Far East Cynic

Vindication!!!!! In other words, today, I was proven right after all. The feeling is marvelous!

Yesterday and today were really good days for me-even though I had just gotten back from a long drive back from Berlin. ( Pictures and narrative to follow). As you get more seasoned in a profession ( read older), there comes a time when you know you are right about

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Greetings from Berlin.

When you are depressed, what is the cure? Road Trip! Currently in Berlin, seeing the sights and admiring the construction ongoing in the “East”. This is a city undergoing loads of change. Since it was off limits to me back in the Cold War era-its nice to see it now.

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Uh, excuse me, this is what you said you wanted.

Remember in the run-up after the Gulf War, when the first big push for dropping the combat exclusion laws started and women said they “just wanted to be treated like the men”. It seems someone did not get the memo: Allegations that “sexually explicit humor” and the display of “pornographic images” were

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More than little familiar………

Scott Adams has to be spending his days at our office: There is a serious point here. Travel always is the first thing that gets cut-even when its not the root cause of the financial problem. Our new, erstwhile,  masters don’t see that problem as well as they should-even while they spend

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Advancement by IG complaint

In Star Trek’s alternate universe, people moved up in the Terran Empire by assassination. Over here in this universe, it appears to be happening via the vehicle of the IG complaint: News about the Navy’s investigation of former Blue Angels lead pilot Capt. Greg McWherter over alleged misconduct when he commanded

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Another domino falls.

They seem to be going after every one. Officers, civilians, CPO’s and now Petty Officers: SAN DIEGO — A fourth member of the Navy has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving a Singapore-based defense contractor accused of providing cash, vacations, electronics, and prostitutes in exchange for classified

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Catching up.

What with the move and all there has been a lot going on. The travails of getting ready for the move kept me from commenting on some of the really stupid things that have happened in the last month. So this will be a post aimed at catching up-if only

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Mission Accomplished?

I wish more bars had Wi-fi here, this growing need to decamp to Starbucks to get any internet stuff done is killing me. The S.O. and I are in the new house. We were able to get the satellite in and working fairly easily with about 45 minutes effort. (

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

And once again-I am not ending it staggering out of an Irish Pub on Nathan Road. Sigh. But I did buy a 4 pack of Guinness on the way home today-which I am drinking now. And thinking about Irish Women, Irish Japanese mixture to be precise: And if I had

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Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Greetings from the lounge in Chicago. Sitting here waiting for the jump back across the Atlantic. Should have posted more-but just didn’t feel like it. This week was my birthday-so it put in kind of a funk. I still am in a funk-or at the least a bit depressed. This

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