July 23, 2006
I've Bought My Last Persian Rug
Two can play this boycott game. From an alleged news source:
Parvin Heydari, an Iranian mother of two, was flipping back and forth between the nightly news and Oprah when a bulletin on an Iranian state channel caught her attention. It urged Iranians to boycott what it called "Zionist products," including those made by Pepsi, Nestle and Calvin Klein, and warned that profits from such products "are converted into bullets piercing the chests of Lebanese and Palestinian children." As evidence, the voice-over intoned, "Pepsi stands for 'pay each penny to save Israel.'"
But, the article continued:
Heydari says she changed the channel, as she has no intention of crossing Nestle's Nesquik off her shopping list. "Lebanon has nothing to do with us," she says. "We should mind our own business and concentrate on policies that are good for our economy, and our kids."
Okay, if she can continue buying American, then the least I can do is to continue buying oil from that region. Maybe there are a few sane voices rising up in the mideast. I wish they were in charge.
Posted by Woody M. at July 23, 2006 04:10 PM | TrackBackCheer up Woody, there are always Afghan rugs!!:
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2006/07/17/top/16947348.txt
(not sure how to make this a link, but I know you'll know how to get to this!)
A much better deal when all is said and done, yes?
Posted by Katje at July 24, 2006 05:32 AM
What a great rug! There is a picture, but here's a description of it from the article.
One of those friendships involved a Kabul rug merchant who pulled Gile aside before he left the country. The merchant told Gile the story of an elderly man, so overwhelmed with gratitude to the United States for its intervention in the conflict that he made a gift for President Bush - a gift that was a year in the making and made, given the conditions of the country, under penalty of death.
Gile was astonished when he saw the hand-knotted rug, a portrait of Bush, filled with Christian and Catholic symbolism. Filling the center of the rug is an incredible likeness of Bush, dressed in religious vestments, standing at a podium decorated with the official seal of the country and flanked by two waving American flags.
Directly above Bush is Jesus with a sacred heart and stigmata carefully knotted into the rug's pattern. The rug also shows cherubs and, apparently in an homage to both Bush and a fallen Northern Alliance leader, two lions.
This could be a perfect gift for your Democratic friends.
Thanks, Katje!
Posted by Woody at July 24, 2006 07:28 AM
