Far East Cynic

One’s a lot cheaper…..

And it still entertains a lot of people:

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What would Gloria have done?

We won't really know since Gloria Arroyo is under arrest. Could not have happened to a nicer lady. However it would seem her successors, are not making the Chinese happy: BEIJING: China on Sunday called for greater efforts towards "peace and stability" in the region, after the Philippines offered to allow

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Saturday with the Syrians….

Or at least the supporters of the Syrians. The S.O. and I decided to go into Stuttgart yesterday. We went to the Mercedes Museum and the Landesmuseum of Baden Wurtemburg. The S.O. was not much of a fan of the Mercedes museum-it seems mega Euro sports cars are not her thing,

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My manhood is quite fine-thank you very much.

For probably the fiftieth time-I have been accused of hating women, Seems we had a dissatisfied customer with my previous post.  There is actually a serious counterpoint to be made to the rather disgruntled commenter-but I've got to make it at a later time this weekend. I've got some things

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Gotta show a gash.

That less than polite statement was one I heard during the middle of the 90’s from a fellow Navy person. His rather blunt point was that AFN- or any other military mouthpiece had to show a woman doing just about any military job; regardless of the actual demographics of that

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Good luck with that……..

Japan elects its youngest woman mayor ever: Japan's youngest-ever female mayor, Naomi Koshi, has vowed to improve the lives of women in the country after winning the election in the city of Otsu, Shiga Prefecture. The 36-year-old former lawyer and Harvard graduate has revealed that a big inspiration for abandoning

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The Dark Side of Apple…and Steve Jobs.

This weekend the New York Times ran an article about Apple and its production of I-phones overseas. Bottom Line Up Front? Steve Jobs could also be a real s**t when it came to his fellow countrymen: When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked

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They wrote a country music song about this…….

About women who are on the trashy side. Thanks to the miracle that is our Sky Satellite hook-up I get to watch such worthwhile and edifying entertainment such as, Snog, Marry, Avoid". I like the show -but the S.O. hates it. Snog Marry Avoid? is a British Reality show. It focuses

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