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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Noliving
I think what the poster meant in terms of abuse is really more like physical abuse not, emotional "abuse". I agree that savoie having an affair and then luring his wife to the US just so he could divorce her for the simple reason that he was afraid that she would never let him see kids again, which in this case ended up happening, was "wrong" and well frankly he is a lot of negative words that I could say about him. With that said none of what he did proved he is a bad father, just that he is bad husband.
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers pressure Japan on child custody rights
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Noliving
Oh that is easy the person who twisted his arm is his wife, the person who initiated/filed the divorce papers. You know as well as I do that in the USA along with Japan it is the women who start/choose divorce not the men. And even if they don't sign the divorce papers it doesn't matter because the divorce will still happen it will just take a little longer. Just because a person gets married but then gets divorced does not make them a bad parent, they may not be good spouses but that doesn't mean they are bad parents.
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers pressure Japan on child custody rights
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Noliving
What are you talking about? Savoie's ex wife was awarded primary custody of the children as long as she stayed in the US, she lost primary custody after she had abducted the children.
Not really considering it is done in the thousands every single day, the only real issue is money, and in terms of child abduction in the US, the difference between Japan and the US is that in the US they will actually hunt down the parent that violate a court ordered shared custody agreement whether it be a international or domestic custody arrangement.
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers pressure Japan on child custody rights
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Noliving
But is that really the problem? Most of the problems I would say are caused from the fact that the students don't spend anytime studying outside of class or even do the homework until the day its due in class. At my high school the teachers could rent lap tops from the school library for the period and guess what happens? The students including me we didn't do any school work, we just browsed the internet playing flash games. Did we get yelled at from the teachers for doing that? Heck ya but it didn't make any difference. Even if you have a bad teacher you should be able to self teach yourself from the text book and if you can't do that there is always the internet plus youtube videos to watch on whatever subject you are studying.
Again I would say the real issue is that the students themselves are the biggest reason, the students will spend at most 1 hour each day after school to study or do homework.
Posted in: Obama: Money alone cannot solve U.S. school problems
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Noliving
Well considering he hasn't stopped no child left behind and in a lot of ways is actually expanding on several of its key areas.
How was no child left behind moronic? It was meant to be a first step, not a solution to getting the entire nation to have a standard or base standard for what it teaches or expect students to know and a way to identify schools that were having problems. The test taking aspects of no child left behind is pretty much what the rest of the world does in education especially Japan.
Posted in: Obama: Money alone cannot solve U.S. school problems
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Noliving
Really? Is that why it is Americans, legal ones that are exclusively working in sewage treatment facilities, exclusively going into sewers, exclusively working in the garbage/waste industry?
You honestly believe that Americans find working in construction is degrading/beneath them? The primary reason why employers hire them is because they are willing to do the work for half the cost if not more. Washing dishes beneath them? Please tell that to every american who at home washes their dishes.
Americans are willing to do those jobs but they are not willing to do them for minimum wage, you can't raise a family on minimum wage, as much as the federal government loves to claim you can you can't. If your sick and tired of this view that Americans have then don't come to America illegally and if your currently in American illegally right now then leave, that is a statement to all potential illegals.
Posted in: Powell says illegal immigrants do his home repairs
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Noliving
Hiring an illegal in the US even if its more like contract work between 2 people and one of them is illegal in the US is against the law, however though you have to be able to prove that the person doing the hiring knew before hand or during the employment of the illegal that the person they hired was illegal or else you can't charge the employer.
Posted in: Powell says illegal immigrants do his home repairs
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Noliving
That isn't really a surprise though when you think about it considering generally how condescending those opinions are of America from Non-Americans. I would say the reason for the trash talk generally deals with how the message is being delivered not the message itself.
Posted in: Obama urges black voters to repel GOP in Nov elections
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Noliving
Here is some interesting commentary about the Tea Party by Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington DC Tony Harden:
By Toby Harnden World Last updated: September 16th, 2010 122 Comments Comment on this article Official Washington is in near meltdown over Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware Republican primary. Senior Republicans are apoplectic that they will (in their view) fail to gain the Delaware seat and therefore cannot win control of the Senate (which was a long shot in any case). There’s a glut of commentary and assumptions about the Tea Party and much of it is wrong. Here are some common mistakes:
The Tea Party will fade away. Christine O’Donnell’s victory confirms that it is a major electoral force. Many of those involved have not voted before. The movement is growing, not shrinking.
It will damage the Republican party. If the Republican party can harness its power, the electoral benefits could be huge. So far, the party hierarchy is being condescending and dismissive. But even if this continues, Republicans will benefit in November from the energy and excitement that the Tea Party is generating.
The Tea Party is racist. This charge is based on little more than a few signs that have appeared at some rallies (How many offensive signs are there an anti-war rallies? Many more than you can see at a Tea Party event) and some overheated statements by individuals. It’s essentially a Left-wing smear against the movement and it has failed.
Tea Party nominees are too extreme and will be defeated by Democrats in November. In isolated cases – including O’Donnell’s – this might be true. But Democrats are delusional is they think that a split on the right will save them in the mid-terms. For every Democrat who survives in this way, three or four will be swept away. And look at the polls in places like Kentucky and Florida where Rand Paul and Marco Rubio – until recently branded as unelectable – look like they’re on course for comfortable victories.
The Tea Party is part of the Republican party. It’s not. Tea partiers are conservatives but they have little interest in simply achieving a Republican Congress. Its ambitions are much bigger than that.
The Tea Party cannot elect a President. Until very recently, this seemed like a given. It now seems there is every chance that a Tea Party candidate – Sarah Palin? – can win the GOP nomination in 2012. And with the state the country’s in and the sinking popularity of President Barack Obama, theres every possibility that whoever the Republicans nominate will win.
The Tea Party can be told what to do. Republican leaders are finding out that this is simply not the case.
The Tea Party is full of loonies who believe masturbation is evil and dinosaur bones are fake. We’ll see a lot of citations of the “nutty” (K.Rove) opinions of Tea partiers – especially, for the next few days at least, by O’Donnell. But the broader Tea Party has little concern about social issues. It is primarily a low-tax, small-government movement.
The rise of the Tea Party shows that America is disintegrating. That’s certainly what you might think if you read all the liberal commentary about the Tea Party. But all this really illustrates is how the American elites have failed to grasp what is happening.
The Tea Party is an angry reaction to Obama’s 2008 victory, which was a true realignment of US politics. There was no political realignment in 2008. Obama won because he was anti-Bush and the country was in the mood for a complete change. It was not a mandate for increasing the national debt and growing government. While the Tea Party opposes Obama and all he stands for, it is not especially focussed on him personally. In fact, Congress – Democrats and Republicans – seems more unpopular than Obama among Tea partiers.
Posted in: Obama urges black voters to repel GOP in Nov elections
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Noliving
I disagree, I would say they are just as bad as the republicans as a whole but they are different in how bad compared to the republicans.
Posted in: Dems to voters: You may hate us, but GOP is worse
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Noliving
Yes it is, interesting enough if I'm not mistaken the IRA didn't go on a rampage when the pope john paul 2nd was shot by a turk.
Posted in: 6 nabbed in suspected terror plot against pope in UK
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Noliving
So then maybe the answer is that not only should we not vote for the republican party we should not vote for the democrat party, maybe its time both you guys be sidelined and we allow new parties to take power.
Posted in: Dems to voters: You may hate us, but GOP is worse
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Noliving
By that I'm talking about after the recession that came into effect in 2001 ended.
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Noliving
No my point can still stand, lower taxes can create jobs, it doesn't harm the argument at all. Yes maybe there is a certain zone of tax rates where it doesn't have much impact but that still doesn't make what I said not true. Most likely economic conditions dictate when a tax rate begins to affect an economy in a noticeable negative or positive way, during those last 3 years in the late 90's the economy was growing at a very healthy rate, in a recession though or slow growth periods higher taxes probably would hurt job creation.
My whole point in my original response was that the person claimed that bush's tax cuts did nothing in the early to mid 2000's to help create jobs, or if we take the post I'm quoting quite literally no jobs were ever created during the bush years the unemployment rate stayed the same year in and year out through the bush years, my argument is the fact that the unemployment rate went down and kept going down until 2008 would suggest that maybe bush's tax cuts did play a role in helping to create jobs, they certainly didn't hurt it. Basically I'm taking issue with the "no jobs" part of the quote.
The fact that companies in the US have moved their operations from one state to another because that state has lower taxes than the other state would suggest that lower taxes can play a role in job creation.
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Noliving
Its also important to keep in mind yabits that those tax cuts didn't cause the economy to collapse.
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Noliving
Guys guys you haven't even seen their faces yet.
Posted in: Kinect
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Noliving
I don't go by decade averages.
I didn't make anything up at all. In 2006 and 2007 the unemployment rate was 4.6% now in 98(just barely in 98)-2000 it was lower, but excluding those three years the unemployment rate had never been that low since 1968, however though once the recession(2001( ended and until the recession of 2008 the unemployment rate was going back down under Bush. So to suggest it doesn't work at all to create jobs or lower unemployment is just not true. I may have misspoken in claiming it was the lowest in decades, but my main point still stands. And for your info mrs. lincoln did enjoy the play.
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Noliving
Yes because sex is love is it not, especially between family members? I mean people kill in the name of love do they not?
Posted in: Kano sisters keep it behind closed doors
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Noliving
Well actually they did work, under bush jr. the US had its lowest unemployment rate in decades(2003-2007), that of course all came to end with the recession hitting big time at the very end of his second term.
Posted in: Senate Republicans say they'll block tax increase
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Noliving
Really? So we can expect to see incest and bestiality and sex with children?
Posted in: Kano sisters keep it behind closed doors