Far East Cynic

Absolutely, positively, just a great day for America

Because Scott Walker has been banished back to Wisconsin, there hopefully to meet the front end of a high speed freight train.  

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And I’m back

It has been a busy month for me. I just got back from the 4th of 4 trips in a month. Lots of observations from my trips. More to follow tomorrow.

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I shall not go quietly into that great good night.

Well at least if they are going to fuck me over, they are going to pay for it up front first. Sitting in the lounge here at Stuttgart airport, enjoy a quiet cup of coffee and preparing to board a flight to Istanbul and then onward to points elsewhere. Great

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Always blaming the wrong people.

Personal day today. Taking care of the S.O.'s shopping list-she always has one when I come to the US. Going out to the house and checking on it-especially since I will probably be coming back to it. As a drive around here-I am reminding myself of the fact that every

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Busy week.

We had a good couple of days of meetings-but here it is 10pm and I am back in my room getting ready for bed. And this with a 1 hour nap  I took from 5:30 to 6:30. I am getting old. 🙁 I suspect too, being in three cities over

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Always look on the bright side.

I am writing this post from a seat on a crowded ICE train heading northwards to begin the first part of a trip for me. Back to Shopping Mall for a series of meetings and to do some things on the house. I will also do some medical tourism-in the

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Well so much for that plan.

Of reducing my handicap by 5 strokes this week. I get to go back to work tomorrow! It seems the powers that be finally realized I was right about havng the authority to keep us at work. It just took a week to realize it. So much for Plan B

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A nice Sunday overseas.

My paychecks stop on Tuesday. The House GOP has proven they are among the most evil men in human history.  In all the talk about defunding or delaying Obamacare, there’s one thing that hasn’t been discussed  much, certainly not by the media.  That would be what  delaying Obamacare would actually

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The reasonable man is an endangered species……

This is a guest post although the author does not know he is posting here. I came across this discussion on another board I monitor, but no longer participate in-primarily due to the fact that too many of its participants have descended into that intellectual hell known as "conservative and

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No matter how much you polish it.

A turd is still a turd. Unless you are McMegan-in which case your whole body of writing consists of polishing turds: Jon Chait at NYMag finds McArgleBargle’s argument indefensible, because “Subsidizing Farmers But Not the Poor Still Evil“: House Republicans are fighting to impose a $40 billion cut to the

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