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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UsernameTaken
I was watching the original on cable the other night. I believe that the Japanese title was "Subway Panic".
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Well, hooray for police brutality! Definitely something to be proud of.
Posted in: Man feigns death for 3 hours to avoid police questioning in Osaka
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Eleventy Billlllion Dollars!!!!
Most people don't realize that the Canadian economy is based enirely on maple syrup and spam emails.
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I'd like to congratulate dimpleGel. In the future, Internet Scholars will point at this post as a textbook lesson in "How to Spot a Concern Troll; 2008 Election Edition".
User's first post on the message board? Check.
The required "I'm a Democrat, but..." line? Check.
Adding minor criticism of actual preferred candidate - McCain - as smokescreen? Check.
Use of standard Republican talking points? Check. A Dog Whistle line, "wolf in sheep's clothing"? Check.
Ending with "Not that I really care, either way. I'm just saying, is all."? Check.
All good stuff but very standard. However, this line makes it gold medal level trolling:
Having the moxy to write something as brain-damagingly stupid as this and slide it into your post as if no one would notice; that is really going above and beyond.
And as far as right-wing books being best sellers, always take it with a grain of salt. There are a lot of right-wing sugar daddies (the Coors family and Richard Mellon Scaife, for example) out there willing to spend a fortune buying books in bulk to make it appear like there is some public support for their crazier ideas. If you actually want to buy something from Regenery Press, don't buy it from Amazon.com, google the Conservative Book Club instead. You see, Regenery owns the Conservative Book Club and "sells" them their books for huge discounts - racking up "sales" numbers - and the Conservative Book Club then tries to unload them on anyone who will take them for as little as $1 each. In fact, Jerome Corsi, one of the authors listed above, sued Regenery over the practice claiming that they were ripping him off on his commission on each sale. The idiot correctly identified it as a scam but mistakenly seemed to believe that he would actually have any sales if his books weren't being dumped on the market for $1 each. Apparently someone took Jerome aside and explained the way things work to him because he's back with Regenery.
And why do they dump their books on the market? Well, so that Hannity and the whole Fox News gang have an excuse to invite them on the air to discuss whatever garbage it is that the Republican party wants out there but doesn't want to be officially linked to. I mean, does anyone believe that people actually buy Anne Coulter's books?
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Picture of the Day is good for telling me what I missed but does anyone know a good English website that lists events like these before they take place?
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UsernameTaken
It isn't really a badness scale.
First Degree means that the homicide was premeditated (planned in advance). Second Degree simply means that the homicide wasn't premeditated. Manslaughter is when the homicide is a result of another activity (like running a red light). He will not be charged with manslaughter.
Due to the nature of the crime he may very well be declared a "Dangerous Offender" which would mean that he'd be sent to jail indefinitely (if convicted).
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