JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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jeancolmar
Pressed Submit too soon!!!!! First sentence should start: "There is no capitalism like American capitalism." I have no stomach to read the rest. Typo meltdown.
Posted in: Dow plunges after Congress rejects bailout bill
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jeancolmar
The is no capitalism like American capitalism, easily the most reckless, greed-driven and anti-social system ever devised. The worst of it is that American capitalism cannot confine itself to its borders. When it gets sick the whole world suffers. Remember it is American capitalism that gave us the stock market crash of 1929. Even when American capitalism is prospering it makes people miserable through its empire of perpetual wars and gross exploitation. The joke is that American capitalism is no longer strictly American. Amdrican corporations have no national loyalties. You'd think that with wealth the American empire hauls in the American people would be getting a lot of bootie. Well, there ain't no booty for Americans. No universal health care even, which Otto von Bismark gave the Germans in the 19th century. The super rich corporate creeps get the bootie. They'll continue getting the bootie bailout or not in this current meltdown of "free market forces" economics.
The joke is that it is the Republicans who murdered Bush's bailout bill. Yeah, I know, they are blaming Nancy P. because she hurt their feels. But the great irony is that this era of American capitalism without borders it is hometown politics that brought the bill down. The politicians who voted against the bill were afraid of their constituents who by and large hate the idea of bailing out Wall Street while they themselves are hurting.
So what has this got with us in Japan who are not hurting (yet) from the meltdown? Well, probably it is better to toss your money on horses than investing in American financial institutions. (Tip, with no explanation: Avoid All State. Not in the news but avoid. Also avoid the little savings and loan and trust banks Avoid buying foreclosed property). If you absolutely must be the Big Speculator at least hire a financial advisor who is a Marxist, a person who has no illusions about the system and is, therefore, not prone to hubris.
Posted in: Dow plunges after Congress rejects bailout bill
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jeancolmar
The block quote got screwed up. the last ">" ends it.
Posted in: $700 bil rescue plan finalized; House to vote Monday
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jeancolmar
Okay, neo cons, how about the whole truth? McCain's staff is full of lobbyist for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. This is from Mother Jones (and pardon the long quote):
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In McCain's op-ed in the Journal, he and Palin wrote:
For years, Congress failed to act and it is deeply troubling that what we are seeing is an exercise in crisis management rather than sound planning, and at great cost to taxpayers. We promise the American people that our administration will be different. We have long records of standing up to special interests… But McCain's own campaign staffers are those special interests, a fact that casts doubt on both McCain's hiring judgment and his ability to pursue tough reforms of Fannie and Freddie.
Aquiles Suarez, listed as an economic adviser to the McCain campaign in a July 2007 McCain press release, was formerly the director of government and industry relations for Fannie Mae. The Senate Lobbying Database says Suarez oversaw the lending giant's $47,510,000 lobbying campaign from 2003 to 2006.
And other current McCain campaign staffers were the lobbyists receiving shares of that money. According to the Senate Lobbying Database, the lobbying firm of Charlie Black, one of McCain's top aides, made at least $820,000 working for Freddie Mac from 1999 to 2004. The McCain campaign's vice-chair Wayne Berman and its congressional liaison John Green made $1.14 million working on behalf of Fannie Mae for lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations. Green made an additional $180,000 from Freddie Mac. Arther B. Culvahouse Jr., the VP vetter who helped John McCain select Sarah Palin, earned $80,000 from Fannie Mae in 2003 and 2004, while working for lobbying and law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP. In addition, Politico reports that at least 20 McCain fundraisers have lobbied for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, pocketing at least $12.3 million over the last nine years.
For years McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was head of the Homeownership Alliance, a lobbying association that included Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, real estate agents, homebuilders, and non-profits. According to Politico, the organization opposed congressional attempts at regulation of Fannie and Freddie, along the lines of what John McCain is currently proposing. In his capacity of president of the group, Davis went on record in 2003 and insisted that no further reform of the lenders was necessary, in contradiction to his current boss's sentiments. "[Fannie and Freddie] are subject to an innovative and stringent risk-based capital stress test," Davis wrote. "The toughest in the financial services industry." >
Furthermore, the problem of sub-prime loans did not begin with those to agencies. They began with so-called deregulation, which John McCain and the "free market forces" gang pushed for years--and succeeded in instituting under Reagan. That state of affairs allowing crooked capitalists to push people into debt.
Look the banks and the housing industry just didn't passively allow bad loans to happen. They pushed them. They marketed them. They actively persuaded working people to take out loans that they could not afford. Bush and Company did not try to stop this. Neither did McCain. In fact no one did. Reforming Freddie and Fannie would have done nothing or next to nothing to stem the epidemic of sub-prime loans.
Posted in: $700 bil rescue plan finalized; House to vote Monday
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jeancolmar
No, it's a continuing trend. All part of the mess that Bush made and McCain supported.
Posted in: 33 killed in spate of Baghdad bombings
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jeancolmar
A truly great person. Nixon hated him. Farewell Paul.
Posted in: Paul Newman dies at 83
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jeancolmar
Maybe the Kano sisters can write a sequel called "Thanks for the Mammeries."
Posted in: Manners more attractive than boobs, says Mika Kano
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jeancolmar
I am sure the book will cause a few titters.
Posted in: Manners more attractive than boobs, says Mika Kano
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jeancolmar
Ought to-- Pushed Submit a little to early.
Posted in: U.S. serviceman breaks into love hotel room
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jeancolmar
Bopp ought act in a Mr. Bean movie as Mr. Bean's long lost younger brother.
Posted in: U.S. serviceman breaks into love hotel room
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jeancolmar
This is like Bill Gates writing a book called "Honesty is More Important than Being Rich."
Posted in: Manners more attractive than boobs, says Mika Kano
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jeancolmar
Pure and simple: Palin is a crock.
Posted in: Subpoenaed Palin aides don't appear at abuse probe
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jeancolmar
This is funny. It is right out of Chaucer's "Miller's Tale." A man named Bopp is watching a couple make love and falls through the room on them. Yes, I know there that this could have resulted in serious injuries or even death. But since no one was hurt I think it is quite all right to bust a gut over this.
One question that this raises is what should you do if an unexpected visitor drops in on you, or, more appropriately, bops in while you are in the act.
Anyone been to university should be no stranger to this state of affairs.
There are various school of thought as to the proper approach.
Keep at it and pretend nothing has happened.
Ask the visitor to join in.
Say, "Hi," and continue.
Say, "The bathroom is down the hall" (which wouldn't work in a love hotel).
Poor Bopp! I hope the authorities won't be too hard on him.
Posted in: U.S. serviceman breaks into love hotel room
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jeancolmar
“I spent the money I stole on drinking and gambling.” What about women?
Posted in: NHK part-time fee collector arrested for robbing convenience store in Tokyo
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jeancolmar
On United I have had to deal with ground staff and a few flight attendants who were vicious and in a couple of cases borderline postal. I report this stuff to United with no response. This aside, I can verify that in business class I have yet to see seats that fold into 180-degree fully-flat beds.
Posted in: United voted 'Best North American Airline' in Asia
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jeancolmar
Excuse me, I pressed the submit button by mistake.
There is an unreality in the telling. Are the faces of the children cut outs? Does the man have scissors and glue? What he is doing would require two hands. Yet he still has the camera in his hand. Does anyone find this strange? Even assuming the children's faces were pre-cut he would still need to hands for this work. Next the writer says he "kicked" the camera out of the man's hand. Can you visualize this? I am imagining someone with the agility of a ballet dancer or a karate expert doing this--maybe. I somehow don't see this guy in that category. His emotions are too out of control. I can see him tearing the camera from the man's hand with his hands. But kicking seems farfetched. And after the camera was completely smashed, the writer "cracked the memory stick in half." By "memory stick" does he mean memory card? Does this guy not know the difference between a memory stick and a card--or are there digital cameras that use sticks. Anyway, I'd think a stick would be destroyed in the stomping. I think it would be hard to crack a memory stick in half but easy with an SD card. Another thing, was the alleged pervert's hand hurt from the kick? It most likely would be.
Next: "The guy didn’t move. Instead, he looked at me, bowed in apology, and ran away." Why did he wait until the writer finished destroying his camera before running away? I find that strange. Imagine you are a guy with a dirty scrap book how has just been assaulted by an angry man. Would you wait around until the person had finished, then take the time to bow, and then--only then--run away. Not hurry away. But run away. I find this the hardest to believe.
And where did the man run to? This happened in a departure lounge. That means he was waiting to depart. Did he miss his plane?
And what happened to the man's scrapbook and the children's pictures? Were some of the cutouts scattered on the floor?
And where was airport security when all this was going on? I cannot believe that in this day and age that airport security was not called. If they weren't in the lounge there were airline personnel around who certainly would have reported a violent incident. Was the writer actually allowed to board after all this.
This is the story of how the writer became the sort of person he is--someone who would castrate and cut off the hands of child molesters and who in so many words threatens to kill them (how else can we read, "But those who exploit and abuse our children, please be warned that your days are numbered.") In this story the angry father gets his own against a man with a dirty scrapbook and a camera and has an epiphany in which he turns into a mental vigilante. I say mental because he provides us with no evidence that he is actually doing anything to fight perverts, like joining a group or something.
To tell you the truth, I don't think this incident took place in the way the writer tells it. It reads too much like very bad creative writing. Even the guy working on his scrapbook while waiting for a plane is weird enough--but okay, weird things happen. The rest of it is beyond the pale.
The man is angry about perverts molesting children: that is clear. Yet, he seems to know nothing about the subject. There is no sense of this guy having done any research.
Something happened to make this man mad. I cannot believe it happened as he told it.
Posted in: Stalking the predators
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jeancolmar
A few things. I am trying to visualize the incident at the airport. First the guy photographs the writers daughter. 'Minutes later" the man is with his "scrapbook in which he was pasting children’s faces onto pornographic images." Then the writer "immediately kicked the camera out of his hand, stomped on it until it was completely smashed, and cracked the memory stick in half." The alleged pervert does not do anything until the writer is done with his job. Then he bows and runs away.
Posted in: Stalking the predators
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jeancolmar
As the jokes goes, I meant to say....
Posted in: Asian stocks soar on possible US rescue package
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jeancolmar
Well, all this proves one thing. Free market capitalism, so-called, does not work. This crisis is the result of years of deregulation. And guess who rushes in to save capitalism from the point of collapse? Big Government. Big Government comes in to foot the bills of the irresponsible capitalists and regulate them and no one is screaming "creeping socialism." Uh, uh. The stock market rallies.
The screamer is that this is all being carried out by a neocon government.
Nice post Good jorb. Of course, as the joke good, the US always has had socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
Posted in: Asian stocks soar on possible US rescue package
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jeancolmar
Now we know what an idiot Bush really is. He is saying nothing because he has nothing to say. All that this guy has done is start useless wars and destroy American human rights. It was under his administration that the ghost of Milton Freedman was allowed to run rampant.
Posted in: Bush scraps comments on financial crisis