JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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goodDonkey
Awesome news, I hope Tesla gets another 100 mil in investments; it is a great company.
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goodDonkey
Molenir said:
Why is it so hard for you to tell the truth?
techall said:
This comment would be hilarious if it were not so sad. We had debt and we should have paid down the debt. Essentially techall's logic would be to say screw the national debt we refuse to pay it down. Because the ONLY way to pay it down is with budget surpluses.
What a sad and pathetic way to manipulate logic and truth.
The truth of the matter is that techall said even though we could pay down the debt because we have a budget surplus we should pass that debt along to other generations.
The Democrats were defeated by a terrible employment rate and various other scare tactics; right out of the Karl Rove playbook were they used terrorism to win elections. The problem is that many of the same scare tactics will not be available for the Republicans to use in 2012. The Tea Bag Party used fear. Taxation fears, socialism-big government fears and other fears. They and various Republicans try to dumb down the economic situation so they can claim to know the answers. The problem is complex. The solution is complex. Anyone rational would never call Obama anti-business. Just because people won't admit certain speech is hate speech doesn't make it so. The slurs against Obama on this thread are nothing short of hate speech. There are so many references as to Obama being unpatriotic it is pathetic. I do not post on JT very much anymore and one of the main reasons is the inability to quote references-sources. I can say that the huge majority of economists agree that the stimulus bill was successful in adverting a much worse recession, which is true, to the extent of almost being a consensus among them. However all a dishonest person has to do is say it is not true. Unless I can post credible sources it is to no avail. I have just posted two examples of easily defeated quotations from posters. One is utterly not true "He only needed to outspend her 10 to 1," and the other is totally ridiculous logic. The statements I have made will be allegedly refuted and the responses will become so convoluted that many will no longer be able to use clear common sense to see the truth.
Congratulations to the Tea Party and Republicans for their victories.
NOW GOVERN!
Posted in: GOP wins the House, falls short of Senate
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goodDonkey
Well I did my part and voted for every Democrat that I could on the ticket. I know it won't help much but at least I tried to keep the idiot GOP and idiots from the Tea Party out of office. We have already pulled out of the recession and jobs are sure to follow. But the conservatives will "F" up everything they can possibly get their "F"ing hands on.
Posted in: GOP upbeat, Democrats brace for losses in election
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goodDonkey
Temporary setback.
Posted in: Dark clouds for Democrats as Obama embarks on last push
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goodDonkey
ilcub76 at 10:36 PM JST - 24th October
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Molenir at 08:20 AM JST - 25th October
ilcub76 was correct. Although many, many attempts have been made to make English the "official language" all congressional attempts have failed.
Many bills and amendments have passed the House or the Senate but none have passed both and been signed by a president.
I am perfectly willing to post the address of many sites that confirm that the many efforts to pass that specific legislation has failed. However it sucks that we cannot post links.
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goodDonkey
The Republicans and other neo-cons hate Bill Clinton. They can't stand that the entire country loves him even though the Republicans tried to destroy him with bullshit. If he could run again today he would win again.
Posted in: Bill Clinton races to help Democratic candidates
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goodDonkey
I hope the murderer rots in prison for the rest of his life.
Posted in: OJ Simpson appeal denied by Nevada Supreme Court
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WilliB
Put another record on!
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goodDonkey
Molenir said:
Typical straw man logic from Molenir.
Posted in: Senate candidate: Muslim law taking hold in parts of U.S.
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goodDonkey
Sailwind, birds of feather flock together.
Posted in: Senate candidate: Muslim law taking hold in parts of U.S.
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goodDonkey
Sharron Angle is a completely unmitigated idiot.
Posted in: Senate candidate: Muslim law taking hold in parts of U.S.
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goodDonkey
Conspiracy theorists just want to be more intelligent then others. They can't do it in the real world so they created the conspiracy world where they are the smartest people in the world. 911 is the ultimate conspiracy theory because us dumb sheep believe what we saw with our own eyes.
Posted in: Do you believe that Al-Qaida was responsible for the events of 9/11
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goodDonkey
Idiots, Idiots, Idiots.
The hardliners who could condone such behavior are nothing but idiots.
Posted in: EU decries 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman
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goodDonkey
In all this time no memorial has still not been built. Why don't people complain about that? I'll tell you why. It doesn't make political hay. It is not political fodder for the mill. This is solely about scoring political points by the Republicans and then there are the sheep that follow.
Baaaaah! Terrorist Muslims; blah, blah, blah.
Baaaaah! Respect the Victims; blah, blah, blah.
Baaaaah! Common Decency; blah, blah, blah.
I can never decide which is worse, the Republican bullshit or the bleating of the sheep.
Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero
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goodDonkey
Best wishes to the Bride and Groom.
Screw all their detractors.
Posted in: Crowd on VIP alert at site of Clinton's wedding
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goodDonkey
Livin' Large, Dying Young!"
Cool Story.
Posted in: Scientists find most massive star ever discovered
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goodDonkey
Typical nescient comment for a hatemonger to make. People like sfjp330 don't realize what full integration actually means. Unlike his world of us and them, there is simply us.
Mirror image: "when they actually hate their presence"
Sen. Byrd had no problem with blacks and I saw both dated and recent comments by him showing true remorse for his past. The vitriol displayed by WhiteHawk, sfjp330 and others just goes to show what a great and influential man Sen. Byrd actually was. They feel the need to tear him down. Byrd enjoyed a perfect 100 percent rating from the NAACP. He proposed $10 million to fund a Martin Luther King National Memorial in Washington, DC. sfjp330's disparaging comment about the Democrats with relation to blacks is actually saying blacks are too dumb to notice the difference between sincerity and using them for political gain. I don't have to ask the blacks as sfjp330 suggests. I have constant communications with black friends who would expose such comments as outright racebaiting lies.
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yabits at 05:51 AM JST - 1st July
"You really don't know how they're working the Sharia law into Western Society do you. Otherwise you wouldn't be saying something as foolish as this. Sharia is in Europe, including in England."
No doubt about that! Pitiful and Pathetic.
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goodDonkey
Deadbeat scofflaws.
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goodDonkey
Thanks PeaceWarrior for the clip I really enjoyed it.
We cannot kill civilians willy nilly. We have to win the peace. We must therefore make a constant concerted effort to win over the hearts of the civilians. Just because it is far easier to fight the war by shooting everyone on sight does not mean that it is effective.
I personally believe this is an important war to win. That is not to say it would have the devastating impact that Vietnam had on our psyche if we walk away without a clear victory. If we were to win the war and win the peace it would be quite a feat. With the Pakistani border infiltrated with Taliban it would seem an impossible task. That makes it all that more important to win. Don't get me wrong I don't expect to win. It would take "managing" the Pakistanis like we have never managed in our countries history. But it would be to the Pakistanis advantage also. The insurgents have found a winning strategy in the game of attrition. Time is definitely on their side. But we have a few advantages ourselves. We do not have to eradicate the enemy to win. Politics and diplomacy are effective tools. We already know many of the "enemy" fighters are only in it for the money. In the long run we have more money. Reaching the paid soldier who might switch is a whole different story. If we deliver a few devastating blows through surge activity maybe we can get them to the table quite a bit rattled. And yes getting them to the table is the ultimate goal. Well technically getting them to make certain concessions and agreements at the table is the ultimate goal.
By the end of the summer we will have approximately 98,000 troops (U.S. troops) in Afghanistan. I believe we still need 20% - 40% more troops in Afghanistan when the number of Iraqi troops has fallen dramatically. But this will not do us any good unless we can get boots on the ground in Pakistan. I don't see that happening. If we did I think we could get them to the table and reach an agreement that would legitimize the government in Afghanistan with the Taliban participating. Unfortunately right now unlike the Sunnis in Iraq that just wanted power and access to the countries rich resources the Taliban want to continue to make women wear burkas and throw acid in the face of girls who want to attend school. I believe the difficulty will be in steering the Taliban to acceptable negotiations. The Sharia law in other countries is no where near as extreme as the Taliban's.
I think that it may be a case of fighting a long protracted war; not that it has not already been long. But rebuilding, initial building and development will show ordinary citizens how progressive societies live. Or at least give them a glimpse. It will take a long time to build meaningful infrastructure. Terrorist will try to destroy what we build. If ordinary citizens want what we build badly enough they will despise the Taliban when they tear it down or blow it up or whatever.
I wish both sides would line up and fight wearing uniforms; but that is not going to happen. It would be easier if every non-combatant would understand when we kill innocent civilians; but that is not going to happen. Now I can predict that the eventual outcome will not look like any scenario I have outlined here. In all probability it will be leaving behind a government that will eventually fall from its own weight. We have little control over the corruption in the various stages of government. Perhaps the only lesson we will learn is not to get into such conflicts or to get out sooner rather than later. When I stressed the importance of winning perhaps I did not stress the "if" strongly enough. If we don't have a clear victory I don't think it will be that important to America's military strength. However if we were to walk away with a clear victory, supplemented by political negotiations, it would be immensely important. That is why I think we should continue to give it at least one good effort to see where it leads us. When you all want to tell me how myopic I am, don't forget I said the key would be Pakistan and there is no way we will get what I want there. So that's the last big "if;" Pakistani cooperation.
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