Note to self. A) Build more connection time in when traveling through SFO. 2) Try not be sick as a dog when riding 11 hours in cattle class-with stingy booze service. Made it back in one piece, but even after 12+ hours of sleep my head still feels like it
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Sick and tired
Well, I’m either getting better, or they will be removing my body from the airplane tomorrow. What appears to be a chest cold, has now seemed to have migrated to my head. I stayed in last night, except for a brief foray for dinner. My ailment does seem to retreat
Continue readingGive them hell Harry……..
Harry Reid that is……proving yet again that the Democrats are their own worst enemy. No opportunity is too great, such that it cannot be f*&ked away. In that regard, you and the Iraqis have a lot in common. You used the “L” word. Just like the “wasted” word, its like
Continue readingSeems like I never left…………
That is what I used to say whenever I came back to the carrier after being off of it for a while. The look and the smell and the frustrations were all the same. After a dayor so onboard, you were hungry, horny, and tired. You would think that here
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Greetings from Korea! Its actually warmer here than I expected it to be. Lets hope it stays that way. Got over here OK-some adventure involved on the way. The powers that be decided to send our whole herd over in a military airplane. A C-12, which is a Beech King
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Robert Kagan says the surge is working. Considering his brother Fred was the author of it, and convinced the President and every one else to disregard any recommendations to the contrary, what else was he going to say? He’s got some reliable sources. Bloggers: Some observers are reporting the shift.
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Slate comes up with the answer to an important question: Do female suicide bombers get 72 virgins? And if not, what do we have for the ladies, Johnny? Subscribe in a reader
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WARNING NOTICE-Highly emotional and possibly unhinged rant follows……….. While making my morning sojourn around bloggerville I stumbled across this little tidbit at Pen and Sword. Reporting from London’s Sunday Times: Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against
Continue readingCheech and Chong politics………..
Reading the political news this weekend reminds me of a Cheech and Chong routine I heard when I was teenager: Chong is up late, smoking a joint, watching an old war movie……….. Japanese Admiral: “You will get in your aircraft. You will take off, find the American aircraft carrier. You
Continue readingNow its time to say goodbye….
To Abdul and his friends…………. Col. Blimp is going to be picking up and leaving. Exactly as I predicted, Tony Blair is pulling British troops out of Iraq in 2007 just a couple months prior to his own departure from 10 Downing street. I love it when I am right!
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