Archive for August 2nd, 2004

What Not To Do on a Flight

How is this for unfortunate? A Japanese man flying to Ohio was arrested after he was seen writing down the words “suicide bomb,” but he was released without charge after explaining that it was an impromptu English exercise. The 60-year-old man told investigators he came across the words in a newspaper and wanted to look [...]

Another Israeli Security Fence

At last a security fence to protect Israelis, which will probably not make it to the ICJ and UN General Assembly. Israeli athletes have been given an additional layer of security at the Olympic Village, the public order ministry said Monday. A fence has been placed around the team’s residential compound – adding to the [...]

Politically Incorrect

AP reports: A couple returning home from a Costa Rican vacation was ejected from an American Airlines flight because the man was wearing a T-shirt depicting a bare breast. Oscar Arela and his girlfriend were removed from Flight 952 on Saturday after he refused to change the shirt or turn it inside out at Miami [...]

Dishonorable Doctorate

(AP) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center, salutes as he stands next to university professors after a ceremony to grant him a Honorary Doctorate of Al-Quds University at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004. Now he can truly be referred to as “Dr” Evil. Update: You don’t believe me? [...]

Hollywood Ending

Nicolas Cage has apparently married a former sushi waitress. Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has married for the third time. The “Leaving Las Vegas” star wed 20-year-old Alice Kim on Friday at a private ceremony on a ranch in Northern California, publicist Annett Wolf told The Associated Press. It is the third wedding for Cage, 40, [...]

Bunker Blues

Perth Hitler wannabe Jack van Tongeren is following the course of so many of history’s self-proclaimed heroes, by showing what a coward he is. White supremacist Jack van Tongeren may be hiding in an underground bunker as police hunt him over an alleged plot to harm leading public figures. Police intensified the hunt for van [...]