a You Would Almost Think We Were Allies Technorati Tags: CVN 71, Rafale M

From the ISAF homepage: KABUL, Afghanistan — ISAF’s Task Force (TF) Currahee in Paktika province received multiple rocket attacks from militants inside Pakistan on 15 July. The troops indentified a qalat as the point of origin of the attacks and responded in self defence with a combination of fires from attack helicopters and artillery into Pakistan. TF Currahee [...]

At Naval Air Station, North Island, San Diego, California, in June 1940, embarking aircraft and vehicles prior to sailing for Hawaii. Aircraft types on her flight deck include TBD-1, BT-1, SBC-3, F3F-2, F3F-3, SB2U, JRF, J2F and JRS-1. Some of these [...]

McCain goes after Obama on his opposition to the surge. a More McCain Comes Alive…. Technorati Tags: McCain

a The Mind of a Liberal Technorati Tags: liberal mind

Maybe the old man finally realizes that playing nice isn’t going to work, especially after the New York Times refuses to carry his op-ed piece, but prints Obama. And of course, the wall to wall coverage of Obama’s trip to the Middle East must be infuriating. The first video mocks the press’s objectivity and the second, [...]

Good Lord, think before you do it. Armstrong said tattoo removal is no fun, with the repeated laser treatments being described as being smacked over and over with a rubber band, or like hot grease against the skin.  Read more… Seems, from the article, women regret getting tattoos and are increasingly deciding to get them removed. We in [...]

Not being a student of French politics, I’m not sure of the significance of today’s reforms, except that I can’t really see any decentralization of power in France as helping change the status quo. President Nicolas Sarkozy secured one of France’s biggest constitutional changes in 50 years on Monday when legislators passed a law he promised [...]

Adler, a 1040-ton gunboat with a composite iron and wooden hull, was built at Kiel, Germany. She was commissioned in May 1885 and served overseas for her entire career. In 1888-89, Adler was active in Samoa in support of German efforts to impose a government of their choice. She was anchored in Apia Harbor, Samoa, [...]

Seems NASA is pretty sure that water once flowed freely on Mars. Here is an enhanced 3-Dish picture with explanation. Two studies based on data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life. One study, [...]