Category Archives: Satire

Iran irked by errors in Qurans from China

Posted on 09/05/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

This news item didn’t make the first pages of main newspapers and could have passed unnoticed: Iranian publishers are complaining that cost-saving plans to print Qurans in China are yielding embarrassing results: A slew of typos. The head of Iran’s … Continue reading →

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Purim 5771

Posted on 03/20/2011 by Soccerdad

The New Persia Times Crisis in Shushan The United States is intervening diplomatically to forestall a rapidly developing crisis in the Persian Empire. Sources close to the government of King Achashveirosh have leaked information that the kingdom has sanctioned the … Continue reading →

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Your Zombie self-defense post of the week

Posted on 02/16/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Because we all need to know how to defend ourselves from zombies.

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Conservatives just don’t get it!

Posted on 01/31/2008 by SnoopyTheGoon

The latest brouhaha in the British parliament clearly shows that some conservatives still cannot figure out the power of PCS (Politically Correct Speak). The new invention of the Home Secretary that will ease the task of isolation and extermination of … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Satire | 3 Comments

It’s UN Day: Let’s act like the UN

Posted on 10/24/2007 by Meryl Yourish

In honor of UN Day, let us do exactly as the UN does. Since we don’t exactly have wars here, these are the rules for anyone who attacks anyone else in the comments of this post: If the complainant is … Continue reading →

Posted in Satire, World | 13 Comments

Really, really, REALLY good Vent

Posted on 06/14/2007 by Meryl Yourish

Don’t miss it. “How to Take a Life.”

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Another one doing a Gibson?

Posted on 05/19/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

There is no such thing as bad publicity, they say. Whoever they may be, they are unquestionably right. Mel Gibson has proved it exceedingly well, making an outlandish and, as most viewers agree, boring opus into a center of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Media Bias, Satire | 5 Comments

Too many Jews…

Posted on 01/28/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Ynet is telling about a newly discovered Jimboism: Former US President Jimmy Carter once complained there were “too many Jews” on the government’s Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council’s former executive director, told WND in an exclusive interview. Former … Continue reading →

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Saudi ERA watch

Posted on 01/20/2007 by Meryl Yourish

This is why I laugh when people tell me that Islam has any relation to feminism. The Saudi Gazette reported that a Saudi man who demanded SR100,000 from his daughter in return for allowing her to marry has been disallowed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Satire | 3 Comments

Zionists: “giving goal in free field”.

Posted on 01/14/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

This is not about football (soccer for some of you). The story as told by B.Ali of Kavkaz Center Letter department unfolds a new page in the sinister plot by Zionists, a “silent and soft aggression and backdoor invasion” in … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Satire | 6 Comments

Socialism according to Hugo

Posted on 01/09/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

But also according to Guardian, it appears. I must confess that I started to look at the Guardian only a few years ago. It begun with my sensitive self being irked, angry and sometimes vivid. Now I got used to … Continue reading →

Posted in Satire, World | 3 Comments

A tale of two Jews

Posted on 01/08/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Haaretz happens to tell two seemingly unrelated stories on the same day. One is the story of Mossad-KGB double agent Zeev Avni who died last week (double dealing is good for one’s health, apparently). Avni, a Mossad agent, was arrested … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Satire | 5 Comments

Another towering achievement of FSB – the shroud talks!

Posted on 11/04/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

More than hundred years of experience (if you count FSB’s predecessors such as Okhranka, Cheka, NKVD and KGB) are not to be trifled with. After all, who else mastered to such perfection the ancient art of persuasion that requires infinite … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, Satire | 6 Comments

Open letter to Mr. John Karen

Posted on 10/22/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

Dear Mr. Karen, I have received an unsolicited e-mail from your desk that I, with(out) your kind permission will partially quote here: FROM THE DESK OF JOHN KAREN. Manager,Credit and Foreign Bills of Coutts and Co. LONDON UK. My name … Continue reading →

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A new chapter in stand-up comedy

Posted on 10/20/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

Mahmoud the Mad, the most popular Middle-Eastern stand-up comedian is not content with being recognized as such. He is striving for recognition in new markets, in this case the European ones. Toward this goal, Mahmoud is developing several new techniques, … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Israel, Satire | 6 Comments

On British diplomatic ingenuity

Posted on 10/19/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

Stuff of legends, that British ability to resolve anything using nothing but diplomatic wit and savvy. The Sun, under a rather shrilly headline Brave heroes hounded out, displays a shining example of that famous British tradition. Tragicomedy in 3 acts: … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Satire | 4 Comments

Khamenei brandishes a Kalashnikov

Posted on 10/16/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

Or, in its full form: Khamenei Brandishes a Kalashnikov at US and Israel This is a headline of another Debka opus, classified as “DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis“. The powerful spectacle of Iran’s be-turbaned supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei clutching an automatic … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Satire | 1 Comment

Smaller? I will show you smaller!

Posted on 10/12/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

“You will not use this word anymore when you see the glorious wrath of the Songun science and industry that will find its apocalyptic pinnacle in my next deed, the deed that will show the whole world what a peerlessly … Continue reading →

Posted in Satire, World | 3 Comments

Hiccups according to Carter

Posted on 10/07/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

I have barely had time to finish that piece on Ig Nobel prize on a miraculous cure for hiccups, when my roving eye fell on the article by AP, uncritically copied by Haaretz. Very relevant to the hiccups issue, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Politics, Satire | 7 Comments

Is there a trend or is there a trend in Londonistan?

Posted on 10/05/2006 by SnoopyTheGoon

We have been careful with the use of that …stan label. Taking into account its overuse by certain people and the BNP fascists and their ilk jumping on the bandwagon, terms like this are better left alone. However, the absurdities … Continue reading →

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