JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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
No, and neither have you. Otherwise, you would have been able to be more specific.
Although Article 6 of the constitution does explicitly state that a treaty made with a foreign power shall be considered the law of the land. If a treaty with Spain implies adherence to a Spanish law, I would presume that a supreme court nominee would be aware of that article.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
If Obama's choice is to be castigated by one poster for not following the "pesky words" of the constitution, it strikes me as very strange how a response mentioning the words of Article 1, Section 2 (to wit, "three fifths" of anyone who is not a "free person") of that very same constitution needs to be removed. Words, by the way, which reveal how deeply flawed and incomplete the document has been from its very inception.
Posted in: Obama: New Justice will combine 'empathy and understanding'
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yabits
LOL!!
Remember, this assessment is coming from Republican types who, when handed a briefing titled "Al Qaeda Ready to Attack America" promptly went to sleep.
Souter's record could be discerned by anyone who knows how to connect dots. The problem with a lot of Replicans is that they require everyone to drink their Kool-Aid.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
And who would that be? Certainly not Souter.
They may show arrogance in some ways. Dealing with conservatives can foster that. Most importantly, none of them shows the supreme arrogance of making the claim to be channeling the founding fathers.
No. It is arrogance (or egregious ignorance) to state that I suggested any such thing. The arrogance is the belief that the constitution contains answers to every problem facing us today and that only a select group of conservatives carries its proper interpretation.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
Impossible. Senator Specter is able to carry more than one thought in his head at the same time, and see different sides of an issue. It's no wonder he's leaving the conservative party.
teleprompter would do well to recall the words of John Stuart Mill: "Not all conservatives are dumb, but most dumb people are conservative."
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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yabits
From small-minded, dogmatic idealogues such as anyone who would believe you have to make 21st-century decisions exclusively through the minds of people who lived centuries before. (You know, idealogues like Antonin Scalia.) Even when many of those authors knew full well that such a thing was untenable, and very few of them agreed with each other on most issues. So which founder do you want to believe? Madison? Jefferson?
It is arrogance -- and conservatives are certainly not in short supply of that quality -- to presume that someone can accurately reflect the mind of any one of the founders on modern issues. There has to be a more than a small measure of doubt, and when doubt creeps in, all bets are off. Strict constructionism, my a--.
Those founders, by the way, would have never dreamed of stopping a state from counting ballots in a close election.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
If you take a color-coded map of the US that indicates scholastic achievement, you'll find that it closely resembles party affiliation -- with the less-educated tending to vote more conservative as well as believing that there's an invisible being in the sky who will suspend the laws of Nature and physics for their benefit.
Between the very intelligent and the very dumb areas of the nation, there lies quite a significant gray area. Many of these folks have received the lesson of their lives, thanks mainly to George W. Bush. The dumb ones will never learn -- fitting that definition perfectly. This is the main reason for the lack of the instantaneous super-majority. Some people are just slow learners.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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yabits
The most significant folks who do applaud Souter's service are those who hold to an ideal of a US Supreme Court which transcends partisan politics. Any justice whose record shows as much independence of thought in his opinions as Souter has over the years -- which is doubtless the major factor in his selection by George H.W. Bush -- will be castigated by hard-line conservatives as a liberal.
Of course we all know that true independence of thought is one of the hallmarks of the classic liberal. Souter has demonstrated this, and so has Senator Arlen Specter.
Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire
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yabits
Nice to see some people admitting that they are misguided to the point of being morally depraved.
I am 100% certain that better information can be extracted from individuals without having to resort to torture. In fact, torture takes things 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I'll cast my lot with those who have proven that.
Posted in: On 100th day in office, Obama denounces waterboarding
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yabits
Allow me to make a comparison to the swine flu problem and another event in the not-too-distant past:
I was living in Washington state in 1980. I remember well the months leading up to the May 18th eruption of Mount St. Helens, when all the little WilliB-types were complaining that the reaction by the government to an impending eruption (red zones and such) was way overblown. After May 18, the little WilliB-types were griping that the government didn't draw the red zone wide enough.
Lesson: When dealing with potential catastrophies, you can't be overly cautious. Best to ignore the sniping from people who don't know any better and will be the first to turn on you when things go south.
Posted in: WHO says swine flu pandemic is imminent
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yabits
Spoken by those who are pretty much devoid of any knowledge of history and basic statistics. Any federal deficit has to be taken as a percentage of the GDP of the nation involved. In that regard, the spending that the US undertook in WWII was much greater as percentage of GDP than what is going on now. And, more importantly, the spending is very much needed since the woe mismanagement of the economy by the Republicans.
As for Illinois, the state has been run by Democrats and Republicans over the years -- and Barack Obama came to that state rather late in his life. As for the most corrupt, I think, by indictments and scandals per capita, Palin's and Ted Steven's state has got Illinois beat by a mile.
Posted in: How would you evaluate U.S. President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office?
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yabits
Prior to Steele's appointment, one can almost imagine the decision-makers at the GOP party headquarters searching the party rolls with the directive: "Find OUR magic Negro."
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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yabits
In 2001, the Republicans were handed the White House and a large budget surplus -- AND they had effective control of both houses of Congress to boot.
After the utter and complete mismanagement of the country by the Republicans, I would say that President Obama has been a breath of fresh air.
Posted in: How would you evaluate U.S. President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office?
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yabits
Bad day for Republicans = Good day for America.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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yabits
Add this one to the growing list that is the George W. Bush/Karl Rove legacy to the Republican Party.
Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats
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yabits
Nice title. A runner-up would be "Singer melody misses ."
Posted in: Miyavi and melody. wed in shotgun marriage
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yabits
Updating: Just saw Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 movie, La Haine. Awesome film!
Posted in: French Film Festival set for March 12-15
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yabits
I wonder if the gunman had a copy.
Posted in: 10 killed in Alabama shooting rampage
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yabits
Readers can view Phillipe Claudel's 2008 film "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime" (I've loved you for so long) and know just how downright dumb your statement is.
Posted in: French Film Festival set for March 12-15
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yabits
Another good laugh! You're on a roll.
As everyone, except for the most gullible and/or brainwashed, now knows all too well, the "booming economy" you speak of was built mainly on increasing real estate values, and the subsequent spending due to people taking out second and third mortgages to get some of that hot equity money in their hands. It was a house of cards.
It wasn't blamed on Bush. But the Republicans sure used it to push the need for their tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Posted in: Obama says crisis is time of 'great opportunity'