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"Republicans said they would oppose the spending blueprint." Can't believe that..
Posted in: Obama's budget goes to Congress
Sorry it was the late 90's, then PM Obuchi.
Posted in: Yen weakens as BOJ eases monetary policy
"What the point of being rich if you can't afford proper cocaine?" Good point, Nessie.
The solutions for Japan are political, rather than financial. The political solutions are long term and…
Posted in: Yen weakens as BOJ eases monetary policy
@smithinjapan And yet they don't tell anyone what the stress tests consist of. Simple, if some…
Posted in: Nuclear agency OKs stress tests on 2 Fukui reactors
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aelieth
Need more kawaii ambassadors! Send them into Afghanistan, that should do something!
Posted in: How can Japan best help in Afghanistan?
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aelieth
It's sad, I agree so much with many of the posters here. Though, I really dislike most religions. I enjoy being agnostic and am always polite to those that attempt to come up to me and talk to me about religion. Many Mormon temples cost an extravagant amount of money, I have no idea where it comes from either. They must really milk their followers to do it.
Posted in: Mormon church to build 5 new temples worldwide, including one in Sapporo
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aelieth
Looks like the skirt is loose enough to allow her to still bike. Don't make your love life wait at the red light, just make a turn down the street you're near and enjoy the scenery!
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aelieth
I think NyahK hit it right, the parents are very caring just most of the poor women are naive (just because in their society men still work and women still child rear). They need some sort of parenting class high school kids have to take before graduating school. Things have changed and kids move out of the house now. Japan used to be more of a single home for the family, now without obaasan there to help teach the new okaasan, the learning falls through.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy survives fall from third floor balcony in Hyogo
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aelieth
Where my lady has been the last 5 months... at Hello work, where there is little to no work. Heh.
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aelieth
Choreography, but brutal choreography. So many wrestlers get hurt trying to preform insane stunts. I remember Shawn Michaels almost becoming paralyzed due to be whipped into the turnbuckles too hard in his match. They often do those stretcher routines, but once in a while they are real.
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aelieth
Take the calculators out of the classroom until junior (3rd) year in college. Calc can trig can both be learned and taught without calculators. My class was the last class in high school to be taught calculus without calculators. I thought they were a blessing but as I got my first job at K-Mart years ago and none of the other cashiers could figure out a basic % off, I was just stunned.
I agree with some of the article, but agree with rgetty as well. I was nearly a year behind in my math skills in elementary, but my mom had me drill every single day when I came home. Geez I hated that, but when I look at something and can compute it in my head faster than someone can pick up a calculator I sit back and have to thank my mother for making me do exactly that.
Posted in: Let’s get back to worksheets
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aelieth
What a cute duck. =D
Posted in: Duck!
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aelieth
Annoys me when people use the age thing to say the tattoos will look horrible later. Well, if I'm going to be old and wrinkly, heck, I know I'll look old and wrinkly. My tattoos won't change that, they'll only look old and wrinkly with my old and wrinkly skin, which no one is going to admire anyway.
It's like saying "Don't paint the house because the wood is going to get old after 100 years causing it to crack and warp." No duh, it will get old and some of it may even have to be replaced after 100 years or sooner.
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aelieth
Having to wipe the drool off my face! Wow, don't see many female Japanese women with one tattoo let alone the whole body covered!
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aelieth
Lots of girls in the picture! Very few boys. This is great, yay happy times. :)
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aelieth
A severe lack of honor and pride in the one you are with. Honor needs to make its way back to Japan... It's become common place to use one another and toss each other away. Living the good life like hostess girls servicing men, practically for free.
Yeah, it's great if you're a guy who doesn't care and wants to enjoy as many women as you can before you marry, you can get married to a girl 15 years younger than you and still have kids. It doesn't go well vice versa though, and is why women must be careful. I'm not saying its right, I'm just saying that's a fact and has been a fact for millions of years. Japanese women are now finding themselves at this dead end.
Women keep men in check by keeping themselves in check. Removing that ideal creates a bunch of chaos.
Strange thing is, people seem to be on one end of the spectrum or another. Either get into relationships and have sex the first date and keep bouncing around from person to person or they don't have a relationship at all and are alone. I don't know which is worse!
Posted in: The age of the disposable male
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aelieth
DS, a population that is shrinking and a government ready to spend money to make some changes. No one has any ideas when it will be paid back, the party inherited a huge mess and if they don't make the right changes they'll screw things up even more. Guess the world is just in for some big change and power shifts.
Posted in: Beware Japan’s new political beast
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aelieth
Good luck to them.
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aelieth
My girlfriend and I talked about this one day and this is all we could come up with after watching the news and they spent an hour on her and 10 minutes on the government's first day in office.
Japan actually has one of the highest rate of newspaper readers in the world. I would guess that most of the more intellectual people read the newspapers and those that are more into gossip and celebs watch the TV. One TV in the house and the rule is, as soon as I come home from work - it goes off. Only time it really is watched is for movies on the weekend.
Posted in: Why do you think so much media coverage is being given to Noriko Sakai's case?
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aelieth
He's 55 and has a hot girlfriend, I would be bragging about her too. My girlfriend is only 5 years younger than me and I brag about her all the time. She's really short, but has great hips and knows how to sway them, I also like to walk 3 steps behind her. ;)
Posted in: Junichi Ishida talks about girlfriend's great legs
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aelieth
This poor young woman. This family's son is gone, she's living with the family and has his baby. The family wants to keep her and the baby there to live, well do it. Send her to a local college as a foreign student to get a degree in something basic and easy to land a job in, pay to have the visa upgraded to a working visa based on degree, and then work 5 years. She'll be able to stay there, support the baby, and be an American citizen.
I would start on this and continue fighting to keep her there without having to go through all those steps. It will make everything much easier.
Posted in: Proxy wedding means Marine's Japanese widow, baby unwelcome in U.S.
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aelieth
I'd like to see the Olympics in Tokyo and may even attempt to go watch for a day.
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aelieth
NEC projectors are great and affordable, this however, is... not so affordable.
Posted in: NEC has seen the light
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aelieth
Huh... what the heck. These poor women should not be subjected to this!
Posted in: Flower expo