Issue 71, 22nd August 2006 
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FAA Changes Flight Regulations To Include Ban On Liquids, Snakes
The FAA announced Friday that liquids and snakes are no longer allowed on US domestic flights. The announcement is due to a supposed terrorist plot involving liquids as well as from the movie "Snakes on A Plane. >>>

French To Build Maginot Line In South Lebanon
Paris (Reuters) Stung by ongoing criticism that France is not doing enough in its Lebanese peace-keeping role, a beleaguered President Jacques Chirac announced that France will build a Maginot Line across the south of Lebanon. >>>

Iran Agrees To Nukes Compromise
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it would not suspend uranium enrichment, ruling out the main demand in a nuclear package backed by six world powers that aims to allay Western fears that Tehran is seeking to build atomic bombs. >>>

JonBenet Ramsey's Father Receives 12 Million 'Sorry We Thought You Murdered Your Daughter' Cards
BOULDER, CO – Saturday John Ramsey, the father of murdered six year-old JonBenet Ramsey, received over 12 million Hallmark cards reading, "Sorry we thought you murdered your daughter, Sorry we ostracized and spat at you for the past ten years." >>>

Judge Sentences Mel Gibson To Three Weeks With Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks & Gilbert Gottfried
LOS ANGELES – As you may recall Mel Gibson had a drunken meltdown three weeks ago in which he spewed anti-Semitism like a town crier in 1941 Germany.
The judge sentenced the movie-star-turned-nutcase to three weeks in confinement with Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Gilbert Gottfried.>>>

Bill Clinton Flexes His Big 6-0
Little Rock - "My oh my" Baby Boomer Bill Clinton gasped; suddenly realising he is now a sexagenarian. The 42nd president spent his 60th birthday celebrating quietly with family and friends, said his spokesmen.
The Web site of his charity, the Clinton Foundation, was besieged with birthday notes, most thanking him for his hard work fighting obesity in AIDS victims and wishing him continued sexual health. >>>

Commenting a new poll which shows Tony Blair’s Labour government with the lowest ratings since the Thatcher era (32%), Tony Blair said he was stunned.
But speaking exclusively to BIGfib’s Lolo Laroche from his holiday home in Texas, Blair insisted, that it is inevitable in government that one ends up upsetting certain groups of people.
“When you take the decisions… the decisions that have to be taken” Blair said, “you can’t help but upset certain groups.”
“For instance, my decision, sorry, the government’s decision to build new nucular, sorry, nuclear power stations will upset people worried about the environment. It’s bound to. Our decision to invade, sorry, liberate, Afghanistan and Iraq will upset people who are opposed to the killing of civilians. Our decision to shoot people with dark skin or chuck them off aeroplanes is going to upset people worried about racism… and people with dark skin I suppose…
My support for Israel during its indiscriminate bombing of the Lebanon, might upset people worried about the prospect of a third world war, I mean, it’s bound to… but you just can’t govern looking over your shoulder all the time. It’s your duty… when you are Prime Minister… to listen only to the voices in your head."
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