I think the Aegis and Furuno radars have been explained to death on NHK this evening. Here is why: MINAMIBOSO, Chiba — A Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer collided with a fishing boat off the coast of Chiba early Tuesday, splitting the fishing boat in two and leaving a father
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It started innocently enough. A couple weeks back, we went out to a street sale. More correctly-yours truly was dragged from the warmth of his couch, TV, and coffee-to stop by the ATM and then serve as the financier for yet another of the S.O.’s junk antique shopping expeditions. Along
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The Oedo international market at the Tokyo Kokusai Forum. The S.O. and I went out all the days of this weekend riding somewhere on the train. On Saturday she went up to a shrine sale-while I went up to Yokohama. I walked around Landmark tower, through the shops, out around
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Drinks the surge kool-aid………. Some people like their truth straight up: Let’s get something straight. The terms “victory” and “defeat” long ago lost any relevance to the situation in Iraq and the so-called war on terror. Read the rest here!
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I think that somewhere in the White House, George Bush keeps a shrine to Lee Kwan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore and now is the governmental leader who just will not go away. After 30 years in power, he supposedly turned over the reigns of power-but in reality
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Valentines Day is over, thank God. However in Japan there is one more artificial holiday created by merchants-White Day. March 14th, the day men are supposed to give women white chocolate. For the rest of the world, March 14th is a special holiday. Ladies start preparing now!
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[while looking at a picture of Stifler’s mom] MILF Guy #2: Dude that chick’s a MILF! I will confess I thought about that term when I saw this video on Japan Probe: Joshiko-moms-jpnprbedotcomUploaded by jpnvideos Earlier this week, Let’s Go to School aired the “I Wore My Daughter’s Uniform
Continue readingThe next time someone tells you they have a good deal for you…….
Run! In the opposite direction as fast as you can! Here is a little tidbit I came across in my surfing. Remember this picture and these words-the next time one of those briefing teams from the Bureau of Naval Personnel comes around and tries to tell you what a “good
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To work for this guy: Go watch the video here. Come to think of it, this could be a good analogy for the US relationship to China……………… H/T to John at Arggh!
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Which is not going to include me tonight! Happy f**king Valentines Day! S.O. is sick today and to make matters worse-is really being a b i t c h. Now mind you, one of the benefits of being older is realizing that its not personal. Its simply the way for her
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