Harry Reid may be wishing he could move to Japan. I hope not. However, he may want to think about trading barbecue for sushi, since it seems that over here in Nihon being stubborn can be a way to get what you want : Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered
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September 11……..I want my world back.
The world that was stolen from me and the rest of us. The silent majority who simply want to live and love, work and reap the rewards thereof, and want to enjoy the bright moments during our brief transit on this globe. I wrote this post a year ago-however it
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And a lunch time restaurant recommendation for Spike! On Saturday the S.O. and I set out for Tokyo. She had tickets for an exhibition in Ginza. It was the perfect antidote for having 2 days rained out by the typhoon. I insisted though that we take the trains through Shibuya
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Whoever said, “Code is poetry“, should be shot! And thus you know what I was doing last night. Golf game sucked too!
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This is going to be the new “house” for my blog. For reasons I’m not too sure of, I have obtained a host and am working on getting a bigger and better version of the Far East Cynic blog up. ( Maybe then my readership numbers will increase-its either that
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You just got to love this. All the Navy readers of this little blog can say, “I told you so!” now. Seems you can take the boy out of the Pentagon, but you can’t take the Pentagon (and the black shoe attitude) out of the boy: Now, in running his
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Here it comes!
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Spike picked the wrong week to come to Tokyo. After a cloudy day of intermittent rain and then no rain, but no wind-with near 90% humidity-the wind she be blowing. Typhoon 9 ?is coming to town. No complaints on my end-I got a free day off out of it. Inside
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Whoo boy! You know something is wrong with the world when Geraldo Rivera is channeling yours truly. “Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my life,” he says. “She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. “It’s
Continue readingRetail Therapy……..
“Don’t increase my job.” I hear this line every time after I come back from one of my extended sojourns into la-la land and have to re-invade the perfectly sterile environment the S.O. creates in our place. Its a reference to the fact that I have tendency to drop things,
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