JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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WhiteHawk
SS3, the war has only been 7% of our budget while domestic entitlement programs are 60%. And that will in turn be dwarfed by the incoming administration.
Back to the OT, didn't Obama already adopt Bush's Iraq policy, that the end of the war would be decided by the generals on the ground?
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WhiteHawk
JoeBigs, the Republicans did make mistakes. It's just that they were acting like Democrats when they made them.
;)
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WhiteHawk
Here in America, it's a gun store owner.
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WhiteHawk
In Nashville tomorrow night, it will be the coldest it's been here in ten years. Single digits. And I've got a party I have to attend! Brrr!
And Sarge, the official term now is "Global Climate Change". America's constitution is supposed to be a "living, breathing document" subject to "updating" and editing at a liberal's whim, but the Earth's climate is supposed to be exactly the same, year after year. The Ice Ages were a myth, evidently, as global Climate Change didn't exist prior to the invention of capitalism, western democracies, or the SUV (multiple choice).
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WhiteHawk
I've never heard of lawyers being described that way before...
;)
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WhiteHawk
Athletes:
So does congress.
Except for his calls for oversight in regards to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. And that lack of oversight (at the insistence of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd) is what triggered the economic collapse.
We had a bubble economy, especially in real estate. The bubble was created by a Democrat congress and a Democrat president legislating banks into lending money to people with bad credit. Some banks (Bank of America, for just one example) took it upon themselves to go a step further and cater to the illegal alien market, lowering their requirements for indentification for illegals but not for legal U.S. citizens. Yet you still insist it's "Bush's fault". You parrot the talking point about "Bush's deregulation", yet you cannot name a single regulation he eliminated.
Better luck next time.
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WhiteHawk
skipthesong:
Nobody in her circle has the courage to tell her.
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WhiteHawk
Zenpun, specifically which market deregulations did Bush author, and which of those contributed to the market collapse? And exactly how did the tax cuts contribute to the market collpase?
Yes, he kept signing the inflated budgets submitted by congress, even when the last two sessions of congress (run by who, now?) increased spending by 23%. For this, Bush deserves ample criticism.
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WhiteHawk
TV Announcer voice: Yes, you too can be just like Obama and promise trillions of dollars (of other people's money) in handouts so you can be more popular!
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WhiteHawk
That does it, I'm not wearing fur! But I'm still wearing my (motorcycle) leathers.
"Viva Japan." Indeed!
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WhiteHawk
I know yabits will complain about the source, but that's his problem.
From Neal Boortz:
When it comes to Sarah Palin, we've been through the specifics on this Bridge to Nowhere cr-p. In fact, the Democrat Party in Alaska acknowledges that it was Sarah Palin who finally scrapped the bridge. That website, by the way, disappeared for a while, until pressured to re-post the page (which they did, only at a different address). But just as a little side note ... guess who DID vote for the Bridge to Nowhere. Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Why doesn't the media bring THAT to your attention. Even when given a second chance to shift the funds to Katrina relief programs, Obama and Biden still voted for the Bridge to Nowhere. While John McCain did not end up voting on the amendment, he is on record opposing the earmark.
When it comes to Sarah Palin's record of reform ... let's just look at earmarks, since this is something that Palin and her Senate opponents have in common. Before Sarah Palin's time as governor, the state of Alaska used to request over 100 earmarks each year to be secured by Alaska's congressional delegation. When it came time for Sarah Palin to request her earmarks for the first time as governor ... she slashed that number by half, requesting 54 earmarks. The next year, Palin cut that number AGAIN down to just 31 earmarks. Of those 31 earmarks, 27 of these are continuous or were previously appropriated. When Palin entered the governor's office, the total amount of quests averaged $550 million a year. That number has been reduced to less than $200 million now that Palin is in office. And it would only continue to decline. One of Palin's stated goals as Governor is to ask Congress for no more than a dozen earmarks for her state. On top of all that, Palin insisted that each earmark requested by the state of Alaska demonstrate an important federal purpose and public support. Whenever possible, Palin wants to have earmarks only if they can be matched by state or local budgets. And her administration is currently re-examining previous decisions on transportation earmarks ... the Alaska Department of Transportation is conducting an audit to determine the status of every single one of its recent earmarks.
Let's go ahead and take a look at Barack Obama's earmarks in the Senate. In just three years, Barack Obama has requested over 300 earmark projects totaling $740 million. For the 2008 fiscal year alone, Obama requested 112 earmarks. Sarah Palin? 31.
http://boortz.com/nuze/200809/09102008.html
And there you have it. No matter how hard adaydream will try to misrepresent Palin's campaign promises, the whole truth is that she has in fact reduced both the number and the amounts of requested earmarks for her state substantially. It's a trend she shows every sign of continuing, if she remains governor of Alaska and doesn't become the Vice President.
Pelosi hasn't reduced earmarks. In fact, they've increased. Obama and Biden have done their share too. But they're not promising to reduce wasteful government spending, they're merely promising to charge "someone else" for it all. And so goes the class warfare game.
Not all federal spending is through earmarks, they are attachments on other bills. They rarely have anything to do with the bill they're attached to, and the only way the president can stop them is to veto the entire bill and send it back to congress.
There are two solutions: 1) Eliminate all earmarks and require each spending request to be a separate bill or 2) give the president the option of the line-item veto so he can eliminate specific earmarks without sending the entire bill back.
But these solutions make sense, so don't expect congress to ever allow them. Especially if it's run by Pelosi and Reid, and even moreso if under a Republican administration.
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WhiteHawk
The attempted smears of Palin by Obama's camp (both official and unofficial) have been coming so fast that websties have been setup to address the rumors. Here is an excerpt from one such site:
40. yes, she did ask the librarian if some books could be withdrawn because of being offensive; no, they couldn’t; yes, it was “rhetorical”, at least as was reported contemporaneously in 1996[1] ; yes she did threaten to fire the librarian a month later; no, that wasn’t over the books thing but instead over administrative issues; no, the librarian wasn’t fired either; yes, the librarian was a big supporter of one of her political opponents; yes, the librarian was also the girlfriend of the Chief of police mentioned above; no, this is not the first time in the history of civilization that someone has been threatened with being fired over a political dispute
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
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WhiteHawk
Oh yeah, like trying to limit and/or silence free speech on talk radio. Wait, that's you guys.
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yabits:
Two DNC employees went through Michael Steele's trash, got his SS# and ran a credit check on him in an attempt to dig up dirt for the benefit of the DNC. You're trying to distance the entire DNC by claiming that the event was "decried by Democrats and Republicans alike", while simultaneously painting anyone who tries to smear the entire DNC over the event as a hater. Nice work, Mr. "Fair-and-Balanced".
Oh yeah, the outrage by every DNC politician, official and pundit was deafening. /sarcasm
Madverts:
Bush let me down on some fronts by acting like a Democrat (amnesty for illegal aliens, increase in health care entitlements, not curbing the spending of congress). How is that an example of me flip-flopping?
I've listed time and again when McCain opposed Bush. I'm sure you've seen the posts by now. I'm tired of posting them every time someone regurgitates the lame "McSame" argument, only for my post to be unaswered and ignored (likey because none of the DNC volunteers can counter them) and the "McSame" chant to be repeated on yet another thread.
yabits:
Looks like Boortz read it at WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122098190668515511.html?mod=opinionjournalpolitical_diary
My guess is that you'll call this guy (and anyone else who dares question Obama or the DNC) a dirtbag.
He could have run against them instead of having them disqualified. That's also perfectly legal and happens every year. He also wouldn't be accused of not earning his first office.
Hey, maybe he was reinventing himself. And apparently it still suits him, as pointed out earlier.
That's why the librarian was fired? Where did you get that?
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WhiteHawk
yabits:
Was that goal post heavy when you moved it?
Sorry, I can't get YouTube at work. Got a readable link?
Maybe that's why she changed churches? Perhaps you should ask her instead of relying on Kilkenny for everything?
Clarification of library policy, as stated in one of the articles.
adaydream, the fact remains that your attempts to misrepresent Palin's record with earmarks was completely blown apart. Nice try to save face, but you helped bring yourself down.
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WhiteHawk
Oh and lookee, Betzee's clinging to the "book banning" myth is invalid. From that den of nasty right-wing partisanship, USA Today:
"Sarah Palin has never asked anyone to ban a book," Griffin said. "It shouldn't be surprising that the new mayor of a city that had seen recent protests over books and was in the process of re-evaluating the book-challenge policies at its library would ask the librarian what those policies were."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-09-Palin-book-ban_N.htm
Anne Kilkenny tries to get in her usual digs. Unsubstantiated, of course.
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WhiteHawk
Same for those who suggest that Palin's support of the bridge was pivotal, exclusive or undivided. When I heard her introductory speech, I knew that her comment was going to come back to bite her, but both sides are making too much of it.
Congress removed the requirement that the money be spent on the Bridge, leaving it to the state's discretion. It was Palin who actually decided no bridge would be built with that money, and that instead the money would go to other projects.
Jim Geraghty http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/
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WhiteHawk
yabits:
The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/480306
The Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,0,1843097.story
Mainstream enough for you, Mr. "Moderate"?
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WhiteHawk
adaydream:
When a person gives testimony in court, they are sworn to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". You're not telling the whole truth, as I pointed out before. You're slicing off the truth that doesn't fit your agenda and tossing it aside, thereby invalidating the little bit of "truth" you have left. You're misrepresenting the very "truth" you put forth.
And OV is right, you're trying to bait me into agreeing with you. Won't work. You can continue misrepresenting Palin all you want, but I won't let you misrepresent me. Twist away, aday.
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WhiteHawk
The bridge -that Obama and Biden voted for- was not Palin's idea, nor did she support it 100% or exclude alternatives from consideration. Attempting to paint Palin as invested in the bridge is a lie. She went along with the bridge as a possible solution, and then she went along with the cancellation of the project. If she's claiming to be the sole "killer" of the bridge, then she's not telling the whole truth.
Thanks for acknowledging that adaydream is wrong. That's two Obama supporters with a more balanced perspective than aday.
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