Far East Cynic

A missed birthday.

My blogger birthday was this month. I failed to celebrate it-some of it by accident, some of it by design. I began this blog out of a sense of frustration responding to a huge personal disappointment in my life, created by nothing but sheer stupidity on the part of other

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My world-and welcome to it.

This is the S.O. when it comes to packing a suitcase:

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What will it take to get their attention?

I have been accused from time to time, of being over the top when it comes to taking out my anger at the spoiled children who inhabit the halls of the US Congress. They do reprehensible things every day and yet I am not allowed to call for their march

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267 down-1 to go?

Suffice it to say I did not see the resignation of Pope Palpatine Benedict coming. I didn't realize he even had the option. I always thought, in that job, there was only one way out of it. Nonetheless this a big deal. There has been no Pope to resign since

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Doing the DC Shuffle…

Dad was released last night from the hospital. He was more than a little happy to be back at his own house again. So this today, I left him to the care of my sister the nurse-and boarded the plane to go to DC FFT Frankfurt and the train ride

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A little detour.

I was supposed to have arrived in Germany today. Instead I remain here in North Carolina-due to the rather disconcerting fact that my father ended up in the hospital yesterday, and I got to watch me get really freaked out by worry about my Dad in the ER.  I will

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The most destructive force in America today.

One thing about being back in the US for a while. It just depresses the hell out of you, at least if you turn on the news. If you watch the local news here in North Carolina-a lot of people are meeting violent ends. For what purpose I am not

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Superbowl Sunday

Last week was a busy one-as I had to return to Shopping Mall to work on a project that will continue over the next few months. It was our idea-but my former place of employ had all the material needed to turn it into two 18000 word documents. ( I

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On the road

I am on travel with limited computer access. Talk among yourselves.

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The brave new world.

Can we finally do away with DACOWITS now? Since everyone can do everything-why are they needed? Except of course, its not about equality at all. Its about reshaping the service into an image it never should have. But such is the way society is changing. I consider myself pretty open

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