Far East Cynic

Shin Nen

Akemashite omdetou gozaimasu! (Congratulations for the NewYear!) Kotoshi mo, dozo yoroshiku onegai itashimasu! (In this year too…….please favor me!) Just back from our Tokyo expedition…pix to follow.

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New Years Eve………

All in all a pretty good day today. I had the day off which is always nice, the S.O. took a break from cleaning long enough to do some retail therapy, and I worked out for a good 45 minutes on the treadmill-IPOD playing- channeling my thoughts and anger into

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Closing in on New Years………..

And not liking it very much. The S.O. has been on a cleaning binge, one such that I’ve not seen in recent memory. I just retreat to my computer and hide-every year I forget this little ritual. Mostly likely she realizes there is a 50-50 chance that my standard of

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BOHICA

When I first set foot aboard USS Nimitz way back in 1978, there was a black market in T-shirts that said: “BOHICA. Our screws never stop-USS Nimitz CVN-68″. BOHICA means, for those unfamiliar since its dropped out of the daily usage in naval operations (don’t want to offend the women or

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Something that some folks need to read.

It is the end of the year and now its time for the top 10 lists. Here’s one Uncle Jimbo needs to read before he goes off on one his tirades. And every one else should read it too-before they think the war in Iraq is not an issue for the

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Be careful what you wish for………

You just might get it. Washington DC wanted an election in Pakistan. Welcome to politics-Muslim style. Like so many others, I watched the news in more than a little shock that Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated.  The media have been endless speculating what this means for US policy and the

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Say what?

I’m still trying to figure out if I agree with this: Who I would be in the 14th century.  Your Score: The Harlequin You scored 44% Cardinal, 38% Monk, 41% Lady, and 45% Knight! You are a mystery, a jack-of-all-trades. You have the king’s ear, but also listen to murmurings

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A Christmas Classic……..

What Mike Huckabee wishes he could say to the Arabs……………

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I love it when I am right………

Lots to blog about, no energy to do it. However I was interested to see GI Korea explain why we just wasted 12 weeks of our lives working on a pointless project. At the time, the project director said that we HAD to get this thing done before the Korean

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