Far East Cynic

I’m not afraid…….

Of voting tomorrow………….. On so  many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise.  There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of

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Why it never sticks…..

If there is one thing that drives me nuts, it is the term RINO and its callous use by people who claim they love America, but clearly cannot stand Americans. RINO for those who don’t know its meaning stands for Republican in Name Only and is used as a derisive

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Something every one can agree on……

As pointed out by my Canadian counterpart. “That’s why I think the final weekend of the presidential election couldn’t be a better time for us to gather ’round, relax, and watch a Japanese girl with really big tits and an extraordinary little body working out.” Liberal or Conservative, Independent or

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Christmastime in the city………

The city of Tokyo that is: xmasby bbqkarubi Mitsukoshi department store has put up its annual Christmas tree. I’ve been to that store several times and its impressive. Should be part of any one’s Christmas trek-as well as Ebisu Gardens and Takshimaya Times square and Sakuragicho in Yokohama.

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Odds and ends…………..

I fell asleep early last night-not sure it is was from exhaustion or sheer depression. As I got to work yesterday morning I looked at my watch and realized that on the opposite side of the planet, people were just starting the climb up the hill here: Oh, I do

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So much for that cushy job in Washington…..

If McCain wins the election. Thomas P.M. Barnett, Author of The Pentagon’s New Map has bitten the hand that fed him: Obama’s task is the great unwinding of the Bush debacle, which Bush himself started these past two years, but which is likely to go four more. If Obama spends

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Editorial options…….

There is room at the top in the Japan Air Self Defense Force: General Toshio Tamogami, the head off Japan’s Air Self- Defense Force, has been sacked after writing an essay that downplayed Japan’s occupations of China/Korea and stated that Japan was not an “aggressor” in the war: In the

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George Will gets it……..

Other folks-not so much. In choosing Sarah Palin to be his running mate, John McCain told the thinking voter who is in the center-neither liberal or conservative- that building a bridge to 2/3 of the population is not on his agenda: From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of

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Missing man formation………

Wars and lechery-nothing else holds the fashion………… Pensacola News Journal October 31, 2008 Blues Angels Pilot, Other Grounded Final 3 shows will fly a plane short as team members face investigation By Troy Moon Two members of the Navy’s Blue Angels have been “removed from duty” with the team over

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I agree…..

Reprinted from The Economist, who has it right: America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world

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