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View ArticleCheat and retreat…………
If at first you do not succeed, try, try, again. Spurred by the Chinese the Six Party talks have tentatively inked a deal to stop DPRK nuclear production. The key word is tentative, because the deal...
View ArticleAlways in command
Never in control-an E-2 NFO. Courtesy of Steeljaw Scribe is an neat little educational video about the smaller, much much more capable version, of the AWACS. The largest aircraft to fly on and off of...
View ArticleFun’s fun
But I’m done! Wrapped up work this morning. Computers cleaned, reports submitted, listened to mind numbing “lessons learned” (which are almos always the same ones from last year)…then its time for:...
View ArticleThe word on China……
Are you as confused about China as I am? Stephen Colbert sets me straight. China is a friend or a foe? Decide for yourself. (Count me voting for option 2): That ought to clear that up. Subscribe in a...
View ArticleThe anti-romance web site……..
Madame Chiang has found an anti valetines day web site: My sentiments exactly………….. Subscribe in a reader
View ArticleJumping across the pond.
Packed and heading out the door. I’ve got some better and longer posts coming up next week, when I can put them together in the privacy of my own home. For now I have to go enter the JAL time machine...
View ArticleHome
Back home at last. It feels very good to be back-kind of like being back in a safe place again. The sights, sounds, and smell of home are quite pleasing to me on this particular day. The flight back...
View ArticleRevolutions and Resolutions
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about [Republican and Democratic] extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but...
View ArticleNow its time to say goodbye….
To Abdul and his friends…………. Col. Blimp is going to be picking up and leaving. Exactly as I predicted, Tony Blair is pulling British troops out of Iraq in 2007 just a couple months prior to his own...
View ArticleIf John McCain can ……
Agree with me-shouldn’t you? Sen. McCain is now saying the same thing that I was saying two years ago: “We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement- that’s the kindest word I can give you-of...
View ArticleHostage Taking………
SNN (Skippy News Network) News Feed. DATELINE Yokosuka Japan- 5000 American Sailors were held hostage for 6 hours on an aging ship today, by a man with a known reputation for shooting people. This...
View ArticleLinks updated!
Spring housecleaning. Dead links down, new links up. Subscribe in a reader
View ArticleSome good reads
I’ve mentioned from time to time that there are several Skippy’s out there. There is myself of course. There is Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. There is also, and this is the subject of this post a Canadian...
View ArticleA map of February
I read that once in a novel. On of the main character’s children asked the dad for, “a map of February”-in other words, a calendar. Fast forward a bit. Its Friday, you have had a hard day at work. The...
View ArticleCheech and Chong politics………..
Reading the political news this weekend reminds me of a Cheech and Chong routine I heard when I was teenager: Chong is up late, smoking a joint, watching an old war movie……….. Japanese Admiral: “You...
View ArticleMeanwhile back at home………
News from the right side of the international date line………… Its been a busy week here in Japan. To start with Japan launched a spy satellite into orbit. Proving the old Ronald Reagan adage, trust your...
View ArticleA turn around rantville
WARNING NOTICE-Highly emotional and possibly unhinged rant follows……….. While making my morning sojourn around bloggerville I stumbled across this little tidbit at Pen and Sword. Reporting from...
View ArticleI’m confused……..
About this whole stock market thing. See, I always thought that for an American, the Chinese market losing 9 percent of its value is supposed to be a good thing. I’m supposed to cheer when Chinese...
View ArticleWell, that does not happen every day!
George W. Bush and I now have something in common. As of tonight, we have both shaken the hand of Junichiro Koizumi……………….. I had the opportunity to attend a party in Yokohama tonight. I really had no...
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