I could write stuff like this: I’ve decided that I’m changing the way I support a candidate this cycle. Whichever candidate’s spouse has the nicest funbags becomes the official candidate of Enjoy Every Sandwich. I think the most important issue in the campaign is America’s need of a hot First
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A good question!
Mountain Runner and Tom Barnett ask and answer a really good question: If the surge is working, why are we still losing? Barnett goes to the heart of the question that really bothers me-namely if the surge is going so well, why are we being told that American troops will
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Its not just me that is concerned. So is Hemlock: RUPERT MURDOCH buys Dow Jones, and I am privileged to be sent an advance copy of tomorrow’s edition of the best reported, best edited and visually most Victorian newspaper in the world…. Back to the SCMP? Subscribe in a reader
Continue readingInto the darkness……..
Alicia: We’re not exactly the Washington Post, okay? Michael McDougal: No, we’re not. We run stupid headlines because we think they’re funny. We run maimings on the front page because we got good art. And I spend three weeks bitching about my car because it sells papers. But at least
Continue readingFred Thompson explained
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On my back across the pond to the correct side of the International Date Line. United has surpassed my already low expectations by dropping me into SFO 2 hours late. Fortunately I planned for this, having done more than a coupld OJ esque runs to the gate before. So I
Continue readingElection Day……
In Japan. Today was voting for the upper house of the Diet. Just got off the phone with the S.O. I asked her who she voted for and she told me MINSHUTO. (Democratic Party of Japan). She said she wanted to do anything that would be opposed to the Abe
Continue readingMaybe this is what the White House needs ….
To explain Iraq. Japan Probe shows off a new Japanese manga (comic) book explaining the recent Japanese Defense White paper. (Boei hakusho?????)?Quoting from the Mainichi Shinbum: In the “Manga de Yomu Boeisho Hakusho (Defense Ministry White Papers in Manga)” series printed in 2005, a little girl wearing “Lolita” fashions and
Continue readingFallows calls it right.
On Gen Petraeus and the upcoming report. Read his article on David Petraeus and the “New Jesus” problem. Subscribe in a reader
Continue readingPunching the strawman…………
I’m a baby boomer. And proud of it. I’ve had it with people who should know better attacking my generation as a bunch of dope smoking, sex fiends, who shirked their responsibilities to serve and protect their country. That the folks born of the period were ” the most narcissistic,
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