Iran's national team sees popularity boost, but not just because of World Cup, https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/06/iran-team-melli-soccer-football-world-cup-fans-nationalism.html?utm_campaign=20180702&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%20Newsletter
From the article: "In preparing for the World Cup, the Iranian national soccer team was also subject to several directly and indirectly politically driven limitations. In the most publicized instance, sports clothing supplier Nike withdrew its sponsorship to provide boots to the team due to the reimposed US sanctions."
Please do not buy Nike stuff. It's gross, anyway.
Iet's not make War on Iran,
kill the actual guys
pictured below,
burn them alive,
twist their limbs 'til sinews give way,
leave behind angry friends and family
within whose hearts rage shall burn
unto the seventh generation.
Think I'm kidding? Go to Georgia, see how many hate damnyankees however denominated, how many honor the Confederate Flag,
though more than seven generations have passed
since the war that hurt us the most,
the one where we were
the enemy..
We don't (I don't) want us to make Bushco's mistakes.
Please.
But. . .
"I have heard may years of telling,
And many years should see some change.
" The ball I threw while playing in the park
Has not yet reached the ground."
Dylan Thomas, Should Lanterns Shine (1933,
when Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler
was appointed
Chancellor of Germany
and Dylan Thomas, a Welsh,
was apprehensive,
as we should be today
because our
temporary president
wishes to destroy Irran
to further his goal
of being awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ironies abound; too many to use.)
Which youngman do you wish to see burnt alive?
Pick one. After all, it's only a computer game.
. . . and now women and children go to football games. That was a major struggle for women's rights not won the last time we threatened to Bomb Iran. The right to go to a football game is a great gain for humanity.
Iranians share with most of the rest of humanity a passion amounting to love, for football, just as some in the United States feel strongly about North American style football, as embodied nobly in the persons of
the Dallas Cowboys
(do not post a negative word about
the Cowboys
for fear
the resentment caused by any such disturbance of right proportion,
the sense of justice that will not be allow to pass unpunished,
will attract Nemisis, who
-- as you know from personal experience --
is implacable.
Our temporary president has already attracted Nemisis' attention, and she will hold all of us responsible for his hubris,
his arrogance before the great
Unknowable.
O Trumpists, some of you, may be visited by
the Erinyes --
But is there one among us-- Gerry excepted --
who has not, some time, been arrogant before
God,
in one or more of His Guises?
