Thinking Blogger Award
Through the 2996 list this blog has been nominated for a “Thinking Blogger Award.” As part of the acceptance we are to nominate up to five other blogs for the award.Envelopes (sorry, no checks) are inbound…
– SJS
Through the 2996 list this blog has been nominated for a “Thinking Blogger Award.” As part of the acceptance we are to nominate up to five other blogs for the award.Envelopes (sorry, no checks) are inbound…
– SJS
MOGADISHU, Jan 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship has launched a second air strike against suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified U.S. officials. No confirmation of Monday’s reported attack was immediately available in the region and a Pentagon spokesman declined to comment. The…
Folks, we’re two weeks out and the vermin and carrion eaters are crawling out from the shadows. On the one hand, you have those who wouldn’t mind another 9/11 if in the aftermath their political agenda is met. So a few innocents get off’d in the process, well, you know, it’s “All For The Greater…
Been a very busy winter and spring here in the Scribe’s household – between the demands of customer support during the Great Musudan Snipe Hunt and mom corporate’s demands for a tech writer, our days/nights/weekends have been filled with briefs, drafts (*not* of the liquid variety) and teleconferences measured in hours, not minutes; our time’s…
“But I feel Fine…” (h/t R.E.M. )Welcome to Aug 22, or, as it is known in other quarters, the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427 — the significance of which was first highlighted here . Suffice to say- we’re still here. It may have been that the thwarted British Muslim…
15 November 1960. The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) deployed from Charleston, SC with a load-out of 16 UGM-67 Polaris A-1s on the first strategic deterrence patrol. The first US nuclear-powered submarine armed with long-range ballistic missiles, the GW was ordered on 31 December 1957, with orders to convert two attack submarine hulls to missile-carrying FBM…