To continue with my personal crusade againstUSFSPA injustice….; discussed here, here, and here. Yesterday, I came across this little tidbit from Tom Philpott in his Military Update column at Military.com. A true example of DOD lawyer double talk if you ever heard it: To correct a point in your Military
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The GAO screws up …..(again) (WARNING:emotional rant follows).
As long as I have been around the US government in a working capacity, I have been astounded at how often the General Accounting Office (an office of Congress) f**ks things up. Today, reading Stars and Stripes I was given yet another reminder of their inability to portray an accurate
Continue readingSenso no drama (War drama)
Its August and so in Japan that means two things: 1) lots of headlines about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and as the days countdown to August 15, TV shows about the War on Japanese TV. Last year they ran a drama about a family in Okinawa during World War II. This
Continue readingKing Fahd is dead! Long live the King!
Turned on the news to find out that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is dead. He may as well as have been dead for the last 10 years since everyone knows it was Crown Prince Abdullah who has been exercising the power during that time. Guess the Saudi’s don’t have
Continue readingThe shot(s) that bring you back……
As you have probably guessed, I like to play golf. That does not mean, however, that I play golf well. My handicap hovers at 26 despite my vain and repeated attempts to lower it. Nevertheless, I still show up every week to try. The great thing about golf is: its
Continue readingFriday Beer and Babes…….
Another week come and gone. However its Friday, its sunny and I get to play golf tomorrow. Also get to go to a cookout tonight. Can walk to it, which means I can drink beer to my heart’s content. Its the little things that make me happy. I took a
Continue readingWhat is the main stream media anyway?
Today was a beautiful day today. Weather was gorgeous, if just a TAD warm, work was….well it was work. However any day you can end your day shagging balls at the driving range, can’t be all bad…… Took a nap at lunch time, having gone back to my apartment, having
Continue readingTake me drunk, I’m home!
I was going to post something useful and pithy about the “mainstream media”, but I can’t tonight. The S.O. and I went to a garden party at Yasuda-san’s (?????? house. Its a great big house by Japanese standards that is located on a hill so that when the weather is
Continue readingThis just speaks for itself
I subscribe to an e-mail list that consists of Alumni from my college. I recieved this article by Ben Stein that I just felt I had to share with you. Since the New York Times has the balls to charge readers to view their articles, I have reprinted for your
Continue readingThe maid’s day off
I have been thinking about this post for some time, basically since my trip to Hong Kong in April. My recent trip to the Middle East brought me back to it, after being jammed in a 777 for 9 hours with 200+ Indonesians and Filipinos all riding along the 21st
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