Yom Kippur
As we head in to this Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, I wish you all a G’mar Chatima Tova – may you be sealed in the Book of Life.
Archive for September, 2007
Classic Australian Ads
Introducing something completely different – a new feature in which I remind you of/introduce you to classic Australian adverts, depending on whether or not you are Aussie. This first one is from the 80s, and is an ad for a chocolate bar called Crunchie. See if you can identify the young woman in white who [...]
Sep 21, 2007 | 6 comments | View Post
Immediate Effect
Following yesterday’s decision to declare Gaza a hostile entity and disrupt electricity and fuel supplies, we are already seeing results. Deposed Palestinian Authority prime minister Ismail Haniyeh met in the Gaza Strip with leaders from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Thursday, in a bid to bring about a halt to [...]
Sep 20, 2007 | 4 comments | View Post
Return of the Creepy Kissing Wax Figure
He’s back. But don’t let his inanimate appearance fool you. If you get too close, he springs to life and kisses the life out of you.
Sep 20, 2007 | 6 comments | View Post
Thoughts of the Elder
Go-lly, Elder Jimmy Carter really puts the ass into asinine.* Here are Carter’s latest mouth farts: Former President Jimmy Carter said that he does not think Iran poses an immediate threat to Israel, despite claims by Iranian officials that they have drawn up bombing plans if the Jewish state should attack. Speaking on Wednesday at [...]
Sep 20, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
End of Junior’s Marriage
You may recall the tale of Jane Felix-Browne, the 51-year-old, 6-times-married grandmother who fell in love with the 27-year-old son of Osama bin Laden, and became one of his two wives. At the time, she said “I hope people don’t judge me too harshly.” Well, the marriage hasn’t fared too well, thanks to those who [...]
Sep 19, 2007 | 4 comments | View Post
The Hostile Entity
It’s about time. The security cabinet on Wednesday voted to declare the Gaza Strip a “hostile entity,” approving among other things the disruption of power and fuel supplies to the Strip, as a response to the ongoing Qassam rocket fire at Israeli communities. The ministers decided, however, not to disrupt Gaza’s water supply. The security [...]
Sep 19, 2007 | 4 comments | View Post
The Unbearable Mr Butt
And The Most Appropriately Named Muslim Dentist award goes to this man. A muslim dentist made a woman wear Islamic dress as the price of accepting her as an NHS patient, it is alleged. Omer Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she wore a headscarf she would have to find another [...]
Sep 19, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
Little Satan to the Rescue
Here’s more on the Israeli-Iranian cooperation in Thailand, which I posted about yesterday. Officials from Israel and Iran put aside political animosity Tuesday to work together in using Israeli forensics expertise to identify their dead from the crash of a jetliner on this Thai resort island. A Thai aviation official, meanwhile, revealed that half of [...]
Sep 19, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
Fallen Soldier
Staff Sergeant Ben-Zion Haim Henman, 22 Ben-Zion Haim Henman was born at the community of Susia in the southern Mount Hebron and had nine bothers and sisters. When Ben-Zion was a child, the family moved to the Golan Heights. His father Yaakov works in agriculture and his mother Tamar is an educational consultant. Ben-Zion studied [...]
Sep 18, 2007 | 2 comments | View Post
