SNIPPETS

APRIL 14,  2009

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan police have arrested a 55-year-old man for lobbing bank notes worth about T$1 million ($29,600) from vehicles, causing disorder in the streets, an officer said on Monday.  The man tossed the bills from a taxi in a crowded part of Taichung city on Sunday as people stopped to pick up the cash, Changhua police official Lin Shih-ming said.

Give that man a visa and send him here.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three off-duty Russian policemen were fired on Monday for driving drunk through Moscow's Red Square in the early hours of the morning, dressed in their police uniforms.  "A medical examination revealed that all three policemen were drunk," Moscow City Police said in a statement about the incident which took place on Friday.  "(They have) tarnished the honor and dignity of police officers."

The honor and dignity of Russian police officers?  Well, the world has changed, hasn't it?

APRIL 13,  2009

From Britain's Telegraph:  A survey of 2,060 people showed 53 per cent believe in life after death, 55 per cent believe in heaven and 70 per cent believe in the human soul.  The study carried out between October and November last year for the public theology think tank Theos also showed nearly four in 10, or 39 per cent, believe in ghosts and more than a quarter (27 per cent) believe in reincarnation.

Considering what socialism has done to the British people, they'd better believe in life after death.  It's their only way out.

News from our allies: 

RIYADH (AFP) — Saudi Arabia has banned auto licence tags whose Arabic characters spell out offensive words when romanised, with the list of banned combinations including "USA", Al-Watan newspaper reported Sunday.

Well, I guess a Saudi prince will have to fork over another five or ten million to Washington lobbyists to smooth over this one.

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