JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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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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How "un-American" of them. Damn lefty socialist defeatists...
No chance Bush will ever recognise the person responsible for their fractured mental states...when he looks in a mirror
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Reading all of the nonsense that is being spouted here, I'm left wishing all Republicans would practice abstinence - from speaking, as well as reproducing....
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO - Barack Obama has very wisely defended a woman's right to choose, which is what the decision in Roe vs Wade blessed your freedom-loving nation with. The major consequence of Roe vs Wade has been a substantial reduction in unwanted and neglected children, which has in turn led to a gradual but sustained fall in the crime rate in the US (the same trends can be seen in other western countries as well). Nothing to do with Giuliana's feted "get tough" judicial policy or anything at all - just pure demographics.
Terminating foetuses (not "infanticide" as you cruelly, but deliberately, mislabel it) is a beneficial process for society as a whole. Dinosaurs like Palin (now with illegitimate grandchild on the way - shock, horror) would take all of those positive developments away from society and women in the USA, if they get their way. And all the time they take your rights away, they'll tell you like Bush has told you, just how "pro-freedom" they are. THAT's hypocrisy
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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goodDonkey - I wasn't arguing that it did prove Palin's point (because it is plainly unrealistic to think that you can stop teenagers from having sex by preaching abstinence). She might, however, argue that her daughter wouldn't have been pregnant if she had abstained from having sex, which, she would say, proves her point. My point is that while you can call Palin completely misguided on matters of social policy (what do you expect when someone refers to a 2,000-year-old book of fairy tales for guidance on morality...?) you can't call Palin a hypocrite for something that her daughter chose to do.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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motytrah - why is Palin a hypocrite? She might argue that her daughter has help to prove her point (not that I would agree)
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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I'm not saying Bristol Palin is promiscuous - none of us (presumably) know enough about that to comment. I'm not even saying it's a mistake - perhaps it's what she wants anyway. Hopefully so. But if she was due to give birth in February or March rather than December, do you think that they would admit this now?
I'd say - of course not.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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Even so Cleo, the conservative right are going to LOVE this. Perfect timing for the forces of reason, I suspect. You have to wonder whether Bristol Palin actually wanted a termination at any stage or whether her mother brainwashed her into believing that a woman's right to choose was somehow "murder". Which, for the record and needless to say, I think is ludicrous.
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Sarge, come on - she needs defending, because she's yet another cartoon character of the GOP. A novelty act supposed to distract attention from the Obama bandwagon, which seems to be building up some momentum. McCain is at least a man who has given a lot for his country - the complete opposite of a deserter & serial quitter, that's for sure - but time for him to take a break and not send himself to an early grave doing a highly stressful job starting aged 72.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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Sarge - I seem to remember you saying that you'd prefer Mickey Mouse to McCain to win the GOP nomination, or words to that effect. You seem to have changed your tune
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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Why defend such a great choice....from the Democrats' point of view?
McCain kicks it, and you have a "pro-life (hah)" NRA member and hardcore religious nut case with no experience in charge of the US. Don't put yourselves in that position, please...
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Morgan Freeman should be president for real
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If he does it without grip tape (see photo) I'll be very impressed
Posted in: Adventurous Brit plans to skate down Mt Fuji for charity
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Zurcronium - I know what you are referring to... You mean that they are "rabbitting on" at each other constantly. Must be a movie full of dialogue...
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That is sick, sick, sick. I wonder if the city of Okazai consider this a sackable offence or merely showing an interest in his job out of the office?
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The Marion - you'd better save your dollars for the financial armageddon that is starting to hit your country. Wasting it on another Republican disaster is pointless
Posted in: Pawlenty favored as McCain's running mate
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Not content with YET another formulaic sports movie, they turn it into a 2-hour advertisement for JAL as well. I always thought most of JAL's cabin crew were a bit on the old side for basketball, as well
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this story REALLY deserves a top headline.... [/sarcasm]
I don't suppose Kitajima-san regards drinking nama beer as a key part of his training regime somehow
Posted in: Gold medalist Kitajima chosen as 'best beer person'
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I would almost respect Mugabe more if he simply declared himself dictator and suspended the democratic process - given the contempt with which he regards the majority opinion in his country, he might as well. The MDC clearly won both the parliamentary and presidential elections despite his mobilisation of the police and armed forces to attack, harass and sometimes even murder MDC supporters.
He is the root of most of the problems that Zimbabwe faces. The rest of the blame lies with the spinelessness of Thabo Mbeki, who really could have influenced things for the better and chose not to. His moral cowardice has helped to make life infinitely worse for Zimbabweans, not to mention creating a highly unstable failing state right on the border of South Africa.
All I can say is - why do the good die young, and the evil and deluded live to 80+. Mugabe, give it up.
Posted in: Mugabe defies opposition over government plans
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"Pawlenty" - the press would have a field day with such a name. "Pawlenty" more dead US soldiers in Iraq under McCain's proposed policy for a start...
Posted in: Pawlenty favored as McCain's running mate
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Sarge, your record with executing people is about as good as that with friendly fire incidents, so I think you'd better abolish capital punishment a.s.a.p.
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