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Despite all the blowback from folks in certain circles and the continued whining of the surgeaholics, I remain firm in my conviction that getting the hell out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do. Most of the objections to the policy decision have no factual basis anyways – and
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Playing Round 20 of that peculiarly American game, “Who lost Afghanistan?” Interestingly enough, there is one answer that is never allowed in this discussion. No one ever blames the Afghans themselves. As a result, it’s similar to the old game Americans used to play: “ Who lost Iraq?“ An interesting
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I have watched in depressed horror all the flare ups of violence across the country tonight and it makes me glad I am not in the continental US right now. Tomorrow I will put up a post on the subject – advancing what some may think is a controversial theory.
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In the movie, Thank You for Smoking, the lead character (Nick Naylor) takes his son (Joey Naylor) with him on a business trip to Los Angeles. Out for a night in Santa Monica, Joey asks his dad about his job as a lobbyist for Big Tobacco. In the course of
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If you are, as I am a travel addict- these last two weeks have been a nightmare. The area I live in just put a shelter in place order so it will be at least three months before I can go anywhere. I was lucky I got to Japan when
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Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities in the world. I like it almost as much as I like Singapore and that says a lot. I first visited the city in 2000, only three years after the tragedy that saw it pass from British Control to that of the
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Under the idea of changing things up a bit, I have decided to use Thursdays to re-post some of what I think are my better postings over the last 14 years. Plus hopefully, it will bring them to a new set of readers. This is one of my early posts
Continue readingBesides all the other things that are at stake in this current Presidential election; trivial things like the survival of the United States as a democracy and survival of a free press, is also trying to put a nail in the coffin of those folks who believe that the “market
Continue readingThose crafty bastards on the mainland may be on to something: SHANGHAI: Chinese couples are flocking to divorce to evade a new tax on home sales after the government cracked down on property speculation, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Wednesday. China's central government last Friday issued rules to rein in
Continue readingThe residents are breathing a lot easier. The pesky "cockroaches" have been dealt a major setback in the Hong Kong courts: A three-member panel of High Court judges overturned a September lower court ruling that would have allowed a Filipino maid to apply to settle permanently in the southern Chinese
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