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So much for the peak!

Got up this AM and set out for Victoria Peak. Which is a waste of time because it was cloudy raining and windy…….and foggy. Plus the construction on the Peak tower means the Pacific Coffee where I...

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Catching up

Long day today getting from Hong Kong to San Diego. Actually was not too bad just LAX is a real nut house. There has to be a better way to get folks through airport security. After arriving in San Dog,...

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Man O’ Man……….!

More on immigration. I do not understand why the President is so hell bent on picking an immigration fight at this time. Why? Living in Japan, believe me I have experience with racism and...

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Underwhelmed…………

Second day of my apportionment meetings, fighting with idiots who are more concerned about doing something to impress a (reserve) flag officer instead of doing the right thing. As is typical there is a...

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Changing of the guard…….and crying in my beer.

Harry Hopkins had a phrase he said when Roosevelt met Churchill at the Argentia conference, he called it the “Changing of the Guard”. Later at the conference in Tehran, he would talk about putting the...

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Stuck with a dial up and other frustration.

No babes this week, my wireless card does not seem to be working here for some reason. Sorry Mark! Wait till I get home. ( I could have used one last night!). Other musings / complaints. Why is it when...

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Back and busy!

Meant to post something serious tonight, but events and tiredness overcame me. So that will have to wait till the AM. ( After I work out, so no guarantees……). This last weekend was the Rugby Sevens,...

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" Why are you against progress?"

As you have probably noticed by my postings, I am not a big fan of the current management strategy in DOD and the Department of the Navy. Several folks have accused me of being a dinosaur (which I...

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How not to pad your resume……….

Hitting a cop is probably not a way to do it. I guess Cynthia McKinney never got the lecture from her father about never argue with a cop on the scene……… Neither does this do much for your career...

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Another day……another kick in the ass

Today was an up and down kind of day. Got some sort of good news or depending on how things turn out it could be bad news. Either way change is coming for poor little Skippy-san. Your humble scribe has...

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Out the door…..looking for?

I don’t know what. However for the 3rd time in as many weeks I am back at Narita heading off to someplace else. S.O. is fit to be tied. Now mind you, I invited her to come along on this trip at my...

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An interesting day

Qucik post here for I have still some shopping to do. Did my thing today and was up at 6:30 am this morning which is unheard of for me when I am in Hong Kong. Even ate breakfast. Busy till 3 this...

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Sticking out.

Made the circuit last night. Kolwoon, Lan Kwai Fong, Wanchai……waking up this morning has been slow to say the least. This is my third attempt to get moving after my second shower of the morning. Back...

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Resting up

Its amazing what 12 hours of sleep with no beer in you will do for a person. Came back to Japan yesterday and back to the usual nonsense. Went to bed early and slept and slept. Which was also what I...

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So who do you believe?

I had a post started about the Hersh article. Twice I typed what I thought were some good words. And twice G**Damn Blogger ate them! I quit. Go here and read for yourself what some others are saying....

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My Iranian experience………

Well, this time safely ensconced in Word, I will try to do another Iranian post. If reading Seymour Hersh was scary, reading the news today was every bit even scarier. The Iranians it seems, or at...

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Friday beer and Babes!

Short post. No post yesterday due to needing sleep. Today I went to Iwo Jima. What an experience. To walk on that hallowed ground….in the company of Marines no less!I felt privileged to be allowed to...

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The new Rasputin.

“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go”.- Oliver Cromwell to the Long parliament. Yesterday the S.O. had to...

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What if he did go?

First, Donald Rumsfeld is not going anywhere before November. The people over at Foreign Policy’s blog offer some cogent reasons why. In fact, they point out that: You can’t swing a cat without hitting...

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Speaking of holding a grudge…….

I was going to move on today, but the Phibian went and provoked me with yet another defense of the Secretary of Defense. However since “The Donald” is going to be around for a while, and hopefully the...

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