Just now noticing it?
Lex just now has a post up-noting that DOD has started to trim the ranks of its flag officers. The article he cites points out that DOD is making about a 10% cut in the number of Flag Officers it has....
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Just got done watching a rather huge display of fireworks from our balcony. Seems everyone in ours and all the surrounding villages had fireworks to light off. It was really amazing-and unexpected....
View ArticleMaybe the Mayans were right after all……
The world could be coming to an end-when we live in a world where Rick Santorum is considered a "serious" candidate for President: Mitt Romney may have – just – emerged as the victor in Tuesday's...
View ArticleTime to put the Kanji to bed?
Dialect: A language without an Army to back it up. It’s that time of year again. Every year around this time the Japan Association of Kanji Aptitude Test announces the kanji of the year. The...
View ArticleAcknowledging the truth that you do not wish to hear.
I have been watching with interest, the mil-blog reaction to the “new” strategy announced by the President and the Secretary of Defense-namely that the US has to know its limitations; and that so long...
View ArticleMulti -Media Heaven!
Well it only took 7 weeks-but we finally have reliable internet at a reasonably fast speed. PLUS-I was finally able to get our Sky Satellite working, with the assistance of a very able man who worked a...
View ArticleThe view from my window.
I took these pictures back when we moved in. It was better weather then-now the skies here are mostly gray-in the brief 7.5 hours we have daylight between about 7:50 AM and 4:30pm or so. But it is a...
View ArticleRecent Reading
With the restoration of reasonably fast internet, and video/audio entertainment coming into Das Hause Skippy-I’ve had a chance to catch up a bit. Its been quite a ride since September and returning...
View ArticleThings have been put back to the way they should be…….
As a loyal Steeler fan, I should be hating the New England Patriots-regardless of what time of the season it is. But this year-they are my new heroes. Simply for pounding the Denver Tebows back into...
View ArticleGoing Dark?
This website will not be doing so-for reasons I will explain later on today. Its been a hectic and not so great couple of days for yours truly. However, here at Far East Cynic HQ-Deutschland, we firmly...
View ArticlePretty tough to do…..
Be dumber than George W. Bush. But apparently Rick Perry has gone and accomplished it. By claiming that Turkey-a NATO ally- is run by "Islamic terrorists", Perry has really shown how ignorant of the...
View ArticleUmfall
Is the German word for "accident". Which is what we had last weekend while on the way into Garmisch Partenkirchen. One mile from our hotel to be exact. Dealing with this and work is why I haven't...
View ArticleThey wrote a country music song about this…….
About women who are on the trashy side. Thanks to the miracle that is our Sky Satellite hook-up I get to watch such worthwhile and edifying entertainment such as, Snog, Marry, Avoid". I like the show...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Apple…and Steve Jobs.
This weekend the New York Times ran an article about Apple and its production of I-phones overseas. Bottom Line Up Front? Steve Jobs could also be a real s**t when it came to his fellow countrymen:...
View ArticleGood luck with that……..
Japan elects its youngest woman mayor ever: Japan's youngest-ever female mayor, Naomi Koshi, has vowed to improve the lives of women in the country after winning the election in the city of Otsu, Shiga...
View ArticleGotta show a gash.
That less than polite statement was one I heard during the middle of the 90’s from a fellow Navy person. His rather blunt point was that AFN- or any other military mouthpiece had to show a woman doing...
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