UPDATE below the fold…
President O
President B
Notice anything? Continue reading “The O and the B”
Pathos and heartbreak
Three months ago all I could see was the hard shell of Iran. Violent, ruthless, cunning and almost nuclear– it was Islamic jihad on steroids, it was effectively killing our troops overseas with specialized IEDs and it was the greatest external threat to the stability and prosperity of the west that I knew of. It was not the beautiful Persian journalist you see here (picture courtesy of The Guardian).
The stolen Iranian election of June 12th has changed all that. I have spent hours blogging, reading and posting tweets, doing some tech support for the Iranian resistance and practically memorizing the sights and sounds of Tehran. Today I read this— raw, full of pathos, even heartbreaking, about a people and culture who have Continue reading “Pathos and heartbreak”
Never look a gift fish in the mouth
Hmmm Maybe that’s supposed to be about horses. But this particular week was about fish. Most definitely about fish. But before I tell you about this particular fish, you need a little background. Continue reading “Never look a gift fish in the mouth”
And now, for something a little different…
So my brother sends a note to my parents– some funnies to brighten their day. These are jokes for seniors, mind you.
Oh, boy.
Remind me– what’s the cutoff for the “seniors” category again?
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Update- the Price of Freedom
Many of you have heard of or seen the YouTube video of the death of Neda, the beautiful young Iranian shot by Islamic street thugs while peacefully protesting, who then dies on camera. What you may not know yet is that it has gotten worse. In Tehran tonight (via Twitter) the thugs are attacking protesters with axes and loading the dead bodies in trucks! Honestly, it is hard to write about this because it is so upsetting…
In order to keep blog posts here short, we have created a page dedicated to the Free Iran effort, which is here. Please check back periodically, or contact us at Iran@10thGen.org for more information.
Thank you!
We know nothing about fear
UPDATE: watch this first– it explains what is going on…
I am a white, American middle class male. I trust in the Lord God and follow His way, believing He will triumph in the end. In many
ways I and my family are so very different from the oppressed and slaughtered in Iran today. Nevertheless… you must read this. I had to stop 1/2 way through and just sob with my head in my hands. These people simply Continue reading “We know nothing about fear”
Twitter freedom
The world has changed.
I’ll be honest- I’m having trouble working today. As the fraudulent Iranian election returns began to come in last Friday night, I began following feeds from Tehran on Twitter. For hours I watched the news happen in real time, following links that thousands (both inside and outside of Iran) were posting. Some tweets were being done by students at Tehran Univ. as their friends were being beaten and attacked in the street outside!
Today I can’t stop, even though I have work to do; here’s why.
WARNING: This is a graphic photo showing a dead protester.
I don’t know Continue reading “Twitter freedom”
The garden again
But the clothes are an expression of a more disturbing, and rising, trend of teenage sexual behavior: Oral sex. More than half of teens (55% of boys, 54% of girls) have engaged in oral sex, according to the Center for Disease Control. Moreover, because it is not actual intercourse, kids do not consider oral sex to be unsafe, or even to be sex.
and now this:
Gen. 3:4,5 But the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
Everyone knows that the Dragon Deceiver was Continue reading “The garden again”
Ohio State University NROTC 45th annual Color Parade
So Lydia says, “The ROTC Color Parade in the OSU stadium is no big deal.” (We had gotten an invitation as her parents.) “Maybe you should come next year when I have been in the NROTC program for awhile…” This was about a week before May 15th, the day of the parade. By Tues. we heard from somewhere that she might be getting a few awards; by Thur. Lydia called again, sort of wistfully, and announced that she would be getting more than two awards, and could we think about coming??
Bragging Alert! You might have guessed it was coming; in a mostly vain effort at discretion, the major part of our wanton bragging is below the fold… you’ve been warned!!
Fortunately, we did go, it was a beautiful day, and we sat at the end of the HUGE stadium, 
where we watched what seemed like fifty ROTC students raise and lower a 50 lb, enormous American flag. Continue reading “Ohio State University NROTC 45th annual Color Parade”
Our president, the “assassin”
And we should be glad he is, and hope he will continue to be.
FACT: The Predator Drone is working against al-Qaeda’s efforts to organize their attacks, by continuing to take out their leadership. In the process, regrettably, innocent civilians have also been and will be killed, namely the ones who live with the al-Qaeda leadership (some unwillingly). This is one of the wretched facts of war; this, of course, is another one.
FACT: If the war on terror is merely a law enforcement action, and not a war which could threaten our security and integrity as a nation, then international law declares that Pres. Hussein is assassinating innocent foreigners, and the International Criminal Court at The Hague could have him Continue reading “Our president, the “assassin””