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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 07:55 PM Original message |
Look at all these countries calling for their own protest now: |
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canoeist52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. You can blow out a candle But ... |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. You missed a couple |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Thank you. Adding to my Twitter watch. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. And Jordan. |
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Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. when can we add the USA? |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:04 PM Original message |
What's stopping you?...nt |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. Cheap food, so far. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
26. Free Speech Zones, kettling.. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #26 |
43. I agree. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
38. Maybe his fellow man watching his back. Doesn't sound |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
41. It's fracking freezing out here. nt |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You're going to protest a democracy? |
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ArcticFox (654 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 02:30 AM Response to Reply #9 |
37. That's funny |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #9 |
44. you would think that |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:10 PM Original message |
we have to hit rock bottom before that happens |
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Mira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
19. We have to come together as a country firstand we have to unify what the "Uniter" divided. n/t |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. +1000...exactly! |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Thats what the money man is counting on |
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Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
39. Some of us already have. If we have not yet sold any assets |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. You go first, Ok? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
52. I dunno; when can *you* add it? (nt) |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. Amazing. knr. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:04 PM Original message |
I heard something about Italy wanting to be rid of their wonderful Burlusconi, too. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. Italy already has open elections. Italians are just mad at Berlusconi cause of sex scandal. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Yeah, so? They are demonstrating to get rid of him. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. But it's not like a whole regime change |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. They. Are. Demonstrating. To. Get. Rid. Of. Leader. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 09:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Italians have booted him out of office twice in the past. And then reelected him. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 09:28 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Geeez. ALL the countries in the Middle East are different, too. I stated a fact. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. I heard something about Italy wanting to be rid of their wonderful Burlusconi, too. |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. they're sending him to jail. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. I would certainly hope so. At least that much. After all, the Italians have a bit more |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. The setting themselves on fire thing isn't the best way to go about it, but I wish them all the luck |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. The self-immolation shows how desperate their lives have become. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Exactly. And I have heard homeless people in this country say the same thing. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Back in 1965, Pennsylvania Quaker Norman Morrison self-immolated |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #34 |
45. and how many buddists did the same in viet Nam around the same time? |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. The Buddhist monks in Viet Nam who self immolated (I believe there were 2) did |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. My memory of the Kent State aftermath is that it spurred more civil protest. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. I was knee-high to a grasshopper then, so don't have any |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. I am honest and I cannot admit the hibernation meme you suggest. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. OK, I think I may be suffering from a bit of false-memory syndrome. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-15-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. I think I may have been wrong about this, as I simply cannot find |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I think the Egyptians were quite the example to follow. They never |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. yes plus they were united and came out |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. I agree...all our guns would be the end of any kind of peaceful revolution here. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. As much as I deeply respect the Egyptians, that is not completely true. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Yeah, I was actually surprised when I saw the headquarters aflame. But those |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 10:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. And we can't dismiss the possibility of provacateurs, with people who follow along |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 09:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
27. I believe it's a cultural thing we don't understand |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:55 AM Response to Reply #8 |
42. People here are doing it. They are just using guns. |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. I hear the Smurfs are unhappy. Since the President has addressed them they seem ready for a change. |
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d_r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-12-11 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
15. Its the Islamic Caliphate! |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
36. we need to run the Koch Bros and a few others out of the Country. |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
40. K & R !!! |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
50. Can you add the US? |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
51. Breaking News - Algeria - the next anti-government rally will be held February 19 |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
54. Singapore and China...in my dreams...eom |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
55. Yeah, everywhere but here. I guess we're living the life. n/t |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-13-11 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
56. "The whole world is watching." - n/t |
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