Iran massacred the protesters today.
http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2009/06/unimaginable-horror-in-tehran/
Don't scroll all the way down without knowing that the last picture is horrific.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
?!?!
Who on earth (except the mullahs) thinks that THIS is still a good idea?? Or that it ever was?!
Absolutely disgusting. We're having Iranian officials for a barbecue on INDEPENDENCE DAY, while they're murdering their own people who are asking for... independence. This administration is pathetic. Let's list, shall we?
This is the State Department that:
Told China that its brutality towards its own people was of less concern that global warming.
Gave Russia a "reset" button (mistranslated, by the way) for relations-- as at least three administration-critical journalists' murders were being investigated.
Pledged millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians (and indirectly to Hamas) and regularly shafts Israel.
Turned their backs on Eastern Europe, leaving them at the mercy of a newly-imperial Russia/USSR.
There are other things. I just don't feel like throwing up this early in the morning.
From a State Department briefing yesterday:
QUESTION: This isn’t a frivolous question, really. Do you think it’s still appropriate to have Iranians come to these July 4th parties under the circumstances? I mean, is there any thought being given to like, rescinding invitations?
MR. KELLY: No, there’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats.
QUESTION: It’s appropriate to have a social dialogue with them if they come?
MR. KELLY: Well, we have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran, and we tried many years of isolation and we’re pursuing a different path now.
QUESTION: Have they said yes?
QUESTION: The President keeps saying that —
MR. KELLY: I don’t know, Arshad.
Absolutely disgusting. We're having Iranian officials for a barbecue on INDEPENDENCE DAY, while they're murdering their own people who are asking for... independence. This administration is pathetic. Let's list, shall we?
This is the State Department that:
Told China that its brutality towards its own people was of less concern that global warming.
Gave Russia a "reset" button (mistranslated, by the way) for relations-- as at least three administration-critical journalists' murders were being investigated.
Pledged millions of dollars in aid to Palestinians (and indirectly to Hamas) and regularly shafts Israel.
Turned their backs on Eastern Europe, leaving them at the mercy of a newly-imperial Russia/USSR.
There are other things. I just don't feel like throwing up this early in the morning.
What do you think?
This is another video from JibJab-- their political videos are fantastic, but I can't quite decide if I like this one or not-- although the part with the rainbows and bunnies in Iraq is pretty darn good. What do you guys think?
UPDATE: I couldn't get the video to embed in this post, so it's in the next one up
UPDATE: I couldn't get the video to embed in this post, so it's in the next one up
Sunday, June 21, 2009
And by the way
If you're wondering about the time stamps on recent posts, they're set to Tehran time (GMT +3:30). Make a million extra virtual Iranians and you make it that much harder for the regime to find the ones who really matter.
Oh no
"Official" reports are saying 19 are dead in Tehran after today's protests. The protesters are saying that it's more like 150. You'd have to be crazy or grossly uninformed to believe anything with the word "official" on it coming out of Iran.
Ahmadinejad, Khameini, and the whole crew: COWARDS. Despicable cowards.
God bless the men and women who stood against them. God bless the families of the dead.
***
People are now saying that this "discredits" the Iranian government. Yet according to CNN, Iranian officials are still invited to the G8 meeting. All Obama has brought himself to say is a brief statement that includes the sentence, "Iran must understand that the world is watching."
As we used to say in elementary school, "No duh". Obama must understand that while he cares that the whole world is watching, Ahmadinejad and Khameini don't, nor have they for years. Come to think of it, China didn't seem to care that the world was watching when they sent tanks against unarmed students. I wonder if anyone said that Chinese communism was "discredited". If they did, it didn't seem to take.
It makes you wonder if we're cowards too. Sure, a different, much more benign variety. But still-- cowards. We deal with governments like China for money. We give reset buttons to Russia. Our president still hasn't amended his "no preconditions" statement on Iran. Two American journalists have been sentenced to a decade of hard labor in North Korea, which, by the way, has tested two nuclear bombs and has a missile aimed at Hawaii set to launch on Independence Day. And all we can do is wag our collective finger.
May it be that the "election" in Iran was as the falling of small stones on a mountainside that start an avalanche. May the Iranians wake up and realize that they are strong.* As are the Chinese, and the North Koreans, and the Burmese, and the Cubans, and the Venzuelans, and the Belarusians, and the Vietnamese... may all those who live without freedom in this world.
*With all due respect to Tolkien
Ahmadinejad, Khameini, and the whole crew: COWARDS. Despicable cowards.
God bless the men and women who stood against them. God bless the families of the dead.
***
People are now saying that this "discredits" the Iranian government. Yet according to CNN, Iranian officials are still invited to the G8 meeting. All Obama has brought himself to say is a brief statement that includes the sentence, "Iran must understand that the world is watching."
As we used to say in elementary school, "No duh". Obama must understand that while he cares that the whole world is watching, Ahmadinejad and Khameini don't, nor have they for years. Come to think of it, China didn't seem to care that the world was watching when they sent tanks against unarmed students. I wonder if anyone said that Chinese communism was "discredited". If they did, it didn't seem to take.
It makes you wonder if we're cowards too. Sure, a different, much more benign variety. But still-- cowards. We deal with governments like China for money. We give reset buttons to Russia. Our president still hasn't amended his "no preconditions" statement on Iran. Two American journalists have been sentenced to a decade of hard labor in North Korea, which, by the way, has tested two nuclear bombs and has a missile aimed at Hawaii set to launch on Independence Day. And all we can do is wag our collective finger.
May it be that the "election" in Iran was as the falling of small stones on a mountainside that start an avalanche. May the Iranians wake up and realize that they are strong.* As are the Chinese, and the North Koreans, and the Burmese, and the Cubans, and the Venzuelans, and the Belarusians, and the Vietnamese... may all those who live without freedom in this world.
*With all due respect to Tolkien
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Wow
Read this article from the London Times. Fantastic. For years we've been hearing how we can't "impose" democracy on people.
Turns out it wouldn't be an imposition.
Look at the hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the streets in Iran. It's one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking things I've seen since I started following politics. All these people want is the freedom to choose their own leaders. Keeping that from them is an "imposition". If, by imposition, you mean an abominable atrocity.
H/T Gay Patriot
Turns out it wouldn't be an imposition.
Look at the hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the streets in Iran. It's one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking things I've seen since I started following politics. All these people want is the freedom to choose their own leaders. Keeping that from them is an "imposition". If, by imposition, you mean an abominable atrocity.
H/T Gay Patriot
Friday, June 19, 2009
Go green!
Not Greenpeace green.
This Green:
This photo seems to me to be a perfect summing up of what I hope turns out to be a revolution: a woman in black and green-- armed with a cell phone.
Michael Totten over at Contentions has been consta-blogging the Iranian protests. Head on over for the news.
This Green:
This photo seems to me to be a perfect summing up of what I hope turns out to be a revolution: a woman in black and green-- armed with a cell phone.Michael Totten over at Contentions has been consta-blogging the Iranian protests. Head on over for the news.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Eowyn is back!
Well then. My son has arrived, and I'm getting significantly less sleep, but I no longer feel like a demotivated beached whale, and regular blogging will re-(re-re-re-)commence.
First up today: This, from Instapundit. Apparently Ed Whelan over at The Corner took it upon himself to "out" an anonymous liberal blogger who had been annoying him. And, as much as I've enjoyed Whelan's posts and respected his opinion, I've gotta say that that's pretty low. Yes, lots of trolls are anonymous. Anonymity is one of the great banes of the internet. Whelan should try being a woman who plays Team Fortress 2-- idiots who use their anonymity to ask for nudes, descriptions of my anatomy, etc. are far more annoying than a snarky liberal.
But anonymity is also one of the great gifts of the internet. There's a reason I don't use my name-- namely that I have a family. Should a miracle occur and I write something that gains attention, I don't want my kids brought into it in any way, be it miniature trolls in school or fatwas from some offended jihadi. Anyway, the point is that people often have a good reason for their anonymity, and one had better have a darn good reason for blowing someone else's cover. Whelan didn't have a good reason.
Moving on: Presumably everyone has seen this graph by now (via Gateway Pundit):
Is anybody taking bets on someone in the MSM taking one for the team and admitting that the stimulus bill has failed?
Yeah, me neither. We've exceeded the administration's unemployment numbers they were projecting without the stimulus. In fact, according to Obama's projections, unemployment wasn't supposed to peak (at levels below today's) until 2010. We've shot past his predictions-- a year early.
Fun.
First up today: This, from Instapundit. Apparently Ed Whelan over at The Corner took it upon himself to "out" an anonymous liberal blogger who had been annoying him. And, as much as I've enjoyed Whelan's posts and respected his opinion, I've gotta say that that's pretty low. Yes, lots of trolls are anonymous. Anonymity is one of the great banes of the internet. Whelan should try being a woman who plays Team Fortress 2-- idiots who use their anonymity to ask for nudes, descriptions of my anatomy, etc. are far more annoying than a snarky liberal.
But anonymity is also one of the great gifts of the internet. There's a reason I don't use my name-- namely that I have a family. Should a miracle occur and I write something that gains attention, I don't want my kids brought into it in any way, be it miniature trolls in school or fatwas from some offended jihadi. Anyway, the point is that people often have a good reason for their anonymity, and one had better have a darn good reason for blowing someone else's cover. Whelan didn't have a good reason.
Moving on: Presumably everyone has seen this graph by now (via Gateway Pundit):
Is anybody taking bets on someone in the MSM taking one for the team and admitting that the stimulus bill has failed?
Yeah, me neither. We've exceeded the administration's unemployment numbers they were projecting without the stimulus. In fact, according to Obama's projections, unemployment wasn't supposed to peak (at levels below today's) until 2010. We've shot past his predictions-- a year early.
Fun.
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