"April 3, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 03 Apr 09 The sun is blank--no sunspot. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 0 quiet"

The face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...jfe7o4fk vjm0

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a Sun as it appears today. Please write to Al
Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to his religious
expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George Carlin had a
better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,264
By The Associated Press - 5 hours ago

As of Thursday, April 2, 2009, at least 4,264 members of the U.S. military
had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an
Associated Press count.

The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least
3,425 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to
the military's numbers.

The AP count is the same as the Defense Department's tally, last updated
Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.

The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18;
Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five;
Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands,
Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South
Korea, one death each.

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The latest deaths reported by the military:

_ No deaths reported.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

_ Marine Lance Cpl. Nelson M. Lantigua, 20, Miami; died Tuesday after a
non-hostile incident in Anbar province; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 10
Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp
Lejeune, N.C.