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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TPOJ
Global standards? Do you mean Western standards (where the sport is non-existent), rules and procedures?
How about "global" standards where blatant racism, cheating, and shameless dishonesty are frowned upon?
I get that you're concerned about cultural insensitivity, but this is a ridiculous time to play that card.
If you don't like the hand you or Roho or Wakanoho have been dealt, pack it up and go home.
Yes, run away. Good plan.
If the posts here irritate you, stop coming here. Don't voice your opinion, just pack it up and go home.
It's nice that you think you're standing for something, but all context aside, your arguments are trainwrecks of hilariously poor logic. I happen to think you're wrong, but if you ARE right, you have a responsibility to present your side with more reason than you have. Otherwise, you're just going to be mocked, right or wrong.
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TPOJ
It had nothing to do with Bush, who in fact is known as a prudent president.
By WHO??!?!
Y'know, all politics aside, your debate style is atrocious. If you are, by some chance, "right," then nobody would be able to tell from your third grade level rhetoric.
I'd like to point out that Iran's leader has the credibility of a Branch Davidian. As does Bush. The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
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TPOJ
Castration, amputation of their weapons (i.e. hands), and being forced to live as slaves are all punishments that I would happily inflict on those who hurt kids.
Look, child abuse angers me to the point that I get goosebumps, but do we really need to become animals in retaliation?
Castrated people can, and likely will, still abuse kids. Sexual abuse is not just about getting your rocks off. Same with amputees. And slaves? Come on.
Other people's failings do not excuse your personal degradation. I agree the punishment should be harsh, but you don't need to sell your soul in the name of revenge.
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TPOJ
They are saying they do not deserve to live for the suffering they caused. No one can deny that that is the ultimate sense of taking responsibility.
I'll deny it.
Your argument would make sense, except for the fact that these people only kill themselves after they're caught.
Maybe after an accident, or being caught for a one time thing (even then, it's extremely questionable.) But when you do something for years and only "atone" when people find out about it? Bulls***.
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TPOJ
Why would anyone protest? o_0
Yeah, there can be complications. There can be complications from buying a sandwich at a convenience store.
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TPOJ
So Michelle stayed with the kids in Chicago. What, couldn't find a sitter?
Is she running?
Wait, YOU? Complain about a Democrat?!?!?!?!
Holy crap. Let me mark my calendar.
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TPOJ
There's a lot of brilliant stuff in the past, and a lot of avant garde stuff as well.
I'm actually in Japan specifically to research Jrock. I started a site as a reference:
http://www.jrawk.com
It's still pretty new, but it's growing...
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TPOJ
HAHAHAHAHAHA...
Damn, the country could use a few more hundred thousand of her.
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TPOJ
Those like Obama that may try to score some political points from this are just weak.
Almost as weak as people who make stuff up.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/01/obama-back-palin-family/
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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TPOJ
sorry, but even though...
Is this some new trend in political discourse? Ignore the other side's points, then ramble on with so many logical fallacies and bizarre assertions that the opposition simple surrenders out of frustration?
Enough with the hypotheticals. Deal with what's actually happening.
Look, if you people are going to judge who you vote for because something their adult in many places kids are going to do, then I pity you.
Don't be disingenuous. She's pushing a method that she couldn't get to work in her own family. It's not Bristol's actions that are the bone of contention here.
If find myself judging candidates lately but what I read from bloggers.
That's...not a coherent sentence. I THINK you're trying to say that you're judging candidates by what bloggers say about them.
Now, if that's true, then you have no room to judge :P
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TPOJ
I wasn't arguing anything.
Oh, come on. You're telling me you had no point? Do you know what the word "arguing" means?
Barack Obama was. And his words followed, logically one could say, from his documented actions - his indisputable support for infanticide while he was still in the Illinois legislature.
...which you interpret in a certain way, and which you presented to us with the clear intention of proving something.
His stance on abortion is not relevant to this discussion.
What. Did. You. Think. He. Was. Trying. To. Say? Why is this question so...challenging for you?
And there's nothing wrong with the word "abortion." Use your words.
"Infanticide" is when a child is killed after birth.
Facts do not become optional or irrelevant just because you've convinced yourself of something.
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TPOJ
Barack Obama on video, explaining that he is all about ethics and morals but wouldn't want one of his daughters, if still a teen, to be "punished with a baby". You know, like his own mother was...
Y'know, I'm trying to give you credit, but that was flat out moronic.
The consequences of mistakes are punishments. If I drink and drive, I may be punished with permanent injury (or death) from a car crash. If a teenager makes a stupid decision, the punishment may be an unplanned, unwanted child.
There is nothing wrong with making this point.
Are you arguing that he intended to say that a pregnancy is necessarily a punishment? Because that's unsupportable, childish, and logically unsound.
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TPOJ
Astonishing how quickly down the Memory Hole went John F Kerry's disgusting...
You have legitimate questions directed at you in this thread. Enough with the distractions.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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TPOJ
What is wrong with teaching people to abstain?
If it works, nothing.
It doesn't work. Hence, there's a LOT wrong with it.
Teaching it in conjunction with other information is fine. It's that "only" thing that sticks in people's craw.
Additionally, you all know if it were the Obama's and blah blah blah
Don't be a child. There's plenty of real life situations to deal with. There's no need to create something to feel self righteous about over what some vague group of whoever might do if some similar situation were to occur...
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TPOJ
Contrast the coverage this is getting with the mainstream media's reluctance to cover the unplanned pregnancy of John Edwards.
The Edwards incident still has quite a bit of doubt. Andrew Young has taken responsibility for the pregnancy. The lack of reporting is most likely due to this, and concern over libel.
Do 'liberals' actually think that young, media-savvy American voters don't notice the hypocrisy?
Frankly, most of them are so used to alarmist, poorly informed, partisan BS like this that they roll their eyes at the "liberal media" whine.
Groups like PETA, Greenpeace, etc. have good ideas at heart. But the blatant lack of emotional maturity in those groups undercuts their message so thoroughly that they're stuck preaching to the converted. There's a similar problem with the "oh noes LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!!" crowd. Things aren't as clear cut as you'd have us believe. Sorry.
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TPOJ
Question: If it had been one of Obama's daughters who'd become pregnant as an unmarried high-schooler, would any of you, on the right or left, change the statements you've posted above?
Well, do Obama or Biden have a history of pushing laughably unworkable plans concerning teen pregnancy, even in the face of complete failure in their OWN FAMILY? If yes, then my above point would still stand.
If no, then it would be irrelevant.
Not every point is based on partisanship.
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TPOJ
Because her daughter did not practice the morals her mother advocates, does not mean Palin is a hypocrite.
Fair enough.
It DOES leave the door wide open for a perfectly valid criticism, though. If she can't make these ideas work within her own family, she clearly possesses neither the aptitude or the moral right to push it on other people.
Abstinence only education is laughably ineffective. As pointed out, Palin is a strong advocate, and there's a failure right under her nose, by a kid SHE RAISED. If you think this is insignificant, there's no getting through to you.
If you can't make something work privately, you have no ethical right to take charge of it publicly. This is common sense so blatantly obvious it makes my teeth hurt.
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TPOJ
No sitting U.S. president or vice president has ever visited Hiroshima.
OK, that's screwed up.
Seriously? At no point did ANYone visit? I know that Presidents, et al can't just go galavanting around for the Hell of it (current US President notwithstanding,) but NOBODY?
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TPOJ
ASbsolutely disgusting that he is on TV. Where is the outrage?
Sorry. Too many adults.
Gender and sex are two different things. But, of course, a guy like you knew that already.
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TPOJ
how does a 2 year old go missing?
Never spent much time around a 2 year old, have you?
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