Wow, this is pretty slick.

MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image.

Code Pink forgot to renew their permit for their corner at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Protest Warrior has snapped it up!

Andi: “Snooze you lose!”

Red Hunter reports with a firsthand account of the encounter when the Code Pink protestors showed up and discovered what happened.

Gunn Nutt: “previously pink corners to glorious red, white and blue!” [and LOTS of pix]

Middle Ground: “Don’t forget that part of this war is at home.”

Soldiers’ Angels: “Thank you FReepers, Protest Warriors, and all of the supporters of our defenders who have been taking a stand outside Walter Reed for months. Thanks for making a difference.”

Landry’s Life: “Now pro-troops folks hold the permit for all four corners! Soldiers and their families will be sincerely thanked and cheered as they enter and exit the WRAMC grounds.”

Flopping Aces: “the pinkos from Code Pink we’re run outta town in Washington DC…..ok, not out of town but off of their corner.”

Michelle Malkin: “Code Pink beats a hasty retreat.”

March for Life is happening today. Several well known bloggers are there, including LaShawn, Kathryn Lopez, Charmaine Yoest, and Peter Shinn.

Ken McCracken at WILLisms wants a short summary of what Abramoff did wrong. So does Jay Tea.

I ran across this interesting concept today. It’s not new, as they’ve been around since the late ’90s, but still I found it fascinating. Bernard von NotHaus is trying to compete with the Fed by creating a silver backed currency. Apparently some businesses are accepting and giving change in the new currency.

In Buffalo, over the weekend, it appears someone wasn’t happy that they couldn’t buy beer with it, so if you do switch to the new currency, be sure you carry some back up dollar bills, and be nice to the friendly officer that wants to find out what you are doing.

Southtowns businessman Daniel Buczek said he has had “no trouble” using Liberty silver dollars to buy coffee, oil filters for his car and other items at a number of area businesses.

But when someone in his family tried to use them to buy beer at a Buffalo Sabres game, Buczek and his son wound up in trouble with the law.

Buczek, 55, and Shane Buczek, 34, both of Derby, are believed to be the first people to be charged in this region for trying to make purchases with the Liberty dollar, a privately minted $20 coin.

Wikipedia has more.

Interesting stuff. Fringe? Definitely. Will it succeed? Who knows, stranger things have happened.

This is a fascinating and morbid dispute.

When M. Smith was diagnosed with cancer and AIDS in the early 1990s, she was given two years to live.

That she is still very much alive today is good news - to everyone but the people who bet big on her dying.

Had Smith perished on schedule, Life Partners Inc. would have made $60,000 on a $90,000 wager - a 66 percent return on the investment.

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And so, in 1994, Smith sold her $150,000 life insurance policy to Life Partners Inc. of Waco, Texas, for $90,000. As part of the contract, Life Partners set aside $5,510.64 to pay the premiums for Smith’s health- and life-insurance policies, which were linked and could not be separated.

By investing in her fate, Life Partners assumed responsibility for the premiums as long as she lived.

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Smith defied the odds. She recently turned 50 - and thanks to daily medicine, says she generally feels fine.