January 2012
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Dear God, my prayer for this new year is to learn to be more patient and more grateful for all your blessings. Help me, for without you, all effort is futile.
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Mullah Nasreddin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: “Hey! how do I get across?” “You are across!” Mullah Nasreddin shouted back. Talk about perspective.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest...
This is me: No American Girl Doll Your parents wouldn’t buy you an American Girl doll because $80 is a ridiculous price to pay for a toy, which would then inevitably lead to the purchase of multiple accessories ranging from the overpriced ($18 for “Winter Accessories,” consisting of tiny doll mittens and a hat), to the exorbitant ($56 for an “Ice Cream Set,” consisting of tiny plastic scoops of...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“This world where we live is no place to lose your wings, so love, love, love.”
– Hafez
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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پيشاهنگان اصفهان، دبستان كاشفى
My dad was an Iranian Boy Scout. Each scout group had to come up with a team name, and my dad suggested they call themselves the Eagles. His sister even helped him with his flag and embroidered the image of an eagle onto it. As the best scout in his group, my dad was named team leader, but he took his position so seriously that his fellow Eagles didn’t want to be in his group anymore. My dad...
Dec 25th
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YADASHTS: HISTORY: IRANIAN MUSLIM SAVED THE LIVES... →
There’s an Iranian serial about this, too. It’s called Zero Point Turn or Zero Point Orbit,  مدار صفر درجه. The series came out in 2007, after Ahmadinejad’s comments about the Holocaust. fesenjoon: In his new book, In the Lion’s Shadow, Fariborz Mokhtari argues that Abdol-Hossein Sardari saved up to a thousand lives through fake passports and a creative (invented) argument...
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“My lover asks me: ‘What is the difference between me and the sky?’ ‘The...”
– Nizar Qabbani
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Posters from the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War It’s interesting that the artist of the first poster included a dog leaving Iran with the Shah.
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“Seeking knowledge is obligatory.”
–  Iman Jafar as-Saddiq (as)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Someone on my facebook posted about Christopher Hitchens’ death, and one of my friends commented with “khoda biyamorze (may God forgive his sins).” I wonder how Chris would react to that.
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Ridic News from Yesterday: "Pretty please," says...
US asks Iran to return captured drone Country A “loses” spy drone and somehow it gets into Country B. Country B finds spy drone. Country B is pissed. Country A ups sanctions against Country B and then asks for the spy drone back. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted that she did not think it likely that the drone would be returned. “We are very clearly making known...
Dec 14th
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