Far East Cynic

The countdown continues……

To the day of the great escape from Shopping Mall USA. The day I have dreamed about, longed for, thought would never come, schemed and lobbied for, and despaired about-may actually finally be going to happen. While its not taking me back to Asia-it is taking away from Shopping Mall

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Worth repeating…..

Courtesy of the Reformed Broker: “Let me help you out, sir.  Finance is one of the things we do terribly in this country, not well.  Alan Greenspan’s policies simply created the illusion that we “did finance well” when in reality, what we did well instead was wealth transference.  We used

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Don’t have time to read the book?

Then read the book title! This web site outlines the plot in 30 quick seconds by adjusting the book title. For those of you are book fans like me, you should spend some time looking through the archives. Some examples: And I am sure Mrs. Bowman would hate me for

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I am the something percent……

I continue to marvel at the pettiness of the critics of Occupy Wall Street and their inability to understand underlying reasons why these demonstrations are happening at all. Most of the criticism of the Occupy Wall Street crowd stays away from that key point. Instead it fixates on their hygiene ( which

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Happy Columbus Day!

From those dirty hippies in New York:

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Oh take a letter, Maria,

Address it to Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Its just a short, pretty cogent explanation as to why a significant number of people in America want you to die: Eleven million dollars?  What the hell world are you inhabiting?  Eleven million dollars for two departing executives because things didn’t

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The clock is ticking….

Ticking down to liberation day. A countdown made more difficult, because the S.O picked Friday to get in a minor fender bender ( in the BMW no less!), which yours truly is now having to solve and get fixed. One of these days Alice……. One of these days.

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The irony, of course, is lost on them.

I love the fact that conservative supporters of the selfish, fat, ignorant, pigs teabaggers are up in arms because literally thousands of their fellow citizens exercised the same right claimed by the selfish, fat, ignorant, pigs teabaggers to assemble peaceably to express their displeasure with the government’s obsession with rewarding

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How stupid is this?

Pretty stupid if you ask me. There are certainly ways to save money without resorting to this: Under heavy pressure to find real cuts, Navy officials are seriously considering decommissioning a nuclear aircraft carrier halfway through its planned lifespan, two Pentagon sources said. George Washington’s three-year-long refueling overhaul, scheduled to

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Best Divorce Letter Ever!

Why couldn’t I have thought about this? ( Click to enlarge).

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