Far East Cynic

On the beach…

Well. thank God it’s April 2nd and I go back to being a heathen again. And where I am right now is a good place to be a heathen-staying in a beach house on Emerald Isle NC with my Dad and my sister and her friends in an huge ocean

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Sometimes I think I’m living in an Allen Drury novel.

As a boy in my early teens-I had the misfortune of reading every Allen Drury book ever written ( At least through the early 70’s). And that’s a long list. As I grew older, and came under the influence of some really dedicated teachers and professors-I realized how really bad

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Only in America….

This post is loving dedicated to all those (Say Hi Curtis)-who along with others- believes that Tea Partiers are just plain folks who want to take their country back. Unmitigated selfshiness and stupidity is a form of “thuggery” too. The Republican party is now in the hands of spoiled children.

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The money is out there……

And Allen West and his retarded Tea Party “friends” know it. Which explains why they have manufactured a budget crisis that need not exist: And that doesn’t even begin to account for the savings we could have by leaving Afghanistan and Iraq, immediately.

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The organized campaign…….

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”- Charles Bukowski For those who take the time to research it,  several things about the Wisconsin governor’s battles with

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The truth the poster child won’t tell you.

I went to body pump after work tonight. Angie, who is actually a very good instructor, decided that we all needed extra beatings in anticipation of the upcoming weekend. Suffice it to say I was dragging ass by the time we got to the pushups and crunches. They suck! I

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Ow! Ow! Ow!

In at 7,  out at 8-what is wrong with this picture? And before someone asks, " How does this square with your statement, 'You like your company'? I do like my company-but like a girl from the Nana Plaza-sometimes you have to bend over to earn your bar fine. So

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Out the door……

Heading back where it is really cold for a few days for work. I am expecting some long days at least at the start of the week. Driving to the hotel I was listening to an NPR show with Grover Norquist. He is the worthless bastard who came up with

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It is always about the money…..

Which is why-following the election-now is a great time to rebalance your portfolio. Tradition holds that business likes a divided government, because nothing gets done.  They like that because it allows them to get away with murder   for stability and an environment they can plan to. So now that the

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The numbers game

I pointed this out before-one of the key elements of Teabag strategy, if it can be called that, is based on a numbers game. Getting all of their folks out-who really don’t represent a majority of Americans-and keeping the rest of us at home.  America has one of the most miserable

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