Loads Of Recent Talk Regarding SEPTEMBER, So Please...Take A Trip Here...

Link: http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html

Click on 'Videos' near the bottom, choose your player\connection, and tell me what ya think if you haven't seen this. 'Wake Me Up When September Ends'.

Or even if you have.

We had a kid here from the Centrel Valley who was just learning to play guitar when he was sent to Iraq. This was his favorie song. He asked for it to be played if something happened to him. It goddamned did.

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From - Sunday, January 8, 2006

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Ever since a military chaplain visited their Stockton home last week, the Mariano family has been grieving the loss of their son Robbie, an American soldier killed in Iraq. Family members are coping in their own ways. Mom is seeking solace with friends and family. Dad is talking to the media, and younger brother Bobby is blogging about his shock. It's hard for them to believe the jovial 21-year-old skateboarder with a penchant for practical jokes has left the family so soon.

"I see him with his guitar, wearing a Green Day shirt and singing the band's songs for us -- we all thought it was funny," said Robbie's father, Bob Mariano, a 29-year veteran of the Stockton Police Department's patrol unit. "This news has caught the family off guard," he said.

Private First Class Robbie Mariano was killed Thursday outside the southern Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf when the Humvee he was riding in was hit by a roadside bomb. A major, captain and two sergeants inside the Humvee were also killed. Mariano was the gunner.

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In the meantime, Robbie's brother Bobby, 19, has created a tribute to his big brother on his personal blog, where friends are sending messages of hope. They are also listening to a Green Day song that Bobby uploaded, "Wake Me Up When September Ends."

It was one of Robbie's favorites.

"Please pray for my family as we deal with the loss of my brother, Robbie," Bobby wrote on his personal Web page. "He was a very, very strong individual who excelled in wrestling. He was one of those guys you would always think as a survivor, but unfortunately it wasn't the case. Rest in Peace Robbie

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Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/MNGPDGK92M1.DTL

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And...



From: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

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A truck bomb has exploded near a government office in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region, in a rare attack on the capital, Irbil. Police say at least 19 people were killed and 40 wounded in the blast outside the Kurdistan regional government's Interior Ministry.

The blast occurred just after eight in the morning Wednesday, when officials were arriving for work. Police said the bomber drove a truck carrying soap and detergent and about 100 kilograms of explosives near the Interior Ministry checkpoint and then detonated the bomb. The blast tore through nearby offices and shops, and shattered windows up to two kilometers away.

At Irbil's emergency hospital, Dr. Deshdi told Kurdish television that most of the dead were security forces but the blast injured several civilians. The doctor says the hospital has received 28 wounded patients and one dead.

Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has been largely spared from the sectarian fighting gripping the rest of the country. There are near daily battles in the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul between Kurds and Arabs. But the Kurdistan region's capital, Irbil, less than 100 kilometers from both cities, has been relatively peaceful.

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Link: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200705/200705090043.html

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The co worker asked me where I get my bumper stickers :(

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:(

The future of the Middle East will, I my mind, be largely measured by the progress of women.

Or more accurately, by the progress of the men that are fortunate enough to know these women.

Link: http://pbs-newshour.virage.com/cgi-bin/visearch?user=pbs-newshour&template=template.html&query=honor+roll&keywords=honor+roll&category=blank

All of 'em, all 73 pages of them...

'When pictures of them become available, and after their kin have been notified...'

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What a surprise.

Right about the time we're supposed to come up with a sober assessment of the so-called surge and its possible positive effects, we will be treated to the annual Septmeber 11th voodoo celebrations.

Got to get the synapse moving for the populace on purpose.

Get 'September' to fire the synapsisss... in a different direction.

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