JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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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
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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yabits
It's nice to see Republicans and conservatives admit that years of Republican mismanagement drove the economy into the "crapper" and that the new president inherited some of the most severe challenges facing any since FDR.
It is too bad, however, that conservatives will not admit their culpability in the fiasco, humble themselves a bit, and set an example of how to work together with a president elected by a wide majority of the American people to try to fix those problems. That is not what the American people have seen.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
Cain admitted his wife never knew about the relationship. It doesn't take omnipotence, just a basic reading of the facts.
This is funny. So, there appears to be one group of conservatives -- let's call them the Jekylls -- who want to uphold silly things like "values" and marriage vows like "forsaking all others." There there's the Hydes, who will look for any rationalization, any excuse, to argue that those values might not apply in the cases they specify. In the end, they're all the same conservatives -- hypocritical jackals.
I never heard that rationalization used by any liberal to try to defend Hillary Clinton from these conservative jackals. Note that Republican candidate/leader Newt Gingrich was cheating on his second wife at the very same time he was pointing a finger at Clinton. It takes a conservative to come up with such craziness in the attempt to turn black into white.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
Indeed. Because that is exactly what an immature sixth-grader would do.
Cain claims that he carried on a 13-year relationship that he kept secret from his wife. On that, Cain and his woman friend are in complete agreement. That woman says that Cain is unfit to be president. (I agree with her on that one.)
Immature people require "proof" when simple common sense should suffice. For those with common sense, the proven fact that Cain decided to keep his 13-year relationship a secret from his wife should be enough to seal any deal on the man's lack of integrity.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
Yeah, as long as Herman was safely ensconced as the head of a pizza/restaurant group, the woman might have been comfortable in the belief that the scumbag couldn't do that much harm. But when the scumbag decides to run for president, and it looks like people are buying the false picture he's putting up, it could only be "scuzziness" that would compel them to come forward as Americans to assert that they personally know that the nation deserves much better.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
I would like to know, and only a Republican/conservative can tell me: How does it feel to have your ass handed to you by such a "light" candidate?
(Especially when he's gone on to handle quite well the deep problems bequeathed to the nation by the previous, "more-qualified," Republican administration.)
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
This is the same decrepit thinking that tried selling people on the idea that the last "all-white" president was really a smart guy because he went to Yale, and a genius at business because he had an advanced degree from Harvard's business school. That president went on to preside over the greatest downturn of his nation's economy since the Great Depression, and squandered the massive surplus he inherited, converting it into massive deficit spending.
Nuanced thinking is demonstrated only in what one does after attaining a degree. Cain did nothing to advance the field of mathematics or computer science. The only thing he appears to have wanted to advance and promote is himself.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
Apparently serrano, in is inability to grasp the adult nature of why it would be wrong for any of those millions of married men to keep a long-tern "friendship" with another woman secret from their wives, actually thinks a child-like understanding of events should be accorded more respect than it deserves.
In Cain's case, the female "friend" claims it was more than just a platonic friendship. Cain is therefore either a fool for choosing his "friends" so poorly, or a liar when he claims that it was just friendship. I believe the fact that Cain kept the relationship a secret means the latter is true. And now that Cain has proven himself dishonest, the rest of the charges against him appear all the more damning.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
The "media" did not accuse Cain. Women did. Several of them.
When the allegations first arose, the reporter at POLITICO did not immediately publish them, but went to the Cain campaign to allow them sufficient time to respond to those allegations. The "media" acted responsibly. As has now been sufficiently demonstrated, Cain did not -- taking his "story" through several "revisions."
As has turned out by someone who kept a 13-year "friendship" with another women completely secret from his wife, Cain tried to play his closest partner for a chump. I believe his wife is naive, gullible, and innocent. Therefore, it is actually Cain who is the chump. Q.E.D. The other woman claims the friendship was actually an affair. I believe the woman far more than I would believe a chump who would keep such a relationship a secret from his wife.
Now, as for the word "idiot," it describes people who would support a man who has acted and lied just as Cain has done. It describes people who actually think Cain was qualified to lead the United States as president. It is foolish in the extreme to believe that the word applies along racial lines.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
This has nothing to do with the Democrats -- who had to be loving every minute (as I was) of this chump Cain being propelled by fawning suckers and idiots. Cain was done in by his own aberrant behavior.
This is a challenge that could only come from the head of a sixth-grader. Adults should know that when a man has a "friendship" with a woman for over a decade, buys her gifts and gives her money, and keeps the relationship a complete secret from his wife, that this is a form of the most insidious kind of lying.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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yabits
Leave it to Cain to turn his "I'm quitting" announcement into a pitch for his motivational speaker business.
Anyone who donated money to that chump is a complete sucker.
Posted in: Republican presidential hopeful Cain tests damaged campaign in Ohio
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yabits
You won't put up a post with the full context around those remarks because it would reveal the complete dishonesty of the part you cherry-picked. Par for the course.
Posted in: Republican presidential hopeful Cain tests damaged campaign in Ohio
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yabits
Because most reputable news outlets -- and Fox is not one of them -- provide fair, intelligent and balanced praise and criticism of President Obama. (After all, Fox was the "news" outlet that reported to its gullible and easily-led viewers that our president's trip to India was costing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.)
Posted in: Republican presidential hopeful Cain tests damaged campaign in Ohio
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yabits
The Huntsman campaign has indicated that their candidate would not be attending this "debate," but would certainly be enjoying the televised spectacle of Gingrich and Romney sucking up to Trump along with a big bowl of popcorn.
Posted in: Trump to moderate Republican presidential debate
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yabits
I read a wide variety of magazines, newspapers and journals -- from The Atlantic to The Wilson Quarterly -- as well as watch a number of news channels. I have not experienced any "media" that is in "the tank" for President Obama. I am witnessing a number of paranoid and horribly ignorant and biased people who appear to believe that there is a "media" that conspires to "push" or otherwise manipulate things.
Media laying off Gingrich? This adds a lot of weight to the complete disconnect from reality suffered by some paranoid losers.
Cain was a complete idiot. A joke. Clinton ran the same gauntlet of "bimbo eruptions," and the Democrats (especially his wife, Hillary) decided to stick with him. If Cain was that good, there's no reason for the Republicans to abandon support for him. At this point, it's ALL on the Republicans. Not the media. Not the Democrats.
Cain was paying off this latest woman -- Ginger White -- for many, many moons and never told his own wife about it. Even arch-conservative, friend-of-Herman, and Atlanta radio talk-show-host Neal Boortz has said that the fact he hid this from his wife disqualifies him to be considered "sane." I guess Boortz is part of that "media" too.
Posted in: Republican presidential hopeful Cain tests damaged campaign in Ohio
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yabits
Agreed.
Posted in: Queen still reigns 20 years on from Mercury's death
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yabits
There's no hype. One can see clearly with one's own eyes that, when he's on a stage with the other Republican candidates, he's the only adult in the room.
Posted in: Republican presidential hopeful Cain tests damaged campaign in Ohio
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yabits
Many, many happy returns of this day, Princess Aiko.
I'm glad to know you've completely recovered from your recent illness.
Posted in: Princess Aiko marks her 10th birthday
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yabits
I grew up in Detroit, where there was quite a great local rock scene during the mid-60s to early 70s. Before the Silver Bullet Band, Seger's group was called The Bob Seger System. (Check out the songs 2+2 and Ramblin' Gamblin' Man on Youtube.)
Also, there were The Stooges (featuring a young Iggy Pop -- or Iggy Stooge, as he called himself at the time); Amboy Dukes (w/Ted Nugent); The Frost; MC5; SRC; Frigid Pink; Mitch Ryder; and Grand Funk Railroad. I guess it was an early love of songs like I wanna be your dog (Stooges) and Kick Out the Jams (MC5), that caused me to completely fail to appreciate a group like Queen.
I recall hearing Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time and thinking, "Well, that was different." After the fourth or fifth hearing, I really didn't care if I heard it or any other Queen song again.
As for live shows, some of the best I've seen were by Blind Faith; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; and Supertramp.
Posted in: Who gets your vote for the greatest rock band of all time?
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yabits
Mine too. I thank him for kindling in me a lifelong devotion to the philosophy of Vedanta.
I played that album (and 8-track tape) to death when it first came out. The best solo album of any Beatle, by far.
Posted in: Event marks 10th anniversary of George Harrison's death
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yabits
I don't think so. You just don't understand the Republican mindset, which can make the worst loser into a "winner" with tremendous self-deception. Recall Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man., and his "think system" for learning to play an instrument. Sure the kids played like crap, but their addled parents only heard beautiful music.
They've done it time and time and time again: Nixon lost to Kennedy and then proceeded to lose the California governor's race and "retired" from politics. Reagan was never considered presidential material by the Republican mainstream before and during his loss to Ford in '76. And those same Republicans worshiped him in '80.
The same is true with Gingrich. He resigned in disgrace as speaker, was reprimanded for ethical violations for the very same things he accused a colleague (Jim Wright) of doing, and, in a moment of candor on this campaign, castigated Paul Ryan's economic plan as right-wing extremism. But, he apologized -- as I'm sure he has to all three of his wives and -- like the simpering wimps they truly are -- the right-wingers have apparently forgiven him.
We've recently discovered that it was actually Newt Gingrich and not Barney Frank who may have pulled the strings of the Republican majority in Congress to resist putting tight regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. After all, he was making millions off his connections as a former speaker lobbying for them. Of course, he told the simpering wimps on the right that he was just the best-paid "historian" in the history of the world, and they bought it hook, line and sinker.
Posted in: Cain reassessing presidential run