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  • #76
    Maybe that's just an unflattering pic, but she doesn't look like she's quite in the same league.

    I guess this is going to be a "luscious Middle Eastern monarchs" threadi until we get more info out of Cairo, huh?
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    • #77
      Originally posted by Elok View Post
      Maybe that's just an unflattering pic, but she doesn't look like she's quite in the same league.

      I guess this is going to be a "luscious Middle Eastern monarchs" threadi until we get more info out of Cairo, huh?
      She's alright. She's better than every first lady we've had in the US since Kennedy, though.



      I mean her vs. Hilary? Her vs. Laura Bush? Her vs. Michelle Obama? And all the previous ones were a bit up there in age though who knows how Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan looked in their youths?
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      • #78
        Originally posted by Elok View Post
        I guess this is going to be a "luscious Middle Eastern monarchs" threadi until we get more info out of Cairo, huh?
        The Speaker of the parliament is due to make an "important announcement".

        Meanwhile the HQ of the NDP is still burning but as it sits right next to the National Museum people are worried that things could go very bad.
        "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
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        • #79
          Mubarak is on TV...
          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
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          • #80
            Originally posted by Elok View Post
            Hot chick, loves charity...she's like Angelina Jolie without the crazy! Or the two billion adopted orphans. I imagine her boobs are real, too. And she's not an actress. Okay, she's nothing like Angelina Jolie. But she's a really nice hottie!
            Too western acting and looking, obviously well off so must be corrupt, etc, etc...

            So the detractors say.
            Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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            • #81
              Wezil's thumbnail interpretation:

              Sorry about all the dead.

              I'm not so bad.

              I have no problem with demonstrations but I must defend stability.

              I know you are unhappy.

              I am working hard to fix things.

              We can't fix things through violence.

              We are going to keep making things better.

              I love poor people.

              Don't trust economists.

              More jobs and housing coming if we are stable.

              Otherwise we will go down the drains.

              Please resist further plots to reduce our stability.

              I'm a war hero.

              Egypt is great.

              More democracy and freedom coming.

              More jobs and housing.

              Recent events leave the majority fearful.

              I cannot allow this fear.

              Requested government to step down and I will designate a new government tomorrow.

              I will not be lax or tolerant.

              God save Egypt and may peace be upon you all.
              "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
              "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Elok View Post
                Maybe that's just an unflattering pic, but she doesn't look like she's quite in the same league.

                I guess this is going to be a "luscious Middle Eastern monarchs" threadi until we get more info out of Cairo, huh?
                I know this is a bit of a threadjack but it's interesting to note the different historical approaches to royal wives/concubines between Europe and the Islamic world. Whereas in Europe royals married their familial relations almost exclusively even when intermarrying, in the Middle East, emirs, sultans, or what have you, almost exclusively married (or had harems consisting of) commoners or slaves. In fact, it was a matter of pride among the Ottoman Sultans that they were all half non-Turkish slave.

                Just interesting to see the divergence in approach. Islamic monarchs were anything but inbred, unlike their European counterparts.

                In the Arabian peninsula, though, my understanding is the Saudis and the various emirs of the other states are doing some pre-modern European stuff though with their web of intermarriages. So the historical tendency in the Islamic world is being reversed for political/diplomatic expediency.
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                "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                • #83
                  As long as we know Egypt's going to have a dictatorship whether Mubarak falls or not, we might as well be choosy and pick the dictator that is pro-West.
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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                    As long as we know Egypt's going to have a dictatorship whether Mubarak falls or not, we might as well be choosy and pick the dictator that is pro-West.
                    This is so funny in so many ways that you want to weep
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                    • #85
                      The Yemanis have started to protest too http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12295864
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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
                        This is so funny in so many ways that you want to weep
                        One imagines fears that a Muslim Brotherhood take over of the country (seeing as they are the largest and best organized opposition to the Army) would undermine the 1979 peace treaty with Israel raising the likelihood of another war significantly plays into the calculation you weep over.
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                        • #87
                          A vice president has been appointed.
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                          • #88
                            Does that mean he becomes president when Mubarak is ousted?
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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by Snotty View Post
                              The Yemanis have started to protest too http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12295864
                              That was like 2 days ago. It was been posted in the other thread.
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                              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                                A vice president has been appointed.
                                The people take to the streets with the unified message that the President must go. So what does he do? He appoints a Vice-President. :doh:

                                I'm starting to believe Mubarak is deaf as well as old.
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                                "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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