Archive for October 10th, 2004

Respect

The Sauds have issued a warning to foreigners to respect their holy month of Ramadan.

Saudi Arabia warned foreign residents Wednesday they must respect a prohibition on eating, drinking and smoking* in public during daylight hours in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
 Which is fair enough. Because as we know, Muslims respect the holy days of others. 
 
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Look Who’s Not Dead (Yet)

US military to media: “Reports of Tariq Aziz’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”

Baghdad: The US military said on Saturday it had “absolute confirmation” that Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, was still alive.
 
“I can absolutely confirm that he is still alive,” Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, spokesman for detainee operations in Iraq, told Reuters.
 
He [...]

The Case for Israel

In his new book The Case for Israel, Harvard Professor of Law and distinguished appellate lawyer Alan Dershowitz takes on the case of a new client. This client has already been judged in the international arena, which has proclaimed her guilty of every charge. Even OJ Simpson has enjoyed a much weaker presumption of guilt than [...]

The Kind of Thing You Post When You Are Board

The World Monopoly Championships have yielded an unlikely winner:

A Spanish lab technician needed only two hours to amass a small real estate fortune and drive a Norwegian mutual fund manager’s railroad empire into bankruptcy to capture the World Monopoly Championship on Saturday.
 
Antonio Zafra Fernandez, 36, of Madrid pumped his fist in the air after [...]

Separated at Birth – Howard Victory Dedication Version

While some may describe John Howard’s election victory as a stroll in the park, I would think that a more apt description would be a stroll in South Park.
 

Australians Show the Way

Sometimes I feel like the child who constantly turns up at his friends’ birthday parties late. But it still doesn’t stop me from wanting a slice of the cake.
 
Confused as to what I am talking about? Well, thanks to my observance of the Jewish Sabbath (which I wouldn’t trade for the world), I have not [...]