Neo-con (knee-o-kon), -a person or persons having a warped and antiquated viewpoint of the world, who,- when in a position of power- commits your country to a seemingly endless series of wars. Each one more disastrous than the one that preceded it. Said neo-cons never seem to know how to finish said wars,
Continue readingThe violence in the Middle East……..
I was in Israel when the attacks on the embassies occurred-and rather busy. I did not learn of the actual event until I got home to my hotel and had a chance to digest both Haaretz and the TV news. Thanks be to God-one cannot watch Fox at my hotel.
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Have been under the weather since returning. Clearly I no longer have the staying power I used to have. Slept and slept today. Here's the Palma pix: Trams in Soller. Western Coast on the road to Valdermoss. Interesting building that looks a lot like those of my
Continue readingBeen Busy.
Have been exceptionally busy-my trip finishes up today. On the plane tomorrow. Posting will resume this weekend.
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And we are back. It was a great trip and I had forgotten how much I really like Palma and why its a great liberty port on so many levels. Now this particular trip was a different one for me in that I ventured out from the area between the
Continue readingFunny joke told by a beautiful woman….(III)
Another installment in the series-reprinted from Esquire Magazine. But the woman is my own choice from Asia Sirens! A lady asks a man at a bar what he's drinking. "Magic Beer," he says. "What's so magic about it?" she asks. He gets up and flies around the room.
Continue readingReturning to the scene of the crime.
Tomorrow I will get on an airplane and fly to sunny Palma de Majorca. I am going back to pay my respects to a whole lot of dead brain cells I killed in that port in various port visits during my mis-spent youth. I have not been there since 1995.
Continue readingAnother of Uncle Vern’s mistakes to be corrected?
I hate the Aquaflage uniform. With a passion. I am so glad I did not have to wear it-having retired before they became mandatory. I do regret not getting to wear Service Dress Khakis however. Now it would appear that the Navy may be coming to its senses. Or may
Continue readingThe trouble with sequels…..
Expat @ Large finds several of them with the lastest installment in the Bourne Series: c – the surprising absence of girly-bars and other sex-tourism establishments as the camera pans up any given road, street, lane or ever-narrowing alley. Needless to say all of these establishements are owned, managed, and
Continue readingSaburo Sakai
Today is the birthday of Saburo Sakai. For those who don't know him or of him, he was a Japanese Fighter pilot and a great warrior. He had a wealth of harrowing experiences during the war and after the war became became a Buddhist acolyte and vowed he would never
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