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
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Suzu1
Of course it was. The other mom (Pagan)acted like an adult, showed up at the deployment and explained her problem. If Hutchinson had shown up, she wouldn't have had to deploy and she wouldn't be facing the problems she is now.
Posted in: U.S. Army charges single mom who refused deployment
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Suzu1
Joe Biden got critized in the campaign for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy". That blew over and so will this. The media is just not willing to deal with the fact that today's Democratic party is led by limousine liberals who put one image out in public and another behind closed doors.
Posted in: Reid to Obama: Sorry for 'no Negro dialect' remark
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Suzu1
Earlier this week there was a news article out of Sinaloa, Mexico about a drug cartel hit in which the victim's face was cut off and stitched around a soccer ball.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/08/world/AP-LT-Drug-War-Mexico.html
Some Mexican newspapers have now stopped all reporting on crime after their reporters were kidnapped, tortured and killed by the cartels.
Posted in: 2 men decapitated, 2 women killed on Mexico border
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Suzu1
Not too long ago there was a controversy in Australia over a "comedic" performance in blackface by white Australians on a TV variety show. The celebrity guest that night was Harry Connick, Jr. who pointed out that it was offensive. The Australian public flew into a frenzy at the audacity of Connick. I lived in Australia and know that racist thinking persists. It is not worse than any other country or culture (are there any truly racist free socities or cultures - I don't think so). The difference is that Australians are very chauvinistic and cannot handle criticism.
Posted in: KFC pulls Australian ad over U.S. racism complaints
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Suzu1
The air marshals are trained and skilled at taking a head shot. That may be the only way to stop a terrorist from setting the detonator that will set off the main charge. That is the reason that the British anti-terrorist police delivered seven head shots at close range on the Brazilian mistaken for a terrorist on the Stockwell subway after he had already been overpowered.
Posted in: Do you think it is a good idea to have armed guards on planes as an anti-terrorism measure?
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Suzu1
Air marshals are proficient in close quarter combat (CQC). The use of a firearm is a last option - an option that has to be available to ensure success of the air marshal's mission.
Posted in: Do you think it is a good idea to have armed guards on planes as an anti-terrorism measure?
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Suzu1
Many countries deploy armed air marshals on commercial flights in and out of their airports, among them Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Austria, Germany and others. Anyone who is on a flight with a homicidal jihadist on board is going to hope there is an armed air marshal on board.
Posted in: Do you think it is a good idea to have armed guards on planes as an anti-terrorism measure?
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Suzu1
Stewart Baker has posed ten great questions on this failed terror attempt:
Early reports about the failed Christmas bombing of NW 253 raise questions that need answers. Because, frankly, if the reports are true, al Qaeda never should have gotten this close to a successful attack.
According to early reports, the suspect is 23-year-old Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, and his name "appears to be included in the government's records of terrorist suspects, according to a preliminary review." The first question, then, is how he managed to get a visa to come to the United States.
One report suggested that the visa was granted to attend a religious meeting. Is there some political correctness problem that makes State reluctant to deny visas for such travel?
A visa might have been granted for a good reason (a chance to interrogate or arrest him) but only in circumstances where he was watched closely. At a minimum, data about him should have gone to DHS and FBI from State. Did it?
Even if it didn't, TSA and DHS should have identified him as a possible risk from his travel reservations. Did they? If not, why not?
If they did, was he screened specially at Schiphol? Did DHS put an air marshal on his flight?
Sometimes travel reservation data is spotty and badly recorded, but that shouldn't be true for the passenger manifests that NW should have sent to DHS. Those should come straight off the passport. Did it? Should airlines be held liable for deaths caused by bad manifest information?
How good was the air travel screening in Nigeria?
If it wasn't that good, and I suspect it wasn't, in part because the plane was not bound for the US, did Schiphol fall down on the job by not properly rescreening Abdulmutallab?
Have we let European objections to US screening standards affect the security of flights with connecting passengers?
One passenger is said to have helped thwart the attack by climbing over several less active passengers to grapple with the terrorist, apparently suffering burns to his hands in the process. How long will it take Secretary Napolitano (at least) or President Obama (my preference) to visit this guy in the hospital if these facts turn out to be true? Passengers are the last and most effective line of defense in cases like this. But the incentives to sit tight are still great. We need to honor the heroes who react quickly to thwart attacks in the air.
Posted in: Nigerian man sets off explosive device on plane landing in Detroit
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Suzu1
Private health insurance stocks have surged with the development of this bill. Follow the money. Obama in his unseemly scramble to get votes whatever the cost has now set up a system where the government will force citizens to buy health insurance from a private health insurance monopoly.
Obama campaigned against individual mandates for buying insurance. That is now part of the bill. Obama campaigned that that health insurance reform would be funded through repeal of the Bush tax cuts on the rich. It is now going to be funded through new taxes.
Posted in: Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care
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Suzu1
Libertas - Apparently you approve of the pre-emptive arrests the Danish police conducted under an anti-hooliganism law. In any case, where you were standing must not have offered a good view.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6799264/Copenhagen-climate-summit-1000-anarchists-arrested.html
Posted in: Nearly 1,000 climate protesters released
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Suzu1
This is a classic example of how ignorant most people are of the actual situation in the U.S. Very few people carry guns on their person. Even among those who have concealed carry permits, most don't carry on a regular basis.
If you are not part of the drug culture and are not associated with gang activity it is very unlikely that you will ever experience gun violence. This is why when cases come up in which innocent individuals are shot IT MAKES THE NEWS.
Posted in: Gun laws are getting looser across much of U.S.
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Suzu1
“We’ll rest when all 50 states allow and respect the right of law-abiding people to defend themselves from criminal attack.”
Wouldn't it be better to spend more time and energy on not spawning so many violent criminal types?
Both efforts should be supported.
Posted in: Gun laws are getting looser across much of U.S.
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Suzu1
Here is the open letter ATF sent to all Montana firearms dealers informing them that the new State law did not relieve them of any responsibilities they had prior to the law's passage:
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2009/07/071609-openletter-ffl-montana-legislation.pdf
An identical letter was sent to Tennessee dealers.
Posted in: Gun laws are getting looser across much of U.S.
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Suzu1
This article is misleading in its mention of state laws passed in Tennessee and Montana. ATF, the agency responsible for enforcing Federal gun laws, has made it clear that the law does not provide any relief from Federal law. There has been no change whatsoever in the enforcement of laws.
If the U.S. does ban guns, it should start with all the foreign manufacturs first - no more Sig Sauer (Switzerland), Glock (Germany), Heckler & Koch (Germany), Taurus (Brazil), Sako (Finland), Star (Spain), Beretta (Italy), FEG (Hungary), FN (Belgium), Walther (Germany), IMI (Israel), Izhmash (Russia), Norinco (China), CZ (Czech Republic), Miroku (Japan), MKE (Turkey) and Astra (Spain) among others. Then see how much the world reacts to gun control efforts in the U.S.
Posted in: Gun laws are getting looser across much of U.S.
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Suzu1
DickMorris - "The Liberal elite have firends in high places in the "eco industry" who will win big time from policies made at these type of conferences."
How? Please name names.
The first carbon billionaire Albert Gore. You know, man who buys carbon offsets for his affluent lifestyle from the carbon credit company he owns funded by his father's shares in Occidental Petroleum.
Posted in: Climate summit opens with boost from U.S.
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Suzu1
Maybe I'll believe in climate change (funny how the term "global warming" went away went the average temperatures failed to rise over the last decade) when its proponents began acting in their personal lives like it is a threat. The Copenhagen climate summit participants are flying in over 140 private jets and will be ferried around in over 1200 limousines. A couple of weeks ago Al Gore was in my city to promote his latest book and he arrived at the venue - in a convoy of SUV's!
Now we know that the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia has been falsifying its research and actively suppressing data that challenges the dominant paradigm of the new environmental religion. But it may be too late from stopping the politicians and inviduals profitting from the climate change scare from spending trillions of dollars that would be better spent improving the lives of billions of people.
Posted in: Climate summit opens with boost from U.S.
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Suzu1
Michael Moore must be crushed that Obama is ignoring his unsolicited advice.
Posted in: Moore urges Japan to recover caring social security system
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Suzu1
There is no evidence that is the case at all. Clemmons was reported to have been in the house by a relative. He apparently took off before police arrived.
It is nice to see all these new converts to the side against pardons and other measures to reduce prison sentence, even if it took Republican involvement to make it politically desirable for them to take up the cause. Now can we expect them to vociferously oppose the calls for pardons for cop-killers Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Posted in: Suspect in police killings holed up in Seattle house
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Suzu1
Good grief, these stories bring out the most ridiculous comments from the trolls.
Posted in: Suspect in police killings holed up in Seattle house
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Suzu1
Nine children lost their parents in this horrible atrocity.
The media is playing up the Huckabee pardon. That pardon occured nine years ago after Clemmons served 11 years in prison. The governor of Washington, Christine Gregoire, needs to explain why this man was on the streets after eight felonies in Washington and a recent arrest for child rape.
Posted in: Suspect in police killings holed up in Seattle house