OK, I admit it, I haven’t kept up with this blog thing as well as I wanted to. My reasons are varied, complicated, and extremely convincing. Trust me. First of all, Internet access is disgustingly limited here in Japan. I know that seems strange for a country that is perceived by the rest of the world as half a step behind the Jetsons, but it's true. Specifically in rural areas like I find myself in. Far from the urban jungle of Tokyo, the school at which I am now employed is surrounded by rice patties.
The school is wonderful; sadly, it varies from the traditional model of a Japanese middle school. Not that I mind, but I was hoping to be exposed to the so called “normal” way of doing things so that I could bring that information back to the states in an attempt to improve our own flagging education system.
Anyway, I finally have Internet access at home, or at least I will when I send this, and I plan to make up for lost time. I’ve been keeping records of my adventures here and while they may not be the stuff of legend, I find them interesting and it’s my blog so there. Over the next few days, I will post one entry every 24 hours. These will cover my time here from March 20th, my date of arrival, to the current date, whenever that happens to be.
But before we get to that, I have to make both an apology and an retraction. In a previous post, I blamed Richard Nixon and his fear of appearing communist for the lack of an American health plan. That was wrong. Nixon look into expanding Medicare but it was actually Eisenhower who vetoed the idea of a national health plan. My bad.
Continuing on the interesting trail of politics. Did you know that Dick Cheney is no longer the Vice President of the United States? It's true, Dick Cheney doesn't work here anymore. That is to say, he is excusing himself from presidential orders regarding handing over his office's records because (you're going to love this) "Cheney's office claims it need not comply with the executive order because it is not an "entity within the executive branch.""
Now, if we think about this logically, we come to a wonderful conclusion. See if you follow me on this one:
1) Cheney has just said that he doesn't answer to W.
2) So he's not a part of the president's administration.
3) That means he's out of the presidential chain of succession.
4) That means everyone else gets bumped up a rank to fill in the gap, that means. . .
Nancy Pelosi is now Vice President!!!
OK, maybe not. But it does go to prove that W is so outside of reality that his own VP/ventriloquist doesn't pay attention to him anymore. Here's the link to the article I saw that prompted this flight of wishful thinking.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_secrecy
Meanwhile, back at our story, the first of the back articles, concerning the plane ride over here will be posted tomorrow.
Thank you for your patience while we address this problem and while the author is severely beaten about the head and shoulders by alien possessed chipmunks for neglecting his fans.
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