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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rollonarte
Bin Laden has become the modern face of Islam for those outside the cult. Yes, it really is a shame he hasn't been caught yet.
Posted in: Bin Laden: Arab leaders 'complicit' with Israel
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rollonarte
Heh. It's the same "unified Arab Street" that was going to "rise up" against "BushCo."
Posted in: Bin Laden: Arab leaders 'complicit' with Israel
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rollonarte
Both countries, both peoples, addicted to violence.
Posted in: N Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
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rollonarte
How many journalists will be arrested for parroting the line that Germany is "gun-free"?
Posted in: Hoax arrests across Europe after German massacre
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rollonarte
Great pic. I was never that interested in the royal family until learning that their elimination was for a long time one of the main goals of Japan's Communist Party, obviously as self-loathing, petty and craven as socialists and commies everywhere else.
Posted in: Bye bye
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rollonarte
Poses a bit of a problem for countries like Canada and the European nations that still refuse to repatriate Gitmo detainees.
So among the detainees are young men originally from places like Toronto, London, Paris, etc., who just happened to be hanging out with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. That is only five years after the Taliban took control of the country and with its six man council (not one Afghani) ruled from Kabul.
What's the problem? The US gov't no longer considers them enemy combatants.
Now is the time for Canada, the UK, France and company to show they do not share the Wild West mentality of them Neo Cons, nor do they believe in the kind of cowboy justice that Dubya liked to mete out.
Posted in: Obama abandons term 'enemy combatant'
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rollonarte
People are on to the Fraud from Chicago:
“There’s absolutely no change in the definition,” Abraham said in a telephone interview. “To say this is a kinder more benevolent sense of justice is absolutely false. ... I think the only thing they’ve done is try to separate themselves from the energy of the debate” by eliminating Bush’s phrasing.
Posted in: Obama abandons term 'enemy combatant'
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rollonarte
"Critics of capitalism are having a field day saying I-told-you-so, while its once staunch defenders remain mute."
But no examples, Henry.
Posted in: The world is floundering
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rollonarte
Who needs a fully staffed Treasury Dept - or a competent Treasury Secretary - when hope and change is the currency.
Posted in: China calls for new global currency to replace dollar
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rollonarte
I really don't understand what the Canadian obsession with the liberation of Iraq has to do with states' budgets for their schools.
Posted in: 4-day school week gains momentum in U.S. amid recession
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rollonarte
sailwind - 11:10pm
how dare you quote Chomstein on this matter :)
Posted in: Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
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rollonarte
If Iraqis don't like the verdict they will revolt. Muntadhar the Shoe Thrower is, like, a hero. He gonna be the PM some day.
Posted in: Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
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rollonarte
Justice.
Posted in: Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
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rollonarte
Another withdrawal. I do believe the Obama admin has set a new record:
"Democrat sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. It’s the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/03/another-top-tre.html
More bungling. Just underlines the fact, well reflected in the market, that Obama has never run anything in his privileged life but a campaign.
Posted in: Obama confronts Democrats' skepticism on economic plans
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rollonarte
Last laugh is Dubya's.
Posted in: Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
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rollonarte
Quick quiz: America's two largest defense contractors, four largest oil companies, and two largest teachers unions - who spent the most donating to candidates of their choice in the last election cycle?
That's right. It was the poor, struggling teachers' unions.
Lockheed Martin, the top recipient of military contracts most years, spent more on politics than any other defense firm in the 2008 elections. They still spent less than the American Federation of Teachers, which shelled out $2.8 million in the last cycle—with nearly every AFT dime going to Democrats.
The top two teachers unions—AFT and the National Education Association—spent more combined, $5.27 million, than the top two defense contractors.
The top five lobbying firms, combined, didn’t equal the AFT and the NEA in federal contributions in the 2008 cycle. Both of the teachers unions gave more than any oil company, and the NEA and AFT combined gave more than the top four oil companies combined.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/TimothyCarney/Teachers-unions-say-jump-Congress-says-how-high-40384837.html
Posted in: 4-day school week gains momentum in U.S. amid recession
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rollonarte
Money means choice, which is why the control-freak Left is so determined to confiscate as much as possible, via taxation.
Posted in: 4-day school week gains momentum in U.S. amid recession
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rollonarte
Teachers' Unions are among the Democrat Party's staunchest supporters. And it's mutual.
The Ayers - Obama link is no coincidence.
Case in point: New York. 80,000 public school teachers. In the period from '02 to '06, after investigating cases with everything from sexual predation (where teachers even admitted to their guilt) to documented incompetence, city authorities were only able to get two teachers fired, with taxpayers footing bills for astronomical fees in the fight the unions put up.
Stupid in America Why your kids are probably dumber than Belgians.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33014.html
Posted in: 4-day school week gains momentum in U.S. amid recession
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rollonarte
Economists give Obama and his team a failing grade. Brave souls - they stand a good chance of being audited.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123671107124286261.html
Posted in: Obama confronts Democrats' skepticism on economic plans
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rollonarte
I count among family and relatives five people who have been employed in public school systems in some of the most liberal states on the W Coast.
The faux indignation of some here is amusing. It's bad enough with the non-Americans in Japan, completely ignorant about a country they obsess about constantly for some reawson, but when the article says
and yet you read here that Bush is somehow personally to blame for what what teachers' unions have, with plenty of help from the Democrat Party, done to our schools or that for two decades now teachers have suposedly had to pay out of their own pockets for school supplies blah blah blah all you can do is laugh and shake your head.
Posted in: 4-day school week gains momentum in U.S. amid recession