Bad Karma

Despite a massive infusion of taxpayers' money, all nine ex-Greenpia pension-funded resorts bled red ink in the first fiscal year after reopening, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

At eight facilities, local governments have spent a combined 854.86 million yen to help the struggling facilities get back on their feet.

The earnings results released by six of the facilities showed that accumulated losses totaled 690.55 million yen in fiscal 2006.

Your taxes at work. Money thrown down the pit all in a vain attempt to somehow turn Straw into Gold.

Bad Karma

Japan's shoreline is awash with trash. Estimated refuse from late October to early December last year came to some 26,000 tons, the equivalent of three days' worth of garbage produced by Tokyo's 23 wards.

A nationwide survey by the land and agriculture ministries turned up a total volume of about 148,000 cubic meters of shoreline trash nationwide.

Talk about loving nature. Loving it so much that you kill it. After all everyone one knows what all that sand was meant for a Public Landfill.

Taking a Break from the Karma

Overpaid, underachieving Osaka cops scoop 'Japan's worst police force' title
Osaka Prefecture's cops are the worst in the country, with data showing that they're not worth the money taxpayers are footing for them, according to Flash (5/8-15).

The men's weekly looked at each of Japan's 47 prefectural police forces and tried to determine whether they were worth what they are paid.

Used to calculate the findings were four factors - arrest rates, police costs per capita, average salary and number of public scandals reported

Osaka just pipped Tokyo to take the dubious title, its 16.9 percent arrest rate among the lowest in Japan even though its pay and police costs trailed only the capital as the highest in the country

Well: At least you know the public is getting its moneys worth in Osaka with those highly trained Keystone Cops

Good Karma

A 29-year-old former female employee of a software game developer won a lawsuit against her boss, who forced her to go out drinking after work. The Seoul High Court ruled yesterday that the 38-year-old boss should pay the woman 30 million won ($32,342) in compensation.
On the first day she joined the company in April 2004, she was forced to drink at a welcome party with her coworkers. She repeatedly turned down the alcohol, and her boss said she could ask a male coworker to drink for her, but she had to kiss the man in return. She said she had no choice but to drink three shots of soju.

While it wont stop these types of parties all together perhaps with this ruling these fools will think twice: Maybe they will even think once. That's asking an awful lot of idiots.

Really Good Karma U.S. President George W. Bush's approval rating has hit an all time low 28%. You're the man George don't give-up I know you can drive it lower.