JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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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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buddha4brains
But his first joke was about teleprompter. You must be busting with pride.
Posted in: Obama jabs at himself, DC's establishment
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buddha4brains
Ah the cult of personality. Not really evidence of a belief in democracy, is it?
Posted in: Muslim Brotherhood: Obama's Egypt trip 'useless'
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buddha4brains
Is that an original idea or are you just playing echo chamber?
Posted in: Obama sends Congress budget with cuts to 121 programs
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buddha4brains
Canada is a soft target as calic0cat said. A more serious response would involve Britain or the USA.
Posted in: Russia to expel Canadians in NATO response
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buddha4brains
Actually, that is exactly what war is. War is a hungry beast that Bush unleashed and one that will not heel easily. America is a rich country, no doubt, but these two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, are indeed eating up America's prosperity.
Glad to see you are beginning to see the folly of some of Bush's policies.
Posted in: Obama announces plan to close U.S. tax loopholes
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buddha4brains
WTF? It was not "awesome". A person was murdered. The wife and children will have to live with their actions (as understandable as they were) the rest of their lives. It was a horrendous choice to make. Nothing awesome about it at all.
Posted in: Wife, two children arrested for father's murder in Hiroshima
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buddha4brains
So the enlightened right want a reality-challenged justice who cold-hearted and out of touch?
Well, no real surprise there.
Posted in: Obama: New Justice will combine 'empathy and understanding'
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buddha4brains
While not let the voters in Penn decide on whether they agree with his move? Why set more laws and take more power away from the people. For all the b!tching about the SC, it makes little sense in establishing more laws which effectively robs the people their right to decide who represents them.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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buddha4brains
Yeah, like the Magna Carta.
And yet it was a Democrat who ended his presidency with a surplus (could have helped to pay down the debt) and a Republican who ended his with a huge deficit. Tell me, who was the last Republican president to table a balanced budget?
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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buddha4brains
Oh yeah sarge, taxpayer money is so sacred that it should not be spent on maintaining a just society. Anyway, the guy died and will not face the results of his crimes - lucky him. Now everyone else has to pick up the pieces.
Posted in: Driver who attacked Dutch royals dies
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buddha4brains
And your point is? I just said the same thing ... to recap ... GWB received a PDB clearly stating a specific threat (which stood out from all the other threats you allude to) and he ignored it.
But lower level officials taking the spare plane out for an ill-advised spin over NYC does not even come close to Bush ignoring threats to America i.e. no one died.
Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover
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buddha4brains
Umm teleprompter, let me tell you a secret that just about everyone in the world knows but you. Yes, Bush should have been monitoring the skies since he received a PDB titled "Bin Laden determined to attack America". Protecting America was his Job # 1 - and not starting from 9/12 but from the day he took office.
In this case, lower level officials made a bad decision and Obama is taking heat. But, really, it isn't even near the same as Bush's ignored PDB warning, not even close.
Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover
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buddha4brains
So what happens next? Does the POTUS receive (with his morning coffee) a daily update on the status of the various planes, helicopters, and batmobiles?
The GOPer whiners have trivialized the responsibilities of the President to one of being a glorified parking attendant. Why should he know what is happening to Air Force 1? He has other higher priorities to focus on. No one at the WH is excusing the fly-over, everyone is calling it dumb, stupid, etc. What else can the President do?
Now when Bush was in office, who took responsibility for ... oh take your pick. Now watch the GOPers grab their pitch forks and demand accountability. That's good, but about one president too late.
Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover
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buddha4brains
Which is why you're posting here today?
Actually, American democracy is fascinating and what happens in your great country affects many way beyond its borders.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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buddha4brains
That 60th vote is not a phone-in. If the radical left get too excited, the spectre of Specter will help cool their heels. In that sense Specter's one vote will help do what the whole of the GOP has failed to do: put country before ideology. Let's see if the Dems as a whole can avoid the same pit fall.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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buddha4brains
The GOP's continued rightward radicalism is alienating its own members. By appealing to only the narrow interests of the far right the GOP is losing its relevance. The bonus here is that Specter will offer a counter weight to the leftist radicals in the Democratic Party who mirror their rightist siblings in alienating the interests of the nation in favour of ideology.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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buddha4brains
Ah you're a hoot superlib.
Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan
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buddha4brains
dumb, dumb, dumb.
Posted in: Jet flyover for photo ops in lower Manhattan sets off panic
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buddha4brains
So what if the article doesn't mention Afghanistan, I am not responsible for what the article writer includes and excludes. Do you think that what America does or doesn't do in Afghanistan has no effect in Pakistan? Actually you don't - you even said above that the Taliban should be wiped out in Afghanistan so that Pakistan will be more secure, which is basically what I am saying but in a historical context.
Why you want to bother arguing about something that you already agree with in principle is a bit puzzling.
Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan
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buddha4brains
Thank you for your condescension.
Yes, Pakistan has much to answer for and it seems it will only get worse. However, unlike you it seems, I do recall when America forces had the Taliban and Quaida on the run and then took instead of finishing the job, Bush & Co went off to Iraq. This gave both groups time to rearm.
There is nothing radical about that. What Bush did and didn't do have consequences that extend beyond his term in office, if that isn't obvious enough.
Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan