To Abdul and his friends…………. Col. Blimp is going to be picking up and leaving. Exactly as I predicted, Tony Blair is pulling British troops out of Iraq in 2007 just a couple months prior to his own departure from 10 Downing street. I love it when I am right!
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about [Republican and Democratic] extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. –Robert F. Kennedy That quote applies to both sides of the
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Back home at last. It feels very good to be back-kind of like being back in a safe place again. The sights, sounds, and smell of home are quite pleasing to me on this particular day. The flight back was not the worst I’ve ever had, but definately not the
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Packed and heading out the door. I’ve got some better and longer posts coming up next week, when I can put them together in the privacy of my own home. For now I have to go enter the JAL time machine and jump one day into the future. Its time
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Madame Chiang has found an anti valetines day web site: My sentiments exactly………….. Subscribe in a reader
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Are you as confused about China as I am? Stephen Colbert sets me straight. China is a friend or a foe? Decide for yourself. (Count me voting for option 2): That ought to clear that up. Subscribe in a reader
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But I’m done! Wrapped up work this morning. Computers cleaned, reports submitted, listened to mind numbing “lessons learned” (which are almos always the same ones from last year)…then its time for: GOLF! Slide on out in the PM for a sojurn to Kaneohe and its beautiful course along the ocean.
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But I’m done! Wrapped up work this morning. Computers cleaned, reports submitted, listened to mind numbing “lessons learned” (which are almos always the same ones from last year)…then its time for: GOLF! Slide on out in the PM for a sojurn to Kaneohe and its beautiful course along the ocean.
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Never in control-an E-2 NFO. Courtesy of Steeljaw Scribe is an neat little educational video about the smaller, much much more capable version, of the AWACS. The largest aircraft to fly on and off of the carrier today. These guys do with 5 people what it takes the Air Force
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If at first you do not succeed, try, try, again. Spurred by the Chinese the Six Party talks have tentatively inked a deal to stop DPRK nuclear production. The key word is tentative, because the deal still has to get the approval of the respective governments-especially those who will have
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