Archive for July, 2004
Hit Me Baby ($25 For a Red String) One More Time
Oh boy.
Britney Spears, whose first marriage in January lasted just 55 hours, is to wed again – in a kabbalah ceremony.
Friends say the singer, 22, has set aside a weekend in the autumn to marry fiance Kevin Federline, who she began dating in April.
It would be the first celebrity kabbalah marriage and could take place [...]
Beheadings Beget Beheadings
The relatives of two Jordanians abducted by terrorists in Iraq have found inspiration from an unlikely source.
Relatives of two Jordanian drivers abducted in Iraq threatened Tuesday to behead the director of the company the hostages work for and to kill all the firm’s employees if the director fails to immediately comply with the kidnappers’ demands [...]
Pass Me a Brown Paper Bag
(AP)
Qureia: The president refused my resignation and I will comply.
Afatrat: Kiss me, you fool!
Update: I wonder if Qureia will feel a compulsion to take a shower.
The Decline of French Culture
With the French wine industry in a slump, French culture has received another devastating blow.
A French author promoting her novel in Hong Kong suffered the embarrassment of holding a book-signing that nobody attended, a media report said.
Writer Pierrette Fleutiaux, who won China’s literature prize for best foreign novelist in 2001, had to cancel the signing [...]
Dainty Yasser
When you spend alot of time with French diplomats, you tend to pick up some of their mannerisms.
(Reuters)
Update: Or perhaps he has learned from his wife Suha.
Breaking News
AP reports that a United Airlines flight was forced to return to Sydney International Airport because of a “threat.”
Update 12:08PM: The Age reports that there was a “problem on board.”
Update 12:10PM: Ha’aretz are showing the following in their news ticker:
United Airlines flight lands safely at Sydney airport after attempt was made to break into cockpit [...]
You And Which Army?
Iran to Israel: We will wipe you off the map (even though we are really a peaceful nation whose nuclear program is for energy purposes only)
More CAIRing
US Muslim organization CAIR are fuming after Jewish comedian Jackie Mason called “the whole Muslim religion” a “murderous organization” that teaches “hate, terrorism and murder.”
CAIR’s denunciation of Mason’s comments appear on their website as part of the Hate Hurts America Campaign. Here is more on this campaign:
Earlier this year, CAIR announced a campaign “to counter [...]
Touching a Raw Nerve
The Age reports that Spain and the Philipines have reacted angrily to comments by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, in which he stated the bleeding obvious.
The Philippines and Spain have angrily attacked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s claim that their withdrawal from Iraq has encouraged terrorists to threaten Australia. —- “Unfortunately these actions have encouraged terrorists [...]
Tisha Be’Av
Starting from tonight is the Jewish fast day of Tisha Be’av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It is a day that all manner of tragedy has befallen the Jewish people, including the following:
The destruction of the First and Second Temples
The sin of the spies, resulting in G-d’s decree that the Children of Israel [...]
