At first, I chuckled at the jokes.

In Lebanon and Syria, the joke is on those coming from Homs .

And I know that I have been waiting all week to tell this joke.

That's the other way that humor like Art Buchwald takes shots at the heads of state.

The group is calling the people to go to the street in order to achieve certain demands To raise the minimum wage limit to LE 1200 and to get an unemployment aid. To cancel the emergency status in the country , to dismiss Habib El Adly and to release all detainees without court orders.

The Turkana people are, as the joke suggests, as far away from Nairobi as one can be without being foreigners.

When a Turkana man leaves for the capital, Nairobi, the joke goes, he tells his family, I m going to Kenya.

They are grievously short of funds.

I'm so sorry. I'm getting like the woman in that joke about have you heard this joke about the woman driving with her mother?

What China lacked was not demand for consumption goods, but a supply of high quality financial assets.

But despite everything, Syrians still resort to humor, even if it is black, to carry on with their lives.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

And it reminded me of that old joke where the bank robber comes out of the courthouse handcuffed, and the reporter yells, Hey, Willy. Why do you rob banks?

Humor is very contextual, as a joke may not be considered very funny if it seems like it is over explained using only low context messages.

And what we re doing is we re using humor as a sort of neuroscientific probe by switching humor on and off, by turning the knob on a joke now it s not funny ... oh, now it s funnier ...

After all, this is the Middle East, where, as the old joke goes, the scorpion stings the camel carrying it across the Suez Canal, knowing that they will both drown.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

This practice is also unwise.

I believe that such views lack historical perspective.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

It lacks support at home and respect abroad.

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Unfortunately, the process lacks the necessary transparency and credibility.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina still lacked a coherent agricultural policy.

The border units are not well equipped or resourced, however.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

Because the joke in this is that this person is not a tyrant this person is so loving and so sweet that he lets me dress him up and post pictures of him to my blog.

Remember that sort of, um. This is the joke I did when the Florida ballot was going around. You know, count the dots for Gore count the dots for Bush count 'em again ...

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

Individuals usually lack flagella, but they are present in male gametes of the centric diatoms and have the usual heterokont structure, except they lack the hairs (mastigonemes) characteristic in other groups.

But this very political strength is precisely what both the Israeli and Palestinian governments lack.

It also lacks the means to compel others to follow its lead.

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

Even today, donor governments aid efforts are poorly directed.