Comments on: BBC Persian Service

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:06:48 +0000

@nojo: OHFORFUCKSSAKE!!!!! The men "rubbing" her chest were her father and a doctor trying to stanch the flow of blood out of her gaping chest wound.

By: Nabisco

Nabisco — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:59:30 +0000

@nojo: That's just beyond fucking juvenile. ADD: Newell brought the hammer, but late in the game. There was surprisingly little blowback from other commenters, like maybe one or two. Sad.

By: baked

baked — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:27:08 +0000

to clarify: when i say my friends, i mean liberal thinking, loving, smart, informed people from all over the world along with native israeli’s. taking their temperature on all this is shocking. these are pot smoking artists, musicians, lawyers. warmongers all!!!
apparently all it takes is bearing witness to one bus or restaurant blown up by a suicide bomber to turn you. i can’t wait to get back to my island.
i’m heading back prob late august, the height of hurricane season. the random wrath of mother nature is easier to take.
i’ll never get that beautiful young woman’s bloody face out of my head.

By: cassandra_said

cassandra_said — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:26:16 +0000

I am speechless before this. It is something, on a human level, that I thought I would never witness. Our “politics”, our “society”, our ” civilization” seemed beyond a true human reaction. A reaction to injustice that causes us to react on a visceral level. A collective no. This won’t stand. It is humbling. A disregard for their own lives in the face of injustice, a howl which translates into action …

By: baked

baked — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:04:50 +0000

i am exhausted and traumatized, horrified.
just checking in with news from the middle east i.e. my friends:
it might be surprising to you that nobody likes barry. (americans living in israel voted 77% for mcBatshit, and israeli’s like him even less) there is a huge chip on the shoulder around these parts, itching to literally go nuclear on iran. there is cautious hope that iran will implode, improve, or do something that could let everyone here close the eyes that are always open in the back of their heads.
i’m taking a mental health break today, news blackout, search for a jon and kate marathon.
love to all of you. be kind to yourselves and everyone you encounter.
that’s what we can do. it hurts to care. that’s the only cure i can think of in this dark moment in time.

By: chicago bureau

chicago bureau — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:49:58 +0000

nojo: Damn you. Now I gotta go to Dominick's (like Safeway, but more sausage) and get another one. And yet Jim and his Banhammer of Truth is nowhere to be found. Partly because it's a Saturday night, I guess. (And why am I posting tonight? Assclown chased a flush and rivered me and my set in my weekly poker game. Poker's like that, tho.)

By: nojo

nojo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:35:42 +0000

@chicago bureau: Still have that lighter? Because I just paid a visit to the old-old joint:

That Iranian chick is hot … or was hot. The guy rubbing her chest probably isn’t trying to resuscitate her.

Where have all the good Wonkette commenters gone? Oh, that's right: They're here.

By: Nabisco

Nabisco — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:56:04 +0000

@nojo: There's been a sea change today, and Mousavi has taken a radical tack. He's called out the council, and taken huge political and personal risks to do so; it's as if Al Gore had actually rebounded from the 2000 fiasco and gone to the mat, dragging the Supreme Court down with him in a death match.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:15:33 +0000

Today in Albuquerque, a 19 year old woman got up early , went to her boring fucking job at Denny’s and was shot and killed when a half dozen assholes showed up and shot the place up in a robbery.

Thursday afternoon some homie who has a drift wood carving business hired a wrecker to pull his truck out of a nearby lake where it rolled in when he forgot to set the parking brake. Not only did they find the truck, but also a car with the bodies of an adult male and three younger males who went missing in 2001 during a custodial dispute. Guy probably murdered his kids and killed himself, using the lake to hide the bodies. Our courier at work was the tow truck operator. I’ve been swimming at that spot.

Just random violence here, not a state in political upheaval. No point to be made, just some shit that happened. I don’t know what we can do about any of this. Love your families, live full lives, exercise your freedoms, pray, give to or help those you think can do something. That’s my two cents. Now I’m thinking again about those Navajos who were killed in Window Rock during their revolution 20 years ago.

By: JNOV takes a little english to doctor the spin

JNOV takes a little english to doctor the spin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:38:43 +0000

@chicago bureau: He's busy deleting comments off his wall right now.