But the lying after the fact, and actually blaming another country, that is insidious.

Billy, I want you to know that I think Obama has had a hell of a week.

remember that 99.9% of these vermin are terrified of bumping into the victim. They're lowlife, cowardly thieves, whose only interest was making quick cash.

Not sure who makes up your statistics for you.
And to me, it's pretty brave to break into someone else's home, risk arrest, and steal stuff while someone is sleeping right there. My heart would be pounding so loud just on entering the unlocked door, it'd burst if I tried to take anything, even the bottled water.
I'm much too cowardly to break&enter, steal, or even walk into a room surreptitiously while someone I don't know is sleeping.

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You do get some extra holiday crime just before Xmas, as money is tight for many then, and they also hope they can rob you of a stash of expensive presents. Small, easily resold electronics preferred.
Just another argument in favor of a bulky desktop, though I guess they could steal my thin monitor.

Anyway, Earl, best you slept through it. They just wanted stuff, and getting robbed is probably much better than any confrontation. Though I suppose it'd be nice if you woke up and they got spooked and ran off. I'm a heavy sleeper but if a burglar entered, I would probably wake up from the sound of my cat frantically scrambling into the closets to hide.

Japanese ambassador to spy on Dmitry Medvedev?
Japan's perception of Russia is weird, to put it mildly. The behavior of the Japanese administration looks like a childish game. It is simply impossible to logically explain their actions. The new head of the Japanese diplomacy in Russia will be collecting gossip about the plans of the Russian leaders.

In Russia, the phenomenon of near-death experience was explored by psychiatrist Vladimir Raikov. He conducted his experiments with the participation of an extrasensory individual, who could voluntarily generate an "astral twin." The phantom could be visible, but it would only obey his master's orders. The psychic ordered his own "ghost" to move to the room next door. In that room, Raikov had another patient - a hypnotized trance. The other patient has never seen the psychic and did not know how he looked. However, when she was asked to describe the appearance of the "astral twin," the woman provided the detailed description of the psychic.