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J_Ind_Boston
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:09pmAm I wrong, or did we have more people gathered at 8/28 than they have here?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:15pmNo way, I read there were only 8,000 people for 8-28. :-)
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:37pmAccording to aerial photos, they have about ten to fifteen times as many people on Tahrir square.
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:54pmThe people in Eqypt have no idea what they have done and what is to come.
Report Post »This could have been handled differently.
These people do not understand that poverty is not a way of life and that capitalism is not going to happen to their country any time soon, ever…get out the stones and burkas
mwilson85
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:08pmThe sad thing is, is that they will put in another dictator, muslim or otherwise. America is the only country in the history of the world to have a revolution where the people wanted to govern themselves. Everywhere else, they always put in leaders who promise them everything, putting all their trust in one person, hence why that part of the world (and especially Latin American countries), no matter how many revolutions they have, continue to put in dictator after dictator. You would think that after nothing gets better in these countries, they would turn toward a capitalistic, free market, free liberty society. But, unfortunately I don‘t think it’s part of their nature.
Report Post »OHSAYCANYOUSEE
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:58amIt will get interesting once they find that after a few weeks of full time revolution they have nothing to eat but sand-wiches.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:08pmOh man, I heard a budda bump from the drummer after that one.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:09pmand BBQ’d camel pellets.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:17pmYou are going to be paying for the sandwiches that they will be eating. How about we take action and make Brazil, South Korea, China, Russia and all the others pay to feed them.
Report Post »roxee
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:54amIt seems that more than 60 years of our puppets in power was Not what worked out for them. I do pray they find a way to get along together ,and with all their neighbors, and the world,and not go down another dark rode,they did not expect.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:01pmthe track record is pretty poor Roxee…..in fact not a single pipular uprising in the middle east has led to freedom and liberty for the oppressed….I have dire reservations about the chances Egypt manages to pull this off although it is possible. The only organized opposition is the Muslim Brotherhood of which enjoys wide support for their platfporm among the Egyptinas themselves…that simple fact does not bode well for a true democracy….the Lebanese Government of the late 60‘s through the 70’s was the closest the middle east has ever come to realizing freedom although that freedom would seem restricted by N American standards.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:03pmEvery leader they have had since Pharo is somebodies puppet, better ours than some mullah’s.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:07pmI just wanted to add just look how many steps backward the Lebanese state has taken since it’s Zenith (of liberty). It’s sad to see this dark revival of radical Islam making real headway in the 21st century.
I also followed the Iranian revolution very closely…the parallels are striking…the WH in 79 made the same mistakes Dingle Barry and his Hairy Band o Autocrats are making today. Saudi Arabia’s tyrants must be crapping their tunics.
Report Post »roxee
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:34pmIf you check out Miles Copeland( ex CIA) account of how the CIA, MI6,Mossad, French & Swiss Intelligence IS the Muslim Brotherhood, than it might make more sense. Freya Stark, 1955 an MI6 agent, read about her . This has all been planned for some years.Mubarak was not as good of a puppet as they needed. He was not pro UN enough,he was not NWO enough, he was toppled by the CIA and others to put a person they could really have total control of. Muslim Brotherhood was so infiltrated by 1960′s.The higher Ups on the food chain of the Brotherhood are Freemasons, just as Al Banna was,the lower ones on the food chain are radical Islamists they control. This is what they wanted since 1950′s
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:52amI bet a dollar Dingle Barry in his televised address today gives us his Mussolini pose….no doubt he’ll take some credit for this mess.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:13pmMussolini hanging upside down from the light pole?
Report Post »sarahchar09
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:52amanyone else a little terrified with what could come next !?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:05pmMore skeptical than terrified.
Report Post »Squirrel Gravy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:40pmI too, am terrified. I’m sure those living in Israel are pretty nervous! But, they will conquer…even though a lot of Jewish lives will be lost.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:49amI wonder how long it will take these people to realize that the tyrant they just booted is no better than the interim clown he was replaced by ? Talk about a hollow victory………..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:49amIf they have a million demonstrating, there are 79 million not participating. I wonder how THEY feel about it. If this kind of rioting would take place in Washington, you know who it would be, the least productive members of society. The productive people would be working and trying to take care of their families. I hope this is truely a democratic revolution but, considering where it is taking place, I have my doubts. It may be quite some time before we know.
Report Post »Seamus Muldune
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:48amAllahu akbar
Report Post »Larry Notes
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:47amAll leaders of the brotherhood need to be contained now. Israel will defend herself.
Report Post »G man
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:44amDetroit in a year.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:50amCairo was in better shape than Detroit 3 weeks ago.
Report Post »BIGDAN63
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39amlook at what happened to Iran with pressure from Carter, now whats going to happen to Egypt from the pressure from the Obama administration.
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:38amIsrael………keep your powder dry
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:34pmI would suggest that they go to their version of DefCon 2 right now.
Report Post »smokey888x2
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:38amObama: I, I, :), I, I, I’m veryhappie … for the PEOPLE, forthe freedomPEOPLE OF egypt .. (glances over at other telepromter) It’s a great day in the NEWWORLDORDER, for …. (I turn the station)
Report Post »Lucent
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amThis will not end well. The people of Egypt must pray and be vigilent. We need to pray for them to move toward the light.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:46amI agree there will be chaos for awhile. Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. I pray for them that the interim will be quickly.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:13pmI agree that we pray that the people will not want the Muslims to take over. Egypt has been better off than most Arab countries in the fact that they people are educated and have had more liberty than most. I also groan in my spirit though because I know what has to come to pass and what prophesy has to be fulfilled. All nations that surround Israel will call for her destruction. The Lord is going to destroy that wicked one with the spirit of his mouth and the brightness of his coming and he is coming toi be glorified in his saints and he is coming with ten thousands of them to execute judgement.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:30pmIt depends on their definition of “light”.
Report Post »OneFootRandy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amThis was the only conclusion possible for Mubarak, the question since this started was ‘who is going to rule afterwards’
Watch the crowds, if the refuse to subside, the military will decide the future course of events. If they become violent with the remaining protestors, expect civil war.
Report Post »The Sweeeeed
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:36amAll tgis Cairo news is making me wasn’t to
Report Post »Listen to THE CURE…FIRE IN CAIRO…
SigTau18
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:36amWhen the crowds dissipate and everyone ends up back home…they might actually realize that their new “government” will have more control over them than the previous one. Maybe they will like Sharia Law….but I had actually hoped to see the pyramids some day. I don’t think that will happen now….
Report Post »Nations
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:35amWell, there you have it. We will not be going to Egypt to see the Pyramids…They will be blown up ASAP.
If you are sleeping and are back to shopping until you drop playing your little games like you did when you were a girl, well Rome is burning down around your liberal lack of concern. (70% who voted for Obama were women). Your leader, Obama who is criminally negligent in running this once great nation is so far behind the curve he has let Ancient Egypt slip into what will become the Dark Ages of our age. Once the Islamic Brotherhood takes over that part of the world, they will blow up all those wonderful messages from the Pharaohs and their complex artifacts, pyramids and all — just like they did the massive Buddha in Afghanistan. We will lose all the great potential finds of Ancient Egypt not to mention that Israel will probably be destroyed as an afterthought. Our State Department stinks under Clinton and there is no possibility that their complacent media friends can put “spin” on the Ilk of this Progressivism.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:45amSpoken by a true macho man…. (sarcasm)
Report Post »icediva
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:12pmWell I hope you have readied ourself for the end days.
Report Post »BREORY
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 2:50pmThe pyramids will be rebuilt with a golden capstone honoring the son of God (Jesus) It will be rebuilt by the Eqyptians, Iraqis and Isralies. Read Isiaah 19.
Report Post »The Sweeeeed
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:34amAll this Cairo stuff makes me want to listen to
Report Post »FIRE IN CAIRO…. by THE CURE… Sweet
Cerealface
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:32amI like how we get to watch msnbc, and not fox.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:13pmBeck and the Blaze sold out to MSNBC…all their news footage comes from MSNBC…
now we have to listen to the moronic ******** they have at MSNBC talk over the protest and talk about how the MB won’t be that big in the government…how Bush caused all this…how Obama is the great savior of democracy in the world…
they still think this is a democratic movement…Hosni is gone but he gave his VP all the power first…
Report Post »democracy always fails because MOB RULE results in the minority being exploited or destroyed by the majority and a class system of have‘s and have not’s is intensified…
donh2
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 5:58pmSome mood music to play while watching the video clip Bobby Beausoleil’s Lucifer Rising….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7SD1QK3_uo&feature=autoplay&list=MLGxdCwVVULXfFLKv28Q3QQr3_lFB9A8u8&index=1&playnext=2
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amWatch as this unfolds. Watch the Muslim communities around the world, including the United States. This is what the Islamic Imam‘s have been preaching and this is what they want the end of all infidel’s. Don’t believe me, but watch for yourselves and be prepared.
Get closer to the one true God, pray to him for his strength.
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:44pmthese protestors are not all jihadists, all muslims are jihadists. its unlikely that the brotherhood will gain much power
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:45pmi meant all muslims are not jihadists
Report Post »forestnomad
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:47pmBWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
Looky who is wearing their special tinfoil ‘I can predict the future from my keyboard’ hats today!
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:35pm“Get closer to the one true God, pray to him for his strength.”
Which one is that? You could end a LOT of religious debates all over the place.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:39pmtbqh I was always fond of Odin. Now THERE‘s a real man’s god. Rawr!
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amNow bad boys, watcha gonna do?
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:32amWhen the muslim brotherhood comes for you.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:44amSimple response:
“Ready, aim, RUN!!!”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:51amBad boys, Bad boys…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:27amSo now which way will events swing; and how many other governments will fall in the future, and how will Obama claim the credit and glory for the changes happening.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:36amThe benevolent brotherhood will step in, comply or die will spread like a disease, and BHO will say…”See what I did? Isn’t it grand?” A new world order…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:44am@8Jrts
Agreed. I imagine Obama is having his pavlov moment right now; he must be salvatating over the total change coming about now, and how he will use it to his advantage within the UN and the world. Of course he still will try to use it to force change here in the USA.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:31pmI see it more as a “surprise” that will give the messiah his chance to just grin, look at the camera, and tell the American people “gee, they fooled me too!” while knowing he had his part in giving Egypt to the mullahs while keeping the American people in the dark.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:44pmSnow & Jrts,
Yeah but gas prices will necessarily skyrocket, and even the stupid libs will be unhappy.
Also jihadists in America are taking their cue from the MB right now. Prepare for more attacks on American soil.
Report Post »BREORY
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:28pmPeople need to read Isiaah 19 in the bible. This was prophecised 2000 years ago. Google it, it is amazing. Future of Egypt according to the word of God.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:27amWhen the party’s over the Egyptians will not be any better off than before. Their hatred for outsiders will keep them in the dark.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39am.
Report Post »Kinda like Dingle Barry Obama stuck in a very dark place……….
Robert-CA
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:41amNow the real story begins , in who’s hands Egypt will fall .
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:49amMaybe we can do the same as Egypt people did and get rid of Obama.
Report Post »Fairfield County Tea Party
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:16pmInteresting you say that… because in the end it was the Pro Mubarick (forgive spelling) folks that were attacking reporters.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:29pmAnd their new masters will be worse than the old one…..it would have been less painful for them if they’d just commited mass suicide.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:34pmCheck out Pew survey
Sobering stats from PEW
Among highlights from the Pew poll:
• 49% of Egyptians say Islam plays only a “small role” in public affairs under President Hosni Mubarak, while 95% prefer the religion play a “large role in politics.”
• 84% favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim faith.
• 82% support stoning adulterers.
• 77% think thieves should have their hands cut off.
• 54% support a law segregating women from men in the workplace.
• 54% believe suicide bombings that kill civilians can be justified.
• Nearly half support the terrorist group Hamas.
• 30% have a favorable opinion of Hezbollah.
• 20% maintain positive views of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
• 82% of Egyptians dislike the U.S. — the highest unfavorable rating among the 18 Muslim nations Pew surveyed.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:37pmThis also make Obama very happy. Their hatred of the West will cost them gazillions in tourism and with no oil, they will be poorer than they are now. Their only recourse will b e to align themselves with radicaals like Iran. Yes, Sunni’s will align with Iran and all socialists if the Little Satan and the Great Satan are the common enemy.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:44pmIslamofascism: Romantics in Western media expect “democracy” to flower from the anti-Mubarak rioting in Cairo. But evidence shows Egyptians actually seek strict Islamic rule.
It is clear we are loosing the middle east but I ask, what of Israel?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:53pmAlright FNC…I realize this is important news. I want to keep abreast on developments as much as the next guy. But GIVE IT A REST ALREADY!
I am sick of watching the same shot of the cheering crowd. I imagine this live feed will continue throughout the day…Like nothing else is happening ANYWHERE else in the world? Like you can not leave this story and just check back in every 15 minutes? Are we going to repeat the same talking heads for the next 3 days? This gets old guys I want to see some NEWS!
Okay, I am done venting…Guess I need to see what kind of cartoons are on, maybe I can catch spongebob…
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:54pmBTW, why in the hell does the Glenn Beck site use an MSNBC feed? Does Fox not have a feed on this? Why does FNC not give credit for the feed they are receiving then?
Report Post »Arm_of_god
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:03pmTime will tell, but a lot of people in the know think this could be a positive development.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:23pmThere will never be true domcracy (freedom) in Egypt…how do I know…just look at their women…
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:24pmsorry…democracy!
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:25pm@rodamaa What of Israel indeed.
I see no hope in the middle east. Like it or not, the end game is war and that war will be against Islamic governed countries, which equates with a war against Islam. There will be those that sugar coat the threat, but the threat remains. I see WWIII on the horizon.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:26pm@Arm_of_god
I pray you’re right… However, history tells me otherwise. This seems a lot like Jimmy Carter only we have a lot more at stake here.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:33pmNothing has changed, Soli is Mubaraks right hand mand appointed recently by him.
Report Post »Mubarak has NOT resigned, has has merely appointed someone to be the figure head for the public until the next election in Sept…..an election that Mubarak was not running in anyway.
rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:53pm@HippoNips
Those who ignore history… Check out Iran history when the Shaw was ousted. Those who really are aware, not lobotomize media, will tell you to watch for the second wave.
Report Post »QuantumVerp
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 2:24pmAccording to the polls one can expect they will choose a ‘government’ like Iran which isn’t allowing their citizens to demonstrate. So enjoy you’re Last Party!
BREAKING NEWS! There is a collective mind! (Unfortunately it is RETARDED!) :))
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