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Let us remember too that our young guardians are currently dying¹ in two discretionary conflicts³—let our policymakers immediately cease these discretionary conflicts² and bring our guardians home.

YouTube:

• History of Memorial Day

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1. First Lieutenant Roslyn Schulte, 25, died Wednesday (May 20, 2009) near Kabul, Afghanistan—she graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2006 (UPI, Female Air Force Academy graduate killed).

2. In a speech to our Midshipmen, Class of 2009 our current commander in chief has promised:

"I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support you need to get the job done,"--President Barack Obama--

Only one problem—point me to those who have started a conflict and did not assert it was absolutely necessary?

Instead of hollow and meaningless rhetoric let us commit the same amount of resources to studying and learning how to avoid conflict as we do to studying and learning how to fight and win them.

3. ...and some are working very hard to start a third disastrous discretionary conflict with Iran—you can bet this conflict, if begun, will be "absolutely necessary" too!

• UPI, Mullen: Iran close to having a nuke

  "The unintended consequences of a strike against Iran right now would be incredibly serious,"--UPI, quoting Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mullen--

It cannot be over emphasized that America has no, zip, nada, zero interest in attacking Iran, not even to prevent a nuclear Iran—if Israel believes their interests are best served by attacking Iran then let Israel attack Iran, without direct or indirect economic support, military aid, or intervention from us (America), except to provide humanitarian and diplomatic assistance.

• California Firm Recalls Beef and Pork Products Due To Undeclared Sulfites - Risk High
• Illinois Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination - Risk High

Web:

• Newsweek, A Mother’s Day Uprising.
• UPI, Many U.S. women short on health insurance . Wonder why we say we love our mothers and do not give them any or inadequate healthcare or leave them to struggle alone¹ when raising one of our greatest resource, our children?
• SFGate, 'Because I Love Her': Daughters write about Mom.

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1. Are we really going to keep pretending that our mothers' lack of resources is because they refuse to exchange their individual identity for some ridiculous "family values" model rendered obsolete more than two decades ago?

Washington and Lincoln birthdays (Presidents' Day 2009) seems an opportune moment to remind ourselves that while current adjustments shake our nation, its foundation is rock solid

We've selected the right individual, President Obama, to guide our nation as we seek to deconstruct, understand, and respond to these adjustments (some routine; others not so much)—none requiring our isolation or force to solve.

America's Mount Rushmore

Unfortunately, the persistency period for links to Google Hosted News (e.g. AP, AFP, Canadian Press etc.) is 30 days making it inconvenient to read the current news in the larger context of the past.

Lunog posting will not correct the rotted links as the information (title, date, rotted-permalink) is useful for locating the original news article, albeit with slightly more inconvenience than just clicking through to Google's Hosted News.

Hopefully, soon, Google can correct this deficiency by providing lifetime persistency for all its Hosted News links (may involve negotiations with the original content provider and storage space access)?

San Francisco New Years 2009 Fireworks

Web: BBC, In pictures: New year festivities [Around the World]

Here are the top ten Lunog¹ posts created² in 2008, in descending order (most to least):

1. The USS Halibut (SSN-587) 2008 Reunion
2. Happy July 4th 2008
3. Virginia Class Submarine - Defense Authorization FY09
4. United States Fast Attack (SSN) Submarines
5. Chinese Jin Class Type 094 SSBN Submarine
6. USS Ohio SSGN 726 Docks In Busan, South Korea
7. Twiceler Is A Rude, Misbehaving, And Rogue Robot
8. Mortgage Crisis Forcing Americans Into Tents
9. Happy Mother's Day 2008
10. Current Navy Submarine Dolphin Insignia
11. The border case³

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1. Lunog holds individual blogs GNU/Linux, First, Halibut, Misblog, LCB, Blogenomic, Toowiki.

2. A post created in 2007 and republished in 2008 was excluded from the top ten 2008 count.

3. McCain's Economic Whatever Calls Americans Whiners