Far East Cynic

About that missile decision……

I won’t have a lot to say-because I like getting paid. But suffice it to say I agree with the SECDEF:  Anticipating that reaction, Gates said that "those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing. …

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Another sad reminder.

That the days are slipping by all too quickly. So many bloggers disparage us baby boomers. I’m a baby boomer and damn proud of it. One reason was because of all the good music I got hear growing up. Which is why I was very sad to hear of the

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Oh I miss it so……..

I used to love taking the train to Narita. I hated being tied to the bus schedule-although when I first met the S.O., I would stay at her apartment over in Chiba and then catch the bus the next day when I had to make a business trip. It only

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Game over

What me worry? No need to worry about the next election. John Cusak and Danny Glover have already solved that problem for us:       Of course, in 1972 , the Late Great Planet Earth told us that the European Common Market was the next roman empire too-how’s that

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Holy cow! -Bush was right!

About douche tea baggers: Commenting on an upcoming book my Canadian counterpart comes up with a gold nugget. Much of the professionally stupid Republican blogosphere is going absolutely insane over the following excerpt from the Latimer book.   Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of

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Ways to know you are a gaijin

 Repeated from Invisible Gaijin. Ones that apply to me-or that I have done (or used to before I was exiled to the land of fat women) are in bold: You call yourself gaijin because you know it pisses off the newbie gaikokujin. You bow repeatedly when talking on the phone.

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Waking up and smelling the coffee….

In Japan, that is. Earlier this week, Phibian went high order because the new leadership in Japan had threatened to cancel Japan’s support of re-fueling ships in the Indian Ocean in support of the war on (Terror, The Taliban, Islamic Extremists, Fill in the blank). As I noted to him

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Does size matter?

Evidently it does when you talking about douche teabaggers:  But yesterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had

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They stand in the way of the way of the change we need…

T.R. Reid on health care:    

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