The streaming link to NHK is proving a handy thing. I am finding watching the news direct from Japan to be far more useful than watching the American broadcast networks-which are obsessed with Fukushima Dai ichi nuclear power plant. A worry to be sure-but the sheer level of wreckage that
Continue readingThe day they prayed would never come.
Tai Hei You Okina Jishin to Tsunami. Pacifc Ocean Large Earthquake and Tsunami. The S.O. has been assured by several e-mails / Facebook posts that her family is safe-although she has been unable to talk to her mother in Fukushima. We’ve been in electronic e-mail contact with her sister and
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Is the Japanese word for earthquake. As bad as it is, it could have been much worse. This is why you invest in infrastructure: The main damages is centered on Miyagi and Iwate prefectures:
Continue readingGuess it happens back in Japan too.
Seems the term “Not for attribution” has no meaning anymore: According to students who attended the speech on “Military Bases and Their Impacts in Okinawa” at the State Department on Dec. 3, Maher started off by explaining the general situation surrounding U.S. forces in Japan. In the process of the
Continue readingHere’s to me and my tanjoubi!
And that is always the best birthday present! Too bad the S.O. develops a hearing and comprehension disorder every year on this day. 🙁
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This post is loving dedicated to all those (Say Hi Curtis)-who along with others- believes that Tea Partiers are just plain folks who want to take their country back. Unmitigated selfshiness and stupidity is a form of “thuggery” too. The Republican party is now in the hands of spoiled children.
Continue readingAnother year I was not at carnival…….
Saying it better than I ever could….
I came across this article on the USNI website today. It was so good I had to re-post it here for you folks to read. As you do-ask yourself two questions: 1) Is he wrong? and 2) Will a USNI with a new mission statement allow such an article to
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Because it amplifies why Admiral Harvey is WRONG. This is a generation of leadership that does not tolerate dissent and expresses consent through silence. Read into the absence of any Flag Officer speaking on this issue however you wish, but I believe the above applies. Even when it comes to
Continue readingThe money is out there……
And Allen West and his retarded Tea Party “friends” know it. Which explains why they have manufactured a budget crisis that need not exist: And that doesn’t even begin to account for the savings we could have by leaving Afghanistan and Iraq, immediately.
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