muck4doo: You are cute though, and he was just trying to flirt. I'm an old fart now at 41, but if I was 15 years younger i would be trying to flirt with you as well. Now, I like my women in their mid 30's. He didn't mean any harm.

Really?

Here's how you sound: Even though you've been talking about the article and the situation in Egypt you have a vagina and since my dick wants to get wet at every possible blah blah blah blah blah.

1. you have no idea how old I am. Even though it's painfully easy to figure out. Look at the handle and do the math.

2. I'm not here to pick up cock. Further no one who doesn't already know me even knows if I'm into cock. Or if cock is into me, rather.

3. Your mom.

4. FOr all you know, I am a dude. Just like the one operating as the alt Littleblondegarglecocks.

Happy Hours: onestr8: I like that everyone on here is saying how great Al Jazeera is when they didn't even cover the first day of protest instead airing sports, a documentary about an Egyptian novelist and coverage of the Palestinian situation. Great job AJ!

Yeah, CNN is so much better. Like I said when I turned them on this morning I got Justin Beiber. Why is he news? Shouldn't he be relegated to the cover of Tiger Beat or something?

It's not news... it's...

COME ON, EVERYBODY.

SAY IT WITH ME.

*whar* tatsuma.
whar.

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Well if you're just going to post links to stupid songs at least try to have a little class.

Mr. Cairo - his friends (new window)

and you know what?
the cure is not stupid.
your FACE is stupid.

/since we seem to have derailed and gone full retard.

Sarcastica75: If you want to keep it light in a heavy thread then post something funny.

OK

nekom: NemoD:
Apparently the 21st century "White Man's Burden" is "Brown people can't have democracy because they're too brown to make the right choices, so we need to install iron fist despots to keep them in line." The GOP, always on the wrong side of history.

To be fair, I'm not aware of any dictators actually installed by western governments. We do tend to back some of them because they are willing to play ball, but that's technically different.

He should have said "we install governments to allow us to suck up their lands resources so we dont have to use our own"

shastacola: nekom: Sarcastica75:
Looters gonna loot.

Unfortunately, this. In ANY situation there will be those who will seize the opportunity to enrich themselves at the expense of others. This situation is no different. Human nature and all that.

Well, there is the small fact that the looters didn't take anything from the museum and destroyed what they could. They also "looted" a childrens hospital which resulted in the deaths of a 4 year old and a 7 year old. Strange behavior for "looters".

So what do you believe it is?
And are you going on gut feeling and speculation from what you are seeing or is someone reporting a differing viewpoint?

Is it the protesters?
Is it the government?
What?

What dissapoints me is that so much of the posting on this thread reflects fark's need (especially on the politics tab) to treat events like this as a spectator sport. Let's spin this to show Obama/GOP/CNN/AJ or whoever sucks.

This is a painfully complex event and nobody really understands how it started, who (if anybody) is leading it or how far it will really go.

Better to observe, learn and share accurate information than spout your intellectually infantile political opinions.

what_now: Sarcastica75: If you want to keep it light in a heavy thread then post something funny.

OK

See? That's how I define "cute".

/and funny in this case.

muck4doo: talking about how the Jews poisoned the wells

we did? why did I not get the memo?

//puts down water jugs

Sarcastica75: *whar* tatsuma.
whar.


He doesn't roll on Shabbos.


If anyone prefers there revolution inspiringly edited and set to American pop music (new window)

what_now: Sarcastica75: *whar* tatsuma.
whar.


He doesn't roll on Shabbos.


If anyone prefers there revolution inspiringly edited and set to American pop music (new window)

Lame though it may be, I really dig that guy's short speech.
No one should ever be silenced.
And I fully acknowledge my bias as a bleeding heart.

Excen: Sarcastica75: *whar* tatsuma.
whar.

Probably putting diesel in his armored bulldozer for the retaking of the Sinai.

/It is like 10:30 on a Saturday night where he's at. . .

NYC?

IamKaiserSoze!!!: What dissapoints me is that so much of the posting on this thread reflects fark's need (especially on the politics tab) to treat events like this as a spectator sport. Let's spin this to show Obama/GOP/CNN/AJ or whoever sucks.

This is a painfully complex event and nobody really understands how it started, who (if anybody) is leading it or how far it will really go.

Better to observe, learn and share accurate information than spout your intellectually infantile political opinions.

Are you reading the same thread I am?

Excen: Due to the social makeup of the protesters, the likely victor will be the Muslim Brotherhood political party

What makes you think that? Everything I've seen points to them being a smaller factor in this protest.

shastacola: I'm going by reports from Al Jazeera . There may be some real looting going on, but I ask you why looters wouldn't steal the relics in the museum to sell on the black market. The police have disappeared in Cairo, some looters have been found to be police officers. They are now reporting that police staff in Alexandria are supervising the looters. The police department disappears, the looting starts.

Okay. So what you seem to be saying is that police officers are pretending to be looters with the objective of destroying things? Are they operating solo? Are they under the directions of the government? Do you have a link?

Further, I'm not sure how this is supposed to be contrary to the point I made and that nekom supported. Am I missing something here?

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and you know what?
the cure is not stupid.
your FACE is stupid.

/since we seem to have derailed and gone full retard.

Oh look! I've upset a Cure fan and he (or she) hates the song I linked to as well.

Do you see a pattern here?

I never liked the Cure but I never hated them. I do hate their fans though.

I won't feel bad if you tell me you hate me too. In fact, it's what I expect of you.

Okay, relax, Francine. I was being silly to respond to the moran who went full retard on me.

Excen: From an organizational standpoint, they will be readily able to fill the political-structure vacuum created by the departure of the Mubarak administration. However, that is assuming (and it's a very, very big assumption) that the people also want the National Democratic Party out, instead of just a change in figurehead. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the protesters were also tired of the monopoly the NDP has on Egyptian politics.

I think they do, but these are young and largely secular people. They aren't interested in an Islamic Theocracy.

Excen: what_now: Excen: Due to the social makeup of the protesters, the likely victor will be the Muslim Brotherhood political party

What makes you think that? Everything I've seen points to them being a smaller factor in this protest.

From an organizational standpoint, they will be readily able to fill the political-structure vacuum created by the departure of the Mubarak administration. However, that is assuming (and it's a very, very big assumption) that the people also want the National Democratic Party out, instead of just a change in figurehead. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the protesters were also tired of the monopoly the NDP has on Egyptian politics.

I'm just going to repost what I said in the AJ thread over in politics:

Much of the US media is saying the Muslim Brotherhood is behind this, the MB did not join in until 3 days after the protest had started. The protest have to do with high unemployment, a large educated youth population and the higher cost of living (wheat prices for one), and nothing to do with the US, Israel or Islamic movements. What we are seeing is a demographic time bomb go off across the Arab world, the large under 30 under-employed internet raised group that no longer is willing to put up with leaders that won't let them buy what they want to buy and consume what they want to consume. If anything this moment will be anti-Islamic fundamentalism not for it

The MB is playing this cynically, they waited to join in until it was clear they had more to win the lose doing so, if Mubark is victorious and they got involved their will be a major crackdown, if the protesters win and they did not get involved they will have little future in Egypt. They waited 3 days to step in to see what would happen, the protesters see them as tag alongs and just as out of touch as the government.

If the government is over thrown, I suspect we will see a care taker government ran by the military and Elbardi. They will put in a road map and hold open elections with in a year. If the MB can win that election and if there are elections after that is a wide open question