Have you been watching Egypt?!?!?!

[Sue U]

Al Jazeera has been streaming live from Cairo.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ ... 57345.html

Ruling party HQ is in fire. The Speaker of the Parliament was supposed to give a televised address, now they say Mubarak will speak to the nation. Holy crap!

[@meric@nwom@n]

Yep, Holy Crap about sums up what I was thinking too.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Oh and watch Jordan too, things don't look so great their either.

[rubato]

So the question is: Is this Nicaragua where a group of leftist rebels overthrew a dictator and instituted democracy? Or is this Iran where a brutal dictator was overthrown only to have religious zealots take over.

Hmmmmmm.

yrs,
rubato

[Long Run]

The Isis of the world on Egypt.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Jordan to hell for that longrun.

[Sean]

He sphinx he's clever...

[@meric@nwom@n]

His mummy would spank him for it.

[Sean]

There's a pharoah way to go before any of this approaches anything resembling humour...

[Scooter]

Ten plagues on all your houses for such lame attempts at humour.

[loCAtek]

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who
mocks the Egyptians, and and may their arms be too short to scratch.

-great link to Al Jazeera Sue ThX!

[Econoline]

You all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Tut Tut Tut.

[@meric@nwom@n]

It seems a voice of reason would a pyramid us.

[Long Run]

It seems as if the ruling class has been in deNile about its power base.

Actually nice to hear the military is not in lock step with the Egyptian MOTU.

[Crackpot]

Odds on Mubarak meeting a bad end soon?

[BoSoxGal]

I have such a lot of respect for those folks out in the street, day after day, protesting for freedom. I hope they prevail in getting some semblance of democracy. I fear for the other possibilities that may follow this show of defiance of authority. Mubarak just refused to step down, again.

[Crackpot]

He seems completely tone deaf to the desires to of the people (and it looks like the now army as well) I don't see it ending well for him if it gets to the point he's forcibly removed.

[Gob]

It's all going to come down to whether the army remain loyal to him, without them he's screwed...

[BoSoxGal]

Mubarak resigns, hands power over to the military.

I pray for the people of Egypt, that they have won the first step toward a democracy. About time for the cradle of civilization.

[Sue U]

Muabarak quits, finally. (Will he be called the Sarah Palin of Egypt?)