oh hungary....

last month, while chatting with some of my hungarian friends, a couple of them remarked that the current government was not that great for the country and that they felt like hungary was ready for a revolution. that the country needed a change before it deteriorated even further. the current prime minister (from the socialist party) has been less than impressive from what i've read in the past few years. now, today, here's the headlines out of budapest (it's not often they make TV news, but when they do, it's big)

• 'Lies' admission fuels fire (Budapest Sun)
  
• Protesters storm Hungarian state TV (Yahoo news)
  
• Defiant Hungary PM urges calm after riots (Yahoo news)
  
• Anti-PM protest in Hungary turns violent (MSNBC)
  
• Hungarian PM refuses to resign (CNN... with video)
  

Pray for my REU students who are there, pray for my Hungarian friends who are there, pray that Hungary finds leadership that can do an honest job rather than make a mockery out of government by being a socialist country that calls itself a democracy. In name, they threw the chains of communism over 16 years ago, but in reality old ways die hard, and/or ressurect themselves under new guises and people are just "ok" with it. Pray that while people continue to take a stand against the way the government's been screwing them over that violence stays at a minimum (or for no violence at all).

oi....

pray for the Hungarians.

the end.