Far East Cynic

Why I still don’t get “it”………..

Or why I still will not drink the kool-aid about Iraq. Several days ago, there was a bit of a dust up over at Lex’s concerning the President’s recent news conference. Seems GWB does not like the it when reporters have the temerity to point out that Bush has been

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While all the while John McCain just laughs and laughs…….

While the war on the other side continues:   Its a good analogy-I’d vote for Vader before I’d vote for Clinton………….

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We’re back!!!!!!!

Lots to blog about-and no time today to blog about it. It will take a couple of posts to describe the past couple of days-but suffice it to say that: 1) Okaasan was impressed that a this Gaijin could talk to her in Japanese. And she was generally impressed with

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Okaasan ai ni ikimasu.

Out of pocket till Saturday. On the train up north to meet Okaasan. Groveling will be involved.

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I’m still not amused.

A friend sent me this video to help put me in the mood for the big jump to Shopping Mall USA. Its actually a pretty neat video-a whacked out Finnish band called the Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army band and chorus. ( That’s right-THE RED ARMY, the same one

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Somebody called this one right!

An observation from Andrew Sullivan’s blog about the “good” Reverend Wright. I wonder if there was a donation to the church from Hillary’s campaign-maybe a a whole bunch of them? Jeremiah Wright fucked Obama today and fucked him good. Remember how good everything felt right after Obama historical speech in

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Train them early………….

“Never underestimate the value of early training and proper breaking in”-James Earl Jones in Gardens of Stone. I found this gem over at Tokyo Times: Why does this make me both thirsty and nostalgic for my high school days? And before any of the mad mothers go ballistic-its a commercial

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A great opportunity….

To do something nice for some really hard working Americans. One of my readers is organizing an effort to send e-mails to Sailors who are deployed. In case you have not noticed, and judging by the mil blog posts-many of you have not-the Navy is just as busy as the

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Under construction………

And……we’re back! The weekend in Nikko was just great. We had a great time and it was a lot of fun. Pix are coming later on in a subsequent post. I upgraded to Word Pres 2.5.1 and despite the “easy” install instructions-having problems getting every thing to work. So I

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