Far East Cynic

Lou Dobbs likes it.

You have to have been in any large city in Japan to really appreciate this:  

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I always wondered that myself!

Indiana makes a good point: The irony here is that the world, our jobs, the grind to “get ahead” does a perfect job of squashing our dreams and crushing our egos without you, our supposed lovers and friends doing the same… Sounds like he’s been eavesdropping on my conversations with

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On the plus side

Of coming to Shopping Mall USA. I can OD on these:   And have! (9 Krsytals wolfed down in two days! YMMMMMM.) I can also get my fill of these: There’s plenty of these: And, sadly, more than there should be of these: And not enough of these:    Every

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Paradise Lost……. or, the surge is succeeding.

Not that surge. The one that is slowly ripping apart the beautiful life I spent 8 years perfecting. Like it’s counterpart in Iraq, it is just as frustrating though. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse;

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Good morning America!

Greetings from Shopping Mall, USA-deep south version. Long day yesterday. Because this trip is on my dime, I had opted to save money. I would have saved even more money on the tickets had not the S.O. been such a bitch so insistent that we travel together. Had we done

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The other side of the picture

The part that Lex forgot to show: Hornets are cool and all-but a CV flyby with a COD and an E-2? That’s worth bragging about!   

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Across the pond………

Not for work this time, that’s all done. For new work-hopefully good work-but not in the location that I would ever have wanted or expected. Such is life I suppose-and it is true everything is an adventure. S.O. is going along with me on this trip, which is going to

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An alternative way to handle this

Dealing with the thug criminal that has caused so much trouble for so many. The USS Kitty Hawk returned home yesterday from a busy at sea period. At the exchange and mini-mart they found:   NO BEER!   All because of this guy:   Just have MWR bring up a

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Virgin post

In anticipation of the upcoming move and the demands there of-bought a brand new laptop today. The old one has gone away………..back to from whence it came. So this is the virgin post on it. I’m drinking beer (well away from the key board!)  It really is Boddingtons! And treating

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An editorial comment……..

The comment section of a blog is designed to support varying degrees of opinion.  That is why I do not moderate comments over here-and unlike some people, I can tolerate people who do not agree with my point of view.  If need be I can edit out what I need to.

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