Far East Cynic

Definitely worth repeating…..

The first and last word on the health care debate……..I admit it might be a little melodramatic-but is anything the tea bag nation says about us supporters any less caustic? Nope, nada, zilch.  This is what their overheated, and incredibly hysterical rhetoric drives otherwise reasonable people to. There is nothing

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The spiral……..

And its not going in the direction that it should. I’m tired. Tired of being angry. Really tired at being angry at people who ought to know better-but won’t bother. Tired of hearing their anger. Tired of being called a socialist or a communist. Tired of being called worse names

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Friends don’t let friends….

Listen to Mark Steyn. Because, as usual-he has it all wrong. America will did not start to decline because of the health care vote tonight-it allowed that process to start ten years ago-or perhaps longer-when it failed to recognize the multi-polar world it had stepped into. The pace of that

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New math………

Wonder how the Town Hall Harlot will spin this? I’m sure the word “astro-turfing” will appear somewhere. On the plus side, my Canadian Counterpart has noticed that there is some hot tuna  involved in this effort.

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All or nothing…..

I have little patience these days for the rantings of so-called “Constitutionalists”-those folks who insist that every thing the government does these days is somehow in violation of the Constitution or “contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers”. For the most part they are wrong-and where they may actually

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Things to do in Denver…

When you miss your flight and have to hang around until the evening to be on standby to get a seat……… A jack-knifed tractor trailer made me late getting to Denver. I was five minutes late to get on board. Options? Not many. I was lucky I made it then-the

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It is snowing…

And I am supposed to be driving to Denver this morning to catch a plane. This ought to be interesting. 60 miles to be gottten through. It was not snowing when I went to bed. But its snowing now………. More to follow.

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Happy St. Patricks Day!

On the road again and for some reason internet access in my hotel has been spotty. I’d blog-but it is St Patrick’s day.

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Thinking it all the way through…

When purchasing a new bike-make sure you think about the seat color:

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