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The party of Nein.
The S.O. and I went into Stuttgart tonight to visit the Weinachts Markt. It had only opened on the 23rd-so every thing was new and fresh-and with it being a Saturday night, it was more than a little...
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The Ja’s have it!
It would seem the Leute have gesphrochen: The people of Baden-Württemberg have spoken: In a referendum on Sunday voters backed state funding for the controversial €4.5-billion Stuttgart 21 rail...
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Haze Grey and underway?
The ex-Russian carrier Varyag is all spiffed up , with no place to go. I find the tow line attached to the stern particularly interesting. And as the article points out she is making very little wake....
View ArticleThe company you keep……
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton. Back in August of last year-I reminded Phib and others what a real...
View ArticleMea Culpa
For not posting more recently. Between moving into our house, and departing on a business trip-its been busy since last Wednesday. This trip has me covering both sides of the Atlantic and the...
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Where’s Waldo?
Was on one side of the Atlantic in Washington DC. Now I am about as far away from there as you can get. Flight over here was pretty OK-save for the fact that the services on the airline sucked....
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Next year in Jerusalem
How I spent my Saturday: Prowling the Holy City of Yerushalim! The Wailing Wall: And of course we spent a fair amount of time in the church of the Holy Sepuchre:
View ArticleFree Advice
Is worth what you pay for it.I had the unique experience a while back, of being asked for advice about life in command. That caused me to do a lot of thinking-both for good and for bad. So here for...
View ArticleFinally, its over.
The last forces are leaving Iraq. about 9 years too late-but they are leaving, thanks be to God. Now if you peruse my archives, you will find that I have not been a fan of the adventure since day 1....
View ArticleLife in the slow lane.
Got back from Israel-late but none the worse for wear. The storms in Europe delayed departures out of Istanbul, but luckily enough for me, I did not get strip searched going through Israeli security....
View ArticleLies, and the lying liars who tell them.
Life on the end of an internet “stick” can be more than a little frustrating. Sometimes it’s quite fast-other times, excruciatingly slow. Thus I have been more than a little remiss in making my usual...
View ArticleHeilige Abend
Today is Christmas Eve. Im Deutsch they call it Heilige Abend. Here in Stuttgart we discovered a few new things: 1) EVERYTHING shuts down at 2PM. We were out at Breunigerland shopping mall, and a store...
View ArticleHappy Boxing Day!
A quiet Christmas was had by the S.O. and yours truly at Gasthaus Skippy. We got out oven to work reasonably well and I made a ham-and potatoes, salad, and a nice wine to top things off. I also found...
View ArticleConfiscatory Conservatism
A recent post on the “Campaign Stops” blog on the Washington Post caught my eye recently. It seems the that the Romney campaign has decided to trash once and for all the idea of so called compassionate...
View ArticleReflecting on the year past ( and the time ahead).
As is the norm for many a writer at year’s end-I have been doing a lot of thinking about the year past-and since the coming year will celebrate the 55th anniversary of my birth ( God willing), a heck...
View ArticleJust 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...
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Time 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...
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