This is going to be a complicated post. As is my want, I’m quite sure I am going to trip over myself rhetorically, so for those who will become incensed-I beg a little indulgence before you set down at your machine to flame me………… George Will wrote an excellent article
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Bumper Sticker.
Out yesterday evening-celebrating with the S.O. She finally passed the drivers test and is now a licensed foreign national in Shopping Mall USA! Whoo-Whoo! Now Lou Dobbs can complain about her too! Anyway…………….. Came across this bumper sticker at a light in downtown last night:
Continue readingGay marriage-Part II
You can build a thousand bridges, and is it “Skippy the bridgebuilder?” But just savage same sex relationships, sex, lies, and marriage, even once-and that is all they remember you for………….. To all of those who were able to reaffirm their own high opinion of themselves and how superior they
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UPDATE! Since an emotional arguement seems to stir up the wrong kind of emotions I’ve gone through and corrected the offending F word. A more reasoned post on this same subject will be posted tonight. Driving home from work today, I heard someone talking on NPR about getting “married”. Now
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Today is Memorial Day and here in Shopping Mall USA the weather is gorgeous. A good day to remember the sacrifices made by generations of American Servicemen. However, it seems to me, that for all the talk of supporting our troops and all the yellow ribbon bumper stickers-the majority of
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As in lets go home! After taking the S.O. out for what I thought would be a nice farewell dinner to shopping mall USA, I got treated to a tirade on American food. The restaurant-a nice Italian grill with some very cold and tasty micro-brews did serve some very large
Continue readingGood morning America!
Greetings from Shopping Mall, USA-deep south version. Long day yesterday. Because this trip is on my dime, I had opted to save money. I would have saved even more money on the tickets had not the S.O. been such a bitch so insistent that we travel together. Had we done
Continue readingLee Kwan Bush
I think that somewhere in the White House, George Bush keeps a shrine to Lee Kwan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore and now is the governmental leader who just will not go away. After 30 years in power, he supposedly turned over the reigns of power-but in reality
Continue readingChristmas eve…….
Well, its come and no doubt will soon be gone. It is Christmas Eve here in Japan. This could possibly be my last Christmas in this country-a lot will depend on the breaks in the new year to come. It will not be for lack of trying to stay, but
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Well, so far so good. Had to go through the misfortune of speaking with my ex-wife, who answered the phone when I called my son. She hung up on me after telling me my son was not there. Situation normal. I have never understood those scenes in the movies where
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