Far East Cynic

No good deed goes unpunished…..

Well, silly me-I thought I was done with that proposal I worked on last month. As it turns out-not really. The government came back with what they call-requests for information. Which in essence means I have to do the whole thing all over again-by Monday. Those who know-say this is

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What is good for the goose-is good for the gander.

James Webb announced his retirement from the Senate today. It is hardly surprising, and probably not unexpected. Phib and the others tend to view Webb as not having accomplished anything. They are wrong-about that and about Webb. Let’s look at what Webb did accomplish. First he got passed, something George

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Wait for it.

The new neocon meme that says the recent riots in Tunisia and Egypt are because of George W. Bush’s worthless decision to invade Iraq. Even though the events are most decidedly not interrelated. But that fact will not make any difference to William “the bloody” Kristol or that moron Krauthammer.

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Off the grid for a couple of days.

Greetings from sunny-and surprisingly cool Bahrain. Back here for work and to see the changes in the city. I first started coming here in 2002-and at that point it had been some 20 years since I had visited the ASU (politely nicknamed the Alcohol Support Unit) in those days. The

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Nothing else to talk about.

Steelers vs Ravens. Not even work is more important than this, today. UPDATE! 21-7?! WTFO? Oh and for the record-it was NOT a fumble! 🙁 UPDATE to the UPDATE. The Steelers of the second half were not the team that pissed it away in the first half. Thank goodness! Steelers

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Work always gets in the way.

Of everything fun. This will teach me not to answer my phone. First day back at work and just got a HUGE project dumped in my lap.  Blogging will be light. What was the number of that truck driving school again?

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Chasing ancestry.

The S.O. and I set out on a car trip today. We just arrived at our hotel. We spent the day looking for my Grandmother’s house that was located in a very small town in southwestern Georgia. ( About 3+ hours driving from Shopping Mall). We found the house-but the

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This is not the kind of change I want to see.

Bad news from Hong Kong courtesy of Spike. Wanchai disco Laguna will be closing. Their final night is tentatively January 9th. The building was sold and the new landlord has refused to renew their lease. The Philippines and Indonesian consulates both petitioned the new landlord to let the bar remain,

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Are you guys happy now?

Well,  DADT has been repealed.  As I noted previously this was inevitable, if  not now, then at sometime in the future. So can we please now tell Andrew Sullivan to STFU about it? The fact that I have to resignedly accept this development-does not mean that I like it. I

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This is a test……

Of blogging from an I-Pad, an early Christmas present from the S.O. and myself to myself. Had this been an actual rant it would have been longer-and more accurate, because believe me-there is plenty to rant about this week. More to follow at weeks end about the tax “deal”. Also

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