JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Beelzebub
When someone offers money to politician for a favor, it's called a bribe. When a politician offers money (which is what a tax cut is) to a voter in order to get elected, it's not called a bribe, but should be. In both cases, the trading of favors/votes for money is corruption, plain and simple. It's endemic in the US political system. And people have the gall to complain about why their government is performing so badly???
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Beelzebub
Ten years from now you'll be able to ask an American teenager if he's ever heard of the Tea Party. He'll say 'Huh?' shrug, and go back to watching his MTV programme. I believe the Yank idiom to be applied here is 'flash in the pan'.
Posted in: Coast to coast, tea partiers promote their cause
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Beelzebub
Most of the journalists I know are busy killing themselves, with alcohol. It's a wonder they get any work done at all.
Posted in: 52 journalists killed worldwide Jan-August
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Beelzebub
TimRussert@how about the IWW -- 105 years old this year? The Green Party? The 'No-nothings'? Even the American Communist Party, which attracted huge rallies in the 1930s. It could even be argued that Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats are still in existence, ('Fighting integration and equal rights since 1948'). Tea partiers are just an angry splinter group whose rants, the cable TV networks have decided, are amusing enough to warrant footage in an election year.
Posted in: Coast to coast, tea partiers promote their cause
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Beelzebub
Try as I might to be objective, the delays, indignities and inconvenience to which I am subjected every time I board an aircraft since 9/11 have badly bruised any feelings of magnanimity I may have once harboured toward practitioners of Islam. Now when one bends down to tie his shoestring, I discreetly confirm he's not applying a cigarette lighter to the end.
Posted in: Fellow Americans' suspicions frustrate U.S. Muslims
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Beelzebub
Thanks@Hermione, I prefer to control my searches and didn't realize this new feature could be turned off (thought it was my browser and not Google). I disenabled it and am happy to not have this annoying thing pop up any more.
Posted in: Google search accelerates with 'instant' results
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Beelzebub
Within one month's time, and probably less, we'll all be back in here listening to 2nd Amendments supporters explaining why the next mass slaughter in the USA is nothing to be concerned about.
Posted in: 6 dead in eastern Kentucky shooting after egg dispute
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Beelzebub
It's time to mend fences. Michael Moore is taking up a collection for the mosque, and now that I think about it, it seems like a good idea. I shall write him a cheque. Here's more about Moore: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/if-mosque-isnt-built-no-longer-america
Posted in: Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow
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Beelzebub
Overseas travel out of Tokyo was, is and always will be an outrageous ripoff.
Posted in: U.S. airlines squeezed as Haneda goes international
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Beelzebub
Thanks, tkoind2. Actually I've always felt reassured that no matter how much antipathy a Sunni or Shiite might hold towards me, odds are they're far more likely to whack each other.
Posted in: Florida pastor cancels plan to burn Qurans on 9/11
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Beelzebub
I watched it on BBC. Your mirroring my post to flaunt US political issues is really a cheap shot, manfromamerica.
Posted in: Florida pastor cancels plan to burn Qurans on 9/11
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Beelzebub
Burning holy books is not a good idea. That said, it doesn't take much to provoke hysterical crowds in Pakistan, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in flood relief bought their good will for about... two weeks. Back to square one.
Posted in: Florida pastor cancels plan to burn Qurans on 9/11
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Beelzebub
Perhaps the US should aim its next drone at the headquarters of Pakistan's intelligence service.
Posted in: 4th U.S. missile in 24 hours in Pakistan kills 5
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Beelzebub
Maintaining their style of being 'fierce and independent warriors' has given Afghans the average life expectancy of about 19.
Posted in: Mullah Omar tells Afghans Taliban are winning
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Beelzebub
The three things you don't want to do as president are aggravate the National Rifle Association, the Oil Lobby and the wealthiest 2 percent of the population, who own the country. Besides, US voters expect to be bribed by their politicians (and dangling a tax as a political reward is certainly a form of bribery). The 2012 election is officially a tossup.
Posted in: Obama won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest
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Beelzebub
They must be taking lessons from Mexico.
Posted in: 800 inmates escape during Nigeria prison attack
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Beelzebub
It takes no courage to burn a Quran in Florida. Let the Gainesville PD notify him that he is not eligible for police protection, and see how long he lasts.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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Beelzebub
I don't have a headache yet, but that photo's giving me eyestrain.
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Beelzebub
When I read news stories from the US these days, I feel like I've wandered onto the set of another remake of 'Back to the Future', only this time we're in the Middle Ages.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11
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Beelzebub
Once it's over with, I suppose it's only a matter of time before the Reverend Jones is affectionately hugged by a suicide bomber bent on escorting him to the netherworld.
Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11