// Fun with Times, New York Times, August 26, 2011//

“The thefts are believed to be the work on an organized gang of itinerant people known as Irish travelers, who are also involved in drug smuggling, money laundering and the less flamboyant crime of distributing fake power tools”

“We didn’t need the capital, but it doesn’t hurt in a volatile time.” Charles O. Holiday, bank chairman

“Another friend, Ayad Sharbaji, visited him in the hospital and relayed his description of what happened. “They told him as they were burning his beard, “We’ll see what you will draw from now on,” Mr. Sharbaji said. “How dare you disobey your masters?” —regarding the burning of Syrian cartoonist, Ali Farzat