Far East Cynic

American Beauty..

“My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men’s room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn’t so closely resemble Hell.” That movie was on last night. When it came

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Important safety tip…….

Not much time tonight-5:30am comes way to early. However I heard about this today. When briefing an ROK Navy admiral, never say this: “When USS XXXXX XXXXXX arrives on station in the Sea of Japan……..” This causes a strong Hangul reaction-followed by a smackdown from his Korean interpreter………….. So, hey,

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A nice country…….

If I had time to see it. Problem is all of my trips to Korea are for work. Long hours type of work. And I don’t have an international drivers license so they won’t let me rent a car. So, so far all I have seen of Korea is Seoul

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The death of common sense……

I know why I am so frustrated this week. It is because we have lost the ability to empower people to make decisions at the right level. Watched a bunch of guys get their a**s handed to them because they took fuzzy direction and tried to run with it. In

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Too tired……….

To blog or do anything else…except catch some Z’s real soon. However imagine my surprise when I watched Keith Olbermann’s show ( inside the command center they have a streaming video player on some of the computers….this from the USAF-go figure) and I was shocked to see that CNATRA (The

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Its official…….

I’m really turning into a dinosaur. Or becoming my father. Or somewhere /something in between. The list of things that I do not understand seems to be growing exponentially with each passing week. I like to think of myself as a tolerant man, but lately-I’m beginning to wonder if that

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Oops!

According to Japundit, the US owes a few bucks in rent to Japan………….. Subscribe in a reader

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The Watchers……

Working over here in Korea has been smothering interesting to say the least. However, I am constantly reminded that not everywhere has the Cold War ended. I do all of my work each day in a place called the HTACC, which stands for Hardened Tactical Air Control Center. For anyone

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A picture of my world……..

For the next two weeks anyway, Chap found it. The Glorious Leader can die any time now………… Check please! You are 83% ready to get out of Korea   You have them figured out. You know it is a 5,000 year-old shell game and there is no pea. You are

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I’d blog tonight….

But its been too hard to get on the Internet. No Internet in the room and the wireless in the lobby is just not working well. When I finally did get on, I made the mistake of going to Phibian’s place and reading this. Now I am just too pissed

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