Far East Cynic

One company that loves tea parties…….

The fine folks who brought you all 64 colors, of course! Crayola Thanks the Tea Partiers – watch more funny videos UPDATE! WTF happened to the video-did Crayola get pissed or did the tea baggers make her lose her job too?

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The man just may have a point….

Sen Jim Webb that is: Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is pressing the Defense Department for justification of why the military has so many flag and general officers, and he also wants to know why the military is paying salary and tuition assistance to officers on loan to some Washington, D.C.,

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Buy this book…..

Or the dog gets it. And we would not want that to happen would we? Especially when this book will make you a lot smarter about the world you live in. And unlike Sarah Palin’s book-you can rest assurred that there were no ghost writers at work here. Steeljaw Scribe

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Speechless…….

This is just totally unbelievable: The Oklahoma Legislature voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to override vetoes of two highly restrictive abortion measures, one making it a law that women undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion.Though other states have passed similar measures forcing

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Chained to Futenma…

And stuck with a really lousy deal in the process. You think Obama has problems? Try being the current Prime Minister of Japan: The Hatoyama government is neither radical nor anti-U.S.; nor is the man himself. But they seem determined to prove the old proverb that the road to hell

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A pet peeve……

Something that occurred to me-and has bothered me for a long time, is the idea that somehow one generation of serving military is somehow superior to another. I hate to break it to you-but in the Navy, for a LONG TIME, a lot of great Sailors were out there doing

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Pitch Lock……

I’ve waited a while to write about this as I wanted to put some space between the event and the commentary. A lot of readers are probably already familiar with the basics, namely the tragic loss of LT Steve Zilberman, USN of Columbus, Ohio, in an aircraft mishap in the

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Bernie who?

If you did not see this slapdown of Fox News stooge, Bernie Goldberg: It is worth a repeat-cause its funny. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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Good thing they were not in Singapore…….

Because they would have probably gotten the bejesus sued out of them: Back on April 14th, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen wrote the following about the nuclear summit held in Washington: By far the biggest loser of the extravaganza was the hapless and (in the opinion of some Obama administration

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