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Good morning America!

Greetings from Shopping Mall, USA-deep south version. Long day yesterday. Because this trip is on my dime, I had opted to save money. I would have saved even more money on the tickets had not the S.O....

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Paradise Lost……. or, the surge is succeeding.

Not that surge. The one that is slowly ripping apart the beautiful life I spent 8 years perfecting. Like it’s counterpart in Iraq, it is just as frustrating though. Now conscience wakes despair That...

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On the plus side

Of coming to Shopping Mall USA. I can OD on these:   And have! (9 Krsytals wolfed down in two days! YMMMMMM.) I can also get my fill of these: There’s plenty of these: And, sadly, more than there...

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I always wondered that myself!

Indiana makes a good point: The irony here is that the world, our jobs, the grind to “get ahead” does a perfect job of squashing our dreams and crushing our egos without you, our supposed lovers and...

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Lou Dobbs likes it.

You have to have been in any large city in Japan to really appreciate this:  

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This is about right……

Created by OnePlusYou Somethings are just worth cussing about! H/T to OPFOR!

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Poor Obama

I guess I’m a snob and elitist myself. Because I find myself agreeing with Obama about Pennsylvanians-or the people living here in shopping mall USA. Then again I take the time to read and understand...

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Kaerimashou!

As in lets go home! After taking the S.O. out for what I thought would be a nice farewell dinner to shopping mall USA, I got treated to a tirade on American food. The restaurant-a nice Italian grill...

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That’s it! I’m pulling the damn plug on the TV!

The S.O. has been watching the HGTV channel for at least an hour and a half. With the concentration that an alcoholic pours into a pitcher of martinis or margaritas. Wide eyed and awestruck is a bad...

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Interesting news-with a comment……

Back on the good side of the international date line. Trip back was not too bad, the flight from LAX on Singapore Air was not so full and the food was pretty good and drink service plentiful. Next time...

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Airlines…….

Its good to be home! Even if the weather is bad and the amount of things on my “to do list” just went up exponentially since it is now pretty certain I am moving. Even the dulcet tones of the cute...

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Speaking of bitter…….

It would appear at least a couple of Obama supporters are-when it comes to the subject of last nights debate: Update! That particular video has been taken down. Suspect ABC filed some sort of copyright...

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Nothing to celebrate…….

The Patriot Express is running again. Much to every-one’s chagrin who actually has to take the plane. The Patriot Express is the name of the Air Mobility Command charter plane that runs from LAX to the...

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What Michelle Malkin and her cohort have brought us to…..

The key factor in US elections is this:

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So long as we are parsing campaign speeches……..

How about deconstructing this, from John McCain: John McCain screwed up on Foreign Policy 101 AGAIN. Yesterday at the AP annual meeting, McCain said he would defer any decision to General Petraeus over...

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Things in common…

What do The Townhall Harlot and the Chinese government have in common? They can both dish out criticism, but they cannot take it. With the Chinese, it seems they don’t like having the truth about their...

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3rd street sunset.

On the plane back from LAX, I watched a really neat Japanese movie. It is called ALWAYS , (Always san-chome no yuhi-literally third district sunset in Japanese). The movie was released in 2005, but it...

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Richard Quest=moron!

Chalk up another candidate for my trusty Louisville Slugger:   This guy had a job that I would kill for. Jet around the world, usually in first class or on a private plane, and then tell everyone else...

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The payoff…………

You knew this was coming.  There was going to be some sort of payoff to the general, the only real question was would it come now or in the next administration. Now we have the answer-it comes now and...

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These proceedings are closed……….losing the battle-hoping to win the war!

I got blindly drunk last night-just barely stumbling onto the last train back out of Yokohama. The S.O. was none too pleased when I darkened our doorstep at 1:30 am in as foul a humor as I have been in...

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