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
I'll let this one pass - it's way too easy. Have a nice flight back to the States Secretary Clinton.
Posted in: Angry Hillary Clinton: 'I'm secretary of state, not Bill'
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Wolfpack
I hope that any white guy whose case comes up before the Sureme Court isn't expecting to get a fair shake from Sotomayor.
Posted in: Sotomayor sworn in to Supreme Court
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JoeBigs:
I do have to give you credit for being one of a few Lefty's that actually try using logic in favor of a collectivist health care system. Unfortunately, your "facts" are disputable. The structure of the Canadian health care system does diretly contribute to deaths or a reduced quality of life. Here a few examples:
http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIhospitals/CANADA/2007/BramptonCivicHospital-%20.htm http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/25/health/chi-oped0325natashamar25 http://www.indenvertimes.com/2009/08/02/canadians-death-in-colorado-sure-to-stoke-health-care-debate/
People also die or live with a reduced quality of life or even in pain because services that are provided in weeks in the US takes months or are denied altogether in nations with socialist health care systems. No system is perfect but any system that seeks to limit instead of expaning indvidual choices to get the medical services they want and need is just plain wrong.
That 46 million number of uninsured has to be one of the best propaganda coups that the Left has been abe to achieve in the health care debate. It is estimated that only 22 million of this number are "involuntarily" uninsured. http://www.epionline.org/studies/oneill_06-2009.pdf That is still a large number but it doesn't necessitate that the other 280 million people should pay higher taxes and endure rationed care for.
The government has decreed that these 22 million cannot be denied care when they have to have it just because they lack the money to pay for it. If the government is unable to enforce it's own laws they any new laws mandating health care for all is also useless. There is Medicaid and Medicare as well that these people can get access to.
I am no more of an expert in health care than any other average citizen but I am very much interested in learning as much as I can because what occurs this year directly affects my future health care. I don't want to die or have my quality of life degraded because of the ideology of the Democrat party necessitates that there be socialized medicine. It may be that the current health care system in the US is unsustainable, but we also know that nationalized health care systems are also going broke and kill people because it requires rationing.
Please, I disagree with you okay. I am doing my best to understand the issue and philisohically I do not believe that socialism works. I could say the same about you are only being fed information by the far left.
Excuse me, but now I am not allowed to think for myself and use the terms I want to use to describe socialized health care. However, I have stated that Obama's plan is evil in the sense that socialism in itself is evil and history proves that out.
You don't think that Obama's system isn't going to go broke either? Even the CBO is saying that costs continue to go up over and above the current systems costs. A trillion dollars more in debt over the next ten years on top of the deficits we already face is crazy. The Social Security system, Medicare, and Medicade are all socialist systems that have 50 to 60 trillion dollars in future financial obligations that are not funded. The day of reckoning will come some day on all of this and the Left is ignoring this and is seeking to add additional future government obligations. It is pure insanity and divorced from reality.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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Wolfpack
The leaves are changing color already!
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Wolfpack
Those crazy PETA chicks sure are stupid standing out in public wearing nothing but vegetation. But what is important is not that we should all stop eating meat, but that they look pretty hot wearing lettuce :-)
Posted in: Saving the planet
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amerijap says:
80%~85% of Americans are satisfied or very satisfied with their health coverage. The private sector health system is not perfect by any means - no system designed by and run by fallible human beings is. However, the private system allows you choices from over 1,300 providers nation-wide (although for some reason they are not allowed to compete across state lines). However, a government run system - which is the goal of ObamaCare - will undercut the private sector and offer only limited and rationed care.
You can slam Palin all you want with hateful comments until the cows come home but the fact is she is right. Government run systems like Britain's and like that proposed by Democrats and Obama, treat people not as individuals but apply methodologies that determine their worthiness for certain medical treatments and services. When you subject the life and well-being of human beings to a cost-benefit analysis you are treading on very ethically shaky ground. If I were a 70 year old man who needed a hip replacement and the government said no because I was too old and that there was only enough money to provide the hip replacement for people 64 and under, I would think the government was being evil towards me.
If Liberals want a socialized system, why not get together with other like minded Lefty's and create your own "private" socialized system and leave the 80% that are happy with what they have out of it.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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smithinjapan says:
"Oh my god... the 'socialism' argument again? Did you guys learn NOTHING from the last election?"
Well of course it's the "socialism" argument - that is the entire point of the policies put forth by President Obama and the Democrats in Congress. Palin and the majority of the American people that oppose their plan know that. Liberals know that as well but they don't want to say it out loud because they know it will scare people. Socialism deprives people of freedom and gives the government power over the lives of people. If you are not afraid of that - you should be.
Obama's attempts at selling his plan are so ludicrous. He makes a statement that he isn't going to take away your employer based health care or to have the government interefere between doctors and patients, but his proposals and those in Congess do exactly that. He has long been in favor of a single payer system - that is his goal and the goal of Speaker Pelosi, Barney Frank and all those that support his reform policies. He thinks that the American people are so stupid and unsophisticated that he can make flat out contradictory statements compared to what is in the actual legislation and that people will believe him and not their own eyes. It is amazing how Palin is constantly demonized by the press and by the Left because she is a strong independent woman who has been successful but doesn't believe in feminist orthodoxy. Look, her baby has a birth defect and she still loves him and wants the child to have a happy life - get over it already!
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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Zurc says:
No, the Constitution is responsible for the right to own a gun. Instead of denying that it does, or trying to make the argument that this is the only part of the entire Constitution that doesn't apply to individuals, why don't Liberals try to amend the Constitution? If an admendment banning the individual right to bear arms has merit it will win the support of the American people. There are plenty of anti-NRA groups out there to push for it. Get out the grassroots. Start "astro-turfing" as Liberals like to do. You can even get the president to start up a program in the White House to identify individuals or organizations that are propogating "fishy" information about your anti-gun amendment.
Sodini was a crazy man and he could have just as easily made a pipe-bomb to kill and injure those people. Then what would you do, outlaw pipes?
Posted in: Pennsylvania health club shooter blogged about plot to kill, sexual frustration
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Wolfpack
In the sense that socialism is evil, then yes ObamaCare is evil. The vast majority of American's are satisfied with their health care. Survey after survey shows this to be true. So instead of focusing on that small segment that are not insured or satisfied with their health care, Obama is going to throw the baby out with the bath water and make the health care system worse for everyone. Just so that everyone can be treated "equally" by their government, everyone will have equally bad health care (except for the political elites who will not subject themselves to the same system that they are imposing on everyone else). How many stories about a Canadian or European patient dying while waiting three to six months for a simple medical test is it going to take for people to understand that socialiazed systems do not work? It's one thing to take a small segment of the country - like veterans - and give them highly subsidized healthcare. It's unsustainable to do this on a national level - especially when the government is already running up a huge deficit/debt and funding other pension and medical programs that are underfunded to the tune of trillions of dollars. This is an insane debate we are having totally devoid of the current fiscal circumstances that the country is faced with. Is ObamaCare evil? The term I would use is 'stupid' and 'detached from reality'.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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Wolfpack
The headline should read, "Airspeed systems failed on Airbus Planes." It's not only US carriers that are affected by the A330s airspeed system problem. Ask Air France.
Posted in: Airspeed systems failed on U.S. planes
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Wolfpack
About as many Hispanics will now become Democrats because of the votes against Sotomayor as had become Republicans because of the votes against Miguel Estrada. Those that believe in freedom and the rights of individuals and those with a collectivist / statist philosophy will not likely change their voting patterns based on the placement of a racially biased judge on the Supreme Court by a racially biased and increasingly polarizing President.
Posted in: Senate confirms Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court
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Wolfpack
Just don't serve Professor Gates a pale ale or he might need to be cuffed again ;-)
Posted in: Beer diplomacy: Obama aims for calm with Gates, police officer
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Wolfpack
Professor Gates treated the cop like crap from the moment he first spoke to him. The policeman was jut doing his job investigating a call by a citizen. Gates took his racial hatred out on the policeman and seemed to be seeking to incite him. However, the policeman keep his cool the whole time according to the police tapes, fellow officers, and bystanders. Meanwhile, Gates was caling the policeman a racist without any cause what-so-ever. He even threw in the cops mother for good measure. It's obvious that he was looking to get a reaction from the policeman. Should police not go to his house if a potential burgularly is reported? Well, if they don't they would surely be called racist. The only racist in this whole situation is Professor Gates.
Posted in: Gates 911 call: Witness not sure she saw crime
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Wolfpack
If you are going to do something illegal in Japan, try Saitama after lunch this Sunday.
Posted in: Miniskirt Police release DVD and announce return of late night TV show
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Wolfpack
The only person that has kept his cool in this whole sitution is Officer Crowley. If Crowley does go to the White House for a beer with Obama and Gates, he would be stupid to allow the situation to be used for the two race-baiters to futher their 'racial-profiling' line. There was absolutely no racial profiling on the officers part. The only profiling was on the part of Gates and Obama for assuming that the white policeman was a racist. Heck, the guy gave mouth-to-mouth recisitation to a black man. Can't see some Bull Conner type doing that. Beer yes, photo-op for Obama to propagandize about how he really isn't a race-baiter - No.
Posted in: Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
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Wolfpack
Health insurance should definitely be separated from a persons place of employment. If you lose your job you lose your health care - it's idiotic. If employers could just be able to pay the money they spend on health care directly to their empployees and if the health care market was opened up to competition across state lines it would be much better for everyone. If you drive a care, you are responsible for getting your own care insurance. If you own a house, you get home insurance. People should also be responsible for their own health insurance. Whenever the government gets involved, citizens lose their freedom to chose what they believe is best for them. Health insurance is no different than anything else.
Posted in: Obama says health care reform good for small businesses
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Wolfpack
Great photograph Mr. Hartsell! A picture like this is harder to take than it looks - and it's not all software editing either.
Posted in: Rainbow
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Sarge says:
With his poll numbers declining and his domestic agenda in trouble, the last thing Obama needs to be doing is causing a national uproar over race. His efforts to tamp down the issue are made worse his refusal to apologize for singling out the white policeman. Ironically, he seems to feel that America is always wrong but he never is. Far from being "post-racial", Obama is unable to get beyond the racial sensitivities that he has for the preferred side of his own racial heritage. A president should never allow himself to be interjected into a local issue like this. However, he couldn't pass up the chance to go after a white policeman even though he didn't know any more details then the fact that his buddy Professor Gates was involved. He reflexively protected his friend and went after the working class white policeman.
This is the kind of thing that you get with a Left-wing ideology that is focused on peoples racial differences and not focusing on the content of each individuals character.
Posted in: Obama rushes to quell racial uproar
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pawatan says:
My standard for what constitutes racism is clearly higher than Liberal professors like Mr. Gates. Sotomayor stated that she has better judgement than any white male judge just because she is a Latina. She also likes to use muddled legal concepts such as disparate impact to justify denying a citizen their 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the law.
Prof. Gates was clearly seeking to gin up a racial confrontation for his own reasons. He stated that he was going to make a documentary about the incident at the very time of his arrest. The man makes his living by the study and practice of racial grievance.
Posted in: Obama surprised at reaction to his comments on police officer in Gates' arrest
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Wolfpack
Carrying an omikoshi is a blast. Myself and a bunch of other male Japanese language students carried one during a festival in Hakodate way back in the 90's. It would be cool if these ladies had to wear a fundoshi like we did ;-)
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