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oh, USS Enterprise, say it ain't so

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.02.03

The Americans have just sailed the USS Enterprise into the Persian Gulf - this strikes me as odd.

The ship's 60 days from retirement, and they move it into position between Iran and Israel? They wouldn't, perhaps, be thinking that it might be effective to simply scuttle the thing and blame Iran for it?

Pity that it has eight nuclear power plants aboard. Let's hope nothing causes them to start leaking from the bottom of the Gulf.

There's no flag like a false flag....

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl