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Sometimes I think I wish there was a Starbucks here in Trinidad. I once met this Viet Nam War veteran who was born in Trinidad and migrated to the US at age 5 and went as a soldier to Nam. He wanted to bring Starbucks coffee to Trinidad to sell it as a business. It never got off the ground but here... Sign in to see full entry.

The Huffington Post this morning has the growing and developing responses to all the events this week. People are doubting that Petraeus is going to do that much more of what Obama wants and we need to know exactly what the military issues are here. Obviously there are a great deal of those and its... Sign in to see full entry.

A 17 year old Liberian war refugee this girl designs and makes jewelry from spent bullets. She featured on CNN web site today and apparently has made jewelry for Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry. She stares at you from her photo, a pretty girl who clearly has a lot of designing talent. The thing is... Sign in to see full entry.

Browsing the Indian news here on the net two stories do strike interest. A school teacher in the country was gang raped for 8 months by three other male teachers. She went to a train station and drank poison and left a suicide note. Right now she's in hospital trying to recover from the poison and... Sign in to see full entry.

I have just been going through the stories in the Huffington Post ( an online paper I would recommend ) over this McChrystal matter and its clear what's going on. There are snippets about McChrystal and a blog by somebody in a think tank and some things do stand out. The overall attitude to the war... Sign in to see full entry.

It looks like hanging on time here. I'm still in the office waiting for this girl to get her transport home before I can l;eave to go home myself. My sister has not called and endless calls to her phone are going unanswered. So I guess its hanging in time here and that's all there is to it. I see... Sign in to see full entry.

In about a half hour I'll be out of this office and on my way home. There's a place at the top of town near where I get a taxi home that's one of two Chinese restaurants. The people in there speak Chinese to each other and all look like they came straight from China and they have the cheapest and... Sign in to see full entry.

There is nothing like a pretty face. I don't go in for bodies without a face. The face first and the body after. The face has character. much more than the body. So when I see this pretty face I begin to get active. I think of what I can say or what I can do to get closer. This is not about sex. Its... Sign in to see full entry.

Its not often you read an article that hits the nail on the head but this one does. Jim White in Yahoo sport has written an article explaining the reasons why England is failing so badly in the World Cup football and why it has been doing so for so long. Claiming its the celebrity status these... Sign in to see full entry.

In 1945 a photographer snapped a photo shot of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in New York during the Victory celebrations at the end of World War II. In 1972 she identified herself and that venerable lady passed away on Tuesday this week at the age of 91 years. She was famous as a symbol... Sign in to see full entry.