So i did not do a Wednesday post because i was consumed by an evil fever/diabolically sore throat/gross stuff coming out of my nose/headache thing, and then i was going to do a New Years Eve post ... but when i tried to type the fever made me think about weirdness and you deserve better (both of you). So after two days of sickness my wife decides to tell me about Tylenol Cold ... (sponsorship!?!) and now i'm feeling like a human again. So today's post is brought to you by the miracle of Tylenol Cold ... i love you little pills!
I don't know if you caught any of it but there were huge pro-democracy protests in Iran the past week and the Iranian authorities responded by being incredibly violent, i'm surprised ... aren't you? So there is no media coverage (Iran does not allow it) but God bless cell phone cameras and YouTube because people filmed what was going on and posted it so you can check it out. Anyway, one of the videos shows a police truck trying to navigate through a crowd of protestors and having a hard time so they run over a woman and then drive away as fast as possible before the protestors kill them. You clearly see the whole thing, it is awful. I included a link to it here so after you read this go watch it. http://bit.ly/8KcLte
It's the second video down. That was a couple of days ago. Today the New York Times, bastion of the news decided to publish the Iranian response to the video getting out, here's what they wrote about it. "The Iranian police say a video that appears to show a police pickup truck running over a protester was faked, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported Thursday. The police statement was responding to the circulation on the Internet of an amateur video said to have been taken Sunday during large antigovernment demonstrations in Tehran. The video shows a pickup truck running over a man; other screaming protesters then run to him after the truck drives off. The police say that the video, which appears to show a police pickup truck running over a protester, was faked and that no deaths were reported in that area." Oh ... i feel better already, the Iranian police, who have been killing innocent people for days say that the whole thing didn't happen in the face of undeniable video evidence, well let's give them the benefit of the doubt. I can totally see why the NYT would publish the official response of a despotic regime and write it as if the delegation from Luxembourg was releasing a statement. It's the same right? Why would the Iranians lie? Please go watch the video so you can see it and realize how insane this is.
In other insane news, Evander Holyfield is going to be fighting for the Heavy Weight Championship of the world ... in 2010. He's only 47 years old, i'm sure he'll be fine. I mean it's not like he's completly punch drunk, his management team didn't quit 4 fights ago saying that they could not support his decision to keep fighting, he's not medically banned from boxing in multiple US states, he hasn't lost 5 of his last 9 fights ... oh he has? He is banned? That's ok, Uganda sanctioned him, they said he's fine to fight. I'm sure they have his best interests at heart. So go Evander ... go get you a belt and some permanant brain damage!
In closing i want to wish you all a Happy New Year and i hope that everyone had some safe fun last night. I did, i went bowling with my kids and Ang and our cool friends and then the brave people let us come to their house and hang out ... it went really well, i don't think that the kids broke anything the whole time ... as long as you don't count the unfortunate water incident ... sorry Dan.
Oh, don't forget to comment on the Iran video.
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