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To continue with my personal crusade againstUSFSPA injustice….; discussed here, here, and here. Yesterday, I came across this little tidbit from Tom Philpott in his Military Update column at Military.com. A true example of DOD lawyer double talk if you ever heard it: To correct a point in your Military

As long as I have been around the US government in a working capacity, I have been astounded at how often the General Accounting Office (an office of Congress) f**ks things up. Today, reading Stars and Stripes I was given yet another reminder of their inability to portray an accurate

Its August and so in Japan that means two things: 1) lots of headlines about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and as the days countdown to August 15, TV shows about the War on Japanese TV. Last year they ran a drama about a family in Okinawa during World War II. This

Turned on the news to find out that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is dead. He may as well as have been dead for the last 10 years since everyone knows it was Crown Prince Abdullah who has been exercising the power during that time. Guess the Saudi’s don’t have

I subscribe to an e-mail list that consists of Alumni from my college. I recieved this article by Ben Stein that I just felt I had to share with you. Since the New York Times has the balls to charge readers to view their articles, I have reprinted for your

I have been thinking about this post for some time, basically since my trip to Hong Kong in April. My recent trip to the Middle East brought me back to it, after being jammed in a 777 for 9 hours with 200+ Indonesians and Filipinos all riding along the 21st

I have been thinking about this post for some time, basically since my trip to Hong Kong in April. My recent trip to the Middle East brought me back to it, after being jammed in a 777 for 9 hours with 200+ Indonesians and Filipinos all riding along the 21st

No post yesterday, S.O. and I went to the O-bon festival. Now the really savvy folks out there should be asking why an O-bon in July, since August is the proper season for O-Bon. You would be correct, but the activities here in Japan try to match their events so

Someone is at it again in London. WTF is with these guys? This is like shooting a boar, all it does is just make him mad. These are Brits and they are just going to hunker down and fight back. Haven’t the terrorist morons figured that out yet? GRRR! TO:

One of the blogs I lurk at, without ever commenting on is Helen’s. She writes her blog like a diary should read, and she writes well, making some very thought provoking posts. This post, got me to do some very serious thinking and I have decided to attempt to turn