THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on February 19, 2008, 10:08:56 AM

Title: Castro quits
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 19, 2008, 10:08:56 AM

:o

A President's Day miracle!

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: Rman on February 19, 2008, 10:15:14 AM

Wow. You beat me by 20 seconds.  :lol :lol :lol

I'll lock mime.

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 19, 2008, 10:17:28 AM

Another miracle!

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: Eric P on February 19, 2008, 10:51:04 AM

this has been an interesting past 5 days politically.  Pakistan, Cuba, Kosovo.

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2008, 11:02:06 AM

hell is freezing over

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: Mupepe on February 19, 2008, 11:03:43 AM

Quote from: Eric P on February 19, 2008, 10:51:04 AM

this has been an interesting past 5 days politically.  Pakistan, Cuba, Kosovo.

excuse my ignorance, but what happened with pakistan?

Title: Re: Castro quits
Post by: Eric P on February 19, 2008, 11:06:57 AM

Musharraf's foes triumph at polls
   
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7251990.stm

low voter turn out, isolated violence and then the opposition party wins.  I think that was pretty much the way it was going to go with bhutto's assassination, but it will be interesting to see if anything changes within that country in the next five to ten years.