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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Picture of the day - 2

This picture is from the Egyptian elections. The riot Police had blocked access to a number of polling stations where the Muslim Brotherhood was expected to do very well. So, these people got ladders to try to get in.

The US talks about the "flowering of democracy", and yet this has made barely a ripple in the American press. No ink stained fingers, no "Orange revolution," no hyped coverage of anti-Syrian protests.

Hats off to them. I don't agree with their politics at all, or the Brotherhood's secondary connection with numerous terror acts, but these people are trying to vote. They're trying to do it the right way.

posted by mikevotes at 7:54 AM

13 Comments:

  • crazy...

    sorry i keep doing this but you don't have an email.

    you might find this interesting

    "crude designs:the rip-off of Iraq's Oil wealth"

    http://tinyurl.com/a9o37

    By Blogger michael the tubthumper, at 8:09 AM  

  • Hey, Michael, I don't mind it at all. This is part of the "community" that makes blogs work, and makes them fun.

    Frankly, at this point I prefer the space I get by not putting up an email. I'd rather be flamed in comments than in email.

    But, I'm considering a couple more changes in the blog,and putting up an email is one of them.

    So, keep throwing links in comments, I usually try to keep an eye on posts back about two days, so, even if it doesn't apply to the post you put it it, keep throwing links my way.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:50 AM  

  • no problem. tinyurl.com also makes it easy to put links into the cmments section. and its easy to use.

    By Blogger michael the tubthumper, at 10:43 AM  

  • This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    By Blogger Justin, at 1:11 PM  

  • I hope this is the place to say this:
    I tried out an experiment on my own blog and discovered that you can insert a clickable link very simply.
    type:
    <\a href="http://WEBSITE">a description<\/a>
    (remove the \s. They're there so blogger doesn't pick this up as a tag. However, keep the '/' at the end befor the 'a')
    Is that confusing?

    By Blogger Justin, at 1:14 PM  

  • As with our own elections the past couple of years, the American press is demonstrably less interested in the voting process than in the voting results.

    By Blogger Motherlode, at 1:16 PM  

  • Justin, I'm assuming you mean in comments, and if so, thanks. Cause I always drop the whole lengthy URL in the comment as a link, and the recipient has to cut and paste to get it to work. So, I'm gonna try it here, let's see if it works.

    <\a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13143786">Justin<\/a> has a really helpful tip here.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 4:31 PM  

  • Yes, blogger interprets HTML in the comments. Only, remove the backslashes "\". I put them in there to stop blogger from interpreting that bit as HTML.

    By Blogger Justin, at 4:37 PM  

  • In the comments, I meant in the comments.

    By Blogger Justin, at 4:39 PM  

  • like this

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 4:42 PM  

  • Cool, thanks a ton, Justin.

    That will seriously clean up comments I leave on other posts.

    Extremely helpful.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 4:44 PM  

  • Great, glad I could help.

    By Blogger Justin, at 4:49 PM  

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