Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 03/07/07

By Manila Ryce
Published Wednesday, March 7th, 2007, 6:29 am
Filed under: The Daily Connect, Personal Posts

  • If you thought the Japanese government was only in denial over their whaling program, have I got a story for you. Victims, witnesses, and former Japanese soldiers all acknowledge that up to 200,000 young girls throughout Asia were kidnapped and forced to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II. In a shocking denial of history, the PM of Japan said last week that there was no proof of such war crimes, and refused to apologize. Former “comfort women” from China, Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines have called for the PM to atone for his country’s past. The US House of Representatives is considering a non-binding resolution that would demand a formal apology from the Japanese government. The PM says he will still refuse to apologize even if the resolution passes.
  • What do you get for the person who has nothing? How about a teddy bear with a shirt that says “Good Neigh Bear”? At least that’s what 91-year-old Elizabeth Lynch got from State Farm Insurance after Hurricane Katrina collapsed her roof and her claim was denied. Maybe it was a load-bearing bear. At least it wasn’t a talking bass. Those things take up valuable non-talking bass wall space.
  • Researchers at the University of Bristol found that caffeine does not help make people alert as previously thought; it simply eases the withdrawal symptoms developed overnight. Professor Rogers says the alertness people feel from caffeine is just them getting back to normal. Yes, the wired coworker in the cubicle across from you is normally that scary and twitchy.
  • Yesterday, over 115 Shia pilgrims were killed in Iraq in a string of attacks. Today, at least five Sunni Pilgrims were killed and 14 were wounded. The latter is thought to be retaliation for the former. Earlier this week, 9 American soldiers were killed in two separate bomb attacks.
  • Juror Denis Collins in the Scooter Libby trial says Libby was a fall guy. Collins is now asking, “Where’s Rove? Where are these other guys?” Dick Cheney is somewhere in the woods right now with a rifle asking the same question.
  • Did you ever wonder why Super Mario Bros 2 was so different from the others in the series? Well originally it was a weird-ass game called Doki Doki Panic. The main characters were then replaced by traditional Mario characters so it would sell in America. TMK has screenshots to compare Doki Doki Panic, the Super Mario Bros 2 prototype, and the final Super Mario Bros 2 game. Visit the link if you don’t mind crying over the realization that a significant part of your childhood was all a lie.

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