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گزارش بیست و چهارم آگوست

ساعت سه و نیم با جی قرار گذاشته بودم در پاپ مترو نزدیک ایستگاه قطار لیورپول.پنج دقیقه دیر رسیدم چون یک ایستگاه قطار را اشتباهی سوار شده بودم .شب قرار بود برای مسافرت دو هفته ای به هلند و چند جای دیگر برود .دو ساعتی با هم گپ زدیم و طبق معمول پر از لذت و شادی برایم بود ، محور حرفها از شیما و مارینا ، از پروژه تواب سازی و نیروهای اپوزوسیون و از جزیره و ایرانی هایی که هنوز در دنیای آزاد در سال پنجاه و هفت مانده اند و دنیا را سیاه و سفید می بینند بود .>>>

1001 Jobs !!

Welder to the Stars. On the way to Mars. Designing the Malls. Building the Stalls. Poker is my game. Evening I start. <!--break-->

Iranians are the smartest people I know. Always thinking, always doing. <!--break-->

Tell all of us what you do. Your fun, different, weired, way out there jobs. No rules, nothing is in and nothing is out.<!--break-->

I will report with the results in the next posting.

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The New Iranian.com Site

The new Iranian.com site is very nice and COOOOL... but it's like I have remodeled my kitchen and now I have to find where all the pots and pans and other items are in the kitchen cabinets! I now have to look for the "news headlines", the "Iranians of the day", the silly cartoons (!)>>>

A Cordial Request from Management

Management should look into implementing a lasting “ignore feature” for use by registered users at their discretion. Hossein Derakhshan (hoder) has entered into Iranian.com dome.  He deserves to be permanently zapped by me clicking on “ignore” feature. He will be off my screen. This power of choice does not violate his right of speech.   >>>

Just Issue a "fatwa" about whoever thinks " Mosaddegh" was a human being!

Due to Ms. Mahshid Amirshahi article about the old and boring topic of " 28 Mordad" as a person who belongs to a generation that had nothing to do with the revolution like to say I am sick and tired of intolerable, rigid- minded and narcissistic people belong to the past. I don't underestand why nobody has right to criticize Mosadegh or think diffrent about "28 Mordad". A person like " Jalal Matini" runs a research about that era and he does not say a word from himself but brings a lot of evidence get accused by pro Mosaddeghs as " Shahollahi" ( Such a meaningless word) and even somebody is claming "Matini" is an illitrate man in leteracy! >>>

Iranian Satellite Station Defrauds Audience

The following is an account by a friend of mine, Borhan, evidencing, yet again, the lack of both journalistic and quality care by most Iranian satellite stations.

As I was flipping channels out of curiosity to see if anyone with 1/10 brain about producing TV material has arrived on Persian satellite television to surprise me with something bearable, I stopped to look at some sort of auction on Kanal Yek Television (Channel One) was having with a lady who looked like Shirin Ebadi with a shorter hair-cut at 9:20PM on August 26, 2007. After a few seconds I noticed she was using the word IPod to describe the product, when I looked and listened closer, I noticed that the product was indeed NOT apple's Ipod but rather one of these many Chinese knock-offs of Ipod [The linked product is the closest thing to that I could find online] >>>

Shit that keeps me up

I often wonder what happens if a suicide bomber finds out that one of his 40 virgins is not a virgin. What is the return policy in heaven? >>>

Iranians and blogs

Iranians are largest contributors to the blogosphere (percentage wise). >>>

Iran is golden! طلا برای والیبالیستهای نوجوان ایران

Iranian youth volleyball team is the world champion!>>>

It's in BETA!

Well, let's get this party started, shall we? The site is officially in Beta which means, it still has problems. But that's what I get paid the big (har har) bux for... >>>

RE: Can't Keep My Promise, Mother

To the author of this article:

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Haleh Esfandiari and National Endowment for Democracy

Given the nature and the history of the National Endowmanet for Democracy anyone, in any country who has had any ties with NED and its affiliate organisations deserves to be charged and fairly and justly prosecuted. >>>

Iranian woman slut; Iranian woman prude: blah blah blah

Thing is, by now, Iranians have lived for enough of a time in the US that trying to link their behavior to anything as banal as the place of their parents' origin is just a stupid exercise. Perhaps for the first generation immigrants these questions are still questions, but for people of my generation who were born and raised in all parts of the US, we get our culture from so many different parts that to say "you're a slut cause you're Iranian" or the opposite just doesn't hold.>>>

How I Became A Blogger

I feel Iranians must also speak to others in the world to tell them stories about Iran, themselves, their thoughts, their values, and their hopes and fears. There is also a growing number of Iranians who were born and raised outside of Iran and unfortunately cannot read Farsi. This shouldn’t discount them as Iranians. They should still be able to find other Iranians with whom they can communicate.>>>

This is the Phantom of Iranian.com

To All Iranian.com viewers: This is my lovely abode. I expect my income to be 180K a year and be deposited in a 10-year CD with a minimum of 5% APY. A modest 10% raise per year will suit me. At the end of ten years term, I will send you a lovely note with a rose and with instructions for collection. >>>