Remember in high school feeling that that cute girl made the Earth tremble at your feet. It turns out that she does, at least according to Senior Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi.
The cleric laid the blame for Earthquakes squarely on the all-too-often bare shoulders of women: “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.” Segighi posed the question “what can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?'” He had a simple answer, “There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam’s moral codes.” It is like an entire nation lead by the Westboro Baptist Church.
Of course, this is no different from our own fundamentalist preachers blaming Katrina or tidal waves on immorality, here.
The Iranian discovery could be a breakthrough for seismologists who can simply go to Milan each year and predict coming earthquakes from the runways of the leading design studios.
Of course, Family Force 5 (a much ignored scientific body) saw this connection years ago:
GET DOWN!!!!
I saw shawty dancin’ on the floor
I’m kind of nervous to approach her though
she’s so stylish like a supermodel
Should I meet her (Yes I think you oughta)The needle dropped
My track was hot
we began to rock
Our eyes were lockedI LUV UR SONG
Yeah gurl sing along
She said DJ’s MAKE MY HEARTACHE
I said Baby watch the place shake like an Earthquake[Chorus]
Drop that 8o8
The wall’s begin to shake
It’s to much for the club to take
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake
Devastation from the sounds I’m makin’
And there’s no escaping from the bass
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake10.0 on the richter scale
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake
Move ur tail
Bout that time my people all were quakin’
another 10.0 was in the makin’Like a natural disaster
Run for the pasture
Cause the bass will flow
Take you out like El NinoIt’s rumbling, crumbling, all the way down
It’s tumbling, fumbling, You love that sound
CAN YOU TURN UP THE BASS?
Sorry gurl I can’t hear in this place
I HAVE A REQUEST THAT I’D LIKE TO MAKE!
Well, what you wanna hear gurl? Shake like an Earthquake?[Chorus]
Drop that 8o8
The wall’s begin to shake
It’s to much for the club to take
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake
Devastation from the sounds I’m makin’
And there’s no escaping from the Bass
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake10.0 on the richter scale
It’s shakin’ like an Earthquake
Move ur tailReady?! OK!!!!
Boom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now build it up,
build it up, build it upBoom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now shake it up,
shake it up, shake it upBoom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now break it up,
break it up, break it up, WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!![Chorus]
SHAKE IT ON DOWN [x3]
MOVE URSELF WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SOUND
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frankdawg:
for all their faults those that you mention do not hang children and do not rule a country with iron fists based on a 7th century idea of “fairness”.
So yes I think monkey is a good concept for those in leadership positions in Iran. In fact immoral monkeys would be more to the point and corrupt.
Iranian leadership = immoral corrupt monkeys or jackals if you prefer. Maybe jackal is better monkeys are actually sort of cuddly. You are right lets use jackals instead. More evil intent, monkey makes them silly. Good point.
Once again a cleric is blaming women for the immoral sexual conduct of men. It would make a great deal more sense for Christian and Moslem clerics to meet and issue a joint statement directed toward the male gender: keep it in your pants. That’s hardly an onerous burden.
monkeys? REALLY? and you would like us to think you are fit human worthy of engaging in intelligent discussion? Whatever ones opinion is of some boneheaded proclamation is it hardly justifies dehumanizing an entire nation, region, religion or group.
I do not think Americans, or Christians or Westerners are subhuman because of the inane pronouncements of people like Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh both of whom have said exactly the same thing under different circumstances. My guess is that there are plenty of people there that are as angry and embarrassed to share there place with that moron as I am to have to share mine with those other two.
PatricParamedic–
I don’t know a whole lot about seismology. But here in southern California, I’m guessing the continued super-sized FOOD PLATES of American kids, may be putting at least as much stress on the San Andreas fault line, as shifting TECTONIC PLATES down below.
Just sayin . . . .
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One must also take into account the extra weight of all that silicone that’s been surgically added to enhance certain body parts of wannabe starlets!
Just sayin… 🙂
your a day late and a dollar short
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_us/us_second_amendment_rallies
bDAMAN:
how many T-Bags do you want?
Byron. Russia just informed us they will have a reactor operational by August.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1413223820100414
The U.S. government had a shipment of bunker buster bombs diverted from being delivered to Israel a few weeks ago. The president shunned Israels prime minister trying tough love over new settlements.
Just as Iraq winds down Iran will heat up, literally
John Puma:
Iran is run by clerics who think that Paradise awaits them and those who follow them. Do you actually think they are developing an atomic energy program? They want a nuclear weapons program, it may be for defensive measures but somehow I don’t think so.
The Iranian people are not the problem from all that I have read, they are terrorized by the clerics. If the current Iranian regime procures nuclear weapons the Iranian people can kiss any possibility for freedom good bye.
So by your assertions I assume you hope the Iranian people are held hostage indefinitely by 7th century barbarians.
And yes I would say the majority of the leadership in Iran are expendable monkeys and would probably be strung up by their own people if they were given the chance.
And out of curiosity how does our use of the atomic bomb in WWII make us morally inferior?
I don’t know a whole lot about seismology. But here in southern California, I’m guessing the continued super-sized FOOD PLATES of American kids, may be putting at least as much stress on the San Andreas fault line, as shifting TECTONIC PLATES down below.
Just sayin . . . .
To Byron,
It is everyone BUT Iran who says Iran wants “A-bombs.”
Most notably, that is the USA, the only nation to have used nuclear weapons on another country and Israel which has perhaps 200 warheads, a fact revealed only by a courageous leak.
Even if Iran IS developing nuclear weapons
1) have we ever attacked a country that possesses nuclear weapons?
2) how many countries HAVE we attacked?
3) do we have troops in countries on either side of Iran?
4) if China had invaded both Canada and Mexico, would we not do all that we could to deter them from attacking us?
Unfortunately, the article above exists precisely to elicit the reaction you have shown. It’s intended to mock and demean Iran, yet again, in order to suggest that they cannot possibly be considered our equal, and are therefore, imminently expendable, as in …. MONKEYS!?!?!.
Tell Senior Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi to sacrifice a few virgin male clerics and all will be well.
I would assume they have a few unmarried clerics who would still be male virgins … round ’em up, put ’em in a stadium and have a grand ol’ fire consuming sacrifice …
Poseidon/Neptune/Tepeyollotli/Cabrakan … they all love that kind of thing.
oooh, tell us more, AY.
I have now heard these message and my Jesus loves everyone, but Likes me better. He has endowed me and not only the riches of this kingdom.
Rush and Volcanoes seem to have a lot in common!
AY,
A very popular ‘patriotic’ Hate radio host beat Pat to it!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/
I think all true music aficionados know that it was the Ohio Players who first realized the correlation between clothing and calamities:
We talk about the role of religion in this region a lot. Here is one unintended consequence of our war against the Taliban:
Bacha bazi is the sex slave trade of young boys. In Afghanistan it is practiced by interests and individuals aligned with the US against the Taliban including government security forces. A recent documentary on the subject has been removed from Youtube, but is available here:
http://sarblog.dyndns.tv/2010/02/28/the-war-for-paedophiliacs/
I understand that the documentary at the link above may be a part of a future PBS Frontline episode.
Food for thought from Kelley Vlahos on antiwar.com:
In writing about the rape of boys and its implications on the sustained Western alliance with the Afghan government and military in the Long War, journalist Patrick Cockburn commented in September, “one reason Afghan villagers prefer to deal with the Taliban rather than the government security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them.”
The Taliban reportedly banned these practices when it was in power. Today, clerics we would consider radical openly and regularly condemn bacha bazi and sex with children. “Under Islamic law, those who practice this would be stoned to death,” Mawllawi Mohammaed Sadiq Sadiqyar, a prayer leader and scholar in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, told Reuters.
and these monkeys want A-bombs?
Bebe call your office.
I am not making a comment until I hear from the good paster Pat Robinson. I want his take on why we are having the earth quakes, volcano’s etc. Come on Pat do tell us. Or I will have the guy down under think you are a tree.
And when we gals see you guys running and biking in spandex or walking the beach in mankinis, our hormones rage and lead us astray too, doncha know!
Let ‘er rip, Carole!
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