JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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sailwind
Devout Christian leads prayer service...........Oh the horror of it all.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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sailwind
Poorly researched article and just a veiled hit piece on Governor Perry to start to paint him as a religious extremist . Were going to see much more of this type of reporting from the media on him. He is going to get the Palin treatment by the media.
This part of the article.......
It was a rare, full-on embrace of one religious tradition in the glare of a presidential contest.
Rare my foot. President Obama embraced it in 2006 full bore also.
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
BARACK OBAMA, Jun. 28, 2006
I totally agree with President Obama on this.
Posted in: A hot issue on the U.S. campaign trail: theology
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sailwind
Maybe you look up how Blackhawk Down inspired and convinced Osama Bin Laden that the U.S was a paper tiger that couldn't accept losses of her soldiers. It went a long way to convincing him to go ahead with the Sept 11th attack. Google 1998 ABC interview Bin Laden. For the record I know quite a bit about BlackHawk down and how it inspired the terrorists to be even bolder in their attacks.
No offense...Drone or no drone they are going to strike soft targets anyway that is why they are called terrorists in the first place.
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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sailwind
Exactly how many jobs has this employment expert actually created in his academic career?
President Obama should have reached out and appointed a private economist with real world experience in creating jobs and not another tenured academic with an already guaranteed job for life after this temporary Government gig is over.
Posted in: Obama picks jobs expert as top adviser
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sailwind
Raids are better, all around, unless the goal is to lose the conflict.
Oracle,
I must ask have you really thought through your position? What if the raid goes bad. Do you remember Blackhawk Down in Somalia? The videos of dead American troops being dragged through the streets? What about if American prisoners are taken? Parade them through the streets and release the video? Do you think the Geneva conventions are going to honored? Or do we got another beheading video just like they did to Daniel Pearl?
Have you really thought about the real risks involved between the ability to use a drone to accomplish the mission or a raid using live troops to accomplish it?
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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sailwind
Oracle,
On using drones by the U.S Military to conduct the war on terror. I understand that you've never been in the Military and do not understand Military doctrine or reasoning or ever led men and woman in combat or a war zone and had to make decisions that if proven to be wrong gets those under your command killed or wounded. Therefore I will put this into a context that you can relate to and understand outside of a military context but in an also no less dangerous and potential life threatening circumstance where you are in charge.
You are the regional Commander for the Northern California wildfire district. You have over 200 firefighters at your disposal. They range from 150 traditional firefighters with support trucks and hoses and fifty 'smokejumpers' that can be airlifted and inserted in remote areas without any real support if the wind shifts where the fire is raging and our pretty much on their own to attack it using by making firebreaks and fighting the hot spots before they flare up and out of control. You also have have three aircraft at your disposal that can dump tons of fire retardant on those very same hot spot areas.
Do you use those aircraft first to hit the fire at the remote hotspots and only insert your smoke-jumpers just ahead of your traditional firefighters so that they do have support behind them just in case they have to evacuate the area if the fire gets out of control? As this greatly minimizes the risk and the possible loss of life to your men and woman?
Or do you just dump them in the remote area and not use your aircraft at all, therefore increasing greatly the chance that after the wildfire is out, you're writing letters to the families of the smoke jumpers as to how you got your men and woman killed by not using your "drone" aircraft in the mission, the very aircraft that you had available and decided not to use after all.
Your call....
I do hope that you might now be able to relate to this on a more realistic plane and what is really at stake here. That is saving American Servicemen and women's lives and the best to protect it while bringing the fight to the enemies front door no matter what shadows they hide under.
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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sailwind
They don't deliberately attack civilians. If they do "deliberately attack civilians" its called a war crime and the perpetrators go to prison for a very long time after the court martial. Or is our ROE (rules of engagement) just something to be ignored and not is not actually adhered to?
Posted in: Al-Qaida No. 2 killed in Pakistan: U.S.
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sailwind
Sorry, Bush really is not relevant here to entertain you.
Posted in: Obama heads for vacation amid criticism
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sailwind
This Conservative started with basic math after he got the "facts" that were posted here.
Regan took 127 days/year for vacation.
Bush took 189 days/year for vacation
Reagan was a two term President 8 years total.......127 x 8 = 1016 days total vacation days or darn near three full years off during his term.
Bush was a two term term President .......................189 x 8= 1512 days total vacation days or actually over 4 years off during his term (makes him a one termer after all? But I digress).
Interesting "facts" posted and actually believed by some here.
Posted in: Obama heads for vacation amid criticism
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sailwind
Madverts,
Also I have been posting on J.T for almost 6 years now, and now I am a radical right-wing activist?
Posted in: Obama to lay out new jobs plan in Sept speech
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sailwind
Obama could find a cure for the economy , AIDS, andcancer and you radical, right-wing activist types would still be throwing tea-bags into a head wind, sailwind.
Madverts,
9.1 percent unemployment is his cure so far.
Posted in: Obama to lay out new jobs plan in Sept speech
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sailwind
Obama to lay out new jobs plan in Sept speech
Gosh, can't wait for that barnburner of a speech meself.
Posted in: Obama to lay out new jobs plan in Sept speech
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sailwind
Japan and Western Europe would have been swallowed up along time ago if they would had to have spent the same GDP that America did on her military. Allowing them the security and freedom for them in rebuilding economies after the WW2.
America took on the burden and we all got Play-stations and Mercedes and not to mention Toyota Prius's and the basement blogger's favorite.........Video Games.
Cutting the military budget may be wise but only unless your willing to accept and step back from the real cost. The cost being a world where the United States no longer provides a good economic environment for our allies and friends by the U.S taking off the huge burden of an allied nations GDP for national defense by our leadership and treaties. But one where war between friends once unthinkable, again becomes acceptable for the very economic survival of the state to ensure it can survive.
Posted in: Panetta, Clinton: Bigger defense cuts would weaken U.S.
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sailwind
Starting off by how to actually plan a budget would be a good start.
Posted in: Obama hits Republicans on anti-tax stance
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sailwind
I think you've missed the point here, his income comes from his personal investments and not from a salary. To tie a salary to the performance of the BH investment portfolio would still incur the standard income tax rates. That's the point he's making - those with more money and who earn there income more from investments than from their salary are subject to lower tax rates.
Not sure I really missed the point actually. I tend to believe a guy like Warren Buffet, who is by all accounts a guy that knows his stuff when it comes to money would have a pretty easy time working out a compensation package for his employees that would be well below the tax rates that they are paying now.
Posted in: Obama hits Republicans on anti-tax stance
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sailwind
Mr Buffett explained that, like many top earners, his income came entirely from investments rather than from employment, which are subject to lower taxes in the US.
He said last year he paid an effective tax rate of 17.4%, less than the 33% to 41% paid by the employees in his office.
If I was an employee of Mr. Buffet right now, I wouldn't be very amused to find out that he couldn't see fit to pay my salary based on investments also like he did to increase my take home pay and lowering the tax load on my salary. He figured it out but I guess his employees aren't worthy of it.
Talk about instilling loyality and caring in your employees knowing the big boss has got your back.
Posted in: Obama hits Republicans on anti-tax stance
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sailwind
At any rate, discussion in the US of jump starting economic growth by cutting wages of those most likely to spend is economic insanity, pure and simple.
Actually on a serious note your viewing this from the wrong angle. The U.S has a shadow underground economy estimated at more than a trillion dollars, and this does not include the illegal drug trade. This is the economy that employs all the illegal aliens and those who are citizens but work "off the books" in our poorest inner cities. The dishwashers in the restaurants, the street vendors hawking goods with the electronic knock offs, the workers in the fields. These are the workers that are really being exploited by their so called employers and not the bogeymen CEO's. A decent minimum wage is of course the right thing to do, but does it actually square with the gritty economic reality facing the poorest of our citizens? It does not, in many ways it forces them to accept inhumane conditions that they are willing to accept because the minimum wage set by the Government is not matching the actual micro-economic labor activity taking place at the street level. All populist rhetoric aside. Those who work with our lowest and neediest members of society know exactly what the "prevailing wage" that is being paid in their communities in this underground economy. Pegging an official minimum wage to that actual figure on a local basis ( say inner city Detroit sets 5.00 dollars and hour, Washington D.C sets about Six dollars due to the tourist trade that does bring in a lot income in services needed by semi-skilled labor and the often illegal use thereof....hotel housekeepers etc) it would go a long way to getting those in the underground economy into the legitimate economy where Medicaid, social security taxes and unemployment insurance could actually be deducted legitimately and afford them some actual minimal social net protection and the rights granted by U.S labor laws already on the books in the U.S. This is not a cruel thing on my part to suggest because like it or not they are already being exploited and that isn't going to change by raising the minimum wage at what ever level the Govt deems necessary. I'd rather start fighting poverty and exploitation by bringing the labor market they actually exist in and the actual real wages being paid out into the light and out of the shadows and craft inner city policy and efforts to fight poverty to reflect that gritty baseline economic reality.
Posted in: Obama begins political counteroffensive in Midwest
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sailwind
When I wrote my thesis on the dynamics between a minimum wage and employment, the data was very complex and contradictory - but of course, that was back in '88, so if anything has been "proven" since then, please show me the data. Really: please.
Laguna,
If I can be so bold. Some data for you.
Since $10/hour creates double the wealth of $5/hour, $20/hour would double wealth again. Yes, there is some mathematics here, but take my word for it: $40/hour would double the wealth yet again. And so forth. $400/hour would increase wealth by another ten-fold. Ideally, the minimum wage would be infinite, and thus create infinite wealth. And, as a bonus, higher wages mean more tax revenue – and that means even more wealth.
Posted in: Obama begins political counteroffensive in Midwest
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sailwind
Oop's of course meant "Half of all job creation" not "have"...........Been a long weekend!
Posted in: Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll; Perry enters GOP race
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sailwind
I've been looking over Governor Perry's record. Pretty darn impressive on the economic front. Have of all job creation in the entire nation during the past three years has been in Texas. It blows away anything President Obama has managed to accomplished. Unfortunately, he is also going to the full Palin treatment from the media if he gains real traction now that he is in. They are not going to promote his actual record and will start the dirt hunt. I hope he's ready for that and understands that the Media is not going to be his friend in anyway shape or form. I also think if he does start to catch fire based on his record in Texas the next couple of weeks, Palin will not make a run after all. His overall economic and tax policies along with regulation reform to promote job creation that he has implemented in Texas, pretty much mirrors her policies and positions and I think now that he is in the race she will not feel the need to throw her hat in the ring. I believe she will start working behind the scenes on throwing her support behind him.
Posted in: Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll; Perry enters GOP race