JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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yabits
The kind of people who are fans of Palin remind of the fans of the entertainment form known as "pro wrestling."
In short, they're morons.
Posted in: Palin says she's not leaving politics
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yabits
On Fareed Zakaria's CNN show today, a prominent leader of the Russian opposition group, Boris Nemztov, compared Obama with George W. Bush. Bush, he said, came to Russia trying to lecture Russians on how to run a democracy, and nobody took him seriously. Obama, by contrast, listened. His visit was deemed extremely more effective than anything the U.S. has done to improve U.S.-Russian relations in decades.
Posted in: Mixed results for Obama's first Moscow summit
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yabits
That's a criminal-abetting, loser Republican for you.
Posted in: Democrats suggest CIA concealment broke law
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yabits
Cheney proved he lost his mind when he made that claim that the V.P. was not under the executive branch of government, but that it was its own separate entity.
I hope that we never see the likes of this criminally-minded scum again anywhere near a seat of responsibility and accountability in the U.S. But, ever since Nixon, the Republicans appear to have been breeding and growing these types like rats.
Maybe what Donald Segretti called what he was doing for the Republicans was more than metaphorical. (Google "Segretti" and you'll see.)
Posted in: Cheney told CIA not to discuss counterterrorism program
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yabits
Hey, libertarians never have to be coherent. After all, nobody has ever trusted them enough to give them real responsibilities. And anyone who puts blind belief in an invisible hand or an invisible man in the clouds is rightfully not to be trusted.
Posted in: 34 killed by bomber in northern Iraq; 6 dead in Baghdad blast
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yabits
Gosh, in earlier times, this would sound very much like a message from Tokyo Rose or Hanoi Hannah.
Al Qaeda Annie?
Posted in: 34 killed by bomber in northern Iraq; 6 dead in Baghdad blast
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yabits
Democrats have 60 votes to declare when the statute of limitations runs out. Heck, knee-jerk Republicans have tried to pin the blame for the housing market collapse on Bill Clinton so we know that 8 years has not nearly been enough for them to get their digs in.
I suggest that Republicans get up every morning before dawn, face the east, and keep cursing and wringing their hands at President Obama until they make the sun appear. At least then they can feel they are accomplishing something.
Posted in: Democrats wave Franken as trophy over limping GOP
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yabits
Reagan, who nearly agreed to give away all U.S. nukes at Reykjavik? Reagan, who proposed giving the Soviets Star Wars technology carte blanche? Reagan, who once claimed there was no word for "freedom" in the Russian language? Oh, love is blind to the cult of Reagan.
I suppose I'd prefer wet behind the ears to nothing between them.
Posted in: Obama, Medvedev agree to deal to cut nuke weapons
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yabits
Imagine.... Just imagine, that Obama is looking shell-shocked in front of grade-schoolers while America is being attacked, with a copy of My Pet Goat in his hands. What could possibly look dumber?
We understand, VOR, how proud you are of Putin's performance. In your fantasies, you dream of the president being shown up by every foreign leader, no matter how messed up their country is.
Posted in: Obama, Medvedev agree to deal to cut nuke weapons
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yabits
After a dozen lines of meta-talk and nothing of subtance to add, I get the feeling that the prissy scold is lives in one heckuva glass house.
Posted in: Obama, Putin meet at last, exchange pleasantries
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yabits
I don't have a big problem with Sarah or Michelle draping a flag around themselves. (But I know that neither are showing proper respect for the flag when they do so.) I have a problem with people who think they are the voice of God who can condemn one person for doing it under any number of circumstances, but give a pass to another person.
I would expect someone who claims to love America a lot to understand what proper respect for the flag means, and is able to control themselves at all times regarding its handling.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Beaver, I am going to respectfully differ with you on that. I don't believe it was ambition that drove her at that moment, although she is a very, very ambitious person. You've got to be to give up a governorship for no apparent reason other than a "higher calling." As one conservative commentator noted: "You don't hold press conferences in order to raise important questions; you hold them to answer the questions."
No, the reason she draped that flag around her was because she felt it was perfectly OK to do that. When a person's OWN view of their motivations comes with so much self-righteousness, it is nothing for them to take a venerated object and treat it in a way that normally would not be seen as showing respect for it. After all, everyone should know how much I love America, and so it won't be anything for me to wrap a flag around myself and parade in public with it.
Sarah's actions don't bother me as much as those of the Republicans who appear to throw rules and conventions to the wind as long as their ends and purposes are being achieved.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Just wait and see. Sarah will be turned into a martyr for the cause. It wasn't her own lack of wordly smarts or kookiness that did her in -- traits well-documented and noted by many a conservative commentator -- it was liberal hatred and vilification.
I believe her rambling resignation speech -- which reminded me of the whacked-out monologue given by the character "Barbara Jean" in Altman's movie, Nashville -- was very revealing in another aspect: The image of the "point guard" looking for someone to pass the ball to when the heat of a full-court press is on. Hey, honey, when you are the leader, the buck stops with YOU when the pressure is on. You don't look for someone to pass it along to.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Any scoundrel or clueless woman can wrap themselves in a flag, as Palin did. Her contempt for her country came about in her comments about certain, very conservative places being "the real America."
In my view, respect for the flag is shown when one becomes mindful of how to treat it at all times. The flag has been around for quite awhile, and the U.S. has been through many wars and tough times, and I don't recall seeing any public figures -- mayors and such -- actually ever physically wrapping themselves up in one. Yes, I occasionally do see mindless fans at sporting events treating the flag that way.
Nonetheless, there are certain rules and guidelines for how to handle a flag with respect. What appears to be happening here is that those who normally are toughest on others with regards to respecting the flag are giving one of their own a completely free pass regarding a flagrant mishandling of it. Republicans want to be strict on everyone else, and then bend the rules when their behavior is shown up to be just as much in violation of established codes. OK, new rule: It's ok to drape a flag over yourself as long as something really bad just happened to the country, and only if you're a Republican.
Had a picture of Michelle Obama surfaced where she was caught wearing the flag as a robe, many conservatives would be showing outrage. (Just as they showed outrage when a picture of Barack floated that showed him with his feet propped up on the desk of the Oval Office....until an identical picture of W. popped up with him in the same position.)
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
No, the folks who ran GM and CitiBank into the ground were the conservative types -- members of the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtables -- who ran crying to the government to bail them out when they got into trouble. Heck, Paulson was Goldman Sachs boy. How many companies did W run into the ground? (At least two.) That is Sarah Palin's America.
Game, set, match to Yabits.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Literally wrapping oneself up in a flag does not show proper respect for the flag, according to those who claim to know these things. I only say this to those who might claim that showing proper respect for the American flag is important to them.
Of course, in the civil libertarian view, Palin is as free to use her flag as a robe as she is to sew it to the seat of her jeans or drag it along the seat of the car she's riding in.
She could not stick it out after barely HALF a term was up, and the sight of Republicans trying to turn that black event into white light is very amusing indeed.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Does so.
They HAD control of them and screwed them up, forcing the government to get involved. Looks as though you slept through Bush, Paulsen, the TARP program, Lehman Bros., the election of 2008, and much else in your life.
Yabits just stamped "Spalding" on your forehead with the ball.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
Completely wrong. I simply hate the fact that there are influential people who actually think this woman, who sounds like Sister Mary Elephant from an old Cheech and Chong routine, has what it takes to lead the United States.
If you gave people like this control of banks, auto companies, investment houses, etc., they'd probably screw them up royally.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
She's a great magnet for saps and suckers.
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'
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yabits
The Republican Party appears to be in full-on self-destruct mode. Any plausible, reasonable criticism of Palin gets converted into accusations of hatred against her -- as though probing into her words, motives, and actions just isn't to be done. (This from the party that launched a scavenger hunt for a semen-stained dress!)
I'm just waiting for the YouTube video of a weepy, whiny Republican under a blanket bellowing "Leave Sarah alone!"
Posted in: Palin links resignation to 'higher calling'