Far East Cynic

The next time someone says…..

“It is the spending, stupid”-beat them over the head with this chart. Most of the GOP and most of Phib’s commenting class, want to ignore this fundamental truth: The very large, but permanent and worsening, budgetary impact of the “Bush tax cuts” — which when first proposed back in the

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Lord Vader makes an announcement.

The Dark Lord has an important announcement in the ongoing Global War on Terror Galactic effort to rid the galaxy of rebel scum. CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed

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Worth reading…..

My Canadian Counterpart makes a lot more sense about Pakistan and Afghanistan than our beloved King David[Petreaus] does. He’s got two posts up that should be mandatory reading for any one of the current crop of idiots in Congress. And should be read twice to learning impaired assholes like Allen

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How does this work exactly?

The powers that be in my company have decided that since we did not win the last bid I cobbled together-that I should have to try again. (Even though we had the low bid and it was technically excellent-I’m still trying to figure out how it works that they give it

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Some Cinco de Mayo

The S.O. had her knee “scoped” today. So I am sitting at home trying to keep her from getting up off the couch. And drinking Margaritas. She can’t drink them-I need to: But doing it …..safely!

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Bin Laden

“Victory only has meaning in its effect on the events of the future”-Herman Wouk Remember this phrase as we discuss the events of Sunday Night. As we were laying in bed-the sun having gone down long before, and the only light in the room being that of the solar walk

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While the lights were out…..

The lights are back on at Chez Skippy-but not on elsewhere in the greater Metropolis of Shopping Mall. Thank goodness! For us it was kind of a blessing-we were given an excuse to clean out the refrigerator-but it also made me the proud new owner of a generator I was

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