Lord Dartmouth comments

Jimizo, you know the answers, but you don't want to know. If you're really interested, you could study it for free on the Internet. Man was created with free will. Man fell, just as some of the angels did. That's the thing about free will; we are free to make mistakes. This is not particularly about gay people. We all suffer the effects of original sin. To take an extreme example, would you say, 'So he created some men with the desire to rape women, but disapproves of them doing so despite having created them with the desire to do so in the first place?'

Whether you like it or not, we are put on this earth to work out our salvation. That involves restraining our appetites sometimes. Modern man, in his antinomianism, hates this idea above all others. It applies to heterosexuals as well as homosexuals.

I guess he's going to visit Beau's grave. He was killed in Nam, as far as I remember.....

I'm surprised he didn't say 'South Vietnam'.

Best to avoid coffee altogether if you want to have a nap, one would have thought. Or, at the very least, make it decaff.

God created gay people, yes, but he also created all of us, and we are all sinners. The logical fallacy is to suppose that because he created us, he must necessarily approve of everything we do. That's not the case. He loves all of us, but says, 'If you love me, keep my commandments' (John 14:15).

Note the last paragraph. AP just couldn't resist a little slap against Musk. This is the level of mainstream 'journalism' these days.

If they really want to find out the truth for themselves, they will come to the conclusion that carbon dioxide is not a problem for humanity because it doesn't drive climate change and never has done.

Because it's a pretty regular summer. Admittedly, there's an El Nino, but basically it's like any other summer I've experienced here for over 30 years: a sweaty mess.

It's a summer like any other, though with an El Nino tacked on. Big deal.

Funny how when it's cold, it's just 'weather'; when it's hot, it's 'Global Boiling'.

It's so much fun to see all the meltdown over Musk, and now he's killed their beloved little blue bird. There's a hilarious article on the BBC site today, 'Why Twitter’s rebrand to X feels 'shocking' to users'. Just to give a taster: 'Tech Reporter Casey Newton described Musk’s approach as owner of Twitter as “an extended act of cultural vandalism”.' And: “I think there was a true affinity for Twitter and the brand by their power users,” says California-based Orlando Baeza, chief revenue officer at Flock Freight, and a former marketing executive and branding leader at Buzzfeed, Paramount, Activision, Adidas and Nike. “This is a dramatic and unexpected turn. Their brand identity went from feeling warm and welcoming to dark and members-only. And to top it off, this all happened overnight. Literally.” 

LITERALLY! Boy, are these folks unhappy!

GBR48 just couldn't help taking a swipe at Brexit, could he? Seven years on, and still scarred!

I'm always astonished at the moaning about 'too many foreign tourists'. People need to take a look at London, Paris, or even Cambridge which I know well. They all take it in their stride, with volumes of tourists way beyond Japan's imagination.

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Look at the recent news from the UK: 1000 robberies from shops are committed in broad daylight EVERY DAY, and no one can do anything about it because the police aren't interested and the judges don't take it seriously either. Set the bar high, like Singapore, and watch how crime plummets.

Totally agree, Hervé

And here's some interesting data when people tell you it's so much hotter in Japan than it was 20 years ago:

August 2002

Max: 37.2°C

Average: 31.2°C

August 2022

Max: 36.1°C

Average: 31.29°C

The argument that there must be other life out there because the universe is so darned large has always seemed bogus to me. It's an emotional reaction to the extraordinary and unlikely reality of our existence, and completely lacking in any scientific value. I understand why many people think this way, but I await the evidence.

Just a quick fact-check: cold weather kills TEN TIMES more people every year than hot weather does. You'd never know that if you relied on the mainstream mass media for your news.

El Nino. Yawn.

Desert Tortoise, I've always wondered why Americans say 'including, but not limited to'. Just curious. Surely 'including' is sufficient.

Embarrassing.

Disinformation? Nope, sorry. I've seen enough of this nonsense and I've made up my own mind. Good try, but no.

Leave Crimea alone. They want to be Russian, so let them be. Self-determination and all that.

Bwexit, bwexit, bwexit. Yes, thank God we were EU members during our industrial revolution and for a century afterwards, when we led the world in scientific development. Oh wait....

This 'crime' is based on the technicality that the children were taken from Ukrainian territory to Russian territory; that's all. Never mind that the families and kids are Russian-speaking, don't want to live under the nationalist regime of Kiev, and are asking that their kids be taken to Russia for their own safety. Never mind all that: we are seriously asked to believe that the Russian government 'kidnapped' 700,000 children! This is exactly why faith in our western governments and media is waning. We are constantly being lied to, and being told only one side to every story.

NATO expansion? Again??? But we're always told it's just a fluffy association, sitting there minding its own business. It definitely played an important role during the Cold War (and I served in the UK armed forces during that time), but it should have been disbanded on the same day that the Warsaw Pact was disbanded, 1 July 1991. All it seems to do now is stir up trouble and bomb small/poor countries like Libya and Serbia.

Never, ever release this disgusting creep.

It is simply astonishing to see the bile from the remoaners here. The NHS has been a mess for ages. It's simply wasn't designed to cope with millions of new arrivals. During the time I've been living in Japan, the population has increased by 10 million! However much money gets thrown at it (and the Tories throw them enormous sums), it keeps getting worse. But it's all the fault of the xenophobic Brexiteers, apparently!

Get over it; you lost.

There are plenty of sources, but every time I provide them, I get ignored or palmed off with some lame appeal to other experts. The climate warming alarmists simply cannot accept that there could be any possible dissenting opinion.

Climate nears point of no return...

Sorry, no one is buying this junk science any more.

Zelenskyy wants ideas, not obedience

I'm not sure how much the writer knows about Ukraine, but this is the man who has literally banned opposition parties and suspended elections.

The problem is not so much the law but how the police have been interpreting it. They allow the left to get away with absolutely everything, and even enable their appalling behaviour. They wear 'pride' symbols and gallivant with people who are quite open about their desire to corrupt our children. They have totally given up on catching real criminals, such as rapists or burglars and spend all their time monitoring people's social media accounts.