Far East Cynic

Time to burn the tapes?

Every time you turn around-the rather rotund Malaysian claims another victim: The alleged Pacific fleet swindler known as "Fat Leonard" made his first court appearance in San Diego on Thursday to hear formal charges against him that include conspiring with Navy officers on port contracts worth more than $200 million

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I shall not go quietly into that great good night.

Well at least if they are going to fuck me over, they are going to pay for it up front first. Sitting in the lounge here at Stuttgart airport, enjoy a quiet cup of coffee and preparing to board a flight to Istanbul and then onward to points elsewhere. Great

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It is so close to my current situation, it hurts.

As the totally screwed up merger continues:   While I was back in Shopping Mall, I learned what I long suspected, the little weasel who engineered this abomination had been hard at work over the past six months planting ideas with all the wrong people. This, after he lied to all

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Upping the ante…..

They just can't let a good deal alone-so much for that receiving agent job in Utapao. 🙁    True strory. GDMA had a guy employed to take care of cargo and pax deliveries at Utapao. Guy worked from his cell phone, was a retired Marine, who made sure aircrews got the

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Always blaming the wrong people.

Personal day today. Taking care of the S.O.'s shopping list-she always has one when I come to the US. Going out to the house and checking on it-especially since I will probably be coming back to it. As a drive around here-I am reminding myself of the fact that every

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Busy week.

We had a good couple of days of meetings-but here it is 10pm and I am back in my room getting ready for bed. And this with a 1 hour nap  I took from 5:30 to 6:30. I am getting old. 🙁 I suspect too, being in three cities over

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Always look on the bright side.

I am writing this post from a seat on a crowded ICE train heading northwards to begin the first part of a trip for me. Back to Shopping Mall for a series of meetings and to do some things on the house. I will also do some medical tourism-in the

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Happy Halloween!

I love Pinup girls!

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Well, after two nights of work-I finally have repaired all the damage the spambots caused to my humble little web site. Blogger may have had its drawbacks-but it did not require as much care and feeding as Word Press does. The week has been going about as well as one

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Spam Attack!

Important safety tip. When upgrading your blog software-check to make sure your plugins all reactivate properly. Mine did not and we got a WAVE of Spam here last night. Still trying to get all the bogus comments out of the system. Should be fixed by tomorrow.

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