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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WhiteHawk
May she live on forever in the hearts of those who knew her.
Posted in: Missing U.S. teacher's body located in Ishinomaki
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WhiteHawk
Gagger "donated" money paid by others for bracelets someone else made. Not quite the same to me as Ms Bullock donating directly from her own funds, but oh well. Thanks are in order for the people who bought those bracelets.
Posted in: Eastwood, Bullock each donate $1 million to earthquake relief
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WhiteHawk
And what does the U.S. have? An unhealthy economy. Japan, don't make our mistakes.
Which is exactly the attitude that has been the ruin of U.S. society for decades, and trillions of dollars.
I see, at my current job, people on welfare and food stamps (EBT cards) who seem to have plenty of money for the latest phones, fashionable clothes and jewelry and tattoos. Quite frustrating, and frankly insulting to the rest of us.
Posted in: How-to books on living comfortably on welfare selling well
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WhiteHawk
Could it just be potheads are getting older? The 60's were some time ago... ;)
Posted in: Crimes soar among Japan's senior citizens
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WhiteHawk
Cleo! Glad to see you're still among us! A few people said you live in the northeast, and I was genuinely worried about you.
As Sarge noted, the U.S. State Dept. advised Americans to not travel to Japan during this crisis. If I were a trained in rescue or an EMT, or could help in any way, I would be there as fast as I could. But since I can't be of help at this time, I'm staying here and donating what little money I have left to aid agencies.
The last thing Japan needs is more people using what resources they have available. Fuel needs to be reserved for emergency and relief vehicles. Medicine needs to be transported, and blankets delivered to keep people warm in the shelters.
But when the time comes, and Japan has the resources to support tourism again, I'll be back over there.
Posted in: U.S.-Japan air traffic declines
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WhiteHawk
arrestpaul:
Oh, but she's just an innocent little girl! A child!
;)
Posted in: Obama, at Arizona memorial service, says polarized nation needs healing
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WhiteHawk
I see and interact with the "less fortunate" on an almost daily basis. Most of them are just "gaming the system". They play on the guilt of the "compassionate".
If those were the only reasons for the health-care reform legislation, then there wouldn't have been so much opposition (65% of those polled) to it.
Gas prices averaged under $1.80 when Obama took office. They're averaging over $3.00 now.
Posted in: Tea partiers keeping an eye on those they backed
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WhiteHawk
Ever look in the mirror?
You have made it sufficiently clear that you're going to believe whatever you want, despite any and all evidence to the contrary. You downplay Kenneth Gladney's injuries, then turn around and exaggerate Lauren Valle's treatment. You link the Tea Party and the GOP, but refuse to ignore the connection between violent left-wing groups and the DNC, despite their decades-long history of common goals, ideals, donors and supporters.
My hope is that President Obama and the members of his administration and cabinet start telling the truth. Then - maybe - their sycophantic enablers in the media and on forums will follow suit.
Looks like it's gonna be a looooong wait.
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WhiteHawk
Ah. So, according to your version of history, government spending and debt only made the Great Depression last longer, until that spending and debt was seriously increased. I guess that explains why those who criticized Bush for spending and deficits then voted for Obama to increase both exponentially.
The interesting thing is, it's not working... again.
Prior to WWII, FDR spent massive amounts of money on "busy work"; work that was designed to keep people busy, but not necessarily productive. We didn't have productivity until we had to build factories, planes, ships, tank, guns, etc., for the war effort.
And again, Obama is spending massive amounts of money on unemployment benefits, food stamps, some busy work, "green initiatives" and other non-productive bottomless pits. Where is the productivity? Where is the genuine progress? Where is the growth? Instead, food prices are rising, fuel prices are rising, while jobs and income are still low and stagnant.
Oh yeah, that's forward.
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WhiteHawk
You were doing well, right up until that last bit. It's not the gun dealers. They have to obey state and federal laws such as not selling to anyone who doesn't pass the FBI background check. Gun dealers can lose their license - and many have. So claiming that they can "sell guns to anyone without fear of any punishment" is completely false.
Here in Tennessee, we have gun shows from time to time. People attempt to buy and sell guns in the parking lot outside the events, not knowing that there are vans, pickups and RVs with Metro police and TBI agents filming sales and photographing people and license plates. A lot of arrests and gun confiscations have resulted from those efforts. More states should follow that example.
How, exactly? Since the problem is a lack of enforcement of existing gun laws, how do the gun manufacturers "slow up the political wheels" of enforcing gun laws?
If America doesn't enforce the existing gun laws, how could it enforce a ban? Especially when bordering Mexico. Sorry, but that's an even more impractical and unrealistic solution than making alcohol illegal, which we tried before.
Teaching is a two-way street. Have you learned anything from this discussion? Or did you think you were here solely to teach those who actually live in America and own guns?
By the way, did you know that more women have carry permits in Tennessee than men? By an almost 3-1 ratio, in fact. Do you know why? It's not about being cowboys, or Dirty Harry. It's about not being the next rape, kidnapping or murder victim. Gun ownership does more to make women equal in our society than the National Organization for Women.
Posted in: Arizona shooting victim arrested after threat to tea party leader
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WhiteHawk
Where did I say I "bought it"? SolidariTea didn't mention the name of the article, much less provide a link, so how could I read it? My comment was exactly as it would appear to a reasonable person: Don't hold your breath. Waiting for left-wing forum hacks to apologize for politicizing a tragedy and using it to demonize conservatives would be like waiting for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to renounce Islam and become a rabbi.
Posted in: Obama, at Arizona memorial service, says polarized nation needs healing
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WhiteHawk
Um, no. That is false, not to mention a ridiculous idea to float or use as a defense. I doubt even Robert Gibbs would go that far.
Of course, if you insist on using that line of thought (can't rightly call it logic or reasoning), I can tuck that bit of info away and use it against one of your arguments in the future. We'll see how valid you think it is when the political tables are turned the other way.
... perhaps to someone with the luxury of watching it over and over in slow motion on YouTube. But to the people on the scene, at that moment, they saw a person swinging a sizable object at the head of another human being. You can second-guess all you want, but it's pointless.
Lower neck? First you said "head", now you say "lower neck". How many more posts before you admit that it was the shoulder?
Then why haven't you?
Posted in: Obama, at Arizona memorial service, says polarized nation needs healing
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WhiteHawk
Should have read "why can't you".
Posted in: Arizona shooting victim arrested after threat to tea party leader
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WhiteHawk
No, the Keynesian policies of FDR and the New Deal kept the Great Depression going with no end in sight. Only the productivity necessary for WWII created the labor market and economy the country needed.
Posted in: Tea partiers keeping an eye on those they backed
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WhiteHawk
SolidariTea:
Don't hold your breath.
Speaking of the NYT, a recent article (Looking Behind the Mug-Shot Grin), noted that Loughner's "anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush".
Posted in: Obama, at Arizona memorial service, says polarized nation needs healing
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WhiteHawk
So you don't deny that a presidential candidate had a political history with a domestic terrorist? I asked you before to show where Ayers renounced his terrorist ways. You haven't provided anything.
Nope. The Tea Party hasn't beaten, shot or killed anyone. The Black Panthers did.
She struck Rand Paul in the face with her "small" cardboard sign.
It speaks volumes about your double standards. There was no way to know that she was going to stop at hitting Paul with her sign. There was no way to know she wasn't armed, like the 22-year-old "boy" was last week. Your Monday-morning quarterbacking is as worthless as it is desperate.
Other than sharing ideals, goals, and sometimes members with them.
Man, that's some desperate stretching. It would be funny, except you believe every word of it. Watch the video again. She was already on the ground, her head was not forced against the curb.
By the way, I do not condone the actions of the person who put his foot on her shoulder. She was already sufficiently restrained, although he might not have realized it at that time.
But strike him she did, intentionally or not.
And you're still deflecting. I see you have no answers or counters for my other questions and points. I'll take that to mean you concede on those points.
Posted in: Obama, at Arizona memorial service, says polarized nation needs healing
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WhiteHawk
Forward? Towards what? A healthy, growing economy? No, Obama made it clear when he was campaigning that he was more interested in his (and the Left's) idea of a "fair" economy. And we're seeing that in action. More people on food stamps than ever before and rising. More people unemployed and underemployed than in several decades. More new taxes levied, and more entitlement programs. None of which could even remotely spark substantive economic growth. And this is all with Obama's (and the Left's) blessing.
Where's your debt ceiling, yabits?
Posted in: Tea partiers keeping an eye on those they backed
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WhiteHawk
Ah, but you just said:
So are adequate laws possible, or aren't they? Pick one.
Well if they're a no-brainer, then how come nobody on the left has come up with them either? And that includes you, lad. I asked you before what laws are needed, and you said:
... but you haven't. Still.
No, that's collective responsibility. Personal responsibility is when the individual bears the responsibility on their own.
"enlightened"... hahaha, for the love of...
Steps were taken. Laws were passed. One political hack sheriff didn't do his job and - you know the rest. You keep saying that there should be a "greater wall" put in place, but when asked for suggestions, you can't come up with anything. For all of your posturing and calling those who disagree with you as "too dumb", why you can't even answer your own questions, much less anybody else's?
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WhiteHawk
I guess that means you won't be answering my previous question (Like what, exactly?) as you said you would on another thread.
It's true that there are no laws adequate to prevent violence. Yet there are those on the Left who seem to expect exactly that from yet more laws. The only practical solution is to prepare yourself. But that comes down to personal responsibility, to which those on the Left seem to be averse. Just think of it as wearing a motorcycle helmet, or wearing a seatbelt, or buying a car with airbags.
How ironic that the same people who want more laws to prevent violence ridicule those who prepare themselves in case of violence as "paranoid". Neither group wants to be the victim of violence. One group wants others to bear the responsibility, with more laws on top of other good laws which aren't always enforced. The other group embraces their own responsibility for themselves and uses a tactic proven effective for self-defense.
Just sayin'.
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WhiteHawk
yabits:
Your lone example "violent rhetoric" at a GOP event is a candidate mentioning the FACT that a DNC candidate has a political history with an admitted domestic terrorist. Your lone example of Tea Party "violence" is the restraining of a violent left-wing protester.
I have made the case that left-wing groups such as Weather Underground, the (New) Black Panthers, the SEIU and others not only share goals and ideals (and sometimes members) with the DNC, they act as de facto support groups for the DNC. You have not made a substantive argument to counter that. I have also asked you which groups on the right do they same for the GOP, and you have no answer.
Did the Republican elect Bob Dole? No? Fascinating.
Apparently, you're again being selective with which videos you'll watch: v=yiLeud-sxrM
At no time did anyone step on her head. v=SbnEy_U9pYk
No such thing. Admittedly, in the world of the Left, a 23-year-old is still considered a "child" (such as the Left's rhetoric about "Bush sending your children off to die"), but on the right, a 23-year-old is an adult fully responsible for their actions.
Which she used to strike Rand Paul, as seen in the first video.
No, apparently not.
I see you have no answers or counters for my other questions and points. I'll take that to mean you concede on those points.
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