About this whole stock market thing. See, I always thought that for an American, the Chinese market losing 9 percent of its value is supposed to be a good thing. I’m supposed to cheer when Chinese businessmen are throwing themselves off the roof of their skyscrapers. When your enemy loses,
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WARNING NOTICE-Highly emotional and possibly unhinged rant follows……….. While making my morning sojourn around bloggerville I stumbled across this little tidbit at Pen and Sword. Reporting from London’s Sunday Times: Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against
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News from the right side of the international date line………… Its been a busy week here in Japan. To start with Japan launched a spy satellite into orbit. Proving the old Ronald Reagan adage, trust your American allies, but leave yourself an independent way to see what the heathen Chinee
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Reading the political news this weekend reminds me of a Cheech and Chong routine I heard when I was teenager: Chong is up late, smoking a joint, watching an old war movie……….. Japanese Admiral: “You will get in your aircraft. You will take off, find the American aircraft carrier. You
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I read that once in a novel. On of the main character’s children asked the dad for, “a map of February”-in other words, a calendar. Fast forward a bit. Its Friday, you have had a hard day at work. The drive home doesn’t help it any. You arrive in the
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I’ve mentioned from time to time that there are several Skippy’s out there. There is myself of course. There is Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. There is also, and this is the subject of this post a Canadian Skippy that can actually write and who (after reading me…) you should put
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SNN (Skippy News Network) News Feed. DATELINE Yokosuka Japan– 5000 American Sailors were held hostage for 6 hours on an aging ship today, by a man with a known reputation for shooting people. This tense stand off was only resolved when ransom demands of applause, a good sound bite, and
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Agree with me-shouldn’t you? Sen. McCain is now saying the same thing that I was saying two years ago: “We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement- that’s the kindest word I can give you-of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war,” the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of
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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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