Far East Cynic

With all the money the oil companies are making……

They could pay Fran Obrien’s rent for the next 100 years……………… (Go see Fuzzy Bear Lioness for the whole and complete story of more corporate greed….) Maybe they should have to pay a special tax just for that. Or at the very least former Exxon CEO should have to forfeit

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Google puts it's jackboots on……..

You vill blog our way, or not at all! Expat at Large pointed out the fact that the freedom loving people at Google used their powerful business position to shut down a blog it did not like. Mango Sauce is a blog about living and loving in Thailand and has

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Google puts it’s jackboots on……..

You vill blog our way, or not at all! Expat at Large pointed out the fact that the freedom loving people at Google used their powerful business position to shut down a blog it did not like. Mango Sauce is a blog about living and loving in Thailand and has

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Now it can be told……….

In what may prove to be the most damn fool thing I’ve done in my life, I’m changing jobs. So we’ll see how my blogging holds up for the next few months. My new job is still here in Japan, but it is vastly different from my current position and

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At least one good thing about change in China.

Finally back and past my jet lag. American Airlines sucks the big one! Suffice it to say they jerked me around yet again. Then again, some of it is the fault of the Texan who rolled his SUV on Highway 183 just west of DFW, making me almost miss the

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Texas! Or about Remembering history

Nice day in Texas today. After the coldness of the spring in Japan this year, its nice to be where its warm. Did business yesterday and took it easy last night. Ordered Pizza, drank some 12 ounce sleeping pills and went to sleep early. Up early today and out and

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Friday beer and babes!

Hu Jin Tao was in America this week. The US President who espouses his love democracy and how it will change the middle East, sits down with a Chinese dictator. Its OK if you buy US bonds, if you do not, then we can meddle. GW tried to minimize it

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Somehow I don't think this conversation occurred…….

A Secret Service agent blocks a protestor on the South Lawn. “See President Hu….? This is what leaders in democracies put up with……” “Surely you will have her shot….” “Uh no. We don’t do that here you Commie pig” Subscribe in a reader

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Somehow I don’t think this conversation occurred…….

A Secret Service agent blocks a protestor on the South Lawn. “See President Hu….? This is what leaders in democracies put up with……” “Surely you will have her shot….” “Uh no. We don’t do that here you Commie pig” Subscribe in a reader

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The new books are here!

Sitting at Narita, steeling myself for the long ride in the cattle car, Business class is full-no way to upgrade……..some day I’ll have the money to buy that First Class ticket…or own my own jet. However before I left for the train, I checked my mail. My new books from

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