Bits and Pieces

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | Author: Leigh

I have a few things on my mind, so let’s get right to it, shall we?

First of all, the annual monsoonal flow has arrived and dumped about three or four inches of rain on us last night. It was AWESOME! We had two big storms about five hours apart. It was great fun. Except for all the street flooding. Well, actually, that was kind of cool, too. It was fun to walk through. Here are a few pics:

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Neighbor's boat

Our street

Our street

Newspaper pic

Secondly, I know I’ve mentioned this web site before, but I totally love First Door on the Left. You should absolutely read it if you aren’t a Right Winger. Or if you are, I guess you could read it to see how um, shall we say, crazy you are? Regardless, you should read this and this for sure!

Lastly, if you ever travel to Iran, absolutely, without a doubt, do NOT break the law! Apparently the government launched a campaign on March 20th to reduce the crime rate and increase public security, resulting in the arrest and conviction of 30 individuals who will BE EXECUTED on Sunday. Yep, they’ll be hung by the neck until dead. According to the article:

The 30 had their cases tried by the highest judicial authorities and were found guilty of the charges brought against them, Iran’s judiciary said in a statement.

The verdicts are final, and the sentences will be carried out Sunday, according to Fars.

The Iranian judiciary’s statement said that all 30 were convicted of crimes including murder, murder in commission of a crime, disturbing public safety and security, being a public nuisance while drunk and being involved in illegal relationships — relationships between men and women who are not married to each other.

Kidnapping and using weapons while committing a crime were (also) among the charges.

The statement said that 20 of the people were convicted of drug and alcohol dealing, armed robbery and smuggling arms.

Holy crap, Batman! You can be executed for being drunk and disorderly??? And for having a relationship with someone you’re not married to??? Wowzers. I wonder if it’s OK to sneeze in public! Damn.

OK, so that’s what I was thinking about. Laters!