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
- 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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- 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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Wolfpack
It's great how this snapshot captures this young boy's moment of glee. I probably would have had the same joyous feeling had I been in the park with him - if only for a mere second or two.
I also like how the depth of field focuses on the children and the massive bubbles - great picture Mr. Zakharov.
Posted in: Bubble era
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Wolfpack
This seems to be more of a case of people with good intentions gone bad. They probably figured that they were helping those poor kids. Any objective look at the history of Haiti undoubtedly would lead anyone to the conclusion that the children would have been better off just about anywhere else in the world. However, it seems like the group were using the disaster as a means to basically kidnap them. I don't think there is enough information yet to say that they wanted to profit personally from what they did other then the satisfaction of doing what they believd their religion wanted them to do - which is to help desperately poor children. It's sad but there are just too many poor pitiful children in the world to save - and kidnapping isn't the way to try.
Posted in: 10 U.S. Baptists charged with kidnapping Haiti children
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Wolfpack
The Endurance expedition led by Shackleton was a truely remarkable example of leadership under the most difficult of circumstances imaginable. The bottles of alcohol from that incredible expedition are now just relics of an the age of exploration that ended with the summitting of Everest in 1953. There are no really great discoveries or conquests left - unless you count the redisovery of the original blend of that Scotch!
Posted in: Explorers' century-old whisky found in Antarctic
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Wolfpack
If President Obama - with large majorities in both houses of Congress - is unable to accomplish much of anything other than huge deficits during his first year in office then he and his party are doomed to fail in their ideological crusade to make America into the newest member of the EU.
Now that they have inexplicably lost the seat of the uber-Liberal Sen. Kennedy and are on an electoral losing streak since the 2008 general election, the Democrats are now in a state of confusion. With this year being an election year and given that the Dems are scared of the avalanche that is coming this Fall, Obama won't be able to lead his party out of a wet paper bag.
Posted in: Obama prescribes election plan to Democrats: Lead
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Wolfpack
"Obama made a play for bipartisanship..."
... and then just days later...
"...U.S. President Barack Obama unleashed bare-knuckled criticism against opposition Republicans"
That just about sums up President Obama. Oh, and he spends a lot too.
Posted in: Obama swipes at GOP while pitching aid for small businesses
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Wolfpack
Gotta give President Obama credit for meeting with and taking questions from Republicans on camera. It was also humurous to see him chastise Republicans for being partisan and not cooperating as if he hadn't been blaming Republicans for all of his problems over the last year. Never-the-less, it was good thing for him to go into the lions den even if it was just for show.
Posted in: Obama, GOP exchange barbs, ideas in rare encounter
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Wolfpack
goodDonkey:
Train systems (including high speed rail) make sense in Germany, the Netherlands, Japan and many other countries due to population density and for cultural reasons. Those reasons just don't apply in the United States. Just because some Americans want the US to be like some wonderful European country doesn't mean it makes sense in practical and economic terms. There are some cities with the population density to support a train system and it makes sense to have one (NYC for one). However, a large scale train system in the US will surely fail because it will not be able to sustain itself based on fares paid by riders. The government would always have to subsidize it just like it does for AmTrack. I am not against paying billions for a train system just because I am a Conservative or have some weird dislike of trains. I am against large scale train systems in the US because it would be a huge boondoggle that will surely fail and will cost the taxpayers billions of dollars that we don't have.
Posted in: White House doles out $8 billion for fast trains
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Wolfpack
Why just $80 billion? How about $800 billion instead? If we are going to waste a bunch of money on another useless government project we might as well go all out. It's not as if this "investment" will be supported by actual passengers.
Posted in: White House doles out $8 billion for fast trains
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Wolfpack
When President Obama says "I don't quit" it means he won't quit spending money the nation doesn't have. Please Mr. President, quite already!
Posted in: Obama says 'I don't quit' as he makes job growth top priority
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Wolfpack
I don't believe President Obama can get his agenda moving.
Sarge - not only is Obama in over his head, he is drowning in his own Liberal extremism. Time to hit the reset button yet again Mr. President.
Posted in: Obama says 'I don't quit' as he makes job growth top priority
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Wolfpack
^ A nice canned chuhai is motivation for any mammal to break out of the confines of their zoo. By the look on this monkeys face however, there was no chuhai to be had.
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Wolfpack
She is a lot better looking than this picture gives her credit for.
Posted in: Triumph girl Reiko Aoyama shows off sweet lingerie
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Wolfpack
Democrats couldn't pass health care reform when they had complete and total control of Congress. They still have overwhelming majorities but chances are they will be incapable of giving up on their utopian socialist agenda and will fail again. President Obama should admit that his plan to further nationalize health care has failed. Congress should concentrate on the things that both sides agree upon, portability, protection against pre-existing conditions, etc...
Posted in: Democrats mull options for moving health care bill
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Wolfpack
Biden seeks only to keep the case open as a means to attack the Bush administration. Seeking the truth and justice for the accused is irrelevent. The Obama administration is obsessed with blaming their predecessor for anything and everything.
Posted in: Biden: U.S. to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case
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Wolfpack
Except that the security agreement to withdraw American troops was negotiated by the Bush administration after the success of the surge - which then Senator Barach Hussein Obama opposed.
The Marines have done a great job under very difficult conditions. With a Democrat as president, the American Left and their allies in the MSM are no long attacking our troops and undermining their mission as was done when Bush was president. When Dems are in power, they know that the military's success means that they will not be blamed for failure. It is good to see that Conservatives are supporting Obama's continuation of Bush's efforts in Iraq and Obama's new policy in Afghanistan.
Posted in: U.S. Marine Corps ends role in Iraq
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Wolfpack
Wow - it's official, Brown takes the Liberal Lions seat in the leftist state of Massachusettes! Unbelievable! I am so grateful that ObamaCare can now be defeated. If you had asked me a week ago that something would happen to save America from socialized medicine I would have thought you were crazy.
The only way that the Democrats can get their health care monstrosity through Congress is to have Speaker Pelosi to accept the Senates bill as is. It is going to be so interesting to see how the left-wing deals with this - it's going to be fun.
Posted in: GOP's Brown wins Massachusetts Senate race in blow to Obama
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Wolfpack
Currently, there are no Republicans that hold any statewide office in Massachusettes. Only a smallish minority of the state legislature is Republican. Any win or even a close finish to take over "Teddys" seat in the US Senate would be flat-out amazing by any standard. No one can deny that Massachusettes is a very Liberal state.
Posted in: GOP's Brown wins Massachusetts Senate race in blow to Obama
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Wolfpack
Massachusettes is only 11% Republican and has been dominated by the Democrat party for decades. If Republican Scott Brown is able to win Teddy Kennedy's seat in the Senate - in the most Liberal state in the America - it would represent a direct rebuke of President Obama and his scary socialist political agenda. Brown has specifically nationalized the election focusing on ObamaCare. The fact that a Repbublican is even close is nothing short of amazing! In the most recent polls following Obama's campaign stops in the state on Coakley's behalf, Brown has gained even more ground on the Democrat. After losing Governorships in Virginia and the liberal state of New Jersey last November, things are not looking good for Obama's party this Fall.
Regardless of who wins tonight, President Obama and his party have been warned by the public, move to the center or get wiped out this November.
Posted in: GOP's Brown wins Massachusetts Senate race in blow to Obama
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Wolfpack
Although not a done deal, the astounding prospect of a Republican winning a statewide election in Taxachusettes is becoming more likely as the hours pass. I think it would be an amazing irony if Brown were to win "Teddy's" seat and defeat his dream of socialized health care in the US. Democrats have a 3 to 1 voter registration advantage in the state but there is a sizeable number of unaffiliated voters. Brown has successfully nationalized the Senate race just as in the recent governor's elections in Virginia and New Jersey had made the election a referendum on ObamaCare and corrupt deal-making by Democrats.
Even if Coakley were to win, the closeness of the race in such a Liberal state should send a message to President Obama and all Democrats that they need to moderate their arch-liberal domestic policy push. Just as former President Clinton's loss on health care and the landslide Republican victories in 1994 caused him to tact to the center, Obama's own hopes for re-election hang in the balance depending upon his reaction to the current mood of the country. If he continues to push his socialist ideology he is going to further alienate the independent voters that were the swing vote that got him elected in 2008 and he will become a very weak one-term President.
If I were Obama's political advisor, I would give him the bad news that he must scrap his health care reform plans as they now exist in Congress and start over with more a piecemeal approach to reform. The consensus of national polling shows that Americas do not want a massive government takeover of the health care system. If Coakley were to win and ObamaCare gets passed into law, then it is likely that Obama will instantly become a lame duck President and the coming defeats in the mid-term elections will become a tidal way. I just don't know how he will be able to spin that into saying it was Bush's fault...
Posted in: Democrats look at bypassing Senate health care vote
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Wolfpack
dontknockit says:
Your argument is irrelevent to the fact that Lincoln did free the slaves. Regardless of the motivation, Lincoln helped blacks immensely by ending the practice of slavery. Lincoln is a Republican and one of the most revered among his party today. If the Republican party were racist, Lincoln wouldn't be held up as a hero by Republicans. This type of argument is simply a way to keep blacks and whites apart and voting for Democrats based on their racial spoils system. Blacks were overwhelmingly Republican following the Civil War. Their ability to gain power as Republicans was exactly what led Democrats to enact what later became known as Jim Crow laws.
That is flat out false. Why would a racist support a party that does not support racist policies against those that they want to discriminate against? No Republican wants to bring back Jim Crow or slavery. Any suggestion that they do is just asanine and based only in partisan conspiracy theories. The only political party that does not universally support the individual right to equal treatment regardless of race is the Democrat party.
The fact that there are few black Republicans elected to office is due to the fact that a black person is much more likely to support a party that supports race conscious policies that favor them over a party that prefers to treat each person as equals under the law. It is a fact of politics that any interest group whether based on race, religion, ideology, or economic interest is more likely gravitate toward a party that is more likely to give them an advantage. This is a built-in disadvantage for Republicans when it comes to recruiting blacks into the party because they are saying that your race shouldn't be used by government as a handicap or advantage. That was MLK's most powerful moral argument against segregation and for civil rights. If MLK had argued for affirmative action instead of equality regardless or race, he would not have been able to make a strong moral argument that sought only to replace one form of discrimination with another.
Another major reason why black conservatives are not as numerous as black liberals is due to the tremendous amount of peer pressure within the black community to be race centric; which is in-line with the philosophy of the Democrat party. Just look at the way any prominent black conservative is treated by the black community and by Liberals in general. Here are some names for you: Condi Rice, Michael Steele, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, JC Watts, etc. all are attacked by liberals as either Uncle Toms, traitors to their race, un-intelligent, or are just plain ignored. Even Colin Powell was dumped on while he was under a Republican administration. He has only become "re-habilitated" in the black community when he endorsed Obama (a man who presumably does not support his own political beliefs).
Posted in: GOP: Response to Reid remark shows double standard