JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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BeaverCleaver
sailwind-"Serious Question..........All politics aside, and I'm going to modify your question just a little bit to make my point.
How exactly do you describe regular church goers who lap up the crap Rev. Wright spews?"
I do not have an answer to that yet, but I think the important thing is to realize the difference between listening to a man and deciding for yourself (something I have done with Limbaugh and Obama does with Wright) and lapping up what he spews (something Limbaugh's audience in the studio seems to do as well as some posters here. I do not know enough about Wright's audience to comment, let alone his goals and views.)
But for arguments sake, let us assume that the men are exactly the same kind of filth, men using smaller truths to erect a monolith of self-serving political deception and hate. One man is for the conservatives and one for the liberals. Here is the kicker question: Which of these evil men enjoy a larger audience among those they target? In other words, which side has more thralls to an evil man? Limbaugh is the runnaway winner of the filth race. Clearly huge amounts of conservatives adore the jerk.
I think it is safe to say that Franken subscribes to neither man, just like most liberals don't.
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BeaverCleaver
The tail end of this thread shows that non-conservative posters here clearly understand the sick, twisted and disgusting tactics of the conservative playbook. Just remember them, because they have a tendency to lurk back into the shadows until needed again by their dark masters. If we forget, they will be useful again in another couple years. Remember, and teach others with clarity and without venom, so that we may always be prepared to protect ourselves from this kind of self-serving, emotional, hypocritical and ignorant appeal. It warms my heart to see here so many of those tactics drug out into the sunlight and outed for what they are.
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BeaverCleaver
teleprompter- "If "liberals" are so high-minded and free of malice why do bigtime Lefty blogs like HuffPo have to disable comments when the thread is about Cheney's heart trouble or Palin's special needs child?"
This might deserve a top ten list. Let me give you the short list: -Hating either person does not make a man a liberal. -There are scumbag people in the world who do not properly fit into a political spectrum except for anarchy and they like to post offensive comments. Just because they don't go to your church does not make them liberal. -I cannot say such comments are representive of liberals. A lot of liberals say similar things and agree on a lot of things. Those kinds of posts are not the things agreed on by liberals.
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BeaverCleaver
teleprompter- "Rightists"?
Sorry. How exactly do you describe regular listeners who lap up the crap Limbaugh spews? Is there a better term to describe the idiots that adore the idiot? I mean, I have listened to the dude myself, but I can see through him like he was spotless glass. He is witty and sometimes he makes me laughbu his politcal views and goals are ugly as sin. The man is an abomination. He embarrasses the whole country in the eyes of the people of the world unfortunate enough to have heard of him and in the eyes of a great many Americans such as myself.
"Dude - where in the States did you say you are from ???"
50 states to choose from. If I wanted to lie to you, it would very easy. I won't. I will just tell you the truth. I am not telling. But its not Minnesota.
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BeaverCleaver
"So you're saying it's genetic? "
No, I am just asking you a question, several questions actually. They were not rhetorical.
"I really, really hope you're not dismissing this sort of "war on child porn" as unnecessary and positing that the users are just giving in to their instincts/desires, so why not let them?"
No, I said that what can be done has been done, yet the problem persists. It might actually be getting worse. It depends on how you look at it.
The definition of child sex offenses and child porn are both expanding all the time. Age of consent keeps going up, teens taking pictures of themselves is being deemed child porn, even completely fictional stories typed on paper can be called illegal child porn! Who profits by this expansion? Lawyers, correction officers, interest groups, etc. Cops get more work to do, those who build prisons get more contracts, sales of GPS devices go up, etc. etc. It all rides on what was a reasonable outrage being twisted into the unreasonable and the impossible, you know, unless you have some brilliant idea that is going to make the problem go away outside of what is being done and not working to reduce the problem anymore than it already has. That is, if it has at all.
Posted in: Swiss police uncover international child pornography ring
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BeaverCleaver
No idea how you can accuse me of "confirmation bias" for my problems with the definition of gay and homosexual behavior. I would be good it it was referred to as homogender behavior, but that is a completely different thing. If anything, the article reeks of confirmation bias, but as you said, the article does not present all of the research. The problem might be the writer's choices and not those of the Dr.
I do not have it in for the Dr., its just that what I saw in the article was less than convincing. It might be the fault of the Dr. it might not. Until I see the research I am going with its his fault and he is biased as an educated guess, after all it seems he was interviewed and had a chance to make his case with the writer. The only way I am going to change my mind is to see far better examples and proofs. Until you dig those up I will remain ignorant, because, smelling bias, I do not care about this enough to dig for it myself and its your baby. Right now its enough for me that I basically agree with his conclusion even if I am not seeing any convincing evidence in that article.
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BeaverCleaver
aerockyulhim-"Go after these users, the distributors will move on to other money-making ventures, "
Define "go after the users"? There seems to be a lot out there. How to get them all? How to make them uninterested in child porn? How did they get interested in the first place? I hope you are not going to say child porn itself got them interested, because its not like I have stumbled on any while browsing the local book store. You got to already want it to find it. So what is your brilliant plan besides throwing money at the problem? You think we will ever have enough money to lock up anyone who has ever looked at child porn? I am sure certain people who profit hugely from this impossible goal through our tax money hope you say yes.
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BeaverCleaver
sailwind-"I've always wondered why liberals always feel the need to insult people they don't agree with."
The insults do not stem from mere disagreement. The insults come after being subjected to a string of unrelated justifications, unfounded defenses, and a host of red herring emotional appeals. That is when they get nasty. What I have always wondered is why the rightist hate losing so badly that they will pull any amount of bull in order just to win, or at least think they won? Why can't they just focus on truth and fairness and take their lumps when they come?
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BeaverCleaver
"The boy, for it must have been a boy, surely, will go home, masturbate with the hair and probably never do this again."
I am not usually one to push the panic button, but I doubt it in this case. Going so far as to attack a random innocent person with scissors, even just to cut hair, smells to me like a case that will escalate into worse crimes or at least contiinued attacks. There are many instances of random slashers in Japan. I am sure they start small too.
I might agree he will probably not do it again even if he were caught and released and at least got a little brush with the law. But what I actually hope for is some time in jail, not years, but perhaps weeks. I also hope he gets a good psych evaluation.
Anyway, I am not laughing about this at all.
Posted in: Hooded assailant cuts high school girl’s hair before fleeing on bicycle in Miyagi
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BeaverCleaver
Beware of the poll results. I already voted once, and now its letting me vote again, which I will not do. So now, I cannot even see the results, not that I trust them now anyway.
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BeaverCleaver
aerockyulhim-"So what does that make you?!"
I never ever claim to be native anything except a native English speaker. I may be over-sensitive, but I am painfully aware of Sioux history, particularly Santee Sioux, and how my ancestors stole North America by force, trickery, broken treaties and lies. I just say I am from the state I am from and "I am from the U.S.", "I was born in ______", the end. I don't bring up the Native Americans in the context of my origins, but get me started and I will go on and on.
Incidently, Franken was not even born in Minnesota. I can only hope that as U.S. Senator, he will push for return of the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation to the size agreed upon in the 1851 treaties. Normally I say treaties are null and void when war breaks out, but that war was brought upon the Santee by the U.S., who forced them into it by not upholding the treaties in the first place.
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BeaverCleaver
Al Franken's book title was NOTHING more than a reaction to a serial ad hominem attacker. Limbaugh started it, so suck it up. Very typical right wing to do anything to protect their man at the expense of consistency. Very lame too.
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BeaverCleaver
Wait, that's not Al Franken going to the Senate! Its Mick Jagger!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmwsDFm7bQ&feature=playerembedded
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BeaverCleaver
teleprompter-"Tax cheat Franken follows the crook Roland Burris,"
Franken did an odd thing. He somehow paid taxes to states where he did not have to and is now seeking to get that money back to pay to the states where its actually owed. Yeah, some tax cheat. The red herring was even redder than I first thought.
Being a national figure with appearances all over the country, Franken paid his taxes in many states but due to an oversight missed 17 states he should have paid. 17 states! Is every state in the union trying to get a piece of him or what? Yeah, I think some errors might happen. My big question is why it took so long to find the mistakes, but then suddenly in 2008, during an election, they are "mysteriously" uncovered. I am sure there was not any Republican involvement it that!
He paid his dues. Get over it.
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BeaverCleaver
aerockyulhim, cheers for the explaination.
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BeaverCleaver
"The mother deserves jail for this."
I think she is suffering enough.
Posted in: 2-year-old girl dies in hit-and-run while crossing street in Yokohama
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BeaverCleaver
Sarge-"Al Franken wrote the book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot." Is that "the big fat idiot" who hosts America's #1 talk radio program? "
Some idiots enjoy enormous popularity. Particularly among other idiots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBNqUdqm1E&feature=fvst
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BeaverCleaver
Given the size of a two year old and the many blind spots of a car, not to mention all the other things a driver has to pay attention to, it is quite possible he did not see the child and no fault of his own. Not seeing the child, it is possible he felt or something, but a two year old is so small that it might have been such little effect that he disregarded it. If I stopped my car every time I heard a noise, hit a pothole I did not see, or wondered if I bumped the curb or was it something else, I would be stopping once or twice every day and so would everybody else, and that is not safe either. The bottom line here is that the mother totally failed. To blame the driver, we had to be there and see something very specific.
Anyway, for sad, for everybody involved.
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BeaverCleaver
skipthesong-"and I did not know that Clinton was a draft dodger."
You still don't. That was a lie so fat it warrants an apology from aerockyulhim. Clinton was a Vietnam war protestor, just like a lot of sensible and courageous people. He never signed up for that bout of stupidity, but he was never drafted either. You cannot even call him a chickenhawk as he was obviously against the war and there is no hypocrisy there. Clinto has left his opponents no choice but to make up slander about this aspect. Such slander should come with an official Japan Today yellow card from the referees.
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BeaverCleaver
teleprompter-"Tax cheat Franken follows the crook Roland Burris,"
Our belweather has just released another red herring into the wilds of this discussion. That means Franken is A-OK.
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