Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 March 2011

President Obama had to try a couple of doors at the White House before finally gaining access to the Oval Office on Wednesday., Visit Newsnet5.com for breaking news in Cleveland, Ohio from WEWS. Get updated news, weather and sports for the Cleveland & Akron local area online from ABC TV's local affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, WEWS - Cleveland's On Your Side News Channel 5

Our far left president released a statement today following the bus station bombing in Jerusalem today. He talked about Palestinian victims.

Calling for Democrats and Republicans to put fighting aside, Obama quips: "I was born in Hawaii, what can I say. I can't change those facts."

Bikers launch a counterprotest Wednesday to Westboro Baptist Church members' picketing of the funeral of Shane Reed, 20, of Bixby at the New Beginnings Baptist Church in Bixby. Reed was one of three people who were killed Sunday in a two-motorcycle crash in Okmulgee County.

passed out while she and three children waited at a Burger King drive-thru... ages 1, 3 and 5... deputies found an oxycodone pill and marijuana... she told them she had smoked marijuana earlier that day... [As the saying goes, "Wasn't the pot!"]

Taira responded to reports that a finless porpoise had been spotted in a flooded rice paddy near Sendai, over a mile from the ocean. The 3-foot long animal had apparently been stranded there by the tsunami's massive wave. Taira located the animal, lifting it out of the water with just his arms. The porpoise was covered in wet towels, taken to the beach using a makeshift rig and then released back into the sea.

booked this week into the Rogers County Jail for animal cruelty complaints for neglecting the dogs and housing them in unsanitary and unsafe conditions... Aside from the nine up for adoption, five dogs are nursing and in foster care at an Owasso residence, seven are unavailable for adoption and about eight "wild and agressive" dogs that are still believed to be living underneath the residence... dog feces was as much as a foot deep in some areas. "... It was plainly clear that nobody had taken care of these animals for quite some time..."

An intense fire that broke out Wednesday night at a fuel tank farm at the Miami International Airport has canceled 36 flights. The blaze broke out at 11 p.m. at the airport's fuel farm, an area where fuel is stored for planes. Six fuel tanks, with the total capacity to hold six million gallons of fuel, were at the center of the blaze. However, it is not known how much fuel those tanks contained when the fire broke out. "Preliminary information that we're gathering is that, it was a malfunction,"

Japanese researchers cultivated small pieces of tissue from the testes of baby mice on a gel bathed in nutrients. After several weeks they collected viable sperm from the tissue.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has ordered a second air traffic controller to be on duty overnight at Reagan National Airport, after the lone controller was unavailable as two planes were trying to land. LaHood alsoordered a review of staffing levels at other airports around the country.

An Owasso soldier who was badly burned in Afghanistan last year returned home Tuesday to the welcoming arms of family members, after months of hospitalization. Walking with the aid of a cane and accompanied by his wife, Kristyn, Army Spc. 4 Ronald Zane McCulley was all smiles as he greeted his family, who eagerly awaited his arrival at Tulsa International Airport. As soon as the 21-year-old McCulley stepped through the arrival gate, his family - parents, siblings and grandparents - rushed him with open arms, followed by hugs. The joyous homecoming was a 180-degree turn from just months ago, when the family was engulfed by tears and anguish at McCulley's bedside at Brooke Army Medical Center at San Antonio. There were times when he held onto life by just a thread.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin believes Moammar Gadhafi will "end up dead" and that President Barack Obama needs to clarify the ultimate aim of military operations in Libya.... Palin also criticized Obama's approach to military action in Libya, saying he was "in a pickle" over what she described as a lack of "clarity in the mission... We better be in it to win it. And if there's doubt, we get out. Win it means Gadhafi goes and America gets to get on out of there and let the people of Libya create their own government, choose their own leader. And America, no nation building..."

It was during this period that polygamy was slowly being phased out under pressure from state legislators. The results were clear: the more women partnered with a man, the fewer children each of those women had. Exactly why is not clear. Like the Soay rams, men may simply not have had the stamina. Wade says: "It could be owing to competition between women within a plural marriage for shared resources, or it could be owing to other unknown factors." Neither was polygamy a great deal for males. For every man who had multiple wives, there were many who had none. "For every male that has three mates, there must be two who have none," said Wade. "If a male has even more mates, then the disparity among male reproductive haves and have-nots can become quite high."