Washington state joins a silence that shouts for a better world

How does standing silent for five minutes—less time than some people spend in a grocery line—do anything to better the world?

*shrugs*
Probably the same way you get so freakin’ fed up with what’s going on that we all go and sit down I guess???

madgyckyial peace wand turns about 34 people into 185!!!!!!

Olympia resident Ada Kramer spent part of Mother’s Day with her son Galen, 21, and husband, Rich, circling Capitol Lake in a peace walk.

“This is much broader than war,” she said. “This is about peace.”
About 185 people turned out to join the Women In Black’s second Mother’s Day Peace Walk, according to Women in Black member Diane Skov of Lacey. The group, which gathers in a silent vigil in support of peace at the fountain at Heritage Park every Friday, asked people to bring white flowers to the peace walk. As part of the walk, the group placed a garland on the “Motherhood” statue at Percival Landing Park while the Rev. Carolyn Peterson, a United Methodist Minister, read from poet Julia Ward Howe’s “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” an anti-war proclamation written in 1870, shortly after the Civil War.

Here’s a partial list of things that aren’t funny any more. If you ever laughed at anything or anyone on this list, you are a racist:

Here is a key piece of evidence in the case against American-born Jose Padilla, whose federal trial begins Monday in Miami — an Al Qaeda job application form.

I don’t know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?

pretty impressive PEZ dispenser collection replete with snap on costumes and accessories (I know, lame. They’re all packed away but still...shaddup!)

Michael Sowa postcards (at least a hundred)

“dead stuff”

Rosary beads

paperweights and snow globes

it’s a quagmire!

it’s a civil war!

Rival ethnic groups fought gunbattles in this hub of economic growth Sunday, an ominous turn in a political crisis that started with the ouster of ___________________. The death toll from a weekend of fighting rose to 41.

Funeral processions were accompanied by gunfights between ethnic ________ and _____-speaking supporters of a pro-government party. Gunmen fired on ambulances, killing at least one driver, and the bullet-ridden bodies of some victims were found tied and blindfolded.............................

Leonardo DiCaprio has been fighting to save the world from climate change — but the star’s neighbours claim it is he who is wrecking their environment.

The Departed actor — who will debut his environmentalist call to action film The 11th Hour at Cannes next week — is being taken to task in court for allegedly undermining and trashing the garden of his neighbours’ multi-million dollar mansion.

DiCaprio is being sued for “maliciously” crossing onto a neighbouring couple’s property while renovating his Hollywood Hills home — cutting and removing hedges, excavating earth and bedrock which the couple claims destabilised their swimming pool and patio decking, according to the lawsuit.

Ronald and Joan Linclau filed the documents in Los Angeles Superior Court suing for a sum of at least $300,000 for trespass and removal of the support for their land — and for being a nuisance.

The pair claim the damage was done while DiCaprio was renovating his home to build a basketball court.

Nuisance is such an underrated word. I need to use it more often.

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The playlist stays up for a week on the lower left sidebar for your week long listening pleasure.

Guido Orefice: Good morning, Princess! Last night, I dreamt about you all night! We were going to the movies. You were wearing that pink suit...that I really like. You’re all I think about, Princess. I always think about you. And now…

Giosué Orefice: Mommy! Pop wheels me in the wheelbarrow, but he doesn’t know how to drive! We laugh like crazy!

Here’s the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren’t getting any younger.

To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything from deep discounts on membership fees to a young ambassador program that encourages college and graduate students to talk to their peers about having fun in the buff.

“We don’t want the place to turn into a gated assisted living facility,” said Gordon Adams, membership director at Solair Recreation League, a nudist camp in northeastern Connecticut that recently invited students from dozens of New England schools to a college day in hopes of piquing their interest.

The median age is 55 at Solair, where a yearly membership is $500 for people older than 40, $300 for people younger than 40 and $150 for college students.

The Kissimee, Fla.-based American Association for Nude Recreation, which represents about 270 clubs and resorts in North America, estimates that more than 90 percent of its 50,000 members are older than 35.

“If a young person is enlightened enough to go to a beach or resort, they’ll find that they’re outnumbered by people who are not like them,” said Sam Miller, 32, a medical student in Riverside, Calif., who is helping to plan a youth ambassadors workshop being held next month in Orlando, Fla. “Oftentimes they won’t go back for that reason.”

I think people think that we’re all hippies

Duh, Duh Duhllah; no lie!

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Coalition forces have dealt the insurgency in Afghanistan a “serious blow,” NATO said Sunday as it confirmed the death of the man known to some as the “butcher of Kandahar” - top Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah.