Ex-Tokyo Performance Doll member Chizuru Tanaka arrested for stimulant drug use

Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday announced the arrest of entertainer Chizuru Tanaka, 33, for violating the stimulants control law, reports Nikkan Sports (Nov. 29).

Tanaka is suspected of using drugs between August and September. According to the Tachikawa Police Station, the results of a urine analysis of Tanaka were positive. The entertainer was taken into custody at her home-office in Shibuya Ward on November 25.

“There is no doubt that I used drugs,” she is quoted by police. Investigators are now attempting to determine the route in which Tanaka obtained the drugs.

Tanaka is probably best known for being a member of the J-pop group Tokyo Performance Doll.

In 1992, Tanaka received a singing award at the sixth Japan Beautiful Girl Contest, which formed the start of her career in show business. Notables also taking awards that year were Aiko Sato (Grand Prix) and Ryoko Yonekura (Jury Prize).

An entertainment insider tells Nikkan Sports that Tanaka was a member of the modeling section at an agency. “Because she wasn’t so tall, jobs were scarce,” the source says. “So once she joined Tokyo Performance Doll, she stopped work at the agency. She did some work on television variety shows. Rumors also were going around about various relationships with men.”

Source http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2011/11/29/ex-tokyo-performance-doll-member-chizuru-tanaka-arrested-for-stimulant-drug-use/

Gray areas of Journamalism

The military has finally admitted that they paid Iraqi newspapers to carry positive news about the US efforts in Iraq. I know that if this had been bloggers, we'd have had a blogger ethics panel convened on our asses so quick it woulda made our heads spin.

South California statehood movement gathers momentum

The effort to break off 13 southern and eastern counties from California and create a new state called South California is gaining momentum.

The advocates of South California have put up a web site called “California Rebellion 2012” and called for a summit meeting of potential South California supporters.

The advocates of South California cannot stand the liberal Democrat policies of a state run by Los Angeles, San Francisco and liberal coastal areas.

Sort of the opposite of what is ...

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Pat Buchanan: "And the Pentagon and our guys over there have got every right to have good news put into the media and get to the people of Iraq, even if it's got to be planted or bought."

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

OMG...Actual Progress?

Parliament cleared the way Wednesday for provincial elections this year that could give Sunnis a stronger voice and usher in vast changes to Iraq's power structure.

A joint statement in Baghdad by the U.S. Embassy and American forces "warmly" congratulated the Iraqis on the legislation and called it a "significant commitment to address important issues and find political bases on which to move forward."

Debate on the provincial election measure was raucous and ended in an 82-82 tie, broken by parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni. Tuesday night, he threatened to disband the legislature and call early elections because lawmakers had been unable to compromise or even maintain a quorum.

Well kiss my fuzzy wittle tail...

Tweety's Hate Hillary Campaign

MSNBC is still allowing Chris Matttews to use his show to sabotage a Presidential political campaign. How much longer are they going to allow this misogynistic mental midget to use their network as a platform for revenge? Tweety constantly denigrates female politicians on his show and has for years, and since his meaningless apology he has only increased his attacks. On Morning Joe today his childish petulance shown through...

McCain's Insane...

Eugene Robinson

"The Democratic candidates are impolite enough to point out that the losses suffered by al-Qaeda in Iraq, which Bush and McCain love to cite, are really the vanquishing of a foe that could never have existed without the U.S. invasion. The Democrats also recognize that while U.S. forces are bogged down in Iraq, al-Qaeda is regrouping in Pakistan and plotting new attacks. They learned this from the Bush administration's own intelligence estimates.

The war is only one issue on which McCain, as the all-but-certain Republican nominee, is out of step with voters. Health care is another: While Clinton and Obama have offered far-reaching proposals to make health insurance available to millions of uninsured Americans, Republicans aren't offering so much as a bandage.

Or take the economy, which at present is the biggest issue in the campaign (and which McCain famously said he doesn't really understand that well). The Democrats have tapped into the widespread discomfort and insecurity that polls indicate many Americans feel, while McCain and the Republicans can only talk about more tax cuts and the eternal glory of free and unfettered markets.

Message: We don't care."

Eugene has a nice Op-ed up today, I recommend it...