JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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MistWizard
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe you should crack down on your side for that sort of comment instead of ours? Because when I see that sort of comment from ours it is usually purely reactionary. Someone made a post about ideological acrobatics recently. I should have saved that.
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MistWizard
My point was one of a sensible philosophy, not one of what US laws and policies are.
If you think holding a six year old responsible for his crime of being an illegal immigrant is something to be proud of, you are quite welcome to that opinion.
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MistWizard
So I guess destroying countries to save them is now off the table?
I would also add a strong birth control and especially condom promotion program to the list, and if the Vatican opposed, I would destroy it to save it.
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MistWizard
Also, police interrogation methods are fair and humane!
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MistWizard
Because minors are not responsible for being illegal immigrants.
But Republicans have scored a perfecta. They got to step on some illegal immigrant kids and gays at the same time!
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MistWizard
False. Since BEFORE 16. The bill is granting amnesty...FOR MINORS or those who were minors when brought here...and minors get amnesty for everything else anyway, this being much more sensible to grant them amnesty on then say carjacking.
They are here, like it or not, and they are not going away, squint your eyes and wish as hard as you can. So may as well deal with them, get them official, and get them working, paying taxes, studying, and serving in the military. There is nothing for them in their so-called home countries because they were just minors when they left.
This bill has been tooled so many times the only reason to be against it now is to hate immigrants and nevermind the fact that most Americans are the offspring of immigrants themselves!
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MistWizard
You have confused "treated fairly" with "treated the same". She was not treated fairly and in fact, not treated the same either. If you had a previous drug conviction in the U.S. how would Japanese immigration authorities know? You seriously going to put that on your disembarkment card?
She has been arrested, jailed and set free. If you have a problem with that this is not the place for it. She has been set free and that is most of what the immigration authorities really need to know. The other question is if she is potentially dangerous.
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MistWizard
No. They need to change shoes. What's next, denying previous DUIs a tourist visa? She paid her dues according to the legal system of the country she was accused. Time to move on. She passed their sniffer dogs and its not like she makes cocaine from her hair.
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MistWizard
The main problem here seems to be a complete lack of preparation, which could be the result of many things, including denial. But if the prep sucks, so will the after-event clean-up. Yes, they should have all prepared better and been aware. But they weren't. Arresting the young woman won't help.
What disgusts me most of all is that some idiot male out there caused a pregnancy that never needed to happen. He could have prevented it with complete ease, but he did not. And he left a young woman to struggle with this without his help.
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MistWizard
Does he REALLY deny the Holocaust? I always hear about people accused of denying the Holocaust for questioning any detail of official events. Claim it was some other gas than Zyklon B, they label you a Holocaust denier.
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MistWizard
Well, if there is anything Republicans hate more than gays, its foriegn kids of "good moral character", who are what DREAM is meant to protect since they got there for no fault of their own.
The reason why Congress shoves so many riders on bills is because they do not want to do their jobs first of all. Second is they don't want to be responsible for what they do do, so if a law fails, they can say they voted for the rider.
The whole thing started as a compromise idea, but its being abused. Something as important as DADT deserves their undivided attention.
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MistWizard
I don't think this belongs on the crime section. This belongs in the silly section. I am no fan of Paris, but I am even less a fan of Japan's crazy handwringing over drugs.
This is just nutty.
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MistWizard
Zenny, I suspect she may well have gone to the guy's place open for sex. But, it does not sound like she knew anything about the other two guys until she got there. How could she? How could she even foresee that? Because if we go expecting that level of foresight and caution, all our sex lives are going to go down the toilet. She did not get raped on the street in a dark alley by some stranger. She arrived at her destination into the arms of the man she expected to meet. That is plenty. From there, she may be a liar or not, but the three men FAIL no matter what. They threw caution to the winds. They could have raped her at 2 p.m. instead of 2 a.m. given the circumstances.
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MistWizard
Rape is, in the grand scheme of things, not new knowledge to be spread by TV. No man needs a movie to consider rape. No man needs a movie to want to do it. No movie will make rape a social phenomenon.
I am trying to think what this has to do with anything, especially your notion of what constitutes a "nice girl".
My advice to you is to stop looking for clues on relationships from the work of artists, whether its movies or music. A lot of your comments are very naive.
And more probably get off on that and don't imitate it or imitate it consensually.
Good luck proving that. Ask any woman for details of her sex life, and brace yourself for a slap. They don't talk about it. We don't know what they get up to. The woman might be lying, but I think the odds are very, very slim of that.
How about give and take, consensually? And add some CYA and you are good to go.
Dolphins do, and I suspect its for the same reasons as people. And lots of male animals chase the female until she relents. If you are a city person, you have had not had the observational opportunities to comment on this.
I don't think anything can be proven except that they are irresponsible and selfish idiots. Even is she is just getting back at them for bragging, they deserve it.
Only the rules and amount of evidence has changed. All else is the same as it ever was. So is rape. But people are now calling things rape that aren't. For example, if a woman is sleeping, they call it rape. Well, not if you know the woman doesn't mind. Or if she says no, its rape. Some women always say no, ESPECIALLY when they are enjoying it. Some women will also push away when they want you to come closer. But so many men are too stupid to be able to judge the situation correctly, so they come up with these crazy, and frankly naive rules.
Of course we should be responsible. But that does not mean everything will play out as you want, and it does not mean we will have proper evidence to prove who was wrong.
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MistWizard
The allegation is not that they put her on a leash and kicked her. Rape is about ALL of the above.
Not singling out Zenny (in fact he has a lot of good insights) but it is always a little disturbing to watch a bunch of guys get together and try and suss out what is and what isn't rape, and make like they know all there is to know about the female condition.
I still say these guys are idiots and deserve to go down. To further clarify, everyone, the first time you have sex with a woman is VERY special. You treat her like gold. You keep it all very standard. The time to get wild is the second time, or third. And of course, its after a date, not a bit after she arrived at your buddy's place and have a foursome right there. That is stupid. And guy's so stupid deserve their rape conviction even if they are not guilty, reason being because they have given us NO reason to conclude anything but that they did the crime. Even if they are not rapists, what is there to prove it? All the signs I see point to the guys' story being fishy as hell.
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MistWizard
And you clearly don't understand that that sort of behavior has been practiced everywhere at some time. Talk to your grandparents, and they will tell you the way it was...just like Japan is now...child abuse was swept under the rug to keep the community harmony.
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MistWizard
Gee, thanks for that Sherlock. Its hardly relevant to my comment is it? My point was that hearing a kid crying in the house next door raises a lot of suspicion, but its usually not abuse, even when the kid cries chronically. I have had several scares over the years and suspected neighbors, but it turned out to just be a crybaby.
What is your problem? Of course it was not Japan because Japan is just now opening the can of worms. I am telling you what can happen on the basis of people who have already been there. Or don't the Japanese count as people to you?
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MistWizard
Its more like the realization of what a can of worms one can open with this. Is a kid just a crybaby or are his parents abusing him? Its pretty hard to tell, but it seems to me that 9 times out of ten, he is just a crybaby. And if you get a squad together to start invading homes on those odds you will be doing a lot of ghost hunting. And pretty soon you will be taking hundreds of kids from their parents on the basis of an anonymous phone call. Yeah, it has happened.
I am as down on child abuse as anyone. We do need investigative orgs and especially available counseling and support (more than home invasions and slap-dash removals of custody) But the people who are gung-ho about stamping out child abuse are very dangerous to society. They would make a police state to stamp out simple spankings. We need to keep them on a leash.
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MistWizard
What a maroon. Some degree of capitalism is necessary to have a thriving economy. That is why socialism is working but communism never really did.
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MistWizard
Before movies, there was no rape! (sigh).
Its not that simple, especially as rape is an ever expanding term these days. This case does sound low though.
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