It's widely reported that Bernie Sanders has several houses.
@neptuneblue,
We'd like to take your Hamas down with our friends in Israel. You are just a poltroon working for a terrorist group.
Biden is also supportive of Israel. Hoooooo. He's our man. You progressives are defeatists.
@goldberg,
goldberg wrote:
You shut up. You progressives are crooks. You are richer than most white Americans
You shut up, you're not an American, white or otherwise.
@glitterbag,
I'm black. You can't trash me if you are white. Now off you go. This black man is going to read another novel. Hooooo
I'm proud to be black. Hooooooooo. It's okay for a black man to molest a girl because he is a member of BLM. Hoooooo
@goldberg,
goldberg wrote:Biden is also supportive of Israel. Hoooooo. He's our man. You progressives are defeatists.
Have you seen the new guy who might be about to replace Mr. Netanyahu?
He'll be relatively tame as long as he has to maintain a unity government. But I think if the left manages to topple Mr. Netanyahu in the next few days, they'll come to regret it once the new guy gets enough support to rule directly.
Bennett opposes the creation of a Palestinian state: "I will do everything in my power to make sure they never get a state."
He suggests a tripartition of the Palestinian territories, whereby Israel would unilaterally annex Area C, authority over the Gaza Strip would be transferred to Egypt, and Area A and Area B would remain with the Palestinian National Authority, but under the security umbrella of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet to "ensure quiet, suppress Palestinian terrorism, and prevent Hamas from taking over the territory".
Bennett also resists immigration of Palestinian refugees now living outside the West Bank, or the connection between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
In spite of his right-wing views against a Palestinian state, while engaged in coalition negotiations for a unity government together with Yair Lapid following the 2021 Israeli legislative election during which he was offered the Prime Ministership, Bennett agreed to a policy of not annexing any territory in the West Bank and to not build any new settlements while serving as Prime Minister in a potential unity government.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Bennett
They will treat you well one you claim to be another black man. I know you are not going to do that. I'd like to give a try.
@oralloy,
You got it. Only Netanyahu knows how to deal with Muslim terrorists.
