JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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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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CavemanLawyer
Same old rightie tactics. Just keep throwing the word "terrorist" out there in the hope it will stick. Never mind critical thought or nearly 200 posts on the subject.... somebody has a Republican play book of smear tactics to play with. --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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CavemanLawyer
Too funny! This dude has not been robbing the same 7-11 over and over you know. He has robbed 11 stores in 5 prefectures! This country has so many conbini, that if they sent a pair of cops to guard each one, they would not have enough left over to fish Teletubbies out of the Imperial moat. --Cirroc
Posted in: Convenience store thief strikes again in Yokohama
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CavemanLawyer
Very nice post kringis. Good to see some perspective and history rather than the moral tempest in a teacup we so often see. --Cirroc
Posted in: GSDF member arrested over sexual relationship with 14-year-old girl
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CavemanLawyer
Nuts. Winter is coming you know. The dude is pretty squirrelly. --Cirroc
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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CavemanLawyer
I think the confusion about this guy's nationality could be because he might be from Gibraltar?
Never mind. In Japan he is a gaijin first, and that is all that really matters. --Cirroc
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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CavemanLawyer
Why is this in the National news section? Somebody trying to make a statement? --Cirroc
Posted in: North Korea reportedly fires two missiles into Yellow Sea
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CavemanLawyer
They should start selling pieces of Bobby Fischer, like people did the saints of old. That should replenish the coffers! --Cirroc
Posted in: Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy
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CavemanLawyer
No Japanese was harmed in the making of this test.
N.K. would test its missiles anyway, but the timing might be different. Japan also tests its missiles. Everybody does. --Cirroc
Posted in: North Korea reportedly fires two missiles into Yellow Sea
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CavemanLawyer
Is that true? I am inclined to think there was no bag. I cannot imagine getting naked and being in the water for an hour and failing to find the bag.
Anyway, what a wonderful image for the Japanese to project onto us gaijin. I thought some people were looking at me a little funny today. And I am not kidding. --Cirroc
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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CavemanLawyer
I thought it was called "I am a land owner." --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain, Obama mudslinging grips campaign
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CavemanLawyer
1) With so little, he has gotten so far. Surely, he can talk his way into and out of many a situation. Middle Easterners will respond to him, many already have. McCain only offers aggressive words and aggressive policy. We need a talker.
2) Guaranteed shake up of the cabinet, high courts, etc. Can you imagine who that religious nut Palin will start appointing if she becomes President?
3) The sheer joy of showing spite to the people who brought us the Iraq disaster and streamlined our government and filled it with cronies so that we could not even respond to the Katrina disaster.
4) Obama's military record is completely clean! Nobody can say a bad thing about. Except that it does not exist.
5) I am not completely sure of the life expectancy of a half-black American president with the middle name "Hussein" and last name very similar to "Osama". Even McCain might live longer. Consider it a vote for Joe Biden.
Posted in: McCain, Obama mudslinging grips campaign
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CavemanLawyer
I wonder if he is old enough to have any special feelings about the name Eisenhower! Could have been a Nazi or two called Eisenhower!
We have a lot of those throwbacks running around America, people who will vote based on the most ridiculous things. We need some sort of test to weed those idiots out of the voting pool. Seriously. Then maybe the candidates will be able to convince us with merit instead of dumb luck garbage like having the right name. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain, Obama mudslinging grips campaign
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CavemanLawyer
I am slapping myself. Ayers participated. He did not do that himself. --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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CavemanLawyer
What direction? Do you have any proof whatsoever that they are trying to build a nuclear bomb?
Like Saddam refused to give details about WMD?
Denial of the Holocaust again! Please get off the soapbox if you are going spout such meaningless pap! Who gives a crap if they deny it or they don't?
As for the genocide threats, quotes please. Just don't be dumb and bring up "wipe off the map" mistranslated crap. That particular figure of speech is English only. Only thick skulled war mongers repeat it.
Proof and names please. I am thinking your terrorist group might by my freedom fighter, and my idea of targeting an innocent might be your idea of collateral damage.
Then we will talk about who the U.S. bankrolls.
Are you trying to make me laugh? Actively trying destabilize! Imagine if they invaded two of those countries! You would have a conniption fit! --Cirroc
Posted in: France warns of Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites
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CavemanLawyer
Agreed. Most unfortunately for the human race, it is par for the course.
I see that our disagreements are often small. Glad to know that another thinks much the same as I do. --Cirroc
Posted in: Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebels in Iraq
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CavemanLawyer
A typo? No, I knew what year you were talking about. But are you saying Ayers said something he did not say. It is a lie. I know, I know, that a journalist grabbed two separate sentences out of an interview and strung them together in an intentional effort to mislead you. So maybe I should not call you a liar, but rather a fool? Look closely:
I am a fairly liberal guy, and I am telling you, beware of the press. If they give you short choppy quotes, discount them immediately. Or, remain a fool, and revel in it like you are reading some tabloid crap. Just know who you are and don't pretend to be otherwise.
Do you know about the statue he blew up.....twice? That is on the level of a prank. A very dangerous prank, but still a prank. And one with a message. His target would seem to always be property. Meanwhile, the government was playing Russian Roulette with the lives of teenagers! If nobody ever died on account of the Weatherman Underground, I could not support them enough, at least in the early days.
But lets talk about the Brinks robbery. It happened in 1981. Ayers turned himself in to the authorities in 1980 and left the club. Interesting timing. Are you holding Ayers in some way responsible for the Brinks robbery, because I am thinking he might have had nothing to do with it.
If he didn't, that leaves Ayers possibly responsible for one death and a serious maiming, two policemen in San Fransisco. But it seems the whole thing was planned and done by Dohrn, not Ayers. Further, the target was not human life, unlike how the U.S. government was operating.
Maybe you like to forget the fact that Americans were dying in a useless war after being frog marched to Vietnam. Maybe you like to forget that Americans were fleeing to Canada to avoid that fate, while the U.S. government plodded along heedless to the complaints of the lives it was trampling. Peaceful protests were not working, not with regard to Vietnam and not with regard to civil rights for blacks. Do you honestly expect no one to even target property in such a situation? I find that attitude to be wholly unAmerican, so I ask you. When can the U.S. government be so wrong that its people blow up tea and throw the Pentagon into Boston Harbor? --Cirroc
Posted in: Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama
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CavemanLawyer
That will be difficult. The press never follows up on these things.
But my experience suggests that the police and courts will always find fault with a driver unless their car was at a total standstill. I have had several run ins with the police and a few accidents. Their way of thinking is screwy to say the least (which is not to say that I am in total agreement with my country's rules and practices either).
Concepts of right of way are completely out of whack here. They fail to take into account that a pedestrian can stop instantly and wait at the curb. A car has no such luxury. It takes time to stop and if they stop too quickly it could result in being hit from behind. So, obviously the car had the right of way, simply because the car has more to consider, and less time to consider it. Try telling that to the Japanese authorities. They tolerate nothing less than superhuman if you are driver, but if you a pedestrian, well then, be a total idiot if you like.
I would like for anyone to provide an example of what happens after arrest in these cases. Anyone at all. No one has done that yet and that is all that matter. --Cirroc
Posted in: Man found dead on street after suspected hit-and-run
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CavemanLawyer
I believe our military industrial complex has every intent to keep a base in Iraq. They may view that as a means to distance ourselves from the Saudis. Allowing Turkey to attack Iraqi Kurds could present a compelling way to convince the Iraqis they need us for security. --Cirroc
Posted in: Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebels in Iraq
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CavemanLawyer
I did not say "would have" and I sure did not mean it. "Should have" would be more like it. Whether land that Kurds live on is Turkey's own territory is something I find debatable in the face of an independence movement.
All else I think we agree on.
All I got is continuing to preach fairness and justice and the right of a people to self determination over tight fisted selfish greed the depraved desire to rule as many people as one can. --Cirroc
Posted in: Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebels in Iraq
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CavemanLawyer
If the Turks had no country, I bet many would fight for one. Do you really think your people have a right to the land the Kurds already live on? Because the British carved it up that way? Or because your people can use brute force to keep it? There can be no end to the conflict that way.
A great opportunity was lost. Iraq was invaded and occupied. If Turkey had pressed for it, it might have been possible to create a Kurdistan comprised mostly of northern Iraq and a small part of Turkey. This new country might have been grateful for the Turkish blessings, and Turkey might have had a new ally.
Instead, all you will get is more blood and death. --Cirroc
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