Today was a full day here in Istanbul. We were up early, ate breakfast out-took the bus and the tram to Sultanmahment Station and saw all the usuals: Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace. The last item is huge and can consume a whole day in and of itself.
Continue readingWhere’s Waldo?
Friday night-over a US holiday week-which is the first one I have gotten since Christmas. So this morning the S.O. and I boarded a plane-and arrived where? 1) This is city is the largest city in the country-but it is not the capital of the country. 2) In the 1800's there
Continue readingI love it when I am right………
Yesterday I wrote:Don't kid yourself, this is just the opening act in a war that is designed to, at one and the same time, pervert the meaning of the First Amendment-and at the same time empower insurance companies to go right back to fucking people over. And leave it to
Continue readingI am going to beat this horse some more…
Because the more I read the stupidity of most so-called “conservative” commenters on the subject of having insurance companies do their job-the angrier I get. If you want yet another example of why America is failing-and stupidity is rampant-go here. If you want yet another reason why I am down
Continue readingThe Bishops are wrong
And its really sad-because I admire the Catholic Church on so many things. But I won't go with them on this. Especially since the church's teachings on sex are totally screwed up. The President offered up a rhetorical solution in response to their rhetorical freak-out over language in a
Continue readingKind of sad really……
That there are people who actually defend Andrew Breitbart. Especially after the unbelievable freak show that was CPAC this year-and we got to see the bearded maniac come completely unglued: And people show up with torches and pitchforks and accuse me of ignorance-for simply pointing out the Navy is cheap
Continue readingWomen who really ought to be in the news……
But for some reason-Western feminists pay little or no attention to. Shocked, I tell you-absolutely shocked. The case of the maids trying to win right of abode in Hong Kong is moving towards its next step: A spectre is haunting Hong Kong. And it is not communism. It is the
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The S.O. and I went to a Pferdemarkt today. ( Horse Market). It was up in Leonberg-a very charming old town northwest of Stuttgart. They have a four-day festival-part of which is a Pferde Markt or Horse Market. Today there was a horse show-so the S.O and I went: We
Continue readingA long strange trip….
This is what you get when a bunch of Hollywood scriptwriters are sitting around with a bag of weed, a bong, several bottles of Scotch and time on their hands. Palin vs Nazi's from the moon! Space Battleship Yamato without the anime.
Continue readingMeathead Flag Officers
Tom Ricks has a great guest post up about the military's propensity to create a lot of its own problems: Never have so few been supervised by so many doing so little. For the last ten years, the terms "field grade oversight" and "adult supervision" have been used entirely too
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