Far East Cynic

Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

The Navy launched its Littoral Combat Ship this weekend.. Love them or hate them, they are expensive. This poster kind of captures the feeling: For you Navy folks just take out the words B-52, and substitute LCS for F-22 and the meaning remains the same. Nuff said on that! Subscribe

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Links updated!

I finally got off my ass and reorganized and updated the links. Hopefully I got everyone and they are correct. If you know someone I missed, who should be a part of the “Fair haired fraternity of expat ragers against the Man!” let me know. E @ L ‘s caveat

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Karl Rove's new best friend……….

I’ll bet the Democrats are wishing they could “waterboard” Kofi Annan about now. Because this year’s General Assembly session is a die hard Republican’s wet dream. And all it cost Karl Rove is a couple of Noam Chomsky books………….. If he could get Hugo and Mahmoud Whasshisname to come along

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Karl Rove’s new best friend……….

I’ll bet the Democrats are wishing they could “waterboard” Kofi Annan about now. Because this year’s General Assembly session is a die hard Republican’s wet dream. And all it cost Karl Rove is a couple of Noam Chomsky books………….. If he could get Hugo and Mahmoud Whasshisname to come along

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TGIF!

And you know what that means…………. Time for one of these: And then go look at the top ten list of these: Have a great weekend! Subscribe in a reader

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Grade inflation

Every service has problems with evaluations. The folks at Chairforce.com have put a new meaning in the term truth in reporting (Click on the picture to make it readable): Subscribe in a reader

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Another RIO gets screwed out of flight time…………..

From Wonkette. Wonder if she was the last person to throw up in the back of an F-14? Bathroom gossip and war pornographer Kyra Phillips was reportedly the last journalist (or TV announcer, whatever) to be flown around in an F-14 so that she’d do a fluff feature on how

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Its the economy stupid!

Have been watching all the coverage of Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Nameicannotpronounce about their speeches in the UN. Its simply amazing for a whole host of reasons. Mainly because both leaders are living examples of what is wrong with the world economy today and why we cannot make more

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Carnival of Buffoonery…………..

The S.O. is out tonight. Rather than take advantage of it to skate out to one of my favorite bars, I decided to stay in and watch real TV for a change, (NO NHK!!!!!!!! The most mind numbingly boring channel on the face of the planet. Give me T&A on

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On the rebound

For a guy who had 3 times the legal limit at the Naval Academy, I felt pretty good when I got up to go to work this morning. So there, Helen Dunn, one can drink and still make it to work on time. ( In case you have not figured

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