After weeks of increasingly insane protests and strikes and attacks by Mubarak’s camel-riding thugs, it looks like Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden’s best friend, Hosni Mubarak, will finally resign today. This is according to Egyptian state television, which until this week was a propaganda arm of the Mubarak regime, and the Egyptian Army, which until called on to smash the protests, was the military arm of the Mubarak regime.
Crazy times.
So, despite the tearful/powerful interview with the guy who cried and was so eloquent in totally rejecting whatever backroom deals the Mubarak regime is trying to make with the military, the reports right now say it’s the Army that’s making the deal to get Mubarak out … so the Army can run Egypt again, like always, or at least like always since 1952.
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When this happens it will be a wonderful day! His dream to have his son take his place as Dick-tater will never been seen now. Once you've seen one Mubarack, you've seen
Gamal.
Did he also try to hook up through craigslist?
He's got great pecs for an 82-year-old.
What will Mubarak do? I guess he can cry away the tears of rejection with all that money he, um, earned.
No longer will he be the Earthly incarnation of Horus, nor will he become Osiris upon his death.
Isis! Isis! Ra-Ra-Ra!
It's the Thoth that counts.
Anubis would happen.
"Geb me a Min," he says, "Amset to clean out my desk before the really devastating protests Khnum."
Are you Shu about this? He's a Tefnut to crack!
Amon to that!
You're paying Aten-tion!
Oh, Egyptian state television I thought you meant Fox News. I'm sure Barry will have some upkifting words for the Egyptians to make them realize that while we'd love to see them get some democracy and justice, we're glad the army is restoring order blah blah blah. It's just business.
$70 billion can salve a lot of hurt feelings.
Power to the peeps!
I'm just gonna leave this here:
"To loosen Habib’s tongue, Suleiman ordered a guard to murder a gruesomely shackled…prisoner in front of Habib"
Time to channel Tom Lehrer!
..But during Muslim Brotherhood Week
Muslim Brotherhood Week
Coptic Christians and Sufis
Are dancing cheek to cheek
Well, the Army's got all the guns, so it makes a certain kind of sense. War is something humans do. If you look at history, it's mostly the only thing humans do.
The only thing keeping it from happening here is the Great and Glorious Second Amendment, long may it rule.
Now, we also fuck a lot; we wouldn't be hear today to look at history if that were not the case.
There's a lot of things we do everyday just to get by. But V5 is right, war is def our fave hobby.
Good point . Just ask
Rep.Chris Lee.Mubarak the Casbah?
But how does this affect me, Sarah Palin?
Let me tell you Sarah™ … No matter what happens next — even if Moses himself appeared to lead the Egyptians from slavery to freedom — it will be due to Obama's unwillingness to "put America first".
At least Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, had the class to go out in a hail of assassin's bullets while Gamel Adbel Nasser's funeral witnessed by five million people in the streets. Mubarak will just get on a plane and fly somewhere safe to count his billions.
They don't make Middle East despots like they used to.
I think he could do something novel, though, & relocate to Beijing. Paris, London, DC are played out.
Monte Carlo or GTFO.
How about Mississippi or Alabama for change?
He's trying to avoid Saddam's fate. You want to go some place where dark skinned people are lynched?
Maybe Indiana and he can be a lobbyist against that Sharia law they're trying to pass. Perfect fit.
Happiness is the Sphinx in your rear-view mirror.
"so the Army can run Egypt again, like always, or at least like always since 1952"
I hear the British offered to take over again but the Egyptians declined, saying could fuck things up all on their own.
Mubarak has got a real Kissinger thang going on. Methinks Henry and Hosni might be bros. I hear they're thinking of shacking up together so they can party with the ladies. The Swinger Brothers.
So he's got all of his money out of Egypt? Time for a new leader to fill up the ole' coffers.
Once you go, Mubarak, you'll never go back.
Well, looks like Egypt hates Republicans too. All this talk about the browns has totally knocked CPAC off the teevee. Ha ha! Guess international uprisings have a liberal bias.
hope they pick the right guy or we'll have to bring democracy the hard way
Because he was a Kurd.
Well, it makes sense, the Egyptians had the example of the great job the U.S. military did after the Second Gulf War in Iraq.
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