The most striking images coming out of the Iran human rights protests are not of men – they are of women. And while American media [were] slow and even hesitant to pick up that anything at all was actually happening – this, while protests ignited for what is now six full days around Iran, nine years after the Green Movement protests began – Twitter was flooded with videos and photos on the ground, in defiance of the Iranian regime’s social media policy.
Every one of these searing images [is] of women. Women are the predominant face of this blossoming revolution. Women are risking the most to speak out against the Iranian [m]ullahs. So the question must be asked: [w]here are the women’s movement[-]supporters in the United States and Europe, which gathered en masse to protest a newly inaugurated American president last year?More specifically, empowered by the cultural muscle of #MeToo celebrity leaders and Women’s March[-]organizers such as Linda Sarsour: [w]hy are you silent? If these nameless women can speak out in the face of true tyranny, risking actual imprisonment and death, why can’t you?Iranian women are not adorning pink knitted hats, or costumes resembling female genitalia. They won’t be attending award shows. They aren’t wearing red cloaks and bonnets inspired by their favorite Netflix show. No, these brave women are caught on videotape and in photographs for the world to see, and the women’s movements have yet to barely offer so much as a tweet or a Facebook post of support. The official Women’s March Twitter account has tweeted exactly zero times in support of women protesting in Iran. Zero.
My prediction: Over time, New York City will lose its status as the intellectual and cultural capital of America.I guess that elections have consequences!
The real estate market in California, at stretched valuations, will suffer. Minnesota, Oregon, Iowa, Maine and others will also feel the pain.
Florida and Texas will become the new centers of finance and innovation, with real estate values in Austin and Miami -- and even Nashville -- reaching valuations once reserved for California and New York over the course of a few decades.
"Why would The Times chose to run this clearly controversial story today, of all days, after it had been sitting on it (at the administration's request) for more than a year?"Why on the day after the extremely successful Iraqi elections?
"The results are devastating.
Giving too much, too soon can result in girls confronting emotions including regret, anxiety, guilt, shame, and lack of trust in males.
In fact, recent academic research has suggested that even modest sexual experimentation increases the risk of depression for girls, so it’s worth asking:
Does the widespread sexual behavior celebrated by teen culture explain in part the CDC’s latest report finding that suicide rates among preteen and young teen girls had spiked by a whopping 76%?"
“We like to live in peace and are glad that no one in Baghdad can call us terrorists. It has taken a long time but we appreciate the Americans.” (Shami Karim, a 27-year-old fruit stall holder quoted in Baghdad calm one year after Saddam's death)
"The Americans proved that ordinary life was possible here again.”It was indeed a new Iraq!
"I’m nervous because too many Obama-philes sound like Moonies, or Hare Krishnas, or the Hale-Bopp-Is-Coming-To-Get-Me nuts!!
These true believers “Obama-ize” everything.
They speak Obama-ese.
Knit for Obama. Run for Obama.
Gamble - Hold ’Em Barack! - for Obama.
They make Obama cakes, underwear, jewelry.
They send Valentine cards reading, “I want to Barack your world!
At campaign rallies people scream, cry, even faint as Obama calmly calls for the EMTs. When supporters pant en masse, “I love you!” (like The Beatles, circa 1964), Barack says, “I love you back” with that deliciously charming, almost cocky smile.
Oh - I’m nervous because it’s all gone to his head and he hasn’t even won yet."
Trump's tweets are not going to start a war......only NK can start a war...it can do that by making a stupid mistake: attack on US troops in SK or a missile that comes too close to a US ship..Trump is not going to start any wars..makes no sense...can people relax over tweets?— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) January 3, 2018
Trump tweets? My guess is that most Americans are more interested in this report: US manufacturing expanded in December at the fastest pace in 3 months...the strongest year for factories since 2004, according to "The Institute for Supply Management"......— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) January 3, 2018
What is going on is that, like the flabby 59-year-old who can’t stop telling you how he scored the winning touchdown in high school, liberals can’t stop reliving the Watergate era.Wouldn't it be nice if they go that excited about Benghazi or the IRS going after conservative groups? Nevertheless, too much Nixon gives them another escape from the real reasons that Mrs. Clinton lost in 2016!
To them, Watergate stands for the twin milestones, never approached since, of taking out a Republican president and making heroes out of liberal reporters.
Memo to those who talk about a US police state......the real repressive state is in Iran.....just watch the news and see what really happens in a police state or a country where people CAN NOT protest against their government......— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) January 3, 2018
The hallmark of Clinton policy was supposedly the 1994 Agreed Framework, which banned Pyongyang from churning out nukes in return for billions worth of aid.History has already issued a very harsh judgment on the Clinton administration and North Korea.
But as the North Koreans have since acknowledged, they spent most of the '90s trying to produce weapons-grade uranium--and, in 1998, launched a Taepodong-1 rocket over Japan. Meanwhile, as they diverted foreign aid into WMD and missile factories, millions of North Koreans died of starvation.
"Looking at this record," quipped Investor's Business Daily, "maybe Albright actually had it right. North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and ever-more sophisticated ballistic missiles--including the Taepodong-2 C launched this week--were indeed the result of five years of failed diplomacy. It's just that the five failed years lasted from 1994-1999."