JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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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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jwills79
Whitehawk,
She didn't stand up for the "Bridge to Nowhere". It has already been pointed out that she did it only after the rest of the country got in on the act and condemned it. Where was her toughness then? Sounds like she followed the crowd.
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mar4eO,
Obama simply stole sum of RNC's thunder like McCain did when he announced Palin. If anything it shows he has the courage to stand up to his critics on their turf. It also shows he truly believes in the things he trying to do for this country. Remember he was a community leader there has never been in money it that profession. You have to really want to do it.
McCain doesn't have the guts or the ability to that. I think the days leading up he might be even more skiddish when ask to give details about anything. He hasn't laid any concrete evidence of what he is going to do. Mrs. Palin has stated she didn't even know what the VP did. It will be the same as before if he is elected.
Now he is even trying to still Obama's theme talking about change. He is either following Bush or following Obama. Where is the leadership?
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jwills79
Whitehawk,
How about you defend Palin and her husband's support of the AIP. Her husband was a card caring member in 1996 and 2000. You think she didn't know anything about that.The group who wants to separate from the US. She was quoted as saying in her speech to the group. "Keep up the good work". "Country first" more like my career first, family second, Alaska third and US last. Oops!!! She may be a religious freak so God trumps it all.
How about you defend Palin wanting to everyone to leave her daughter alone and allow her to make a her own choice about keeping her baby. Yet, she wants to make it a law that no other woman in the country should have that right.
Why don't you defend Guilani, Palin and McCain who ridicule people for being community leaders and trying to make a difference. Didn't McCain say in his acceptance speech people should get out and volunteer and help America?
Why don't you defend Palin's claim she has Foreign Policy Experience simply based on the fact Alaska is close to Russia. Alaska also has some of the tallest peaks in the US which means they are the closest to space. Does that mean she also has experience with the space program?
Sidenote: I think the youngest son might be Bristol's. The media hasn't said much but she took 5 months off of school right before the youngest son was born. There also no picture of Palin during the pregnancy and she went back to work like the next day after birth. does this not seem a little fishy. How can you manage a country and you can't manage your family. Bill O'Reilly called the parents of Jamie Lee Spears "PINHEADS" for allowing a sixteen year old to get pregnant. Bristol is seventeen doesn't the rule still apply?
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jwills79
t is amazing how they are pumping up her resume. If she is so qualified she should be President and McCain VP. Or Palin/Rommney.
Example of some of the stupid responses?
How can you select a VP with no foreign policy experience?
Republican Ans: She does have experience Alaska is very close to Russia.
My question: Alaska is also close to the North Pole does it mean she has experience with Santa Claus?
Alaskan mountain ranges have some of the highest peaks in the country. It the closest to outer space. Does it mean she also has space exploration policy?
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jwills79
It is amazing how they are pumping up her resume. If she is so qualified she should be President and McCain VP. Or Palin/Rommney.
Example of some of the stupid responses?
How can you select a VP with no foreign policy experience?
Republican Ans: She does have experience Alaska is very close to Russia.
My question: Alaska is also close to the North Pole does it mean she has experience with Santa Claus?
Alaskan mountain ranges have some of the highest peaks in the country. It the closest to outer space. Does it mean she also has space exploration policy?
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jwills79
Once again look at this video. It just shows how extreme and fanatical these Republicans that support McCain sound like. Especially the old blonde.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9574897&ch=4226716&src=news
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RomeoRamen,
I agree about Hillary being the definite choice. I also have faith in America and I think he will still win.
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jwills79
I think the language in the future will eventually change to all Hiragana or katakana. For one, many Japanese have difficulty with the readings. Only reason they even use it was because of China's influence over them for so many centuries.
Also you can see a shift towards it. Look on some of the major trains. Alot them only use katakana for the station name on the teleprompter on the train. It is because senior citizens were having problems reading the small Kanji characters in pixels.
Having all hiragana or katakana would take away one less obstacle for people trying to integrate into this society. It would be a good compromise. They will not have to make major changes to their language. It will open the door to more opportunities for so many.
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jwills79
RomeoRamen wrote:
Gotta also ask yourself if biden "is so goshed-darn great", how come he could only muster five percent of the vote - within his own party - when he was running for U.S. President earlier in this election cycle? > It is simple! There was an even better candidate available. Why not choose the #1 pick.
McCain was all that was left. Compared to opponents in his party, he had the least number of major flaws. That is why it has been so hard for him to get the base behind him. They never really wanted him to begin with.
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SpecialReportUS, Sarge, RomeoRamen
More lies!!!!
McCain said "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
Fact: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
My freshmen class in University had more participants. It is not that great an accomplishment.
Mitt Romney said "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
Fact: George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
This is also helps explain why Congress's approval rating is so low. In addition to George Bush's approval rating.
SpecialreportUS - George Bush Jr. is a real dork!!!Ha Ha Ha. And most of the US agrees with me. It's a fact.
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jwills79
SpecialReportUS, Sarge, RomeoRamen
Here are some of Palin's lies!!!
Lie: I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
Fact: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
Lie: There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.
Fact: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
Lie: The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
Fact: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
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jwills79
SpecialReportUS - Unfounded stories about this woman will not harm her credibility.
Here is her address to the AIP. Her husband was a member in 1996 and 2000. Pat Buchanan said on TV she came to his fundraiser. All facts...Yes?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
How does secession from the union put 'country first'?
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jwills79
This speech was for the base and did not reach out to independents. It's difficult to see what, if any element of Palin would reach out to independents. The fact is, she was chosen to shore up McCain with the base. That presupposes that he has support elsewhere. McCain circa 2008 is a whole different person from McCain circa 2000 and everyone knows it. Everyone is aware of his sucking up to the "agents of intolerance" and flip-flopping on the Bush tax cuts. Then there's the insane militarism. With Iraq enjoy an enormous disapproval rating, I doubt too many people are eager to attack Iran, Russia, or any place McCain seems intent on going to war.
This convention was all about at least making sure he has republicans. Winning over anyone else will be an uphill battle and then some and Palin does nothing for that cause but hurt it with her inexperience - and the pitbull routine won't help there either.
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jwills79
The more I learn about things outside of the US, the more Republicans sound fanatical. Its funny since that is exactly what we are supposed to be fighting in Iraq. People who stick to a belief even if it leads to a path of destruction. We have 8 years of evidence to show us what the "conservatives" want. Widen the gap between the haves and the have nots. Use the facade of patriotism to pull the wool over the eyes of the average working man. Attack anyone who questions you as weak and unwilling to act. Apparently, thinking before you act is weakness. Truly sad!!!
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jwills79
Sarge,
Yeah, I saw other polls 48% and 43% later. What do you think about her and her husband supporting a party (AIP) that has interest in succession from the US. Is that change we can believe? Or is that qualities of leader who will put the country first?
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jwills79
Actually, Palin was for the infamous $398 million bridge — to connect the town of Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport on it — before she was against it, speaking in favor of it during her 2006 race for governor.
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jwills79
Recent polls have Obama 51% and McCain 45%.
Bookmakers in Britain and Ireland were offering 20-1 odds or higher on a bet that she would be forced off the ticket, meaning a 1 pound ($1.78) bet would pay 20 pounds. Now that same bet will pay no more than 8 pounds.
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jwills79
Ambrosia,
Don't forget she was also a supporter of Pat Buchanan, the right winger and Nazi sympathizer.
Buchanan himself told MSNBC's Chris Matthews last week that Palin "was a brigadeer in 1996 as was her husband ... They were at a fundraiser for me, she's a terrific gal, she's a rebel reformer."
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jwills79
I have question! Has anyone seen the cover of People magazine with picture of the McCain and Palin families. Palin's son is busy with the military. Where was McCain's dark-skinned Bangladeshi daughter? Any takers on why she hasn't been in the media? Wholesome family values except for the secrets you keep under the stairs. I hope she isn't being treated like the family's servant.
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jwills79
I have question! Has anyone seen the cover of People magazine with picture of the McCain and Palin families. Palin's son is busy with the military. Where was McCain's dark-skinned Bangladeshi daughter? Any takers on why she hasn't been in the media? Wholesome family values except for the secrets you keep under the stairs. I hope she isn't being treated like the family's servant.
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