Monthly Archives: June 2009

Asia Times Online :: The Meaning of Tehran Spring

Even though CNN has ignored it, there is a viable political protest going on in Iran. The people there are protesting what increasingly seems to be a flawed and rigged election. The will of the people has definitely not been listened to.

Aside from the violence, wouldn’t it have been great to see Americans protest a stolen election? You know, perhaps in 2000 or 2004? Just saying. The Iranians had a FIVE MILE LONG protest march through Tehran today. We sat on our asses and let Bush steal two elections.

And you wonder why the world laughs at us.

The first part of today’s Here and Now covers the protests. The BBC has, as usual, provided excellent coverage.

The Boston Globe uses images to tell the story.

As does Time Magazine.

Time also addressed the argument for why the vote was rigged.

News is increasingly being more and more censored in Iraq. The BBC complains that it’s Persian service is being jammed and cell signals are pretty much a no-no. What internet that remains is being utilized by various Twitter feeds. Here is one and Andrew Sullivan has a list of others.

The irony here is that even an alternative to Ahmedinejad would still be anti-West and fairly conservative. There is no liberal democratic movement on the ballot. That said, even given a choice, the people’s voice should be respected.

And to think we could have voted for a small-minded man whose only regional policy was “Bomb, Bomb, Iran”.

Still want to hate on Obama jerks?

Minuteman group arrested for murdering family

You probably won’t hear this on TV or read it in the news, but apparently we’ve had a THIRD incident of conservative terrorism.

Shooting a doctor in church and trying to assassinate a crowd in the Holocaust museum wasn’t enough for these guys.

Now, they’ve taken to race-based home invasion and murder. Three Minuteman terrorists staged a drug raid on a Latino family and rob them. But just for the hell of it, they decided to execute them, presumably for the color of their skin. This included shooting an eight year old girl.

The mother of the family survived and called the police. Bonus vengeance: she found a gun and shot one of the attackers when they returned to check that everyone was dead. Bonus bonus: she shot the one named Bush. Just saying.

Here is an actual news article on this. The local racists originally thought this was a race-on-race attack. Because, you know, all Mexicans are murderers.

More hate in Arizona: Volunteer-Humanitarian Convicted of Littering while “Trying to Save Lives”

Following on the Minuteman terrorist story I just posted comes this story of a decent human being who has been charged with littering for leaving water in the desert for illegal aliens crossing – let me say it again – THE DESERT!

Fish and Wildlife Service officers confiscated the water as, you know, it’s the compassionate conservative thing to do.

U.S. Neocons Favor Ahmadinejad in Iranian Election

Just to be against the voices of moderation and change (even by Iranian approved standards) the Rethugs were in favor of Ahmadinejad winning the election.

Granted, the apparently thievery of the vote in his name now makes him the illegitimate bastard brother of Bush, but the irony of that seems to be lost on both Mahmoud and the neocons as well.

So, in a nutshell, the hardcore conservatives are in favor of a guy who wants to wipe Israel off the map, and they still claim the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum isn’t one of their’s?

Morons.

Way to abuse the Internet

They say the Republican Party has to embrace the web to maintain traction in this current political environment.

Personally, I think they’d be better off trying to cull the racists, bigots, terrorists and loudmouth drug addict sex fiend radio shitheels in their midst. But that’s just me.

As for the whole “we know Web 2.0” thing? They have a lot to learn.

Last year, for some reason, I started getting email from Jim Inhofe. You know, the anti-climate change racist asswipe. I don’t know how I got on his list. Presumably they trolled a list of any email account that ever sent a message from Oklahoma and spammed it. I mean, I haven’t lived there since 2003, never voted for the asshole or his ilk, and I have never been a member of the GOP, KKK, or NRA.

It was mildly entertaining to read his detached from reality BS during the election, until the rise of the Palinites and Inhofe’s willingness to join their racist sedition bandwagon. I unsubscribed and was the better for doing so.

Until this week. Mary Fallin, another OK Rethug cretin, is running for governor. And suddenly I’m getting email from her.

Yeah, these spam artists have a lot to learn about properly using technology for something other than to blow up brown people and assassinate people in churches and Holocaust museums.

Lifehacker – Say Goodbye to Analog Broadcasts: Your Last Minute Guide – HDTV

It won’t help you today, but for nothing more than historical reference, a guide to the digital changeover.

If nothing else, it is a passing of an age for a lot of us. I was about ten or eleven when we got some form of cable and was pretty adapt in the manipulation of rabbit ears and whatever else you needed to get a signal. Living in Galva and being cable-less was always a trick, especially since our nearest signals were over 40 miles away – in opposite directions. You could get two NBCs and ABCs – or none at all.

Just a couple weeks ago we lost the cable for the better part of a day and whipped out the rabbit ears. Now, we won’t have the option unless we go buy one of the new boxes I guess.

And so this passes, along with rotary phones, playing in the streets until dark without fear of pedophile rapists, and high beams you click on with your feet.

I guess I’m getting old or something.