Rosie was shot with a sedative dart and recaptured. It was not immediately clear how she managed to climb the high stone walls surrounding her enclosure.

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The proportion of TB patients who are foreign-born has increased from 68 percent in 2003. That has paralleled immigration increases in King County since 2002 from regions where TB is widespread:

 

Worldwide, about a third of the population is infected with TB, including an estimated 100,000 people in King County who carry inactive TB bacteria, according to Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Each year, nearly 9 million people worldwide become sick — develop active TB — and they can spread the bacteria through coughing. Nearly 2 million die of TB annually.

 

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Comedian George Carlin once said, “The term ‘bipartisan’ simply means that there’s a larger than usual deception going on.” Those words were never truer than they are today.

 

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Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) threatened to deny any further spending projects to a Republican who challenged him over an earmark last week, the GOP is charging

 

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By voluntarily surrendering his law license, Clinton White House aide Sandy Berger has avoided cross-examination in Trouser-gate

 

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Overnight, the tempo of missile fire accelerated, targeting Israeli locations east and north of the Gaza Strip: Sderot’s Ohalei Sinai Synagogue took a direct hit, leaving 21 injured, most lightly, also Netiv Ha’asarah, Mefalsim, Kibbutz Saad, Carmieh, Yad Mordecai and Moshav Shuva.

 

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Ellen Frankel stands just 4-foot-8 inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height. Some even patted her on the head.

 

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The Duka family entered the United States illegally through Mexico in October 1984, according to the sources. In 1989, Ferik Duka made an application for asylum with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and acknowledged the family's illegal entry into the country.

Thanks Mr. President... now you're encouraging EVEN MORE Illegals, of all types, to use our Southern Border to sneak in...  

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In San Francisco, Jake the chimpanzee waved a white flag bearing the phrase, "Surrender is not an option." April wore what appeared to be a beret and held aloft a white flag.

 

The problem was that both animals -- on hire from a Kern County company that provides animals for movies, television programs and commercials -- were not permitted to be in the city, Brown said.

 

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Pat Condell has faced a barrage of criticism after links to his anti-Muslim monologue on YouTube were circulated to commissioners in the city of Berkeley.

He attacks fundamentalist men as ‘primitive pigs whose only achievement in life is to be born with a penis is one hand and a Koran in the second’ and accuses women who wear veils of their own will of being ‘mentally ill’.

In the five-minute video, Condell condemns Islam as a religion of war and its prophet Mohammad as ‘some rambling ancient desert nomad with a psychological disorder’.

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Kaus keeps touting “leftist” objections that might derail the amnesty, “e.g., that the bill, by encouraging another flood of illegals, will drive down the wages of unskilled Americans.” Really? Which “leftists” are touting this except for centrists like himself and Ben Nelson, whom the left regularly deride as Republicans in Democrats’ clothing? Suppressed wages for unskilled workers might have bothered them 50 years ago, but it doesn’t anymore. Not only because multiculturalism has supplanted labor as a core leftist principle, but because they’re about to climb on board a political gravy train here and they damned well know it.

 

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 Need Some Sleep Peformed by EELS www.eelstheband.com A Comcast technician came to replace a faulty modem.

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Are you freakishly obsessed with the daily casualty count in Iraq? Do you find yourself disappointed when a day or two goes by and no American soldiers die?  Have you ever been at a cocktail party and said, “How can we be so damn jovial when George Bush is responsible for a death toll in Iraq that is approaching one-tenth the total of British dead in the Second Boer War?”

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Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahideen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.

What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?

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Unless of course you like handling hairy naked dudes and covering up their junk. (props to my man Jusbuss for taking this picture. even more props for not getting his wang in it)   more »

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Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace gasoline.

Last night on the #1 rated late night radio show Coast to Coast AM, just after the conclusion of ...   more »