SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
A masked Palestinian Muslim demonstrator holds stones during clashes with Israeli forces in Ras al-Amud just outside Jerusalem’s Old City…
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
“I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you,” she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama’s “hard-left agenda.”
Rodgie
A New Jersey nuclear plant laborer arrested in Yemen with 10 other suspected al Qaeda members was in contact with the same radical Yemeni-American cleric tied to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan…
A man offers a rose to a woman to mark International Women’s Day in Belgrade…
...the Christian half of my upbring said “thou shalt not kill” and thus I’ve never owned a firearm.
Someone broke into a fish hatchery run by an Everett School District environmental education program and killed thousands of baby salmon.
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The state has replaced the school district’s fish at no charge, but the caretaker at the hatchery says the emotional damage is not so easy to undo....
Coffee may be their poison of choice, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get tea at their party too.
Organizers of the Coffee Party — which grew out of messages and videos on Facebook and has received a boost in recent days from media coverage — originally billed themselves as a response to the conservative, grassroots Tea Party movement. But Coffee Party spokesman Camron Moore said the movement is neither liberal nor conservative, and even Tea Partiers are welcomed to crash their party....
Coffee partiers held low-key gatherings today to discuss the movement....
...Minnesota Majority staged the rally on the state capital mall to hear Reps. John Kline and Michele Bachmann speak to the gathered opponents of the overhaul of the health-care system
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I’d have put the crowd somewhere between three and four thousand. They were not just numerous — the largest rally I’ve personally attended at this venue — but also enthusiastic. Some got a little overly enthusiastic, such as the few who brought actual pitchforks. (They were asked to step to the back of the crowd.) Almost every sign carried to the rally was homemade, as you can see from the pictures. They all came out to the capital on a day where the temperature didn’t get above 40 degrees during the entire rally, and where a cold wind blew across the mall....
bacon
Toby Elles, 22, made the discovery after burning the food when he fell asleep while cooking.
After lifting off the scorched bacon Mr Elles, from Salford, Lancs, could not believe his eyes when the Christlike image stared back at him.
The face is complete with eyes, nose, a beard and is framed by long flowing hair.
Mr Elles, a cashier for Halifax Bank, said: “I fell asleep cooking some bacon and it had burned this face onto the pan, it’s some kind of miracle…
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An Israeli doctor says,
“Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says,
“That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.”
A Russian doctor says.
“In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.”
An ILLINOIS doctor, says.
“You guys are way behind. We recently took a man with no brains out of ILLINOIS , put him in the White House and within SIX MONTHS, half the COUNTRY is looking for work.”
What’s your favorite punctuation mark?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israel’s behavior “insulting” after it approved 1,600 new homes last week at a settlement in the Jerusalem area on the very day Vice President Joe Biden was there to set a seal on relaunched negotiations.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night by arriving 90 minutes late to a scheduled dinner.
Mr Biden’s late arrival was in response to Israel announcing 1,600 new homes will be built in disputed east Jerusalem during his visit to the region.
