Mohammad NOURI: Gole Maryam ___ محمد نوري: گل مريم RIP

Mohammad Nouri, one of the most recognized Iranian folk singers, has died after losing a marathon battle with a blood disorder.

Mohammad Nouri was born in 1929 in Tehran. His passion for music made him attend art school to start singing under instruction of leading mentors like Esmaeil Mehrtash.

Nouri also graduated from English literature as well as acting and theater in Tehran University. He perused his passion for music during his studies.

Nouri learned the vocal styles of singers from previous generations to better understand and perform the traditional repertoire.

He rose to prominence in the 1960s with his distinct style of singing and enjoyed four decades of popularity among Iranians of all generations.

He composed and sang more than 300 songs in 50 years. His song Jaan-e Maryam, as well as his patriotic song Iran, Iran are well known melodies among Iranians.

From PressTV

When an Eye for an Eye Seems Fair

An Iranian woman is seeking a sentence for her attacker more in line with something out of a torture manual than natural justice.

Four years ago, a spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over her head, leaving her blind and disfigured.

Late last month, an Iranian court ordered that five drops of the same chemical be placed in each of her attacker's eyes, acceding to Bahrami's demand that he be punished according to a principle in Islamic jurisprudence that allows a victim to seek retribution for a crime. The sentence has not yet been carried out.

Seems like a very barbaric sentence, but given the crime, pretty reasonable from her perspective. Why not an acid bath?

Capitalism 101

Find and develop a market for your product.

When your customer spurns you, destroy the market.

$150 a barrel for oil will be cheap if any of that sort of stuff goes down.

Thanks Wolfie.

Dick Ponders His Options to Build Backlog for his War Machine Manufacturing Buddies

Who can we annihilate now?

Dick Cheney What a Dick

Reports from the US Medja suggest Dick Cheney tried to get his lap dogs to provoke Iran by bombing the shit out of one of their nuclear facilities, giving him the pretext to reintroduce conscription and all out war in the Middle East. We should all be glad that all his neocon buddies left to screw up other organisations and he had to shelve his plan for now.

This man is a certified lunatic and dangerous for your health too. He makes Mr ImaDinnerjacket look only slightly wacky.

Dick Cheney's World Domination Tour

Fresh from shutting down Sydney for four days (who else gets the Sydney Harbour Bridge closed so that you can drive to lunch and then a cruise) Dicks secret plans and clever tricks didn't work out to plan. What a Dick.

Thanks Spine