Peyvast

Shortly after I came back to peyvast, the Coup happened in Iran and due to gravity of situation I moved the blog back to Iranian.com. Meanwhile I did not have the time to keep this one in sync with the other .  blog.com also went through some internal changes which for a while made blogging here almost impossible to the point that for example SCE had to totally move out , but now blog.com has got most of its act together but it was very irresponsible of them to just drop the ball on users while changing, instead first  making the changes and then launching it all at the same time as it is customary. Although the final result is an improvement but meanwhile they lost some important users such as Stop Child Executions. Anyway !

This week I ran a successful poll on Daily Kos which is predominantly democrat :

Who would you have voted for today?

485 votes

This showed me that Obama is as favorable as before among hard core democrats and some the popularity that he lost (as per CNN 2nd , 200 day poll) must have been among independents (like me).  Anyway so far it seems like, Washington changes the men , more than the men change Washington!

I am writing this while listing to my favorite song these days:  Halo

(Based on a poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller. Martin Niemoller was a German pastor who had first supported Hitler through his rise but had become disillusioned by him, opposing him.  He was imprisoned for this opposition and released only by The Allies in 1945)

First they came for monarchists

and I did not speak because I was not a monarchist

Then they came for Kurds

and I did not speak because I was not a Kurd

Then they came for the left

and I did not speak because I was not a leftist

Then they came for seculars

and I did not speak because I was not a secular

Then they came for students

and I did not speak because I was not a student

Then they came for trade unionists

and I did not speak because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for Bahai’s

and I did not speak because I was not a Bahai

Then they came for reformists

and I did not speak because I was not a reformist

Then they came for supporters of Islamic Republic

and Monarchists, Kurds, Leftists, Seculars, Students, Trade Unionists, Bahai’s and Reformists spoke for me too