Things to do in Bucharest when you are bored……
Take pictures of people out and about on the streets. Try to sneak pictures of people! (And figure out what not to do with a zoom lens). You can….Go to McDonalds-and check your cell phone: You can go...
View ArticleOdds and ends.
Another week down-still not sure how many to go. I’m more than a little stir crazy at this point, but hey what’s a fellow to do? Have spent the morning, sleeping, eating, paying bills, and catching up...
View ArticleNet Neutrality
I am a strong supporter of Net Neutrality-and for that reason I continue to view the Verizon-Google deal as a bad thing for all of the rest of us. Spike found a good primer that explains why: [Via:...
View ArticleFlying Blind
That would appear to be what all Presidents seem to do-from Bush to Obama and even back to Eisenhower. Andrew Bacevich has a new article out about how Presidential wisdom get us in trouble. He also has...
View ArticleDon’t call it what it is not…….
The last of America’s combat forces are out of Iraq. So there are usual suspects lining up to congratulate the United States on its “victory” in Iraq. There is only one problem with that line of...
View ArticleThis guy has a point.
The person who wrote this must know how it feels to work for the place I work with. This is a gem that you should send to your friends. KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) — Throughout my career I have...
View ArticleReason 247
That I am glad I am not back in the states. (But it looks like I will be soon….. ). Glenn Beck marching on the Mall to take back honor? Boy, that’s rich. Glenn Beck has no honor-save for his own pocket...
View ArticleThe people in the crowd say it all………
At Beckapoolaza. Just cause I like to beat this particular horse ( and I have never known anyone else who deserves a beating more than Beck does. And before you start Curtis it is not wrong to hate...
View ArticleWhere it all started….
Well sort of. The Romanian revolution actually started in Timiosara-but soon spread to the Capitol. Revolutionary square to be exact: Or as it is known to locals-the “olive on the stick.” The big...
View ArticleAndrew Breitbart
While commenting over at Phib’s place-out of genuine concern for a blogger I really like and read regularly-I put myself at odds with many members of the herd over there. My mistake-asking Phib what he...
View ArticleThe end of Second Fleet?
Could be. More strangely, the lobbyist and his boss both declined to comment on the supposition just days after being widely quoted on the topic. The Navy said, essentially, “No comment.” But naval...
View ArticleI knew it !
Good news for guys like me. But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — abstaining from alcohol does actually...
View ArticleFollow up
Col Sellin is not going quietly into that great good night-as he returns to Finland and his job with an IT company ( where he was before he got ordered up to active duty). This post is right on the...
View ArticleReal conservative thinking…
And acknowledging an inconsistency the Tea Party needs to get its arms around. Take it away Ron Paul: As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big...
View ArticleAnother priceless moment.
Some times a photo says it all: Make-up and Hair style…………..$1,500.00 New Dress for the show…………$2,700.00 Giant Stuffed Bear………………….$300.00 Not knowing how to hold the bear...
View ArticleNice work if you can get it………
Especially when you are incapable of telling the truth. The details of Sarah Palin’s contract were ordered released by a California judge who pointed out that University of California officials had...
View ArticleThey left me, I did not leave them.
The Republican party that is. This is a serious post-to try to explain why I feel as strongly as I do on several issues and why I feel abandoned by the political party I once considered my home. A post...
View ArticleWinding up
Well the day I have been looking forward to-is getting closer. With luck I will be back across the Atlantic ocean this weekend. Romania has been nice-but ten weeks is about six weeks two much. I’ve...
View ArticleHeading home…..
Greetings from the lounge at Heathrow Airport. I’m sitting here cooling my heels waiting to catch my flight back to the US. I am happy to be going home. It did not dawn on me till yesterday-what day I...
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