More on immigration. I do not understand why the President is so hell bent on picking an immigration fight at this time. Why? Living in Japan, believe me I have experience with racism and xenophobia……….. What this debate is about is not immigration, its about a lack of assimilation. Americans
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Man O' Man……….!
More on immigration. I do not understand why the President is so hell bent on picking an immigration fight at this time. Why? Living in Japan, believe me I have experience with racism and xenophobia……….. What this debate is about is not immigration, its about a lack of assimilation. Americans
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With apologies to William Shakespere, here is Marc Antony’s take on the P&O port deal. I watched the movie version Julius Caesar the other night and this came to mind. (Brando is awesome in the movie, get it and watch it sometime): Friends, Americans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I
Continue readingThe check is in the mail…….
My campaign contribution check that is. A first for me, I’ve never, ever, contributed to a political campaign before. But I jumped for joy today when I saw this: Too bad I’m not a Virginia resident…(I’m a resident of “No State Income Tax USA”). Just got back from putting my
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No time to post. I went with the herd to a fancy dinner tonight where I was the only person who could speak Japanese. Ergo spent most of my dinner ordering food for 18 people and translating for the big wigs. It felt good to know I could do it
Continue readingWhere it all (could) lead to……….
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”–Benjamin Franklin Here we go again! All the usual suspects are present. On the one side are the President and his supporters spouting the line that they had to do this, that we
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Try not to do the whole Singapore to USA trip in one day………… Actually it was not too bad until I got to Destination USA. There I had to go through what I call the rental car shuffle……….. It always seems that the company they use for rental cars, the
Continue readingA simple question with no simple answer……..
Dan Froomkin of the Washington post asks an interesting question: When was the last time that Bush spoke in a forum open to citizens who are representative of the diverse array of views in the country? And before anyone beats me up, I know that the military audiences he has
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After the inauspicious start this morning, things just went down hill from there. This is going to be a depressing post, so if you tuned in looking for happy vibes from moi, you can just stop reading right now. Received word that an acquaintance and fellow officer from my past
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Expat at Large (see link on the right……) posed an interesting history question. Can you guess the right answer? Someone said this of a President of the United States of America: Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze on the exceeding brightness of military glory—that attractive rainbow, that
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