Short post because I am tired and pissed off. After I left work yesterday at 8 PM!!!! ( Sorry, overtime is not in my agenda anymore…..), brain fried after looking over transport data and also the backgrounds of the useless idiots I am going out to kill train, I was
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There is a line in the movie…..
Yes there is a line in every great movie that would apply to today: “Sometimes you can just smell a shitty day coming down the pike”-The Paper, Michael Keaton. “Well let me tell you guys, its a cold world out there and tomorrow we are all going back into it!”
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I did something very uncharacteristic last night. I left the S.O. to go to bed, while I went to Midnight Mass. That’s remarkable for me because: a) I’m not Catholic and b) the last time I was in this church was for a memorial service some 10 months ago. Amazingly,
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We made it but I’ll tell you direct Tokyo- Frankfurt in the cattle car is brutal, even if it is a Lufthansa cattle car.( Any airliner that serves Warsteiner beer and does not charge for it, cannot be all bad…..). Its now 6 am saturday and I am slept out.
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Early tomorrow, up and on the train to Narita for the S.O.’s birhtday trip….. Not sure how the blogging is going to be for the next week, so if you see no new words, well, remember Papillion…: “I’m still here, yoou greasy bastards!!” Speaking of that line, here’s to Chuck
Continue readingHarriet Miers crying in her beer…(and babes!).
Its Friday and you know what that means! But first the news. Seen below is Thursday’s front page from the Asahi Shimbum: What all that Kanji is telling you is that the US and Japan have come to an agreement about closing Futenma Marine Corps station in Okinawa, long a
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A reader e-mailed me and tipped me off to the fact that Donald Rumsfeld had a chance to be a hero to victimized affected servicemen and women, but avoided the issue entirely. Evidently during his Town Hall meeting in Korea, a question was asked about the Former Spouse protection act
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Today should have been a good day. And on the surface it was, even though the rain put a crimp on me playing golf again for the second time this holiday weekend. (Did get in 9 holes before the deluge started up again….but, I’ve played better…..). Took the S.O. to
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Today should have been a good day. And on the surface it was, even though the rain put a crimp on me playing golf again for the second time this holiday weekend. (Did get in 9 holes before the deluge started up again….but, I’ve played better…..). Took the S.O. to
Continue reading4 years into the war-a reasoned assessment.
I received this STRATFOR piece from a friend of mine who works in the defense consulting field. It provides a really balanced account, coming to the conclusion that a) the US is ahead on points, but b)the “war” is not yet won by a long shot. However there has been
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