The enemy is us
I've been rather busy this week. On travel and next week I will be working some unusual hours. So what that means is posting will continue to be light. Plus, if the truth is to be told-I am viewing the...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
As is my custom, I am reposting this post I first did in 2005. Given the current state of events in both the US and Afghanistan these days-its important to remember this exercise in futility....
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A good day to be on this side of the Atlantic
As Hurricane Sandy bears down on New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and about 10 other states. I'm working late tonight-so I have been following the storms path on the news. Upwards of 1 million...
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Geoge Lucas goes to the Dark Side.
As a Disney stockholder I have great hopes for the merger of Star Wars and Walt Disney. However as a bonafide SCI Fi fan-I also can recognize that this merger has a great possibility of screwing up a...
View ArticleTelling the truth
I have made no secret over the last few years of the contempt I feel for Allen West. If someone would take him out back and beat the living shit out of him-I would cry no salt tears. The guy was...
View ArticleIt is all about the packaging
Until everything goes horribly wrong: BANGKOK: The Thai government is cracking down on illegal beauty clinics and unlicensed doctors after the death of a high-profile woman. The name of her job says it...
View ArticleVoting is the best revenge.
John Hinderaker and the rest of the contemptible cocksuckers members of the Liars Club, are all up in arms over an offhand remark that Obama made in a stump speech a day ago. In a speech Obama...
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It all comes down to today.
And don't kid yourself sports fans-the entire world is watching the US election. One of the things that has always amazed me now-through 11 years of living overseas, is how much of the rest of the...
View ArticleA great day for America!
I stayed up all night drinking and watching the news. I passed out fell asleep about 5AM. Woke up to the joyous news that the USA had been saved from the selfishness of its citizens. Obama won!...
View ArticleAfter action report.
Its Thursday now, and after 13 hours of sleep last night-I went to bed at 6:15 PM- I feel much better. Meanwhile, the post mortems on the election have begun. And as I expected, some people are...
View ArticlePetreaus out.
This bit of news highlights again something really screwed up about US politics. He slept with someone? BFD. He obviously knew how to keep it discrete-and since he did, its nobody's business but his...
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Friday Night in Zurich.
Got up this morning and the S.O. and I drove to Zurich. It's interesting what happens along the way. Driving down the autobahn to Singen-Porsches and Mercedes will run you down at 180KM per hour. As...
View ArticleMaybe I need to start learning Chinese
Becasue right now my spoken German sucks-although it is getting better, primarily because the S.O. has just simply refused to make an effort to learn the language-which makes me the designated...
View ArticleHerr Doctor will see you now
I've been in Germany about six months now and I thought I would take a moment or two to write about my experiences with the German Medical system. In my previous employments I was either under American...
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Double nickle
There is a kind of irony in having this particular week end with my birthday. Nothing slams home one's own mortality like learning three people you knew are passed on-and then waking up to realize...
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Meanwhile up in the mid-levels………
The residents are breathing a lot easier. The pesky "cockroaches" have been dealt a major setback in the Hong Kong courts: A three-member panel of High Court judges overturned a September lower court...
View ArticleThe Question
Allow me to forget the life I've made my own I've held this nation in my hand and yet it's not my home Allow me just one answer and one reason why Why this refugee of the family of man must die,...
View ArticleWhen did I ever meet Joseph Conrad?
He sure had me pegged. Did I meet him in my surreal existence in the alternate universe, perhaps in a bar in Hong Kong or Malaya? "The majority were men who, like himself, thrown there by some...
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Another good deal gone fleeting……
For those that do not know, Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., has long had a "lock" on the business of providing husbanding services to Navy ships in Asia. It's quite a lucrative...
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Not quite the Christmas present he wanted back at the begining of the year…….
It was brought by a jolly fat man all right-but it turns out to be the gift that keeps on giving. Don't bend over to pick up the soap: SAN DIEGO — The first conviction in a massive bribery scandal...
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