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What the IRS doesn't need to know
In the United States we have an annual ritual of filling out a long, intrusive report governed by opaque rules and convoluted language known as a tax return. It's tempting to get on a rant about what I think of paying my income (not yet, but eventually in a few years) to a bloated, corrupt, greedy, warmongering, and pro-corporate socialism ( Read more... ) -
I'm back!
WOW! I can't believe that I haven't made a LJ post for the past two years. I actually kind of forgot that LJ still exists. I'm wondering if the number of active LJ users increased or decreased in the last two years? I guess Facebook is to be blamed for this ( Read more... ) -
Sharon Keller CCA Protest Rally
Today, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed open late accepting letters from the public urging Judge Sharon Keller to resign. On Sept 25, Keller closed the court sharply at 5, saying "We close at five", but today the court stayed open for business past 5 accepting letters urging Keller to resign. This shows how arbitrary the decision was on ( Read more... ) -
Did you know that I'm going to hell???
Warning this will piss many of you off ( Read more... ) -
Reading of Khosrow (Khosro) Golesorkhi's poem: Agar Yek Ba Yek Barabar Bood
Here is my reading of Khosrow Golesorkhi's poem "Agar Yek Ba Yek Barabar Bood" which in translates to "If one was equal one" during last weekend's Persian Performing Arts Show at the University of Texas at Austin. Sina Najmai played the Sitar. The text of this poem is posted at The Iranian.
Golesorkhi was famous for his leftist poetry and was ( Read more... ) -
Let Gravel Speak
Corporate censorship has taken over the Presidential race. Mike Gravel has been excluded unfairly from the MSNBC Debate at Drexel University this Tuesday. Why? GE owns MSNBC and NBC. Last minute, they claimed he did not raise enough money. Just as they did it to Ralph Nader in 2000 and 2004. Apparently you won't be a credible candidate till you ( Read more... ) -
a little fourth of july goodness from keith olbermann
"I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war. I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient. I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our ( Read more... ) -
Paper Plane War between the American and Iranian delegates.
Even a US paper airplane is capable of carrying out precision-guided bombing! Some sources say the Iranian plane crashed into the flowers on the table. The Iranian deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, used the opportunity both in the summit and afterward to call for withdrawal of American Air Force from the Persian Gulf region.
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