Poem for Iran

NPR: Iran's National Poet Speaks Out On Recent Events In Her Country & Recites 2 Poems

June 28, Video from Iran

June 28 Iranians rally at Ghoba Mosque (also spelled Qoba) on Shariati Street, Tehran

Dust in Your Eyes (Song for Iran)

Senator Demint: The biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom

I keep thinking as I listen to these interviews with Republican leadership and/or surrogates, that these comments are coming from the guys who had control of of the Congress and the Presidency for most of the last eight years, and got us into the fix that we're in. That I am certainly not forgetting.

Funny stuff begins around 2:56

Demint says, 'The biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom.' Sanchez responds with what the hell does that mean?

Thank You!

God this is a great country!. American music. Nothin' like it. Makes me want to get up and dance! Good thing I don't own a video camera or I'd have to put myself on youtube. I'm just too shy.

Enjoy.

Thank You

Everyday People... and other good stuff

Saudi Arabian All-Girl Rock Band Called the Accolade

The Saudi young woman cannot perform in public but they got a cool song and a write-up in The New York Times.

The band’s first single, “Pinocchio,” has become an underground hit here, with hundreds of young Saudis downloading the song from the group’s MySpace page. Now, the pioneering foursome, all of them college students, want to start playing regular gigs — inside private compounds, of course — and recording an album.

“In Saudi, yes, it’s a challenge,” said the group’s lead singer, Lamia, who has piercings on her left eyebrow and beneath her bottom lip. (Like other band members, she gave only her first name.) “Maybe we’re crazy. But we wanted to do something different.”

In a country where women are not allowed to drive and rarely appear in public without their faces covered, the band is very different. The prospect of female rockers clutching guitars and belting out angry lyrics about a failed relationship — the theme of “Pinocchio” — would once have been unimaginable here.

But this country’s harsh code of public morals has slowly thawed, especially in Jidda, by far the kingdom’s most cosmopolitan city. A decade ago the cane-wielding religious police terrorized women who were not dressed according to their standards. Young men with long hair were sometimes bundled off to police stations to have their heads shaved, or worse. source: NYT

Here's the Accolade song entitled 'Pinnochio'. I like it.

Cenk says 'Saudi Arabia. Freedom. It's comin' for ya. It's comin.'

Pretty cool I must say. Keep rockin' girls!