iran

Why does Google meddle in already troubled waters? Who is Google? What is water? I demand the immediate, irrevocable, irrefutable and irresistible renaming of the Persian Gulf to Cherished Gulf! Some people will still prefer Persian Gulf, though.

Robert de Niro in Righteous Kill (watch trailer): “Nothing wrong with a lil shooting, as long as the right people get shot”.

Agree? Buy a gun.
Don't agree? Get shot.

Anousheh Ansari is going up.

Irak did have bombs, right? Before the war they were concealing them and after the war nobody found them. Irak did not have bombs, right?! Jacques Chirac in his generous manner is now warning us that he could use nuclear weapons against state sponsors of terrorism. A sponsor of terrorism is warning another sponsor of terrorism. Whoever cries louder will sound more credible?

Hands harpooned to the dusty ground,
he is a slave to his country´s wound.

Young, iranian, and laden with outdated myths,
he recoils from clerical juices.

As heard on studio 360, Salman Rushdie once said:

Obviosly a rigid, blinkered, absolutist worldview is the easiest type to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture i have always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet i must cling with all my might to that cameleon, that chimera, that shape-shifter, my own soul. Must hold on to its mischievous , iconoclastic, out-of-step clown instincts, no matter how great the storm. And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it. I lived in that messy ocean all my life. I have fished in it for my art.

Free speech is a non-starter says one of my islamic extremist opponents. No sir, it is not. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ballgame. Free speech is life itsself.

Imagine you get detained for posting your thoughts on social and political issues. Unthinkable you might think. In Iran however the government might feel you are "disturbing the public mind".

I found this in a news article on the Bobs website. Stop censoring us, a blog about the internet censorship in Iran, keeps track of these scare tactics.