The Rant Rave thread

OpossumQueen wrote:
Rant: trying to deal with NYM hospital. I tried to make an appointment with them for the MRI and it was ridiculous. Extension A says to call ext B. Ext B says nope, call ext C. Ext. C says call Ext B. And so on and so forth. Nobody would let me make an appointment. Idiot fest.

Carmen wrote: [quote=MeredithB]Rave: She called me!!

I will have no rants forevermore!

MeredithB wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Did she know about your postings here and on Craigslist, or was it spontaneously from when you gave her your number?

Carmen wrote: I give it...1 week.

Carmen wrote:
Ahahahaha, TRUTH.

Mougar wrote: Rant: On the Iranian election

[quote=Obama]"My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. We weren't on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not have international observers on hand, so I can't state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election."

Last Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected with about two-thirds of the vote. Supporters of his opponent, both inside and outside Iran, were stunned. A poll revealed that former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi was beating Ahmadinejad. It is, of course, interesting to meditate on how you could conduct a poll in a country where phones are not universal, and making a call once you have found a phone can be a trial. A poll therefore would probably reach people who had phones and lived in Tehran and other urban areas. Among those, Mousavi probably did win. But outside Tehran, and beyond persons easy to poll, the numbers turned out quite different.

Some still charge that Ahmadinejad cheated. That is certainly a possibility, but it is difficult to see how he could have stolen the election by such a large margin. Doing so would have required the involvement of an incredible number of people, and would have risked creating numbers that quite plainly did not jibe with sentiment in each precinct. Widespread fraud would mean that Ahmadinejad manufactured numbers in Tehran without any regard for the vote. But he has many powerful enemies who would quickly have spotted this and would have called him on it. Mousavi still insists he was robbed, and we must remain open to the possibility that he was, although it is hard to see the mechanics of this.