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
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sailwind
I ask you, honestly, would you accept this statement:
Yes but I would include all people not just white folks.
I'm with this old evil white guy on this.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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sailwind
Yabits,
Your wrong.
In June 2010 TransCanada commenced commercial operation of the first phase of the Keystone Pipeline System. Keystone's first phase was highlighted by the conversion of natural gas pipeline to crude oil pipeline and construction of an innovative bullet line that brings the crude oil non-stop from Canada to market hubs in the U.S. Midwest.
Keystone Cushing (Phase II), an extension of the Keystone Pipeline from Steele City, Nebraska to Cushing, Oklahoma went into service in February 2011. The 36-inch pipeline connects to storage and distribution facilities at Cushing, a major crude oil marketing/refining and pipeline hub.
The proposed Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Project is an approximate 2,673-kilometre (1,661-mile), 36-inch crude oil pipeline that would begin at Hardisty, Alberta and extend southeast through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. It would incorporate a portion of the Keystone Pipeline (Phase II) through Nebraska and Kansas to serve markets at Cushing, Oklahoma before continuing through Oklahoma to a delivery point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas to serve the Port Arthur, Texas marketplace.
http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html
It would incorporate a portion of the Keystone Pipeline (Phase II) through Nebraska and Kansas to serve markets at Cushing, Oklahoma before continuing through Oklahoma to a delivery point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas to serve the Port Arthur, Texas marketplace.
Just in case you missed that part.
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sailwind
Just for a little Truth, since it does actually matter,
ABC News Clears the air about Andrew Breitbart’s Participation in their Election Night Coverage
“Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst. He is not an ABC News consultant. He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News. He is not being paid by ABC News. He has not been asked to analyze the results of the election for ABC News.”
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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sailwind
I'm pretty sure he didn't get an "A" in his economics class. But I wouldn't know seeing how he has pretty much kept his grades top secret.
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sailwind
LFR,
*They view race as a group and tend to stereotype each individual as such. *
Just as you do to all Republicans.
No two things on Earth are equal or have an equal chance. Not a leaf, not a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better... But I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel... Is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain... And I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy... And that is right here. [points to his head]
You didn't mention this part.
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sailwind
Really, what DO conservatives stand for?
The difference between a Liberal's world view and a Conservatives world view.
There is a Pulitzer prize winning book called "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara. Set in the Battle of Gettysburg during the U.S civil war. Lt Colonel Josh Chamberlain and his Sergeant Buster Kilrain. There is a monologue that they have between them talking about race and freedom and it encapsulates both the Liberal world view and the Conservative world view and the real difference of opinion in the two between the affairs of man and Governance in a way that transcends anything I could write.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Tell me something, Buster... What do you think of Negroes?
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain: Well, if you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: You see to me there was never any difference.
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain: None at all?
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: None at all. Of course, I haven't known that many freed men... But those I knew in Bangor, Portland... You look in the eye, there was a man. There was a "divine spark," as my mother used to call it. That is all there is to it. Races are men. "What a piece of work is man. How infinite in faculties and form, and movement... How express and admirable. In action how like an angel.
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain: Well, if he's an angel, all right then... But he damn well must be a killer angel. Colonel, darling, you're a lovely man. I see a vast great difference between us, yet I admire you, lad. You're an idealist, praise be. The truth is, Colonel... There is no "divine spark". There's many a man alive no more of value than a dead dog. Believe me. When you've seen them hang each other the way I have back in the Old Country. Equality? What I'm fighting for is to prove I'm a better man than many of them. Where have you seen this "divine spark" in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? No two things on Earth are equal or have an equal chance. Not a leaf, not a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better... But I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel... Is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain... And I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy... And that is right here. [points to his head]
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain: And that's why we've got to win this war.
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sailwind
It should be noted that ABC's Senior Political Correspondent is George Stephanopoulos. You might remember him from the Clinton Administration.
Prior to joining ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became the White House Communications Director for two years, before being replaced by David Gergen after political fallout from the mid-term election of 1994, in which the Republican party took over the U.S. House and Senate.
I'm sure he's a fair-minded chap now and isn't a registered Democrat anymore.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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sailwind
In a debate sponsored by The National Enquirer it would fit right in with their motto.
Celebrity gossip, scandals, and the latest from Hollywood. Enquiring minds want to know!
CNN and the Mainstream Media would never lower their journalistic standards to that level.....Oh wait, they did.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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sailwind
Oh please.......Notice how the Soviet Union collapsed after Reagan spent on our Military and Clinton got the peace dividend windfall.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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sailwind
One thing Surging Newt did say about the media is:
"destructive, vicious and negative"
There is some sort of disagreement with this?
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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sailwind
Would that be the last cycle where the Democrats lost 65 seats in the House of Representatives and other State and local races for the worst defeat of the any political party in the U.S in the last 62 years?
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sailwind
I'll pass that on to Costa Rica.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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sailwind
Prety sad when the U.S gets decried for sending her children into the Middle East to secure Kuwait and Iraq to secured oil supplies to the western world
Yet now to securqe our energy future we are going to Canada, no thanks.
Insanity.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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sailwind
Canada will look to China to sell its oil
I just want to try wrap my head around this for a moment. President Obama raises the national debt to unheard levels on credit by selling T-bills to China. Who in turn makes a healthy return when the T-Bill's mature. China has loads of dollars in interest payments or just pure profit for them. They then buy Canadian oil using our dollars that we promised to pay back for a little national loan action to continue to be able to deficit spend to our hearts content. So we are basically are going to buy Canada's oil but just going through China who will actually get to use the stuff.
Now that is a "money" pipeline that I could do without myself and would like to see killed instead.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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sailwind
Good Grief,
This Headline from CNN says it all.
Canada will look to China to sell its oil"
How does this fit your constant media bias theory Sailwind?
I could have used a FOX news headline instead as there is no bias there either just for little "balance".
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sailwind
Well when it comes to environmental safety the Chinese have just been "stellar" on that front.
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sailwind
Good Grief,
This Headline from CNN says it all.
Canada will look to China to sell its oil
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sailwind
oginome,
By the way,
The country, dubbed the "sick man of Europe" a decade ago because of its bloated welfare system and chronic over-regulation of markets, has cut back benefits, reformed its labour market and kept its budget deficit under control.
Its state-assisted, short-time working system enabled hundreds of companies to survive the 2009 global downturn with their workforces intact, while other nations were putting thousands of skilled workers on the street. Germany's partners, especially France and the US, have complained that it has contributed to the economic imbalances plaguing the euro zone, prospering at their expense by becoming increasingly productive through years of modest wage deals and cautious government spending.
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/economics/germanys-example-to-an-ailing-europe
Tight with the budget. Cut back on benefits, cut back on regulations and Voila! And it's the model you want America to emulate.................Congratulations you are now considered a true Conservative and would fit right in with the Republican party in America.
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sailwind
I have to agree. Cutting way back on the welfare state, putting in fiscal austerity measures and raising the retirement age to 67 certainly does pay off when times get hard.
But the roots of Germany’s export-driven success reach back to the painful restructuring under the previous government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
By paring unemployment benefits, easing rules for hiring and firing, and management and labor’s working together to keep a lid on wages, Germany ensured that it could again export its way to growth with competitive, nimble companies producing the cars and machine tools the world’s economies — emerging and developed alike — demanded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/world/europe/14germany.html?pagewanted=all
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sailwind
Well when you live under America's security umbrella and only pay a pittance of your GDP on your Nations military budget per year because the security the U.S provides you, it does tend to add up to quite the few hundreds of billion dollars over the years to spend on other areas.
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