Wife of New Japanese PM Is ******* Insane

[Kimpatsu]

Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of the new incoming Japanese Prime Minister, is total looneytunes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/03/miyuki-hatoyama-japan
Nancy Reagan consulted astrologers, and Cheri Blair underwent rebirthing and crystal healing, but this woman is clearly in the lead in the ******* First Lady stakes...

[Cleon]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

[Mitchell314]

My favorite part:
"I eat the sun," Miyuki says, raising her arms as if to tear pieces off an imaginary sun. "Like this: yum, yum, yum. It gives me enormous energy. My husband has recently started doing that too." Clearly, this is where Gordon Brown has been going wrong.

Obviously, she has some problems. You breathe in the sun, you don't eat it. :p

[Skeptic]

She makes Shirley McLain look like Dr. Susan Calvin. (Yes, I know the latter is a fictional character, but still.)

[Eddie Dane]

Let me be the first to wish the Japanese people a very entertaining four years.

Fasten your seatbelts.

[corplinx]

My contrarian reflex is to ask "so what?".

[oldhat]

How is this any more weird than Nancy Reagan holding seances and hiring astrologers to help her ailing Alzheimer's patient husband make decisions?

[dudalb]

"I eat the sun," Miyuki says, raising her arms as if to tear pieces off an imaginary sun. "Like this: yum, yum, yum. It gives me enormous energy. My husband has recently started doing that too." Clearly, this is where Gordon Brown has been going wrong.

Her Daddy's name must be Galactus......

[LostAngeles]

My contrarian reflex is to ask "so what?".

Well, she says her husband is, "eating the sun," as well. Hopefully it's to appease her and not part of a slide into crazy-dom.

I like how they rate the other spouses at the end.

Joachim Sauer

Married to Angela Merkel

Wacky rating 0.1 out of 5

Quiet and reserved, Sauer rarely appears in public and didn't even attend his wife's 2005 inauguration. Holds certain views about the nature of the universe that most ordinary people would find incomprehensible, in keeping with his job as a quantum chemist. No pictures of him with Tom Cruise.

[Skeptic]

Holds certain views about the nature of the universe that most ordinary people would find incomprehensible, in keeping with his job as a quantum chemist.

That deserves some sort of special award. Pure genius.

[KingMerv00]

My contrarian reflex is to ask "so what?".

Things can be interesting without having an ultimate point.

The entire universe for example.

Well, she says her husband is, "eating the sun,"...

Damn, where was she when we needed her in the McDonald's coffee thread?

[Brainster]

It becomes a little more apparent why this political party has not typically been in power before. Incidentally, the Japanese parliamentary "Truther" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihisa_Fujita) is also a member of this political party.

[Whiplash]

How is this any more weird than Nancy Reagan holding seances and hiring astrologers to help her ailing Alzheimer's patient husband make decisions?


Why are you purposely deceitful in the way you present things when politics are involved? It's not very alluring.

I'm not denying she did those things. I think the painting of Reagan as an Alzheimer's patient in the 80's is ludicrous however. About 10 years too early.

[Puppycow]

I'm not denying she's a woo, but the framing of this is purposely designed for maximizing pagesviews.

"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," she wrote, adding: "It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green."She's describing a dream. She's not claiming to have physically traveled to Venus.

[tyr_13]

Damn, where was she when we needed her in the McDonald's coffee thread?

(Drum shot)


She's played too much Katimari.

[corplinx]

What is the purpose of this at all. Do we put a scarlet W on people's foreheads now for their spouse's having woo beliefs? This isn't even politics related. This is tabloid news.

Bah.

[gtc]

She's describing a dream.

Of course. But that is not the way she sees it.

she says that when she recounted her Venusian encounter to her first husband, he suggested it had probably been a dream. But her second, the 62-year-old Hatoyama, is more accommodating: "He has a different way of thinking and would surely say, 'Oh, that's great.'"


She's not claiming to have physically traveled to Venus.

No, but she is apparently claiming her soul travelled there.


What is the purpose of this at all. Do we put a scarlet W on people's foreheads now for their spouse's having woo beliefs? This isn't even politics related. This is tabloid news.

Bah.

It doesn't mean he is crazy but it certainly seems that she is more than a little odd.

[MikeSun5]

I'm willing to bet she actually does eat sunshine (http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/yellow+sunshine?qsrc=2446). She sure as hell sounds like she does.

[LostAngeles]

(Drum shot)


She's played too much Katimari.

I'm pretty sure that making Venus in We Love Katamari was where you had to roll up things of sufficient monetary value to, "Save the Pandas," so it wouldn't be green.

Who's played too much Katamari now, ****************?:cool:

[WildCat]

I'm not denying she's a woo, but the framing of this is purposely designed for maximizing pagesviews.

She's describing a dream. She's not claiming to have physically traveled to Venus.
When I go to sleep my soul goes to the land of hot women whose standards are even lower than their morals and inhibitions.

[UnrepentantSinner]

My guess is that she saw too many poorly translated Jimmy Dean breakfast commercials.
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[Darth Rotor]

Well, she says her husband is, "eating the sun," as well.
Maybe he does so because she is the world's worst cook.

I too wish our dear Japanese friends a happy and entertaining four years. We got Billy Carter, so maybe the Japanese get this nice, if somewhat strange, lady.

[Darth Rotor]

I'm willing to bet she actually does eat sunshine (http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/yellow+sunshine?qsrc=2446). She sure as hell sounds like she does.
Maybe "Sunshine" is her pet name for his sushi roll. ;)

[Oliver]

Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of the new incoming Japanese Prime Minister, is total looneytunes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/03/miyuki-hatoyama-japan
Nancy Reagan consulted astrologers, and Cheri Blair underwent rebirthing and crystal healing, but this woman is clearly in the lead in the ******* First Lady stakes...


She's no politician, so this thread seems to be a case for Social Issues & Current Events (http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82).

[Alareth]

She makes Shirley McLain look like Dr. Susan Calvin. (Yes, I know the latter is a fictional character, but still.)

Shirley McLain transformed herself into a fictional character years ago.

[Region Rat]

How is this any more weird than Nancy Reagan holding seances and hiring astrologers to help her ailing Alzheimer's patient husband make decisions?

Proof positive that no matter what weird thing anyone in the world has done, some republican has done worse, thus negating the weirdness in question.

[Eddie Dane]

Oh, what the hell.

As long as they keep making reliable cars, cool gadgets and kinky porn, you won't hear me complain.

[Ryokan]

Well, she says her husband is, "eating the sun," as well. Hopefully it's to appease her and not part of a slide into crazy-dom.

Lucky for Japan, they have a parliamentary system, where the prime minister is nothing really but a figurehead of the administration without any real power.

Of course, the true head of state of Japan is a man who believes he is descended from a god :)

[Just thinking]

Let me be the first to wish the Japanese people a very entertaining four years.

May they live in interesting times.