JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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Wolfpack
This is a great quote. Liberals waxing indignant about a male politician that has humiliated his wife. How soon they forget about former President Clinton. He humiliated his wife at least a half a dozen times. Perhaps the point is that his infidelities didn't cause his wife pain since they had a defacto open marriage. So the question became, does a politicians personal life have anything to do with their ability to serve in office. Given that Democrats rallied around Clinton's infidelities. Since the National Organization for Woman supported Clinton in the wake of his numerous sex scandals and sex in the work place encounters, you would think that Liberals would be endorsing Gingrich's behavior. A Clinton supporter could legitimately call him a hypocrite, but that's about it.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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Wolfpack
Is Obama going to just stand by and watch this slaughter?
Posted in: Coordinated attacks, gun battles kill 162 in Nigerian city
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Wolfpack
Captain obvious. $4 trillion dollars down the drain and counting.
Posted in: Gingrich attacks Obama in South Carolina victory speech
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Wolfpack
The guy just wanted to see the Emperor. It's really too bad that the Japanese people get so little opportunity to visit the Imperial Palace. There should be tours and maybe an opportunity to see the Emperor every know and then as he goes about his business.
Posted in: Man in underwear swims palace moat 'to meet emperor'
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Wolfpack
Turns out that Obama is fond of Bain Venture Capital. His new acting OMB director used to work at Romney's old company.
In the last paragraph on the White House Office of Management and Budget page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/organization_office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zient http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/new-obama-omb-director-bain-alum/317976
Posted in: Romney team hits back at Obama's 'job destroyer' attack
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Wolfpack
That's exactly the attitude that caused conservatives to distrust him. Republicans believe in science and they believe in evolution (despite what 'some' evangelicals in the party would have everyone believe). They just don't believe that global warming is based on sound science - because it isn't - and they don't exclude the need for a spiritual life. Science does not and cannot explain everything - and doesn't even pretend to (despite what 'some' hard left Democrats would have everyone believe).
This article focuses on Huntsman's perceived closeness to Obama as the reason for his lack of support among Republicans. That is true but just part of the story.
Posted in: Huntsman to drop out of U.S. presidential race
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Wolfpack
@oginome:
I do not love America's health care system. It is a socialist mess that is falling apart at the seams even faster now that ObamaCare has been forced upon the citizenry.
Posted in: Social tensions increasing in U.S. between rich,poor
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Wolfpack
Being uninsured isn't the same as being without medical care. You seem to think it is but it isn't.
You keep insisting that America's health care system is totally private and it just isn't. Most health care providers are private but a very large portion of the money used to provide health care services are from the government. Again, Medicare and Medicaid are government programs that together constitute about 23% of all government expenditures. In addition, the government heavily regulates the health care system. The US government (ie. taxpayers) spend a little under $1 trillion on health care each year.
You either know very little about the true state of the American health care system or you are just regurgitating some ideological propaganda. Such divisive rhetoric based on false information only intensives divisions for no apparent gain.
Posted in: Social tensions increasing in U.S. between rich,poor
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Wolfpack
Wow, what a great idea! Sit around in a tent and occasionally bang loudly on a drum while your family starves. The government will surely swoop in and fix all of their problems. Yep, just wait around and everything will work out just fine. No worries.... just sit around and wait for all the good things to happen...
Posted in: Unemployment benefits won't be extended to those who lost jobs due to March 11 disaster
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Wolfpack
Statistics show that a scorned woman will track down the man and embarrass the hell out of him in front of his friends. For a Japanese man, this means that he would have to commit sepuku to save face. Then the woman could decided whether or not to mutilate his genitals at her leisure. Anyway, that's what the statistics say.
Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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Wolfpack
I guess you have never heard of Medicare and Medicaid - two hugely expensive public health care programs financed by tax payers. Costs are high because we have the scientific know how to provide health care services that other countries refuse because of the expense. That's why so many people from countries "free health care" come to the US for treatment and surgeries that they cannot get in their home countries. In other words, they would be denied their 'human rights' unless they came to America.
No system is perfect in any country. People in countries with "free health care" die all the time because they cannot get care that has been rationed by their governments. America's problem is that their is too much government interference in health care - not too little. The poor have Medicaid. The elderly have Medicare. Two hugely expensive programs that consume ever greater portions of government spending. Now the rest of the country will get ObamaCare - whether we like it or not. I don't mind charitable programs along the lines of Medicaid for the poor, but I don't want my choices taken away from me to get the care I think is best for me. I'm sure that Europeans love to be told that they cannot get treatments that could save their lives or enhance them because they are too expensive. I however, would like to make that decision myself. In other words, I don't want the government to tell me how to live my life. It's a human rights issue for me.
Posted in: Social tensions increasing in U.S. between rich,poor
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Wolfpack
@Oginome:
I find statements like these ridiculous. Individualism isn't a cult. It springs from the idea that each person has intrinsic worth and should be treated equally by their government and based on their own merits. This idea alone is at the core of America's greatness. When an persons individuality is taken away, then so are their human rights.
The problem with America today is that it has been incrementally abandoning the idea of individual worth in favor of the collectivist and dysfunction that Europe has followed since Bismarck. Since the 1930's, America has pursued one socialist program after another (Social Security and FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society, Nixon's affirmative action, Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug program, up to ObamaCare. Each of these programs are socialist in nature and have replaced one problem with an even bigger problem as they are unsustainable. America has social programs that cannot be paid for and an entrenched political class and bureaucracy than will fight to the death to keep them no matter the dire fiscal consequences (see Greece). American's have become dependent on government and to save ourselves we must learn to be independent to the greatest extent possible once again.
Socialism will fail in Germany as it has just about every where else it has been tried (only very small Jewish kabutz have been able to pull off a successful collectivist social contract and only because of the very small scale, and cultural and religious homogeniety.
America currently has a socialist health care system. It is mainly run through the government even before ObamaCare. That's why it is such a failure. ObamaCare will only make the issue worse as rationing will become necessary as costs continue to sky rocket.
Meanwhile, the social tensions between the haves (like the Obama's) and the have not's will eventually result in rioting in the streets (just like Greece).
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Wolfpack
Liberals are not known for "giving until it hurts". There are exceptions of course, but that is essentially the way it is. As has been pointed out, conservatives are generally more compassionate and give much more to charity than do liberals. The goal of the Left is not to give to charity, but to force other people to give their money to the types of charity (ie. government programs) that they would prefer money be spent on rather than allowing people to choose to give to the charity that they believe is most deserving. It's simply the same thinking that compels a Liberal to support coercive collectivist solutions to social problems rather than rallying individuals to freely give to a cause. I should point out one significant exception and that is Habitat for Humanity. Most all people readily advocate and support this charitable cause as it is voluntary, inexpensive, and by all accounts hugely successful.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of charitable giving by Obama and Biden compared to Romney and which charities they chose to support.
Posted in: Romney team hits back at Obama's 'job destroyer' attack
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Wolfpack
I doubt that Assad is frightened in the least bit by the UN chiefs moral outrage. Now if Ban Ki-moon had an aircraft carrier with a deck load of F-18's, he might be taken more seriously by a dictator.
Posted in: U.N. chief tells Assad: 'Stop killing your people'
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Wolfpack
@yabits;
No problem. It is just as ridiculous for Republicans to attack capitalism as it is for Democrats. Barry's re-election campaign is already on the attack against Romney because he actually believes in free markets.
The fact is, the economy was bleeding jobs up to an unemployment rate of 10.8% until Reagan finally got it under control. Unemployment was down to 7.2% when he was re-elected. Therefore, Reagan was able to bring unemployment down 3.6% during his first term. Obama would have to bring unemployment down to 6.4% by this November to achieve the same feat. Pent up business demand should get him down to 8% easily. But that is iffy given to Obama's desire to regulate, tax, and run up unprecedented debt. There are two million less jobs today then when Obama took office. He is failing.
I agree. Nixon was a liberal when it came to domestic policy. Price controls, affirmative action, and the establishment of the EPA. If it wasn't for the Vietnam War that he "inherited" from Kennedy and Johnson, he would never have been ousted from office. Democrats loved his progressive domestic policies, that's how he won re-election in a landslide. The problem is that it took a conservative like Reagan to implement sound economic policies to end it. Carter just made it much much worse. In other words, he failed miserably as a president just as Obama has.
Posted in: Romney team hits back at Obama's 'job destroyer' attack
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Wolfpack
Ken Griffey Jr is a classy guy and a good role model for young kids like these.
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Wolfpack
@Elbuda Mexicano
Well said.
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Wolfpack
He should be worried.
Posted in: Azumi worried about Japan's debt rating after EU downgrades
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Wolfpack
I do deny it because the facts say otherwise. The unemployment rate was much higher during the stagflation downturn that Reagan "inherited" from Jimmy Carter. That recession was definitely worse than the one that ended five months after Obama took office. The idea that the current economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression is one being pushed by Democrats to justify Obama's poor performance on the economy. The only thing that is the worst now since the the Great Depression is the US's national debt.
I find it amazing how people seem to forget the perplexing quandary facing America due to stagflation in the late 1970's and early 80's. Under Reagan, unemployment went from a high of 10.8% to 7.2% at the time of his re-election in 1984.
My guess is the Obama will not want to be held accountable since he has failed to bring the economy around. Although the recession ended six months after he took office, Americans still feel like they are enduring a recession.
Posted in: Romney team hits back at Obama's 'job destroyer' attack
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Wolfpack
Serrano:
To quote the Messiah in chief:
“I’ve got four years … if I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition”
Well, it's been three years. He has failed. He has had his one-term proposition.
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