Is more punishment. That’s the message Secretary of Defense Gates sent to serving Soldiers in the Army on Wednesday. WASHINGTON – Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.It was
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According to the news the President is thinking about appointing a “War Czar” to supervise the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan………..evidently 3 retired 4 stars were approached about taking this thankless job and all of them said no. I wonder why?……….. Call me silly, but isn’t that the job of
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I should not do it. I should just keep quiet and let Al Sharpton have his way making Don Imus feel scared. I should stand up and like all the guests on the Today Show this day, I should feign outrage, because Don Imus provided exactly the product he is
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Last night was Easter, but unless you have cable you would not know it from watching the TV over here. Only by watching American news did I know it was the holiest day of the Christian calendar. The TV watching was OK though because they ran the TV debut of
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Fox Noise Network ought to take a look at this……… After all if there is a long skirt in the ladies dressing room, I’ve never seen it. (Click on the picture, it solves the puzzle…..) Is the guy gazing or not? We report, you decide! H/T Japundit! Subscribe in a
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For Ishihara-san today-he won the Tokyo Governor’s election! And it was a nice stroll in the garden for the S.O.and I yesterday, getting our last chance to look at the Cherry Blossoms amid the beauty that is Sankeien (???). Click on the images to see them much better! Sankeien is
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This is going to be a novel line of defense: Top-secret data on Aegis destroyers obtained by a Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer 2nd class were found to have been obtained after he copied obscene images to his hard disk from a colleague’s computer, without knowing the information contained the
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This is going to be a novel line of defense: Top-secret data on Aegis destroyers obtained by a Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer 2nd class were found to have been obtained after he copied obscene images to his hard disk from a colleague’s computer, without knowing the information contained the
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For waiting till tomorrow to talk about the great day I had today. The S.O. and I decided to take advantage of what was the last possible day to see cherry blossoms. So we went to Sankeien in Yokohama. Am I glad we did! Travelogue to follow. For now though,
Continue readingMore politics and stupid politicians……why men need beer and babes!
Its prefecture Governor election season in Japan. Or at least in Kanagawa and Tokyo. Thus each night NHK, because it has to, runs addresses from the various candidates. As a result? Meet Kouichi Toyama-he’s the anarchist candidate for Tokyo’s governor. His speech on NHK has gathered a bit of a
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