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August 10, 2010

Iran In The 70's
— LauraW

Revolution? Oh, that minidress is causing one, baby...in my comfortable Sansabelt slacks.

Oh yah, that was THAT decade, alright. Prints and hemlines don't lie.

Click through the link at Big Dick's Place to see more pics. Kinda nifty. In a sad way.

Posted by: LauraW at 06:02 PM | Comments (114)
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1 It makes it even more scary that they could go from normal to nucking futz the way they did.

Posted by: Moi at August 10, 2010 06:05 PM (Ez4Ql)

2 Good thing we got rid of that evil old Shah.

Posted by: The Left at August 10, 2010 06:07 PM (bgcml)

3 We should build a mosque at Ground Zero and signal to the Muslim world that Islam is superior to tolerant, kind and innovative Western values.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 06:08 PM (mHQ7T)

4 Wow, that's amazing and so sad. Thank you Jimmy Carter "The Ayatollah is a religious man like me" Carter!

Posted by: runningrn at August 10, 2010 06:11 PM (CfmlF)

5 To think today that girl is forced to walk around looking like a black parachute. Good thing Carter decided the Shah wasn't human rights friendly enough!

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2010 06:11 PM (tJjm/)

6 Both of them are spies.

Posted by: Tsar Putin at August 10, 2010 06:12 PM (aXxv1)

7 4 Wow, that's amazing and so sad. Thank you Jimmy Carter "The Ayatollah is a religious man like me" Carter! Posted by: runningrn at August 10, 2010 10:11 PM (CfmlF) Did that imbecile actually say that?

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2010 06:12 PM (tJjm/)

8 1979 - Shitty Year of the Year winner.

Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:13 PM (aXxv1)

9 The Shah, for all his faults, was a westernizing monarch sitting on top of a lunatic Islamist powder keg. And holding his own, until Jimmy frigging Carter sold him down the river. Thanks, Jimmy!

Posted by: HT at August 10, 2010 06:13 PM (NAWno)

10 Periodically, Dennis Prager talks about Iran, and how, somehow, for the morons of the Left, deposing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in the 1950's in the midst of the Cold War somehow justifies all the demonic shit that's gone down in Iran since the Shah was deposed.

Because the Left, it's all or nothing; it's childhood reasoning forever.

Posted by: ParisParamus at August 10, 2010 06:14 PM (DcjTN)

11 Hey, girl, Sansabelt slacks are teh awesome.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:15 PM (Adi4S)

12 I wonder what happened to all those people in the pictures. Not only did Jimmy Carter sell the Iranians down the river, Barack Obama is continuing that grand tradition. Yeah, protestors in Iran? We don't "meddle" in their elections. Tell that to Honduras, Afghanistan and Kenya.

Posted by: runningrn at August 10, 2010 06:16 PM (CfmlF)

13 The Ayatoilet needed to have a tragic fall in his tub in Paris. God, the 70's sucked ass!

Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:16 PM (aXxv1)

14 #13: to think, if the current regime goes on a bit longer, only the old people in Iran (who didn't get out) will have any clue about what was before. It's positively Orwellian.

Hopefully the bombing will start before it's too late.

Posted by: ParisParamus at August 10, 2010 06:19 PM (DcjTN)

15 Did that imbecile actually say that?

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2010 10:12 PM (tJjm/)

Yeah, and worse.

Somewhat in Carter's defense, he was clueless. Not that it is an excuse. A US President should be smarter than that.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at August 10, 2010 06:20 PM (oIp16)

16 "Go get my knives we're going to cut them into pieces." I'm so waiting for the episode of The Colony where they go cannibal. Human heads on pikes, covered in blood, and out of their minds. Oh, I guess this post is O/T...

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at August 10, 2010 06:24 PM (WZFkG)

Did that imbecile actually say that?

Sadly, yes.

Posted by: runningrn at August 10, 2010 06:25 PM (CfmlF)

18 Hey, wazzup everyone?!?!?

I loved the '70s, mostly. I was 18 and felt as if I owned the world. Boy, did that feeling go away quickly.

Posted by: TheresaD at August 10, 2010 06:26 PM (K9XK2)

19 When I was in Kabul in the 70s you would often see women working at the ministries wearing fashionable clothes. Course that was under the communist government which was a heck of a lot more liberal than Karzai's "its legal to not feed your wife" regime

Posted by: denny crane at August 10, 2010 06:29 PM (I+7Zv)

#13: to think, if the current regime goes on a bit longer, only the old people in Iran (who didn't get out) will have any clue about what was before. It's positively Orwellian.

Heh! I feel like we are hanging on that precipice here. If Democrats get the illegal aliens amnesty, we will never see the end of Democrat rule. We will be the old timers who remembered how America was once the world's greatest, Super power, and how capitalism and free markets ruled and promoted freedom and upward mobility.

Posted by: runningrn at August 10, 2010 06:30 PM (CfmlF)

Hah. I remember a program manager I used to work for in the 80s, thought he was cool cause he wore Sansabelt slacks.

...

Shit, I'll bet all the kid programmers working for me now think my ties are that funny too.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 10, 2010 06:30 PM (Wh0W+)

22
I wore Sansabelt slacks because the chicks dug the look. Or maybe it was the pocket full of personality in $100 denominations.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 06:32 PM (v1gw3)

Somewhat in Carter's defense, he was clueless. Not that it is an excuse. A US President should be smarter than that.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at August 10, 2010 10:20 PM (oIp16)

The trouble is that sanctimonious fuckhead thought *he* was the smart guy and we were too fucking dumb to appreciate him. And he's hated the country ever since we sent his ass packing.

Oh, and *real* Christian of him to put as many roadblocks as he could to keep the dying Shah from getting medical treatment here. He should go write some more horrible poetry; at least that doesn't fuck up anything other than kill a few trees before that drivel gets remaindered.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 10, 2010 06:34 PM (qPpkJ)

24 Those Sansabelt slacks would take care of a pretty good sized gut. Built-in girdle.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:35 PM (Adi4S)

25 I didn't know Tony Orlando was Iranian.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 10, 2010 06:37 PM (jdlOu)

26 I was in my 20's in the 70's. Hated it. Especially after Carter became president.

Sold off the Panama Canal, pardoned the draft-dodgers, sold out the Shah (and that was the beginning of the Islamic jihad), Billy Beer, gas shortage, meat shortage, high interest rates (14% for a mortgage!), energy crisis, no outdoor Christmas lights, office thermostats turned down to 65 in January, polyester leisure suits, flock and foil wallpaper, shag carpet, disco, Amy Carter giving foreign policy advice, Bert Lance, Iranian hostage crisis, Entebbe, plane hijackings, Captain and Tenille, soyburgers, MISERY INDEX invented, and my favorit, Carter telling us we were having a crisis of confidence and it was all our fault.

I have no nostalgia for the 70's, and when I see the effort of the fashion and home interior gurus to bring back avocado green and poppy orange, blood shoots from my eyeballs.

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 10, 2010 06:37 PM (bixjr)

Hip Hugger Bell Bottom jeans baby! I was basically a kid in the '70's and even I could tell it sucked. I don't know how my old mans business survived Jimmy Carters interest rates and inflation.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 10, 2010 06:38 PM (yQWNf)

28
If you were really cool in the 70's and could disco or boogie woogie, this was the proper footwear for men on the prowl for muffin.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 06:39 PM (v1gw3)

29 The trouble is that sanctimonious fuckhead thought *he* was the smart guy and we were too fucking dumb to appreciate him.

And that's Obama in spades. Actually, it's the Left in spades; to be a leftist is to lack the humility to realize that you don't know everything, and that the first step after that is calling on others who may actually be smarter and/or wiser than you. But since the Leftist doesn't believe in wisdom, that's not what he/she does.

Posted by: ParisParamus at August 10, 2010 06:40 PM (DcjTN)

30 No wonder I never scored. I didn't have me some black and white patent leather shoes. If only........

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 06:42 PM (LvpZn)

31 Agh! My memories flood back! Russians invade Afghanistan and Carter is shocked, shocked! So NO Olympics! Platform shoes! Chocolate brown carpet! Parsons tables! Conversation pits! Banlon! Hamburger Helper invented! Fondue Restaurants!

Gack! Ick! Loathesome decade!

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 10, 2010 06:44 PM (bixjr)

32 Mad props for that awesome 70's porn 'stache, though...

Posted by: Original Mikey at August 10, 2010 06:44 PM (Av4L9)

33 Carter telling us we were having a crisis of confidence and it was all our fault.

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 10, 2010 10:37 PM (bixjr)

MALAISE!!!!!!

You left out the killer rabbit, the time the old goat was photographed in a marathon looking like he was about to keel over (unfortunately for the nation, he didn't), Andrew Young insulting all our allies, and when Jody Powell and that other blow-snorting retard made some comments about an Egyptian official's wife's cans looking like the Pyramids.

Thank God for the 80s.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 10, 2010 06:44 PM (qPpkJ)

34
I didn't have me some black and white patent leather shoes. If only........

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 10:42 PM (LvpZn)

Also, dancing was a requirement, and in Florida, if you had Peruvian Marching Powder...........the best looking chicks were looking for you. Oh yea!

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 06:45 PM (v1gw3)

35 White men can't dance.

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 06:47 PM (LvpZn)

36 32 Mad props for that awesome 70's porn 'stache, though...

I think the 'stache and muttonchops are still 'in' in that part of the world...

Posted by: lauraw at August 10, 2010 06:48 PM (DbybK)

37
White men can't dance.

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 10:47 PM (LvpZn)

Probably true for most, but there are exceptions.

Posted by: Fred Astaire at August 10, 2010 06:49 PM (v1gw3)

According to "The Ayatollah Begs To Differ," it's still like that behind the walls of some Persian homes. The mullahs have allowed ordinary Persians to act as they please behind closed walls as long as they toe the line in public.

My aunt served in the State Department in Egypt back in the '70s. She said Egyptian women wore miniskirts back then.

Posted by: Tantor at August 10, 2010 06:50 PM (Ek/Oc)

39 Excellent additions, Captain Hate! I also added some more after my initial post.

I bet if we were sitting at a pub with some beers we could come up with a whole lot more. In the 70's, every day was a new misery.

Yes, Andrew Young. Grrrr.

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 10, 2010 06:50 PM (bixjr)

40
Jimmy Carters' mother Lillian's most famous quote:

Â“Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

Lillian was a very honest woman and deserves praise.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 06:52 PM (v1gw3)

Speaking of the 70's, remember Peter Lemongello? First direct marketed album to sell over a million copies. He paved the way for Slim Whitman, Zamfir and Boxcar Willie.

He's probably also indirectly responsible for bringing us Santogold and Diamels. And I'm wondering about Naugahide and fine Corinthian leather.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:54 PM (Adi4S)

42 Posted by: denny crane at August 10, 2010 10:29 PM (I+7Zv)

You have the worst grasp of history imaginable.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 10, 2010 06:54 PM (f55pQ)

43 Haven't heard much from the Jimmah lately. Is he locked in a closet in some old folks home?

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 06:55 PM (LvpZn)

In fact, Lemongello is directly or indirectly responsible for everything artificial after 1976. Breast implants? Lemongello.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:56 PM (Adi4S)

Obama's smile? Lemongello.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:56 PM (Adi4S)

46 guess legs were way to much for men to handle in Iran

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 06:57 PM (SbsTp)

47 Star Wars Christmas Special

Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:57 PM (aXxv1)

48 My ex-wife's protestations of love? Lemongello.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 06:57 PM (Adi4S)

49 Excellent additions, Captain Hate! I also added some more after my initial post.

Posted by: Miss Marple (redneck teabagger) at August 10, 2010 10:50 PM (bixjr)

Your list was pretty good; I just had to add a few of my faves. There were so goddamn many of them it was kind of like a preview for the jugeared fuck.

I don't think my kids could understand why I laughed so much at "That 70s Show".

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 10, 2010 06:58 PM (qPpkJ)

50 Zamfir and Boxcar Willie.

He's probably also indirectly responsible for bringing us Santogold and Diamel

i was alive but young in the 70/s i dont know any of those groups.

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 06:59 PM (SbsTp)

51 Sad how Islam can destroy a culture. Admittedly a pretty 70's culture, but better than anything Islam put in its place.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 10, 2010 07:00 PM (eNxMU)

i was alive but young in the 70/s i dont know any of those groups.

Hee hee heeee heeee!

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 07:00 PM (Adi4S)

hey but i do know supremes, because of older sisters.

so i'm not so out of touch with my roots,

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:01 PM (SbsTp)

54 So it was Iran who brought us 70's fashion!

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 07:01 PM (Adi4S)

The Supremes were real, though.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 07:02 PM (Adi4S)

56 55

The Supremes were real, though.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 11:02 PM (Adi4S)

blast it rdbrewer, i will keep my eyes on you now!

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:03 PM (SbsTp)

57 One of my good friends in high school was Iranian by descent, a first-generation American. His parents had family there, and a house in Esfahan, where they would live part of the year.

Esfahan was not even the biggest city in Iran, and yet they described it as extremely cosmopolitan, open to people from all over the world, popular with Europeans, home to a large array of cultural activities, with world-class restaurants, shopping, museums, universities, etc. My friend's mother (a doctor) said that Iran was more open to seeing women as educated professionals than the US was at that time.

After the revolution, they lost everything there, just gone, seized by the new government. Over the next few years, they would sneak back into the country, to smuggle out family and friends and whatever portable, valuable stuff they could, and said the place turned into a shit hole, practically overnight.

Posted by: Phinn at August 10, 2010 07:04 PM (GiUTT)

58
After the revolution, they lost everything there, just gone, seized by the new government. Over the next few years, they would sneak back into the country, to smuggle out family and friends and whatever portable, valuable stuff they could, and said the place turned into a shit hole, practically overnight.

Posted by: Phinn at August 10, 2010 11:04 PM (GiUTT)

horrid.

i hopet hey are well and fighting for moderation for the remaing populace,

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:07 PM (SbsTp)

59
Anxiously awaiting the return of the leisure suit and boogie nights with the Bee Gee's.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 07:08 PM (v1gw3)

pictures i have seen re afghanistan pre russia /america war were much the same? true?

sad if so

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:09 PM (SbsTp)

61 What was the name of the famous disco joint in New York? Studio 57?

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 07:10 PM (LvpZn)

62 Fish ye g-ds the blue and white suits with huuuuge platform shoes for men. not OUR brightest moment.

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:10 PM (SbsTp)

63
What was the name of the famous disco joint in New York? Studio 57?

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 11:10 PM (LvpZn)

Yea, in honor of all the states in the union.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 07:11 PM (v1gw3)

64
Fish ye g-ds the blue and white suits with huuuuge platform shoes for men. not OUR brightest moment.

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 11:10 PM (SbsTp)

Agreed. One of my favorites? The platform shoes for women or pimps with water and goldfish in the heels. Bitchin'!

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 07:12 PM (v1gw3)

65 What was the name of the famous disco joint in New York? Studio 57?

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 11:10 PM (LvpZn)

Yea, in honor of all the states in the union

. haha and the one he already went to!

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:13 PM (SbsTp)

66 water and goldfish in the heels. Bitchin'!

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 11:12 PM (v1gw3)

whew , i'm thankful i missed it!

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:14 PM (SbsTp)

67
Well willow, how about zebra striped shoes with goldfish heels.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 07:16 PM (v1gw3)

68 This just pisses me off. I remember at Uof W Seattle the Iranian students all cloaked and hooded protesting the Shah, while they wheeled around fucking campus in theirTrans Am's, schmoozin'. Huge protests in Red Square.

Most of us at the time were sayin' WTF? What's yer goddamm prob?

How's this for chicken's coming home to roost? Didn't realize you were ushering in a Theological dictator? a fundamentalist bent on slappin' your freedom down like so much dirt? How'd ya not know that? huh? huh?

Gonna happen here because our little privileged sons and daughters got no f'in' clue. Gonna usher it in yet again. This time, we pay.

Gah!

Posted by: Derak at August 10, 2010 07:18 PM (oOFag)

69 70
Well willow, how about zebra striped shoes with goldfish heels.
crazy, but glad i saw tht, if for little but giggling. those were times of a forhead slap! what were they thinking!

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:19 PM (SbsTp)

willow, the tough part was taking the shoe apart to feed the goldfish everyday.

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 07:22 PM (LvpZn)

71
Excuse me. Off to dream of field stripping my .45 and reassembly in the dark, and the impending revolution. Good night.

Posted by: Fish at August 10, 2010 07:24 PM (v1gw3)

heh Ron,

Nite Fish, sleep well.

Posted by: willow at August 10, 2010 07:28 PM (SbsTp)

73 Later, I have to be up by at least 10 tomorrow.

Posted by: Ronster at August 10, 2010 07:30 PM (LvpZn)

74 those were times of a forhead slap! what were they thinking! Posted by: willow

Um, there are these things called drugs...

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at August 10, 2010 07:31 PM (oL8lS)

75 I am lusting for those gals in the pictures. Made my peanuts swell like the dickens.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 10, 2010 07:34 PM (r0u40)

76 My parents had some next door neighbors who had come to Michigan from Iran after the Shah fell. The word was that the patriarch was fairly high up in the Iranian military. These people referred to themselves as Persians and had no use for the khomeini and that extremist ilk. They were very westernized and very nice people. One of them would get a ham from their employer at Easter and always gave it to my parents. Good people, liked America, and the gals in that family liked to have a good time just like anyone else.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 10, 2010 07:38 PM (1y717)

77 This just pisses me off. I remember at Uof W Seattle the Iranian students all cloaked and hooded protesting the Shah, while they wheeled around fucking campus in theirTrans Am's, schmoozin'.

Lovely, just lovely.

I have a coworker, Iranian married with kids, who was in the US at the time - joint US / Iran military position.

At the revolution Iranians were given a 'reprieve' to stay in the US. After a while Carter decided only the collage kids could stay indefinitely, and, oddly, military loyal to the Shah were... he (with his wife and kids) were deported... their was a lull in the Mullahs angst against the US and he got his passport & us visa in order to immigrate... he said they got a plane out the last day before the mullahs closed the ports.

it was one of those 'take what you have on your back' mad dashes to the terminal to pay cash for tickets the same day he got his visa.

Posted by: Alien at August 10, 2010 07:44 PM (qYCiM)

78 Actually, looking at the 70's, I think the Pet Rock craze was an omen for the 2008 election. It was a lot of the same people, if you think about it ...

Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 07:48 PM (Qp4DT)

79 I want to know more about this. My history ended when I left those Iranians protesting on campus. Thanks Alien @82. It picked up again last year when the kids went nutz and defied those f*ing Mullahs.

Those Persians got subdued by their Arabian Islamic masters. Anyone got some history books they'd like to recommend?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Derak at August 10, 2010 07:51 PM (oOFag)

80 I remember people talking about Studio 54 as if they were in on all the latest international gossip.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 10, 2010 07:56 PM (Adi4S)

81 "He should go write some more horrible poetry; at least that doesn't fuck up anything other than kill a few trees before that drivel gets remaindered." Wait! You mean Al Gore AND Jimmeh Carter wrote bad poetry? Am i seeing a pattern here? is this some kind of Idiot Savant thing?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 10, 2010 07:58 PM (1y717)

82 I loved the 70's because I became a teenager in 1974. Life is never as easy or as fun as it is as a teenager for the most part. Nothing will ever beat the feeling and excitement the first time a girl slid her hand over your fun place. It's been a quest to replicate that feeling ever since.

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2010 08:10 PM (Kt4uD)

83 The Iranian guy has smooth style and panache.

You guys just need to get into the concept of babe-o-lishous.

Mock not the 70's.

Posted by: Guy Karate at August 10, 2010 08:17 PM (gma26)

84 Thank you Jimmy Carter "The Ayatollah is a religious man like me" Carter!

He sounds a bit like Mike Bloomberg.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 08:21 PM (mHQ7T)

85 Jimmy Carter Says Yes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2-f-_EwrQ

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 08:32 PM (mHQ7T)

86 Those Persians got subdued by their Arabian Islamic masters. Anyone got some history books they'd like to recommend?

Very short term history is this - the grandfathers teach the grandsons, the grandmothers their granddaughters. Which is why the rebellious young adult are being radical, to be as free as the grandparents remembered they were. But those memories will be lost soon as the grandparents are buried.

Written short term history is well enough, but it will always lead you back to WWII or The Great War, pivotal events, but the forest for the tree your face is shoved into Godwin's Law.

Get a couple of broad based ancient and medieval history textbooks - interesting that having a thousand years of civilization boiled down to 500 pages, every chapter is how a king or prosperous government is thrown down by conspiracy (usually involving mass migration by _____).

Even after "those Persians got subdued by their Arabian Islamic masters" they rebelled and refound their culture... they may do it again, but need a little help out the door and down the path.

Posted by: Alien at August 10, 2010 08:38 PM (qYCiM)

87 Kinda nifty. In a sad way.

In 30-40 years, people are going to look at images of pre-Obama America and say the same thing.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at August 10, 2010 08:45 PM (9PzaA)

88 My parents used to go on ski trips to Iran when we lived in Bahrain in the early 70's.

Posted by: Oil Field Trash at August 10, 2010 08:55 PM (Up7+K)

89 These people did not go from normal to nuts. The nuts were already there, and they simply got a ton of power.

Democracy is not always a very good thing. Islam has poisoned the poor and numerous of this region. It's designed to do so. If you're suffering, you're glorious and submitting. It's the ultimate 'it's not your fault you're fat' expression.

The 'liberal' of Persia were led by a Shah that simply went too far too fast. Reminds me, in a way, of the ACLU's ripping down the Ten Commandments, only times 11 billion.

Some of those people are still in Iran, sadly, waiting for thus nuttiness to die out. It appears that it will not. Obama sat aside when he could have made a difference. Everyone said he was so smart, because Iran should do it on her own and he would only give cause to conspiracy theory. Stupid, stupid stupid.

Posted by: Legendary Former Rapist Roman Polanski at August 10, 2010 09:17 PM (dUOK+)

90 62

pictures i have seen re afghanistan pre russia /america war were much the same? true?

sad if so

Offgoneeston has and always will be a Medieval shithole.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2010 09:26 PM (IqfKc)

91

LOL on the pyramid tits.

Mr. Jordan (pronounced JER-dun) developed something of a difficult reputation during his White House years. At one point, the White House felt compelled to release a 33-page statement denying that he had spat a drink at a woman in a bar; at another, Mr. Jordan denied an accusation that he had insulted the wife of the Egyptian ambassador at a state dinner by referring to her breasts.

Posted by: hobgoblin at August 10, 2010 10:58 PM (SgJIM)

92 some of the hottest gals in oui magazine from the early '70s were persian lasses

Posted by: sven10077 at August 10, 2010 11:26 PM (kq1lG)

93 It is too late now. Maybe i should be waken up by alarm clock tomorrow.Good night,everyone.

Posted by: 1r0716 at August 11, 2010 12:06 AM (RIrMp)

Miss Marple @26:

AMEN! DAMN, DID I HATE THE 70'S!!!!!

From Watergate on, the whole damn decade sucked. I was truly afraid that America was done. To this day I wouldn't spit on Carter, much less shake his hand. What a despicable fool!

Only three things gave me any hope in those years: 1) I started seeing bumper stickers that said, "Disco Sucks!"; 2) Margaret Thatcher got elected in the U.K.; 3) Ronald Reagan.

May God bless Lady Thatcher and President Reagan forever, and may He damn the Democrat traitors to the deepest pit in Hell for just as long.

Posted by: mac at August 11, 2010 12:12 AM (gSYTw)

Detroit filter

Fleetguard filter

Perkins filter

Donaldson filter

Caterpillar filter

Volvo filter

Field equipment

and so on

Posted by: 1r0716 at August 11, 2010 12:17 AM (RIrMp)

96 Gas lines, coffee and cigarette prices through the roof, interest rates high as a cat's ass. It was a horrible time. I was just a young teen and I knew how bad it was. My sister's best friend was an Iranian girl from college who spent tons of time at our house. I called her my 3rd sister. I will always remember the abrupt way she got sent home. It left a big impression on me. I remember my mild mannered daddy throwing a coffee cup at the tv during the Malaise speech and saying Carter was "Sorrier than bat shit." And now we have a repeat. I think the country feels it must lose its collective mind every few decades, just so we can see just how bad things can get.

Posted by: di butler, maker of bad decisions at August 11, 2010 01:13 AM (8TRAy)

97 You need to get out more, Laura. If you were out enjoying nightlife, you would have noticed that girls are still wearing revealing tops, skintight mini skirts, and skintight hot pants, too. I don't know what it was like back in the 70's. But I very much doubt that girls were any different then than they are now. A sexy girl is a sexy girl.

Posted by: just ruminating here at August 11, 2010 01:38 AM (sYrWB)

98 Good Morning M&Ms

I see we have the nostalgia for the 70s kick going last night. I am surprised for two reasons. First because I didn't think most of the morons were old enough to remember the 70s and second, because things must really be bad bad bad now because things were not so hot then.

I recall seeing an Iranian destroyer (American built of course) tied up at the pier in San Diego when I was there for C school in 1976. I thought then, what if? That what if wasn't long in coming.

But there are a lot of other "not good" things about the 70s. Alternating gas lines (note to the young morons - you got to wait in lines to get gas on even or odd days depending if the last number on your tag was even or odd), extreme interest rates (more later), shitty cars toward the last part of the decade, and finally in that last part of the decade, the decline of the music industry.

I would say that the first part of the decade, other than Nixon's reign of liberal terror, was pretty good from a music standpoint. What most people put down as "60s acid rock" actually occurred in the early 70s. What people attribute to the 70s occurred in the last half of the decade after Jimmy Peanut took office. In fact, I would say there is really a trend going there with the perceived decade being an overlap from the previous calender decade.

With that in mind, the 70s era of malaise lasted until the mid-80s. Which brings us back to those high interest rates. I bought my current house in late 1981. I was lucky. The going interest rate at the time was 18% but my house was built with what they called "set aside" money. I got my mortgage at 13.75% by agreeing to pay 6 pp (6% interest paid up front) which was just pure profit for the bank. The interest rates in our area peaked at 21%. That is more in keeping with credit card interest than home mortgages.

So here we go again. We have Jimmy II in office, with the exception that 1) He is a Muslim, more friendly to the rulers of the Middle East than he is to American citizens and 2) He is not of the socialist "Christian charity" type, he is a Communist with a bent towards pushing wealth to inner city black activist politicians. He also appears to have an active dislike for America and its history. He truly does remind me of the average person you met in the ports of Asia in the 70s. They loved American dollars and they hated American citizens except as a mechanism to deliver those dollars. Keep in mid that Obammy grew up under that influence in his formative years from 6 to 10 years of age.

With all that in mind, it is imperative that his program of activist redistribution and America destroying disarmament not only be stopped, but that it be rolled back out of existence. If that doesn't begin this Fall I am afraid this country, as we know it is doomed.

And that really should be the campaign slogan of conservative Republicans this Fall.

Posted by: Vic at August 11, 2010 02:30 AM (/jbAw)

If Obama and the rest of the Commiecrats remain in power that's what we'll be showing our grandkids: Pictures from the day when freedom was alive and well in America.

Posted by: Sickofobama at August 11, 2010 02:41 AM (PebMk)

100 108 Morning Vic _{^{(and all other morons)}}
You trying to take over the doom and gloom morning report in Monty's absence?

_{^{(j/k: I know you are trying to cheer us up with your post, that's why you left out the bad stuff...)}}

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at August 11, 2010 03:07 AM (f0UXf)

101 You trying to take over the doom and gloom morning report in Monty's absence?

LOL, nah, the old we must take it back now meme is one that has been going for a while.

And Looks like we have Dem cross-over vote tampering in the GA Rep primary runoff for Gov.

Posted by: Vic at August 11, 2010 03:25 AM (/jbAw)

102 And Looks like we have Dem cross-over vote tampering in the GA Rep primary runoff for Gov.

Is that filed under the category of "unprecedented", "unexpected", or "hope and change" ?

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at August 11, 2010 03:31 AM (f0UXf)

103 I would have hoped that they had some kind of "protection" to prevent that in GA.

Any GA Republicans here who are up on that?

Here in SC if you vote in the Rep primary it is marked on the voter rolls and (1) you can't then vote in any Dem primary and vice-versa and (2) in the event of a runoff you are restricted to vote in the runoff for the primary you originally voted in.

Posted by: Vic at August 11, 2010 03:36 AM (/jbAw)

104 Back in the 70s, getting stoned had a completely different meaning for Iranian women. But, thanks to that great champion of human rights, Jimmah Carter....

Posted by: Reiver at August 11, 2010 03:45 AM (64S5N)

105 I would have hoped that they had some kind of "protection" to prevent that in GA.

Here in Nebraska we vote whether judges are retained (every 4 years). In 30 years of watching elections I have yet to see a judge fail to be retained (unless they retire), even ones that made ridiculous, stupid rulings that were well publicized. The usual excuse is that voters are idiots, it is much more likely that the excuse is a cover for corruption.

If voting made a difference they would not let people do it...

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at August 11, 2010 03:56 AM (f0UXf)

106 It makes it even more scary that they could go from normal to nucking futz the way they did.

Scary that the JIHADIST REVOLUTIONARIES could so quickly violently overtake the Shah's Iran, populated by a highly intelligent and Western allied population, the way Carter helped. But then, look who had the guns and motive with experience to kill whoever got in the way. Murderers.

It certainly wasn't the first bloody revolution that subjected a nation to hateful change. It happened with Hitler's thugs in a Democratic German Republic, just as it had happened to the Czar's autocracy.

I worked with an gorgeous Iranian woman who immigrated just before that revolution. She was absolutely brilliant. I thought she was exaggerating when she said she'd be killed if she returned; the Tehran Embassy incident hadn't yet happened. She was sponsored stateside by our boss who "adopted" her, being an egomaniac power player who feigns compassion amongst his academic superiors. A year ago I saw him on a PBS documentary, still a male whore playing a white haired metaphysical priest now.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 11, 2010 06:35 AM (H+LJc)

107 Vic @ 6:30

Roll back Odoombama.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 11, 2010 06:40 AM (H+LJc)

108 You can thank Jimmy Carter for all this.

Went he stopped the bribes to the mullahs, which the CIA had been paying for 30 years, the mullahs over threw the Shah.

Good work Jimmy Boy!

Posted by: Kemp at August 11, 2010 07:29 AM (2+9Yx)

109 I'll never forget that a great guy in our High School was a Iranian transfer student who was going back to Iran after graduation. It was in 1978- I always feel bad about the horrendous timing if he was as he seemed, a down to earth modern guy.

Posted by: jjshaka at August 11, 2010 08:25 AM (m2UVQ)

110 Progressoverpeace The left's pet rock is now my new Obama descriptor.

Posted by: SarahW at August 11, 2010 09:43 AM (Z4T49)

111 I lived through the hideous decline that was the Seventies, it never occurred to me anyone would want to pick up where that decade left off and go downhill some more.

Posted by: SarahW at August 11, 2010 09:46 AM (Z4T49)

112 I was in pilot training in the USAF 66-67. We had two Iranian students in our class training to go back to Iran and fly F-4s. Always wondered what happened to those guys--nice guys, too--if they survived the revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, etc. How ironic if my sons and theirs might end up at gunpoint a few short years hence.. I could never say enough bad things about Carter--always thought it impossible to get any worse. Shows how naive I was...and I've got a PhD in Political Science....shows the value of THAT as an instrument of predictive power...

Posted by: virgil xenophon at August 11, 2010 01:19 PM (w2lyM)

113 I didn't know Tony Orlando was Iranian.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 10, 2010 10:37 PM (jdlOu)

Creeping me out man!

I actually knew a Persian dude in Chicago, who was kind of noted for his uncanny resemblance to Tony Orlando...

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