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Of course,  having been to Tokyo a few times, I've visited the Yasukuni Shrine.  Dedicated in 1869, by the Emperor Meiji, to commemorate the military-dead in the service of Japan, 2.4 names are inscribed.  It's a Shinto Shrine, mostly open-air, you can see Shinto Priests moving-about inside, and the Japanese kneel on the outside, I of course, didn't get too-close, maybe stood 30 yards away.  Absurdly, it's become a pariah for high Japanese government-officials.  Dec. 26, 2013, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese PM, paid his respects, and was widely denounced by the U.S. and other Asian countries, as among the names inscribed are 1068 considered to be WW 11 war-criminals.  2 million of the Japanese armed-forces died during WW 11, mostly the sons of the rice-farmers, and the Shrine is honoring their memory as they died in the service of Japan, it matters not if they died from bullets or being hung by the Americans, for high Japanese officials not to go here would be odd, as is the current-situation.   Go to the right a hundred yards and there's The Yushukan, dedicated in 1882, it's Japan's oldest war-museum, and it's cracker-jack.  For the most-part it deals with Japan's military accomplishments from the winning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, to the conclusion of WW 11 in 1945.  The lightly-armored Japanese "Zero", the A6M, made by Mitsubishi, was much the superior-plane during the War in the Pacific, until 1943, when the Americans introduced the Hellcat, and they have a Zero inside the Museum.  It had 2 20 millimetre cannons on the wings, and 2 fixed 7.7 millimetre machine guns.  In another exhibit, they had one of these machine guns displayed, gazing at it while an old Japanese guy was there, he glanced up at me with an air of experience  ...excellent gun...

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LaVell Edwards, highly-successful football coach at Brigham Young for 29 seasons, has died at "86".  Becoming head-coach in 1972 at a traditionally-moribund football school, LaVell installed a dynamic passing-attack, bringing in quarterbacks such as Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Ty Detmer, Robbie Bosco, and Marc Wilson, for the trigger.  In 1984, LaVell's team went 13-0, and then beat Michigan in the Holiday Bowl, to give a Mormon school in the middle of nowhere, a National Championship.  LaVell, one of 14 children, leaves his wife of 65 years, Patti, and 3 children.  Called by Orrin Hatch  ...a humble but confident leader...  He'll be missed

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...Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted--8th Amendment   Nobody is in there because they're escape-artists, they're there to punish them more than other convicts, which violates the U.S. Constitution.  SuperMax should be shut-down and the prisoners distributed amongst other federal prisons.  Get your fat-butts behind this and do the right-thing for once

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The Clark County Public Libraries (Las Vegas), were closed for Thanksgiving, and the day-after, and were closed for Christmas, and the day-before, the 2 unnecessary-days they get-off, are times when most of the Public have it off, and would flock to the Library, if they could.  The Library Employees rather than public-servants are self-serving

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I've offered my valuable-ability, and expect it to be utilized.  To the Media, thanks a lot for telling everybody how bad I am

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The Harvard Alumni Association apologized for publishing in their report of the Awards and Achievements of the Class of 1962, Ted Kaczynski's notation  ...Eight Life Sentences...  This upset many of their Alumni.  Ted, by showing how incompetent the FBI is, them unable to stop him from bombing with impunity for 17 years, a long time, showed that they were sort-of worthless.  Should Don listen to their mindless-blabber, his mind would-be weirded-out for the rest of the day.  As President, he needs to think clear-thoughts.  I received a letter from an official at SuperMax, in which was enclosed the twenty I had sent Ted along with my Christmas Card, as he's not allowed to receive-money.  They open and examine all the mail, the letter said that he received a similar-letter regarding this, and that he received my card.  I'm flattered that Dr. Kaczynski would take my Christmas Cards for the past few years.  Perhaps, we can improve conditions at SuperMax as Robert Hood, Warden from 2002 to 2005, said  ...In my opinion, it's far much worse than death...

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Once again my popularity in Russia is great, I think I might go to Moscow and St. Pete this Spring, tho pain to get a visa, should I, Vlad, are you gonna have me over for tea?  Yesterday, at 5 A.M., when it opened, I went to the nearby McDonald's, for their Big Breakfast (I ask for 2 syrups), coffee, and a newspaper.  I asked the manager, kidding, if she was getting triple-time  In an Eastern European accent ...they are very cheap...