Far East Cynic

The real Petreaus problem.

"The issue at Tailhook is not that we took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did." Just have to do one more Petraeus post. And its not to condemn him for slicing off what appears to be a fine hunk of tuna. I don't condemn him for

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You know you have hit the big time

When even the Taiwanese go after you. My friends over at NMA have decided to make a video about the Petreaus Scandal:     I still say-it's all Mrs Petreaus' fault. Either hack the program-or be gone. Funny, no one ever asks that obvious question.

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Swiss Miss

And we are back. After our day in Zurich-we stayed in a hotel and then got up the next morning and drove to Interlaken. Which was a great drive-albeit taxing as it went over the mountains. But then down to the lakes and we got to see some great scenery.

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Friday Night in Zurich.

Got up this morning and the S.O. and I drove to Zurich. It's interesting what happens along the way. Driving down the autobahn to Singen-Porsches and Mercedes will run you down at 180KM per hour. As soon as you cross the Swiss border-everyone moves along at a much more timid

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Petreaus out.

This bit of news highlights again something really screwed up about US politics. He slept with someone? BFD. He obviously knew how to keep it discrete-and since he did, its nobody's business but his own. American prudishness claims another victim. Did he know how to do his job? Probably. The

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After action report.

Its Thursday now, and after 13 hours of sleep last night-I went to bed at 6:15 PM- I feel much better. Meanwhile, the postmortems on the election have begun. And as I expected, some people are learning all the wrong lessons. Writing off the results of the election to a

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A great day for America!

I stayed up all night drinking and watching the news. I passed out  fell asleep about 5AM.   Woke up to the joyous news that the USA had been saved from the selfishness of its citizens.   Obama won!   I am so happy-and so hung over.   God bless America!

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It all comes down to today.

And don’t kid yourself sports fans-the entire world is watching the US election. One of the things that has always amazed me now-through 11 years of living overseas, is how much of the rest of the world watches and gets swept up in the madness that is American electoral politics.

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Voting is the best revenge.

John Hinderaker and the rest of the contemptible cocksuckers  members of the Liars Club, are all up in arms over an offhand remark that Obama made in a stump speech a day ago. In a speech Obama mentioned his opponents and the crowd quite understandably began to boo-and Obama said, "No,

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It is all about the packaging

Until everything goes horribly wrong: BANGKOK: The Thai government is cracking down on illegal beauty clinics and unlicensed doctors after the death of a high-profile woman. The name of her job says it all. Athitiya Eiamya worked as a "pretty" – a term used for the almost ubiquitous product promotion

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