Archive for November, 2004

Training Day (or What a Croc!)

Ever wondered why Australians are one of the strongest swimming nations in the world?
 
Wonder no more.

Iranian Maniacs

Iran to US: We are reasonable people with peaceful intentions. By the way, na na na na na na! 

A top Iranian official has claimed a “great victory” over the US after the UN said it would not punish Iran’s nuclear activities with sanctions. Top negotiator Hassan Rohani added that Iran will “never” give up its right [...]

Trouble in the Annan Household

Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo, apparently did not tell daddy the full story over his links to a company being investigated in the oil-for-food scandal.

The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he first [...]

PETA’s Unkosher Behavior

Those numbskulls of PETA are back, this time trying to deny practicing Jews the right to eat kosher meat (hat tip: Bloghead).

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the radical vegetarian group that in an advertising campaign once compared the slaughtering of chickens to the murder of Holocaust victims, is taking aim at one of the [...]

A Disturbance in the Force

The Internet Movie Database reports:
Moviemaker George Lucas wants his first Star Wars sequel banned, as he is so disappointed with its quality. The one-off, two-hour-long The Star Wars Holiday Special was originally screened on the CBS network in 1978 and tells the story of Chewbacca’s journey home with Hans Solo to celebrate Life Day with [...]

OU Have to be Kidding

In a Jerusalem Post article last week entitled New OU president pushes aliya, the new president of the Orthodox Union (OU), Stephen J. Savitsky, seemed more content pushing aside the ideologies, sacrifices, and dedication of North American immigrants to Israel. In the process, he has created some waves in the Anglo-Israeli blogosphere.
In one of those [...]

Return of the Hudna

The Jerusalem Post reports on another Hamas hudna offer:

Sheikh Hassan Yusef, head of the Hamas political bureau in Ramallah said Monday that Hamas is willing to declare a 10 year hudna, or ceasefire, and called on the United States and the international community to reconsider their definition of the movement as a “terror organization.”
Oh, [...]

Celebrity Endorsement

AFP brings us this cute picture of a monkey drinking a soft drink.
 

 
I say why not? I mean, if there is sense in a supermodel endorsing hamburgers..

Murder in Blogland

Could this be the blogosphere’s first murder suspect?

“Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered.”
 
This simple yet startling sentence marks the last entry Rachelle Waterman made in her Internet journal before she was arrested on charges she participated in killing her mother. And it marks the beginning of an online discussion that’s as remarkable [...]

Barbed Comments

Catfight?
 
Barbara Streisand has ripped into new US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, while displaying an alarming verbal verbosity. Here are some contenders for longest sentence ever from the latest statement on her website:

Maintaining that she “never thought that [al Qaeda] would try and use a hijacked airplane as a missile,” Rice validated the notion that she clearly did [...]