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
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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SushiSake3
Yanee, Ford pulled through partly because they had lower legacy costs, I think due to a smaller present and past workforce.
Skipbeat, gWB's administration threw away $750 billion in their bailout - no strings attached. Conservatives said nothing.
Obama's bailout came with strings and they have been getting repayments, especially from the big finance cos.
The current crop of Republicans is essentially the same financially irresponsible rabble as the ones who oversaw the tanking of the U.S. and global economies under bUsH.
Conservatives now appear to think the same leopard is somehow a different leopard.
Posted in: Obama budget: New spending with recycled tax ideas
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SushiSake3
Skipbeat, comparing debt under bush and Obama is dumb, and hopefully you know it.
Obama inherited a skyrocketing debt spiral from bush. Would you rather GM had gone under and stayed under? The Dems turned that around, as they did the economy by pumping it with stimulus dollars, another thing conservatives appear to have not wanted to do, which would have been if for the US economy in the short to medium term.
What gets me is how the same GOP folk who green lighted every spending bill under bush are now taking issue with spending bills presented by Obama's team, a lot of it which is actually tagged to investing in America as opposed to foreign conflicts.
Some would call that treasonous.
For conservatives, it's modus operandi.
Posted in: Obama budget: New spending with recycled tax ideas
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SushiSake3
Yanee, the GOP had 8 years to get the budget under control.
They did nothing of the sort, in fact they let it get out of control which is why it is a burning issue today.
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SushiSake3
'The president’s plan is laden with stimulus-style initiatives: sharp increases for highway construction and school modernization, and a new tax credit for businesses that add jobs.'
'No.'
That's what we're going to hear from Republicans on this.
But their ongoing opposition to investing in America makes sense, I mean why bother investing in America and her infrastructure when budget funds can be spent far more wisely by keeping taxes low for the rich, a tactic that has been proven to have zero correlation to economic growth and near 100% correlation with bringing good times for managers of offshore tax havens.
Why bother investing in America when conservatives can constantly and incessantly complain about massive budget deficits while not supporting any new revenue gathering policies to help address the issue?
Why bother investing in America and her infrastructure when conservatives can waste valuable time pretending to care about social issues instead of creating jobs, the latter of which they actually DO have a strategy for.
It's just a pity that strategy involves wrenching the level of America's morality back to that of the 17th century while virtually guaranteeing a majority of Americans will be able to experience first hand the fun and joys of living in a 19th century poor house.
But that's the Conservative Dream.
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SushiSake3
The conservative screechfest that was CPAC highlighted 2 interesting points:
1/ As is widely known, conservatives just don't like, don't trust and don't want Mitt. Which makes the words of those who 'want' Romney to emerge as the frontrunner as hollow and insincere as those of conservatives in general who say they are 'pro-life' while being ready at the drop of a hat to let mothers die of birth complications, while supporting the death penalty, and while supporting bombing of innocent foreign citizens in pointless hugely costly foreign wars and then complaining about spiraling budget deficits.
2/ Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP VP pick who at that time got conservatives palpably frothing with excitement to a degree almost but not quite as much as when they talk about slashing social security, MedicCare, etc. for their own mothers and grandmothers, wants the 2012 GOP nomination process to keep going.
No doubt because she thinks she still has a chance and may well be carried around on the shoulders of her equally anti-American, anti-women, anti-non Christian supporters at a brokered convention and slip in without even having to debate, let alone answer any of those 'gotcha' questions fielded by the 'liberal-controlled' 'media elite.'
Sorry Sarah, conservatives already made one huge mistake in 2008 when they made you think you were a serious candidate.
Don't make an equally huge mistake by believing you actually are.
Posted in: Romney's presidential bid gets boost with Maine win
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SushiSake3
Religous institutions think they can enjoy all the benefits of government and taxpayer subsidies and still claim complete autonomy. They remind of me of 18 year olds still living in their parent's house
Posted in: Obama compromises on birth control policy
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SushiSake3
Conservatives want it both ways -
They shriek about their 'pro-life' credentials and protecting the lives of the unborn while barely giving a hoot about:
1/ the lives of mothers - many of who have dependents - that may be put in peril due to NOT being able to have an abortion
2/ the death penalty
3/ bombing defenseless citizens in other countries.
Q: why the blatant double standards?
They howl about their religious freedoms being imposed on, while thinking nothing at all when they impose their religious beliefs - absolutely none of which can be proven - on others.
Q: Again, why the blatant double standards??
And, let's not forget the religious types in America say they believe in a god whose - apparently - first commandment to the prophet Moses was 'Thou shall not kill.'
That's the first commandment.
And yet if you take a cursory look though the Old Testament, in particular the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, you'll find a god who killed everything on the face of the planet in the Noah flood, committed genocide against the Amelekites, specifically ordered infanticide, rape (i can provide at least 10 specific verses of this if anyone is interested), murder of women, the elderly, animals, you name it.
Q: How many Christiana in America would question this? Very few, I would guess. Yet again, why the blatant double standards??
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SushiSake3
SS - "SS; The US is NOT out of Iraq. Have you seen the plans for the new 'embassy"? It includes a staff of 16,000!! Gee, wonder who they are...."
Yes, I saw that.
Two things you may not have known:
1/ it's not exactly new - they've been building it for years next to the Tigris.
2/ word came out yesterday the DoD is planning to slash the embassy head count by 50% to 8,000, basically because thanks largely to geedub's wild war spending spree and tax cuts, there's not much money left in the jar.
Posted in: Republicans pitch selves to conservative gathering
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SushiSake3
The chin-stroking conservative types are getting their butts handed to them on this thread.
:-)
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SushiSake3
Madverts - "Thnaks for clearing that up sushi, many of us were un-sure of your stance towards conservatives."
It's a pleasure. Always happy to help. :-)
Posted in: Republicans pitch selves to conservative gathering
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SushiSake3
unreconstructed - "As if your hero "Mr Obama" has scaled down on either of those fronts. "
Out of Iraq. Scaling back in Afghanistan.
I'd probably have the same opinion as you if I only watched Fox News, too.
Posted in: Republicans pitch selves to conservative gathering
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SushiSake3
Seductively conservative, or in Mitt's case liberally conservative.
I'm not American or conservative, however if I were, I would be soooooo embarrassed not just personally but for my country that this bunch of morally bankrupt, anti-freedom, anti-women hypocrites were the best the conservatives could offer.
Posted in: Republicans pitch selves to conservative gathering
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SushiSake3
Interesting point...most of the spent nuclear fuel rods in the States are located next to the plants they were pulled out of.
So imagine each spent rod as a red dot next to each reactor on the map, and as the years go by, more and more dots appear around each reactor.
In contrast, in Japan, I believe most/all spent fuel rods are taken (presumably by road and hopefully(!) in a way that does not expose people to radiation) to a storage site in Aomori, nearby residents of which apparently receive large regular payments to have the site nearby.
Posted in: U.S. approves first new nuclear plants in 3 decades
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SushiSake3
Dragging America down in the race to the bottom.
It's one of the few things conservatives excel in.
Posted in: Birth control row 'senseless': top Obama ally
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SushiSake3
That's probably because if you don't include plant construction costs and the 1 in a million chance of a meltdown during a plant's lifetime, it generally is.
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SushiSake3
I saw a comment on an abortion-related thread after that Alabama (?) law went up in smoke where a worker at a health clinic in the state said he was always surprised at how many Christian conservative women were coming in to have abortions.
The poster stated the most common comments from these women were 'I never thought it (an unplanned pregnancy) would happen to me."
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SushiSake3
There's even conservative evangelical women out there who want to strip other women of the right to decide what to do with their own bodies....you can't make this type of stuff up.
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SushiSake3
The only 'war' being waged in this case is the ongoing war conservatives are waging to strip rights to choice, freedom, health and dignity from women in America.
That's the war that matters and that's the war the conservatives must lose.
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SushiSake3
'Republicans, seizing an opportunity to hammer the White House, have accused Obama of waging war on religious freedom....•
Lol!!!
Good try, but it's clear as day the GOP is only making this an issue to divert attention from the fact that their nutcase mob of presidential candidates are devoid of any credible strategies to right the economy that aren't simply totally laughable.
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SushiSake3
Misguided and foolish.
Why, I believe most of America's energy needs going forward well into this century could be met by plugging any RNC meeting into the national grid, thereby eliminating the need to build any new nuclear reactors......:-)
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