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Weekly Open Thread – Bumped

Posted by: Wordsmith @ 12:35 am in Iran, Open Thread  | 5 views

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A protester shows a victory sign and white rose as people protest in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels, Saturday, June 20, 2009. People gather to express their solidarity with opposition supporters in Iran who risk confrontation with police if they take to the streets in their country.
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FedUp
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Americans should be ashamed of ourselves! Here are a people who wants what we have and all our Dear Leader can do is mutter some soaring rhetoric which means not a damn thing! At least the Congress issued resolutions in favor of the Irani people.

Hope all those who voted for Dear Leader will wake up and smell the BS from BO. Ah…. buyer’s remorse. It would be so funny, if it wasn’t so sad! He’s running our country into the ground, economically and socially. Instead of raising our standing in the world, he’s making himself a laughingstock. It’s very, very sad to be lectured by the likes of China AND Russia.

I’m so disgusted!

June 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am
FedUp
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A thought just occurred to me. What would OUR fearless leaders do if we filled the streets in DC in a peaceful protest. There’s a ton of us who are out of work and I’m sure that all the car dealers that have been closed would be delighted to join! I’d make it a point to be there… should be on a day where CONgress is supposed to be voting on something important, like, naming a post office or another holiday or how much we should pay in reparation for slavery.

WHAT A COLLECTION OF SELFISH, NARCISSTIC, POWER-HUNGRY MORONS!!!

June 20th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Neo
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How do you say “Groundhog Day” in Farsi ? Tehran, Jun. 25 2005 – “Ahmadinejad? Who’s he?” This was the typical reaction of most Iranians a day after the first round of presidential elections in Iran, when they heard that the two candidates facing each other in the run-off were veteran politician Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the little-known, ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Last week’s surprise was all forgotten by the much bigger shock on Friday, when Ahmadinejad defeated the former President and iconic figure in the ruling theocracy in a landslide victory that consolidated power in the hands of the ruling Islamic clerics.

June 20th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Wordsmith
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Her name was Neda. It means the ‘voice’ or the ‘call’ in Farsi.

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Neda is now the Voice of Iran.

June 20th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Wordsmith
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New York Times: McCain Voters Not Americans?

New York Times, otherwise known as the Grey Lady, might more appropriately be known as Obama’s Shady Lady. Believe its poll and get a Times Square disease.
The lead headline is about a NYT/CBS News Poll, trumpeting “Wide Support for Government-Run Health.” The lead paragraph:

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind [72%] one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

BUT, according to the actual poll data, of the 73% of respondents who said they voted in 2008 only 34% voted for McCain and 66% for Obama. The actual vote was 48% McCain. So, 29% of McCain voters ignored by the poll must not be Americans, according to the NYTs methodology, and there are about as much an overpolling of Obama voters. NYT’s Shady Lady polling.

June 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Old Trooper
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-PKIvKltDU&feature=player_embedded

These are the folks that will be hunted by the Militias, Secret Police and Revolutionary Guard. Expect harsh crackdowns to start today. Murder, mayhem and extreme violence can be expected but since the Press can’t report it, it will be like the Holocaust that “never happened” according to the Mullahs.

As the US has not had an Embassy there since 1979 there can be no sanctuary offered by the US. Other Embassies are treating casualties but not on a scale that is effective. Lacking the strong possibility of outside intervention, the violence will continue until the dissidents are crushed, silenced and eliminated. They will just dissapear. The body count has been estimated to be as high as 200 but with no Press to report it who knows?

Obama will lecture on Fathers Day and not commit a single US resource to stop the oppression and tyranny. The UN will be ignored and the dissidents will be subject to the will of the Regime. He is no Reagan. He is just a Citizen of the World minding his own damn business and staying out of it while America is shocked and saddened but lacking the Leadership that could make a difference. He is no Reagan. It is a sad day for Freedom and a sad day for Iran. The election results will stand uncontested and Iranian Government will continue to be
a threat to it’s people and the region.

Happy Fathers Day All!

June 21st, 2009 at 6:29 am
Wordsmith
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“The reality is that these times bring not only dangers but also opportunities.”- VP Dick Cheney, August 27, 2002, VFW speech

June 21st, 2009 at 9:27 am
philly_nj
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“*The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMtZsaQT4cTxcgA51WrpiUS6cWGg

I love everything about the 4th of July,….Team Obama has wrecked it for me this year.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 5:41 am
Fit fit
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What if the hot dog invites were rescinded and that crumbled the regime? Now that’s some meddling!

June 23rd, 2009 at 6:54 am
ObamaIsASadJoke
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Hot Dogs and Ice Cream for preznit soft serve, while people die in the streets of Teheran hoping to one day taste freedom.

I am so, so ashamed of the pathetic dunce we have in our White House.

Hope. Change. Sprinkles?

June 23rd, 2009 at 9:04 am

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