Sunday, August 10, 2003

An amusing picture

Sent to us by Loyal Reader Darren, who has been so very helpful over the past several months…

Hopefully it won’t eat up my bandwidth too badly…

“Irony can be pretty ironic…”

Today is the day for ironic amusement (and one sad note).

Back in the 1970’s, Idi Amin was the dictator of Uganda, and ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of his citizens. (Estimates range as high as 100,000 over his eight-year reign). He was deposed in 1979, and has been quietly living in Saudi Arabia with his four wives.

Now he is in the hospital, in intensive care, and his recent emergence from a coma has put him back in the media spotlight. The ironic part? He’s been receiving death threats.

And in other news, despite all the stories of 86-year-old great-grandmothers and Secret Service agents (on the Presidential Detail, no less!) being searched as a threat to airline security, it seems that there are people who haven’t learned.

It seems that a co-pilot from Air France (go figure, huh?) tried to make a joke about having a bomb in his shoe to a New York JFK airport security screener. Nothing was found, but his flight was cancelled, and he was arrested on two counts of making a false report, arraigned on two felony charges, with a maximum sentence of seven years.

And when I first heard this story, I thought that they were talking about the Democratic Presidential candidates…

On a sad note, I am sorry to report the passing of actor and dancer extraordinaire Gregory Hines. He died in his home yesterday of cancer. Gregory was 57. His talent and humor will be missed.

Hope you’re having a great weekend. I’ll be back later today…