The 140th observance of Memorial Day in the US
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Monday May 26, 2008
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Veterans' burials nonstop at national cemeteries
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-25-national-cemeteries_N.htm
The American flag flies at half staff over rows of servicemen's graves
in Rittman, Ohio. An average of 1,800 veterans die each day, and 10%
of them are buried in the country's 125 national cemeteries, which are
expected to set a record with 107,000 burials this year.
5/25/08
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Laura Schlessinger: Quotes of the Week
http://www.drlaurablog.com/2008/05/23/quote-of-the-week-16/
"Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and
the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population
literally swells in size, a team at the Hygiene and Tropical medicine
says."
"This adds to fuel shortages and higher energy prices," Lancet,
medical journal
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Saturday Night At The Movies
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/saturday-night-at-movies-standard.html
May 24, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure: “standard operating procedure”; they
were merely “softening up” the subjects for the CIA interrogators.
"There was a fascinating documentary that aired recently on the
National Geographic Channel called Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell. It was
the most harrowing depiction of the Holocaust I’ve seen, but it
offered nary a glimpse of the oft-shown photographs of the atrocities
themselves. Rather, it focused on photos from a recently discovered
scrapbook that belonged to an SS officer assigned to Auschwitz.
Essentially an organized, affably annotated gallery of the “after
hours” lifestyle of a “workaday” concentration camp staff, it shows
cheerful participants enjoying a little outdoor nosh, catching some
sun, and even the odd sing-along, all in the shadow of the notorious
death factory where they “worked”. If it weren’t for the Nazi
uniforms, you might think it was just a bunch of guys from the office,
hamming it up for the camera at a company picnic. As the filmmakers
point out, it is the everyday “banality” of this evil that makes it so
chilling. The most amazing fact is that these pictures were taken in
the first place. What were they thinking?"