Intresting.

lol...that is awesome...that really just made my day

-blinks-.... uh.... -blinks again and smells his hand and sighs- wow. i still smell the cigar i had from last night. and i took two showers... DAMN i want another one of those. -blinks and looks up- what was you sayn again.?

Wow....obesity isn't an epidemic. Ignorance and stupidity are.

Wait...what? Homosexuality exists? 0_0..... Oh noes, all my beliefs make no sense!

Billy Crystal was soooooo hawt then. I coveted his sweater.

Awesome!

by that, I mean that it's an awesome line.

I really hope it was delivered sarcastically.

Nopeynope, absolutely dead serious! He really believes that homosexuality is a deviation that somehow doesn't affect the people of his country.

That's really, really sad :(

Probably because he believes that homosexuality is a "choice" made by lazy, decadent people--so earnest, pious people aren't affected by "the phenomenon" as he called it.

Sound familiar?

or perhaps: Homosexuality is a choice.. but people in Iran aren't allowed to actually, you know, MAKE CHOICES.

Bingo! We complain so much about everything and yet, we have no idea of how good we have it here. In Iran, the "Lifestyle Police" (no, this is their actual name) won't hesitate cut your head off, hang you or shoot you on the spot for voicing your opposition to the status quo in Tehran.

Even being openly homosexual, considered normal is many corners of our society, is considered a crime in Iran and punishable by death...

I mean, don't take my word for it, check Youtube and see what they do to gay people in Iran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzL4nQ3CDU

http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.c.....le-police.html

ANY society that is run by zealots is going to be represive. I can't even imagine how horrible it must be to be a gay man in Iran--and I don't want to find out by letting religious conservatives really take control of THIS country! And if you don't think it's possible--remember Salem. People were burned as witches, by the church--because the CHRISTIAN church was in full control, made the rules and dispensed justice as IT saw fit. Those things CAN happen here if we don't keep our government out of the hands of religious zealots. It doesn't MATTER what religion it is--if they have unchecked control, they will become violently oppressive.

I agree. THe separation between church and state is getting really thin in this country, is scary.

The First Amendment is our principal protection (short of our own guns) from a religious tyranny of the majority. Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court have conspired to trash it with the McCain-Feingold law which makes criticisms of politicians before elections into federal felonies. Since the two major purposes of the First Amendment were to protect political criticism and to keep the federal government strictly out of religion, we are in very deep trouble - if they can trash one, they can trash the other.

All current presidential candidates with the exception of Tancredo and Ron Paul either voted for McCain-Feingold or have announced support for it. Fred Thompson thought that McCain-Feingold was so important that he submitted his own amicus brief in support of it to the Supreme Court. Neither Tancredo or Paul (my choice) have a ghost of a chance. We are in deep shit, and it is getting deeper fast...

HOLY CRAP! I better tell KaniS and Royelle they might have to come live with me, not the other way around... O_o It doesn't sound like moderates like them will be doing well in the States in the near-future...

And what happened to Obama? He was being touted as the next Kennedy...

Obama favors McCain-Feingold and its ilk.

Pity. Thought I'd heard something to that effect; I don't follow the news on a regular basis, so I don't recall where I might have picked that up.

Well, I can only hope someone with a brain and some integrity will gain office, but I'm frankly not holding my breath. Since I'm Canadian, I can't show my views via vote.

That's remarkably amusing. :D

Thank you for posting this, that indeed made me laugh, especially since I'm pretty sure one of my friends has a gay online buddy that lives in Iran.

I read about this last night...

It ranks one step up from what Michel Jacksons father said "In our family we don't believe in gays"

So, who do they execute then?

Infidels, of course...

Their aren't any homosexuals in Iran because they execute them! That's why!

Why would anybody admit to homosexuality if doing so was a death sentence? Yeah, his statement is beyond bullshit.

No kidding! It's GOTTA suck to live there.

LOVE your avatar, BTW

Thanks! I ripped my avatar off of a drug info web site.

Yeah, stuff like that might pass to someone who's uneducated and living in a third-world country, but to come here and say that, in a respectable college especially, you're just really begging for people to mock you.

wow haha, that's really silly

Funny but that is really sad.
I love how people can sit there and "pretend" that something doesn't exist and think that the rest of the world doesn't have it either, that everyone who thinks it is mentally insane.
If anyone is "queer" by the modern day definition, meaning gay, its them, they are denying something about them selfs uhmmm

The line was funny--especially the matter-of-fact, deadpan way he put it. As if it's a disease that could only infect infidels. I think he knows the truth and is just a hypocrite, as he is about terrorism and the holocaust.

He's a posturing politician who wears his religion (whether he believes in it or not) and his nationalism like a mask for his constituents.

Again...sound familiar?

oh joy as "infidels", hopefully he will wake up and smell the cum, and see that half his people are "infidels"
Everyone has the right to be a hypocrite on certain things, this just happens to not be one of the those topics.

It all sounds to familiar, and its sad and scary that people like that run the world, or certain places or what ever.

If people think we need to get ride of the "gays" no wrong i think we need to get rid of the people that think being who you are should be gotten rid of.

well this is not so funny as it is chilling. there was a story several months ago about a Gay pair of guys in Iran who decleared their love for each other openly. they were executed the same day. so he is correct that there are no homosexuals in Iran. anyone that admits to it are publically castrated before being tortured then beheaded. but laugh all you want to, i guess, it only makes me sad for those hidden Gay people in Iran. ...:(

Yeah, it's only funny in so far as his statement was so stupid. Naturally it means that people are appallingly and viciously oppressed. Let's call it ironic rather than "funny".

*hugs you*

Doesnt believe in gays, the holocaust, or executions, apparently. If I'm not mistaken he denied all three of these.

I really don't know why this guy is being allowed in the US. Especially to a university, and I think someone told me he was going to ground zero, as well.

I heard that on the radio, it was the funniest thing I heard all day.

I'm not certain whether to laugh at this idiot (who's also denied the Holocaust, against all evidence) or weep for the men and women who must hide their true loves from their own culture...

So I tell 'em; MOVE TO NORTH AMERICA!!! I wanna learn some REAL stuff about Islam, from believers, and they want a safe place to be with their mates... Best of both worlds...

I know I could never follow Islam (I've read the Koran in an English translation- want a copy), but what I've seen since 911 has made me physically ill. We, as a culture (Canada, too) have been effectively persecuting people because of their ethnicity and their religious beliefs. Because some juiced up yahoos with an agenda toasted the towers...? Because certain money-powers wanted a war to get the resources they are running out of? Or maybe it's so certain attitudes and new 'laws' can be entrenched with the supposed 'will' of the poeple; give 'em all threat, change their freedoms and rights, all under the ausices of 'protecting' them from future attack, take over. Disgusting.

You wanna go after terrorists? Leave the true believers alone- they would NEVER countenance such a thing- go after the fanatics, of whatever faith- because these folk, who think a bomb will get them what they want, are fucked in the head. Their professed religion is merely an excuse.

Religion is almost ALWAYS an excuse for something. Usually for exclusivity and hatred. It has always been used by the powerful to oppress the masses, and to brainwash them into certain patterns of thought.

Christianity does the same thing here, although our civil laws protect us...a bit more...from the people that want to rule over us for their personal benefit.

We only laugh at him because it shields us from the true hate and even horror behind his statement.

Because inevitably, you are right--we can laugh and feel superior because we don't have to live with him--but we can't laugh TOO hard, since we live in a country where the President stood in front of Congress and basically called gay people second-class citizens, whose love and family commitments are LESS sacred and important than his own for his wife and family--and are even considered fundamentally wrong and deviant.

The nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

Never said we were better, certainly. We're just as bad, in a lot of ways. About the ONLY thing we don't do, is institutionally kill off gay folk...

Yeah, this man's attitudes are frightening, and funny at the same time. I laugh at the stupidity and cry over the evil behind it. Especially since I know there are idiots HERE who'd agree with this goof.

We shouldn't even have to argue the sanctity of marriage for all- but we do, and that stinks like a long dead rat in one's walls... They love, they pay taxes, they supposedly have the same rights and priviledges as everyone else... Yet, this whole marriage thing is talked about like we're trying to legalize pedophilia. Ridiculous!

Bush is an ass, and I'm GLAD that jerk is out of office at the next election. I'm just wondering what next new take on assholery is gonna take his place. Maybe you'll luck out and get somebody in office who has some brains, along with some integrity.

Anyway, I like your journals almost as much as I like your art- thoughtful and intelligent. Don't see too much of that. Thank you for them.

It's true we don't institutionally kill off gay folks here...we leave it to the ignorant red-necks who have succumed to the institutionalized brainwashing we practice on our kids. Then we shake our heads and wonder why that person would do such a terrible thing, even though that damned fag prob'ly deserved it...

Seriously, though--I am a recovering Lutheran. I grew up being sheltered from dangerous ideas and being told that God and Jesus and their Word in scripture were absolute truth and that whether we understood it or not, we should follow the church's rules because they are good and wise and infallable...

I tried, but then I discovered a fiction more fabulous than anything they had to offer...SCIENCE Fiction! Which led to and interest in...science. And suddenly the truth didn't seem so black and white (and red if you had a red-letter edition).

Well...that got completely off track... *sigh* So much for my thoughtful and intellegent blogging.

But thank you for swapping entries with me! ^0^

*noses* You are entirely welcome, though I have to say the priviledge seems to be entirely on my end! And, just to save your supposedly off-track comment, a religious tangent on this topic is entirely appropriate; it is a thinly-disguised theocracy that's dictating to the the folks in Iran...

And to share your 'pain'- I was brought up Roman Catholic, and when my mother discovered my secret stash of SF&F, horror and comics, she tossed them all out as being 'inappropriate for a girl who should be paying more attention to reality and get her head out of the clouds'... I didn't care. My response? "Reality is for those who can't handle Science-Fiction". That earned me a slap, but I still grinned through the bleeding lip and said it again, only louder.

I became a Pagan shortly after. I never could see how a religion that made so many people's lives miserable could be ANYTHING other than nasty, evil and opressive.

Oh, and another gem; my mother had this friend, an openly gay man, lovely person, one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Any respect I had for her went in the toilet when she told me, sincerely, that she loved Lee like a brother, but he was going to burn in hell, because he loved men. "Love the sinner, not the sin," she told me when I my jaw dropped in horrified shock. I couldn't begin to figure out how to explain to this obtuse woman that love is NEVER a sin! So I told her she was wrong, that Lee would watch from heaven, seeing her in hell for her ignorant, bigoted beliefs, for she would never make it to heaven.

Not that I personally believe in heaven- but it's easier to explain things in her own language.

Missouri Synod by the sound of it. I still am a Lutheran, but Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. VERY openly supportive of gay rights. In fact, one of the biggest Christian Denominations to oppose the gay marriage ban.

Don't mistake Christianity for religious Zealots. It's the same thing as assuming all Muslims are terrorists, it is a blanket statement that is by far undeserved.

In many ways you are absolutely correct. I don't really blame religion as much as I blame the churches. Whatever the messege--and often the messege can be a good one: love thy neighbor, do unto others, etc--the fact remains that churches are run by people, and inevitably become corrupted and distorted by people yearning for money, power and even fame. But the distortion can carry through all the way to the biggest, most opulent to the smallest, most devout backwoods fellowships.

I don't hate religion and I can't even prove there is no God...or gods. Just don't be too ready to follow anyone blindly. Not your President and not your Pastor. Ask questions, point out discrepencies and hypocricies...and use common sense. That's all I can hope for.

many lulz have been had

I think it's a wonderful thing. Now we can pack all the crazy anti gay fundies over here up and send them over there. They should think it's a paradise with none of us lousy fags around.

At the very least we can point to Iran and tell the fundamentalists--that's exactly what you want this country to be, have a good look.

lol, that is funny. shiiiit i have had 4 lesbi contacts from that country talk to me on another server, lmao.

Its probly that if someone is found gay they are killed instantly

Just about as funny as that white koala found with chlamidiya....

And how the heck a koala can get that is bwyond me :P

Just found the clip on YouTube (just look up "Mahmoud Ahmadineja no gays" and you'll find it easy).

I have to say... I'm kind of floored... o.O

Seig heil! There are two major differences between today and 70 years ago:
1) He has a big beard instead of a funny little mustache, and
2) Unlike Hitler, he is putting plenty of resources into producing nuclear weapons and will get them and use them. No diplomacy will prevent this. Megatonage delivered in time could. Wars are never moral. Throughout recorded history, more civilians have always been killed in wars than combatants. Millions of civilions will die when WWIV goes nuclear. The important question is who does the dieing and where. Don't kid yourselves - he is telling the truth when he says that he believes that he has a mission from god. Wars don't decide who is right, but they sure as hell decide who is left.

Actually, I think he's more of an operator than a devote. He may even believe his religion on some level, but I think deep down he knows murder--for whatever reason--is wrong, but he just doesn't care.

He is using religion and nationalism for personal gain, and nothing else. If his real bosses, the Ayatolahs (sorry, no idea how it's spelled) put forth an opinion, it becomes HIS opinion, because he knows where his power comes from. He's much like Bush that way...

Agreed. Which is unfortunate because bumping him off would not terminate the problem.

Yeah...there's always another one waiting in the wings...and he may or may not be as gifted or as twisted as his predecessor!

In Roman times, many thought the Emperors groomed successors who was just a little worse than themselves...presumably so they'd be missed when they were gone.

The custom still lives: Can you say "President Dick Cheney"...

whats a homosexual?

That's my favorite reply so far. ^0^

Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni might have been able to defend a different view of Iran, outcomes notwithstanding. Also, the literal translation from Farsi insinuates the expression of homosexuality, not a definitive lack in the United States. A more appropriate translation might be "We don't have the same prominence of homosexuality as you do in the United States." Of course you don't, Mr. President, you've made great strides in executing those who come forward.

Yeah, the only thing really amusing about the statement was the baldly ignorant way it was put, either by him or in the translation.

The evil and hate behind it aren't funny. In my favorite book of all time, Heinlein puts forth the opinion that humans laugh because life is so tragic we HAVE to. (He puts it much more logically and eloquently, but you get the idea.)

I think it's funny that an Iranian official would say such a thing, since there are laws against homosexuality in Iran.

Oddly, in Iran, if a person is transgendered, the state apparently pays for their sex reassignment surgery. But often recipients end up going through the process more quickly than we consider healthy in this country, in order to protect them from accidentally being perceived as homosexuals... and executed.

There's something ironic in that.