SOMA, Japan - I was supposed to be flying over the Pacific that day, back to a world of stable ground and familiar comforts. Instead, I was crammed into the back of a taxi heading toward a nuclear meltdown and fretting about how much radiation I would ingest.
The cab driver, Yoskiko, left her window open as we hugged the curves of a winding mountain road leading to Soma, a coastal city in northeastern Japan first rocked by a 9.0 earthquake, then ransacked by a tsunami and now near the epicenter of a possible nuclear disaster. The cabbie chatted in Japanese about why the people here politely wait in lines, how the government understates the death toll and how she thinks it will be three weeks before Fukushima City gets water again.
As the translator relayed this, I scribbled it all down in case it might help my husband, Washington Post reporter Rick Maese, write an article for his newspaper.
The car radio announced the death toll had reached 4,000 with another 10,000 missing. Traffic had cleared on the roads to the disaster area since there was no gasoline to be found for 100 miles. The cab driver also was running low on gas, having spent the previous day ferrying tsunami victims from shelters deep in the devastated areas.
"It's difficult to say that it's a good thing their lives are saved because their houses are gone," she said.
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Biden is just another lackey politician who knows most Americans can't even name the 3 branches of government and are stupid enough to believe whatever he says, under the banner of "if you say something (usually a lie) often enough, people will believe it". A Democrat-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate and a Democrat President and THEY pushed through all this spending. Those are the FACTS. Now they are blaming someone else?? It's only the beginning of the Democrats election whine --- WE didn't make this mess. It was those nasty, greedy, racist Republicans! Four years and we STILL can't get the car out of the ditch!! Dont' look at the facts. Just believe us when we say WE didn't do it!! Except for the good stuff---we did all that.
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