A wish...

Remorse...

Japanese public broadcaster NHK has obtained documents showing that former Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II and tried, unsuccessfully, to express his feelings by using the word "remorse" in a 1952 speech.

World War II, which ended with Japan's 1945 surrender following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was fought in the name of the emperor, who was considered divine.

After the war, the U.S. occupation allowed the emperor to stay on, although without any political powers but as a symbol of the state.

The documents show that Hirohito felt that, instead of surrender, he wished he had been able to end the war earlier. He also privately expressed horror at the atrocities committed by the Japanese military, according to the documents. But he also told Tajima that the military was so powerful that he couldn't influence it.

Hirohito died of cancer in 1989 at age 87. He was succeeded by his son Akihito, who recently abdicated, passing the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Naruhito. Both Akihito and Naruhito have publicly expressed remorse for the war.

Would anybody feel remorse about starting a war in the Middle East?

Expectancy...

Singapore extended support for older workers in the aging island nation.

The retirement age will be gradually raised to 65 from 62, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual National Day Rally speech. The re-employment age, where employers must offer work in the same organization, will rise to 70 from 67.

The city-state also will increase pension-contribution rates for workers so that by 2030, any worker age 60 or below will get the full rate, Lee said.

Singaporeans now have the longest life expectancy in the world at nearly 85 years, Lee said in his speech, adding that there are 1,300 centenarians among a population of less than 6 million

For All...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took a swipe at 2020 rival Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., going after his fellow senator for criticizing his "Medicare-for-all" plan while courting wealthy donors.

Harris had gone to the Hamptons over the weekend, where she told attendees at a campaign event that she has “not been comfortable” with Sanders' health care plan, even though she initially co-sponsored it.  

“I don't go to the Hamptons to raise money from billionaires,” Sanders tweeted. “If I ever visited there, I would tell them the same thing I have said for the last 30 years: We must pass a 'Medicare-for-all' system to guarantee affordable health care for all, not just for those who can afford it.”

Despite her previous support for Sanders’ plan, Harris now endorses having a private option for those who wish to continue with their current insurance plans.

Extortion...

Kathryn Mayorga has maintained that Ronaldo paid $375,000 in a settlement and confidentiality agreement after she accused him of sexual assault. The agreement is at the heart of a lawsuit Mayorga filed in state court in 2018 seeking to invalidate the agreement. The Portuguese footballer insists the encounter was consensual.  

Mayorga's lawsuit, which was refiled in federal court, asks the court to invalidate the 2010 agreement on the grounds that Ronaldo and his legal team took advantage of her fragile emotional state to coerce her into signing it.

Some details of the agreement had already come out in the lawsuit Mayorga filed last October, which accuses Ronaldo of battery for allegedly sodomizing her. Additional claims against him and his representatives include intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion and fraud and abuse of a vulnerable person.

Initially, she refused to identify Ronaldo to police, fearing public humiliation. Weeks later, when she named him in a police interview, a detective told her that she would face retaliation and her actions would be portrayed as extortion attempts.

Faded...

Robert Mueller's Russia report has largely faded from the airwaves less than a month after the former special counsel's high-profile congressional testimony, a possible warning sign to Democrats that most voters have lost interest in the probe.

In late July, discussion of Mueller's investigation and possible impeachment were largely absent as the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates debate.

Fading public interest in the Mueller probe would be an unwelcome development for House Democrats.

And while Mueller's day of testimony on the Hill fell flat in terms of providing a marketable moment for Democrats Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) has vowed to move forward with his committee's probe by holding public hearings with other key witnesses.

It seems that the politics is dancing to the liberal Media.  A day late and a dollar short.

Radical...

Recession...

Nothing like a recession that can bring a change of power in Washington.

Fake...

Valiery Portlock, 25, is charged with first-degree criminal impersonation of an officer, second-degree reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing from a police officer, and other traffic violations, in Nassau County, New York, according to Newsday.

The defendant, a resident of the hamlet of Hicksville, was driving a Nissan Sentra at about 11 a.m., cops said. He attempted to pull over an unmarked van by using an air horn and emergency lights, officers said. 

Surprise, surprise, there was electronic squad detectives inside. That van stopped, and the real police approach him with their shields, cops said.

Portlock is accused of making a less-than-graceful escape. He swerved onto oncoming traffic, and entered the Long Island Expressway at 85 mph, officers said. Highway patrol officers arrested him, cops said.

Dump...

Authorities say a Florida man used a front-end loader to dump a large bucket full of dirt on a car with his girlfriend inside.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Hunter Mills was charged with felony criminal mischief. The girlfriend was not hurt.

The sheriff's office says Mills invited his girlfriend to talk with him at a dirt pit in Crestview, Florida, where he worked. Officials say the girlfriend arrived in a white sedan owned by someone else, and after he asked her a question, he used a front-end loader to dump a mound of dirt atop the car.

The sheriff's offices posted a photograph on social media showing dirt piled atop the car and spilling across the driver's seat and elsewhere.