“I’m the world’s greatest rapper in English and Farsi, I’ve got more rhymes than tabbouleh’s got parsley.”

And as Alex Leo writes in HuffPo, Jason Jones’ last report from Iran is both “hilarious and touching.”

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Or do you prefer the system we have now using electronic voting machines without a paper ballot in which we have no earthly idea if our votes are being counted at all let alone counted as cast?

This scene from Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections, illustrates all that is wrong with elections without paper:

Visit A Kleinheider Joint for various linkage about the greening of Iran.

According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.

Tell me how again how wearing a flag lapel pin will makes our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq feel less forgotten? Tell me again how it’s unpatriotic for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer or Nightline to silently scroll through, or read aloud. the name of dead servicemen and women? Tell me again the reason why the Department of Defense refuses to release pictures of the flag-draped coffins of our servicemen and women?

We feel sick too.

Hey, wait a minute! Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, is spewing the same scary stuff – that President Bush might bomb Iran if his guy doesn’t win the election:

This is fear-mongering at it’s best – bow to the masters! Here’s what they’re saying: “It will be so scary if Senator Obama wins the election – will all his fancy notions of “diplomacy” – that, before he takes office, the current commander-in-chief will have to bomb Iran to make it less scary. But won’t that really make it even more scary? So, are you scared yet?”

I can’t help but wonder what my friend thinks now after hearing of McCain’s monumental foreign policy blunder.

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

Iran is ruled by Shites and Al Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim extremist group. Shites and Sunnis don’t like each other very much. Haven’t for years.