JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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WhiteHawk
Hahaha, that's why internet forums were invented: Their spouses stopped listening.
This is the first I've heard of this accident, but not the first I've heard of the recall. I doubt it mattered if the driver was a CHiP, as police officers in the U.S. aren't known for being the best drivers. Or the best shots, for that matter.
I don't understand this mentality of calling 911 first either. Someone can't remember to put the car in neutral and use the handbrake because they're panicked, but they can dial 911, talk to the operator and pray? Next thing you know, people will call 911 if a drive-thru gets their junk food order wrong. Oh, wait...
Now if an experienced racing driver had a fatal accident because of the floor mat, especially if there was time to call 911 and pray, I would be surprised. But the lack of driver training and testing in the U.S. means that just about anything can cause a driver to "lose control" of their car (as if they ever had control in the first place).
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WhiteHawk
nigelboy:
Franklin, TN is routinely rated one of the best places in the US to live and raise a family. Even the public schools are quite good, and the private schools are better.
Williamson county is home to Nissan North America, and other Japanese businesses in Tennessee include:
Toshiba (Lebanon)
Komatsu (Chattanooga)
DENSO (Athens and Maryville)
Brother (Bartlett)
Mitsue (Nashville)
Bridgestone/Firestone (Nashville)
Viam Manufacturing (Manchester)
GOH America Corporation (Memphis)
Iris Management Support (Nashville)
M-TEK (Manchester)
NKC of America (Nashville)
Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance (Franklin)
Toyota Tsusho America (Maryville)
Takahata Precision America (Helenwood)
The list goes on and on. Even the little Mom-and-Pops business I work for does more than half of its business in Japan.
Almost 80% of Japan's US population resides in Tennessee. There is a Japanese consulate in Nashville. And for many years, Tennessee was home to the only all-Japanese school in the U.S.
Not New York, not San Francisco, not Los Angeles, and not Seattle. If Savoie's ex-wife couldn't find a way to be comfortable here, she was going to have a tough time finding a better place in the U.S.
I know it's standard fashion to bash any place in the South as "backward" and "ignorant", but only deliberately ignorant people would say such a thing about Middle Tennessee. One only needs to stay here a few weeks to see how cosmopolitan Nashville is, with the wide variety of music performed and recorded here, the diverse arts, cultural and political scenes, and the offerings of universities such as Vanderbilt.
If someone can't wrap their heads around that, and still insist on calling us "hicks", then they're just another bigot and that's their problem.
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WhiteHawk
Wow, and I thought my girlfriend was having a rough time with her ex-husband over their son (and she is - too long a story to go into here).
That's just to the south of me. I wonder if he worked for Nissan. If so, I may have friends and family who know him.
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WhiteHawk
I preferred the movie debunking it on Glenn Beck's website.
If capitalism is so wrong, why does Moore expect people to pay to see his movie? Shouldn't it be provided by the government (like that Story of Stuff propaganda being shown in American public schools)? Or maybe some "rich" person (hmmmm, like Moore) is supposed to pay for your tickets?
Capitalism works. It's the basis for any economic system that needs to grow to meet the needs of a growing population. You can bleed it here and there for this vote-buying redistribution scheme or that vote-buying entitlement program, but it's still the foundation of any growing socio-economic system.
And capitalism is not evil. Neither are guns, cars, or votes. Any of them can be used for evil, but they are not evil by themselves. It comes down to the user. But that's personal responsibility, which seems to set off alarms on the Left. Fine, attack capitalism. Then try to grow your own food in your 3-mat apartment.
As always. Substance and accuracy? Not so much.
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WhiteHawk
Bingo. It's not like Oliver Stone rewriting the history of an American president. Well, okay, it is like it in the sense that the movies are complete fiction, but with the X-Men movies, the sources are fiction too. Just relax and enjoy them as entertainment.
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bgaudry:
Fascinating. So you're claiming that "in the good old days" before capitalism, adults didn't have sex with children? Good luck proving that.
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WhiteHawk
I know where my girlfriend's hand would be if she were standing there... She'd have a firm grip on Jackman's bum!
I liked the movie, but then I went in hoping to see an action film with Wolverine kickin' butt. And that's what I saw. My girlfriend went in hoping to see Jackman with his shirt off. And that's what she saw. And more. So everybody was happy.
Even though movie prices have gone up here in the U.S., it's still cheaper than seeing them in Japan.
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WhiteHawk
I suspect it might have soemthing to do with the way welfare is handled in the U.S.
In Japan, you have to provide receipts for what you spend your welfare money on, and you're only given enough to keep from being homeless and starving, right? In the U.S., people are handed checks and that's it. The more children they have, the more forms they fill out, the more money they get. As you can imagine, too much is spent on drugs.
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smithinjapan:
Of course he was championing it. It was meant for the "little people", he wasn't going to suffer under it even if it had passed years ago. If Kennedy would have given up his own health plan for this one, then I would be posting that he was a man of substance instead of reminding his defenders he was such a fraud.
yabits:
Sadly, it was the son she considered "the dumb one".
Hahaha... "smear"... hahaha... Yeah, no projection here! /sarcasm
"Smear" as in reminding the pathological defenders of this drunken, womaninzing fraud of the indisputable facts about his life. "Smear" as in refusing to bury the inconvenient truth about Teddy Kennedy along with his corpse. Hey, he didn't allow his political partishanship and abuse of power to be buried with him (having a state law concerning the appointment of his successor changed under Romney be changed back now under Patrick), so why should the truth about his corrupt soul be buried?
So if Kennedy killed someone on the outside of his car, it would be manslaughter, but since he killed someone on the inside of his car, it wouldn't be?
I'm not an attorney, but I think if you check other fatal accident reports in America, you'll find that the guilty driver gets charged for the deaths of his passengers just as he does for those on the outside of his vehicle.
In aviation, we have the term "Pilot in Command". On the plane, the pilot is dictator. He is also the one ultimately responsible.
Wow, how you contradict yourself, again. On another thread - you know, the one where you said Teddy had been drinking a good bit and less than two hours later was arguing with right-wingers that they couldn't prove he had been drinking at all - you actually claimed Kennedy didn't notify the authorities because he was "lost", in spite of the fact that he supposedly found his way back to the party, then back to the accident site, then swam 500' across the channel and found his way back to his hotel. Technically, you weren't "condoning" his actions. You were repeating his bovine scatology story and making excuses for him.
You accuse right-wingers of making false accusations while you make false defenses. Fascinating.
SuperLib:
I'm betting you would walk 300 feet back to the house you just passed and notify the authorities right away.
tigermoth
Actually, the investigation that CBS hired out determined that not only did Lieutenant George W. Bush volunteer for Vietnam (and was passed over for more experienced pilots), Mary Mapes knew about it before going forward with the story (and the forged National Guard documents) that brought about the end of Dan Rather. It's a good thing that very fabricated story didn't determine the election as Mapes intended.
Okay, time to bust another myth: Kennedy did not report the accident to the authorities the next morning, or ever. Two local fishermen found the car that morning and called the authorities. Kennedy only turned himself in to authorities when he saw the diver bring Kopechne's body to the surface.
yabits:
...who left her hotel key and purse at the party. In the 60's, drinking and driving was neither uncommon or taboo. Illegal, yes, but not enforced as it is today. Remember, this was only two years after seat belts were mandatory in cars. They were only lap belts, and we weren't required to wear them in most states, if any. Those were different times.
Nice attempt to cover your previous self-contradiction there, yabits.
So why have you lashed out at every "right-winger" who brings up inconvenient truths about Kennedy and exaggerate their statements about him?
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WhiteHawk
yabits:
Oh, you're just sore I caught you contradicting yourself on Kennedy's drinking that fateful night. ;)
The Kennedy family held great influence in Massachussetts, and there's no reasonable way you can deny it.
Getting into Harvard, getting his Army enlistment reduced by half and a posh assignment away from the Korean War, having his brother's senate seat reserved until he was old enough to run for it, riding the popularity of his brothers into office, getting a ceremonial slap on the wrist for causing the death of someone, trading on the myth of the Kennedy "Camelot" to secure his office even to his dying breath...
It is not "derangement" to point out these facts about Teddy Kennedy's life. It is derangement to obsessively ignore those facts and attack those who voice them, in an attempt to portray Teddy Kennedy as anything more decent than the drunken, womanizing, fortunate benefactor of a political empire based on a bootlegger's fortunes.
Since my original points about Teddy being a fraud have not been challenged - much less proven wrong - then I will continue to stand by them and repeat whenever I want. If any Kennedy fans don't like it, well, you've have ample opportunity to spend your energy trying to prove me wrong and instead you wasted it attacking me.
As I've said before, I won't dance on Teddy's grave, but I won't forgive him either. If you want to call me vile or hateful or whatever, go ahead. I honestly could not care less what anyone here thinks of me. In the end, you're only lying to yourselves. If there's any hate on these Kennedy threads, it's the Kennedy fans hating me for refusing to bury the truth along with Teddy.
Edward "Teddy" Kennedy is dead, the truth about him is not.
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WhiteHawk
That's what I like about the British police: They're always on top of everything.
;)
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WhiteHawk
Let's keep it in context. We've seen time and again the Democrats' idea of "bi-partisanship", so you can just guess what they mean when they call for "civil debate".
RomeoRamenII:
You're right, but don't forget about the space program and lunar exploration. JFK got that one right.
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WhiteHawk
Going back to an earlier point...
yabits:
Where did you find out it was upside down? The only photo I've seen of the car in the water shows it resting on its right side, perfectly visible from the surface. Subtract the width of a '68 Oldsmobile Delmont from 8 feet...
Also, every photo of the car being removed the water shows it right-side up on its tires. So if it was upside-down from the accident, it must've been righted prior to towing it from the water. That couldn't have been easy.
And yet, the diver was able to find her and get her out within minutes the next morning.
The Dike House was in plain view of the accident site, and the owner testified his outside light was on. It was such a pathetic excuse, and certainly not a sign of intellignce. If that was his excuse for not reporting the accident at the scene, then what was his excuse for not reporting it when he returned to the party to get his two friends, or not reporting it when he got back to his hotel?
12:47 AM, 29th August:
So funny. Because you then said...
2:27 AM, 29th august
Thanks for the laugh yabits, but you are busted! 逮捕しちゃうぞ！ Hahaha...
But they DO constitute manslaughter.
There was one at the previously mentioned Dike House.
Actually, it was apparent he wasn't, since he went back to the party to get friends, then swam across a channel and found his way back to his hotel.
What's truly apparent is that he was a liar. A very bad one. That never kept people from being gullible enough to believe his lies, though.
How long does it take to walk the (approximately) 300 feet to the Dike House?
Just as there are those who try to claim Teddy didn't drink at a party.
He did cause her death, there's no way around that.
That "CBS news guy" probably got pushed out for pushing a story he knew was false. Remember that investigation CBS hired out? Well, it discovered that Lieutenant G.W. Bush did in fact volunteer to go to Vietnam, but was passed over for more experienced pilots. AND MARY MAPES KNEW IT.
adaydream:
Nixon didn't cling to his office until the day he died. He resigned to save the country an impeachment trial some two decades prior to his death, remember? In that respect, he clearly had more integrity than Kennedy.
But since you don't remember Nixon very accurately, don't worry. Our current president has much more in common with Nixon than you're comfortable with.
He was a fraud.
SuperLib:
He never reported the accident at all. Two local fishermen reported the accident when they saw the car the next morning. Kennedy only went to the police after he saw the diver remove Kopechne's body from the car.
hworta269:
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
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ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President's Health Care Plan
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/abc-news-teams-obama-white-house-present-presidents-health-care-plan/
Look out kids, Nixon is back! And this time, he's one of your own...
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WhiteHawk
I hope you didn't take my comments in that way. Their existence cannot be invalidated, and they have little choice but to live their lives and grow as best they can. How they came into this world is tragic, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't as much opportunity as anyone else to make the best of life.
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WhiteHawk
hworta269:
But that's Teddy was all about: Passing laws for everybody else to live under.
buddha4brains:
...of a wind farm. In Cape Cod.
That was the intention of the article, yes. But the story-within-the-story was that Kennedy's environmentalism ideals only applied to other people's backyards. When it came to spoiling his (or his friends, family and neighbors) view, he was just as NIMBY as all the other "limousine liberals".
smithinjapan:
Yes, original as in "my own". buddha4brains' question addressed whether I was copying someone else's idea. The fact that I've had to repeat my points in thread after thread (and getting personal insults instead of intelligent debate as already noted) says much more about the defensiveness and ignorance of Kennedy's fans than it does about any supposed lack of creativity on my part.
If someone had debated me and proven me wrong the first time, I would've dropped it then. Unlike so many of JT's left-wing posters who lose a debate on one thread, then continue repeating their original - and defeated - talking points on every subsequent thread addressing the issue.
So... back to the debate? There are more points left to cover.
adaydream:
If he genuinely cared about life and "those less fortunate", he would have given his own life to save a drowning woman, no? I mean, that's what heroes do. They put others before themselves and risk or even give their lives to save them. But when given the opportunity, he wouldn't even give up his political career.
No, Teddy was just another condescending "limousine liberal". A wealthy (by inheritance), stubborn, powerful, politically-connected one, to be sure, but that does not make him a "fine man". He might be a saint to you, Alan, but he's only a Patron Saint of Fortunate Relations. In other words, he was nothing without everybody else.
yabits:
You say that like being a 5-term senator means anything.
Tatanka:
They don't even have to say anything deragatory. All they have to do is remind Kennedy's fans of the facts about his life. Which are, um, derogatory in context. Ah well. Teddy lived his life as he wanted, it wasn't directed by his detractors on JT.
Well, let's be fair about this. ;) Oswald didn't have a rich-and-connected Daddy Joe to write his plea deal for him.
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WhiteHawk
Not self-righteous, just right. As in correct.
A quick google of "kennedy blocks wind farm" brought up articles on the very first page from both UPI and -gasp- The Boston Globe.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/04/30/Kennedy-tries-to-block-Cape-Cod-wind-farm/UPI-49571146434349/
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/27/kennedyfacesfightoncape_wind/
Wow, that was easy. Ready for more? Or do you want to waste some time trying to claim that those sources are members of the far-right-attack-machine/blogosphere? I mean, if you're going to waste time trying to insult me, you might as well...
Of course I've got failings. Never claimed I didn't. But neither have I left anybody for dead, or ran for office on ideals I had no intention of adhering to myself. So put aside your deflection-clothed strawman and get back to debating my points. If you can.
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WhiteHawk
buddha4brains:
Naturally, you try to insult me instead of trying to prove my points wrong. I wrote that myself, and have been writing it on almost every Teddy thread on JT. That's okay, you don't have to tell me why you doubted my originality. You've made it plenty clear in the past what you think of right-wing conservatives.
I said "naturally" because, just like every other time I've written it, I've become the target of the Kennedy-defenders instead of my points. Either I get insulted, or the Defenders of the Camelot Myth abandon the thread and wait for the next day's JT thread on Teddy. The Defenders have yet to take the option of debating my points... because they can't. They know I'm right. Most of them knew Kennedy was a fraud when he was alive, too, but never cared because the agenda comes first with the Moral Relativity crowd. So, since they can't make any case about him not being a fraud, it's pile on WhiteHawk.
That's okay, I can take it. ;)
PS: When I do quote someone, as I quoted Mark Steyn in another recent Teddy thread, I always make it clear that I'm quoting and note the source.
plasticmonkey:
I haven't watched the cannonization of "Saint Teddy the Lion". Has the Kopechne family been there to pay their respects?
smithinjapan:
Shouldn't that have been Teddy's job? Instead of telling Chappaquiddick jokes? Or maybe you just want to follow the pattern of everybody else always having to clean up after Teddy.
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WhiteHawk
And that's all it was: A dream. An empty dream of empty promises sold to voters using ideals he never intended to live up to.
Public schools for your kids, private schools for his.
Environmentalism in your backyard, but not in his sailing waters.
Higher taxes on bonus and inheritances, but he kept loopholes for his and his family's tax-sheltered wealth.
Tough on Big Oil, but loopholes for the segment the Kennedy family was invested in.
If he were only a hypocrite, he wouldn't stand out that much from other politicans. But Teddy Kennedy was more than that. He was a fraud. That a lot of people were suckered by him only makes him a successful fraud, not less of one.
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WhiteHawk
seijichuudo9sha:
"Luminary"? That's a bit strong, don't you think? I don't think I would refer to HP's Melissa Lafsky as a "luminary".
I like how Mark Steyn prefaced her desperate attempt to justify a manslaughter other Leftists have spent the past four decades trying to trivialize: I don't know how many lives the senator changed – he certainly changed Mary Jo's – but you're struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy's Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been OK to leave a couple more broads down there?
Seijichuudo, you've made some desperate attempts to paint Teddy in a good light. Suggesting that Kennedy telling jokes about his leaving a woman to drown was an appealing trait; repeating a fawning member of the media's quote comparing the nation's worst terrorist attack to the death of a senator; and repeating another fawning member of the media's bizarre attempt to validate the manslaughter of - and cowardly attempt to cover up - Mary Jo Kopechne. Perhaps you need to sit down and ask yourself just why you're going to such drastic (and disturbing, and wrong) measures to cannonize someone who clearly does not deserve such mercy, and would only exploit if he were still around to do so (don't worry, his party will pick it up from there and run with it). Seriously.
goodDonkey:
He might be ----ed, but he's also right. Teddy Kennedy was a drunken spoiled rich kid. He grew into a drunken spoiled rich bully of an adult. Instead of trying to insult RomeoRamen, perhaps you should put your energy into proving his points wrong?
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WhiteHawk
lostrune2:
Well the court's compassion was misplaced, wasn't it?
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