Far East Cynic

Speaking of timely and accurate data……

While looking around for the previous post-look what I stumbled onto on the US Navy’s web site. What’s wrong with this picture? The Carrier Air Wing The typical air wing aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier usually contains four FA-18 squadrons, one S-3 squadron, one EA-6B squadron, one E-2C squadron,

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Because some fights are worth picking-Unbalanced Part II

Some things take longer than a comment block to explain. Accordingly-since this is my blog and I will write what I want to- I have decided to address commenter Michael Junge’s comments in a more lengthy fashion. After all, not everything in the world can be reduced to a Power Point

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Unbalanced

I have a theory about organizations and signs of their decay. It is not based on anything scientific-just having led and been lead by people for approximately 32 years. My theory has been reinforced by my current experience working for a customer that is an organization that is : 1)

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What I really need…….

This week sucked with a capital “S”. Part of it was work related-but a big part is because there is something I really need: And I do mean really. The S.O. and her knee pain are driving me up the wall. Kabish? Thank God for beer!

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The next time someone says…..

“It is the spending, stupid”-beat them over the head with this chart. Most of the GOP and most of Phib’s commenting class, want to ignore this fundamental truth: The very large, but permanent and worsening, budgetary impact of the “Bush tax cuts” — which when first proposed back in the

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Lord Vader makes an announcement.

The Dark Lord has an important announcement in the ongoing Global War on Terror Galactic effort to rid the galaxy of rebel scum. CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed

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Chockablocked.

Yes-I am. More tomorrow, I hope.

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Worth reading…..

My Canadian Counterpart makes a lot more sense about Pakistan and Afghanistan than our beloved King David[Petreaus] does. He’s got two posts up that should be mandatory reading for any one of the current crop of idiots in Congress. And should be read twice to learning impaired assholes like Allen

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How does this work exactly?

The powers that be in my company have decided that since we did not win the last bid I cobbled together-that I should have to try again. (Even though we had the low bid and it was technically excellent-I’m still trying to figure out how it works that they give it

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