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
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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mar4eO
"keep dreaming, for we all know, and McCain now laments, that his choice has single-handedly cost him the election."
McCain laments the 10 million dollars that came in over the weekend?
Sarah Palin is authentic. Non-Americans will never get it.
They never do.
Posted in: Heat is on for McCain, Palin
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mar4eO
Dr James Dobson has announced (Aug 30) that he will support John McCain after all.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
RNC Protesters Attack Connecticut Delegates Getting Off Bus
Last Edited: Monday, 01 Sep 2008, 7:14 PM CDT
Connecticut Delegation Attacked
ST. PAUL "As the Connecticut delegation was getting off a bus near the Xcel Center, a group of protesters broke free from authorities and attacked the delegates.
Connecticut delegate Rob Simmons told FOX 9 that a group of protesters came toward his delegation and tried to rip the credentials off their necks and sprayed them with a toxic substance.
The unknown substance burned their eyes and stained their clothes.
One 80-year-old member of the delegation had to be treated for injuries, and several other delegates had to rinse their eyes and clothing."
Bags of cement thrown off an overpass onto delegate buses below.
Vid testimony -
http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2008/09/video-rnc-bus-attacked-on-way-to-xcel-center/
Blogger Atlas Shrugs has photos of the usual violent little trustafarians who show up at these events. They are "protesting war" - smashing the windows of police cars.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/09/rnc-anti-war-le.html
The AP also has coverage, for those who just know that Karl Rove personally authors every well known conservative blog out there-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/aponelpr/cvnconvention_protests
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
Do people who spout this have any idea how incredibly racist their assertion is?
African-American women are almost four times more likely to resort to abortion.
I'll go ahead and charitably assume the poster's last flight to Japan was spent poring over "Freakanomics" in the always hilarious attempt to better understand them Yanks. That's where I first came across this preposterous interpretation of R vs W's effect on America.
Incredibly, when talk does turn to race and politics there are not a few 'liberals' out there who still quite casually imply that it is conservatives (understood here to be a monolithically 'white' demographic) whose social and economic policies are tantamount to attempted 'genocide'.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
I don't need your credit. And yes, if you choose to drink and then chose to drive punishment may come in the form of a crash, jail time and even death.
It's all about choices and responsibilty.
I wasn't arguing anything. Barack Obama was. And his words followed, logically one could say, from his documented actions - his indisputable support for infanticide while he was still in the Illinois legislature.
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
Barack Obama on video, explaining that he is all about ethics and morals but wouldn't want one of his daughters, if still a teen, to be "punished with a baby".
You know, like his own mother was...
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
Astonishing how quickly down the Memory Hole went John F Kerry's disgusting and completely gratuitous mention of Cheney's daughter, in a nationally televised presidential debate no less:
"Well, I think if you ask Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian..."
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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mar4eO
I think the question is would Barack Obama change his position. He has stated publicly that should one of his daughters get pregnant at sixteen he doesn't want them "punished with a baby."
Posted in: GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant
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Fears of rape and incest?
The father is Bristol Palin's boyfriend of more than one year.
The relationship and the unplanned pregnancy were 'open secrets' in the Anchorage exburb where Gov. Palin's daughter is finishing her last year of high school.
Photos of the father are up on Drudge.
McCain knew.
He still chose Gov Palin.
Contrast the coverage this is getting with the mainstream media's reluctance to cover the unplanned pregnancy of John Edwards.
Do 'liberals' actually think that young, media-savvy American voters don't notice the hypocrisy?
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mar4eO
If I had to make a comparison at this point in time I'd say she is a female Teddy Roosevelt, the American president I do believe McCain has said he admires most.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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President-for-Life Vlad Putin poisons his rivals, has Russian journos assassinated and also provides military aid to Zimbabwe and Iran because, well, his fears of NATO member nations encircling his vast empire.
But of course, since I obviously didn't get that from NuPravda.org it should be taken cum grano salis.
Posted in: Russia promises military aid to South Ossetia
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I can think of no higher praise for a woman in politics, liberal or conservative.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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McCain defends VP pick, to a record crowd of 20,000 in Missouri today.
"...As one veteran of Missouri politics said, that's the sort of crowd usually seen in October for a president — not in August for a candidate..."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/ThePalineffectcrowdsize.html?showall
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mar4eO
"...I stand by my earlier posts, if you bring a disabled child into the world that child's needs must come first..."
It's not yours or the government's place to decide how she and her husband and/or their extended family will raise the child.
God bless Trig and all of Sarah Palin's children.
And God bless Barack Obama's daughters.
And leave them out of this.
Posted in: McCain picks Alaska Gov Sarah Palin for running mate
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Hard to believe that this is the same country Joe "Unity Through Autonomy" Biden wanted partitioned into ethnic and sectarian enclaves as recently as one year ago.
Posted in: Iraqi, U.S. troops on alert ahead of Anbar handover
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It never changes. The culture of life - Israel - versus the local and wider Mohammedan culture of death.
Posted in: Palestinians reject partial peace accord
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mar4eO
"... just the clips of Palin shooting an automatic rifle must have shook the foundations with glee for certain in holed up in the basements for duration of the run-up to the elections..."
Amusing perspective there, a little difficult to follow.
Yes, Alaska's Gov. Palin is pro-2nd Amendment. She's reported to be a crack shot. She hunts and she even fishes. She's a pilot. She was a top athlete and a beauty pageant contestant and she is mother of five.
She took on the old boys in Alaska. From what I understand as a state it could be called the Republican equivalent of the infamous Chicago Machine, which is where Barack Obama first made his name. In fact, the contrast in her rise to the national level and his rise would be very illuminating for some here.
Personally? She reminds me of the kind of women that helped settle the West; the type that we used to be taught helped make America great.
Perhaps that's the very reason Obama's base loathes her like they do.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick
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mar4eO
Looks like poor Senator McCain needs to defend his veep choice even more.
He and Gov. Palin drew record crowds today in Missouri.
The McCain campaign reported a whopping 7 million dollars in donations in the first twenty-four hours after announcement of his running mate choice.
Talk show radio hosts across the country report that with many of their female callers the relatively unknown Gov. Palin is already being referred to simply as 'Sarah'.
I don't sense desperation on Republican/conservative websites or from established voices like National Review.
I do see from many Democrats however that same foolish tendency to 'misunderstimate' the opponent.
It handed the presidency to George W Bush.
Twice.
Posted in: McCain defends VP pick