Tuesday, June 26, 2007

A third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf

"The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran.
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The “Big E” leads a strike group consisting of the guided-missile destroyers USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51, USS Stout DDG 55, Forrest Sherman DDG 98 and USS James E. Williams DDG 95, as well as the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg CG 64, the SS Philadelphia SSN 690 nuclear submarine and the USNS Supply T-AOE 6"


via DEBKAfile

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Bob Dylan Wrote Every Pop Hit of the Past 35 Years

I must have been falling behind on pop music, since I don't seem to catch some of the songs, but for that one song I did catch, it was incredibly funny.



via Big Picture, which is really supposed to be a site focussed on finance and investments