Far East Cynic

Not understanding the meaning of the word, “satire”.

I must admit, I am taking enormous pleasure at the conservative freak out over both Seth McFarland's hosting of the Oscars-and the appearance of Michelle Obama therein. It is indeed laughable-because it shows what prudish jerks, a certain segment of American society is. For starters-Family Guy is great. Its funny,

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My hero!

No further comment needed. Truly, a great American. For the other 14 bad ass people you have never met-check here.

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Always acting against their own self interest.

 The other day, a Facebook "friend" ( friend being a rather incorrect term-better defined as "someone I used to know and work with and have little, if anything,  in common with now -save for the fact we both served in the US Navy") "Sequestration and its impacts are the choice

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Because its Friday.

And its been awhile. A funny joke told by a beautiful woman: A young blonde fears her husband is having an affair. She goes to a gun shop and buys a handgun. The next day she finds him in bed with a redhead. She grabs the gun and holds it

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A missed birthday.

My blogger birthday was this month. I failed to celebrate it-some of it by accident, some of it by design. I began this blog out of a sense of frustration responding to a huge personal disappointment in my life, created by nothing but sheer stupidity on the part of other

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What will it take to get their attention?

I have been accused from time to time, of being over the top when it comes to taking out my anger at the spoiled children who inhabit the halls of the US Congress. They do reprehensible things every day and yet I am not allowed to call for their march

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267 down-1 to go?

Suffice it to say I did not see the resignation of Pope Palpatine Benedict coming. I didn't realize he even had the option. I always thought, in that job, there was only one way out of it. Nonetheless this a big deal. There has been no Pope to resign since

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Doing the DC Shuffle…

Dad was released last night from the hospital. He was more than a little happy to be back at his own house again. So this today, I left him to the care of my sister the nurse-and boarded the plane to go to DC FFT Frankfurt and the train ride

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A little detour.

I was supposed to have arrived in Germany today. Instead I remain here in North Carolina-due to the rather disconcerting fact that my father ended up in the hospital yesterday, and I got to watch me get really freaked out by worry about my Dad in the ER.  I will

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