Far East Cynic

The day for lovers……..

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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Shut up and pay the bill.

The GI Bill that is. Are you listening Dr. Chu? I’ve been watching this for 30 years. On the one hand, we say, ‘This is the new greatest generation,’ and on the other we don’t even give them the type of educational benefit that will allow them to go to

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Who they are running against……..

The Democratic candidates that is. Or for that matter who John McCain is running against. It is not the candidates-regardless of who wins the nomination. Nope, in either case, they have to run against the ugly baby in the room. The one you don’t mention-but whom 70% of the country

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Bad news Monday……….

Interesting, that this happens right after Stars and Stripes runs an article where the powers that be congratulate themselves on how the curfews have worked. TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — A U.S. Marine based on Okinawa has been detained in connection with the reported rape of a 14-year-old Japanese girl, the

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Unbelievable………..

The great thing about the Olympics this year is that it gives the free nations of the world the chance to kick some Chinese ass in front of their own people. And show the Chinese government to the world as the dictatorship that it is. You would think that nations

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Shades of the good old days……..

Russian Bear bombers on the prowl that is. Back in the day, yours truly was awakened from romancing his cruise sock to race to the alert bird, gear in hand-with the goal of getting airborne in 30 minutes of less. The Russians were coming! The Russians were coming! Usually we

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Pass it on……..

I came across this little dissertation over at the League of Disgruntled Majors . This post is dedicated to my long suffering friends on a certain aging, round bottom vessel, the only amphibious ship in Yokosuka, who are long suffering under the leadership (and I use the term loosely) of one

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Does the straight talk express stop here?

Even if Obama were to become President ( something I doubt)-there is already a town named after him. You can get there on JR!

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What he wishes he could have said.

I must confess I did not see the Mitt Romney dropout coming. I’m surprised Sean Hannity did not commit suicide on his show today as a result. And of course he did it at that annual gathering of the mentally deranged “conservatives” known as CPAC-the annual ritual when the uncaring and the

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Blog birthday.

This blog is 3 years old today. I began this blog out of a sense of frustration responding to a huge personal disappointment in my life; created by nothing, but sheer stupidity on the part of other people……..on the part of the “big bad establishment”. My disgust with their simplistic

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