Happy Birthday, Murphy!

Happy B-day, Murphy!

Hope you have a great one today.

Happy Birthday Murphy ! Always a classy, one of a kind – the best !

Happy Birthday, Murphy!

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. – Sophie Tucker

Happy Birthday Murphy!

Lá breithe sonas duit !

May you live to be 100 years, with one extra year to repent.

Murphy’s Birthday is birthday is a pretty good excused to get pissed tonight !
Slainte !

Luckily for us Sophie Tucker was of a different generation.

These days all we need is for assholes to take their sexist attitudes and miscreant behaviors and get the eff out of our way.

TT I will drink to that!

Happy Birthday to you Murphy and all Puma Aquarians!
And a very Healthy, Wealthy personal New Year to you all also!

All you Aquarians have Jupiter in Aries, which is your third house of communications and in March Uranus will be in Aries also for seven long years. So get ready to become prolific writers and great communicators.
These planets arrive just in time Murphy, to get you ready for the 2012 elections, coming up sooner than you will realize.

Puppies and kittens, newborn chicks and just combed honey, orange blossoms in a forested glade; respite against the crush of the oncoming year. Your day.

Happy birthday, Murphy.
Have a great day.

Happy Birthday Murphy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MURPHY- I hope it is your best birthday ever! I miss you and love you!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CJK !
I wish you both a wonderful day filled with friends, family, love and laughter

MURPHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Just a little note from Maxine…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28_jlWQOuSc&feature=related Wishing you a wonderful Happy Birthday….. Take Care, Hope your day was great…..

Happy Birthday!
and your Friday tabloids
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/tabloids-mubarak-digs-in-bloomberg-opens-mouth/

Miami? I think I am so jealous. I swear next winter I’m renting an apt in Florida from Dec 1st until the end of April. I swear I will. I swear I will. I swear I will.

ME THREE!
So gojoy how does Tampa-St.Pete sound?
Jan, Feb, and March?
We can drive my Honda and pack the cat…I know a place.
BCL you fly into Tampa we will get ya. Have to share a 2 bedroom…..

Better late than never—right???? Enjoy the warm in Miami.

HP Boston 02.11.11 at 9:48 am
ME THREE!
So gojoy how does Tampa-St.Pete sound?
Jan, Feb, and March?
We can drive my Honda and pack the cat…I know a place.
BCL you fly into Tampa we will get ya. Have to share a 2 bedroom…..
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Problem solved!! Congrats!

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday, relinquishing power after three decades of iron-clad rule in the powerhouse nation of the Arab world.

Vice President Omar Suleiman announced the resignation on state television and said he was transferring authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to “run the affairs of the country.”

Tens of thousands of emotional anti-government protesters erupted in deafening cheers on the streets of Cairo after the announcement.

“Egypt is free!” they chanted.

It was a moment anti-government protesters had been waiting for after 18 days of relentless demonstrations that called for Mubarak’s departure.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he was notified of Mubarak’s decision Friday morning and was closely watching the extraordinary developments unfold in Egypt, a key U.S. ally. He will make a statement Friday afternoon, the White House said.

A source with close connections to Persian Gulf government leaders told CNN that Mubarak had gone to the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

#39 freddiebrown

Just heard on CNN that the muslim brotherhood is calling this a ‘Day of Victory’.

I don’t think Egypt will be free for very long. The islamics will take charge as soon as they can.

I hate to say it and I hope I’m wrong, but by this time next year the Egyptian citizens might consider the regime of Hosni Mubarak as the good old days.

Delle – I agree that one Freedom may not beget another. I hope the people of Egypt are wary of the Muslim brotherhood who will surely set back the country and the women to the dark ages. I was happy that the people got their way in a somewhat peaceful demonstration but out of the pot and into the fire is a very high possibility. In the past there were rumours of the surrounding countries unhappy with Egypt being in bed with US and generally being acceptable of Western ideas. This could be the litmus test for them. Lets hope that this is all for good.

Delle, I took a peek at your link and the header below sure does not sound good.

Hosni Mubarak resigns: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hails ‘a new Middle East’
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday claimed the uprising in Egypt heralded a new Middle East without the “satanic” influence of the West and that will doom Israel.

Dances – please play nice. No one is freaking out. Every here is just playing arm chair politics and just expressing one’s humble opinions. That is why we are all here – we may never be correct(political or otherwise)but nevertheless, we are all just expression our feelings as women. Let us give women a chance to speak whether we say what you or anyone thinks is correct, true or blemished.
Every coin has two sides and many times, I like to know what the other side is about. If we slam one another here, pretty soon, we would be so afraid to say anything for fear of being chastised or laughed at. I always have moments when I am afraid to say anything for fear that someone here might be offended or it may be wrong or someone may be having a bad day and jump all over me – Thank you for your kind consideration Dances – Peace.

So if they revolted because of high unemployment , low wages, the government continually propping up the bankers and the wealthy , and rigged elections , when do we get to revolt ?

The heck with Mubarak, get the MONEY.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-finance/20110211/EU.Switzerland.Mubarak/

Fuck it . I’m revolting .

To no one in particular – I got to know a gay gal couple who also does the trade shows. I think I gave them a little cold shoulder not sure if it was colder than normal but I got to know them a little better because it is different knowing a gay individual rather than knowing them both together and seeing them together. I guess I finally accepted them as a couple. I know a few gay guy couples well but for some reason, this was my first frequent encounter with women together and I was not “ready”, I don’t think…
But my husband was hands down buddies with them right off the bat. Just sharing..old dogs do learn new roll overs.

???Congratulations???

#53 TT, I’m with you!

#52 NYS….omfg, I liked the yellow shoes, and the dress, but that huge clunky ORANGE belt with the diaphanous dress and yellow shoes? Not so much.

BO has a leak.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110211/ts_yblog_theticket/the-white-house-still-wants-to-know-who-leaked-obamas-state-of-the-union-address

Headclunker – love the leak. File 30 is ready.
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2012 campaign slogan:
The Obama’s situation has improved since 2008. Has yours?

Headclunker 02.11.11 at 10:22 pm

BO has a leak.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110211/ts_yblog_theticket/the-white-house-still-wants-to-know-who-leaked-obamas-state-of-the-union-address
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Can you believe the whininess of this guy? “I don’t need to deliver it now”. Geesh.

btw, Zero is cutting funding help for those in need of heat and it reminded me of how he never was really that concerned about his constituents freezing, and so I looked up his old chum, that slumlord scuzbag Rezko.

Apparently, Rezko has dropped off the face of the planet. Hmmmm. Verrrrrry interesting.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/where-world-tony-rezko

Best News Pictures of 2010: World Press Winners
news.nationalgeographic.com
A portrait of 18-year-old Afghan Bibi Aisha, whose nose and ears were cut off by the Taliban husband she’d fled, is the subject of the World Press Photo organization’s 2010 Photo of the Year. WARNING: This article contains graphic images which some may find disturbing.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/pictures/110211-world-press-photo-best-pictures-contest-2011/

Okay, I need a little help here…

After reading that Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll today
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I decided to do a little research on what is Libertarianism, after reading up on it at Wikipedia,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
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I have a massive headache, about a thousand questions and am still no closer to understanding. I didn’t want to go to the pro-libertarian sites, because they aren’t objective. Can anyone suggest a neutral source?

I’m trying to understand, in case R. Paul ends up running against BO.

February 12, 2011
No Argument: Thomas Keeps 5-Year Silence
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — The anniversary will probably be observed in silence.

A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it will have been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument.

If he is true to form, Justice Thomas will spend the arguments as he always does: leaning back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, rubbing his eyes, whispering to Justice Stephen G. Breyer, consulting papers and looking a little irritated and a little bored. He will ask no questions.

In the past 40 years, no other justice has gone an entire term, much less five, without speaking at least once during arguments, according to Timothy R. Johnson, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. Justice Thomas’s epic silence on the bench is just one part of his enigmatic and contradictory persona. He is guarded in public but gregarious in private. He avoids elite universities but speaks frequently to students at regional and religious schools. In those settings, he rarely dwells on legal topics but is happy to discuss a favorite movie, like “Saving Private Ryan.”

He talks freely about the burdens of the job.

“I tend to be morose sometimes,” he told the winners of a high school essay contest in 2009. “There are some cases that will drive you to your knees.”

Justice Thomas has given various and shifting reasons for declining to participate in oral arguments, the court’s most public ceremony.

He has said, for instance, that he is self-conscious about the way he speaks. In his memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” he wrote that he had been teased about the dialect he grew up speaking in rural Georgia. He never asked questions in college or law school, he wrote, and he was intimidated by some fellow students.

more at
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/us/13thomas.html?_r=1&hp
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“He never asked questions in college or law school, he wrote, and he was intimidated by some fellow students.”

Sounds just like a candidate who would be ranked only “qualified” vs “highly qualified” as has every justice on the bemch since the rankings were instituted.
POS

Dances,

That is typical Obama. The DNC Party Bosses did not want a leader, just a collection of advisers so they could get their fingers in the pie. And you can see the result of that. The thing is, thirty or so “advisers” are beyond one persons span of control. That is Management 101.

The kind of discussions about the events in Egypt that the BO administration was having, are totally reasonable under the circumstances, but they should have been kept internal and the mess has to be assigned to BO. It looks like pure BOobery.

Unfortunately, Hillary also looks bad. But she is a big girl and knows that involving herself in the BO Failministration could splash some dirt on her. I, for one, am glad she is in the fray. I think she does reflect the voice of reason in that the transition will take time and alot of hard work.

The threat of a primary challenge will empower Clinton over the next month or so. Maybe she is daring him to fire her.

WHERE IS THE MUSLIM SISTERHOOD?

I’m ambivalent about the Libertan Party. I attended a training conference in a hotel 6 or 7 years ago where the Libertarians were also meeting. I picked up their literature and found myself agreeing with some of their statements, but they can get pretty extreme. However, John Strossel is very creepy when you actually listen to him, as is Ron Paul. It may be that the ideas are not that outrageous, but their public face is extreme, just like the current Obama dem party and some members of the repub party.

Shun the propganda and turn off “news” and talkinheadsreadingthecrapoftheday.

You said it BCL I trust no all knowing blowhard men! They are indeed creeps!
“John Strossel is very creepy when you actually listen to him, as is Ron Paul.” As is the son of the Ron Paul!
I know not much about Rand but the Russian people are all talk and no action in my opinion. To be fair they are just as bambozzled as American dimwits. We are not far behind them, we now have show me your papers and we get to search you TSA! I despair……the most unsafe we have EVER been.

http://thedailypatdown.com/

I am a big fan of Ayn Rand. “Atlas Shrugged,” is great reading as fiction and as a idea challenging work supporting Lassez Faire Capitalism. I think it is currently being made into a movie. As I recall, she was a founder of the Libertarian Party but later broke away.

I consider them extremist Republicans, similar to the Tea Party. My personal belief is that capitalism does not work any better than socialism but do reflect predominant beliefs and preferences for most of people of contemporary society. I believe that it should be the responsibility or our elected officials to incorporate the best parts of these into something that works, accommodates the majority, and does not oppress minorities.

My own preferences is for a significant amount of government checks on the “free market” as long as they are representing free people. People are not born wise and money changes everything for too many.

AH- But I speak of Russia. We know NOT what we would get under a “Libertaian” government since all political parties work for the corporations that finance them. Call it any thing you like but the corporatepowers choose our government.
We always get MEN, old shit for brains, greedy, lazy men, men who give not a hoot for you or me. Only the women they “own” and their children and their golf course!
Freedom? I believe not.

#83 Headclunker

Others have compared the libertarians to the republicans, but I can’t agree. Sure, the republicans say they are for lower taxes and smaller government, but they don’t mean it. Republicans come; republicans go. Democrats come; democrats go. We are still in the same damn mess. We are the highest taxed people in the world. Our troops are in over 100 foreign countries. Nothing changes! I see very little difference between the two major parties.

Re Atlas Shrugged. I’ve been hearing for years that it was going to be made into a movie, but I really didn’t think it would ever happen. It’s going to be difficult to capture the story on film. I hope they have good screen writers and editors. I wonder who is going to play John Galt?

Geeze, I finally found a positive article on women in Egypt that was not about them being subjugated and castrated. 10%?

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/women-make-their-power-felt-in-egypts-revolution

And this one:
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/saadawi.html

As HP said, it is still a “menz” group, with “menz” rules.
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The entire planet is a menz club. Every government, every institution, every social aspect.

goofs, Ayn Randians are a cult. That is why every year Ron Paul wins the straw poll…because his adherents are maniacal, going from state to state like Grateful Dead groupies. They may be ineffectual but no less doped up than Obots. When I went to NH to help….yes, believe it or not…the Edwards camp early in the primary, that is when I flipped to the Hillary camp. The *people* in NH were very excited about Hillary. Even those not on the street…when I knocked on doors people were solidly behind Hillary. The media was going on and on about Zero, and about Hillary’s “tears” —but the street, the actual residents, were already firmly for Hillary. I tried to tell the Edwards camp that I found no love for Obama, but they were freaking out that he’d “already won” in the district we were in, and were sending people elsewhere. The ONLY people there for Zerobama and the only ones there for Ron Paul were *agents* for those campaigns. Slick young men, all of them. Imported from outside of NH. And the Ron Paulites were more like groupies or religious cult members than the Obots ever thought about being.

regarding the missing Muslim sisterhood….maybe they are there and getting no air time. I was shouting at my TV (I won’t kill it, but I verbally abuse it to no end!) yesterday because they were showing footage of Egyptian “people” discussing the aftermath of the revolution. ALL freaking MEN. And the woman reporter was the only woman in the damn coffeehouse. And not one American journalist points this out??????

Feels like it and is. That is why the world is so F’ed up.

What can we do to support the women of Egypt?

I enjoy Ayn Rand’s books – We The Living is my favorite – but I don’t consider myself a follower AKA Objectivist. Some of her thinking is too far out there for me.

So, Ron Paul wants to pass an amendment calling a fetus a person? That sounds crazy. What does he call it now – a frog? He will make a fool of himself with this one and it won’t go anyplace.

I believe most liberatarians are pro-choice, though some are pro-life. There is no rule in the platform. As a libertarian you can believe what you want and not have someone else do your thinking for you. At the same time, of course, you can not force your own opinion on someone else. That’s called free thinking; free choice; or liberatarianism.

Happy St. Valentine’s Day to all the lovable PUMAs. (That’s all of you, by the way!! )

P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day to all lovely, wonderful PUMAS. (((((PUMAS)))))

WBD #106

And she returns:
http://www.theroot.com/views/egypt-catching-history-nawal-el-saadawi

Happy Valentines Day to all Pumas and their families.

Delle
Part 1 of Atlas Shrugged is set for release in August. Looks like it will be in three parts.

http://www.AtlasShruggedPart1.com

Thank You Henry.

I’m looking forward to it.

Good afternoon Murphy, Mama and all Pumas,

We are back. I was down south for five weeks and forgot
about our world because my husband has serious medical
problems. I concentrated only on him.

I will catch up with my reading. Later!

But for the modern “Right” Ayn Rand is their gal:

“There is another way to describe this conservative idea. It is the ideology of Ayn Rand… conservatives protesting against redistribution and conferring the highest moral prestige upon material success explicitly identify themselves as acolytes of Rand. (As Santelli later explained, “I know this may not sound very humanitarian, but at the end of the day I’m an Ayn Rand-er.”) Rand is everywhere in this right-wing mood. Her novels are enjoying a huge boost in sales. Popular conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have touted her vision as a prophetic analysis of the present crisis…

Christopher Hayes of The Nation recently recalled one of his first days in high school, when he met a tall, geeky kid named Phil Kerpen, who asked him, “Have you ever read Ayn Rand?” Kerpen is now the director of policy for the conservative lobby Americans for Prosperity and an occasional right-wing talking head on cable television. He represents a now-familiar type. The young, especially young men, thrill to Rand’s black-and-white ethics and her veneration of the alienated outsider, shunned by a world that does not understand his gifts. (It is one of the ironies, and the attractions, of Rand’s capitalists that they are depicted as heroes of alienation.)

“For over half a century,” writes Jennifer Burns in her new biography of this strange and rather sinister figure, “Rand has been the ultimate gateway drug to life on the right.”

…In 1987, The New York Times called Rand the “novelist laureate” of the Reagan administration…

etc.

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/wealthcare-0

Meanwhile, here at home, Republicans in South Dakota are introducing a bill expanding “justifiable homicide” to include protecting fetuses….iow, go ahead and kill abortion doctors.

This is the result of Zerobama not standing up for the past two years explaining how what a woman and her doctor decide is PRIVATE, and that women are full US citizens entitled to their right to privacy, and that the crotch-sniffing and prying into her body is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

You can’t cede ground on this. We’re either entitled to our constitutional rights and our privacy and domain over our own bodies, or else we’re just as second class citizens as the women in Yemen.

#120 TT

“CBS NEWS’ Laura Logan was brutally assaulted in Egypt”

thosu F*ckers…may thay rot in hell!!!!

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sorry for typos..not spose to be at computer..docs orders
aftr vist to ER..torn rotory cuff turned out to be pinched nerve. suks big time.
back to sofa.

(((pumas)))

I too read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and was changed politically. I became even more liberal. I hated all of the ‘hereos’ of that book. I would rather be dead than live surrounded by a society that thinks ‘survival of the fittest’ is a goal. As a Christian, I see the philosophy as diametrically opposed to that of Christ. How anyone can like the book totally escapes me?

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller , now that is a book that changes your life. Women are victims of men because we do not fight back and take the power that IS ours. Today’s news that women service members are systematically raped by AMERICAN SERVICEMEN and the authorities do nothing to stop it and/ or prosecute the rapist. Message sent don’t join the military. Lara Logan brutally raped, message sent don’t be a foreign correspondent put on your high heels and work the set at FOX. Hillary and Sarah Palin verbally attacked when the run for office– message sent.

I wish I knew how to energize women, who seem not to care or not to notice. Very discouraged.

honora #123,

I enjoyed “Atlas Shrugged” as a work of fiction. She actually wrote a book called “The Virtue of Selfishness”. I like to be able to understand the perspective of people who do not think like me. There are alot of them and I have to live on the same planet with them until Scottie comes to beam me up.

If you know where people are coming from, it is easier to point out the flaws in their thinking instead of just clunking heads with them.

People should be free. The market should be regulated by them. And freedom does not mean free to get away with anything you can.

Zee
I think I get most of what you are saying about Ayn Rand, but I have to disagree with your dismissing of her works completely. Art is not born or conceived in a vacuum. And we cannot study a piece of work without taking into consideration the myriad influences which helped shape it– the historical context is not irrelevant. I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged more than 20 years ago and I enjoyed the stories especially The Fountainhead. They are works of fiction. When I hear MEchelle saying bambi is going to insist that we all do volunteer/charity work it evokes those novels. Been a long time since I read the books but when I did I took away from them not a sense of some people matter and other people do not, but rather a sense of gotta realize I matter and i shape the world I live in. Somethings are out of my control but personal responsibility is tantamount.
I do not agree with objectivism per se but I do believe in teaching my little one about self empowerment.
Atlas Shrugged is 50-60 years old written by a woman who probably struggled endlessly with herself. Her characters were absolutes but she like the rest of us was human.
Zealots come in all shapes sizes and political affiliations.
A few months ago I commented on another blog about the incredible abuse of the Earned Income Credit. In my opinion it is insane and encourages young parents to not attempt to create a stable family environment.
Well I had all sorts of people telling me that I am not a supporter of Hillary as she is all behind it? Got nasty.
I supported HRC busted my ass for her but she is not above reproach. I thought/think Hillary would have been the best president perhaps ever, but I was never ever a fan. Proudly and with respect I’d bust my ass for her again.
Sorry for going on so long in defense of Ayn Rand but I have to confess that during the whole dramedy of Bristol Palin appearing on Dancing with the Stars no one brought up the fact that the Jennifer Grey character accused the waiter/rich kid of reading a book where some people matter and some people don’t.
Really? How did ezra klein not manage to make that into an issue. Oh wait I get it —- an almost pretty boy ezra klein was born and educated in a silly priveledged. Snot faces are creating dialog. Why?

More on Laura Logan
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/02/15/2011-02-15_lara_logan_60_minutes_correspondant_suffers_sustained_sex_assault_by_egypt_mob_c.html

#122 TT

thks (((TT)))..hope you are recovring well also.

to think tht this and much more is happning to women all over the world..every freakin day..every freken minute and evry freakin second..
makes me SICK to mystomach..

maybe we should have been born wth boxing gloves for hands and teeth in our vaginas.

nite (((pumas)))

One more thing about Ayn Rand: I heard she was a serious drinker. As they say in the program, she was a case of self-will run riot. But then, you know they say 12-Step programs are cults, too.

Headclunker,

#134 – I agree they need a PUMA roar.

I’ve been reading different articles that have posted about the Lara Logan story. It’s the comments that upset me the most. How can people say that women are so much safer here in the US!

It infuriates me to no end, how uninformed people are about the frequency of rapes that occur here. Just this past week, in a small town not far from me, 3 13 year old boys raped a 13 year old girl. These boys even admitted that they knew it was wrong.

Is the US all that much safer for women than the Middle East? No, hell no, it is just so glossed over, ignored and written off by all the MSM.

I’m really pretty pissed off about it right now. Don’t get me wrong, what happened to Ms. Logan should never happen to any woman. Just we can’t ignore that it happens here in the US every day and every hour. It may not be a mob but all it takes is one freakazoid animalistic male monster!

Lara Logan and her crew were attacked and detained in Cairo a week before this latest attack. She felt the need to return:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357394/CBS-correspondent-Lara-Logan-brutally-assaulted-Egypt.html#ixzz1E5fuRSzk

I’m not sure if this is what’s called courage and dedication, but I know I don’t have it. I wouldn’t have returned for any reason!

I could say alot about Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead but the scene that really made me go Ewwwww, is the one where she has sex with her male counterpart on the floor of a train station because they are both so busy saving capitalism that they don’t have time for a real romance. Nothing dirtier than the floor of a train station. I didn’t hate the stories, but the lead characters were so extreme in their so called perfection compared to the other characters, that is was absurd.

Uppity Woman has some photos of Cairo University graduating classes from 1959 to 2004. It’s shocking how the women’s dress has changed.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/women-of-egypt-then-and-now/#comments

Networks may pull female reporters:

http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/16/egypt-female-reporter-attacks/

Too dangerous.

#141 Dances

thats change i can believe in!!

1st offense..
yup..take their weapon of choice away.

simple indeed.