Iran’s morality police crack down on sale of Barbie and Ken

Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday.

As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran and tensions rise over its nuclear program, inside the country the Barbie ban is part of what the government calls a “soft war” against decadent cultural influences. “About three weeks ago the morality police came to our shop, asking us to remove all the Barbies,” said a shopkeeper in a toy store in northern Tehran.

Iran’s religious rulers first declared Barbie, made by U.S. company Mattel, un-Islamic in 1996, citing its “destructive cultural and social consequences.”

The new order, issued about three weeks ago, forced shopkeepers to hide the leggy, busty blonde behind other toys as a way of meeting popular demand for the dolls while avoiding being closed down by the police. A range of officially approved dolls launched in 2002 to counter demand for Barbie have not proven successful, merchants told Reuters. The dolls named Sara, a female, and Dara, a male, arrived in shops wearing a variety of traditional dress, with Sara fully respecting the rule that all women in Iran must obey in public, of covering their hair and wearing loose-fitting clothes.

Sara and Dara, dolls have been officially sanctioned for sale by the Iranian government. (File photo)

Despite the ban, Iran’s religious rulers declared  "Suicide Barbie" will still be available.  The doll has been openly on sale in Tehran shops and is quite popular. A spokesperson for Mattel who makes the doll said, "Suicide Barbie has become our biggest seller in the series. 







Sales are exploding especially in the Middle East. Business has been so brisk we have now begun development of the  Jihad Ken doll."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently visited Venezuela to discuss the Barbie situation with his friend Hugo Chavez.

The world is normal again.

Iran’s morality police crack down on sale of Barbie and Ken

Dropping All Pretense of Objective Reporting

Campaign headquarters for the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama.

The arrogant "Mussolini pose" just ties the whole cover together don't you think?

Lets see here... ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR...wait a minute there's the guy from the NYT's, over there is the editor from Time Magazine...isn't that Nancy leading the pack?

Dropping All Pretense of Objective Reporting

Raising the Debt Ceiling Made Simple

On a tip from Keith Grant

Obama to ask for increase in debt ceiling

 (The debt ceiling isn't a ceiling. It's an imaginary line.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/obama-to-ask-for-increase-in-debt-ceiling/2011/12/27/gIQApypjKP_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

Judging by the current trajectory, if Obama gets another term by the time he leaves office we will be in the vicinity of a whopping $ 20,000,000,000,000 in debt!!!


In other words.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

Raising the Debt Ceiling Made Simple

Forrest Chump

Notice how all his "accomplishments" have been swept under the rug.

 He sues AZ, AL, and SC for enforcing  immigration laws claiming it's the federal government's responsibility. Yet Sanctuary cities, openly defying federal statute, he turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to. 

Remarkably Fast and Furious and Solyndra have seemed to drop of the radar. 

Forrest Chump

Does Michelle Obama secretly hope her husband will be kicked out of the White House?

(I don't know about her... but the rest of us sure as hell do)

Miss Kantor writes in her new book The Obamas that the stalemate in Washington over healthcare reforms, among other initiatives, led the Obamas to muse that losing the 2012 bid for re-election might not be so bad.

They began to feel that life in the White House was something to be endured rather than savored. 

On TV this week, Mrs Obama — who was once pilloried for stating that her husband’s successful presidential campaign meant that ‘for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country’ — insisted her time in the White House had made her ‘start feeling euphoric and proud and, you know, proud of yourself and proud of your time’.

When it was suggested that some people were disappointed in the Obama presidency, she responded that they ‘may be confused about how much has been accomplished’. 

Confused???   Accomplished???   If she means destroying the economy her husband gets an A+.

The only positive coming out of his presidency was the death of Bin Laden. Which was simply a case of being in the right place at the right time.

Mrs Obama hints of feeling victimised and misunderstood will lead many to conclude she can’t get out of the White House fast enough.  

Fast enough is not fast enough.

Some might remark that ambitious people should be careful what they wish for. 

To which Michelle could be forgiven for responding that she didn’t want to be in the White House in the first place: it was all Barack’s idea.

As Shakespeare may have said:

           Oh How I Long For The Day

Does Michelle Obama secretly hope her husband will be kicked out of the White House?