Loans for divorce that is. The Mainichi Shinbum is reporting that a small bank in Gifu Prefecture is offering divorce loans: Love is grand. But divorce is 100 grand. At least! But now there’s a bank out there to help the growing number of Japanese couples who want to untie
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I’m sure E @ L would agree: Putin positions himself as Russia’s Lee Kuan Yew-One hears much about the “death of democracy” in Russia these days, especially as current President Vladimir Putin muses openly about slipping into the office of prime minister to sidestep constitutional term limits. As a former
Continue readingDr Chu must be so proud……..
My favorite DOD punching bag, Dr Davd Chu-he of “I’d rather side with lawyers than do the right thing for military retirees” fame-really had nothing to do with this. Except in the fact that the tone he sets as Undersecretary for Personnel Readiness, sets the tone for rules enforcement such
Continue readingFred takes a siesta………..
One of my favorite commentators, Fred Reed is taking a sabbatical. To some degree I share his frustration, although his readership is large and mine is not. More than burnout is involved. People write columns in the (faint) hope of changing things. No, a web site will not alter the majestic course
Continue readingWorth repeating……
I watched This Week today on AFN. I love watching George Will. Because lately he has been on a roll-telling the Emperor that he has no clothes: Social conservatives should grow up. If they want to rally around somebody, why don’t try that? Huckabee needs support and money now. If
Continue readingA good walk spoiled……….
By a not so great golf game. Ask me again, why I love living overseas.
Continue readingKorea blues……
Well today was a downer just like I expected it to be. My brain is mush. Worst part of these past few days is knowing that with a little more thought and a lot less ego on the part of those setting up this particular fiasco evolution we could be a
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You can just smell a lousy day coming your way when you get up………. Today is one of those days. Pusan weather has been nice-as for the city, well its a Korean city. It is what it is. Off to work now to see what bad news awaits me.
Continue readingHello from Korea!
Got in yesterday after the flight from hell………….. Still getting connectivity up. I’ll try to post more later. But I spent last night horizontal for 10 hours catching up on lost sleep.
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From E @ L : Condemn Myanmar Junta – Sooner or later Myanmar will become a democracy. Sooner or later its military leaders will have to give way to an elected government. Substitute ‘Singapore’ for ‘Myanmar’, ‘business’ for ‘military’ and you have the situation here[Singapore].
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