- The Egyptian People are still very angry at their trillionaire dictator, even though Dick Cheney has said repeatedly that Mubarak is “a good man” and “an extraordinary [rendition] friend.” And now labor strikes have erupted all over Egypt, including a sit-in by “about 6,000 workers at five service companies owned by the Suez Canal Authority,” and walk-outs at the Health Ministry. Meanwhile, Mubarak has created a committee of judges and legal scholars to propose friendly solutions to all this civil unrest. Apparently this committee is full of Mubarak sympathizers, so they will probably suggest “calling in the scabs.” [NYT]
- A federal judge has ordered BP to pay an Eskimo family $4.9 million, for failing to ask if it was “okay” before drilling for delicious oil on the family’s land. Rude! Tony Hayward, get thee to cotillion! [ADN]
- North Korean military people walked out on discussions with South Korea. (Sigh.) More artillery bombardments and needless death. [NYT]
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Isn’t Dick Cheney calling you a friend a guaranteed trip to hell?
No, just a shot to the face.
Verily, it is the kiss of death.
Dude, where's my alt-text?
We oldes can see it, but ya need cataracts.
Oh sure, now it's there, because of the complaining!
And given the choice, I'd take "labor strikes" over "Predator drone strikes" most days.
Postmodern Nileism.
Nice.
In solidarity with the Egyptian workers/stoners/future porn entrepreneurs I am engaging in a thumb-rating strike until my p-ness reaches 100. You're going to have to earn them people (blowjobs).
Just gave a you fist (up) for your orneriness and p-whoring.
When I do p-whoring, everyone just ignores me, as do they for my awesome, well-composed posts.
You mean to tell me that no one here at least as a slight case of Jungle Fever?
SHUT UP you of the over-100 p-ness…
And, for that, I've upfisted you so that you can join me in these rare ranks.
I ain't too proud to beg, that's for damn sure.
Pee slut!
Pssst! The problem is the Avatar. It looks disturbingly like Neil Boortz, the Rightard Radio Blowhard from Big A.
That's the genius part! It's actually someone way more famous and reprehensible.
Please don't tell me who. I've already thrown up in my own mouth thinking about Boortz.
Is the Eskimo/ Inuit family related to Todd Palin? A rainbow coalition of grifters?
This Alaskan family doesn’t by chance have the last name of Palin does it?
Dick Cheney and Hosni Mubarak, fellow-trillionaires, belong to an exclusive hunt club, where the game to be hunted is man. Cheney has already scored one; now it's Hosni's turn.
Correction, both have scored in the hundreds of thousands. No snark here. They are both murderous cocksuckers, but too cowardly to get their own hands dirty/bloody.
If they start striking at Suez, this thing will be over in a jiffy, and probably not in a pretty fashion. Yikes. /oopsforgotthatyou'resupposedtopretendit'snotallaboutoil
Oil? Perish the thought! This is about .. uh … stuff … and things …
Plus Israel, don't forget Israel.
Meanwhile, Mubarak has created a committee of judges and legal scholars to propose friendly solutions to all this civil unrest.
Hosni should have taken his ill-gotten wealth and fled, because it's starting to look like violence is the going to be the end game in this revolution, and Mubarak will probably lose.
Stretch out those hammys, people. It could be time for a Mubarak head kick.
When Cheney's calling you a good man, you know you're an evil fucktard.
"a good man” and “an extraordinary [rendition] friend.”
Man, that's good snark.
Ah, "scabs." Takes one back to the days when union workers were working class heroes, taking on the vested interests and fighting the plutocrat class for the good of all, instead of a bunch of over-compensated government employees hanging on and goofing off until their fat pensions kick in.
In Egypt, don't they call them "scarabs"?
And they single-handily brought down the American Auto Industry!
No, that was the salaried/exempt designers of the Pontiac Aztek.
God, tell me that is snark.
The Doobie Brothers walk like an Egyptian?
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Nothing suits a massive popular uprising in the Middle East like forty-year-old MOR pop hits!
If I were Mubarak I wouldn't go putting that Cheney said I was “a good man” on my resume anytime soon. That will only hurt future employment options when one of the most evilest men in the world sais your an "extraordinary [rendition] friend."
I think you mean they will decide to "call in the scarabs" in which case we are going to have to send Brendan Frazier in to deal with this.
in which case the strike will be ended by strenuous application of boredom.
I'm sure he'll just be grateful for the work.
Will he bring Rachel Weisz with him?
What's the point of a labor strike when everyone's already unemployed?
Actually a number of the Egyptian poorz are worried that starvation may kick in iffin' this protest / strike extends much long. In a variation of the Raygun-Cheney-Laugher trickle down in 'Murica where the rich piss on the poor, in Egypt it is crumbs falling off of tables and trays – but if no one is eating on the street there ain't no crumbs.
The long-running case pitted the Oenga family against the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, BP and other oil companies that own leases at Prudhoe Bay.
It's good to see that the BIA is continuing its time-honored tradition of screwing over Native Americans at any given opportunity.
Boss Indians Around.
Someday we'll be able to reminisce about this history Texas school board style: Kids, back in 1869 Dick Cheney was born in the Suez Canal, where, at a young age he suffered from heart ailments. Worried for his health, young Dicky stole the heart of a young gypsy for his own, thereby granting full soveriegn rights to the Amurrrican people to the hearts of all gypsies, erm, Egyptians, forever and ever amen.
In the movie he's played by Robert Duvall (Secondhand Liars).
And now labor strikes have erupted all over Egypt
The bastards aren't following the script we've written for them!
According to the NYT, "Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have each repeatedly pressed the United States not to cut loose Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, too hastily," and it's apparently working. All those "leaders" and many others are evidently pissing in their pants. Before Obama goes by the majority opinion, it may be useful for him to remember that democratic countries are in a minority worldwide.
Also useful to remember that the leaders offering their opinion are the same leaders who haven't been able to settle any of this shit for the last FORTY YEARS! The one thing most incompetents are good at is defending their incompetence.
Is there anything else we can do to sell out the Egyptian people? We're busy screwing over people in Afghanistan and Iraq but that's more hands-on. How much direct screwing are we expected to do here?
Don't forget us here in US America. We no longer middle class, now working poor. We're getting ass fucked without the pee points.
Have we sent in the Marines for 'peacekeeping' purposes and to 'protect American citizens' (oil companies doing business in Egypt) yet?
What a surprise; you've got four non-democratic countries (no, Israel's not really a democracy) who are afraid an actual democracy in their reason would be a bad example for their people.
It's no wonder why the Brits have a bee in their bonnet. Another slap. First the little biddle puddle of oil in the gulf, then the return of Sir WInston Churchill's bust, and now this. Almost five million to an Eskimo. America should be thanking the Brits for going out of their way to ruin our natural resources, not punishing and scolding them.
It is kind of weird, though, to see that even a brutal dictator like Mubarak is not being as much of an evil douche to striking workers as Ronald Reagan was.
Firing the ATCs was but one step on Saint Ronnie's path to beatification.
Hungary! Czechoslovakia! Selma! Tiananmen Square! Egypt!
GO FREEDOM! GO DEMOCRACY!
Hooray for the USofA!!!!!
(any money in it?)
Not yet, but anyone want to start a pool to guess Hosni M.'s departure date–and while we're at it, Silvio B.'s?
Don't forget Poland!
This stupid country has demonized labor for so long I forgot about the word "scab". Riley probably had to look that up, due to his fresh innocence.
American Family Association’s Chief Being Racist Correspondent Bryan Fischer will not be pleased. As long as these Eskimos continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture, activist federal judges should let BP drink all their milkshakes, and these Eskimos should just be happy their blankets are not smallpox-infected.
Unfortunately, due to worldwide blubber shortages (blubber being official Eskimo currency) the judge ordered the shortfall to come from Rush Limbaugh's back fat.
THANKS I'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT…
The Egyptian people should be patient. You can't form a world wide Caliphate overnite.
You would think that Mubarak and his family would take the hint and GTFO but when one has been an autocratic dictator whose word is law and is the richest person in the world it is hard to accept that the ride is over.
Someone needs to say "See you later, Hosni". And take Omar Suleiman with you.
Even if you're the richest person in the world going in to exile is expensive. Do you know how much a decent suite goes for these days? It's outrageous.
I don't think we need to worry about Egypt –
I'm sure the space aliens who built the pyramids will be back soon to straighten things out there.
It is starting to look like time for Hosni to "seek medical treatment" in the US and never return. Although the protestors don't seem as hell bent on killing him as the leaders of the 1979 Iranian revolution, I 'm guessing that feeling will only grow along with the protests and the amount of corruption that everyone suspected is confirmed or exceeded.
Here's hoping Mubarak fires the striking air traffic controllers.
What's next? Barry and Sister Sarah have an affair?? Maybe?
Or, an attractive, white teen gets kidnapped at some exotic vacation spot.
Overtime, paid vacations, medical & overthrowing the hated regime?
Sounds like those unions will be getting a few billion new members to sign up by March.
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