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
There used to be one in Iran. Any idea of what happened to it? American meddling, that's what. --Cirroc
Posted in: 33 killed in spate of Baghdad bombings
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CavemanLawyer
The man is lucky to have witnesses. If not for them, the police would have squeezed a vehicular homicide confession out of him.
Very sorry for the woman. Sounds like she lost all reason in the argument. There are times when you have to let people drive away, call a cab, and sleep in a hotel till you can get a bus or a train home. But after a fight, people get fixated on the fact that their ride is leaving. --Cirroc
Posted in: Woman dies after being run over by truck driven by boyfriend in Aichi
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CavemanLawyer
We heard you the first time. I am just telling you that it does not really matter. Obviously no matter what someone claims to be here, they do not speak for that group.
or even a caveman!
If there was some sort of point to italicizing the last part, it escapes me. I can only tell you what was relayed to me, and it did not include specific reasons. --Cirroc
Posted in: Taliban kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman
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CavemanLawyer
A majority of active duty military support Obama. Its a fact. I cannot tell you the precise reasons why, but USAFdude's reasons are shared by many I imagine. They are sick of Iraq. The fight was in Afghanistan. It should have stayed there.
Afghanistan is in the neighborhood though. But I think it is pretty unlikely that Iraq could get through Iran to attack Afghanistan except in a paranoid and delusional far right wing imagination. Reminds me of the Sudetenland being described as a spear in the side of Germany. Somebody needs to remind a certain someone that Iraq is way broken. Any more broken and they will be fighting with rocks and spears. They will not be toppling Iran soon.
Small correction, but he sent plenty of troops to militarily defeat Iraq. What he did not do was send enough to quell potential unrest. I do not think the troops were trained properly for that task either. I expect somebody is going to whine big time, but that is why nothing should have been done without the U.N.'s full support. And anyone who wants go complain and insult the U.N. and its peacekeeping missions will be reminded that the U.S. and its long but very thin list of allies has failed to keep the peace for five and a half years now.
How many years of routing is it going to take? Would you please ditch the stupid sloganeering?
You only say so because no 9/11 type event has recurred on American soil, an event that simply cannot be topped. The war on terra is not going remotely according to plan, let alone fine. We do not have OBL, and al-Quaida was given a new sand box to play in thanks to the invasion of Iraq. Our partnership with Pakistan is not going so well, terror attacks continue throughout the world, even on our embassies.
More importantly, we are losing ground in the goal of liberating Afghanistan from the Taliban. Probably a goal we never should have undertaken. We cannot kill them all, and that is about the only way to dissuade them and stop their teachings. They are Afghanis, and Afghanistan is as much theirs as it is the Afghanis that prefer what we have to offer. Our problem with the Taliban was singular: they would not give us bin Laden or other al-Quaida operatives without conditions, and we refused to negotiate. We should have focused on bin Laden and his men and got the heck out. Maybe even tried a little negotiation.
Forced regime change does not work. It cannot work. You cannot force a people to accept your values and expect them to function as we do. It just cannot be done. And that goes for Iraq too. There is going to be a fight, and all we can do is prolong it. Who wins is up to the people.
Even though Bush failed despite near seven years of promises? Nah. I think not.
The Taliban and Iraqi insurgents are not the same.
And how did it get to be "poor woman"? I never heard of her until today. The article does not say why see was targeted, but I suspect the "high profile" angle has a lot to do with it, and not just the fact that she was a working woman. Anyway, who knows what other things the Taliban may have had against her? For all I know, she might have been famous for abusing Taliban detainees Abu Ghraib style. I simply do not know and I bet no one else here does either, so spare us the reactionary remorse.
The Taliban were not originally terrorists. They were just a powerful group of religious nutters who controlled most of Afghanistan had some terrorist allies. Now that they have been lumped with their al-Quaida allies, it is not surprising that they are acting more and more like them.
I have no love for the Taliban. But it would have been smarter to manipulate them than try to bury them. Now we have a guaranteed enemy in the Taliban for years to come, and they are not going away. Luckily, I do not think they will ever be on the scale of al-Quaida, copy as they might. --Cirroc
Posted in: Taliban kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman
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CavemanLawyer
Not if you want to see a movie before all your friends tell you the plot!
And there is a difference between the tech being available and being able to afford it. What is more, I can play blu-rays at home, but the selection of blu-rays I can rent is limited.
I would not discount two hours of included air-conditioning either.
One last thing: girls like to go out and be seen, even if its just walking in and out of the movie theater. There are cheaper ways to date, but a movie is not that harsh. I recommend a love story. --Cirroc
Posted in: A downloaded question
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CavemanLawyer
I don't think that you realize that when we are talking about corruption, and you bring up a person's private and personal sex life, that we start to tune out everything you say. Stick to the subject at hand. Besides, had the court dealing with the Paula Jones case not gotten similarly sidetracked on what was not their business, there would have been no reason for Clinton to lie and no subsequent impeachment proceedings.
I cannot even figure out why there is an investigation here. The governor can fire the commissioner for parting his hair the wrong way. As far as I know, that is the way it is. Somebody prove me wrong if it isn't.
Posted in: Subpoenaed Palin aides don't appear at abuse probe
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CavemanLawyer
moonbeams and dogdog,
Could you please explain to us the relationship between sexualization of anyone or anything and murder? I am not seeing the connection there or with this case, badly as you two seem to want there to be one.
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
The poor and work shy? Could you give a rough percentage of how many Americans we are talking about?
And you are questioning the patriotism of others!
Why shouldn't the poor get some tax cuts? They are the ones who can least afford to part with even one dollar. And some are just children who won't be hired even if they want to work. You would deny them a few extra dollars, dollars they earned,but favor tax cuts for a man who could lose 99 percent of wealth tomorrow and still live better than them?
I am going to take a guess here: GWB and his family and their dynasty are personal heroes of yours. Yes?
And a small newsflash for you: Ownership is 9/10 of the law and so is wealth. Most rich people are rich not because of hard work, but simply because they own the means of producing it. Their grip gets tighter every year, and upward mobility slows along with it. Hard work is rewarded less and less. Meanwhile, CEOs who do not do much take home salaries sometimes 100s of times more than floor workers. Do you why floor workers get the word "worker" in their title? I will give you a hint: It has to do with work.
--Cirroc
Moderator: Please refrain from using sign-off names.
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
I do not think you could show me any statistics proving Japan is so much less safe than it used to be.
I guarantee you will find crime against children going all the way back to whenever records were kept, even if that is all the way back to the Kamakura period, if only you find those records.
A tremendously important reason that Japan remains relatively safe is because the Japanese do what they do. Change something like that and you may get a side effect you did not expect. For example, if fewer kids are walking around, that could translate into less awareness of those who do on the part of good people in the community, even people like you who are just driving by.
We have more reporting on these things these days. That does not make it a trend. We should not over-react.
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
You must be talking about Obama. He has years of experience in both state and federal government.
But I warn you: having experience and knowing what is best are two different things.
Everyone's patriotism is open to debate, including John McCain's. Even those who were clearly patriots in the past can change.
There are those who might say that I am not a patriot because I often speak against the U.S. government. But I consider myself patriotic in that I put American principles, such as those in the Bill of Rights, and American style truth and fairness before the country, any American individual or group, and most especially before the government.
However, you have no good reason to doubt Obama's patriotism so casually or easily. You are only proving that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel by questioning another's from a high horse.
--Cirroc
Moderator: Please refrain from using sign-off names.
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
Why yes. If your going to be a social psychopath, we should funnel them into anything but graffiti. Yeahright.
Posted in: Tokyo trains defaced with graffiti
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CavemanLawyer
It turns out that the convenience store owner did not pay his NHK fees for a few years, so its all good. Tsubokawa just took what was owed, plus some late fees.
That is where NHK fees all go. Didn't you know?
Posted in: NHK part-time fee collector arrested for robbing convenience store in Tokyo
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CavemanLawyer
Hilarious Nippon5! That would make a great episode of "Celebrity Deathmatch".
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
Nope. Not this time. The real problem has been with us for years. I have probably witnessed more foreclosures than any other poster here, and that in two short years doing work for people who have made a business of foreclosure. My job was on the site, so I got to see it up close and personal. People often do not have the time or even a place to put their belongings. Furniture left behind. Clothes. The worst is seeing the children's and baby's stuff. That is when you know a whole family has just been shafted.
Its only getting worse. But thank goodness Bush is going to ensure nobody calling the shots on Wall Street has to leave their multi-million dollar mansion. Anything but that!
--Cirroc
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
Neither am I. The man has admitted that economics is not his strong point. If he didn't defer to others you guys would criticize him for that instead. Please stop acting like Republicans and give a man a break. We all have weaknesses and McCain did exactly what he should do; choose those he feels knows best and defer to them. In fact, it is a vital ability in any president. Rightright? Rightright.
--Cirroc
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
timorborder, do you know something we don't? I have not heard the girl was "fiddled" as you so quaintly put it, so please leave your dark imagination out of this.
--Cirroc
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
More evidence for my theory that Japan has moved into the 1970s.
--Cirroc
Posted in: Tokyo trains defaced with graffiti
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CavemanLawyer
Heaven forbid a rich guy should mortgage his mansion or raid his own bank account for anything but a new yacht!
I am glad to hear that people are no longer willing to give the rich a free pass in the vain belief they find solutions. Fact is, they will take your home to cover loans they never should have made to someone else!
I do not think we should be talking about government funds until the personal assets of the rich who flopped have been proffered. When that is done, then we can talk about the balance.
I would rather have rich people busted down to a suburbian home, then suburbanites living on the street. It is obvious what people on Wall Street want. Let them suffer a two bedroom home for once in their fat lives.
--Cirroc
Posted in: No bailout deal after McCain, Obama, Bush meeting
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CavemanLawyer
Once a thief always a thief. NHK trained his spirit well, but all other training was lacking it seems.
--Cirroc
Posted in: NHK part-time fee collector arrested for robbing convenience store in Tokyo
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CavemanLawyer
Welcome to Japan where killers are dumb and/or remorseful. That is about as close as one gets to "only in Japan".
--Cirroc
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba